skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Computing has been transforming countless jobs before it got to Final Cut. On one hand, programming is not the hardest job out there. On the other, it takes months to fully onboard a human developer - a person that already has years of relevant education and work experience. There are desk jobs that onboard new hires in days instead. Let’s see when they’re displaced by AI first.
IronPython? The problem with that is compatibility with, and easy access to, existing libraries which is the main reason to use Python in the first place.

I also think some of the criticisms in the GP comment are not accurate. most of the valuable libraries are native compiled? Some important ones are, but not all.

I think a lot of the problem is that Python's usage has changed. Its great for a wide range of uses (scripting, web apps and other server stuff, even GUIs) but its really not a great match for scientific computing and the like but has become widely used there because it is easy to learn (and has lots of libraries for that now!).
I think they meant "projects with a culture and mindset like homeassistant", not just a competitor to the existing project.
First demonstration of quantum teleportation over busy Internet cables
I'm just going to keep improving my Django (Python), Express JS (Javascript) and Svelte skills.

I'm going heavy on trying to improve my freelancing career next year, maybe land a steady remote gig.

I might try to pick up Dot Net Core sometime later in the year.
Not immediately! This might turn out to be just a great demo, might be something worth continuing with, really depends on how the next few weeks go. Either way there might be something we can do with the developer community around data endpoints in the short term.
so true, it's cringey af
Steve,

I'd like to know if I can use the SDK to build workflow/process diagrams that specify inputs, outputs, and side effects (ie, this process creates a pile of logs or documentation) and then export a process specification for use in another application.

My specific use case is process mapping and quality systems implementation in a hardware engineering setting.
It's not 6,670$/task. That was the high efficiency cost for 400 questions.
This makes me think and speculate if the solution comprises of a "solver" trying semi-random or more targeted things and a "checker" checking these? Usually checking a solution is cognitively (and computationally) easier than coming up with it. Else I cannot think what sort of compute would burn 6000$ per task, unless you are going through a lot of loops and you have somehow solved the part of the problem that can figure out if a solution is correct or not, while coming up with the actual correct solution is not as solved yet to the same degree. Or maybe I am just naive and these prices are just like breakfast for companies like that.
Ahh, w/o X. Okey, im less impressed. Also, cached is not counted towards used memory AFAIR. Total memory (roughty): Used + Free + Cached.

Thats my Linux VM w/o X:

MiB Mem : 3028.4 total, 2945.5 free, 19.7 used, 63.2 buff/cache

Xserver is running on my main OS.
I would say they didn’t need to demo anything, because if you are gonna use the output code live on a demo it may make compile errors and then look stupid trying to fix it live
I wonder how much of an effect amount of time to answer has on human performance.
Linked paper does not state that; it states that tossed coins tend to be caught on the same side they stared with slightly more than half the time. The results explicitly exclude any bouncing (which will happen if a coin lands on a hard surface).

The paper does discuss coins allowed to land on a hard surface; it is clear that this will affect the randomness, but not clear if it increases or decreases randomness, and suggests further research is needed.
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Best thing is, if I search for something it'll give me hundreds of search results. But if I then decide to filter by upload date, whooopsie! there are no search results, sorry!
Career Advice for New Tech Workers in 2025
In Hungarian, mizujs means "what's up", and it's often shortened to mizu, so, having a mizu.js JavaScript library would be a pretty cool name (for us who understand Hungarian).

https://glosbe.com/hu/en/mizujs
> But the majority of them do exceed that very low bar, so it’s simply not that critical of a hinderance most of the time.

Describing not having catastrophically bad social skills as a “very low” bar is not a valid take when it comes to the world of computer science. I remember when visiting Carnegie Mellon as a senior in high school and evaluating their comp sci program, how the guides suddenly got very serious when they informed our parents(not the prospective students) that a course on hygiene was required freshman year and could not be waived. I’ve also worked with near limitless number of engineers who think they have the social skills down and then don’t understand why no one wants to work with them when they will do shit like call someone else’s project they’ve worked on for months pointless or useless in a group setting without even trying to approach said coworker with even a modicum of social awareness.

Those kinds of behaviors don’t show up in a population where having non catastrophically bad social skills is a “very low bar”

> You appear to be reading absolute implications into my comments, and/or inserting your own conjectures which aren’t there on a plain reading.

I think we’re coming at this with different axioms. You seem to believe that social skills are trivial and don’t matter next to the hard sciences that people grind away on. I am coming from one where I have to constantly make excuses or apologies for various people in software engineering or comp sci because they appear to be literally incapable of empathy or understanding that other people might have a different viewpoint than theirs.

Given my axiom I think your are handwaving away a lot, and that’s where you see my statements as inserted conjectures.
Looks interesting, does it allow for offline caching or archiving of media?

It mentions using the Harbor identity service, that's new to me. https://harbor.social/
Thanks. That looks amazing. I wish there was an app which can use last.fm data, as it can collect listening data from various sources.
Btw. your privacy policy is missing an E-Mail address: Email: [Your Contact Email]
There should also be a space between "December" and 2024 in the top of the page.
Also the linked Instagram account doesn't seem to work.

The app and visualizations are great. Keep up the good work. Do you have a Mastodon/Fediverse account to follow your progress on the development?
> unless you assume that it’s inevitable that society will collapse so hard that there’s not even a memory of “nuclear waste dangerous” even though we’re still making fun of Sumerian copper merchants thousands of years later.

There is zero cultural continuity from Sumerian merchants to us. We can read Sumerian texts because we excavated a library that included various texts meant to instruct Akkadian-speaking students in Sumerian.* We didn't know it was there before we found it.

We didn't know how to read Akkadian either - that would count as cultural continuity from Sumer, since those two cultures were deeply enmeshed. We had to figure it out based on our knowledge of Old Persian, which used a writing system adapted from Akkadian cuneiform and which was also completely lost. We figured that out by comparing an undeciphered inscription to a list of Persian kings given in another language (Greek). Akkadian is not related to Persian, except in the adaptation of the writing system, but we got lucky in that it is a Semitic language and Semitic languages still exist today. Sumerian is related to no other language we know of and required the instructional curriculum to decipher.

There has been cultural continuity from classical Greece to us, but there's a long gap between them and Sumer. We're not still making fun of Sumerian copper merchants; we're making fun of them again.

* The same texts have been found elsewhere since then - Mesopotamian documents are not in short supply - but it's always nice to have a full curriculum outlined in one place.
It would be neat if it would take cycling from health - I’m the least capable runner that’s ever existed. Give me a bike and I might get somewhere.

Strava and Apple Music might be good additions.
We mostly don't have AC, we have tiny houses, our heating is gas powered. Lots of showers aren't electric either. We don't use huge amounts compared to the US
GNNs let you build some of the structure of your problem into the network architecture. This can be useful if your problem has a well-understood structure, like physical simulations.

However in many cases we do not know the structure of our problem (that's why we want to use ML in the first place) and in these cases GNNs do not beat transformers.
Fantastic resource! Thanks for sharing this. I love both the math, the music, and math&music combo. Tickles my inner geek. <3

I'd love to see if anyone has done this geometric / visualization for Indian classical (specifically, Hindustani) music??

Perhaps there's specific shapes / visualizations in certain Ragas that naturally emanate?

Note that in the Indian classical (Hindustani) music system, the Ragas are a "framework" for melody, not really a mode (as in Western music theory).
Oh sorry, that's a toggle in Clerk (our auth provider), it doesn't provide granularity around which are disposable and which aren't. I'll take a look and see whether there's anything I can do short of turning off that feature.
This sounds incredibly risky - given other employees may be nearby and the stores already have fixed cameras everywhere.

After the first year or two of such incidents spiking it'll go down quickly.

note: I really don't like the idea of a panopticon
Don't read the comments, or don't listen to them.

My first website I posted got laughed out in comments in the forum I posted it in. Almost a year later I got a gig, and then another, and then a third.

Imagine if I had listened to the negative comments and quit.
China Tells Chief Economists: Be Positive, or Else
Failing the test may prove the AI is not intelligent. Passing the test doesn't necessarily prove it is.
Yep, Mike Hansen was on the live stream launching the new device. He also notably created Rhasspy [1], which is open-source voice assistant software for Raspberry Pi (when connected to a microphone and speaker).

[1] https://rhasspy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Thanks - this looks great! I might download / get one of the books!

<3
I think the best solution would be to keep samples around in somewhat reachable parts. Occassionally, people will get sick, and learn that the signs mean danger, without causing an accident of catastrophic proportions, and recognize the huge radiation signs that label the actual storage as ominous signs.
Arizona's getting an online charter school taught by AI
If someone truly loves their partner, wouldn't they be happy that their partner is getting more of what they need? Even if that is more sex?

I honestly don't know the answer to this question.

I've heard the optimal form of monogamy is when both partners fully give themselves to each other, and 100% seek the happiness of their partner. I was taught this in a religion. I can't logically understand it though. I can't imagine being happy or maintaining my own identity without spending at least a portion of my energy on myself.

I haven't been successful in relationships though, so what do I know? Is that just a religiously inspired fantasy, or can a real relationship work that way?
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We decided to move away because PHP, JSP, etc was a mess with SQL codes and all other kind of form validation,etc code embedded into the pages together with CSS,etc. Yes it was a mess.

However, IMHO people have gone overboard with layering in so many places creating spaghetti projects that makes troubleshooting feel like goto riddled Basic of old.

In my view Vue's v-if / v-for / v-else is solidly for binding the viewmodel semantics, trying to separate it would require adding id's or some other way of connecting data to view production for no extra reason other than to specify that a list should be duplicated elements?

Wrote a small Vue page/app recently and this pragmatism really helped keep is small yet quite clean, HTML(with some small pieces of Vue markup), CSS and JS in each place. Would the project need to grow it'd be fairly easy to separate parts out into components but there wasn't even a need due to the small size.
How to improve LLMs results in the ARC-AGI-PUB
I would have been able to help. But it's not open source.
heres the right timestamp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKBG1sqdyIU&t=768s
Some of parcels in the doc on page 58 (K) in particular are interesting. The city ended up widening the road there pretty significantly. When they built https://maps.app.goo.gl/7yVzp4vm72Js3w618 back in '22, there was just one tower. The original plan had two towers instead of one (https://bpda.app.box.com/s/lsw68tzgu4g788h9dr4zvorlc6ohy0oy). The resulting sub area is only two buildings now, where there were tenements before.
> It doesn't need to be general intelligence or perfectly map to human intelligence.

> All it needs to be is useful.

Computers were already useful.

The only definition we have for "intelligence" is human (or, generally, animal) intelligence. If LLMs aren't that, let's call it something else.
And before this: self-playing pianos using perforated rolls, reducing the cost of hiring live pianists in saloons.
Sounds like there are only two real strategies:

- Put a lock on it (make it hard to get to. Probably by just burying it very deep and destroying access to it)

- Make it boring to future people. Put household garbage on top of it.

People have to not want to get into it and any parent can tell you that saying 'no' to a toddler isn't nearly as effective as putting brussel sprouts in their path.
Video Seal: Open and Efficient Video Watermarking
‘That accent’ is received pronunciation, I’m guessing?
what information is it actually leaking though?

If someone wanted, they could drive up to my house and see the colour of my door. The fact that someone has always been able to create a database of front door colours isn't inherently a data leak.

A UUID and electricity usage for the past half hour for a house in the general vicinity isn't useful. Even if you could put a name to that UUID, I struggle to think of how that would be a major issue. Especially considering with a thermal camera, and assuming construction details from the age and type of the house, you could already estimate your neighbours energy usage anyway.

Remote shutoff on the other hand....
They are coming up on 4 years old. I have quite a number of them and do have to replace batteries frequently enough that it can get annoying.

I'm sure Apple will innovate and come up with something newer/better/etc at some point. But it's unlikely the gen1 devices will go away anytime soon. Even if the real life is only... 5 years, that still saves a number of battery changes for devices that maybe you don't want to deal with regularly.

And with the fact that Apple had enough demand to increase the limit from 16 to 32 per account ( https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/12/airtag-limit/ ). Clearly people have bought into the ecosystem in a big way. 30 Airtags * $25 each is $750. I don't think they'll decommission the gen1 system anytime soon with that much investment. Plus Apple is surprisingly good at supporting their hardware for a reasonable amount of time. The iPhone XR from 2018 is still supported by iOS 18.
Well, considering they floated the $2000 subscription idea, and they still haven't revealed everything, they could still introduce the $2k sub with o3+agents/tool use, which means, till about next week.
Ha yeah, that was the same thing! The night it rained sideways.

So this is the demo people were talking about at the end of the night! I was quite annoyed I missed it, makes sense now. I think I was nerding out over current-gen HIDs while eyeing up their very tastefully equipped coffee station (ozone roasters ftw)
When the Pink Slip Comes via Text and Email
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NNs are not algorithms.
The real issue is people constantly making up new goalposts to keep their outdated world view somewhat aligned with what we are seeing. But these two things are drifting apart faster and faster. Even I got surprised by how quickly the ARC benchmark was blown out of the water, and I'm pretty bullish on AI.
That sounds really useful. There's no export yet here apart from images and it isn't something I've thought about much so far. Are there standard formats for these types of workflows?
I think TFA discusses mainly a program whereby Spotify hires production companies to pay working musicians to create new works in a particular style, compensated per song and licensed closer to a work-for-hire basis than a royalty basis. The musicians feel that the result is artistically unsatisfying compared to what they’d do of their own creative initiative, but it is real people actually being paid.

Incidentally the author also grumps that they avoid working with union artists for this purpose—I may be wrong but I thought part of the point of ASCAP and their lot was to require its artists to hew to a uniform, royalty-heavy compensation structure industrywide. So you can’t just go throw them $1700 a song (as Spotify is alleged to be doing in TFA) and call it a day.

It sounds like your critique might apply more squarely to the generative music startups. Suno for example has gotten completely surreal, sounding spookily “real” in no time at all. Insipid, but stunning as a simulacrum.

I imagine if we asked them, they’d counter that they’re expanding and democratizing access to creative tools, just as Snapchat filters satisfy dilettantes but don’t reduce pros’ need for Photoshop. And that to the extent they threaten to cannibalize any part of the status quo, it’s precisely the commoditized, sync/stock/“background music” end of the industry that needs to worry. That is, the ones who need to worry are the people doing the kinds of work that make this author uncomfortable.

So I don’t disagree with your basic point. But it seems to me that nobody has ever been putting their concert dollars toward the Bossa Nova stylings of Spotify’s Chill Jazzy Fireside, live at a corporate canteen near you…
Hello, I am a paying customer experiencing issues using the record function on the website from my workplace, although it works perfectly fine from home. It seems there is no option to report an issue through a form or contact anyone directly, thus my report here.. I am using Chrome. When I click the blue button to record the microphone icon appears next to the URL, but the blue line with the control period keeps spinning. Please help. my email is alexrocksthis@gmail.com
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> most of the people training these next-gen AIs are neurodiverse

Citation needed. This is a huge claim based only on stereotype.
I just asked o1 a simple yes or no question about x86 atomics and it did one of those A or B replies. The first answer was yes, the second answer was no.
Fast and Slow Thinkers
My personal hack is that before jumping into papers in unfamiliar areas like these, I go on YouTube and search for “<topic> explained”.

The power of YouTube is that for any hot area, there are a bunch of people incentivized to make a short video that maximally engages. The quality can be quite high even at higher levels of math abstractions. The visuals are really helpful to get a feel for the abstractions (3 blue 1 brown proved this years ago).

There are some excellent videos of GNNS that in less than 10 mins gave me a launching point into the literature.
Well, we don't know to what extent they factor it in. It would be interesting to see how it evolved throughout the years - but that's beyond the point:

The ethics and the effects of it are there, and to have a murderer set the public agenda doesn't make much sense.
> Self-driving cars or not, the US is still going to be an expensive, inefficient country that can boast about its amazing economy, yet most people living there are at third-world country levels of development

For fuck’s sake, the world’s largest rail system and navigable waterways say hello.

I’ve advocated for public transit. But it’s turning into zealotry when an $11bn project showing actual gains is turned into a soapbox for decrying a pet project.
So what? I’m serious. Our current level of progress would have been sci-fi fantasy with the computers we had in 2000. The cost may be astronomical today, but we have proven a method to achieve human performance on tests of reasoning over novel problems. WOW. Who cares what it costs. In 25 years it will run on your phone.
"o, I know our legal system quite well. You are wrong"

"Our" legal system? Do you mean all common law countries or a particular one?
There's no way it only cost £15 in total to install a smart meter. The cost of the meter has to be at least that much and then you have paying a guy to actually install it (which in my case took 3 attempts and caused a gas leak, which took 4 or 5 guys several hours to fix - although hopefully that's unusual).
I prefer YouTube Music's webapp and Android app to Spotify, personally.
Unless the LLMs see multiple leaps in capability, probably indefinitely. The Malthusians in this thread seem to think that LLMs are going to fix the human problems involved in executing these businesses - they won't. They make good programmers more productive and will cost some jobs at the margins, but it will be the low-level programming work that was previously outsourced to Asia and South America for cost-arbitrage.
It's not 6000/task (i.e per question). 6000 is about the retail cost for evaluating the entire benchmark on high efficiency (about 400 questions)
Could you please reply to peoples comments instead of just editing your statement which gives no indication that a reply was made?

As to your second edit. I can understand the point made about tribalism and could even mostly agree that I’d expect to see some increased amount of friction between multiple groups of ethnicities based on some dark human instincts. But that isn’t what you started this thread on.

You asked if they deserved it. You’ve made a moral statement and then started bringing race into it as an argument for whether or not they did. That’s racism.

Also inb4 you claim that “genetic differences” that people will have tribal reactions to isn’t a 1:1 analogue for race, like people can tell if you have some mutation in a subtle gene different from their own
Anytime i've brought my kids to that playground since that incident there is always someone either recreating or showing someone that video. The best exposure for a park really.
Wait, are we actually applying human neurological assessment tools to transformer-based language models and conflating architectural/training differences between model iterations with biological cognitive decline?
Your argumentation seems convincing but I'd like to offer a competitive narrative: any benchmark that is public becomes completely useless because companies optimize for it - especially AI that depends on piles of money and they need some proof they are developing.

That's why I have some private benchmarks and I'm sorry to say that the transition from GTP4 to o1 wasn't unambiguously a step forward (in some tasks yes, in some not).

On the other hand, private benchmarks are even less useful to the general public than the public ones, so we have to deal with what we have - but many of us just treat it as noise and don't give it much significance. Ultimately, the models should defend themselves by performing the tasks individual users want them to do.