skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to see this repeated with my highly innovative HARC-HAGI, which is ARC-AGI but it uses hexagons instead of squares. I suspect humans would only make slightly more brain farts on HARC-HAGI than ARC-AGI, but O3 would fail very badly since it almost certainly has been specifically trained on squares.

I am not really trying to downplay O3. But this would be a simple test as to whether O3 is truly "a system capable of adapting to tasks it has never encountered before" versus novel ARC-AGI tasks it hasn't encountered before.
I agree, it's like watching a meadow ablaze and dismissing it because it's not a 'real forest fire' yet. No it's not 'real AGI' yet, but *this is how we get there* and the pace is relentless, incredible and wholly overwhelming.

I've been blessed with grandchildren recently, a little boy that's 2 1/2 and just this past Saturday a granddaughter. Major events notwithstanding, the world will largely resemble today when they are teenagers, but the future is going to look very very very different. I can't even imagine what the capability and pervasiveness of it all will be like in ten years, when they are still just kids. For me as someone that's invested in their future I'm interested in all of the educational opportunities (technical, philosphical and self-awareness) but obviously am concerned about the potential for pernicious side effects.
Yeah, it's friendly ugly. I'd be happy going to work there everyday.
There are no Israeli casualties?

Precisely zero civilian casualties inside Israel proper since Oct 8th (due to the Hamas conflict) is what they apparently meant.

There's no Western country ...

These being the only ones whose populations are worth having empathy with.

There's no Western country in recent time that went through something event remotely similar to what Israel has gone and is going through.

Except Ukraine, which has had 100x displaced (in raw terms) or 25x per capita. And (since we need to divide by zero) infinitely civilians more actualy killed/wounded.

There are also (assuming since 2000 so) these countries "Georgia" and "Armenia" you might have heard of. Feel free to run the numbers on those countries, and report back to us what you find. Again, restricting our attention to worthy "Western" societies.

It seems you'll need to find another way to promote the "Israel's suffering is unique" narrative.
I think this only removes the low quality questions like “how do I make X in React”.

There will always be new libraries and software updates, and those will always have corners and edge cases that will foster questions. The LLMs won’t have the answers out of the box until they have something to train from, so there’s still room for StackOverflow.
Pretty much the entire Data Science/Machine Learning landscape from numpy, etc. to tensorflow and alike are thin wrappers over C code and if you want performance, you better batch structure your operation beforehand and minimize back and forth from Python.
That's a great rate. My homelab excluding poe stuff I suspect will end up using 300-500W. Not a lot of money but still annoying to be paying.

1. 56G mellanox switch - 35W

2. An old box I made a router - 50W

3. A two node server - 220W each

Replacing (2) with something that idles at 10W
Will probably do one node for (3) so got more ram to try out.

I wish we had cheap energy. I could add much more stuff to this lol.
The LLM community has come up with tests they call 'Misguided Attention'[1] where they prompt the LLM with a slightly altered version of common riddles / tests etc. This often causes the LLM to fail.

For example I used the prompt "As an astronaut in China, would I be able to see the great wall?" and since the training data for all LLMs is full of text dispelling the common myth that the great wall is visible from space, LLMs do not notice the slight variation that the astronaut is IN China. This has been a sobering reminder to me as discussion of AGI heats up.

[1] https://github.com/cpldcpu/MisguidedAttention
So the attacker has known in advance that the secret was stored in google photos? Is it a common way to store passwords, or is some piece missing here?
Or 1Password! They're doing neat things with Nitro enclaves.
We need to start making benchmarks in memory & continued processing over a task over multiple days, handoffs, etc (ie. 'agentic' behavior). Not sure how possible this is.
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That's a reasonable suspicion (though I think a lot of the contrarian comments are just people who want to complain about the police).

Working with that suspicion, especially given that this is HN, police saying "don't go steal it back" might still be very good advice, regardless of legal right.

For example (referring back to a scenario earlier in thread), I'm imagining a techbro crew, all jumping into one of their Teslas, and rolling up on misguided urban youth turf.

There's already a lot of misunderstanding and animosity, both ways, between stereotypes. And someone's attempt at "show of force" just escalated it. So, who will escalate the stupid further, and stab or draw a gun first.
> The legal issue is not about removing access, pulling the rug, or changing policy. It is all about the intention and making public statements

It’s absolutely about both. If Apple kicked Spotify off the App Store right after launching Apple Music, we’d have a better comparison.
Also a very good documentary: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Eternity_(film)
3100 kWh is the figure set by the regulator as the representative annual usage used to calculate prices for e.g. tariff comparison between suppliers. It makes sense to use it here.
Does it matter? If LLMs aren't that, whatever it is, then we should use a different word. Finders keepers.
I apologize if I gave the impression that I had personal knowledge of your driving record and traffic violations spanning over the last 36 months. I assure you, my intent in using the word "you" was merely to illustrate a general situation in which an individual (though surely not yourself, palata, specifically), will find themselves being penalized for a prior incident. As my comment was surely read by thousands of HN readers, one imagines that as each of them read the word "you", they pondered their own driving history in their lived experience.

Now that we have established the fact that you, palata, did not have a speeding ticket 3 years ago, I would encourage you to think about the application of my statement, to your actual situation. That is, you may substitute the words "speeding ticket 3 years ago" with any traffic violation or insurance claim where you were determined to be at fault, over any time period which might not be 3 years. Then the question is raised of whether you, palata, would incur higher insurance costs than Waymo.
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I think it was just announced today! You're fine!
Is anyone here aware of the latest research that tries to predict the outcome? Please share - super curious as well
If AI takes over white collar work that's still half of the world's labor needs untouched. There are some promising early demos of robotics plus AI. I also saw some promising demos of robotics 10 and 20 years that didn't reach mass adoption. I'd like to believe that by the time I reach old age the robots will be fully qualified replacements for plumbers and home health aides. Nothing I've seen so far makes me think that's especially likely.

I'd love more progress on tasks in the physical world, though. There are only a few paths for countries to deal with a growing ratio of old retired people to young workers:

1) Prioritize the young people at the expense of the old by e.g. cutting old age benefits (not especially likely since older voters have greater numbers and higher participation rates in elections)

2) Prioritize the old people at the expense of the young by raising the demands placed on young people (either directly as labor, e.g. nurses and aides, or indirectly through higher taxation)

3) Rapidly increase the population of young people through high fertility or immigration (the historically favored path, but eventually turns back into case 1 or 2 with an even larger numerical burden of older people)

4) Increase the health span of older people, so that they are more capable of independent self-care (a good idea, but difficult to achieve at scale, since most effective approaches require behavioral changes)

5) Decouple goods and services from labor, so that old people with diminished capabilities can get everything they need without forcing young people to labor for them
What a fantastic and in-depth article, thank you. Seems to cover every single issue with the sound!
Actually in its present form. It would need to be supervised to help teach kids programming.

I just spent the last few hours typing in the specification of a Freshman programming project that I use to teach, Rock, Paper, Scissors.

Specifying the programming assignment using either Python, C or C++, using their parameterization feature. Parameterization is very cool by the way!

It would routinely miss putting any headers in for the C or C++ examples. Once in awhile it would generate actual working code in C and C++. But it was all unindented. The same for Python also. The Python code had no indenting everytime causing indentation errors for the Python environment. I tried many different ways of specifying indentation for the text output; it didn't work. Possibly b/c of the HTML output being generated. It's 90% there, but the user would actually have to have some knowledge of the programming language to make sense of the errors.
You might want to visit https://www.typepad.com/pricing as a logged-out user, and read the entire pop-up (which has been present for 4 years now) before saying that...
Appreciate this, was incredibly helpful.
> It's time people woke up and realised that the old age of AI is over. This new kind is here to stay and it will take over the world. And you better guess it'll be sooner rather than later and start to prepare.

I was just thinking about how 3D game engines were perceived in the 90s. Every six months some new engine came out, blew people's minds, was declared photorealistic, and was forgotten a year later. The best of those engines kept improving and are still here, and kinda did change the world in their own way.

Software development seemed rapid and exciting until about Halo or Half Life 2, then it was shallow but shiny press releases for 15 years, and only became so again when OpenAI's InstructGPT was demonstrated.

While I'm really impressed with current AI, and value the best models greatly, and agree that they will change (and have already changed) the world… I can't help but think of the Next Generation front cover, February 1997 when considering how much further we may be from what we want: https://www.giantbomb.com/pc/3045-94/forums/unreal-yes-this-...
I'm a little torn. ARC is really hard, and Francois is extremely smart and thoughtful about what intelligence means (the original "On the Measure of Intelligence" heavily influenced my ideas on how to think about AI).

On the other hand, there is a long, long history of AI achieving X but not being what we would casually refer to as "generally intelligent," then people deciding X isn't really intelligence; only when AI achieves Y will it be intelligence. Then AI achieves Y and...
Not for long I suspect. There has been a rather marked exodus of millionaires from Britain since July as a result of a range of fiscal changes promised by the government. Some significant businesses have decided to relocate. Unrelated to this: now it's been found that a majority of Brits receive more in benefits than they contribute in taxes. Not a good outlook. Meanwhile it's estimated that the richest 1% of earners already pay 29% of the country’s income tax.
> Meanwhile Matrix 2.0 is a genuine pleasure to use

"trust us it's good this time" → (still the very same at its core) → "you are right, we are sorry, but bear with us, <buzzword> is just about to be ready!" → (buzzword is abandoned/releases but doesn't improve things in a meaningful way) → "trust is it's good this time" → …

Matrix 2.0 on the server is all about "sliding sync", which, once you read through the buzzword, is about running the client on the server so it sucks less at fetching history. Even that works super randomly, if it works at all, even on EMS-hosted instances. The rest is the same. On the client-side, Element X is not daily-drivable because of the bugs and missing essential features. Nothing has improved in a year on that front, which is reminiscent of dendrite: dropping it for the sake of salvaging the original hack would surprise nobody at this point.

> I do regret saying that XMPP had fallen behind, 10 years ago

By no means am I saying that XMPP was great 10 years ago (what was back then, really?), but that's a very poor rationale for torpedoing another project by spreading lies about it on your FAQ, especially when that project was working on the problems and eventually came to address them, across a whole ecosystem of clients and server, while Matrix to this day is still poking at the beast wondering how to tame its single-vendor/single-client/single-server complexity.
The Red Line Reflection: drawing a line on acceptable consequences
This picture doesn't make sense. If most don't have any money to buy products, just invent some other money and start paying one of the other people who doesn't have any money to start making the products for you.

In reality, if there really is mass unemployment, AI driven automation will make consumables so cheap that anyone will be able to buy it.
> what makes this so difficult to solve in Python?

I think the answer is the same thing that makes it difficult to make a good package manager for C++.

When a language doesn't start with decent package management, it becomes really hard to retrofit a good one later in the lifespan of that language. Everyone can see "this sucks" but there's simply no good route to change the status quo.

I think Java is the one language I've seen that has successfully done the switch.
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In the same vein, I am jealous of Maryland's flag. Some state flags have some nice patterns, but most state flags are forgettable with seals. But the Maryland flag is so garish that it's recognized by pretty much everyone.
"Source First License 1.1" is an interesting choice. Sounds like something specific to this developer (so far, at least). I'm not savvy enough to be sure, but it doesn't sound compatible with any of the commonly accepted-as-FOSS licenses.

https://github.com/futo-org/Grayjay.Desktop/blob/373cd8448cb...
Likely a common way to store recovery codes. Similar to those bots that scrape github for API keys
If Waymo/Google/Alphabet really cares about people's safety and this is nothing but a pet project where the amount raised ($11bn) in 15 years is ~3% of their whole revenue in 2023, they wouldn't mind open sourcing their whole system, including for other commercial ventures.

Until then, the whole thing is nothing but a Trojan horse to let encroach themselves even more into another aspect of our lives.

Also:

> world’s largest rail system

The world's largest freight rail system.
The ARC maintainers have explicitly said that passing the test was necessary but not sufficient so I don't know where you come up with goal-post moving. (I personally don't like the test; it is more about "intuition" or in-built priors, not reasoning).
> But, according to data released Tuesday, the number of eighth, 10th, and 12th graders who collectively abstained from the use of alcohol, marijuana, or nicotine hit a new high this year. Use of illicit drugs also fell on the whole and use of non-heroin narcotics (Vicodin, OxyContin, Percocet) hit an all-time low.

From an unexpected conversation with some younger people not long ago (though not this young), they may have just switched to LSD.
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Not related, but when Bell was broken up in the early-80s I had a grandmother who said the world was ending. Seems that break-up improved things, at least for a while.
> ~=$3400 per single task

report says it is $17 per task, and $6k for whole dataset of 400 tasks.
They switched to smartphones
No, the US actively chose to make us poor
I remember getting prompted for it on iOS when they added it. I still have it turned off.
I would like to believe that he/she/they knows no other context for that phrase
Thanks! Appreciate the notes on the app site, just updated to make those edits!

For socials, I am sharing progress on X and Instagram @_re_pete -- fixed the link on the site as well.

I will definitely look into adding last.fm, great suggestion. Agreed that it does a nice job of collecting data across streaming services, so it definitely merits its own integration and set of visualizations.

I will say, the nice thing about Spotify is it has stats about the songs and artists themselves (genres, stats, etc.) that other platforms and last.fm lack.=, so would have to rethink a few of them.
I am a Peruvian. These are my ancestors. They came from Siberia and were well used to functioning in cold weather. Today some of our northerners, the Inuit, commonly known as the Eskimo stil live in Alaska and Canada.
From reading the blog post and Twitter, and cost of other models, I think it's evident that it IS actually cost per task, see this tweet: https://files.catbox.moe/z1n8dc.jpg

And o1 cost $15/$60 for 1M in/out, so the estimated costs on the graph would match for a single task, not the whole benchmark.
Nah, it will arrive. And regardless, this sort of AI reduces the skill level required to make the app. It reduces the amount of people required and thus reduces the demand for engineers. So, even though AI is not CLOSE to what you are suggesting, it can significantly reduce the salaries of those that ARE required. So maybe fewer $150K programmers will be hired with the same revenue for even higher profits.

The most bizarre thing is that programmers are literally writing code to replace themselves because once this AI started, it was a race to the bottom and nobody wants to be last.
My energy supplier (Octopus) gives me a tarrif with half-hourly pricing (smart meters in the UK only report with 30 minutes resolution).

This let's me know when electricity is in less demand or high supply and schedule my day around it. Making my electricity bill cheaper and likewise putting less strain on the supplier which reduces their costs too
Agree. AGI is here. I feel such a sense of pride in our species.
Honestly, is gaming benchmarks actually a problem in this space in that it still shows something useful? Just means we need more benchmarks, yeah? It really feels not unlike keggle competitions.

We do the same exact stuff with real people with programming challenges and such where people just study common interview questions rather than learning the material holistically. And since we know that people game these interview type questions, we can adjust the interview processes to minimize gamification.... which itself leads to gamification and back to step one. That's not ideal an ideal feedback loop of course, but people still get jobs and churn out "productive work" out of it.
Update: "Journal that published faulty black plastic study removed from science index"

https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/12/journal-that-publishe...
I have no doubt that at least some especially in the early days envisioned crypto as a legitimate alternative to fiat currency. That being said, in it's mature state as a technology, it amounts to nothing more than a clone of the modern financial system with a different set of oligarchs, except that it has far fewer consumer protections, and the nature of it makes implementing said protections in any way extremely difficult.

That combined with the extreme volatility of value that is not only endemic to any coin with meaningful usage, but is generally a goal of most coins, makes it only really useful as a speculative vehicle, and those same properties also make it uniquely bad in terms of a store of value to be used in commerce unless the seller also plans to speculate on the value.

And, even if you're good with all of that: Yes, the tech itself is decentralized, but if you don't have at least some background in basic software development or scripting, you're almost certainly going to end up using some product or another to manage your wallets and transactions, and while the wallet is anonymous, the accounts you connect the wallet to are often quite the opposite, and because of the structure of the chains, your entire transaction history is visible to everyone on the network, at all times. So it's private by default, but basically any casual user is immediately and forever doxxable.
ARC is in the dataset though? I mean I'm aware that there are new puzzles every day, but there's still a very specific format and set of skills required to solve it. I'd bet a decent amount of money that humans get better at ARC with practice, so it seems strange to suggest that AI wouldn't.
how is Spotify generating a bunch of of royalty free music in a way that kinda screws over the actual musicians making that music, which, for the musicians, isn't much worse than getting screwed over by record labels and may even be better in some ways [0], in order to meet the market's desire for "Chill Lo-fi Hip-hop background music"/"Music to Relax and Study"/"Gentle Relaxing Yoga Music" a 'literal failure of the free market'?

People want comforting background noise, the market gives it to them. They never asked for ethically sourced, organic, gluten-free comforting background noise, although if they do, I'm sure the market will be more than happy to provide them with that, and we can look forwards to "Chill Study Music Made by Adorable Orphan Children in Kenya Using Only Recycled Materials And Biodegradable Recording Equipment" or whatever :)

[0] https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-music
This is an extreme outlier. I have a 4,700 square foot home in the Midwest, electric heating (heat pump + backup direct heat) and only occasionally hit $300/mo in a cold spell.
The pundits response to the (alleged) plateau was proportional to the certainty with which CEOs of frontier labs discussed pre-training scaling. The o3 result is from scaling test time compute, which represents a meaningful change in how you would build out compute for scaling (single supercluster --> presence in regions close to users). Thus it is important to discuss.
You should be able to use the Smart HTTP protocol with HTTP Basic Auth (https://git-scm.com/docs/http-protocol) to push a locally-created commit. Forgejo supports CORS here, but I don't know whether GitHub does.