skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Egyptian tombs and sarcophagi are a apposite example, considering the fate of huge numbers of mummies - we dug them up, ground them down to make paint or medicine, shipped them across the world to unwrap as curiosities at dinner parties.

It is tempting to think that human civilisation shows basically the same characteristics as human babies - it will literally put anything it finds in its mouth unless you stop it!
Mapped: The link between obesity and corruption
Try convincing the other children of this.
"We have created artificial super intelligence, it has solved physics!"

"Well, yeah, but its kind of expensive" -- this guy
Oh that's nice. When I last looked (quite a long time ago), local::lib seemed to be the recommended way, and that seemed a bit more fiddly than python's virtualenv.
Have to remove the /p/

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machin...
I like this thought process your brought up here! I hadn't put much time into thinking about the physical separation of generations in organizations like schools. A certain absence of physical heritage if you will... A mini extinction event

Makes you think of other, perhaps smaller, things that may have gotten a gap in physical hand offs. Perhaps I'm generalizing too strongly here, but certainly someone that was a middle school teacher or something before and after covid might have some observations on little oddities that may have escaped the public eye.
Interactive CLI tool to generate AI-friendly context
If you’ve ever needed to gather specific project files for an AI task, Context Dump might help. It’s a simple CLI tool to generate a JSON dump of your project’s structure and content, ready for AI consumption.

What It Does

Lets you select files interactively using a checkbox.
Automatically ignores files like `node_modules`, `.git`, or anything in your `.gitignore`.
Outputs a structured JSON file containing file paths and contents.

How to Use It

- Install:
npm install -g context-dump

- Run in any project directory:
context-dump
JSON output is saved to `ai_context.json` by default.

- You can also:

Change the output filename with `-o`.
Exclude specific files or folders with `-e`.

Example Output

Here’s what the JSON looks like:

{
"project_structure": ["example.js"],
"file_contents": {
"example.js": {
"content": "console.log('Hello, World!');",
"extension": "js"
}
}
}

Check it out on [Github](https://github.com/alwalxed/context-dump). If it sounds useful, give it a try.
remove the p/ at the end and it works.
> it manages your entire dependency chain down to the C level in a cross platform way.

I love conda, but this isn't true. You need to opt-in to a bunch of optional compiler flags to get a portable yml file, and then it can often fail on different OS's/versions anyway.

I haven't done too much of this since 2021 (gave up and used containers instead) but it was a nightmare getting windows/mac builds to work correctly with conda back then.
There is indeed this important aspect, but with this mindset we would never have implemented compilers, databases with their own query language, etc...

I never lost a bet I made in """overengineering""" a solution to a problem and was always proven right in a matter of months. This is especially easy when the proposed solution brings structural improvements to the time it takes to implement a certain class of features. It's just a matter of comparing the time it takes to implement that "sophisticated" solution vs the speedup to implement such a feature using said solution times how many potential features there are in this class times the probability the company will need it at some point. And yes, in my case this implied writing "mini-compilers" or "mini-debuggers".
If I import the folder into Thunderbird, yes. The search in Thunderbird is a subjective topic but it works for me. There are probably other tools to search through them but I have never tried to find one.
Posted yesterday, currently with 341 comments, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42461530
They're only allowed 2-3 guesses per problem. So even though yes it generates many candidates, it can't validate them - it doesn't have tool use or a verifier, it submits the best 2-3 guesses. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Rdwui3wHxCeKb7feK/getting-50...
Can an LLM use tools like humans do? Could it use an image model as a tool to query the image?
For those looking for something like this but that updates on your own schedule and handles more than just RSS, I built Digest - https://usedigest.com
This doesn't make sense to me. Any time you want a reduced order model, you will get error. For example:

- Say I have data which is perfectly sinusoidal, with an dc bias. I can fit a line a to this data, which will approximate the bias (or be exactly the bias if the data is over an integer number of cycles).

- I want to fit a plane to a curved surface

- I want to fit a low order transfer function to a high order system.

- I want to model a system with friction as a system with no friction.

Fitting parameters in all of these situations will result in a non-zero residual. But assuming that is due to randomness is not useful.
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The best interpretation of this result is probably that it showed tackling some arbitrary benchmark is something you can throw money at, aka it’s just something money can solve.

Its not agi obviously in the sense that you still need to some problem framing and initialization to kickstart the reasoning path simulations
wow, the scammer tried to steal your wife?
I wonder: when did o1 finish training, and when did o3 finish training?

There's a ~3 month delay between o1's launch (Sep 12) and o3's launch (Dec 20). But, it's unclear when o1 and o3 each finished training.
Does it include the use of tools to accomplish a task?

Does it include the invention of tools?
Spreadsheets 1/3 – Rye Language
Technical debt isn't just a matter of lost knowledge.
We need to have our cake and eat it too
What you describe is stack exhaustion. Stack overflow is running past the end of an object on the stack. “Memory safe” languages claim to protect against stack overflows, as does the astree sound static analyzer for C/C++:

https://www.absint.com/astree/index.htm

None make any mention of stack exhaustion that I can find in a cursory search.
Yes, the /p is the problem (as the person above you stated).
I can’t provide more information than is currently public, but from the ARC post you’ll note that we trained on about 75% of the train set (which contains 400 examples total); which is within the ARC rules, and evaluated on the semiprivate set.
I quoted the wrong part. I intended to respond to this claim

"Essays are only ever used in an academic context. No-one outside of academia writes an essay. This use-case has been replaced by Powerpoint presentations."
Seem to require sign ups just to view it.
15 pounds cost per year, 11 pounds saving per year, for an average user.

Not sure how many years the cost is assumed to be spread over and what the ongoing running costs are but that's the per average customer cost apparently.
I am about to turn 40 very soon. Do I fall in that generation? Because all those things did hold true and was there when I was growing up/adulting. But I never felt any need of it and many didn’t. But many did. Many still do. Because those small pockets are still around where drug is still cool and even back then those were small pockets!

One of the reasons is - it has become too difficult and costly (at least where I live). Even for weed, which was pretty much kosher unless you were caught by the police keeping KGs on your person or home, it has become too difficult to procure and not get caught. That could be a reason.

In many places where weed is available like cigarettes - maybe it’s not the forbidden fruit anymore. That danger or aura of different is gone with it.
This deception in labeling and artist-anonymizing and hiding the existence of this PFC program is the antithesis of fulfilling their core value propositions, foremost to the consumer which is exposing them to music they do or would like and secondarily to the artist community they claim to support.

More enshittification on the altar of selfish growth.
I would like to see one taught by the last printed copy of the encyclopedia Britannica (not the AI version), and see who comes out on top.
> They don't have perspective because they have not been bred to have it. It's very sad.

Did 'bred' once include upbringing? I thought it began and ended with mate selection, pairing, and procreation.
I self-host my email, and I backup my server. My Gmail account, which I seldom use, gets redirected to an address at my own server, so it automatically gets backed up as well.
It is allowed exactly two guesses, per the ARC rules.
This is a weird angle I’ve seen appear in the past few days as I’ve re-engaged with online discourse.

Why the heck are people arguing about energy markets in the EU?

And that too, specifically, Germany ?

Is it targeting green energy? Is it targeting Germany ? What, why ?
Feeling Seen
Is that reason because Buffalo is the 81st most populated city in the United States, or 123rd by population density, and Waymo currently only serves approximately 3 cities in North America?

We already let computers control cars because they're better than humans at it when the weather is inclement. It's called ABS.
No, Atlas shrugged explicitly believes that the wealthy beneficiaries are also the ones doing the innovation and the labor. Human/superhuman AI, if not self-directed but more like a tool, may massively benefit whoever happens to be lucky enough to be directing it when it arises. This does not imply that the lucky individual benefits on the basis of their competence.

The idea that productivity improvements increase unemployment is just fundamentally based on a different paradigm. There is absolutely no reason to think that when a machine exists that can do most things that a human can do as well if not better for less or equal cost, this will somehow increase human employment. In this scenario, using humans in any stage of the pipeline would be deeply inefficient and a stupid business decision.
Fentanyl contamination is a real concern though.
No. There is really nothing useful in there. It's mostly just all receipts for online orders that I have never needed.

I view old emails as all of the browser tabs I have open right now: I feel attached to them and avoid closing them. But if they all disappear I'll be fine. I'm not wasting energy backing them up.
> send drones to kill terrorists

The part that you miss is, are they only killing "terrorists" extrajudicially? To take that propaganda at its face value is to ask, what else could they be killing brown people for, if not terrorism?
With the 1:1 intended correspondence of (public?) class names to source file names I get how that could be considered a feature for ease of use, compared to C++ where any file could define any name.
Good point, my mistake.
75% of 400 is 300 :)
Current AI is good at text but not very good at 3d physical stuff like fixing your plumbing.
What's your favorite email search tool?

Ideally something that runs against a local archive on PC, and has a mobile app. With instant results.

I used to use Lookout (for Outlook) and have never managed to find something as fast, simple and reliable.
Ah, yes, I missed a “k” in that estimation!
Thanks for the hint! That's exactly what I was looking for as I have never looked into raycasting but having an interest in it.

Direct Links:

- https://nthorn.com/articles/batch_raycaster/ (batch variant)

- https://lodev.org/cgtutor/raycasting.html (general intro)
Same half. My understanding is that in split brain patients, it looks like the one half has extremely limited ability to parse language and no ability to create it.
> Productivity improvements increase employment.

Sometimes: the productivity improvements from the combustion engine didn't increase employment of horses, it displaced them.

But even when productivity improvements do increase employment, it's not always to our advantage: the productivity improvements from Eli Whitney's cotton gin included huge economic growth and subsequent technological improvements… and also "led to increased demands for slave labor in the American South, reversing the economic decline that had occurred in the region during the late 18th century": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_gin

A superhuman AI that's only superhuman in specific domains? We've been seeing plenty of those, "computer" used to be a profession, and society can re-train but it still hurts the specific individuals who have to be unemployed (or start again as juniors) for the duration of that training.

A superhuman AI that's superhuman in every domain, but close enough to us in resource requirements that comparative advantage is still important and we can still do stuff, relegates us to whatever the AI is least good at.

A superhuman AI that's superhuman in every domain… as soon as someone invents mining, processing, and factory equipment that works on the moon or asteroids, that AI can control that equipment to make more of that equipment, and demand is quickly — O(log(n)) — saturated. I'm moderately confident that in this situation, the comparative advantage argument no longer works.
I think it’s not technology as a thing people are hooked to - it’s taken over social life. My 13 year old and his buddies socialize online, period. In person stuff is mostly organized. That is helped by school policy that got rid of the idea of a neighborhood school.

Additionally, the social activities that coalesced around things like alcohol are out of reach of many teens. I live in a city that had a very active college bar scene. It’s dead and gone. Crackdowns on underage serving and cost drives it away. Happy hour special at a place that other day was $12 for 4 coors lights in a bucket. In 1998, I’d pay $15 for a dozen wings and all you can drink swill for 3 hours.
Drugs don't usually kill or cause people to die or otherwise become unwilling or unable to reproduce? In fact they may remove inhibitions and lead to producing more children than those who abstain, at least on the whole.

Anyway, I'm not sure and of that is true. It's just one set of possibilities.
A lot of extensive research was done by Dr. Valter Longo and his department on similar topics and has made its way into an easily digestible book called The Longevity Diet. It changed my perspective big time with food.

Highly recommend reading this book for folks that are interested in Longevity.

Dr. Longo has also done a few podcasts with Dr. Rhonda Patrick (who might be more known to the audience here) you can checkout
In the absence of monopoly, advances in technology result in improvement in value for the customers. Profit margins are constrained in any competitive industry.
On my Mac I accomplish email backups using the Mail app and Chronosync. I have filtering rules to automatically file messages into multiple IMAP mailboxes based on sender or subject. I periodically manually move messages older than a week to local mailboxes to keep my iCloud storage from getting large enough to require paying for additional storage. The Mail app can also export those local mailboxes to a folder which I then back up using Chronosync so I have local copies on multiple drives.

The whole process only takes about 5 minutes once every week or two. It gives me easy access to over 20 years of email which is nice to have even though I only search the old ones a few times a year.
But when Sam Altman owns all the money in the world surely he'll distribute some it via his not-for-profit AI company?
> The only reasons Americans need to be "rich" is because health insurance is a scam, a car accident can bankrupt you,

92% of Americans have health insurance. About a third have insurance through the government. Rather than being a scam, most Americans don't understand just how much it costs because of the employer subsidies. At any rate, given the existence of both auto and health insurance, it is hard to go bankrupt from a car accident. Medical bankruptcy gets a lot of attention because it should never happen, not because it is common.

> the tax code is entirely for the wealthy

This makes no sense coming from the UK. The US taxation system is remarkably progressive. Marginal tax brackets, a large standard deduction, and CTC/EITC mean about ~40% of American households pay no federal income tax, or even pay a negative tax (eg., they get paid.) Meanwhile, the UK has the insanely regressive 18% VAT. This would never pass muster in the US because of its regressiveness.
LLMs don’t, but who said AGI should come from LLMs alone. When I ask ChatGPT about something “we” worked on months ago, it “remembers” and can continue on the conversation with that history in mind.

I’d say, humans are also bound to promoting sessions in that way.
Maybe. She said he had “a golden voice.”
> Of course offshore wind is always going to have a lower LCoE than onshore wind

While offshore wind has gotten cheaper over time, onshore wind is still cheapest. Danish LCOE in 2018 for onshore wind is 30 Euros/MWh while offshore is 46 Euros/MWh. https://ens.dk/en/press/danish-energy-agency-launches-improv...
It completely justifies it as it justified the expulsion of sudeten Germans from Czechoslovakia after WW2 (btw the Palestinians allied with the Axis powers and Nazi Germany on that one, great track record). Read the Melian dialogue for more information.

As for your internationalist fixation of pedantry for the determination of Jihadist, I'll just say thankfully Hamas has been thwarted in its ambitions and doesn't even have the means to create a tiny baby caliphate. RIP you'll be missed.
SUBST was commonly used for source code directories. It served at least two purposes: making source appear at the same location on all machines and working around path length limits.

I've also used SUBST when reorganizing network drive mappings.
The problem is not that it is expensive, but that, most likely, it is not superintelligence. Superintelligence is not exploring the problem space semi-blindly, if the thounsands $$$ per task are actually spent for that. There is a reason the actual ARC-AGI prize requires efficiency, because the point is not "passing the test" but solving the framing problem of intelligence.
For the moment the displacement is asymmetrical; AI replacing employees, but not AI replacing consumers. If AI causes mass unemployment, the pool of consumers (profit to companies) will shrink. I wonder what the ripple effects of that will be.
This has been the best UI for my kids to get excited about AI and simple visual programming, they're having tonnes of fun playing around and creating cool image workflows with it.
Here is a 20k Hertz podcast about Ghost artists behind the real artists: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7ll2fKycYLy2KZxm12toS4?si=p...

Basically - the 'real' artists do exactly the same thing. They use ghost writers and producers that make the song and then the 'brand name' just records it, without crediting the producer.
Well that’s my point, we’ve already just accepted the risk. Probably more than half of people think their phone is spy on them but carry it anyway.
Ah, my bad. 15 per year is more plausible
Even though it never really took off (at least in Europe), I find SMS as a bearer medium for the WAP 1.0 stack fascinating.

One of my first PDAs could do something similar for sharing files as a series of concatenated binary SMS over an Infrared connection via a mobile phone.

The only problem was that SMS was paid per message in my country (double-digit cents each). Fortunately the preview dialog showed the estimated number of messages before sending – and it was something like 1000 for a small JPEG…
Unwillingness to adapt to the destruction of the middle class and knowledge work is pretty reasonable tbh.
Threads in the last few months

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41633899

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40947450
A fair comparison might be average human. The average human isn't a STEM grad. It seems STEM grad approximately equals an IQ of 130. https://www.accommodationforstudents.com/student-blog/the-su...

From a post elsewhere the scores on ARC-AGI-PUB are approx average human 64%, o3 87%. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42474659

Though also elsewhere, o3 seems very expensive to operate. You could probably hire a PhD researcher for cheaper.
Carton uses local::lib under the covers. I found local::lib far less fiddly than virtualenv myself, but it just doesn't try to do as much as virtualenv. These days I do PHP for a living, and for all the awfulness in php, they did nail it with composer.
How many guesses is the human comparison based on? I’d hope two as well but haven’t seen this anywhere so now I’m curious.
Call the unit "Kilogram-Joules", abbreviate as KgJ and it works pretty damn well and unambiguously.

The problem is we don't live in a society powered by matter-antimatter annihilation reactions, or black evaporation so it's not really useful - unlike say, the electron-volt which at least serves physicists nicely.
It's totally valid criticism. What I meant is that if an individual's major concern is employment, then it would be prudent to invest the amount of time necessary to ensure a favorable outcome. And given whatever stage in life they are at, use the circumstance you have in your favor.

I'm a greybeard myself.
> with them having seen people close to them destroyed by drug use.

But isn't this a false correlation, then? Were they destroyed by drug use, or by the daily misery of their ghetto neighborhood?
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This looks like a fun language. I don't like the idea of wasm, but I do like the idea of moving away from JavaScript at some point. With big software like Figma using wasm to get proper performance in the browser the benefits of such a language are obvious in my opinion.

Wasm is a move back to the flash days, though most developers nowadays probably weren't there to know why that sucked. Even 15 years later there still isn't a decent replacement for its main use case, it got sacrificed for the cause of the free and open web. Maybe the market for it disappeared with a certain early web culture. Most flash iconic content was probably created with pirated copies of Flash anyway.

Since I'm in the old person yells at cloud rant mood, I'll just continue on and rant at OSI as well. This project is yet another example of a project that would have been and should have been proper approved open source if OSI had not failed to get with the times and protect the open source community against the large cloud providers, the very same cloud providers that are their largest sponsors and donors.
Like what, worsening? Enshitification is context specific, it’s not a beautiful word for sure but the situation is not beautifil either so it matches this word IMO
Wikipedia doesn't agree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_overflow

> In software, a stack overflow occurs if the call stack pointer exceeds the stack bound.

Also your searching astree site reveals:

> StackAnalyzer automatically determines the worst-case stack usage of the tasks in your appli­cation. It lets you find any stack overflows, or formally prove the absence thereof.
No, this is a completely different scenario. There’s a huge difference between the companies who provide the pipes having full control over everything (the way it was back then) and what we have today which is that some companies have become defacto standard platform providers. It’s the difference between having to pay a toll every time you leave your driveway vs. paying for things at whatever store you decided to drive to.

Google and Apple happen to have devices that most people use, but if you want to you can buy USB adapters to use on a laptop, or some laptops have built-in mobile data.

I think people making this type of comment like “there’s no difference now” just were not around back then and have really no context on just how completely locked down the wireless carriers had things back then.
It will just answer with the current consensus on the matter.