skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I strongly suspect that there is about to be a spike in Python packaging discussion over and above the high ambient baseline.

uv is here to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And it’s all out of gum.
Their goal is not to show you videos you want to watch!
True, and they have their own strange hangups, usually around sex, while letting fairly intense violence pass with less comment. At least they used to, I admit I'm a bit out of that loop these days.
You'll want a bi-elliptic transfer orbit. And probably a larger rocket.
> the government may on net be paying a subsidy to get wind power built but what was the next best option? If that costs more than the CfD then that's a win.

Direct investment with ownership - that would make money for the tax payer but would be "socialism".
So your claim for optimism here is that something today that took ~10^22 floating point operations (based on an estimate earlier in the thread) to execute will be running on phones in 25 years? Phones which are currently running at O(10^12) flops. That means ten orders of magnitudes of improvement for that to run in a reasonable amount of time? It's a similar scale up in going from ENIAC (500 flops) to a modern desktop (5-10 teraflops).
> now it's been found that a majority of Brits receive more in benefits than they contribute in taxes

This has been the case for decades. It's not news.
> I would expect this step in 2028-2030.

Do you work at one of the frontier labs?
For what it’s worth – A small technical fact:

It is entirely possible to use poetry to determine the precise set of packages to install and write a requirements.txt, and then shotgun install those packages in parallel. I used a stupidly simple fish shell for loop that ran every requirements line as a pip install with an “&” to background the job and a “wait” after the loop. (iirc) Could use xargs or parallel too.

This is possible at least. Maybe it breaks in some circumstances but I haven’t hit it.
We turn our money over to investments, hoping this will set us free.

That's a new thing in the world, ordinary people investing in their savings, 401k, retirement, mortgages, index-linked accounts. Not many hundreds of years old, but people advise it as if it's as solid as the mountains. And work for 50 years watching the numbers go up for the carrot of freedom at the end.
It's only the v0 you start off with from being in orbit already that makes it hard. Earth (and Kerbin) orbit at a very high speed.
The Soviet Union's Desperate Efforts at Mind Control
The rate shown is 29p which comes to 36 cents.

It is substantially less than PG&E California prices, which average around 50-55 cents.
What's great about that is that the assumption (or O(n) check) that the majority exists is incredibly powerful, enabling the algorithm, which is nearly the dumbest possible algorithm, to work.

The one flaw in the magic is that "2nd pass to verify" is a significant cost, transforming the algorithm from online streaming O(1) space to O(n) collection-storage space.
If all it is doing is adding histamine could you get it from food?
Stories of Progress from 2024
Can AI Help Us Master Communication Skills?
Hey HN,

The title asks a question many of us grapple with: can we truly master communication skills? It feels like such a fundamental human ability, yet consistently improving it can be surprisingly elusive. We might recognize areas we want to work on – clearer explanations, more confident delivery, navigating difficult conversations – but effective practice with insightful feedback is often missing.

Think about it: how do you really practice having a crucial conversation before it happens? Or hone your ability to explain a complex technical concept concisely? Traditional methods often fall short. Rehearsing alone lacks external perspective, and feedback from friends can be subjective or miss critical nuances.

What if you could step into a simulated conversation, on any topic, and receive immediate, targeted feedback after each response? Imagine practicing a job interview answer and instantly seeing analysis on your clarity, conciseness, and even the potential impact of your tone. Or simulating a negotiation and getting insights into your persuasive language and areas where you could have been more assertive.

This isn't about replacing real-world interactions, but about creating a powerful training ground. An environment where you can experiment, make mistakes, and receive objective analysis to accelerate your learning. This concept of iterative practice, guided by immediate AI feedback, feels like it could fundamentally change how we approach communication skill development.

I'm genuinely curious to hear your take on this. Does this idea of an AI-powered practice environment resonate with your own experiences trying to improve your communication skills? What specific aspects of your communication would you find most valuable to get feedback on? What are the biggest roadblocks you've encountered in your own journey to becoming a more effective communicator?

Looking forward to a thought-provoking discussion.
In theory, apparently not in practice.
Many things in life have a threshold beyond which they become a problem and 3ms might be good enough (most probably) to not hit it.
Came here looking for this. :)
Sadly current "dishwasher" models are neither self-loading nor unloading. (Seems like they should be able to take a tray of dishes, sort them, load them, and stack them after cleaning.)

Maybe "busbot" or "scullerybot".
> “I’ll know it when I see it” isn’t a compelling argument.

It feels compelling to me.
Depends on the object receiving the heat. Walk outside in bearfoot in summer. You will soon notice some surfaces are way hotter than others. This depends on how efficiently heat can transfer. Convection, radiation, conduction I think are the 3 ways.

The air temp is heated by the sun, those surfaces then the atmosphere is preventing heat escaping. A lot going into that 120F!

That is why things like climate change and urban heat islands don't need a closer sun.
Yes that's correct and there's a bit of "pixel math" as well so take these numbers with a pinch of salt. Preliminary model sizes from the temporarily public HF repository puts the full model size at 8tb or roughly 80 H100s
Yet the average human can drive a car a lot better than ChatGPT can, which shows that the way you frame "intelligence" dictates your conclusion about who is "intelligent".
> ... and strongly encourages the team to sacrifice the ‘L’ and ‘B’ from Work-Life-Balance.

This manager doesn't get it.
I also took some time to look at the ones it couldn't solve. I stopped after this one: https://kts.github.io/arc-viewer/page6/#47996f11
I had read of this attack back in September[1]. It seems very sophisticated because they spoof a phone number that at first glance is associated with Google, but is really just the “uncanny-valley” Google Assistant service that can check wait times or make reservations on your behalf.

Does Google even offer live-person support if you’re not their Workspace customer?

Also, one other difference is that apparently the attackers may have been using Salesforce to send the emails. Maybe they were using a trial or developer edition? I believe those can send out emails too, but they are very limited. So this must be a very targeted kind of attack. The scary part is that the attacker’s emails pass SPF, DKIM, and DMARC. There’s a technical write-up I found about this aspect of the attack.[2]

[1]: https://sammitrovic.com/infosec/gmail-account-takeover-super...

[2]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xrJsRBcGj9x2mMvRoKLG4ANS...
Temperature is so wibbly-wobbly. The probe will reach an equilibrium energy-in vs. energy-out temperature depending on its distance from the sun, its surface area facing the sun, and the materials being lit, vs. its surface area facing away, the thermal radiation rate of various materials, and other factors. You could give an aerospace engineer almost any temperature between the CMB and the surface of the sun and they could probably design a (at least theoretical) probe that would reach that temperature eventually* at almost any distance. My guess is that 2500 ºF probably is the equilibrium temperature of the probe at that distance.

* With "eventually" being "assuming a stable state for infinite years" which is of course not how astrophysics actually works.
But does that Kaggle solution achieve human level perf with any level of compute? I think you're missing the forest for the trees here.
The result on Epoch AI Frontier Math benchmark is quite a leap. Pretty sure most people couldn’t even approach these problems, unlike ARC AGI
> I think you're lacking imagination here. The Asse II mine in Germany[1] is in danger of getting flooded, which could release large amounts of radioactive material into the groundwater.

Wrong. It was a political decision by the GREEN party to make a lot of fuss and try to dig it up again for extra political points

Check this recommendation out by the actual experts of the radiation protection commission:

https://www.ssk.de/SharedDocs/Beratungsergebnisse/DE/2016/20...

> Four of the five assessment fields (safety during the operating phase,
environmental effects in the event of an uncontrollable inflow of solution, feasibility and time
requirements) indicated that there was a clear benefit to retaining the radioactive waste in the
Asse II mine rather than retrieving it.

And only anti-nuclear NGOs with flawed estimates think it there would be enough radiactive material released to be of danger

> Both estimates assume, for example, that after an uncontrollable inflow of solution, the
radionuclides present in the waste will fully dissolve in the inflow water and then be squeezed
out into the hydrosphere and biosphere as a result of convergence and gas formation in the
mine. However, the estimates fail to take into account the solubility limits in the saline solution
and drinking water, both of which have a significant effect on the result, and also omit the
sorption effects that occur when passing through the overburden. They also fail to consider the
fact that only a very small proportion of the uranium and thorium is soluble; otherwise the
solubility limit of uranium and thorium would be exceeded in the saline solution.

...

> As a result, the SSK holds the view that an uncontrollable inflow of solution does
not represent a hazard to the public

The green party is just trying to try to get the country to stay in fear of nuclear energy, so their favorite policy (i.e. shutting down nuclear power plants) can stay.
I think the challenge is that the larger you bet, the harder it is to find people who are bad at basic strategy poker but willing to bet against you for a long series of bets.
> the benefits

The UK has 30GW of wind capacity. Two weeks ago wind was generating 1.8GW (5% of demand at the time). The benefits of a power source are only somewhat theoretical when you can't rely on it being there when you need it.
Highly challenging for LLMs because it has nothing to do with language. LLMs and their training processes have all kinds of optimizations for language and how it's presented.

This benchmark has done a wonderful job with marketing by picking a great name. It's largely irrelevant for LLMs despite the fact it's difficult.

Consider how much of the model is just noise for a task like this given the low amount of information in each token and the high embedding dimensions used in LLMs.
I thought the great-grandparent said it wasn’t? If it was accidental.
> Though, what I'm really concerned about is what happens when it gets smart enough to do pretty much everything better (or even close)

I'll get concerned when it stops sucking so hard. It's like talking to a dumb robot. Which it unsurprisingly is.
Here is a nice use-case. Put this in a pharmacy - have people hit a button, and ask questions about over-the-counter medications.

Really - any physical place where people are easily overwhelmed, have something like that would be really nice.

With some work - you can probably even run RAG on the questions and answer esoteric things like where the food court in an airport or the ATM in a hotel.
good question and I think you gave the correct answer yes people will just do the 10,000 hours required by starting programming at the age of eight and then playing around until they're done studying
A coworker of mine has a phd in physics. Showing the difference to him between little and big endian in a hex editor, showing file sizes of raw image files and how to compute it... I explained 3 times and maybe he understood part of it now.
The real breakthrough is the 25% on Frontier Math.
Nice. A totally local voice assistant.

This makes sense for cars, where there's much local stuff to control.
But for a home unit, what do you want to do that is entirely local? Turning the heat up and down gets boring after a while. If it does entertainment selection or shopping, it needs outside world connections.

(Today's rant: I recently purchased a humidifier. It's just a little unit with a water tank, a water-softening filter, and an ultrasonic vaporizer. That part works fine. Then there are the controls.

All this thing really needs is an on-off switch and a humidity knob, and maybe lights for power, humidification, and water tank empty. But no. It has five touch buttons and a round display about four inches across. The display is on even if the unit is off. Pressing the on/off button turns it on. If it's humidifying, there's a whole light show. The tank lights up purple. Swooping arcs of blue run up both edges of the round display. It's very impressive, especially in a dark bedroom. If you press and hold the second button for two seconds, about half the light show is suppressed.

There are three fan speeds, and a button for that. Only the highest one will propel the water vapor high enough to avoid it hitting the floor and uselessly condensing before it mixes with the air. So that feature was not necessary.

The display shows one number. It's usually the current humidity, but if you press the humidity set button, the number displayed becomes the setting, which is changed upwards by successive presses until it wraps around. After a few seconds, the display reverts to current humidity.

Turning the unit off or removing the water tank resets all settings to the default.

This is the low-end unit. The next step up comes with an IR remote. It's one way - the remote has buttons but no display.
Since you have to be close to the display to use the buttons effectively, that doesn't help much.
The step up after that is, inevitably, a cloud-based phone app.

So this thing could potentially be interfaced to a voice assistant. That's only useful if there's enough information coming back from the device that the assistant software knows what the device is doing, and the assistant software understands that device status. If all it does is send remote button pushes, the result will be frustration.

So you need some degree of intelligence at both ends - the end that talks to the human, and the end that talks to the device.
If the user says "House, it's too dry in here", the assistant system needs to be able to check the status of the humidifier. Has power? Talking? On? Humidity setting reasonable? Fan running? Tank not empty? If it can't do that, it's part of the problem, not part of the solution.)
> What people always leave out is that society will bend to the abilities of the new technology.

Do they really? I don't think they do.

> Planes can't land in your backyard so we built airports. We didn't abandon planes.

But then what do you do with the all the fantasies and hype about the new technology (like planes that land in your backyard and you fly them to work)?

And it's quite possible and fairly common that the new technology actually ends up being mostly hype, and there's actually no "airports" use case in the wings. I mean, how much did society "bend to the abilities of" NFTs?

And then what if the mature "airports" use case is actually something most people do not want?
Thanks for the pointers! I hadn't seen Are You Human. Looks like it's only two months old. Of course it is much easier to design a test specifically to thwart LLMs now that we have them. It seems to me that it is designed to exploit details of LLM structure like tokenizers (e.g. character counting tasks) rather than to provide any sort of general reasoning benchmark. As such it seems relatively straightforward to improve performance in ways that wouldn't necessarily represent progress in general reasoning. And today's LLMs are not nearly as far from human performance on the benchmark as they were on ARC for many years after it was released.

SimpleBench looks more interesting. Also less than two months old. It doesn't look as challenging for LLMs as ARC, since o1-preview and Sonnet 3.5 already got half of the human baseline score; they did much worse on ARC. But I like the direction!

PIQA is cool but not hard enough for LLMs.

I'm not sure Berkeley Function-Calling represents tasks that are "easy" for average humans. Maybe programmers could perform well on it. But I like ARC in part because the tasks do seem like they should be quite straightforward even for non-expert humans.

Moravec's paradox isn't a benchmark per se. I tend to believe that there is no real paradox and all we need is larger datasets to see the same scaling laws that we have for LLMs. I see good evidence in this direction: https://www.physicalintelligence.company/blog/pi0
I don't know why anyone would blame people as though someone is making an explicit choice. I find your choice of words to be insulting to the OP.

We learn our language and stereotypes subconciously from our society, and it is no easy thing to fight against that.
Thanks, much appreciated! I will try that.

I am trying multiple optimizations right now, mostly centered around reducing the amount of lookups required.
100%. The hype is misguided. I doubt half the people excited about the result have even looked at what the benchmark is.
They mean Fiji
If I'm reading that chart right that means still log scaling & we should still be good with "throw more power" at it for a while?
Show HN: Vampire the Masquerade AI Game Master
This is a project build with lovable.dev for their xmas hackathon.
Most of the comments so far are about the temperature and the closeness to the sun, and, hey, I get it: those are both amazing to think about. But to me even more amazing is... 0.16% of the speed of light?? Yikes.
I agree. I don’t know where this obsession comes from. Obsession with resembling as close to humans as possible. We’re so far from being perfect. If you need proof just look at your teeth. Yes, we’re relatively universal, but a screwdriver is more efficient at driving in screws that our fingers. So please, stop wasting time building perfect universal robots, build more purpose-build ones.
Stability of In-Context Learning
It shows objectively that the models are getting better at some form of reasoning, which is at least worth noting. Whether that improved reasoning is relevant for the real world is a different question.
Suburbs. We get 84 squad cars showing up for noise complaints...

Many larger cities don't have the budget to provide adequate police coverage. So you get this sort of "best effort" response.

This is made worse with recent years of "defund the police" policies creeping into some of our larger cities.

It just reinforces the Pro 2A community's saying - when seconds matter, help is just minutes away.
> There is zero cultural continuity from Sumerian merchants to us.

Our sexagesimal division of angles and time are products of Sumerian culture. So strictly speaking greater than zero.
What makes smart meters more likely to read high?
sorry to be a noob, but can someone tell me doe sths mena o3 will be unaffordable for a typical user? Will only companies with thousands to spend per query be able to use this?

Sorry for being thick Im just confused how they can turn this into an addordable service?
Yeah, but that is pretty much an irrelevance here in the UK.

We don't even get that much sun in summer, today sunrise was at 0842, sunset at 1540 - so not even 7 hrs of daylight. Even then it was a very dull day.

So in the period (winter) when we most need power, local solar is essentially useless.

Local wind may be better, but the economics for it don't really work - requiring 100% gas turbine backup, and high costs due to intermittent use of said turbines .
That's actually a great idea! Something like the companies that take care of getting refunds for flight tickets when the flight is delayed too long (in Germany you are legally entitled to a refund, but the process is long, so there are companies that do it for you and take a piece).
They might have some common claims that they can add to a catalog. You could cut costs by re-using paperwork on these. As long as they could claim legal fees, which I'm not sure of.
What's food is a matter of regulation now?
Qualcomm wins licensing fight with Arm over chip designs
I am pretty sure we will have a deep cultural repulsion from it and people will pay serious money to have an AI free experience, If AI becomes actually useful there is alot of areas that we dont even know how to tackle like medicine and biology, I dont think anything would change otherwise, AI will take jobs but it will open alot more jobs at much higher abstraction, 50 years ago the idea that a software engineer would become a get rich quick job would have been insane imo
Samsung has an existing plant in Austin that is quite large: https://maps.app.goo.gl/xV1aQsGTSxWyMrSV8

They are one of the largest consumers of water and electricity in the area and sometimes have to stop production when there are water/power issues.

Also, the existing plant is on the same road as Apple's main campus in Austin (https://maps.app.goo.gl/N5fctVd5iHTwLiBP9 though 7.5 miles down the road), and I believe Samsung produces some of Apple's chips at this plant.
You had me in the first half lol
> What will happen to 3rd world countries

Probably less disruption than will happen in 1st world countries.

> No one will have chance to be rich anymore

It's strange to reach this conclusion from "look, a massive new productivity increase".
Why would people be called NIMBYs today for being against replacing a heavily residential neighborhood with a bunch of government buildings? It would be different if the discussion was about keeping the neighborhood residential and just making it more dense in terms of housing.
Which implies that a few years later they will not become senior SWEs either.
In order to 'land' on the sun, or any celestial body, you need to get rid of your orbital speed. Higher orbital speed means higher orbit altitude. Landing on earth is comparatively easy, because you can use the atmospheric drag to slow down. It is so difficult to land on Mars because of it's thin atmosphere. Alternatively you need a shitload of fuel to burn to kill that velocity.

Earth's orbital velcity is ~30km/s. So by extension, anything that comes from Earth will at least have that speed. So the probe needs to find 30km/s delta v in order to actually get close to the sun.
As a person in that age bracket, I don't feel like my peers and I are lacking in opportunities to participate in drug & alcohol use.

As to why I choose to abstain, I honestly am just not interested in drinking or doing drugs. I don't see any benefit to it socially, since I have more fun with my friends doing things while they are sober, and I don't want to be one of those adults that can't socialize without it. Also, the consequences for getting caught are high.
I love it. It's an underdog of expression surrounded by bland forgettable towers. Maybe that says more about the neighbors but the contrast is striking.
It’s great for laundering money.
and the chain of least incompetent really sounds rational, no? Surely moreso than the chain of perceived peak competency... which is just a gamble.