skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you gave someone who's only frame of reference was a PS4 or Switch a PC handheld running a dual boot setup with Windows and a desktop-oriented Linux distribution, it would baffle them to the point where it would end up left in a drawer. You're not looking at the market from outside of your own perspective, the friction points for others aren't going to be the same as they are for you. We're talking about people who don't know what a partition is, who don't understand what drivers are. Not that I don't sympathize, when I want to play games I don't want to deal with that shit either.

Bazzite has gamescope-session, I'm fairly sure CachyOS does too, so they have most of the same UX advantages when used that way. How does KDE Plasma smooth over bumps like games running in Windows mode? You can just alt+enter right? Well, provided you know the shortcut key to open the onscreen keyboard, and know the shortcut key, or even know any of that is possible in the first place. Even a small thing like that ends up being a problem if you aren't knowledgable about gaming on a PC. Then you get weird edge case games like Katamari Damacy Reroll which starts in Windowed mode and won't even let you change it until you play the tutorial, it's kind of a shitshow... on everything but gamescope-session.

The goal of Steam Deck and SteamOS in general is to provide a user experience as streamlined and seamless as a console. It mostly succeeds and a big part of that is that there's no need to deal with a PC UI. I mean, I like KDE Plasma just fine, if I have a keyboard and mouse, I'm using it right now, but if I'm holding a handheld gaming machine I simply don't want to deal with that, I want to select my games and have them play with minimal jank. I know from experience, from doing this handheld PC gaming thing since I bought an OG GPD Win, all of the problems.
Yes, so January should be the last month of the year so people can look forward and back, and February could be month 0. Then everything would line up with October being month 8.
It's extremely unlikely for o3 to have hit 2700 on live contests as such a rapid increase in score would have been noticed by the community. I can't find anything online detailing how contamination was avoided since it clearly wasn't run live, including in their video, and neither could I find details about the methodology (number of submissions being the big one, in contests you can also get 'hacked' esp. at a high level), problem selection, etc...

Additionally, people weren't able to replicate o1-mini results in live contests straightforwardly - often getting scores between 700 and 1200, which raises questions as for the methodology.

Perhaps o3 really is that good, but I just don't see how you can claim what you claimed for o3, we have no idea that the problems have never been seen, and the fact people find much lower Elo scores with o1/o1-mini with proper methodology raises even more questions, let alone conclusively proving these are truly novel tasks it's never seen.
Time immemorial is a specific legal term of art.
More accurately: “Established” versus “Trendy” technology.

Maybe it’s stereotyping, but I strongly suspect users of Trendy technology are more likely to be vocal about it, including by answering surveys, and especially in online forums. I’m personally a PHP developer, one of the least Trendy technologies, and you’ll never see me loudly talking about it like a JavaScript developer. The internet, and frankly HN, would tell you that a language with over a billion Docker pulls isn’t worth learning.
There is not a single piece of written evidence that Hitler ever ordered the Holocaust. The intent and responsibility have been derived from his speeches, the actions of his subordinates, and other indirect evidence.

The USSR's intent to exterminate Ukrainians (and many other ethnicities) can be proven to the same standard; and has been proven; and this has led to worldwide condemnation, from the European Parliament representing 450 million people in 27 countries, to even Ecuador and Australia.

The European Parliament,
...
Recognises the Holodomor, the artificial famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine caused by a deliberate policy of the Soviet regime, as a genocide against the Ukrainian people, as it was committed with the intent to destroy a group of people by deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction;

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/RC-9-2022-0559...
If I recall correctly, SVFs typically compute lowpass, highpass, and bandpass outputs simultaneously, which are then combined to create peaking or shelving filters. In contrast, a traditional biquad filter requires only five multiply-accumulate instructions. Computationally, SVFs are generally 3 to 5 times more expensive than biquad filters.

When designing this plugin, my primary focus was optimizing steady-state operation. While there are many plugins tailored for handling modulation, this plugin is designed to reject high-frequency modulation, prioritizing efficiency for gradual state changes. This tradeoff allows it to excel in its intended use case without the added complexity or overhead of robust modulation handling.

Feel free to add a feature request in the Github project page. Thanks again for your feedback.
> [...] which is true for any problem that's not hard hard.

Yes, basically true for any problem where you can verify a correct answer in polynomial time (especially if someone gives you extra hints to help your verification).

You can also think of these 'hints' as 'extremely lucky guesses'.

Eg you can verify that a number is composite, and not prime, by 'guessing' its prime factors.

Or you can guess the solution to a Sudoku and then just verify it.

The traveling salesman problem is interesting: it's trivial to verify that any given candidate solution has a specific cost (and that cost can be very low), but it's not trivial to verify that the candidate is minimal. (I'm not even sure it's possible in polynomial time.)
I followed the link to The Opry House [1] and ended up watching it to the end. I had forgotten how much fun the early animators had with their versatile new tool.

[1] https://archive.org/details/the-opry-house-1929_202412
> It’s somewhat true we’re moving the goalposts. But the reason is not stubbornness, but rather that we can’t properly define and subcategorize what reason and intelligence really is.

Disagree. Intelligence is a word created by humans. The entire concept is made up and defined by humans. It is not some concept that exists outside of that. It is simply a collection of qualities and features we choose to define as a word “intelligent”. The universe doesn’t really have a category or a group of features that is labeled intelligent. Does it use logic? Does it have feelings? Can it talk? Can it communicate? We define the features and we choose to put each and every feature under a category called “intelligence”.

Therefore when we define the “Turing test” as a benchmark for intelligence and we then invalidate it, it is indeed stubbornness and a conscious choice to change a definition of a word we Originally made up in the first place.

What you don’t realize is this entire thing is a vocabulary problem. When we argue what is conscious or what is intelligent we are simply arguing for what features belong in what categories we made up. When the category has blurry or controversial boundaries it’s because we chose the definition to be fuzzy. These are not profound discussions. They are debates about language choice. We are talking About personal definitions and generally accepted definitions both of which are completely chosen and made up by us. It is not profound to talk about things that are simply arbitrary choices picked by humans.

That being said we are indeed changing the goal posts. We are evolving our own chosen definitions and we very well may eventually change the definition of intelligence to never include any form of thinking machine that is artificially created. The reason why we do this is a choice. We are saying, “hey these LLMs are not anything amazing or anything profound. They are not intelligent and I choose to believe this by changing and evolving my own benchmark for what is intelligent.”

Of course this all happens subconsciously based off of deeply rooted instincts and feelings. It’s so deep that it’s really hard to differentiate the instincts between rational thinking. When you think logically, “intelligence” is just a word with an arbitrary definition. An arbitrary category. But the instincts are so strong that you literally spent your entire life thinking that intelligence like god or some other common myth made up by humans is some concept that exists outside of what we make up. It’s human to have these instincts, that’s where religion comes from. What you don’t realize is that it’s those same instincts fueling your definition of what is “intelligent”.

Religious people move the goal posts too. When science establishes things in reality like the helio centricity of the solar system religious people need to evolve their beliefs in order to stay inline with reality. They often do this by reinterpreting the Bible. It’s deeply rooted instincts that prevent us from thinking rationally and it effects the great debate we are having now on “what is intelligence?”.
Similar experience here.

Also becoming one of the boys is not about technical ability at all: it's marketing. What you need to do to get in the boysclub will depend on the group, but I have never seen a startup where it was about being good at what you do.

Conversely, there seems to be this misconception that corporates are boring, slow, full of useless processes. But my experience is that "slow" may be another word for "healthy", and "useless processes" may be a way to call "the cool kids can't make the rules". I find it more rewarding.

And if you have a ton of energy to work on projects that you find exciting, better do it in your free time and own it. Startups are a Ponzi scheme: unless you are one of the founders, you won't get compensated for all the extra work. So make sure you "own" (or at least benefit from) it: maybe it means that you have to do it at home and never talk about it at work, maybe it means that you can do it open source in your free time, and the best is if you can do it open source at work.
I thought this was gonna be about actual glue. I had to use epoxy the other day and that stuff will get you dizzy...
Multi-billion dollar startup sector is bouncing back – 8 big trends for 2025
Python is generally faster than Ruby, especially in the newer versions. That said, we’re still talking about two of the slowest languages out there, so the performance gap probably isn’t that big.
Does knowledge of good things necessarily make bad things painful? I have cheap earbuds for listening to podcasts or walking around and listening to music, and then some ok HIFIMAN headphones on some midrange dac/amp. Maybe I’ve been too mobile lately, but I find that I get enough time on the earbuds to provide a frame of reference that lets me really enjoy the headphones. It is a nice little experience once in a while; to put the headphones on and really notice the difference.

It is possible I haven’t gotten far enough into the audiophile “hobby” to achieve miserableness. But, I wonder if it is enough to save yourself by staying grounded in a more reasonable frame of reference.
For people who haven’t worked at BigTech and adjacent companies. They all focus on “scope”, “impact” and “dealing with ambiguity”. They state it in different ways. But it all boils down to those three at some level

https://www.levels.fyi/blog/swe-level-framework.html

You don’t get ahead by doing “glue work” or maintenance programming. That’s the main reason that Google has the attention span of a crack addled flea and at one point has 5 different messaging apps and cancels initiatives left and right.

You can’t put anything related to glue work on your promo doc.
Correction. Most people don't care about quality where that quality does not matter. And if it does not matter then the original statement is plainly false
I don't think Go was trying to capture that space really.
The article makes a mistake conflating accessibility issues with pedantry. Keyboard navigability isn't just a “nice to have”; it's something that makes the difference between usable and unusable for a minority of users. Now imagine you're such a user and you're told to stop being such a pedant and you should learn to be content with lower quality software. It's downright offensive. It's like telling a deaf person to “just listen properly”.
Based on my own parents telling, I believe there was food rationing, price controls, licensing for basic businesses, etc

Yes more free than China, but not so much market wise. All centrally planned from what I understand

I could be wrong. Indian politics is not my strong point . I do think many people conflate it being the largest democracy for it being a free market.

I personally witnessed the economic reforms of the 90s as an outsider via several visits and it was interesting to see as an outsider.
Will check for these particular stories. But yes, when we tried this on some stories with a similar arc we saw that their path is similar in the semantic space.
> ... you should not recruit the university department/group/students against your peers ...

As a student who chose to stay at CMU for a PhD because of this group, it is quite the opposite situation - you may also misunderstand the nature of the "ban" (students can still apply directly to the company).

From the student perspective, we benefit from knowing the reputation of potential employers. For example: CompanyX went back on their promises so don't trust them unless they give it to you right away, CompanyY has a culture of being stingy, the people who went to CompanyZ love it there, and so on.

So it's more like (1) providing additional data about the company's past behavior, and (2) not actively giving the company a platform. I personally find this great for students.
Not sure how secure against bots it actually is either. Surely you can make an AI that can play DOOM at least as well a human now days.
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This kind of perspective exemplifies how mediocre most companies become if they don't value being a well oiled machine.

Someone said it here, but all engineering work is glue work. Might as well value those thinking smarter about it.
There are benchmarks that are decided beforehand and similar sentences are removed from even the first stage of training. This is useful for tracking model performance and comparing different choices. e.g. see section 'Contamination of downstream tasks' of [1].

Every decent AI lab does this, else the benchmark result couldn't be trusted. OpenAI publishes results of ~20 benchmarks[2] and it is safe to assume they have made reasonable attempt to remove it from training set

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.06499

[2]: https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/
If you enjoyed that, the short stories are quite good. qntm = Sam Hughes, and some of their work is published under that name.
This made me think "wow, maybe the universe isn't so big after all", and then I remembered there are somewhere between 200 billion and 2 trillion other galaxies out there.
RE ScyllaDB, there will absolutely be no fork and it’s very unlikely they have ever had a meaningful contribution to Scylla OSS (which is not changing, just going to bit rot and the enterprise version which was closed source was moved to source available). The reasoning being the bar is very high for contributions. It’s C++ 20/23 without virtual memory and a userland cooperative thread per core scheduler (this is the underlying seastar framework). The skills needed to do anything meaningful here is very high and I don’t see the motivation behind it as I would expect people having feature requests would be customers, have an easier time extending Cassandra or the feature would be available in the Enterprise version.
> Rails is not dead; It's better than ever. Try using it to make something new this year.

Apparently that's one of the few things you can do well with a rails app. As evidenced by all of the rails apps stuck behind 3+ major versions because refactoring or upgrading without breaking everything is damn near impossible.
Arrests, charges in Toronto Pearson International Airport gold heist
1. which devices are those? USB-C is a type of plug. it does not define the USB standard that runs on it. so if i understand that correctly, there can't be a USB-C only device. USB4 is defined to run only on USB-C, but it is also defined to be backwards compatible to at least USB3.x. the spec forbids certain legacy adapters, but only because it would allow for to many invalid and potentially unsafe cable connections. the same connection can be made to work with a direct cable that allows the connection of a USB-C device to a legacy port. and even a 10 year old laptop should at least support USB3.0.

2+3. depends on the specific devices.

4. 10-15 years ago maybe that was still true. but the power and speed of devices no longer increases at the same rate. it has slowed down to the point that a 6 year old laptop performs just as well for my daily tasks as a 2 year old one and i run the same OS on both. the difference is only noticeable for modern games and some CPU/GPU intensive tasks. i also remember the same experience with even older laptops (i don't have one here right now, so i can't compare directly). what made the older laptops slower/less powerful was less RAM.
"This is completely wrong."
Is it completely wrong? Or maybe "somewhat" wrong? Maybe just lacking nuance?
I know nothing about the answer to this question, so this is an honest question.

Using just a plain old search engine, for things like "national drink of the netherlands" and simlar queries, I am directed to Wikipedia's Jenever page as the top hit, and Wikipedia's list of national drinks lists Jenever and Heineken as the entries for the Netherlands. Search engines also give page after page of travel guides and blog posts, most of which list Jenever at or near the top of of their listings. One travel guide calls it "the most famous Dutch spirit and most famous Amsterdam liquor, Jenever, also spelled Genever or simply Dutch gin."
Well no, it is not the same at all. There are multiple accounts as you say that confirm verbal orders for explicit extermination of Jews, and enslavement of untermensch, but AFAIK no such evidence is present for deliberate Holodomor.

Some countries of EU and the parliament recognizing something is not evidence of any kind.

In fact it paints EU parliament in bad colors to me because wow, coincidentally they do it in 2022 with many individual countries still objecting and US and UK simply refusing to twist the facts into that conclusion just yet.
https://wyofile.com/after-decades-of-political-maneuvering-g...
That's a really excessive number of popups. 4, 2 of which were cookie popups. Why?
> But can we rename it to non-gender-specific "old children's club" or "the cool kids"? :)

I don't really see a need to share that to non-boys; it seems to usually be boysclubs. Never seen that happen with non-boys, at least.

> I think probably I need to be technical co-founder, or a trusted first/veryearly hire.

No, that's not about that. I have been that multiple times, still ended up with a boysclub. You have to be a "cool kid". Like in schools, there is no one rule for that. Sometimes you'll have to be good at sport, sometimes look badass, ...

And then again, if you end up being the leader of the group... maybe you are the one doing to the others what you were trying to avoid. In my experience, those people always genuinely believe they are loved and admired, even if the first thing employees do when they have beers "privately" is complain about how much they hate those leaders.

I guess that's the problem in being in the dominant position: you are biased, because you are in the dominant position.
Make that the transition day.
Yes, anyone who isn't hysterical about the possibility of old people dying is autistic.
> That could still be confusing though for tourists which are used to smoke at home

Tourists are required to follow the laws of a country the visit. Visiting without researching the laws is your own fault.
I've read the thread and I think it's not very coherent overall, I also not sure if we disagree =)

I agree that having putnam problems on OpenAI training set is not a smoking gun, however it's (almost) certain they are on training set, and having them would affect performance of the model on them too. Hence research like this is important, since it shows that observed behavior of the models is memoization to large extent, and not necessarily generalization we would like it to be.
I’m a big fan of Django and Go as well but the only thing in the Go ecosystem that I’ve found that comes close is beego: https://github.com/beego/beego

But it still needs to mature quite a bit before I’d be comfortable saying it’s anywhere near Django or Rails
Meritocratic? No. Anarchic? I think yes to a degree. Your job is to ship, and implementation beats consensus.

Disclaimer: You pay the cost in (a) social capital and (b) tech debt from the occasional shortsighted decision, so use this approach tactfully and judiciously.
Quality is almost always a component of "value", but competing with other priorities, e.g. cost.

I think mechanical keyboards are a good example here, but maybe not in the way you were expecting. You may note that most PC sales are laptops these days, and nearly all of them eschew mechanical keyboards in favor of other priorities. And also, most desktops still ship with membrane keyboards, and only a tiny fraction of users replace them with a mechanical keyboard -- as you say, "techies". It's a niche preference that "most people" (from the title) do not find value in.
For me it would not be about being cheaper but about being super customizable. I'd make mine look like a huge dragon.

The benefit of 3D printing is making unique things. If you make the same thing over and over there's way better options.
Actually people care about perception, both to themselves and showing off to others.

They don't care about edge cases or innards.

Steve Jobs famously still focused on them anyway.
It’s also a bit of a joke to ask if Rails is dead in the community.
Having been a child prodigy somehow gives one infamy (in the wider public consciousness) beyond anything one can achieve as an adult.
oh this is pretty cool! is it easy to override the default UI?
Except when you need to scale.
In .NET the https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.diagnost... DebuggerStepThroughAttribute has a similar purpose (though it's ignored if you disable the relevant feature)
College often sorts very heavily for type and then sorts again for friend groups within it.

So I would suggest the selection bias here is extreme.
While fun to think about big numbers at these scales this fact seems entirely arbitrary. You can fit a million Earths into our singular sun. 200 billion stars is still quite a bit more impressive than 3 trillion trees.
The whole point of indexing data is to perform very expensive computation once and leverage the result many many times and it works really well.
RoR's ecosystem is indeed massive - for web apps. But if you want to make an app that integrates with an existing domain, Python is just so far ahead. Numpy, SciPy, Pandas, basically the entire field of astronomy and biology, data science and FinTech... the list goes on.

But if you are sticking to basic web/database stuff it's hard to go wrong with RoR.
> MAGA decisively won

Did they? Trump just recently made a couple of statements, siding with Musk on that issue. He has no other choice, as money comes from Elon, not from MAGA.

He also reversed his stance on EVs during his campaign, openly admitting that he had to due to Elon's contributions. So basically, Elon is the president now.