skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If people thought this way - internalizing this publishing point idea - it would incentivize sitting on your incremental results, fiercely keeping them secret if and until you can prove the whole bigger result by yourself. However long that might take.

If a series of incremental results were as prestigious as holding off to bundle them people would have reason to collaborate and complete each other's work more eagerly. Delaying an almost complete result for a year so that a journal will think it has enough impact point seems straightforwardly net bad, it slows down both progress & collaboration.
Aren't you afraid you are training AI?
I feel like I'm almost 100% certain that the smart guys at OpenAI have added many more variations of the problem to their training set since OP did his failing test, so it doesn't surprise me at all to know that this exact one now passes.

In fact, in my use of o1 it's incredibly clear that it still has the same problems. It's incredibly common that the second I ask for someone even slightly outside the training set, it's more likely to "round" to some wrong solution in the training set, rather than use any sort of human-like reasoning to figure out the right answer (often the right answer isn't hard to get, just not found in a Google search).
I love listening to Bunnie, and I'm constantly in awe of how much he knows and how well he presents it

ed in case anyone else noticed that the Bluesky handle was bogus, the one on his GitHub is accurate https://bsky.app/profile/bunnie.org
I guess the poor should be allowed to kill too while we’re at it.
'Berenberg is made by adding herbs to jenever'

From your comment it would seem that you are disputing jenever's popularity by saying jenever is more popular...

Perhaps it was a good faith mistake? If so, that would imply that the AI knows more about jenever than you?
I agree.

So much bitterness and toxicity here, it is even surprising to me.

Sure, in current climate people are upset about economics and whole situation in general, but still it was unpleasant to read comment section here...
What you're describing is exactly how early versions of PalmOS worked as they just kept parts of the OS in static ram so you always continue applications exactly how you left them.
Btw: https://bsky.app/profile/tendar.bsky.social/post/3leolkqfcvl...
So you believe they are incorrect because regionally some area would select something different because it represented that area. But your question asked nationally.. is there a better answer than the one they gave? Were you expecting a no?
I tried exactly that, a simple Todo-like app, without SwiftUI or Swift knowledge, and Sonnet 3.5 only gave me one syntax error after another. Now I‘m watching Paul Hudson‘s intro videos.
In 2025, I expect my laptop to be lightweight, fast, 14 hours+ on a single charge, silent and run cool.

I care more about all of those features than the replaceable parts.
If you want more brainfuck, read Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
OpenAI’s credibility is central to its business: overstating capabilities risks public blowback, loss of trust, and regulatory scrutiny. As a result, it is unlikely that OpenAI would knowingly lie about its models. They have much stronger incentives to be as accurate as possible—maintaining their reputation and trust from users, researchers, and investors—than to overstate capabilities for a short-term gain that would undermine their long-term position.

From a game-theoretic standpoint, repeated interactions with the public (research community, regulators, and customers) create strong disincentives for OpenAI to lie. In a single-shot scenario, overstating model performance might yield short-term gains—heightened buzz or investment—but repeated play changes the calculus:

1. Reputation as “collateral”

OpenAI’s future deals, collaborations, and community acceptance rely on maintaining credibility. In a repeated game, players who defect (by lying) face future punishment: loss of trust, diminished legitimacy, and skepticism of future claims.

2. Long-term payoff maximization

If OpenAI is caught making inflated claims, the fallout undermines the brand and reduces willingness to engage in future transactions. Therefore, even if there is a short-term payoff, the long-term expected value of accuracy trumps the momentary benefit of deceit.

3. Strong incentives for verification

Independent researchers, open-source projects, and competitor labs can test or replicate claims. The availability of external scrutiny acts as a built-in enforcement mechanism, making dishonest “moves” too risky.

Thus, within the repeated game framework, OpenAI maximizes its overall returns by preserving its credibility rather than lying about capabilities for a short-lived advantage.
NixOS and helix!
Yes, artifacts (PRs, tickets, commit messages) should have good context (documentation) associated with them, and yes, simplicity is very important, and yes, some tech debt is always going to be incurred, but most importantly, not understanding a "legacy" system that is already running in production, and then modifying it significantly, is not going to lead to good results. I think it's as simple as that.
You bring up some excellent points. Thank you for the response!
With Full-Stack React you will use JSX to directly render HTML. Logic is done with Javascript, so you don't need to learn an additional language. There is also no mapping to Javascript and you can use the standard toolchain (for debugging).
What is the link between car washing and spreading bird flu?
How many step papers before a keystone paper seems reasonable to you?

I suspect readers don’t find it as exciting to read partial result papers. Unless there is an open invitation to compete on its completion, which would have a purpose and be fun. If papers are not page turners, then the journal is going to have a hard time keeping subscribers.

On the other hand, publishing a proof of a Millennium Problem as several installments, is probably a fantastic idea. Time to absorb each contributing result. And the suspense!

Then republish the collected papers as a signed special leather limited series edition. Easton, get on this!
There seems to be a affordable scaling wall.
What used to be feature engineering a decade or more ago now seems to have shifted to developing distributed representations. LLMs use word tokens (for words or the entities in images). But there are many more. The 3D Fields (or whatever they have evolved to) developed by Fei-Fei Li's group represent visual information in a way better suited for geometrical tasks. Wav2Vec, the convolutional features for YOLO and friends, and these sentence representations are other examples. I would love to read a review of this circle of ideas.
I am sure you have but in the parts of the country I have lived in it’s been a fairly common tool used when clearing forested back country. Not talking so much farming. I don’t know where your snark comes from but it still has a place for some use cases. Sorry to disappoint your imagination. Certainly if you are whole clearing 60 acres machines are helpful. If you are cleaning up some spots here and there on a multi acre property it can be quite useful. So much snark from you for no reason.

Different experiences for different folks.
Adam Grant once related an amusing rejection from a double-blind review. One of the reviewers justified the rejection with something along the lines of “The author would do well to familiarize themselves with the work of Adam Grant”
doubt a bitcoin millionaire is going to bother buying second hand hw. For anyone else, just format hdd & reinstall os
I use "monster" desktops for my development. I appreciate luxury of language servers, proper syntax highlighting, smart complete etc. etc. Output results however are absolutely tiny (for what they do) single executable enterprise backends, firmware for microcontrollers etc. etc. Also produce desktop same style software. Runs fine on ancient computers.

So there is a use for fat development stations. Increases my productivity which is very important as I am an independent vendor and pay for all my tools.
The hp-50g is pretty nice (I know I know, unpopular enter key location), its USB power and SD card make it quite convenient. Of course the screen is the same as before, but the CPU is faster afaik

And then of course there are many HP calculator emulators and others for android
Anthropic has a good definition of this one [1] if you want a more comprehensive view.

I've been building something along the same lines [2]. I'd define an agent as a piece of software that can autonomously reason based on the contextual information and follow a non-pre-defined path to achieve an outcome and self-correct.

Most of the "agents" people build today have their control flow encoded in some kind of a graph. I don't think this will yield to a useful result as reasoning capability improves. I think that setting the constraints via tool calling and letting the control flow by dynamic (with human in the loop) is the way to go.

[1] https://www.anthropic.com/research/building-effective-agents

[2] https://www.inferable.ai/blog/posts/functions-as-ai-agents
The weird maths of snake folding [video]
It's not p-hacking, he's right. You're both right. First test the same prompt on different versions then the ones that got it right go to the next round, variations on the prompt
My imagination produced a product with the worse possible build quality but with various tiers of replacement parts.

Say you buy the laptop with a crude 3d printed case and when new money comes in you buy the titanium case. Spending the weekend swapping the parts over is a bonus.

It should be modular but extra crappy. 2 GB memory is a lot.

Ideally go full ship of theseus.
And costs $500 million per training run.
I agree this is reasonable from the individual publisher standpoint. I once received feedback from a reviewer that I was "searching for the minimum publishable unit", and in some sense the reviewer was right -- as soon as I thought the result could be published I started working towards the publication. A publisher can reasonably resist these kinds of papers, as you're pointing out.

I think the impact to scholarship in general is less clear. Do you immediately publish once you get a "big enough" result, so that others can build off of it? Or does this needlessly clutter the field with publications? There's probably some optimal balance, but I don't think the right balance is immediately clear.
The big question here is if journal space is a limited resource. Obviously it was at one point.

Supposing it is, you have to trade off publishing these incremental results against publishing someone else’s complete result.

What if it had taken ten papers to get there instead of two? For a sufficiently important problem, sure, but the interesting question is at a problem that’s interesting enough to publish complete but barely.
Experimental evidence photon can spend negative amount of time in an atom cloud
Most of our white collar jobs are about knowledge sharing and synchronization between people.

And surprisingly this is an aspect in which I see very very little progress.

The most we have are tools like confluence or Jira that are actually quite bad in my opinion.

The bad part is how knowledge is shared. At the moment is just formatted text with a questionable search.

LLMs I believe can help in synthesize what knowledge is there and what is missing.

Moreover it would be possible to ask what is missing or what could be improved. And it would be possible to continuously test the knowledge base, asking the model question about the topic and checking the answer.

I am working on a prototype and it is looking great. If someone is interested, please let me know.
I’m sure the real explanation is that there are probably a lot of people with weapon caches or doing other really questionable stuff but very few of them have intent to harm and the small remaining number of people who have that intent are never actually going to do anything and may not yet violate any laws.

As it always is, people are always on some spectrum for an activity.
Nope, it's you only. Nobody else thinks that - it is very important how a language is used in real life, and the intention and actual meaning behind its usage.

Have a sleep, and read your response once again tomorrow - if you don't find it ridiculous, flaming for the 3rd definition of the word just for the sake of a pointless "akchyually" comment, then I give you victory, hands down. Otherwise, just have a laugh, and carry on with your life. I will do carry on myself after posting this.

Offtopic: in a previous life as a CSR, decades ago, a customer at work was complaining to us about someone (from very east EU, maybe even Russia? definitely not native speaker) using the word "bro" in a casual, but innocent sentence, and he felt so extremely insulted, he went on literally for hours, demanding the person to be reprimanded... and we had no idea what he was talking about, until we found it on the 11th page of Urban Dictionary that "bro" has a 285th meaning in some random village, which is pejorative under some circumstances - and that's what he was complaining about.

It just came to my mind, don't mind it.

Happy new year!
In my opinion, this will just lessen the negative cost of destroying landscapes. So, not a good thing.
> Alternatively, can the community come up with some interesting uses for all the machines?

Google has targeted this model with ChromeOS Flex.
Feathers are less dense so they have higher buoyancy in air, reducing their weight.
As it happens, it was at such a place exactly as you describe. Hello fellow traveler, our paths may have crossed.
There are times in human history where there was more intense "space weather" in the solar system. These events were much more spectacular -- is in a much greater spectacle -- than the most spectacular events we know today which are eclipses.

In more ancient history there was obsessive worship of the planets on every habitable continent. Today we have a more scientific explanation for what was happening then, even if we don't see the same spectacles today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkeland_current
Where I live, most software developers are not legally allowed to call themselves software engineers (engineering is licensed by regulatory body). Still, many do call themselves that and so do their employers. But in my view, "I don't really care until we can start coding" is not actually engineering at all.
I hate to spread FUD but tor alone is rather weak. Whonix(nested) helps but even that isn't enough for me.

You need to have your own nodes up and running completely divorced from your own identity as well as a record of known-bad tor nodes.

You need something to download and relay information to you across multiple protocols with significant delay and a lot of other mixed media streaming in.

There are lots of university labs across the globe that do a much better job than me.

It's undoubtedly insane but masked memes does did enough to put my mind at ease when handling radioactive information when i still considered myself a part of "tech".

It took hours to DL stuff securely but it could turn any pdf/website into a couple thousand high-quality shitposts across the clear-web. You just need a big library.
“We received an unexpected $2,000 bill from Vercel due to high API usage from a single user”

Skill issue.

Testing APIs became a nightmare, because we had a lof of server actions mixed with api routes.

Sounds like you designed the app poorly.

Build times got so slow it felt like watching paint dry.

Heard but is there any situation where you’d a sub 3 minute deploy.

Local dev was brutal - every tiny change triggered a full SSR reload.

I have never noticed this as an issue across any Next app of any size that I’ve worked on.

I agree that next probably doesn’t scale but it’s pretty good for 0-to-1 without having to worry about setting up routing, tailwind, basic API etc
It's such an honor our https://pgmooncake.com/ is covered in the review!

A little sad Andy didn't share more of his thoughts on the intersection between Data and AI, and how that's going to evolve.
Well, I also have 5 undergraduate degrees: computer science, creative writing, philosophy, statistics, and a general business degree. I was a fat kid that stuttered, read far too much to avoid people and then got carried away with learning. I read all the Nobel Lit winners by the end of my 4th grade, by the end of grade school I was running out of authors, but I discovered writing software and that took over my attention.

Plus, my MBA was also to understand the world, as business is this world.
Very nice. Am I correct in assuming that this is true for domain specific (math) problems?
I agree with the sentiment. My point was not exotic nature, but any nature. Some people do not even have that.
The idea that a small number of reviewers can accurately quantify the importance of a paper as some number of "impact points," and the idea that a journal should rely on this number and an arbitrary cut off point to decide publication, are both unreasonable ideas.

The journal may have acted systematically, but the system is arbitrary and capricious. Thus, the journal did not act reasonably.
I think some folks absolutely want to know what folks are watching what kind of porn.

Especially in rural areas, some of those wingnuts would like to go back to the days where you can lynch people you do not like.

Other than the wingnut faction pushing this legislation, I think some hope for a deterrent effect for minors as well as adults. They are wrong to expect any kind of deterrent effect of course.
If cities were better designed, the balancing would be much easier.
Well you clearly can't play first person shooters even on Apple's trackpads, but every time I switch to an x86 one the control is more ... approximate.

On my apple laptops i've succesfully played stuff like Minecraft or Path of Exile without a physical mouse. And never missed a mouse while doing software development.

> reasonably powerful integrated GPUs.

Path of Exile is anything but reasonable to the GPU. And on an older M2 mac mini I was lucky to get 20-25 fps. However, the M3 pro on my laptop can mostly run it at 60, to my complete astonishment. Especially considering it's a windows application that is ran by x86 wine that is translated to arm by rosetta 2...
These are hospice-care level patches. The updated code in question is related to Xwayland and BSD CI pipelines - a Linux x11 user would not notice any difference in X11 from how it was last year, or the year before that.
Why are you asking me? I don't work here.
Feels like 3D printers have changed. A slicer from 10 years ago is not going to generate as good a print as one from today. And it feels like the variety of filaments from 10 years ago has greatly changed.
I agree. I am not referring to tourism, but nature available for locals.
The first and immediate difference for me is the ability to recall the name. I can recall Postman/Insomina fine, and now for API Parrot. I'm never going to be able to recall mitmproxy2swagger.

Unfortunately, names matter.
Part of the idea is that journals help curate better publications via the peer review process. Whether or not that occurs in practice is up for some debate.

Having a curated list can be important to separate the wheat from the chaff, especially in an era with ever increasing rates of research papers.
But it doesn’t matter if you can launch 10x the mass for the same price to LEO and light your stage 3 to get anywhere you’d like to be. Stage 3 will have enough delta v and starship’s doesn’t matter as long as it gets you to the parking orbit.
Kind of hard without strafe.
You can always use Crystal or Dart if you want builtin types. I like Ruby the way it is an trust Matz with his language design decisions.
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Saido is a simple tool that you can create a 'trend' on and track your progress. The focus is on keeping daily streaks. Saido incentivises you to maintain daily streaks on habits that you want to build. For example, going for that run, lifting some weights, or perhaps reading.

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Only 40% are obese (US) so it affects a minority of the population, therefore it should be disregarded?
knowledge is power and people don't always want to share. Maybe it's more reflective of my company culture but I've seen knowledge effectively hoarded and used strategically as a weapon at times.
When you write web code you should never have to worry about that. Actually, if you write any user space code, except drivers, you shouldn't have to worry about that. If you have to worry about it, reconsider your tooling very seriously
145k laid off and 3127 H1B applications https://www.h1bleaderboard.com/companies/48
I'm sure there are situations where some of Nazi atrocities could be justified with a similar logic, but I don't think that applies to the goals of exterminating Jews or enslaving nearby nations, the two things Nazis are mostly hated for.
Make them communist flags, I don't care. Political signaling wouldn't change anything for me unless there was evidince he was going to engage in violence.
BeepBarrier – Censor Videos and Filler Words
Car visits a farm with infected chickens, picks up dirt with viruses on the wheels, brings it into cities.

This is one way how it spreads from farm to farm.
I never buy new laptops, and I always put linux on the ones I do buy. My only issues have been running the more resource intensive applications I needed to run as a student, and the fact that the university expects you to be running windows. But as an everyday machine a used/refurbished laptop is the way to go.
> I am actually quite surprised Terence Tao still gets papers rejected from math journals

At least it indicates that the system is working somewhat properly some of the time...
The app router is complete hell and was dog slow when it was launched as "stable/new default".

Use pages and remember that env var patten and you're good.
1's argument seems to mostly be that shader stuttering is bad in UE5, which doesn't have much to do with UE5... shader stuttering is really bad in lots of UE4-based games and non-Unreal games too, it's a plague that affects most modern high-spec games and driver stacks. If you think stuttering is bad in UE5 games try playing a WebGL or WebGPU based high fidelity game.

I'm not really sure what the alternative here is supposed to be anyway. Is it Unity? Godot isn't a realistic competitor yet for this level of fidelity, though it'll probably get there eventually.
I think you're overlooking the word "explicitly".
Two submission in medium reputation journal does not have significantly lower prestige than one in high reputation journal.
The militia is every able-bodied person, both as a matter of history and as literally defined in US law for centuries. Furthermore, this militia is expressly recognized as "unorganized" in law i.e. separate from organized militias created by the government.

In the US, the militia is explicitly independent of the government. Even if one were to accept your narrow reading, which no court has, I don't see how it would materially change anything given that any random group of blokes without any government involvement is a militia as a matter of law.
These patterns are ultimately detrimental to team/community building, however.

You see it in software as well: As a manager in calibration meetings, I have repeatedly seen how it is harder to convince a committee to promote/give a high rating to someone with a large pile of crucial but individually small projects delivered than someone with a single large project.

This is discouraging to people whose efforts seem to be unrewarded and creates bad incentives for people to hoard work and avoid sharing until one large impact, and it's disastrous when (as in most software teams) those people don't have significant autonomy over which projects they're assigned.