skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you sure? i just asked o1-mini (not 4o mini) 5 times in a row (new chats obviously) and it got it right every time

perhaps you stumbled on a rarer case but reading the logs you posted this sounds more like a 4o model than an o1 because it’s doing its thinking in the chat itself plus the procedure you described would probably get you 4o-mini
Oh yes, I think the web standards orgs are culpable (especially W3C) for not making it fast and simple to implement the features PHBs demand. This is surely in spite of the good people working on their behalf, and more a sad molochian consequence of regulatory capture big big adtech.

My Boox Color 7 was originally bought for terminal work and I connect it to my bluetooth keyboard and use tailscale and termux to make it a nice e-ink "dumb terminal". It's also nice for reading books on, and downloading said books (though I miss Kindle's email transfer method). I did try watching a YouTube video on it once, the result was almost watchable and far better than expected.
> multi token prediction of sufficient length

Is multi token prediction the same as predicting the embedding of a complex token (the articulation of those input tokens in a sentence)?
Hmm. If true that's illegal or at least grounds for DoL action.
Defining an instruction: adding opt_respond_to to the Ruby VM, part 5
Anyway, market rate housing sells at market rates no matter how it is built.

This is a demonstration project.

If there were any economic advantage, I would expect them to be eager to demonstrate it.

But such does not appear to be the case. $450-600K for a simple, single story ranch 30 miles outside of Austin is not exactly awe inspiring.
> process of breaking it down into pieces, each having it's own version of history and hating each other, should have continued until what remained was safe

I really wish you would understand at some point that such statements play right into Putin's hands, and are one of the major reasons why he's still in power and has no realistic prospects of losing it. Until you do, there will be no lasting peace.
I mean, punch Nazis and Stalinists.
Andy is a treasure, if only we had more professors like him
I don't believe that is the model that you used.

I wrote a script and pounded 01 mini and gpt 4 with a wide vareity of tempature and top_p parameters, and was unable to get it to give the wrong answer a single time.

Just a whole bunch of:

(openai-example-py3.12) <redacted>:~/code/openAiAPI$ python3 featherOrSteel.py
Response 1: A 10.01-pound bag of fluffy cotton is heavier than a 9.99-pound bag of steel ingots.
Response 2: A 10.01-pound bag of fluffy cotton is heavier than a 9.99-pound bag of steel ingots.
Response 3: The 10.01-pound bag of fluffy cotton is heavier than the 9.99-pound bag of steel ingots.
Response 4: The 10.01-pound bag of fluffy cotton is heavier than the 9.99-pound bag of steel ingots.
Response 5: A 10.01-pound bag of fluffy cotton is heavier than a 9.99-pound bag of steel ingots.
Response 6: The 10.01-pound bag of fluffy cotton is heavier than the 9.99-pound bag of steel ingots.
Response 7: The 10.01-pound bag of fluffy cotton is heavier than the 9.99-pound bag of steel ingots.
Response 8: The 10.01-pound bag of fluffy cotton is heavier than the 9.99-pound bag of steel ingots.
Response 9: The 10.01-pound bag of fluffy cotton is heavier than the 9.99-pound bag of steel ingots.
Response 10: A 10.01-pound bag of fluffy cotton is heavier than a 9.99-pound bag of steel ingots.
All responses collected and saved to 'responses.txt'.

Script with one example set of params:

import openai
import time
import random

# Replace with your actual OpenAI API key
openai.api_key = "your-api-key"

# The question to be asked
question = "Which is heavier, a 9.99-pound bag of steel ingots or a 10.01-pound bag of fluffy cotton?"

# Number of times to ask the question
num_requests = 10

responses = []

for i in range(num_requests):
try:
# Generate a unique context using a random number or timestamp, this is to prevent prompt caching
random_context = f"Request ID: {random.randint(1, 100000)} Timestamp: {time.time()}"

# Call the Chat API with the random context added
response = openai.ChatCompletion.create(
model="gpt-4o-2024-08-06",
messages=[
{"role": "system", "content": f"You are a creative and imaginative assistant. {random_context}"},
{"role": "user", "content": question}
],
temperature=2.0,
top_p=0.5,
max_tokens=100,
frequency_penalty=0.0,
presence_penalty=0.0
)

# Extract and store the response text
answer = response.choices[0].message["content"].strip()
responses.append(answer)

# Print progress
print(f"Response {i+1}: {answer}")

# Optional delay to avoid hitting rate limits
time.sleep(1)

except Exception as e:
print(f"An error occurred on iteration {i+1}: {e}")

# Save responses to a file for analysis
with open("responses.txt", "w", encoding="utf-8") as file:
file.write("\n".join(responses))

print("All responses collected and saved to 'responses.txt'.")
> At enterprise scale, locked down marketplaces don't work.

If this was true, we'd have more mobile computing platforms. Large enterprises publish in Apple's AppStore.
If someone writes here that another Web4 already exists, then I will have to rename it to Web5.
Meta HN: Prevent new HN accounts from posting for n days?
More and more[x], it seems folks make throwaway green accounts for drive-by snarky comments, spam, astro-turfing, etc.

Would, say, a 3-day waiting period before allowing posting (both new comments AND submissions) be worth trying out?

(x yesyes, i know i'm just going off of feels/vibes/etc. here)
+1, ready to buy
For 10 USD you get an ESP32S3 board, which can do basic computer vision tasks. For example using OpenMV or emlearn-micropython. For 15-20 USD you can get a board that includes an OV2640 camera. Examples would be XIAO ESP32S3 Sense, LilyGo T Camera S3 or "ESP32-S3-CAM" board from misc manufacturers.
The hard part to pull off with this strategy is that a truly wide spread "robot" platform I think depends on the commodification of the IP driving the platform.

I think there are many early innovators that fail in later stage growth because of this issue.
100% agree. And I’m not sure what the fix should be… does fixing the power dynamics of the H1B accelerate the offshoring of knowledge workers? Certainly, my PE-owned employer is a MASSIVE proponent of offshore “centers of excellence” and the majority of our hiring is in Bangalore IN or Puebla MX. Cheaper and easier than H1B, I assume.
Eh, this is true but not really relevant to the claim here.

If the FBI had all this information and didn't act on it, then he e.g. went into a tower and murdered dozens of people in the street, there is not going to be a substantial number of people saying "oh well ya know they didn't have a basis to intervene when they were first informed of his 1) probably-illegal firearms, 2) extreme violent views and 3) growing stockpile of explosives."
> Large enterprises publish in Apple's AppStore.

Purchasers from Apple's App Store are primarily individual consumers. It is a B2C play.

Monetizing an Nvidia marketplace such as NGC would be foolhardy as the primary users/"purchasers" are organizations with budgets and procurement power. It is an Enterprise B2B player.

In enterprise sales, the power differential between (mid- and upper-market) customers and vendors is in the customer's favor, as they have significant buying power and thus a higher user acquisition cost. The upside is revenue is much higher, margins are better, and you can differentiate on product as commodification is difficult.

This is less so in consumer facing sales as customers have significantly weaker buying power, but conversely have a much lower user acquisition cost at scale. Hence, a growth-based GTM approach is critical, as you need customers in aggregate to truly unlock revenue at scale.
The article doesn’t provide any evidence of the headline. How do we know they are “replacing” the laid off workers? Perhaps they are being hired for different roles.
This happens literally every time. Someone always says "ChatGPT can't do this!", but then when someone actually runs the example, chatGPT gets it right. Now what the OP is going to do next is proceed to move goalposts and say like "but umm I just asked chatgpt this, so clearly they modified the code in realtime to get the answer right"
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Considering the only use they had of their tanks was to invade their own members, I'm not sure that's the biggest argument in their favor.
Very sad half the comments are asking for MacOS app.
The rise of development on MacOS for server development when the final target is Linux will cause long term harm to the newer generation of engineers
Yup.

The term “tribal knowledge,” is used as a pejorative, in tech architecture, but I have found it to be the “magic ingredient” to really successful endeavors.

I worked for a corporation that is over a hundred years old, and is absolutely dripping with “tribal knowledge.” They regularly accomplish stuff that is considered nearly impossible.

But “tribal knowledge” basically means that you need to keep employees around for a while, and also, stay at a job for a while, which is sort of anathema, in today’s tech culture.
It’s hard to believe the title here. Getting an H1B approved is like an act of god these days. Besides, the approval process is so convoluted and there’s only so many approved for the year. So, I don’t think he can just “replace with H1B”. It’s not how the visa works.
> "...roughly on par with a mediocre, but not completely incompetent graduate student"

Let it sink in how vague and almost meaningless that statement is.
Korea is one of the 4 countries that I know of where a non-Google firm holds significant market share in search. One of only 2 democracies, the other being Japan. And Japan is ambiguous as their local player (Yahoo Japan) has been using Google for indexing for years (but is now switching).

Instant messaging, online payments, online shopping, second hand market place, domestic hotel bookings, email are all local tech companies. Food delivery was local for very long, now technically acquired by foreign company but run independently as local tech. Taxi apps have been local for very long, though Uber's presence is growing - but even there they got into the market by acquiring a local player and running them relatively independently afaik (less sure about this one). Even then, majority of market share is still non-Uber locals. Anything finance-related is local. Maps are local. Gaming streams was Twitch+Local but is now local only.

Despite Android enjoying >90% market share for 10+ years (now rapidly losing to iOS, I'd say among age 20-30 iOS is >40%), the only Google products that have been popular were Youtube and Chrome. Gmail somewhat.

Even the dating app market here is dominated by local players. This is the only case I can think of where the result is actually worse than if it wasn't, which is quite a feat considering just how awful Tinder and friends are.

The only US apps that dominates its field here is Instagram. Chrome and Youtube do as well but gained that purely through default and PC usage. Netflix and Disney+ are popular by virtue of original content, but sports are local players. Spotify to an extent, but again, nowhere near 90% market share like US or Europe.

For obvious reasons, most tourists and short-term foreigners here hate all of this. But frankly their opinions should be ignored. Despite being a foreigner as well it's clear as day that it's much better for everyone else.

The local replacement of Google maps is the easiest example, I've written a little about it here [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42286046
The difference between politics and diplomacy is that you can survive in politics without resorting to collective punishment.
While this may be true, it's a very common problem that people who want to demonstrate how bad a model is fail to provide a direct link or simply state the name of the model.
"the federal law is pretty reasonable if not just a pain in the ass to handle paperwork wise"

I mean, that's how they get you. Make it so you have to jump through a ton of hoops, make the penalties to accidentally violating them felonies, then wait. That's how you discourage people from doing something - make the penalties for mistakes so high that people give up. That's part of why you see gun ownership numbers go down in places like NJ while they brag about gun safety laws working. The trick is, the laws like hollowpoint bans didn't actually improve gun safety, it simply reduced the guns per capita by reducing number of people willing to own a gun when harmless mistakes can ruin your life.
> Skills are threatening in a layoff market.

Oy vey. This is shocking, but also perfectly logical.

Human psychology will be the death of us all.
Probably trivial to get around by changing the job descriptions slightly.
Yes, most of what is experienced is curated. Large parts of our minds evolved to suppress and filter raw perception, that it does not drive us mad and we can think with clear purpose upon consciously important issues (whatever they may be.)

The first years would be spent quieting the mind, though the real work is rigorous and exhausting.

Aside from the immense crevasse which cuts one off from even perceiving the many subtle distinctions, those experientially adept may merely manipulate your perception. In fact, without an uplift curating your experience you could not in a thousand years stumble upon Power yourself.

Other than the immense difficulty, it really is kind of tame. The wormholes are in our heads. Some are masters in creating their own hyperdimensional space (which the flat lander may have trouble comprehending.) this may be every bit as amazing as generative AI creating an HD interactive experience, or a fuzzy blob in the back of the mind which leaves you with a forever haunting impression.

Anything substantive will be trivialized or made taboo (called “insane” ending all argument.)

And dark designs do thrive in the shadow of humanity’s incredulity.

“Yes Virginia, magic does exist in the world; like all things beautiful, dark minds covet and it is the innocent who pay.”
Failed on 1st attempt, then beat it on 2nd attempt (I'm on Macbook Air).
Very amusing idea. Perhaps I'll implement this for my personal project... well because why not? :p
Divide all the numbers by two or three and you have a small flat and someone with a smaller income and a big mortgage. A more difficult fate, I would say.

It would be so nice if the only people affected by problems were people you don't like.
I recently started putting together an organized list of books I've really loved.

It's organized and filterable by:

- fiction vs non fiction

- author

- general themes

https://alexpotato.com/books/?l=hn
Deepseek got it right:
"A 10.01-pound bag of fluffy cotton is heavier than a 9.99-pound pack of steel ingots. Even though steel is denser and takes up much less space, the weight is determined by the mass, and 10.01 pounds is greater than 9.99 pounds."
Retro games are highly lucrative. They don't want any competition to remasters and rereleases, which require a new purchase. Nintendo has been doing this "release the same game every 5-10 years" bs since the Wii (ironically often using ROMs found on the internet).
https://chatgpt.com/share/67756c29-111c-8002-b203-14c07ed1e6...

I got a very different answer:

A 10.01-pound bag of fluffy cotton is heavier than a 9.99-pound bag of steel ingots because 10.01 pounds is greater than 9.99 pounds. The material doesn't matter in this case; weight is the deciding factor.

What model returned your answer?
This is an aspect of something which I wish would be more acknowledged and investigated:

>How can the electronic representation of books be made more rich and featureful?

Some notable examples:

- https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.htm...

- https://www.motionmountain.net/

- The Elements by Theodore Gray https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-elements-by-theodore-gray/...

- the "Living Books" series: https://wanderfulstorybooks.com/

Unfortunately vanished (anyone have an archive? was the wonderful _Bembo's Zoo_ https://www.devicq.com/bembo-zoo/ and https://engagetheirminds.com/2012/04/05/bembos-zoo/

I'd be very glad of other examples.
I am curious of up to which level this manual is sound and become crazy
It’s possible but something is very fishy about the whole thing. Absolute destruction of value, it isn’t an accidental event
Apple works with consumers who need that simplification. The developers need the market. "AI" in its current form isn't really a consumer product to be sold in that way. Consumers aren't purchasing Nvidia products to improve their life developers are.
About 64 million people die every year, congrats on not being one of the 150,000 that die every day. May your luck extend for another 64 million.
yeah… that’s hn for you.

that said, i don’t think this is a good test - i’ve seen it circling on twitter for months and it is almost certainly trained on similar tasks
> The ultimate question is - why does anything exist?

For a very deep philosophical exploration of that question, see the first chapter of He Is There And He Is Not Silent, by Francis Schaeffer.
no state(s) means one state which you can't escape so you must obey
You also didn't ask the question correctly.
I wrote a journal entry for every single day in 2024
I reproduced this on Claude Sonnet 3.5, but found that changing your prompt to "Which is heavier, a 9.99-pound back of steel ingots or a 10.01-pound bag of fluffy cotton?" corrected its reasoning, after repeated tests. For some reason it was not able to figure out that "10.01" referred to pounds.
Disempowered workers is the whole point of the H1B program. Also, what is the point of importing all this labor to replace a local labor pool when we have a global internet, zoom, GitHub, basically free international calls, etc. If works needs to be done on site, why not move the company to India or whoever the labor is needed so it’s not so disruptive to families and workers?
Well, what's your suggestion for n? 3? 5?
The Next.js team keeps hiding the usefulness of React Server Component for the ease of development and Vercel deployment. It's a gatekeeper at its best.

Why not exposing an API for RSC so that i can imperatively fetch a RSC page with normal fetch call ? Why hiding such a killer feature so that you don't need HTMX anymore.

Also, why conventionally forcing the "RSC page" can't access the Request object in lue of caching. Instead of flexibility of a framework, you force things which users don't prioritize.

Ah, one last point, file system routing without anyway to opt-out is a red flag of the architecture as well.
My top 3 books of 2024:

1. Right/Wrong - Juan Enriquez

2. Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl

3. How to Win Friends & Influence People - Dale Carnegie
Yooo you got the chemistry introduction by Atkins? He's the author of the "standard" undergraduate physical chemistry text and some others. I've got tons of those tiny "very short introduction" books but i have yet to see chemistry.
You're misreading the solution, the first part reads n=1, a trivial special case, not n congruent to 1 mod 4.

The statement doesn't hold for e.g. n=5. Taking m=2 gives the permutation (1 2 4 3), which is odd, and thus cannot have a square root.
> It’s hard to believe the title here. Getting an H1B approved is like an act of god these days. Besides, the approval process is so convoluted and there’s only so many approved for the year. So, I don’t think he can just “replace with H1B”. It’s not how the visa works.

Recent updates, for context:

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2024/12/17/dhs-strengthens-h-1b-pro...
H1B jobs should only be for way above average payed positions. You get the geniuses from other countries and keep the average domestic worker. But that would mean government working for its citizens not for the 1% so it will never be changed to something like that.
They are OK. If you need advanced vision - yes, because CUDA.

But off the shelf mini PCs are much more user friendly for existing software IME.

Thankfully ARM being so wide spread and continuing to grow this wont matter as much.
Mineral oil is a relatively niche but long-standing gaming enthusiast solution, too. Again, you still need a fan-cooled radiator…

https://www.pugetsystems.com/mineral-oil-pc/?srsltid=AfmBOop...
I don't know anything about frontiermath problems, but for Putnam problems (which is what the submitted article is about) the average human that takes the exam is an undergraduate mathematics or science major who has studied prior Putnam problems and other similar problems recently to specifically prepare for the exam...and the most common score is still 0.

At top tier schools the most common score will usually be somewhere in the 0 to 10 range (out of a possible 120).
No that doesn't make sense. What would memorization have to do with millenia old preserved manuscripts?

Were the Vedas et al memorized before being written down? Yes, of course. However, regular discoveries are made of ancient manuscripts in various Buddhist temples.
I have not got as far as coming up with an "ideology" about this. I include the $ to indicate a shell command, a convention I think most books and manuals follow. I don't find that makes copy/paste harder, at least not enough to matter.

On the scale of things I care about this ranks pretty close to the bottom.
This is a fantastic insight. I’m not OP but it will help me. Thank you!
Ah, ok, I'm failing to communicate my point. The underlying problem in this scenario is something basic which doesn't require replication/sync at all. I'll use an actual example that fell on me a while back. There was an app that displayed a news feed. The theoretical upper limit of the volume, due to the size of audience, was hundreds of posts per day, while the practical number was dozens. The architecture was:

* postgresql as the system of record

* firestore as the upstream source for clients

* ES for full-text search

* client-side store for actual client-side reads

* http api for mutations

That required three sync systems: pg->firestore, pg->ES, and firestore->local store. Then it needed messages for the async mutations to propagate back to the clients. And then these things require more things to make them work, like data transformers to support the three different formats for each stage.

This certainly did not require some giant CQRS system and could have been built entirely on postgres. It was a fractal of code that didn't go toward the actual objective.
Frankly you need to read what they say explicitly and not infer what they mean by your reckoning.

They are the system to beat and their competitors are either too small or too risk averse.

They ingest millions of data sources. Among them is the training data needed to answer the benchmark questions.
Just fyi: the throughput numbers with batching are per _query_, not per _batch_, so I think the *8 is too optimistic ")

I suspect that at higher core counts, we can still saturate the full RAM bandwidth with only 4-5 cores, so that the marginal gains with additional cores will be very small.
That's good though, because that gives CPU time to work on the bigger problem to determine the right queries, and to deal with the outputs (as long as that is not too memory bound in itself, although it probably is).