skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like that the paper describes some alternate approaches they tried but which did not yield great results. Often only the successful result is published and explored but unsuccessful alternatives are not.
As the article mentions, the most dangerous aspect of the landing may have been the turbulence and downwash over the fantail. Given that this was a STOL airplane (and also given that the pilot would have had no experience landing on a target moving at almost his stall speed) it might have been safer if the ship just pointed its flight deck into the wind.

I recall from flight school one instructor who liked to demonstrate that the aging Cessna 150 he was often assigned to could be landed in the width of a runway (as performed at an intersection.)
> That's a misunderstanding of what ARC-AGI means

Misunderstanding benchmarks seems to be the first step to claiming human level intelligence.

Additionally:

> > ARC-AGI is a benchmark that’s designed to be simple for humans but excruciatingly difficult for AI. In other words, when AI crushes this benchmark, it’s able to do what humans do.

Doesn’t even make logical sense.
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First thing you have to do is understand how banks actually work at root[0]

[0]: https://new-wayland.com/blog/framework-of-a-basic-bank/
Weight-loss drugs ended the era of "lifestyle changes"
This massively underestimate what current LLMs can do. Yesterday, I was able to create a 600 lines script in 20 minutes or so that essentially setup a Cloudflare worker bindings (KV, Queues, Hyperdrive, etc...). The complexity is very low and debuggu-ability is easy. Reading this infra. code is fast. However, if I was to do this manually, it would have taken me a full day reading through the docs and trying the implementation back and forth for each binding I am connecting to.

Claude 3.5 did it from the first shot.
If there’s enough money to pay the founders salaries, but not so much for dividends, this doesn’t help.

There are two direct ways to return money to the founders - salaries and dividends. In the U.S. there is a tax advantage to dividends, over an amount anyway. This is not true of all countries.
I want LLMs to answer simple, but tedious questions that arise when I do the thinking. I want them to help me find relevant sections in multi-thousand page datasheets regardless of whether I happened to use the same synonym that documentation's author has used. I want them to remind me the meaning of a term that was defined 12 chapters ago without me having to context switch and look for it again. I want them to consolidate information spread over 6 PDFs that I need to look at to understand something.

I want them to be an interface between me and reliable resources. I want them to essentially facilitate ad-hoc fact retrieval without requiring me to master field-specific jargon first. I don't need them to do any thinking, that's my job. I don't want them to try to answer my questions, I want them to point me to resources that let me answer them and save me the time on searching them in the process. You don't need to know where to look beforehand if you're a machine that can ingest whole libraries in seconds - so let me actually benefit from this power rather than try to provide me with a sketchy equivalent of a clueless intern trying to make a good impression and not realizing how tremendously bad they're at it.

I believe LLMs (or, more specifically, complex systems utilizing LLMs) can end up being incredible productivity boosters, but right now they're being so hopelessly misapplied that it will take a good while for them to get there. LLMs can already be somewhat helpful if you approach them carefully, but they're still far from life-changing - unless your life can be changed by reducing the amount of boilerplate you need to type to code, then I guess you're already happier.
I use an external keyboard, but I'm referring to the cases where popups and various things taking their time and showing up and disappearing. e.g. if I open teams and switch to something else, when teams finishes loading it comes to the front of the screen instead of staying in its lane. so it steals focus from say a text editor. it's like the user is supposed to be really dumb and slow, so you're meant to click on teams and wait a few minutes for it to load properly and then start interacting with the computer again.
I appreciate posts that are about practical usage of AI and it's strengths/weaknesses and the kind of conversation it generates. Conversations about AI are tough for me to navigate because there are camps of people that seem very invested in AI being either omniscient or completely useless. I regularly see people saying that AI is at the level that it can replace engineers or build whole apps. When I try this with state of the art models, I am seeing results that are nowhere close. That said, I still use AI every day during my development and I have a flow I think makes me way more productive. I want more conversations like this about the mechanics of using AI as it currently, and honestly evaluating it's strengths and weaknesses without getting into hypothetical debates about the future or whether or not the AI "understands".
It used to be baked into Google search, but they seem to have mostly fixed it sometime in the last year. It used to be that "black couple" would return pictures of black couples, but "white couple" would return largely pictures of mixed-race couples. Today "white couple" actually returns pictures of mostly white couples.

This one was glaringly obvious, but who knows what other biases Google still have built into search and their LLMs.

Apparently with DeepSeek there's a big difference between the behavior of the model itself if you can host and run it for yourself, and their free web version which seems to have censorship of things like Tiananmen and Pooh applied to the outputs.
Biden-Harris Administration-appointed OCR leadership in Washington, D.C., however, overruled the nonpartisan, career-employee determination that the complaint had no merit and extracted a resolution agreement from the district under threat of further federal intervention. This included requiring the district to post a statement in all of its middle and high schools that embraced Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and encouraged students to make Title IX and Title VI complaints. The department will terminate the agreement and any obligations under it.
The legal landscape forced the industry to be purely financial. Hopefully this changes soon.
Why is the risk being taken by investors greater than the one being taken by employees and founders?

If anything, employees are taking a greater risk because you can replace money far more easily than years of your life.
All past data shows is exponential growth in the cost of AI systems, not an exponential growth in capability. Capabilities have certainly expanded, but that is hard to measure. The growth curve is just as likely to be sigmoid-shaped. Just a phase transition from "computers process information strictly procedurally" to "computers use fuzzy logic sometimes too". And if we've exhausted all the easy wins, that explains the increased interest in alternative scaling paths.

Obviously predicting the future is hard, and we won't know where this stops till we get there. But I think a degree of skepticism is warranted.
Very maddening, some regular phrasees can be interpreted in multitude of ways, often contradictory. Even with full context it's still ambiguous
The exponential part may be iffy, but it is self improving.

And this same RL is also creating improvements in small model performance.

So, more LLMs are about to rise in quality.
What was the body of the HTTP 400? You should log that. Maybe there's a refresh token grace period depending on implementation.

I'd sooner be testing in a lab environment recording a pcap file on both sides to try to get the client's TLS session to break before I'd want a client's confidential credential flow sent to me. I don't like to bother people. I've always hated refresh tokens, at least OAuth's design of them. Is sending a client's decrypted MITM logs around really safer?
The goal is solutions, not realistic failures.
And now you can even fine-tune your own AI to come up with convoluted reasons why your preferred interpretation is actually the correct one.
The problem is not with offshoring, per se but the mentality of the person doing the offshoring and why they are doing it.
I do sometimes miss RQL with RethinkDb. It was a cool database.
> a law should never be so complex that you need a superhuman AI to write it.

Or to read and follow it.

AI will write BS laws for the legislature and BS compliance processes for the executive, generating precisely the opposite of what both parties intended.
Right. Banks are boring. The whole industry is based on very simple math. Nothing much to disrupt.
Microprocessors – huge amounts power but no language support
It's crazy to me that we're still using the same approach to banking, given that the banking system regularly blows up and drags the rest of the economy into a recession.
This is a valid concern. But shifting risk entirely to those without preferential shares (typically employees) is also unfair.
It's not a crime if we do it with an app
It's political, just not a political opinion. They were asking why you would ask a llm for a political opinion.
Aren't the big banks buying the fintech companies that have more probability to create disruption?
There must be a dystopian scifi story about a society that willingly outsources its legal system to an AI system which can serve as a judge.
There are pros and cons of cryptocurrencies as money, just like gold, which cause people to speculate on the price.
'We just can't take the hit' businesses worldwide brace for Trump tariffs threat
They've "lost" a few times by now. Government has propped them up.

The other side of the innovator's dilemma is the fact that the market leaders who don't stick to their current winning formula, instead risking big on a new technology, will sooner or later get it wrong and fail on their own. That's why it's a dilemma.
Taxi companies don't like rail going to US airports. With JFK you have to take one train, then change, then another train, then you're at the equivalent of Paddington. Would be like having to change at Hayes+Harlington. Luton has this, but that's the odd one.

From Newark I think it's a bus to a train station, then a train to NY Penn.

The "default" way to get from Heathrow/Gatwick/Stansted to London is a train from the terminal to the centre, typically multiple options.

The default way in the US is taxi. Massively inefficient, but a lot of people make a lot of money from it. Why have a plane load of people on a single train costing $5k, when you can have 200 taxis costing $20k, generating 4 times the GDP.
I’d love to read more about this.

Looking through the list, my reaction to some was “of course that OpenAI wrapper failed” but others sounded compelling. It’s logical that some of those failed companies have a viable product but failed for other reasons. Maybe combining the IP of similar companies could breed a winner. It’s an interesting concept and I’m curious if it works.
Neat edge case! Perhaps SAFE notes or other dividend-paying instruments should account for this by capping executive salaries or trigger dividend payouts at a certain salary dollar amount. Though, admittedly, I've never heard of a founder or executive using their salary instead of taking dividends as an end run around paying everyone their fair share of dividends. It seems possible though.
I accept your point and agree in principle! However, I think there's a lot of fertile ground to be researched and experimented with here. I'm mostly pushing back against the parent's assertion that "putting natural language encoding between [a developer] and the bytes" is inherently of no net benefit.

(I'd also argue many programming languages introduce ambiguity, are riddled with undefined behaviors, subject to 'dialects', and distorted by issues similar to those affecting natural languages. C++ perhaps most notoriously. This is something I'd rather debate in good humor in person, though, as I suspect this could be an entirely separate problem.. ;-))
Your Git credentials could leak just by cloning a repository
Parents really should be able to decode whether or not they want certain subjects taught to their kids. But it should be an individual response or something. Other parents should not be able to restrict your options by triggering a ban... or maybe you need half of all parents to vote approvingly when a ban is suggested as a compromise? I wonder what the procedure is like... I feel like it could be politically abused by radical parent groups.
Don't conflate things.

mobilization is not the same as mandatory draft. draft it still applies to all including IT workers just like before the war. But you are "not home" to get the povestka you are fine. Also almost everyone seems to have some sort of exemption via employment or whatever. No one snatches people on the streets or when exiting the country like in Ukraine

I don't think I heard of anyone drafted to war but I know many russians knowingly went to war to make money on contract basis (which is also not the same as mandatory draft).

Now if mobilization happens they would be more aggressive but as I say IT workers are officially exempt from it.
Doesn’t really help that all issues and docs seem to be in French. Typical tho haha
Hm so when a fintech "disrupts" banks it ends up walking and quacking ... like a bank? Is it even a fintech any more?
I have tried that and the AI gets stuck just attempting whatever and writing more code that won't even compile. I have had more success trying to get it to follow steps or examples.

Maybe the language your friend is using has more examples for training, or perhaps the dynamism of some languages get it to runtime errors that have better details it can work with.
It's good that someone else is pointing out the downside of the EU's USB-C rule. It seemed quite obvious to me that it could hold back innovation, or require companies to release EU specific models.
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And the EU requires models to follow "democractic liberal values" according to their AI act. Other side of the same coin.
The 500b isn’t to retrain a model with same performance as R1, but something better and don’t forget inference. Those servers are not just serving/training LLMs, it training next gen video/voice/niche subject and it’s equivalent models like bio/mil/mec/material and serving them to hundreds of millions of people too. Most people saying “lol they did all this for 5mill when they are spending 500bill” just doesnt see anything beyond the next 2 months
> Of these sources, only fission power is yet developed enough that it could actually bear the weight of industrial civilization with our present technology.

I call bullshit. Globally, power generation (not capacity) from nuclear is small compared to power generation fom renewables (with each of hydro, solar, and wind contributing roughly equally to that figure).

At this point, IMO, it is much more plausible that renewables will power the world than nuclear will, particularly when you realize that existing thermal burner reactors cannot do the job effectively, as there is not enough cheap uranium to keep such a large reactor fleet fueled for very long (thus further puncturing the "developed enough" argument.)
Do you realize how fucking short sighted that broad of a statement sounds?

Ah yes, the population should have the right to rape and steal from anyone else from the population to generate more cogs for the machine.

Property and other individual rights are the bedrock of civilization.
Not specifically aimed at this comment, but it looks like in most Prolog threads here, many commenters seems to plugging in Scryer Prolog, but perhaps, SWI is the most 'batteries included' and mature Prolog implementation for people not familiar with Prolog to try out .
The large banks have achieved scale in terms of accepting deposits and lending at lowish margins. To accept deposits they need regulatory approval and oversight.

For higher margins lending products they are absolutely being “disrupted” by private credit.
I read about dialog in another HN thread a few weeks ago. Between then and now I've had the itch to write some interactive fiction, but I could not for the life of me remember the name of that project.

Thanks!
Doesn’t that turn the entire premise on its head? If passing the benchmark means crossing the lower, not the upper threshold, that invalidates most claims derived from it.
> I.e. in cases you know what code you want to write, but it's tedious, LLMs can do for you

I feel like I'm living on another planet when I see this point. I have almost never in my career encountered the situation where actually typing out the code is the time consuming part. The time consuming part is knowing what code you want to write, running it in a variety of circumstances to gain confidence that it's correct, and iterating when it isn't.

Please don't think I'm saying you're wrong by the way—if anything this just shows how diverse programming can be as a career. But I see this point raised a lot and it doesn't match my experience at all.
I'm genuinely curious why anyone cares about this.
as a Russian, 100% Moscow started this, no need to pick words carefully. "Ukraine invited attack by doing something Russia didn't like" is ridiculous.

And as a Pole you of course know that Putin's "there are our people there we want to liberate" is the same logic Russia used to invade Poland before. Twice
I have used an old sony bravia tv to cast COD from an android phone. Every time I connected, latency varied from 100 - 200 ms to 10 seconds. I had to reconnect several times until the latency was satisfactory.

Conclusion: it has been technically possible to cast to a tv for some years.
Eh? There's a ton of Native American place-names on the East Coast? Including at least three States.
Please explain. A machine with the knowledge to make a copy of itself. It's practically breathing down our necks already.
I'm not sure about the exact hardware setup used here, but is it possible that something like valgrind would have helped here?

I guess not, as the seems to run on the microcontroller, but I remember getting at least some warning from valgrind in similar situations
Orlando springs to mind, the pavement just siddenly ends and people who see a couple walking with a kid pull over and offer assistance, from personal experience.
Wouldn't it be best to leave the connections open just in case? I get not wanting to give the Kremlin a big button that says "black out Estonia" but as long as they can also get juice from the EU grid too, what's the problem? I suppose it's an issue of grid synchronization? If so, DC links could be used on politically tenuous connections on the global power network.
GRPO (Group Relative Policy Optimization) – Explained
For someone that is experienced with Rails but not with the other runtimes mentioned, how do they eliminate the need for db connection pools and speed up deployments across nodes?
Not sure abou that:

Credit portfolio in 2023:

Itaú - $1176 billion

Banco do Brasil - $1109 billion

Bradesco - $877 billion

Nubank - $91 billion

Nubank also had the highest default rate between them (some 6%).

It was great when it was created (fully digital, no credit score check for a credit card), but it is now dealing with the same problems as the big banks
I think the people pushing this narrative want, exactly, the reaction you are displaying here.
"Why" because of all the latent anger and frustration from the mass death and pain of the pandemic. Its naive to underestimate it. How it unfolds, think WWI reparations from Germany.

"Cover it up anyway" pretty much. There's precedent for this, we never got the full truth about 9/11 either. To this day the 100 page dossier is off limits to the public, probably for similar reasoning. The USA wants to play the board opportunistically without regard for justice or public outrage. And then people wonder why the public feels abandoned by their government.
Perhaps my math is off, but I thought there would’ve been more?

YC has often talked about how the average YC startup ‘dies’ and yet I’m sure they’ve funded at least double the number of startups on this list. Is ‘dying’ also synonymous with ended up becoming a ‘lifestyle business’? Clarity would be appreciated on this!
As someone that frequently searches for code and algorithms related to actual polyhedra, I find this choice of terminology rather irritating.
> I’m trying to create a space where people can gather like the RSS feed mentioned, but where they own their own writing, and can profit off of it if they want to opt in to letting it be trained. It sounds a lot easier than it is, the problem is a little weird.

I mean, maybe I'm just defeatist, but it sounds near-impossible to me. The companies that train AI models have already shown that they don't give a damn about creator rights or preferences. They will happily train on your content regardless of whether you've opted in.

So the only way to build a "space" that prevents this is by making it a walled garden that keeps unauthorized crawlers out entirely. But how do you do that while still allowing humans in? The whole problem is that bots have gotten good enough at (coarsely) impersonating humans that it's extremely difficult to filter them out at scale. And as soon as even one crawler manages to scrape your site, the cat's out of the bag.

You can certainly tell people that they own their content on a given platform, but how can you hope to enforce that?
Once AI becomes self-improving, using its intelligence to make itself more intelligent, exponential progress seems like the logical consequence. Any lack of exponential progress before it becomes self-improving doesn't have much bearing on that.

It certainly will be sigmoid-shaped in the end, but the top of the sigmoid could be way beyond human intelligence.
Eating right, in an ideal world, is not something you do to “avoid putting on weight” —- just as exercise is not something you do “to burn calories”.

But if those are your only goals, then taking a pill may well do the trick.
As always, it can be safely assumed that those investigators named as "Officials from the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency" are claiming whatever is needed to distract us from the internal spying of the US's own citizens.

All this fingerpointing at and fearmongering about asian "enemies" always points back to the very same body attached to that finger.

As the last votations only confirmed, the US has since very long already become itself what it blames their alleged enemies for.

Such is the sad reality.
The drumbeat of AI progress has been fairly steady, on log scales.

https://time.com/6300942/ai-progress-charts/
He's got paying customers organic inbound by word of mouth only; there must be some value there.
Ask HN: What happened to carry.travel (YC S19) ?
Hello,

I used carry.travel before the pandemic and found it to be incredibly time-saving and useful. Given the challenges the travel industry faced due to COVID, I imagine the business may have been impacted significantly.

I was wondering if the founders have considered relaunching the service or if there has been any post-mortem analysis shared regarding its current status or future plans?

Thank you!
You don't need a bank to create money out of thin air and creating a bank won't allow you to do that.

I can create money out of thin air with you, if you are willing to accept my credit worthiness.
https://www.nrdc.org/bio/christian-tae/hydrogen-safety-lets-....
You still have to become a domain expert to debug it though?
I'm firmly of the belief that most software would benefit immensely from us all slowing the hell down and putting more thought into what we build. But it would appear stability and a focus on core strengths doesn't sell nearly as well as endless new features for the marketing sheet added as quickly as possible.