skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what I was recalling is the crowdsourcing translations mechanic, which is far more low tech:

> But wait – how could a beginner-level student translate advanced sentences? The solution that Duolingo employs uses the power of crowdsourcing, which involves many students offering their attempts at translating individual sentences. As each student submits a sentence, they can rate others’ translations, and the most highly rated translations “rise to the top.”

Over time, entire documents are translated and students gain many skill points for their language practice. It’s easy to see how the data collected from users could be useful to improve the algorithms that underly computer translation[…]

https://lile.duke.edu/blog/2012/11/duolingo-learning-a-new-l...
You presumably are aware that C# and TypeScript share the same original language designer
I'm heavily biased and an expert user, but I do also have a Mac from work, and my Linux laptop genuinely is more trouble-free with docking and Bluetooth acrobatics than the Mac (a M1 MBP).

Every time the Mac decides today's another day when flipping it shut will randomly also disable the external display, I get a little more frustrated, or when it's dumb about not switching my headphones out of bi-directional headset mode to a HQ audio profile once a call ends. These things are just flawless on my Linux system.

Battery life on the M1 Mac is absolutely stellar and probably about double of the Intel-based Linux one, though, which I agree is a valid deciding factor for quite a few users because it can really change how you go about your day.
No one is forcing those doctors to participate in that system. Many (but not enough) of them don't, and operate cash clinics, which have a better reputation for quality.

But ultimately, healthcare is suffering not because of the insurance companies, but because of the American Medical Association, which worked to artificially limit the supply of doctors so that doctors could be paid more. This makes it more optimal for doctors to choose to participate in the insurance scheme as well.

So I ask again, why are we prioritizing the automation of software development, where neither the skill nor the profession itself is gatekept like healthcare is?
> unless you believe millions of people are spending their own money every month for useless tech.

Your premise is wrong. You assume these people are spending money creating useful output or would otherwise understand and be able to implement a more efficient means on their own. In the words of David Graeber a lot of people have bullshit jobs, are you sure the "AI" isn't alleviating some other problem for them?

> and not see the possibilities it opens up.

The current technology has no natural exponential growth curve. Which means for a linear increase in spending you get a linear increase in accuracy. Any thinking person should see where this is going. Which is why you should call these LLMs so you don't accidentally fool yourself.

I mean, of course, when AGI does arrive and has a reasonable power budget, then we're talking. The current technology will never become this or anything like this. This will almost certainly lead to a new "AI winter" before AGI happens and will likewise almost certainly not occur during yours or my lifetime.

If you do believe that then I have a self driving battery powered semi to sell you that's fully autonomous and will run road cargo trains for you all day and night for huge profits.
At the end of his post, Simon mentions translation between human languages. While maybe not directly related to token limits, I just did a test in which both R1 and o3-mini got worse at translation in the latter half of a long text.

I ran the test on Perplexity Pro, which hosts DeepSeek R1 in the U.S. and which has just added o3-mini as well. The text was a speech I translated a month ago from Japanese to English, preceded by a long prompt specifying the speech’s purpose and audience and the sort of style I wanted. (I am a professional Japanese-English translator with nearly four decades of experience. I have been testing and using LLMs for translation since early 2023.)

An initial comparison of the output suggested that, while R1 didn’t seem bad, o3-mini produced a writing style closer to what I asked for in the prompt—smoother and more natural English.

But then I noticed that the output length was 5,855 characters for R1, 9,052 characters for o3-mini, and 11,021 characters for my own polished version. Comparing the three translations side-by-side with the original Japanese, I discovered that R1 had omitted entire paragraphs toward the end of the speech, and that o3-mini had switched to a strange abbreviated style (using slashes instead of “and” between noun phrases, for example) toward the end as well. The vanilla versions of ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini that I ran the same prompt and text through a month ago had had none of those problems.
Don't worry. Everyone has the virus.
You’re basically saying you write 15x the prompt for the same result they get with sonnet.
My thinkings basically the same as yours. I probably also have about as much info as you on the matter, but then again, even knowing the "facts on the ground" aren't misaligned with that conclusion says something.

I honestly don't really know if there were better alternatives. But I definitely lost a lot of faith somewhere between the Google IO where they packed every announcement for the next two years they could think of, managing to announce AR glasses again, only to have to cancel them a year later.

If the sell was professionalism via Motorola experience, that's not what happened.

But quite the loyal soldier, I think the public record has a very clear accounting of how many boneheaded decisions were made at the altar of Good Budgeting*, and the MBAs have thoroughly ate the company in general. They must enjoy his work.

* bungling maintaining the tablet; marching onto a nonsensical goal to have Android eat ChromeOS while embarrassing themselves publicly mumbling about how its because AI, when really, its because politics. Meanwhile fantastic software work that would have fit right into a world with LLMs was shitcanned at the altar of Efficiency™ and focusing on getting products out.
It's funny because I see this exact same thing in game dev. A bunch of games have now decided to outsource basic logos, banners, icons etc to AI.

They all end up looking very obvious and similar and I pass on them every time. It's THE core advertising for your product.
Now all we need is a PDF reader embedded within a PDF. Bonus points for enabling it to open itself for infinite recursion.
The answer is findable, but what you really asking? Percentage that benefit at some company, or percentage across a basket of companies?

RSUs at a public company are straight-up benefit if you survive to vesting. Whether that was better than getting more salary is only known in hindsight, but some companies are reliable in that being pretty good. Not FU money anymore, but when it's over 100% of your base it is objectively good. Options at a public company are risky, the markets were favorable for a while but you can see that high-flyers may be at the top of their market. Anything at a private company is a crapshoot, mostly filled with crap. Top execs and maybe a few early employees can benefit from some equity sales. Since you are asking the question, I'll guess this doesn't describe you. In general the company needs to thrive pretty well or have an in on a buzzy acquihire for either options or RSUs to be worth anything, and you took a salary cut for those chances. The old rule of 9 out 10 fail may need updating, but if you join at series C or after you have still a 90% chance of 0 and a 10% chance of a little something (because the quantity and pricing at that point is not all that interesting). Plenty of companies will not top you up after your first grant, so your slice is small. A few companies take care of their employees, but you need to treat the employer's statements in this as completely suspect. An employee, outside of work and in a social setting, is much more reliable.
What’s his Venmo so I can send him £5 so his feelings won’t be hurt?
https://x.com/paulg/status/1882901922686074942
It's easier to see where the contractions are, since the same line connects two tensors, versus hunting for repeated indices in a mess of many indices among many tensors multiplied together.
It's estimated 2/3rds of adults globally have it.

That's a majority, but far from "everyone".
Like the article says, 80% of people have herpes wether they know it or not.
What are they unhappy about?
I'd love to hear more on your take on go vs C# at this point in time.
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation (2024)
Those are both responses from the same model. It's not one response from o1 and another from o3.
I question how he can be involved in a government that claims China is the number one threat while he directs a company that has to play nice with the CCP to keep access to their markets, Tesla.
Watch the early DevCons. 2015-2016, P2P is all excitement. From 2017 it's just blockchain hype ad nauseam
I have the same experience. Just today I was integrating a new logging system with my kubernetes cluster.

I tried out the OP model to make changes to my yaml files. It would give short snippets and I’d have to keep trial and erroring its suggestions.

Eventually I pasted the original prompt to Claude and it one-shot the dang thing with perfect config. Made me wonder why I even try new models.
Ironically it's the opposite - they have to care. Companies like OpenAI are forced to virtue signal because if they don't, the Verge will publish an article at 8:00AM tomorrow titled "Transphobic/Homophobic Model Now Hits Public Availability" and there's nothing Altman or Trump can do about that. They'd just watch their stock value slide while Anthropic or Mistral becomes the next global darling with HugBoxLLM or whatever the hell. That's free market capitalism at play - doing anything else is simply bad business strategy.

> but if outing and killing gay people would be profitable they'd do that instead

Certainly; we'd see new businesses spring up overnight if the government offered a price for every Christian head you brought them. But we haven't seen that in a while (much less from a modern, accountable government) and very few stable businesses would risk their identity on something like that if it wasn't going to last.

The bigger issue moreover is that businesses don't want to slaughter gay people or Christians because they are paying customers. Political businesses fail in America because taking any stance is the enemy of popularity and makes you ripe for legitimate and viral controversy.

Call it cancel culture if you want, but it's a bipartisan force that segregates politics from business simply through market aggregation.
So far ive been impressed.. seems to be in the same ballpark as r1 and claude for coding. I will have to gather more samples.. in this past week ive changed from using 100% claude exclusively (since 3.5) to hitting all the big boys: claude, r1, 4o (o3 now), and gemini flash. Then ill do a new chat that includes all of their generated solutions for additional context for a refactored
final solution.

R1 has upped the ante so Im hoping we continue to get more updates rapidly... they are getting quite good
https://eotarchive.org/

> The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government.

https://bsky.app/profile/adzebill.bsky.social/post/3lh3cnkqi...
The reason overconfident developers roll their own crypto is because the ‘cryptography experts’ are such asshats about it. Who wants to deal with someone that writes this?

Hell, even identifying which ‘cryptography expert’ actually knows what they’re talking about and which ones are windbags is often more trouble than it’s worth.
Everything? It, just like tar, don't follow the convention of many other CLI utilities.

That alone is why I prefer `fd` or plocate for most tasks I previously used find for.
This is a relatively long post that is kind of beating around the bush: these developers believed that OpenSSL was a trustworthy substrate on which to build a custom cryptosystem. It's not; this is why libraries like Tink and Sodium exist. They don't really need much more lecturing than "stop trying to build on OpenSSL's APIs."
I don't love the post either but getting angry about it doesn't make it less right.
As they say, "quantity has it's own quality". Thus, once you're in the
"three comma club", your money not only insulates you from the legal consequences of what would be considered "wrongdoing", it also spawns a gravity-distortion field that can bend the entire system to your will. The laws effectively won't apply to you, and what normally counts as "check and balances" become moot.
Maybe you're misunderstanding unit economics.

It sounds like you're talking about net losses for the company.

You think it costs them $500 to operate a $50 ride?

How? And why?

Unit economics does not include the previous r&d to map the city and train the model to drive the car.

It's literally the cost of the car going from point a to point b - and amortizing other operational costs like maintenance and cleaning.
> a chain (66 feet) × a furlong (660 feet).

That's a furrow width x a furrow length. I imagine our agrarian roots have something to do with this. Then you can easily find tables for expected food production from 1 acre of your crops.

> weird rectangular cuboid

A good 1:10 crop row.

> m³ is already a pretty hard to visualize unit

1000 1L bottles doesn't seem that hard to visualize.
What if they update robots.txt?
He’s made that pretty clear to us Angelenos too.
Agreed, I think music is one of the areas which it nails though (pun intended). The size of the human input can be very small and still produce very high quality output.

I mean you can produce 0 input and fully automate it and it will still sound professional... Maybe it will lack a bit of creativity but typically only a professional would be able to know that.

I think what Suno produces is often higher quality and more creative than what most modern pop stars produce... Just because the bar there happens to be quite low.

If I listen to 80s music, I can see the creativity gap (at least relative to the AI's typical ouput)... But AI output is often superior to modern artists IMO.
It's not relevant. You're looking for something to complain about and latching on where it doesn't fit.

Even full approval of Apple's motion would not be rooting for anticompetitive behavior. It makes sense for Apple to be involved in this rulemaking. And it does seem like too much if the rule blocks any dealing between the two companies in any market.

But the above comment was far weaker than that. It was just saying a restriction that strong would prevent things that are not already illegal. That is a basic fact.
You use it with a mouse... That is telling. Have you considered that people actually want to use the laptop all by itself? Without an external mouse? That's the experience you're supposed to benchmark for.
And congress added ten new slots to DCA in last year's FAA re-authorization act.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3935...

SEC. 502.

Introduced by Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6], passed with veto-proof bipartisan support.

Dollars to donuts congresscritters wanted the ability to fly to/fro DCA vs Dulles to save themselves time.
>If monetary inflation from the deficit isn't high enough to create the target price inflation, then the Fed steps in and lowers interest rates to create enough monetary inflation to make up the difference.

The Fed does more than just this of course. You also have cause and effect mixed up. By the act of manipulating the bond market and dumping money into the economy, the Fed lowers interest rates. The target is stated in terms of rates but it is not the case that the rates increase money supply. If the rates were lowered through natural market activity, there would be no consequent effect on the money supply.

>Okay, thank you for finally expressing a judgement between different government interventions for creating price inflation.

I think you're splitting hairs. The government has limited control over inflation, because of its spending obligations. They cannot arbitrarily limit inflation without bankrupting themselves. But inflation is an onerous tax on everyone, and the idea that we "need" inflation is preposterous. It would be better to have a stable unit of currency and to let prices fall as necessary. This phenomenon reflects the reality of supply and demand, and facilitates effective financial planning by individuals and businesses. Inflation, even under the pretense of "price stability" aka money evaporating 2 to 10 percent per year, is not helpful in the slightest. It penalizes savers and the poor to benefit people who make bad investments and waste resources.

Although I am kind of an expert on all of this, having studied it for several years now in depth, I don't have time to argue with people about such things on HN at the moment. I just want to encourage you to question what you've been told about the necessity of inflationary policies over sound money, and the actual reason our government keeps imposing this inflation tax on people. It's covering up for its own dysfunction, not trying to help you. Government spending and other fiscal programs caused most bubbles we've seen in our lifetimes. Everything... College debt, real estate bubbles, multiple stock market bubbles. The Fed likely caused or at least prolonged the Great Depression by trying to buy all the gold from people, then tried to profit from it by increasing the price artificially. The whole point of that exercise was to enrich the government and certain insiders while establishing a precedent that the government can do whatever the fuck it wants, regardless of what the Constitution says about property rights or what can or can't be used as money.
Sam Altman: OpenAI has been wrong concerning open source
I had to edit the title and quote to make it fit.

But I also want to point out, many other models like Llama aren’t open source either. They only release weights and don’t use OSI approved licenses. They aren’t sharing the code or data that produced the model.
I wrote a webapp to pull your local covid wastewater data from cdc data. It's still working, so they either left their feeds in place or haven't gotten to them yet.

https://madmonk13.github.io/covid_ww_levels/
I'm going to guess the the Secure Payment System mentioned in the article is this:
https://fiscal.treasury.gov/sps/

As it says on the SPS website, the they use PKI! ... Wait a tick, is that what Elon wants access to? So he can read/write the federal account ledgers? Or perhaps Elon wants to control the CA behind it. The article mentions very select few personnel have access, which sounds like this... Yeah that might be enough of a reason for a long time, very senior federal employee to call it quits all of sudden, so as to not be the stooge that gives away the keys to Elon (particularly the CA keys). (Pure uneducated speculation)

I'm going to guess the explainer for the office(s) in question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_the_Fiscal_Service
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Fiscal_Service

Sounds like Wyden is at least asking questions, now that someone at Treasury has fallen on their sword: https://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/wyden-demands-...
>Hell, even identifying which ‘cryptography expert’ actually knows what they’re talking about and which ones are windbags is often more trouble than it’s worth.

If they look like they spent too much time in the sun you can't trust them. This criteria has yet to fail me.
This looks very useful.

Unimportantly, I wonder how the copyright date is 2023 when MCP didn't exist until 2024.
Something similar happened to me. A piece of cardboard packing material fell in to the furnace when they were installing it, and it just sat on top of the heat exchanger slowly carbonizing until one day it decided to start smoking. The firefighters spotted the source right away with an IR camera and extinguished it with a shot of CO2, then the furnace guy came and got it out.
Angst?

It just means you're less likely be fixing someone else's "mistakenly _mm512_store_si512 for been _mm512_storeu_si512" error because AI fix(ed) it for you and you can focus on other parts of computer science. Computer science surely isn't just fixing _mm512_store_si512.
We released the first version of Mirascope in Dec 2023. I’m under the impression that would make it the right date?
I've invented a replacement for the PDF format.

It's called Locked Markdown. `*.lmd`.

It provides 98% of the functionality most people use PDFs for, without all the extra bullshit.

The Spec:

- The most popular Markdown Spec (git flavour?)

- At the top of the page place a hash sum of the markdown below a marker on the page.

LMD Reader:

- Prevents editing the markdown.

- Warns user if the hash sum is not valid.

Example:

```lmd

sha256 77ec0f678315f8a207c3501137e1dfc9642b79a9c93e21807df7b5242846c05c

-------------------------------

# Header 1

Paragraph of text about how bloated the PDF format is.

```

Zip .lmd together with images/videos if required.
deepseek answered it.

https://leaflet.pub/63ae4881-d726-4388-9ba3-8a5f86947443
It's just they haven't got the virus yet. Or the viral load is too low to be detectable by current technique.
Open question for LLMs, does creativity and new ideas come from a process or is it a laddered emergent capability.

What I mean by this, is the process of coming up with novel ideas a single capability that has to be trained and reinforced.

Or is it a ladder of capabilities of increasing complexity in that a model that could figure of General Relativity from scratch would not be able to continue the process and perhaps come up with a viable “theory of everything.”

One thing I’ve wanted to do, I’m sure somebody has tried it, is build a dataset to RL a model to be more creative: Get a human expert in a field, have them ask a reasoning model some open questions, and then have the expert look at 20 outputs and rank them by creativity / insight. Have the expert iterate and see how much new “insight” they can mine from the model.

Do this across many fields, and then train a model on these rankings.

Perhaps creativity is a different way of moving in latent space which is “ablated” from existing models because they’re tuned to be “correct” rather than “creative.”

Also curious what techniques there are to sample a reasoning model to deliberately perturb its internal state into more creative realms. Though these a fine line between insight and hallucination.

In some respects creativity is hallucination. As a human, you’re effectively internally postulating creative ideas “hallucinations” and then one of them “hits” and fires a whole bunch of neurons which indicate: “ok that wild idea actually has grounding and strong connections to the existing knowledge in your brain.”