skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cars used to have modular buttons. It was very common to have a couple of blanks in your infotainment cluster.

My brand-new luxury-brand EV still has blanks. Not all trim levels get the rear fog lights, or a few other things I can't remember. Also, they're used for buttons related to adding the towing package.
Someone could read this as: as soon as I don't like the results I doubt the test...
Hence the recent story/scandal about Meta torrenting LibGen: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-o...
I'm glad the "heavy" part of this is not understated. The big iron is out there, surprisingly cheap, and it usually stays put for quite a while because it is a damn bitch to move. Tear down a wall, and put it back later. And make sure your floor won't cave in.

If you ever get yourself into serious hobby machining, get ready for the average density of all your possessions to double.
Fantastic thank you for linking so much information!
Smaller reinforced models are what will win. Look at our civilization, your company, heck even your team: lots of specialized folks, not some singular bloated mastermind.

The issue though is the overemphasis on the current benchmarks. Ideally the thing benchmarked is against user kpis.
Why, pray?
“How many stops faster is f/2.8 than f/4.5?”

This photography question can be solved with the right equations. A lot of non-reasoning LLMs would spout some nonsense like 0.67 stops faster. Sometimes they’ll leave a stray negative sign in too!

The answer should be approximately 1.37, although “1 and 1/3” is acceptable too.

LLMs usually don’t have trouble coming up with the formulas, so it’s not a particularly obscure question, just one that won’t have a memorized answer, since there are very few f/4.5 lenses on the market, and even fewer people asking this exact question online. Applying those formulas is harder, but the LLM should be able to sanity check the result and catch common errors. (f/2.8 -> f/4 is one full stop, which is common knowledge among photographers, so getting a result of less than one is obviously an error.)

This also avoids being a test that just emphasizes tokenizer problems… I find the strawberry test to be dreadfully boring. It’s not a useful test. No one is actually using LLMs to count letters in words, and until we have LLMs that can actually see the letters of each word… it’s just not a good test, in my opinion. I’m convinced that the big AI labs see it as a meme at this point, which is the only reason they keep bringing it up. They must find the public obsession with it hilarious.

I was impressed at how consistently well Phi-4 did at my photography math question, especially for a non-reasoning model. Phi-4 scored highly on math benchmarks, and it shows.
Which in several cases are the same.
I recommend you to sometime go to look at second-hand markets for books. That is less selective antiquarians and especially something like salvation army or flea markets. Places that accept donations of books and then try to resell them for very cheap are good picks. Just browse through some sections and notice the lower range that has been printed. Not just in fiction, but also non-fiction or maybe really weird combinations like horoscope and cookbooks...
That's hilarious. I'd rather hire a team of people that have specialized teams and have built 1000s of houses, not a guy that built one and thinks he's really good at it, sorry.
Indeed.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-11/apple-is-...
lobsters usually have pretty much the same content as hacker news, honestly.

i don't see much difference versus here
thats far from the case here i really have no skin in the game...
Let's ban tiktok, youtube and facebook first then.
Performance per watt continues to increase tho
Apple Is Renaming Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on Maps App
This is why it is so important to shrink the size of the US government. As government gets bigger, it tends to make more and more demands like this. And if you refuse, they will imprison you.
ExifTool is merely a bunch of Perl code, which can't be parsed nor compiled to a program, i.e. computer instructions. There is nothing to port.

The only other option is a rewrite. Does that really sound easier?
> A human brain doesn't need anywhere close to this volume of data, in order to be able to produce good output.

Maybe not directly, but consider that our brains are the product of million of years of evolution and aren't a blank slate when we're born. Even though babies can't speak a language at birth, they already have all the neural connections in place in order to acquire and manipulate language, and require just a few years of "supervised fine tuning" to learn the actual language.

LLMs, on the other hand, start with their weights at random values and need to catch up with those million years of evolution first.
So cool, I picked up some of these from my parents house a few months ago. My kids have spent a grand total of about 1 minute on them, very unimpressed :D
No, give each county (or neighboring group of them) the opportunity to form a local utility and take over the mgmt. local municipal utilities have a really good track record.
Microsoft and Map Quest currently have not updated or announced anything on their offerings.
I guess one could just watch the token output stream and replace solvable expressions with calculated results, continuing with the replaced result. Kind of like the LLM producing a template, to be filled on the fly.

Some models now do something like this for enforcing longer reasoning processes - they replace </think> with „Wait“.
That has what to do with this person saying a death is sad?
I’d be happy with a model not knowing ASCII if only it could properly reason instead.
I see you still haven't bothered to provide any sources, so I'll just conclude you're talking out of your ass. Sorry.
Take these stats with a grain of salt.

I am becoming more and more convinced that hard drive reliability is linked to the batch more than to the individual drive models themselves. Often you will read online of people experiencing multiple failures from drives purchased from the same batch.

I cannot prove this because I have no idea about Blackblazes procurement patterns but I bought one of the better drives in this list (ST16000NM001G) and it failed within a year.

When it comes to hard drives or storage more generally a better approach is protect yourself against down time with software raid and backups and pray that if a drive does fail it does so within the warranty period.
> which involves alot of stuff outside of code-gen that we're working on

Could you elaborate on what extra stuff you are working on that will be a value-add over standalone Cursor?
You might want to do some research on what you can buy and legally plug into your own home. It's more or less you get UL listing, or the product isn't available
It hadn't even occurred to me that there are places where enough people are using Google Maps while driving to cause significant impact on traffic patterns. Being car-free (and smartphone-free) really gives a different perspective.
makes me wonder if there's some exploitable data leak in a similar kind of formulation.
I had the opposite reaction. seems like a cheap knockoff of v0, just styled worse. Even the name. (at least the name v0 makes sense).

Kind of put me off of using the product because it seemed like they just put "Build me a v0 clone with distracting animations" into v0.dev
I must protest - putting any language on par with C++ level of difficulty is unfair to C++. (Let's exclude malbolge and its relatives for a second)
Missing detail: 190 watt TDP.
Altman spouts even more bullshit than his models, if that’s even possible.
GSA staff facing cuts and fears of 'nonstop' surveillance
No sane individual is going to buy 5090 for $2000-100000 and hook it up to a $15 Power supply.
Have you heard the term survivorship bias? Billionaires got so rich by being outliers, for better or worse. Even if they were guaranteed to be the best just going all in with one action in their portfolio isn't even what their overall strategy. Zuckerberg can afford to blow a few billion on a flop because it is only about 2% of his net worth. Notably, even he while poised and groomed for overconfidence by past successes and yes-men doesn't trust his own business acumen all that much!
> I think 4 would be nominal?

6 or 12, depending on how you count. There are 6 12V supply wires, and 6 GND return wires. All of them should be carrying roughly the same current - just with the GND wires in the opposite direction from the 12V ones.
There are rare examples of non fiction books that don’t feel like this, and when you stumble upon them it feels wonderful. For example, I’ve always loved Meditations by Marcus Aurelius for this reason - it was written for him, and so it’s free of the peacocking or status gaming you get in modern self help type books.
I just asked the first question to O1 Pro, it thought for 48 seconds and messed up.

It told me to fill the 12 liter jug then pour that into the 6 liter jug.

I then scolded it and told it I was going to use Deepseek R1 because it did a better job, and we were shutting down OpenAI forever, and THEN it thought for 4 minutes and got a bit snippy with me haha, it got the answer but then glossed over it also said “but that’s too simple isn’t it?”.

Output:
Here’s a more “classic puzzle” style approach, spelled out step-by-step, to end up with exactly 6 liters in the 12-liter jug. This method uses multiple fills and transfers (instead of the trivial “fill the 12, pour off 6” approach) so you can see a more puzzle-like sequence:
1. Fill the 6-liter jug from the water supply.
• State: (12-liter jug = 0 L, 6-liter jug = 6 L)
2. Pour from the 6-liter jug into the 12-liter jug until the 6-liter jug is empty (the 12-liter jug still has plenty of room).
• State: (12-liter jug = 6 L, 6-liter jug = 0 L)
3. Fill the 6-liter jug again from the water supply.
• State: (12-liter jug = 6 L, 6-liter jug = 6 L)
4. Pour from the 6-liter jug into the 12-liter jug until the 12-liter jug is completely full.
• The 12-liter jug currently has 6 liters and can take 6 more liters before it’s full, so you’ll pour the entire 6 liters from the 6-liter jug.
• State: (12-liter jug = 12 L, 6-liter jug = 0 L)
5. Empty the 12-liter jug (discard the water or set it aside).
• State: (12-liter jug = 0 L, 6-liter jug = 0 L)
6. Transfer the remaining water in the 6-liter jug to the 12-liter jug—but right now the 6-liter jug is empty, so that doesn’t help. The trick is: we want to exploit the difference in capacities to measure out new amounts. So let’s continue.
Since both are empty, let’s do something else:
a. Fill the 12-liter jug from the supply.
• State: (12-liter jug = 12 L, 6-liter jug = 0 L)
b. Pour from the 12-liter jug into the 6-liter jug until the 6-liter jug is full, which removes 6 liters from the 12-liter jug.
• Now the 12-liter jug has liters left.
• State: (12-liter jug = 6 L, 6-liter jug = 6 L)

At this point, the 12-liter jug contains exactly 6 liters. That’s what we wanted.

If You Want the 6 Liters in the Smaller Jug Instead

If, for some reason, you need exactly 6 liters in the 6-liter jug (though that jug obviously holds 6 liters when full, so it’s usually trivial), here’s a more puzzle-like sequence:
1. Fill the 12-liter jug (12 L in the big jug, 0 L in the small jug).
2. Pour from the 12-liter jug into the 6-liter jug until the small jug is full.
• State: (12-liter jug = 6 L, 6-liter jug = 6 L)
3. Empty the 6-liter jug.
• State: (12-liter jug = 6 L, 6-liter jug = 0 L)
4. Transfer the 6 liters from the 12-liter jug into the 6-liter jug.
• State: (12-liter jug = 0 L, 6-liter jug = 6 L)

Again, you end up with exactly 6 liters in the 6-liter jug.

Both sequences go beyond the simple “fill the 12, pour 6 off” short-cut. Hopefully, that’s less “terrible” and shows a more classic multi-step approach often seen in water-jug riddles.
Not at all, it is a tool designed by those that haven't learnt the Ant lessons that are the reason Maven come to be in first place.

Also they are very keen breaking the DSL language every couple of releases, and before Kotlin based DSL, had to come up with a background daemon to cache Groovy execution, due to its performance, or lack therefore.

So far, I never had any reason to try out Bazel.
As someone who has been subjected to pornography at a young age, it did absolutely nothing meaningful to me.

You should probably be more concerned about the gratuitous violence that America loves, considering the amount of school shootings you get over there.
It should be noted that there is a very great difference between "proto-writing" and writing.

It is likely that various kinds of "proto-writing" have been independently invented in a lot of places, but very few of them have evolved into writing systems.

"Proto-writing" is just a set of graphic symbols that are used to designate various things. Such a set of symbols can be used e.g. to write an inventory, to tag things to show ownership or purpose, to show on a map what can be found in certain places, and so on.

"Proto-writing" cannot be used to write human speech. All systems of "proto-writing" that have evolved into writing systems have done that by reinterpreting a part of the graphic symbols, or sometimes even all of them, to no longer be the names of some things, but to have a phonetic meaning, i.e. to represent some sounds of human speech (syllables in almost all cases), allowing thus the writing of the more abstract components of the speech, like various grammatical markers.

Therefore for a system of "proto-writing", it does not make sense to ask which is the language that has been written with it, because there exists no such language.

The only kind of information that can be known about a system of proto-writing is which is the thing denoted by each symbol. Even when the meanings of all symbols are known, that does not offer any information about the language used by those who have invented and used that system of proto-writing.

For now, there is no evidence that the Indus script was a writing system, because only very short strings of symbols have been preserved. It could have been a writing system, because by that time other writing systems already existed not far away, which could have inspired them, or it could have been just a proto-writing system, which would give no clue about the language of its users.
Oh sorry, I skimmed and thought this was based on Deepseek R1.
Being delicious to humans is a pretty good evolutionary advantage. Although, not necessarily good for the longevity of individuals of that species, see, for example, cattle.
Did: What did you do last week, month, year?
AIME has significant problems: https://x.com/DimitrisPapail/status/1888325914603516214

> Problems near identical to the test set can be found online.
4k@60 isn't all that good today and 5070 can do it with reduced graphics in modern games.

x90 cards IMO are either bought by people that absolutely need them (yay market segmentation) or simply because they can (affording is another story) and want to have the best of the latest.
I remember when I first bought a knife either made in USA or just targeted at that market (not sure: I mean, I don't think it was the first thing I bought made by an USA company, but I've never seen that warning before), and found that warning inside the package I was quite puzzled, like WTF, I though I was buying a good knife, not some recycled hazardous waste-material or whatever this is. Then, of course, I googled and found out that they stick it on pretty much anything, so that plastic handle is probably just like any plastic handle of any knife I held before. But still it was very weird.
Mature is great.

Incompatible is not.

The challenge is to make new software compatible with mature software. The more we try, the easier it gets.
You can also see a lot of individually started businesses go broke.

Most new businesses fail.

Even if you want to start your own business, you almost certainly need to be employed in that field for an extended time first, otherwise, how will you learn the trade?

Plus, if the OP were of entrepreneurial nature, they probably wouldn't be asking.

Apropos from yesterday's server status "fortune cookie":

A young man wrote to Mozart and said:

Q: "Herr Mozart, I am thinking of writing symphonies. Can you give me any
suggestions as to how to get started?"

A: "A symphony is a very complex musical form, perhaps you should begin with
some simple lieder and work your way up to a symphony."

Q: "But Herr Mozart, you were writing symphonies when you were 8 years old."

A: "But I never asked anybody how."
> The only thing that really worked was sending so many rat reports to the city that they had to keep coming out to bait the burrows in the neighbors small yard, until they likely talked to the owner directly to do something about it.

I was recently deputized into the "Rat Pack" of New York City[1].

The main thing I learned is that exactly what you said is true. When there are rat problems, you have to go to the source. Traps/poison in a localized area is not going to work, as the brown rat is easily able to reproduce faster than we can kill them with those methods.

In fact, certain methods have ended up helping the rats. At one point the city put out thousands of boxes with poison in them. The problem is the boxes were designed to be nice and cozy for the rats, so they'd be tempted to go in and eat the poison. Instead, they go in there and mate. (They also use the boxes to evade predators).

NYC's current strategy is to improve data collection on rats, and then use that data to better enforce standards (like garbage disposal), eradicate burrows, and plant different shrubs that aren't as friendly to rats. You have to fully eliminate the environments that sustain them, you can't exterminate your way out.

Always report rat sightings in your area!

[1] https://www.nycservice.org/opportunity/a0TQq00000DwaIoMAJ/ny...
I suspect part of the difference is what kind of roads you are on. Whenever I'm in the Bay area (or Southern CA in general), I'm amazed by the quality of the roads. The pavement is even and smooth and the lines are crisp, fresh paint that is easy to see.

Meanwhile in the Midwest, we have potholes, uneven roads, sometimes roads with different surfaces mixed together (gray concrete with black asphalt patches). Lines are often badly worn by the weather and road salt and can be quite difficult to see.

I strongly suspect with no evidence that FSD likely has more problems on roads that are in poor condition.
True enterprise drives ftw - even Seagate usually makes some very reliable ones. They also tend to be a little faster. Some people have complained about noise but I have never noticed.

They are noticeable much heavier in hand (and supposedly most use dual bearings).

Combined with selecting based on Backblazes statistics I have had no HDD failures in years
But it's not the only billing problem I have had. A hospital billed us double for an emergency c-section (once for the mother, and again for the child) and hit us with $300k in claims. A dermatologist once faked a surgery and sent it to my insurance. And don't even get me started on the exploitative agreements hospitals sign with ambulance companies.

We're not even people who spend a lot of time in hospitals - but we are pretty close to a 100% hit rate for billing issues with hospitals. Even during times in my life when I didn't have insurance.

I get that people kind of ascribe all sorts of medical billing problems to insurance companies. But I think a lot of it is kind of ignorance comes from inept hospital management shifting blame. And often doctors and practitioners themselves are very removed and unaware of the awful billing at their own practices.
Here's a picture: https://www.media.volvocars.com/uk/en-gb/media/photos/47385/...
The problem is that coders taking this approach are dominantly ones who lack the relevant skill - ones who are taking that approach because they lack that skill.
Thank you for describing your process. It's an interesting concept. As I've just started writing, and discovered it's therapeutic effects, it feels alien to delete the thing that has helped. But i can see how it's therapeutic.

If you feel comfortable, I'd love to read your blog. Or we go off on our merry way and hopefully run into each other again.
That's because 1080 and whole 10xx generation was pinacle and is the best GPU nvidia ever made. Nvidia won't make the same mistake any time soon.
dang knows HN better than anyone. I was coming here to discuss it and don't remember seeing much of it. I don't know how you moderate a forum, in this sense, where each person sees only a small segment of it. It will be overdone to some and novel to others.

(Some things are probably overdone for everyone.)
I don’t believe these numbers mean what they think. Their sample size has dropped dramatically since the previous year, from 100k to 25k for laptops and from 186k to 48k for desktops. Given that all the data comes from people choosing to run the benchmark, I wonder what population has suddenly left the data, and if that is significant.

Also consider that the CPU is only one component of this benchmark. The article itself says that Windows 11 performance is worse than Windows 10. This might be another instance of “What Andy [Grove] giveth, Bill [Gates] taketh away.”
What it’s not good at is anything within the last 2 years (due to training cutoff) all fail at latest remix, svelte and selenium syntax for example.

This is an eternity in FE dev terms
We are unbelievably far from that. Everyone who tells you that we're within 20 years of emulating brains and says stuff like "the human brain only runs at 100 hertz!" has either been conned by a futurist or is in denial of their own mortality.
This isn't really about "AI". It's about copying summaries. Google was fined for this in France for copying news headlines into their search results, and now has to pay royalties in the EU. Westlaw is a summarizing and indexing service for court case results. It's been publishing that info in book form since 1872.

Ross was trying to compete with Westlaw, but used Westlaw as an input.
West's "Key Numbers" are, after a century and a half, a de-facto standard.[2] So Ross had to match that proprietary indexing system to compete. Their output had to match Westlaw's rather closely. That's the underlying problem. The court ruled that the objective was to directly compete with Westlaw, and using Westlaw's output to do that was intentional copyright infringement.

This looks like a narrow holding, not one that generally covers feeding content into AI training systems.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/google-france-news-publishers-cop...

[2] https://guides.law.stanford.edu/cases/keynumbersystem
Got any source for that, or anything to refute the reference below that shows that Teslas are actually the most dangerous in terms of fatal accidents/miles driven at twice the average?
> A 48V system would have only ~13% the resistive losses over the cables (more importantly, at the connections!)

It's one-sixteenth (6.25%) actually. You correctly note that resistive losses scale with the square of the current (and current goes with reciprocal voltage), so at 4 times the voltage, you have 1/4th the current and (1/4)^2 = 1/16th the resistive losses.
Frankly, it is now clear that open source AI will win at this rate. I just see innovations after innovations on a weekly basis. Exciting times ahead.
https://open.substack.com/pub/transitions/p/the-ai-enemy-fro...
The technical term for 'butter' is just UX.
>The models I've tried aren't that great at algorithm design. They're abysmal at generating highly specific, correct code (e.g. kernel drivers, consensus protocols, locking constructs.) They're good plumbers. A lot of programming is plumbing, so I'm happy to have the help, but they have trouble doing actual computer science.

I tend towards tool development, so this suggests a fringe benefit of LLMs to me: if my users are asking LLMs to help with a specific part of my API, I know that's the part that sucks and needs to be redesigned.