skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Highway speed not at peak times has increased by a lot since even the 90s.

Hell, the garbage trucks here go 70+ until they hit a hill.
When opening the following hello world PDF, the trailer isn't shown correctly and both `startxref` and `%%EOF` are missing: https://ghostbin.site/bb7jb
The NSA's "Big Delete"
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> The only way to escape is to be clever about preserving multiple 'zoom' /C4 levels of diagram.

Fully agree. Having gone through startup funding rounds and acquisitions, that's the set of diagrams that I have ready or prepare for each one. The "suits" like the higher level stuff, while the people digging into technical due diligence or post-acquistion integration like the more detailed ones. They're also adaptable at many levels for any domain-specific "enhancements" that are necessary, such as a data flows, security flows, and the like.
1. I am human and use em dashes in both my formal and informal online writing. I see other humans doing it all the time. :-)

2. I do frequently use LLMs to improve my writing/grammar/spelling. When I do, they always removes my em dashes and replace them with words.
We have a word for this in Swedish, 'dumsnål'.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dumsn%C3%A5l
>subpar scores at benchmarks like SWE-bench

The last few models have remarkably improved on SWE-bench too. o3 scores 73%, this number was in the low teens 16 months ago. Willing to wager that SWE benchmark gets saturated before the end of 2025.

> aren't particularly representative of what a real coding job

I don't know about that, large swath of "real world" coding is writing plumbing and UIs for CRUD apps, they're getting really good at that as well. Anecdotally, engineers I know have gotten insanely productive with tools like Cursor.
Lacroix's for closers. Only.
Sigh. Sorry that I didn't specify "long-term route." Some of those examples are of companies making moves that made them money in the short term but hurt them in the long run. In a free market, customers can easily stop giving money to corporations that do that. I might point out that in a couple of those scenarios heavy government regulations and/or protections made that difficult for people to do. I would also point out that those examples are a small percentage of companies overall because again, most people are good people. Things will never be perfect, but we don't list off the examples of successful companies giving customers what they want because there are so many.

Also, you have to understand that public corporations get cash from people buying their products and services and from investors. The investors are therefore just as much their customers as you and I are. Often it feels like investors preferences are given far more deference than your and my preferences. In a free market, we can pay attention to that and make choices accordingly.

Finally, your opioid example is very pertinent to the original topic. You and I were not Purdue Pharmas customers in that scenario. The doctors and insurance companies were. We are just a weird cost of doing business caught in the middle.
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Again, I'd love to believe you.

But what you're saying is totally incompatible with closing USAID and the indiscriminate buyout package offered to employees that are of critical importance.

You're not providing any actual evidence, meanwhile the actions we know are actually taking place are totally contrary to the kind of careful thoughtfulness you're describing.
Some high speed trains (in Spain, for one) require security checks to board as well. But they're way less intrusive or time consuming than flight checks.
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Yeah, at the expense of my civil liberties. You do realize that you have to do a background check and an interview to get that, right? Whereas when I was a child you didn't have to do any of that to enjoy the right to keep your belt and your shoes on at the airport.
> Honestly it's hard to see how we get to this level of speed and content online without it having been funded by advertising.

Maybe, maybe not. But that juice has absolutely not been worth the squeeze.
this is awesome! the design of the site is firee
62 miles, or 100km

Its known as the Kármán line:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n_line
Still, major airports all want you to arrive quite a long time before your flight's scheduled departure.

Not much point in spending $$$$ on fuel to knock an hour off a 4-hour flight, if I end up with an hour-long wait at each end.
I know that, but from a gameplay perspective can you tell much of a difference?
Yes, but these three types of progress are worth distinguishing:

1. Mt. Everest is summited for the first time.

2. An easier or more direct route to the Everest summit is discovered.

3. Someone finds that if a more experienced climber is already at the summit and drops down a series of rope ladders and oxygen tanks and cabins at key points, then it is even easier to make the summit because you can now pack lighter.

All three are interesting, worth discussing etc. But it would be a bit of a stretch to conclude from the third one that “less is more” because you don’t need to bring so much gear when someone else brings it for you.

For example, Attention is All You Need had a similar title. But the whole point was that they did not use recurrent networks at any stage in the learning process.

My point is not to discredit this result but to frame it properly: reasoning models like R1/O1 are incredibly efficient at distilling knowledge to smaller non-reasoning models.
FWIW, A Desolation Called Peace is one of my favorite SF books I've read in the last 10 years. I really enjoy that series.

I like Project Hail Mary, too, and it's certainly more popular because the author is far more well known, but there's no question in my mind which one is "better", certainly in terms of deserving to win an award.
The lugagge compartment also serves as toilet. It is on the passenger to bring luggage or have a toilet, or both in a pinch /joke
A one-liner in k tends to be equivalent to a much larger program in another language.

Here's a program in k. I'm not sure exactly what it does. I think it might be a json encoder/decoder:

https://github.com/KxSystems/kdb/blob/master/e/json.k
But that is directly due to the level of death. We have no evidence that half of the tribes in an area were wiped out.
This was a key thing that was talked about when I was doing my doctorate in this area. There has been a lot of research in magnet manufacturing without the difficult to source metals coming from abroad.
I switched to Kagi, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude in various combinations because Google search results were so bad and then they started shoving the AI slop at the top of search results.

Give me good search, I’ll pay, but if you shovel dreck to sell a story to investors, imma bounce.
`find` comes to mind. I consistently need to look up the syntax.
Of course that is a true statement but judges are allowed to make a determination on what is a 'legitimate power'. Unfortunately a few of our courts have and become political rather than neutral jurists. There is adequate avenues for appeal and review of judicial decisions to reach and understanding of what is 'legitimate power' so that no one judge is the sole arbiter.
I don't see it as subscribing to free-market ideology - more like "every bad thing has a certain prevalence, and that prevalence is a policy choice."

The flu exists because we don't aggressively isolate/contact trace people who get the flu, but it isn't that prevalent and results in few deaths because of how much we invest in vaccination, hygiene, and medical care.

The muggings continue because we don't spend the insane amounts on law enforcement and surveillance that would really be required to eradicate them.

Also, these examples are different in another way - few people get mugged or get the flu, but literally everyone consumes ads daily. I think a lot of people dislike ads but I'm not sure I agree that there is a strong desire to dramatically reduce or change them - people seem happy to complain but pretty hesitant to pay actual money to reduce them.
To what degree can you really trust these data? They obviously have a financial interest in playing with the numbers.
> Readability is a property of the reader, not the language.

Uiua[0]'s stack model is much more annoying to work with, but I really appreciate its embrace of unicode glyphs. Every other derivative of APL throws those out at the first opportunity, but when you have a lot of glyphs, you stop being so tempted to make different arities cause the same glyph to mean wildly different things, when the arity is not actually written down explicitly and depends on whether the next thing to the left is a parameter or another function. Once you can See The Matrix, this is the chief thing that still does make K and friends objectively unreadable in a way they don't have to be.

[0]: https://uiua.org
It's why I typically travel by RV whenever I can. ;)

It's not fast, but it's a clean bathroom, great beer, and a really big suitcase I don't have to unpack.
Why's he asking me then?
the entire premise of this economic index is that they're showing you actual usage and insights from millions of anonymized claude conversations.
Mx Goat added a note about their real-world qualifications for pitching in on this sort of question, presumably because their user name didn't really make it obvious why we might wish to listen to their thoughts on how a society should function for the benefit of all.
I’ve been shopping for something that does a per-byte description of the content of visual media formats (jpeg, png, avi, mp4, etc). Anyone know of one?
The discussion is about eliminating ads entirely, as a concept, not restricting bad ones. Bad or deliberately misleading/lying ones already largely get punished. So I'm not sure what the issue is?
It's not a "do nothing" script at all! The script encodes a high-level workflow, which is crucial, mission-critical information. It doesn't really matter what "runs" the steps, you can assume it's an agent of some sort. Sometimes that role is played by a human person, sometimes not.
Well the idea was those manufacturing countries would also transition to consumption based economies, paving the way for the next generation of manufacturers to then rise up the value chain. Once everyone was rich then I guess we would start relying on automation.

People forget that the flipside of keeping manufacturing in America is that it would have denied the ability for the global poor to rise up. And they should, they deserve that right too. What the neoliberals underestimated was the extent of how nationalistic these rising countries could become, as they instead not to transition but to instead keep on their low end manufacturing while simultaneously competing in the high end. Namely, it wasn't about improving the lives of their citizens, it was about achieving total control over the supply chain.

The sad part of this situation is that for all the global south cheers the "decline of the west", with the closing of the American market and the utter dominance of China, the economic ladders up may have been forever broken.
This is incredibly petty of me but why do people keep spelling "ads" as "ADs" lately? It's an abbreviation not an initialism
So, you get to pay to bypass the theater? Seems like extortion then, since anyone with any actually bad intentions and money will try to pay it.

Why have a "security measure" only to allow bypassing it?

The answer is probably racism. Not everyone is allowed a pre-approval and the reasons for denial are of course obtuse.
HexFiend also has a template syntax for binary data visualization. It’s based on Tcl.

https://github.com/HexFiend/HexFiend/blob/master/templates/T...
I wish Anthropic luck.

The company seems to be operating in a classic failure mode: being more concerned with its industry than its competitors and customers.

See the first few points here: https://brief.bismarckanalysis.com/p/27-insights-from-three-...

Where I could be wrong is the CEO is technical, however most of what I hear from them is about industry and social impact instead of product.
A shopping mall which you can't leave and in which you aren't allowed to bring your own drinks with few exceptions.
wow, this looks nice. I will download it this week to give it a go. At a first glance this looks like notion for learning languages.

I have been using Babbel, and while it's nice to have mini lesson to take each day... they offer no option to write out notes, or to look at the grammar and get some context, no extra examples and flashcard system is just awful.
I was talking in generalities beyond the original reddit author.

I would not call a PEM test invasive but I would consider it likely damaging and wouldn't recommend in general. A blood draw is hardly invasive and there is absolutely no reason why the tests cannot be cheap. Like $5 cheap - far cheaper than the $100K this person already spent.
6am is about the time you'd need to get up if you lived in Front Royal and wanted to make a 9am meeting and that's assuming a pretty efficient workflow for leaving the house.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_fHJIYENdI&t=548s

and a related analysis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhJWAdZl-Ck&t=490s
"has lead to a complete fixation on rights and wants of minorities and underprivileged groups."

While this may be a feeling based on what some choose to read or listen to, numbers don't back this up as reality. There are many fact-based cases I could make, but I'm going to just focus on top CEOs - https://www.researchgate.net/figure/White-male-CEOs-and-New-... indicates 85.8% of Fortune 500 CEO are white males, even though they are only ~38% of the population.

Adding back in white females, Fortune 500 CEOs are 92.6% white, even though they are 75.3% of the population (https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045224)

Flipping it for effect, only 5% of top CEOs are non-white even though those groups are 25% of the country.

One frustration that may of us disagree with the point you've articulated is that this perception is innacurate and largely a result of people self-selecting into "red-pill" type media ecosystems that are manipulative and spend greatly disproportionate amounts of time generating outrage and the perception of a crisis.
How about happy, wealthy idiots? Any JP piece bought directly early on probably is worth 100x now.
I disagree. I think your examples of "benign" ads are as malignant as the others.
I usually read/listen to a lot of books, compared to most people, but not several hundred. And if you're reading Brandon Sanderson as part of that - wow! I'm envious :)
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In part, that was partly because you could just walk on the next shuttle at 7:30 or whenever if you got delayed for some reason. Personally I'd probably take the train although a 9AM meeting might be tight.
Hrrm, I'm reading back and I may have misinterpreted your first post too. If so apologies!
Is there nothing to learn about dam construction from beavers? Is there not a 3.5 year beaver-inspired project that could be done cheaper?
> But nevertheless I still think it's worthwhile for us as a species to look at ways we can cross the planet faster. I think eventually (maybe in our lifetimes), the idea of taking a flight that takes you into outer space won't be too far fetched. While I don't think the time savings going supersonic will be worth it, I think the savings when going into outer space will, assuming we figure out a economical way to get people up and down from outer space.

It's possible that it may make sense to establish a few business class only very fast point-to-point routes. But that also really depends on the vehicle taking people through space. There are a number of problems:

1. Currently, spacecraft are only licensed for experimental travel. Everyone signs an informed consent waiver and basically disclaims all liability. And the FAA is forbidden to regulate for passenger safety by congress (and has been for quite a long time) - they can only regulate for the safety of the general public.

This would have to be changed before any serious commercial spacecraft went into service

2. It's not clear that any spacecraft has the economics to pull this off. Maybe Starship can do it. But it's pretty far from clear that they can.

3. Spacecraft are orders of magnitude less safe than commercial aviation. Do you know the saying "regulations are written in blood"? If this starts happening, there'll be a lot of new regulations that happen over time.

And maybe that'll happen anyhow - I think that space tourism will certainly be a thing that becomes much more popular in the future, and that has the exact same problems (although it's much less readily comparable to commercial aviation).
IMO the next big thing - if anyone ever has the stones to propose it - is going to be the reclassification of many archaic human species as subspecies of Homo sapiens. The difference between humans and known neanderthal samples is barely more than the genetic diversity within extant humans. The more data we get, the more archaic humans in general look like small morphological variations of the hairless monkeys we see now. I think the taxonomy we have is the result of prestige-seeking behavior more so than actual science.
That's one perspective.

I worked at a Norwegian company that ran 5 huge ships gulping krill 24/7 in the arctic region.

Once you see the scale of operation, it becomes pretty obvious it's a problem, and I'm pretty sure those numbers are manipulated to hide it.
A bad transition of power usually (almost always?) results in an increase of the role of government. Bad transitions of power requires the new government to assert its power in order to legitimize itself. In the worst scenarios that means jailing/disappearing the opposition/journalists/activists/etc.
Thanks man. Tell your friends about it if you can. Doesn't seem like it's getting alot of traction on this website.
Wait just a minute. That would take up space that they could otherwise use to cram in an extra row of seats.
I don't think that this is an obvious decision at all, and it is very easy to be deceptive about upsides and gloss over the downsides of forcefully retaining domestic industry sectors:

If you want to keep industries like this, you are basically arguing that taxpayers should subsidise them-- the jobs you retain are not a straightforward net gain, you pay for the wage difference in tax money (or price, where typically the consumer foots the bill, which is often just like a rather regressive tax).

There are good arguments that this is simply necessary for absolutely vital industries like agriculture, which gets a generous ~$20 billion/year to stay local. But it is clear to me that this is not something that you can do for every industry-- that would basically amount to a small-scale planned economy (with all its drawbacks), would be very likely to poach talent from sectors that are actually "more valuable" according to market consensus, and would also be likely to provoke retaliatory actions by international trading partners.

For this specifically, I think throwing some hundreds of millions of taxdollars around to keep/reestablish the industry is probably a good deal, but it is rather obvious to me that you have to draw the line somewhere; spending hundreds of billions to maximize autarky would be a really bad idea even though it is easy to make it sound universally good ("local jobs! supply chain safety! trade balance!").
Honestly, simply releasing a graph showing the trendline of their own metrics on e.g. inference would speak volumes. They have this data already, 100%, its on some grafana dashboard the on-calls are watching every day. My suspicion is that some AI providers (OAI/Google) are watching these metrics go up-and-to-the-right quite consistently, but Anthropic's isn't doing that.
What in the article do you consider as lacking a factual basis?
I'm the author of that MacBook blog post. I wouldn't say it was a waste of time, in that it helped us feel very confident about the ROI for upgrading, and the results have been really meaningful for our team.

I wouldn't agree exactly with the article, in that while it's very easy to start making decisions that are genuinely ROI silly (all companies make them, my current one not excluded) there is a balance between just paying without question and adding friction that encourages good decision making.

But in our case, getting the data wasn't too much effort, and helped inform us for a subsequent batch of hardware purchases. It ended up representing about $50k of spend that we'd like to allocate well, and took me a couple of days to investigate and write-up: my day rate means that was well worth it.
Politically motivated bollocks.

The white colonizer did not get colonized by tribes in Africa.
Seems like Anthropic has too much money on their hands and are looking for ways to spend it. It’s surprising to see lean AI startups accumulate fat so quickly. Usually this sort of wheel spinning is reserved for large corporations.

And it’s not just them. To me this trend screams “valuations are too high”, and maybe hints at “progress might start to stagnate soon”.
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In this case the planned dam was not for power generation but for wetlands restoration. I can believe that a beaver-made dam can accomplish that purpose apprxoimately as a man-made one would, and obviate the need for the man-made one, sure. It's obviously dissimilar in many ways too, of course.
We know how they work in that we built the framework, we don't know how they work in that we cannot decode what is "grown" on that framework during training.

If we completely knew how they worked we could go inside an explain exactly why every token generated was generated. Right now that is not possible to do, as the paths the tokens take through the layers tend to be outright nonsensical when observed.
It'd be cool if someone could package this to be runnable with Nix, similar to https://community.flake.parts/services-flake/llm
Worse is the fact that some will escape, spreading their messed up genes and diseases to wild populations.
"... and we conclude that the inclusion of the latest Akula-class attack submarine K-335 poses a grave threat to our Ohio-class SSBNs."

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It's pretty great that the AI bros have gotten quieter now. It was frankly exhausting.

Instead of getting robots that do the laundry and clean the kitchen we got robots that do token work in a showroom at a BMW factory.

All the knowledge surfaced through LLMs was already mostly available online, they just make it more cohesive. It is better search.

Devs have figured out that creating a login page over and over is not a job, and that is now somewhat automatable.

Also everyone hates the name Devin now.