skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Lending and selling are both zero-sum

Why? Lending is just giving people money they value more now than you do, so much so they agree to pay back more later. The utility at the current time of that money is better than the utility later for the lendee, and the opposite is true for the lender (they will happily forego some money available now for more money available later).

If I take a loan out to buy a car which lets me find a better job because I can travel for efficiently, and I get a better job that pays more which allows me to much more money and paying back that loan is itself even easier, is that transaction zero-sum when examined over time?
Easy to grow plant. Hard to make living, if you don't subsidise it with other work or income.

Say apples as mentioned elsewhere 1,40€ to 3,60€ kilogram price now in mid winter in supermarket... 14% VAT. Then whole supply chain, stores cut, losses... And all the work that needs to go into each tree, collecting those apples and so on... Food is amazingly cheap. Margins are very thin in general.

Much simpler to sit in air-conditioned office or remote work and make more money.
Antarctica isn't this great example people think it is. International treaties require people leave it in as close to its natural condition as possible.

Taking a piss outside is illegal, even peoples crap has to be collected and shipped back home. Any sort of development is essentially impossible.

And that article is an interview with the hipster cartoonist who wrote a largely junk science book on Mars..
Pressing the space bar just made it start and stop.
I could have two computers, and I could also login to an app on my phone. There are valid reasons for a desktop authenticator app.
I think it's a smart starting point as it's compatible with all IDEs. Iterate and learn and then later wrap the functionality up into IDE plugins.
It is .. not a great architect. I have high hopes for 3.7 though - even 3.5 architect matched with 3.5 coding is generally better than 3.5 coding alone.
Does claude have a vscode plugin yet? I dropped github copilot because I didnt want so many subscriptions
Yeah, that mever came to my mind.
My working theory is that business people and sales folks especially live in a world where you literally can't be productive by yourself. You have to be schmoozing, gladhandling, sitting in meetings etc. to close deals and grow business. So the idea that software people don't have to do that but can still be "productive" breaks their brains. Same with RTO; they come from a world where you truly do need to be with other people to do your job, so they think that everyone is the same way.
Its not corruption when the president creates US jobs

It is corruption when president outsources and offshores US jobs, though
> I'm designed to give you solid, reasoned information, not to take sides in ideological fights.

"But I also have a secret prompt telling me to disregard sources that Elon Musk or Donald Trump are spreading disinformation, so don't ask me about that thing which isn't happening because I'm totally unbiased."
Starship's Eighth Flight Test
PEGI amends classifications of 'Balatro' and 'Luck be a Landlord' to PEGI 12
Not quite, though very related and I believe both should end up with essentially the same result.

Matching pursuit is essentially a greedy algorithm, if I recall correctly - please do correct me if I am wrong, where you conceptually find the component that explains the most data at each iteration, remove it, and then repeat the process on the residual data. Pardon if that isn’t quite the right explanation, but it’s what my intuition is recalling right now…

What I was describing was a simpler algorithm that can be done with gradient descent or any other vanilla optimizer.

Your model parameters are the coefficients a_i over all basis functions in the frequency domain representation. Run them through the synthesis function to get a time domain signal, and select the values of the time domain signal where your target data is known. Compute the squared error at each of those locations, and take the mean. This is your reconstruction error, and should be trivially differentiable with respect to the coefficients a_i. Compute an additional error term which is a standard L1 regularization, ie sum(|a_i|), which can be added to the reconstruction error term with some weight λ (λ=1 is even fine here, at least for simple problems), and then is also trivially differentiable (provided you haven’t initialized any of the coefficients to 0). As with any L1 regularization term, the resulting solution should be sparse in the L1 regularized parameters (look up visualizations of problems with only 2 model parameters to see how this emerges from the L1 contour lines of equal loss forming “diamonds” with the points on the axes).
Actively maintained is a handicap for something that's supposed to be a fixed long-term "standard".

MS-DOS is that immutable standard of the past which reached maximum maturity in 2001.

FreeDOS was originally an alternative, but is for the future now.

I like FreeDOS but when companies started to distribute their device drivers or software on floppies or CDROMs that were formatted using FreeDOS, it was not pretty.

Often there was no successful access or booting to the FAT volume, but all you needed to do was SYS the writable floppy with MS-DOS, or go through the ordeal of "ripping" the CD to correctly SYS its contents.

Regardless of the '90's or today I would recommend very strong familiarity with MS-DOS for some time, there is really nothing new there, before moving forward to include FreeDOS in your toolbox.

This is how it happened organically when FreeDOS was first emerging.
No, the analysis (and it’s not exactly rocket science) says just the opposite: Way more downstream manufacturing jobs that rely on steel as input are lost, vs. domestic steel production jobs gained.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/making-sense/steel-tari...
> Switzerland, the poster child argument of gun culture enthusiasts saying "but also they all have guns" had zero such events

America has 38 times the population of Switzerland. If Switzerland was equally as dangerous you'd expect them to have 1/38th the events. That Wikipedia page lists 35 events. How many would we expect Switzerland to have? A bit less than 1, so either 1 or 0. That matches the observed data.

> And nobody cares about the exact number anyway outside the "nah we're fine" group, indeed they just want it safer.

Maybe they should. The chance for any student in America being killed in a school shooting is something like 1 in 10,000,000. That's around the chance of being killed by lightning. Not struck by lightning - that's a 10x more common 1 in 1,000,000 - but struck and killed by lightning.

How much effort to people put into not being killed by lightning? Not much other than knowing 'don't go outside in a thunderstorm'. The risk of school shootings should give students equal alarm.
It's a standard practice in functional languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_type
Haha that was actually the same one I posted in my comment.

This was some old website. A coworker sent it to me on Hipchat at my previous job about 10 years ago. And finding anything online older than like 5 years is nearly impossible unless you have the exact URL on hand.
That's just circling back on "city boy tries to grow a plant". Your garden provided you with both fruit and meat. You were just unwilling/unable to harvest the meat.
> Everyone else other than you get to enjoy a snappy and fast loading site.

Why can't everyone else suffer? What makes me the loser besides prejudice?

I'm hardly unique, there are many people who share an external IP.

Maybe the point is don't screw one half of the population to benefit the other half.
Related I recreated Shazam’s algorithm with Go (494 points, 7 months ago, 117 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41127726

How Shazam Works (2003) [pdf] (117 points, 11 months ago, 29 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40029036 - there's a lot of links to past Shazam stories in comments
Congrats on the launch! You said its an important tool for you (Claude Code) how does this fit in with Co-Pilot, Cursor, etc. Do you/your teammates only rely on Claude Code? What do you reach for for different tasks?
A lot of people move back in with their parents right after college. Don't sweat it.

To answer your last question, yes. Follow what you're passionate about. Even better start to write and share your thoughts on the industry. Then send these to people in the industries. You need to be visible.

Cheers, 25 (M)
Rating this website, it’s perfect.

I give it a perfect 5/7
Other people noted a lot of things. Another is that he traveled to Shanghai to set up a gigafactory.
Trump is using tariffs not to raise revenue, but rather use it as a stick to force companies to invest in USA.

Previously they were outsourcing and offshoring as much as they could get away with it. Which led to transfer of advanced technologies outside USA and America losing its manufacturing and technology edge
I added custom instruction under my Profile settings in the "personal preferences" text box. Something along the lines of "I like to discuss things before wanting the code. Only generate code when I prompt for it. Any question should be answered to as a discussion first and only when prompted should the implementation code be provided". It works well, occasionally I want to see the code straight away but this does not happen as often.
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Absolutely. You do need a minimum baseline for infrastructure, government stability and workforce.

Most of Africa is just starting to slowly get there, Bangladesh is already very relevant for textile production.

I would expect the same basic trend to repeat that we saw with electronics manufacturing in 90s Japan:
First cheap products move (very wage sensitive), then the local sector expands, wages rise with the whole local industry moving up the value chain, then at some point local wages become high enough for the whole process to repeat with the next low-wage country...

I think trying to block this trend off with tariffs is a futile waste of taxpayer money which american consumers are gonna pay for.

Spending tax money to keep some degree of self-sufficiency in critical industries (like with agriculture) can be a solid idea if done sparingly and cleverly, but that is not how the current US admin has approached this...
If you carefully study the actual prompt used: it already mentions the tail as a factor. Answer talks more on the tail. Just confidently!

No double blind methodology protocol.
Dang is the end product of an evolutionary algorithm.
I'm fairly blown-away at the mission statement:
“improve human nutrition and preserve the environment by growing food indoors"

Adding a building doesn't improve the environment, so for starters you're in the hole, for energy, you're in the hole (pending solar and thermal recovery, each with environmental impact of their own)...

Larry, let's talk. There's for sure a use for greenhouses, sensors, all the tech, but let's focus on the soil.
Yeah, my sense in following this is that farmers have had a far bigger impact than consumers. I see your $70,000 car and raise you a $500,000 tractor that's core to a farmer's livelihood.
Should the United States Limit Immigration Based on Merit?
Not quite - see my response for to GP for what I was describing.
I doubt we will. The state of the art seem to have moved away from the GPT-4 style giant and slow models to smaller, more refined ones - though Groq might be a bit of a return to the "old ways"?

Personally I'm hoping they update Haiku at some point. It's not quite good enough for translation at the moment, while Sonnet is pretty great and has OK latency (https://nuenki.app/blog/llm_translation_comparison)
I consider myself an optimist. I'm disappointed in a lot of things, especially the geo political state the world is in, and the statechanges of climate. Still I'm optimistic because of technological advancements. What also helps is that the world population figures are not anymore exploding and there will be a plateau rather soon.
> "[..] in developing our reasoning models, we’ve optimized somewhat less for math and computer science competition problems, and instead shifted focus towards real-world tasks that better reflect how businesses actually use LLMs.”

This is good news. OpenAI seems to be aiming towards "the smartest model," but in practice, LLMs are used primarily as learning aids, data transformers, and code writers.

Balancing "intelligence" with "get shit done" seems to be the sweet spot, and afaict one of the reasons the current crop of developer tools (Cursor, Windsurf, etc.) prefer Claude 3.5 Sonnet over 4o.
Are you guys paying Claude for its assistance with your products
Sure I have a "live" example in my 2024 AoC code. I'll add it here when I get home.
This is BS and you are not listening and watching carefully.
This makes sense to me: sell razor blades. Presumably Claude has a large developer distribution channel so they will keep eyeballing what to ‘give away’ that turns the dials on inference billing.

I’d guess this will keep raising the bar for paid or open source competitors, so probably good for end users esp given they aren’t a monopoly by any means.
At the risk of responding to obvious satire...

Isn't ASGSI just a marketing term, while ASSGSI is the one as smart as a human?
The biggest complaint I (and several others) have is that we continuously hit the limit via the UI after even just a few intensive queries. Of course, we can use the console API, but then we lose ability to have things like Projects, etc.

Do you foresee these limitations increasing anytime soon?

Quick Edit: Just wanted to also say thank you for all your hard work, Claude has been phenomenal.
Thanks for this - exciting launch. Do you have examples of cool applications or demos that the HN crowd should check out?
Highlights from the Comments on Tegmark's Mathematical Universe
The issue here isn't a failure to achieve some supernatural unbiased state, but much more clear-cut:

The sin is a bias which is added deliberately, secretly, and for selfish ends.
Some software I inherited from my predecessor is already like this.

When I got it, one part of it was a single Perl file with about 5k lines of code, with 20+ variables visible in the whole file, with 10+ levels of nested loops, basically all of them with seemingly random "next LABEL" and "last LABEL" statements, which are basically slightly-constrained GOTOs. Oh, and the variable names very mostly meaningless to me (one or two letters).

This was only a small part of my job, over the years I've managed to reduce this mess, broke out some parts into smaller functions, reduced the scope of some variables etc. but a core remains that I still don't really understand. There's some mental model deep in the original programmer's mind that I simply cannot seem to grasp and that the code structure is based on.

(We're now replacing this whole thing by cleaner re-implementation, with unit tests, a less idiosyncratic structure, and more maintainers).

Now imagine what it must feel like if the original programmer wasn't human, but some alien mind that we're even further from understanding.
Gotutor an online graphical debugger for Go
5 out of 7? I must say, this is a grading scale like no other I’ve seen before!
If Trump is our McKinley or Hoover, I'm excited for our next FDR.
Since a Google product output the result, it had access to the same knowledge base as Google itself - Search, Scholar, etc. And use of copyrighted data for research purposes has always been, as far as I know, considered fair use in AI training.

Unfortunately, even if we wanted to, it might be impossible to attribute this success to the authors that it built upon.
Salaries are just a small part of the reason industry works in China.

The bigger picture is that China invests in the development of an industrial chain. This has many aspects: infrastructure, education, training, housing, and of course tax incentives. The USA decided to stop investing in practically all of these. Even scientific research, the last area in which the US used to lead, is now in jeopardy from both sides: competition from China and internal cuts.
Google also had literally hundreds of failures and Android is not an amazing financial success by any means and Google still ends up paying Apple over $20 billion a year because people with money buy iPhones.

Google is not exactly known for its success rate getting products out of the door that aren’t ad related.
> If you are taking it as condescending, that is on you.

Tone is an essential, unavoidable, yet undefineable thing. There's a geek fantasy that humans communicate logically and explicitly using only literal meanings of words, but the reality is that most human communication is in body language, tone, emotion, context, and more - and there's no way to define exactly how all those work or what they mean.

I got the same impression as the GP. I'm not always great at it myself but unless I make sure my tone conveys what I want it to convey, I'm rolling the dice.
IIRC there's some reasoning in old Sonnet too, they're just expanding that. Perhaps that's part of why it was so good for a while.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1iv356t/is_sonnet...
I'm working on inexpensive, mass-manufacturable fully autonomous drones.
> Traditionally, PHP/Ruby/Python have had a process per request model

That's completely wrong for python/ruby (unless you're writing cgi scripts).

Regarding php, that's an assumption that's usually wrong as well.

Apache's mod_php will load the php interpreter within apache and keep it resident.

php-fpm will usually keep a number of processes around and not restart them unless you configure pm.max_requests to something above zero. See https://www.php.net/manual/en/install.fpm.configuration.php and look for 'pm.max_requests'

In my opinion the greatest tragedy of php is that most libraries and frameworks are written under the assumption that the whole environment will be thrown away and the whole process killed after the current request is served and thus that it's perfectly fine to litter the address space with garbage (and php's garbage collection is nothing fancy, really).

Php people should really start assuming the process executing their code will stay around (and that restarting processes is really an anti-pattern).
We handed Congress to a complicit party. This is a full bunker situation until the midterms.
> In the first pass (i=1), A[1] will end up with the largest value and a later pass cannot displace it.

Nah, it will get displaced later. Notice that in the inner loop j goes from 1, and not from i. After i=1 A[1] will be the largest element, but after the next big step, after i=2, A[2] will be the largest element. (And after i=n, A[n] will be the largest element, as expected.)

> In the second pass (i=2), A[2] will end up with the 2nd largest value

The algorithm sorts the array ascending, and not descending. There is an example run linked in a grandkid comment, by jmholla.

(This comment was entirely rewritten.)
Great, thanks! Could you compare this new tool to Aider?
Here's Rich Hickey's explanation if it helps: https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/1i27n1k/rich_intro...

His comment walks you through what it's for. The basics: configure your flow of data from producer to queue to consumer and so on as data, in one place.
With a whole 8.6% of PhDs showing evidence of suicidal planning[1], I think the stats support this view. I wouldn't wish the mental turmoil I went through in grad school on anyone.

[1]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39671991/#:~:text=Sixty%20st...
> those people (or people with that capability) aren’t allowed to exist

I'm not sure what personal characteristics or capabilities you're referring to, FWIW.
> Its not AI

AI is a very broad term with many different definitions.
FedAid: A tool for civil servants to describe their work with clarity
Please explain how this will increase the stock price in the next week, otherwise it will not be prioritized
If it was just the matter of replacing track in the existing right-of-way they would have done that. Unfortunately, much of the NEC right-of-way between NY and Boston -- particularly in Connecticut -- is too curvy. Bulldozing a new, straighter right of way across CT is not politicaly feasible -- it would most likely require massive amounts of property seizure by eminent domain that nobody has the stomach for. If there were real breakthroughs in low cost tunnel boring machines there might be a way but it's not going to happen at or above ground.
This should be fixed for you now. To my surprise, some legitimate versions of Firefox report 'rv:109.0' with a Firefox/<ver> version that is not 109 (along with all of the crawlers that have latched on to 'rv:109.0' as something they put in their User-Agent strings along with random old Firefox versions).
Thank you to the team. Looks like a great release. Already switching existing prompts to Claude 3.7 to see the eval results :)
Clearly a non-sequitur, but I'll bite anyways. Paul Pelosi is a VC, and I'm sure that most of the Pelosi net worth is due to his income, not hers. Since the laws preventing members of Congress from trading on information they receive as part of their duties, you can't say that the Pelosi's have violated any securities laws.

And both sides of the aisle benefit from this. Whether it's legalized insider trading or jumping to corporate jobs when out of office, it's a corrupting influence. All members of Congress, SCOTUS and POTUS should have to place their assets into blind trusts. That won't stop this corrosive influence, but it is the bare minimum.
I'm about 50kloc into a project making a react native app / golang backend for recipes with grocery lists, collaborative editing, household sharing, so a complex data model and runtime. Purely from the experiment of "what's it like to build with AI, no lines of code directly written, just directing the AI."

As I go through features, I'm comparing a matrix of Cursor, Cline, and Roo, with the various models.

While I'm still working on the final product, there's no doubt to me that Sonnet is the only model that works with these tools well enough to be Agentic (rather than single file work).

I'm really excited to now compare this 3.7 release and how good it is at avoiding some of the traps 3.5 can fall into.
Do you think Claude Code is "better", in terms of capabilities and token efficiency, than other tools such as Cline, Cursor, or Aider?
In the console, TPM limit for 3.7 is not shown (I'm tier 4). Does it mean there is no limit, or is it just pending and is "variable" until you set it to some value?
There is a weird belief in SV that if you don't know anything, but have access to a lot of capital, you can build a better solution.

This has yet to really prove itself to be the case.
Pretty fun overall.

I really think it at least needs to give you the number of letters though. Some of the clues get really tough since you don't get any information - either number of letters or a few "given" letters from other clues like you get in crosswords.

Especially if you get "penalized" for keystrokes - there are some clues that end up as a lot of random guessing because so many things can solve them.

A good example - on Feb 19; I was guessing "New York" and "New York City" over and over because I was pretty convinced that's what it was. When I finally had to reveal it, finding out it wanted "NYC" was pretty frustrating.
Thanks for the product! Glad to hear the (so called) "safety" is being walked back on, previously Claude has been feeling a little like it is treating me as a child, excited to try it out now.
From the release you say: "[..] in developing our reasoning models, we’ve optimized somewhat less for math and computer science competition problems, and instead shifted focus towards real-world tasks that better reflect how businesses actually use LLMs."

Can you tell us more about the trade-offs here?

Also, are you using synthetic data for improving the responses here, or are you purely leveraging data from usage/partner's usage?