skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anthropic pretty much abandoned this direction after Claude 3, and said it wasn't what they wanted [1]. Claude 3.5+ is extremely dry and neutral, it doesn't seem to have the same training.

>Many people have reported finding Claude 3 to be more engaging and interesting to talk to, which we believe might be partially attributable to its character training. This wasn’t the core goal of character training, however. Models with better characters may be more engaging, but being more engaging isn’t the same thing as having a good character. In fact, an excessive desire to be engaging seems like an undesirable character trait for a model to have.

[1] https://www.anthropic.com/research/claude-character
How Many Episodes Should You Watch Before Quitting a TV Show?
Further confirmation, IMO, that the idea that any of this leads to anything close to AGI is people getting high on their own supply (in some cases literally).

LLMs are a great tool for what is effectively collected knowledge search and summary (so long as you are willing to accept that you have to verify all of the 'knowledge' they spit back because they always have the ability to go off the rails) but they have been hitting the limits on how much better that can get without somehow introducing more real knowledge for close to 2 years now and everything since then is super incremental and IME mostly just benchmark gains and hype as opposed to actually being purely better.

I personally don't believe that more GPUs solves this, like, at all. But its great for Nvidia's stock price.
Academia here is highly dysfunctional.

For one, you don‘t need academics to build houses.

It‘s an idea of the 20th century that you would.

Previously architecture schools were part of the art departments. A bit of engineering, maybe, but that‘s it.

Now that you have academics, they need to be innovative.

The old doesn‘t count. Architecture becomes like fashion. Students are scolded if they want to produce anything traditional.

This is true for 99% of architecture schools worldwide. Notre Dame is a noticeable exception, as are several summer schools in Europe (by INTbau for example).

There is zero reason for neglecting or denying traditional architecture. The Romans have already known how to live well. Without artificial air condition. Perfectly climate adapted. Natural materials.

Second, architecture schools are not about education, it‘s about becoming part of a cult. It‘s about telling a story, about winning competitions, and about convincing investors. Not so much pleasing the users of a building.
o3 is okay for text checking but has issues following the prompt correctly, same as o1 and DeepSeek R1, I feel that I need to prompt smaller snippets with them.

Here is the o3 vs a new run of the same text in GPT 4.5

https://www.diffchecker.com/ZEUQ92u7/
ChatGPT had its initial public release November 30th, 2022. That's 820 days to today. The Apple II was first sold June 10, 1977, and Visicalc was first sold October 17, 1979, which is 859 days. So we're right about the same distance in time- the exact equal duration will be April 7th of this year.

Going back to the very first commercially available microcomputer, the Altair 8800 (which is not a great match, since that was sold as a kit with binary stitches, 1 byte at a time, for input, much more primitive than ChatGPT's UX), that's four years and nine months to Visicalc release. This isn't a decade long process of figuring things out, it actually tends to move real fast.
Indeed. I've been building systems that orchestrate batteries and power sources. Turns out, it's a difficult problem to temporally align data points produced by separate components that don't share any sort of common clock source. Just take the latest power supply current reading and subtract the latest battery current reading to get load current? Oops, they don't line up, and now you get bizarre values (like negative load power) when there's a fast load transient.

Even more fun when multiple devices share a single communication bus, so you're basically guaranteed to not get temporally-aligned readings from all of the devices.
Don't they have a standalone Grok app now? I thought I saw that. [edit] ah some sibling comments mention this as well
Why wake up if your condition is not yet met? The wait timeout is the time after it should continue if it was not notified. It is meant to be waken up as soon as possible by a notify. If the value is available almost immediately it will wake up almost immediately whether it is wait(1000) or wait(5000).
The code the author gave is Java, so the hash map is most likely a ConcurrentHashMap, and it's safe to access and modify concurrently. The author's code is simplistic and inefficient, but it won't deadlock, it won't corrupt the hash map, it won't go more than a second past the timeout, and it won't fail to retrieve the data if the other thread sets it in a reasonable amount of time.

To me, the smell is not that the author is using the wrong multithreading primitives but that they're using multithreading primitives at all. The first step if they want a better solution (and if the context allows them to rewrite the code in question) is to pick one of the many pre-packaged concurrency abstractions that will be safer and more optimized than 99.99% of programmers could write for themselves. Unless they have an extremely unusual problem, which they almost certainly don't, they don't need to be messing with mutexes and conditions at all.

Honestly, judging from the style of the concurrency, I would guess that they're working with 15+ year old legacy code, and it's very possible that there's a bizarre reason they can't fix it.
Are you really defending CNN when I just posted citations of the boss wanting to be careful not to offend Trump?
It's an accounting simplification.

The accountants want to say the item's book value is now $0 (because they can use the loss for a tax break). Destroying the item neatly proves this claim to any auditors, because if the wasn't actually worthless, it is now.

If there is any suggestion that the item should be donated, then it wasn't worthless. It has some value to someone.

This doesn't make donating it impossible. The accountants would just have to update the items book value to its current real value first (they can still count this decrease as a loss). But how do you work out the current real value of the item? You need documentation justifying this new book value that's good enough to satisfy any auditors, and such documentation might be expensive.

I believe most tax codes even allow you to claim the real value of the donated item as loss (as long as it's a registered charity), so the overall tax break should be identical to destroying the item. But the extra time and paperwork makes it much more appealing and cheaper to just take the simple option of just destroying the item, especially when the accounting department is short staffed.
I'm all for skepticism of capabilities and cynicism about corporate messaging, but I really don't think there's an interpretation of the word "greater" in this context" that doesn't mean "higher" and "better".
And if memory serves if you care about minimizing latency you want all of your workers running an average of 60% occupied. (Which is also pretty close to when I saw P95 times dog-leg on the last cluster I worked on).

Queuing theory is really weird.
Nice! I should add only-winnable generation to my own Solitaire, it's adfree, although it has extremely clunky controls.

Well, it was designed for the terminal, try the webconsole version here: https://rpigab.gitlab.io/solitaire-cli/

Source: https://gitlab.com/rpigab/solitaire-cli
> compensated well for spending other people's money

So a VC, right?
Yeap we did. I wrote it off around the time of the licence change, just after they decided to ditch the TF Team plan in favour of the utterly ridiculous “Resources Under Management” billing model.

I knew the company had lost the plot at that point.
Right side, by a large margin. Better word choice and more natural flow. It feels a lot more human.
I can see that being a sound basis for an economy, yes.
It also, more importantly, basically required you to platform a crazy person to argue for a side if there was no rational or reasonable take for that side.

The fairness doctrine would be just as godawful as the Debate between Kent Hovind and Bill Nye. It only serves to legitimize crazy outliers.

The problem with Fox News is not that they don't have the fairness doctrine, the problem is that your average american has so little media literacy that they can't recognize that Fox News is absolute horseshit, and that a company that has multiple times had to admit to a judge that they willfully lie to their audience should not be trusted. Republicans love to bitch about how bad CNN is as a "liberal" media source but educate liberals do not watch CNN because they once asked a physicist if MH370 could have disappeared into a black hole, and other utterly insane and clearly not journalism things. OAN and Newsmax currently exist. There is no equivalent for "liberals". A bunch of extreme right wing youtubers were found to be paid by RT, ie literal Russian State Propaganda outlet, and none of them lost their audience. There isn't a communist state funded liberal equivalent.

But apparently most americans didn't learn how to evaluate a media source, like at all, which is weird because we spent a couple classes in the library learning exactly that, along with learning how to use boolean operators to better search google for example. We were even tested on it.

But I guess all the kids who thought english class was worthless didn't pay attention, and now believe "Truth of media" === "How much it confirms my biases"
You know 100% if this were happening at a well-known corporation it would be all over hacker news, discussing the privacy and security implications.
It came out not long after Windows 95, so it will have supported earlier versions of Windows, which had the 8.3 character all-caps filename limitation.
>"I also agree with researchers like Yann LeCun or François Chollet that deep learning doesn't allow models to generalize properly to out-of-distribution data—and that is precisely what we need to build artificial general intelligence."

I think "generalize properly to out-of-distribution data" is too weak of criteria for general intelligence (GI). GI model should be able to get interested about some particular area, research all the known facts, derive new knowledge / create theories based upon said fact. If there is not enough of those to be conclusive: propose and conduct experiments and use the results to prove / disprove / improve theories.
And it should be doing this constantly in real time on bazillion of "ideas". Basically model our whole society. Fat chance of anything like this happening in foreseeable future.
so Musk potentially has kompromat on everyone?
Debile overlords getting eager?

DODGE that shit, lasso 'em in!
I'm surprised the deal was worth more than the market cap when they did the license rug pull.
It's still up 20% since Nov 5th. Even so I'm a bit worried he'll wreck the economy.
Show HN: Hexle: A powerful way to search for papers and connect your ideas
Hi all,

I find literature searches to be slow and despite all the tools nowadays, it is difficult to map out vast areas of research and then connect my ideas to what I’m trying to do (e.g. writing a review, learning something new, planning a new project, assignments, etc).

Some of my peers and teachers also found this to be a problem so I built this MVP app to help people not only leverage AI search capabilities but also go on to connect their ideas, map out research projects, cite various results and organise their “stream of consciousness” as they work.

I’d love to get some feedback on it - please feel free to post it either in this thread or email me at hexleteam@gmail.com.

Many thanks from Sydney, Australia :)
There are loads of .BAK files as well, and diffing them with the actual file gives you some insight on what they were working on. (Like pre and post Counterstrike addon).
Pursuing AGI? What method do they use to pursue something that no one knows what it is? They will keep saying they are pursuing AGI as long as there's a buyer for their BS.
Yeah, agreed.

We’re one of those types of customers. We wrote an OpenAI API compatible gateway that automatically batches stuff for us, so we get 50% off for basically no extra dev work in our client applications.

I don’t care about speed, I care about getting the right answer. The cost is fine as long as the output generates us more profit.
Don't Stack your Log on my Log (2014) [pdf]
Any reason to choose this over OwnCloud or Nextcloud?
Yes, that would be an artifact of missing additive blending.

It simply means that each newly rendered polygon’s RGB values are added together with the pixel values already in the frame buffer. It’s good for lighting effects (although not a very realistic simulation of light’s behavior unless your frame buffer is linear light rather than gamma corrected, but that effectively requires floating point RGB which wasn’t available on gaming cards until 2003).
Hello,

This a tremendously good game, very clean in all ways that matter. Merci beaucoup!

Below is me wilding out a bit, feel free to ignore. The take home message is: great game, thanks!!

I do however wish for two things down the road:

More focus on the run

A) some kind of tracker for where you are in the run (level 2/10)

B) a perk that lets you chose (2-4 choices) what level to go to next (so you can pick ones you like OR search for hidden combos)

C) a perk that lets you prolong the run with 1-3 levels (making it easier to score higher and also to look for hidden combos)

.

Some complexity to the unlocking system

Since you say you are inspired by Vampire Survivors I think there is a lot of space to have more complex unlocks.

Like having levelled a perk to 3 unlocks another perk, 2 level 2 perks can combine to a different perk. 3 specific perks combine to a new one, etc

Completing a set of levels unlocks a final level in the same theme.

Unlocks based on misses per level and/or run.

Unlocks based on coin-catch percentage, obviously 100%, but also others.

Even time based unlocks (completing all levels in a run under X sec, completing every level slower than the previous one, or Mario style time unlocks, so ending on 11, 22, etc)
thought this was about the airforce of a newly created republic called upside down
The cosmic watch detector is cheaper, more reliable (due to above shenanigans), and uses only 1 piece of plastic scintillator.

It might take more work though. They don't say it but I believe you should try to see if other scintillator materials work. (Including PET,PSU,PES).

http://cosmicwatch.lns.mit.edu/
Yes, massively.

There’s a learning curve to it, but it’s worth literally every penny I spend on API calls.

At worst, I’m no faster. At best, it’s easily a 10x improvement.

For me, one of the biggest benefits is talking about coding in natural language. It lowers my mental low and keeps me in a mental space where I’m more easily able to communicate with stakeholders holders.
Government workers get several benefits that most American private sector employees do not enjoy, but let's ignore that. The simple truth is that the Washington DC area is very well compensated.

> "Purpose" is also a less loaded word than "Charity", and whether you view USAIDs purpose as promoting American Exceptionalism

American exceptionalism is mainly driven by America's private sector (including private community organizations, non-profits, AND business). The government obviously plays a role, but USAID is not the main driver of American exceptionalism.
How I use LLMs (Andrej Karpathy)
Your entire post was barely longer than that ...

> That isn't how science works.

"Science" is a lot of human activities mushed together and there's not "one true way" that it works, except that it is universally done by humans (so far), with all the good and bad that come with that.

> We have an astounding lack of evidence that there is a Flying Spaghetti Monster roaming around the deepest reaches of space

True.

> it doesn't indicate anything but the fact that there's a lack of evidence that there is a Flying Spaghetti Monster roaming around the deepest reaches of space

False.

> It may not indicate with absolute certainty whether there is or isn't one

Nobody has ever cared about "absolute certainty" and science never seriously claims this.

> you cannot say its existence is more likely based on lack of evidence for it

Yes you can! (I charitably assume you meant less likely here, otherwise the entire comment makes no sense, is arguing against a trivial falsehood nobody has ever claimed (certainly not OP), and you had no reason to post it)

> that is superstition

No, it's Bayesian logic; it's the only way humans have ever acquired knowledge.

There, I covered your entire post.
Broadcom VMware play. If you’re invested as an enterprise in the ecosystem, is going to be a while before you can extricate yourself. In the meantime, you must pay up.
interesting summary but it's hard to gauge whether this is better/worse than just piping the contents into a much cheaper model.
Of all the countries to have a bitcoin strategic reserve, the US is where it makes the least sense. Replacing a reserve currency they control with another they can't.
And for some reason the vouching mechanism isn't available for these submissions like it is on comments.
I'm trying to imagine a scenario where such an amendment could get 290 votes in the House, 67 in the Senate, and be ratified by 38 states. But that beggars my imagination. I suppose a super villain could kidnap the loved ones of all of those legislatures and force them to vote his way. Or rig hundreds of elections. But it would seem to be easier to just forcibly capture or dissolve the federal legislature and judiciary. I've got 99 problems and can't figure out how this one might compete for a slot.
I find a lot of value in being able to get a water or a coffee, use the restroom, have sidebar conversations with fellow employees, begrudgingly attend meetings, or take a walk to stretch my legs for a minute and think, personally.
Thanks, though it says o1 on the page, is that a typo?
I generally agree with the idea of building things, iterating, and experimenting before knowing their full potential, but I do see why there's negative sentiment around this:

1. The first microcomputer predates VisiCalc, yes, but it doesn't predate the realization of what it could be useful for. The Micral was released in 1973. Douglas Engelbart gave "The Mother of All Demos" in 1968 [2]. It included things that wouldn't be commonplace for decades, like a collaborative real-time editor or video-conferencing.

I wasn't yet born back then, but reading about the timeline of things, it sounds like the industry had a much more concrete and concise idea of what this technology would bring to everyone.

"We look forward to learning more about its strengths, capabilities, and potential applications in real-world settings." doesn't inspire that sentiment for something that's already being marketed as "the beginning of a new era" and valued so exorbitantly.

2. I think as AI becomes more generally available, and "good enough" people (understandably) will be more skeptical of closed-source improvements that stem from spending big. Commoditizing AI is more clearly "useful", in the same way commoditizing computing was more clearly useful than just pushing numbers up.

Again, I wasn't yet born back then, but I can imagine the announcement of Apple Macintosh with its 6MHz CPU and 128KB RAM was more exciting and had a bigger impact than the announcement of the Cray-2 with its 1.9GHz and +1GB memory.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micral

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
No one is coming to save us. Time to cowboy up
Python certainly was too, back in the day. It feels like it's roughly a "first 10 years of the language" thing, maybe stretched another 5 if there's an underdog aspect (like being interpreted.)
And I still make money. I'm okay with being neither the greatest nor the least fool.
I worry eliminating consumer choice will drive up prices for only a nominal gain in utility for most users.
i long for the day where african tech is just tech and not some novelty ooo look at what they are doing with less
Medium-Sized Questions in Neuroscience
Wow. Please do SimCity 2000, 3000 and 4 next EA!!
But USAID is not a charity. That's the point.

A charity and non-profit take money voluntarily donated to it. If USAID were a government administered charitable organization, I may have a different take, but it is not in any way a charitable organization. It uses a threat of violence to siphon whatever money Congress deems appropriate away from Americans, and redirects it to whatever the executive dictates. That is not a charity.

Like I said, I think a national charity is actually a great idea -- if the President and Congress delineated a national charitable project and then encouraged Americans to contribute part of their income towards that... that would be amazing. USAID IS NOT that.

And this was the point of my post. Many people call USAID a charity, when it is nothing close to the sort.

> If people working for non profits, charities, and aid groups quit to make money to donate, it would be harder to be nobel because there's no one who can distribute and act on the funding.

I honestly frankly disagree wholeheartedly. Most American charity used to be administered by non-paid individuals actually volunteering, whether mutual-benefit societies, fraternal organizations, churches, etc.
A single node distributing everything "because it's fast" isn't really the architecture that bittorrent is aiming for, and I don't think it's one we should be aiming for.

Try downloading any well distributed torrent and you'll see your bandwidth capacity automatically maxxed out. The gradual decision with an emerging selection of better sources always leads to that. Bittorrent doesn't really have an efficiency problem
Yes, yes. According to Musk Tesla's best days are always ahead:

https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/
TLDW: Prompt injection.

It's not a bug, it's a fundamental feature, you can mitigate but not "fix" it.

The LLM is just a Make Document Bigger algorithm being run on a single document. All one stream of words/tokens. The algorithm does not firmly track which parts of the document are trusted, or recognize entities, or recognize local propositions from a particular entity, or know whether the proposition is being asserted or just quoted, etc.
> RC files are loaded all the time

Not necessarily. Bash won't do it on its own for a login shell, but there's probably a bit in the /etc/profile your distro provides that does it.
> Honestly, I am more cynical and just think people are always looking for ways to make their jobs more interesting than they actually are.

When you frame the problem that way, unnecessary complexity seems like part of a healthy solution path. /h

Companies get reliability benefits from slack, but creative people abhor wasted slack. Some basic business strategy/wisdom for maintaining/managing creative slack is needed.
That's true, but it's easier to switch from Terraform to Pulumi than it is to move from VMware to some other virtualization platform.
The Fastmail app on my phone. Even then, I don't use it all that much. On the desktop, I don't use a client. I just log into Fastmail.