skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure you're right that it's more than just it being in the training data, but that it's in the training data means that you can't draw any conclusions about general mathematical ability using just this as a benchmark, even if you substitute numbers.

There are lots of possible mechanisms by which this particular problem would become more prominent in the weights in a given round of training even if the model itself hasn't actually gotten any better at general reasoning. Here are a few:

* Random chance (these are still statistical machines after all)

* The problem resurfaced recently and shows up more often than it used to.

* The particular set of RLHF data chosen for this model draws out the weights associated with this problem in a way that wasn't true previously.
We have no evidence we’re the first. Given the distances involved it is unlikely we’ll find other life, unless it is very common.
Inside A.I.’s Super Bowl: Nvidia Dreams of a Robot Future
> I genuinely and in good faith do not believe Trump fits this definition.

To be fair, as I read this I expected the punchline to be "this admin checks all the boxes" and not "I don't see it". Which is not to say that you're wrong, but it's not the dunk that you picture it as being
You're not dumb. They do this for nearly every single major release. I can't really understand why considering it generates negative sentiment about the release, but it's something to be expected from OpenAI at this point.
Amazing that with H.N.'s doctrinaire application of the exact original title rule, this is the title that the mods chose to editorialize.
I don't want to conquer the world, but it seems obvious to me that this is "market failure" exacerbated through global trade.

Wasting energy should not be an opportunity for revenue, but of course it always is, for differing reasons.

The word "waste" here means that there is a maximization of resource consumption while simultaneously minimizing physical utility to humans (utility as in Utilitarianism).

At least as an weak version of my argument. In reality, it is not resource consumption that is maximized, it is free-loading resource usage of the commons while still maximizing profits.
I mean this is pretty standard for online llms. What is Gemini doing here that openai or Anthropic aren’t already doing?
I think it is pretty obvious that trump doesn't have any real political ambitions besides being popular and powerful, and seeking personal retribution against those who tarnish his reputation. In fact, he increasingly just seems like a tired old man fulfilling his political obligations he made in his last campaign. Even when he was running, he would pretty much cosy up to any political group that held him in high regard. He has always been a sleazy businessman who takes advantage of his brand name — not much has changed.

The idea that trump cares about "fascism", or is even capable of holding such high-minded political beliefs is some hysterical leftist nonsense. Trump is the type of politician that would support any topic "X" as long as you campaigned on the basis of "X is cool and trump is also cool". In our timeline X was cryptocurrency, antivax, Qanon, charlottesville protesters, etc. but it could have just as easily been environmentalists, gay rights activists, BLM, etc.

When most people talk about facism, they are referring to a regime like those under hitler or mussolini. I am pretty sure hitler and mussolini had actual political goals they cared about. There will never be a "night of the long knives" because there is nothing that trump even wants that's worth backstabbing his allies over. To use the word fascist is ridiculous, because he is just acting as a ouija board for his dopey supporters.
I was relying on that to determine if images were AI though
We know the probability of life arising in the universe is >0 because we exist.

However, we don't know if life can arise spontaneously given the right conditions (abiogenesis) or if must it be "seeded" at some level by an existing life form (i.e. deity, asteroid containing bacteria, etc)?

I'm religious, so I'm more in the "seeded" camp than "spontaneous" camp but either way, I strongly believe there is life on other planets in the universe, it's just too bad the universe is so big and light so slow that it's hard to confirm.
> my husband Tyler and I wanted that sense of community that feels like it’s only possible in the suburbs, but we believed we could achieve this while living in San Francisco.

That is not my experience at all! Growing up in Brooklyn, hanging out on the stoop was a major social scene. (Also a factor: no AC indoors, which meant going outside for cool air) Now, in the suburbs, the homes are too far apart to have adhoc convos. Also, in many places the absence of sidewalks makes walking over to others' homes prohibitive.
You forgot "hacker" :D
Microsoft's everything is confusing...

Last time I had a corporate-y job, everytime someone would send me a spreadsheet it would open on Office365 in a webview within Teams instead of simply opening in the Excel desktop application... Why? No idea. Everything was Windows and MS everything, you'd think it'd be integrated but no. Like, I never had any idea if what was shared with me would open in the browser, Teams, native app, etc... Syncing was horrible.

Definitely not a surprise to hear that there's multiple Outlooks confusing people.
there is also the possibility to recycle pet-bottles into food grade bottles again using just mechanical means, I know at least two European companies who provide such machines
How does it compare to OpenAI and anthropic’s user data retention policy?
I'm 4 years into having to use outlook after switching jobs and no longer being able to use google workspace. I continue to be frustrated by the confusing and arcane processes required to do basic stuff like fine previously declined meetings, book an out of office that doesn't spam everyone, use search and actually have it find stuff, automatically place emails into folders in a sane fashion, actually accept/decline a meeting and not have it randomly stay as "tentative" and so on.

Comparatively, outloook feels like a complete mess.
If you can change a neighborhood, you can change a city.
The elements of life (by this I presume you mean various small biomolecules like amino acids) arising easily doesn't imply life arises easily.
Did you read the article? Signal is not approved for this kind of communication and has long been advised against. They also had messages set to autodelete which violates the records act. It's blatantly illegal
When you travel to most other countries this kind of community is present. Warms my heart that it’s finding its way to you.
I suspect a bunch of technical debt - the core of the application dates to 2000 or before (there are menu's changed for a very very long time).
I’m not calling people names.
Floor to floor in a house isn't too bad with 6-7m, but I suppose there's always the AOC cables that are 20m+.
Thanks, I had not seen that caveat!
I've always learned that "speed" is something that can be used to describe an object aka something with mass. When something without mass travels (basically information) you use "celerity", because it's not talking about the "same" thing
I love how powerful computers have gotten over the years. These days, it's possible to have a super powerful homelab off of three cheap Ryzen NUCs in a small IKEA closet with basically no concern about cooling. In the past, you'd need to get some Dell or HP pizza boxes and an actual rack to do the same. I guess you still can, but it's overkill for homelab, IMO.
Maybe one day she’ll be moved to sing by the simple elegance of my take on the classic 3278-2 terminal font.
I thought c stood for clock speed and that is how we know we are in a simulation.
Not to mention plenty of DoD facilities from coast-to-coast with SCIFs - even without a portable SCIF, he likely wasn't far from one.

Failing that, these people almost certainly have laptops connected to DoD networks at a lower COMSEC level than a true SCIF (indeed, "high-side laptops" were mentioned in the Signal thread). They could have communicated with those. I don't know about DoD policy if those would be acceptable or not for discussions about planned strikes, but it'd be a hell of a lot more secure than unsecured public smartphones.
Is audit logs and access control the main features that would convince you to use Teleport vs something like opkssh? How important is the VPN functionality that lets you get packets to private IPs?
The relationship between sigmoid, softmax and tanh
Sure, but you can't cite this puzzle as proof that this model is "better than 95+% of the population at mathematical reasoning" when the method of solving (the "answer") it is online, and the model has surely seen it.
> I still find many buttons/options unintuitive to use or find. Finding a way to just see my unread emails took me way longer than I care to admit, and I typically am one to figure out UI's fairly fast.

Switching _to_ outlook is like that. Got a job in a non-tech company a few years ago and I still have trouble with the unintuitive and odd behavior that is outlook classic.
><tangent opening line of my comment> From people on Reddit: Something that blows my mind- but is fully true "Hell, I've been in fucking EVE Online alliances that had better opsec than this." "I'll raise you one: I've never been in any EVE alliance that didn't have better opsec than this."

That is some seriously selective memory

https://old.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/4cdmmc/wtf_is_going_on...

https://old.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/4dvoj5/sma_diplosleade...

https://old.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/4f3epd/a_different_kin...

And here's some more recent ones

https://old.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/1f6t1vw/your_relays_ar...

https://old.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/1g3p232/alcoholic_sata...

Major alliance infrastructure and security is probably better than most US corporations but doesn't come close to secure government systems, obviously
Of course, they now probably switched to LLMs.
If anything I would say it's the opposite - individuals in less affluent communities are more likely to need the help of their neighbors, and thus interact and form relationships
A Proposal for the Future of Search
Overwhelmingly, new compilers will compile old code just fine. IIRC, the only time old code is broken intentionally is when fixing a bug in the compiler itself causes the code to break.
We reason these things not simply to contradict our feelings (though that is often a side effect), but to draw conclusions of how best to improve society and our species as a whole.

If human procreation is immoral simply because it creates suffering for "sentient" beings, then it's this particular line of ethics that needs to go extinct, rather than humanity itself.

"The rules we invented for ourselves say that we shouldn't continue existing" seems like a mindset that natural selection will handle by itself though.
Remember: every comment on here is implicitly directed to dang, and every link is implicitly approved of by dang.

This is really his website at this point. The rules are mainly just his tools for shaping the content of discussions and submissions to his liking.

A decade ago it was different. I mean, he was still way overbearing and biased, but I don’t think it really had the same power-steering effect on the shapes of discussions as it does today. Over time, this is where we’ve come to.
I'm amused to see so many of my neighbors on here - we could do a Hacker News Stoop at one of the coffee shops (Whirlwind is my regular, but it's not like any of the ones in OP are hard to get to!)
Well you can count this western perspective as being in favor of mosquito elimination from the entire planet.
We're just ruining the last good part of internet
I feel like the most important factor is UI consistency.
If the UI changes, it costs so much time and re-learning.

Thunderbird has mostly been the same since many years. The only thing I noticed is, that the quick search has become buggy and scrolling in the inbox takes a second to load the titles.
I see this repeatedly stated, but have never seen it substantiated in detail. How much stock collateralized debt does he have? Is any of it tied to SpaceX?

He took on 13 billion of debt for Twitter, but it seems like dreaming to think this would be enough even if Tesla went bankrupt.
I tested out Gemini 2.5 and it failed miserably at calling into tools that we had defined for it. Also, it got into an infinite loop a number of times where it would just spit out the exact same line of text continuously until we hard killed the process. I really don't know how others are getting these amazing results. We had no problems using Claude or OpenAI models in the same scenario. Even Deepseek R1 works just fine.
I feel silly for having posted this link. I found out that this pay-to-publish journal is misleading readers by mimicking a well known journal in the Health space.

A rebuttal of this article can be found here: https://newsletter.pedsdoctalk.com/p/new-study-on-vaccines-a...
It's the submitted title on HN. Her name is correct in the article itself.
What is the email app equivalent to VoidTools 'Everything'. Blazingly fast with no wasteful focus on UI design concepts like ribbons, color palettes, etc. Just full effort to have the fastest search algorithm possible with async streaming of results to the UI and all efforts placed on searching/filtering/tagging,etc.
Not sure why this wasn't posted on HN yet.
Ever since Midjourney popularized it, image generation models are often posttrained on more "aesthetic" subsets of images to give them a more fantasy look. It also help obscure some of the imperfections of the AI.
There could be billions more people on Earth than previously thought
My assumption was that the pricing was because it really was that expensive for whatever reason. I'm keeping fingers crossed that they're going to do some kind of 4.5 mini at some point that will be more affordable.
And that's a six year old image. Imagine the state of the art in 2025.
Microsoft Outlook has a bug when you click on the notification after you receive an email, it opens it behind other windows. [0-2] It drives me mad!

[0]: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/email-...

[1]: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/cl...

[2]: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/ne...
I can't think of anything trump has done in this term which is that authoritarian. Maybe that's just the "tan suit" syndrome where the media reports on every little thing it drowns out the big picture, but nothing really comes to mind for me.
Discussion (129 points, 1 month ago, 100 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43057907
While I obviously don't know, I'd guess that they could plunk in Edge/Blink and call it Outlook 2025.
Yeah Gemini has had this for a few weeks, but much lower resolution. Not saying 4o is perfect, but my first few images with it are much more impressive than my first few images with Gemini.
As it stands currently I'd say this is difficult to measure.

They're not baked into workflows where the measurable output is attributed easily to the model use. Productivity in its current form is transformative in the sense that the use case and gain differs for the individual (who even provide different prompts). So some are keeping the gains for themselves, others are using it to improve quality rather than quantity.

It'll come in time, it's important to remember gpt 4 was released 2 years ago this month. The newer models are more reliable and could probably be introduced into workflows more frequently. Today I spoke to a company who are looking to use it to reduce cost in the next year.
I see what you did there, well played sir.
Say what you want about Apple, at least somewhere in the org they have people both able and willing to say “I don’t care why you think it’s necessary, that’s stupid and confusing and you’re not doing it”.

Whereas at Microsoft apparently when someone proposes 6 different apps with the same name, whoever should say no just raises their hand with a thumbs up without looking up from their phone.
$125 and I can start an LLC.

That's a real-world corporate entity. Recourse ends at the "limited liability" in LLC.

Make that LLC owned by another? Offshore ownership? Might take a few thousand bucks.
The problem Goog has is its insane bureaucracy and lack of vision from Sundar, which isn't very attractive from an employee position. If you're working close to Demis I imagine the situation is better though.
Well, as it turns out it is frontpage news. And I think there will be some eyes on it. I'm not claiming this a non-issue, but I find it unfair to say that this is a particular replican problem. I think it's government in general.
So c = celeration, the derivative of acceleration.
As one such developer, it is a powerful ability to be able to bypass restrictions meant to be used sparingly for a good reason

I rarely commit the same kind of code the full time professional developer do(when bypassing policies).

Typically it is stuff like urgent patch in prod that may not have coverage , or partial long running refactor which breaks existing tests but better to be able merge quickly than keep the branch constantly free of merge conflicts , or experimental exploratory new type of code(new lang , stack whatever )for which we have to yet evolve processes, part of what the lead is supposed to be exploring and so on.

Although In my experience junior leads more often than not abuse their privileges than use it well.
> Why have a bunch of rules and policies that you do not follow yourself?

If you can get away with it, why wouldn't you set things up this way? Rules for thee, not for me. You can't try to view power plays like this through the lenses of ethics or morality. The point is to use rules to bind and punish your enemies and to make sure that only your friends can get away with breaking them. You do this with media capture and twisted narratives, taking advantage of the erosion of rule of law as a respected concept among the public.
Well, older versions of Outlook actually used MSHTML/Trident as a render engine: the engine of Internet Explorer.

They could, if they want, use WebView2 - embedding MS Edge.
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With the ice melting so fast, I wonder if these "creatures" are living on borrowed time.
Thanks for highlighting this open issue.

The fact they've been stalling this for a good 2.5 years is... insane??
> In general, Krebs says, NGO grants for animal-free research tend to be smaller than the longer-term, multimillion-dollar awards offered by government sources such as the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s biggest funder of biomedical research.

... for now. Given the widely circulated "naughty words" list for grants [1], I would not be surprised at all if this kind of research gets labeled and discarded as "woke" just as well.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2025/03/15/these-197-t...
Yes, exactly, and no trivially: Manus is Sonnet with tools
Outlook Express is still a much better experience compared to the new Outlook.
I could be wrong...

but anytime I see sciencealert.com it gives me hardcore tabloid vibes.
Frustratingly the DALL-E API actually has an option for this, you can switch it from "vivid" to "realistic".

This option is not exposed in ChatGPT, it only uses vivid.
When's the best time to surge when cycling up a hill?
> … find other life and hopefully it doesn't lead to conflict.

… well, that would be a first.
I do take magnesium, but I could try to up it when I take D. Thanks
I work on a product for generating interactive fanfiction using an LLM, and I've put a lot of work into post-training to improve writing quality to match or exceed typical human levels.

I'm excited about this for adding images to those interactive stories.

It has nothing to do with circumventing the cost of artists or writers: regardless of cost, no one can put out a story and then rewrite it based on whatever idea pops into every reader's mind for their own personal main character.

It's a novel experience that only a "writer" that scales by paying for an inanimate object to crunch numbers can enable.

Similarly no artist can put out a piece of art for that story and then go and put out new art bespoke to every reader's newly written story.

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I think there's this weird obsession with framing these tools about being built to just replace current people doing similar things. Just speaking objectively: the market for replacing "cheeky expensive artists" would not justify building these tools.

The most interesting applications of this technology being able to do things that are simply not possible today even if you have all the money in the world.

And for the record, I'll be ecstatic for the day an AI can reach my level of competency in building software. I've been doing it since I was a child because I love it, it's the one skill I've ever been paid for, and I'd still be over the moon because it'd let me explore so many more ideas than I alone can ever hope to build.
I feel like at some point Microsoft deliberately decided not to want to maintain "old stuff" anymore. You see this with many other products as well. Desktop is bad, web is good.
How do you explain iOS' settings app then?
The format and delivery reminds me of Tree Raves: A Case Study in Social Protocols[1] - here's a series of behaviors you can implement if you'ld like to replicate this type of thing too.

1. https://prigoose.substack.com/p/tree-raves-a-case-study-in-s...
I’m not seeing the parallels.

Trump went on about Hillary’s mail and made it a big thing for political points, not because he was particularly caring or didn’t have infamously bad opsec when he got in.

You lead dev trusted himself more than the team. He was probably right.
This is helpful. I will try this!
Nationalist is not fascism.

Ffs they aren’t ethnically cleansing the nation. They are removing illegal aliens who have no legal right to be here, and they’re open to those removed people coming back legally.

A lot of people have a really big problem footing the welfare bill required to sustain that type of policy.

The way I see it, it was incredibly irresponsible for the Biden administration to import a bunch of people without strong legal protections for their residency here. I mean seriously wtf. If your policy is “import immigrant labor” then at least do it legally. Otherwise you only have yourself to blame when reasonable people start asking questions.
Tree Raves: A Case Study in Social Protocols(2023)
AI Agent does research, create full-length paper that passed blinded peer review
It interpreted blood work for me

(Everything's ok, I'm just testing it ;)
You can do that with Gemini's image model, flash 2.0 (image generation) exp.[1] It's not perfect but it does mostly maintain likeness between generations.

[1]https://aistudio.google.com/prompts/new_chat
Thank you. Still, if I did this, I think I would bring along a first aid kit and backup footwear.
Forcing a reflow solved our image instability in Visual Testing
we each can only rely on our own experiences, but mine don't agree with you. suburbs in the US northeast have sidewalks. most of LA looks like a suburb to a nor'easter. No sidewalk? rural.
> About the Journal

> IPAK-EDU LLC, founded in 2020, aims to publish objectively and ethically conducted studies and other scientific publications following rigorous peer review while eschewing “science” enforced by official narratives.
Top 1600. Yay!

Edit: wait, that is actually how many points I got. Eh, I am still on the list.