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by blenderob 8mo ago
> It's possible but unlikely given the short timeline Yep. "possible but unlikely" was my take too. As another person commented, this isn't really a benchmark, and as long as that's clear, it seems fair. My only
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by blenderob 8mo ago
The goalposts have been on wheels basically since the field was born. Look up "AI effect". I've stopped caring what HN comments have to say about whether something is or isn't AI. If its useful to me, I'm gonna use
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by blenderob 8mo ago
> I.e. a solution is known, but is guaranteed to not be in the training set for any AI. Not a mathematician and obviously you guys understand this better than I do. One thing I can't understand is how they're going to judge if
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by blenderob 8mo ago
February 13 seems right to me. I mean it's not like LLMs need to manually write out a 10 page proof. But a longer deadline can give human mathematicians time to solve the problem and write out a proof. A close deadline advantages the L
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by blenderob 8mo ago
Can someone explain how this would work? > the answers are known to the authors of the questions but will remain encrypted for a short time. Ok. But humans may be able to solve the problems too. What prevents Anthropic or OpenAI from hir
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Styling: Search-Text and Other Highlight-Y Pseudo-Elements(css-tricks.com)
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Fantasy football that celebrates great games(silvestar.codes)
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John Haugeland on the failure of micro-worlds(blog.plover.com)
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Getting the Main Thing Right(seangoedecke.com)
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Interfaces and Traits in C(antonz.org)
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Stories from 25 Years of Computing(susam.net)
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Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?
123 points by blenderob 8mo ago|123 comments
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Displaying Letterboxd Like Counts on My Movie Reviews(joshbeckman.org)
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Website Carbon Calculator(joshbeckman.org)
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The Cost of Running Openbenches.org(shkspr.mobi)
3 points by blenderob 8mo ago|0 comments
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by blenderob 8mo ago
Has people's ability to read messages and formulate sensible replies been going down of late? I see this kind of meaningless replies more and more often these days.
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by blenderob 8mo ago
You can just email hn@ycombinator.com to get help. They can reset your password if there's someway for them to verify that you were the owner of the account.
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Air India grounds Boeing jet after pilot flags fuel control switch defect(bbc.co.uk)
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Are there any open APIs left?(shkspr.mobi)
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by blenderob 9mo ago
> By contrast, engineers mostly require a laptop and company hoodie. Alas, gone are the days when engineers too required specialized equipment like a desktop computer on the desk that you couldn't move with you. Every evening, you l
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Do savings accounts lose money to inflation?(shkspr.mobi)
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by blenderob 9mo ago
> I also do not have a robots.txt so google doesnt index. That doesn't sound right. I don't have robots.txt too but Google indexes everything for me.
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by blenderob 9mo ago
This. I wonder if it is a generation gap thing. The young folks these days have probably used only Gmail, Proton or one of these big email services that abstract away all the technical details of sending and receiving emails. Without some v
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by blenderob 9mo ago
That's very interesting. Any examples you can share which has those agreeable effects?
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Tips for getting coding agents to write good Python tests(simonwillison.net)
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Installing and Updating Filezilla from a Zip File on Pop_OS / Ubuntu(shkspr.mobi)
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by blenderob 9mo ago
> Your mother is never going to be able to use a Gas Town-like workflow to make software for her own needs, nor is she even going to want to spend her weekends trying. I'm going on a tangent here but what's with this constant d
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by blenderob 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... > "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
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by blenderob 9mo ago
Don't know who downvoted this comment but this is correct. Like all matters of speaking, it depends on the tone. Sometimes "quite good" can mean better than good. But the parent is correct that conventionally, unless the to
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Discovering My Talk(shkspr.mobi)
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