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I may be a dumb layman, but that argument seems too tidy and absolute to me - wouldn’t it suggest, for example, that viruses could never appear because they’d be outcompeted by mor…

Why haven’t I heard of this? Is it available in IDEs like Cursor?

> For equal capability tokens, there has been about a 10x drop in cost every 6 months Is this still happening? Opus 4.5 was six months ago, can you get its capabilities for 1/10 co…

For someone who purports not to care about the film, you seem very familiar with the discourse about it. (I have seen zero experts, or anyone really, discussing boat design.)

> thinkism Thank you for this term. In my view, the belief that AGI singularly will rapidly destroy us because it will think 10,000 times faster than us is a form of thinkism.

> Last mile is already “solved” with the little robots that drive around cities, no need for hands. And yet we haven’t seen widespread adoption because they can’t handle stairs, st…

Sometimes it’s hard to objectively tell whether two animals don’t appear to reproduce because they are unable genetically, or technically able still but behaviorally unwilling in n…

It has, tho the rate of new record highs have been reducing from peak to peak: 10x > 3x > 1.5x

Any ideas why verified has stagnated? It was increasing rapidly and then basically stopped.

Scott Alexander blogged about it today: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/best-of-moltbook

> If your job is to translate requirements into code manually - and that's it - you're the generalist travel agent. I’ve been a full-stack web programmer at five different companie…

I would love for SWE Verified to put out a set of fresh but comparable problems and see how the top performing models do, to test against overfitting.

> most normal people don't know what Claude or Gemini are “Google Gemini” is the No 2 ranked app in the Apple App Store (behind ChatGTP) and has been for some time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" I'm also curious what results we would get if SWE came up with a ne…

Won’t those models gradually become outdated (for anything related to events that happen after the model was trained, new code languages or framework versions, etc) if no one is ar…

How about denying the Fourth Amendment rights of US citizens to be secure in their homes in the recent Chicago apartment raid? https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-sufferable-e…

There is a hard limit on the number of atomic elements, and an even smaller limit on the number of soluble compounds that facilitate chemical reactions, and water is demonstrably b…

I have stared at a Blue Jay mimicking while Merlin repeatedly labeled it Red-Shouldered Hawk. I’ve seen it pop up a bunch of suspicious one-offs around a mockingbird as well (same …

As a heavy user of Merlin, it definitely isn’t perfect - especially with all the mimic birds - to the point that there are complaints about beginners polluting the citizen science …

Doesn't "average" = "middle class" by definition? US median individual income in 2022 was $48k https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_... > The “average person…

> You have to be extremely verbose in describing all of your requirements. There is seemingly no such thing as too much detail I understand YMMV, but I have yet to find a use case …

This looks like the first submission to get traction on this latest development. Thanks for the search though: > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30397201 This one from 3 yrs a…

This is true. So now let’s look at the substance of what DOGE has actually done: - indiscriminately fire people who have been in long term positions but recently got promoted and s…

What do you mean? There are several special elections happening April 1. New Jersey and Virginia have governor elections this November. Mid-terms in every state next November. Thes…