Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | _diyar's commentslogin

The fella that was crotch-chopping on smackdown?

The fella that was crotch-chopping on smackdown...who also married the boss's daughter.

I am legitimately shocked that it was this Triple H. I was sure before reading it that it would be another Hunter Hearst Helmsley.

Spiderman: "Y'see, the problem-uh... with you people-uh... in this business-uh..."

As long as there is more than one substitute, the prices are not set to equal value. (edit: assuming optimal pricing strat.)

I strongly suspect that is way above the human average anyway, esp. ARC 2 and 3 are really tough unless you happen to be great at those spacial puzzles or video games.

Scoring for ARC-AGI-3 is constructed so that the median(-ish) human score is 100%, so this is not a superhuman result. However, the scaling is weird, since it's built from terms that look like (AI turns taken / median human turns) ^ 2, and it weights later levels higher than early levels. So it's not at all clear that 100% is twice as good as 50%.


At this point the only valid ARC-AGI benchmark left is to make up the next series of ARC-AGI benchmark puzzles that current models presumably can't handle.

I feel like making a human-proof benchmark is pretty clear evidence that they've exceeded even the highest human capacity in most respects, for things that you can do via text generation (and to a lesser extent image generation)

Really though? I would believe something like this if a model could one shot every solution in the set. I don't pay much attention to these things and maybe this stuff is available but I would bet the session/reasoning transcript is absolutely horrendous from an intelligence standpoint.

How is this a tangential annoyance or a generic tangent?

> Meta announces they have a new model, demonstrating its capabilities.

> Parent comment states „regardless of this model‘s specific capabilities, if I can avoid it I will.“


Grandparent comment has zero to do with the article. It's just GP generically bitching about Meta. (Your "quote" of the comment does not appear anywhere in the actual comment.)

Sorry what is the punch-line here supposed to be? These investments obviously increase correlation coeffs., but these are highly correlated stocks to begin with.

valuation gains on investments are one-offs, not signs of sustained improvements in profitability that would warrant higher market caps

when those valuation gains are in turn the result of circular financing schemes (a bakery giving out money so that people buy bread from it), we're getting to a dangerous situation


Circular financing is an issue if the wealth accumulation stays in the chip -> model provider ecosystem. However it seems like the labs are making quite a lot of revenue from the chips (customers).

The chips are being hyped as futures investments. I.e. https://www.silicondata.com/blog/gpu-futures

It seems like investing in tulip bulb futures to me.


Demand for compute is far outstripping what was projected in the initial rounds in which we pearl clutched over 'circular financing' - which is hardly distinguishable even from the classical bill of exchange, the core phenomenon of the money market in Bagehot's day, in which I provide you inputs and you give me a share. I keep reading people saying what amounts to: the primitive bill of exchange was circular!!; if the seller of inputs has reason to lend, so does everyone else etc etc. In fact if the projections about final sales are correct, it is plain all these deals will be fine.

The issue is simply that the posted article begins with a review of recent earnings/ revenues, but fails to discuss that a substantial part of those revenues are investment markups.

Whether it matters we don’t know yet, but it’s a fact worth noting. A better article might have tried to argue why it doesn’t matter


The analogy can be dragged one step further: once the engine is good enough, it’s functionally impractical for a human to play.

I disagree. A chess engine has a very well defined goal and is working its patterns to reach that goal.

In software development, except in a minority of cases, the goal is being set by non-technical people, who have no clue how the resulting system should end up, only what it should look like to a user. I think a well-versed programmer can give the AI direct instructions on how to implement something, and just let the LLM write the code to implement/refactor the infrastructure behind the feature they're developing. For me the plan mode of Claude Code is (anecdote incoming) much faster(TM) and better(TM) if I give it concrete instructions - then it writes the plan, asks questions - and then implements it. Very little complaints after that (I usually don't let Claude do any sort of visual QA)


OAI and ANT are private, so I sure haven‘t seen their books.


I wonder if this promotion was because of the summer holidays.


Does summer holidays only apply to Europeans? I think most Americans are still largely in office for August


People take much more time off during the summer in the USA than during other times of year. It’s somewhat regional, but it’s been true in all the place I have lived. Probably July is the most common month though because in some regions schools start sometime in August. It’s not uncommon for people to take 1-2w off during that period. More than 2w often requires extra approvals, so is less common.


Exactly. Say on average people take 2 weeks / 16 week off in that period, thats 12% traffic right there.

And smarter people than me can probably find some extra-linear relationship between usage and required limits for uptime etc.


Unclear whether this is due to environment (grew up with no sugar) or genetics (parent‘s genes induced no sugar craving -> you have no craving).


Hijacking this comment to ask about Huberman, can he really be lumped in with the other two in that list?

I listen to his podcast for a while and stopped when I realized most of what he is talking about is marginal stuff or ”new research suggests”, which I found less interesting.

But has he really ever been a grifter selling complete bunk? Not talking about the ad-segments, which are of course payed endorsements.


This article seems like a fairly comprehensive run down of the issues: https://slate.com/technology/2024/03/andrew-huberman-huberma...


Well, here he is promoting complete bunk, so the question answers itself.


> You can think of Q collar as a baby version of health scams promoted by wealthy and powerful medical-adjacent celebrities such as Dr. Oz, Andrew Huberman, and RFK Jr.

This sentence does not imply that Huberman has endorsed this product.


That is fair, especially on this occasion. On the other hand I have found some of his material very helpful, particularly around sleep and helping me maintain my circadian rhythm.


You might be interested in these critiques of Huberman:

"So, Should You Trust Andrew Huberman?" by Dr. Andrea Love: https://slate.com/technology/2024/03/andrew-huberman-huberma...

"Is Self-Help Guru PhD a Womanizer and Pseudoscientific Nonsense Broker? | Andrew Huberman Analysis" by Dr. Todd Grande: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANW3daJggoQ

He definitely has content that is helpful to people, but there's probably better sources for the same information.


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: