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I am not sure if this is how it works but let's say there was a reddit thread talking about the pelican benchmark and in it someone posts mockup examples of what an ideal result would look like

aren't some LLM going to digest that thread at some point and indirectly learn from it?

basically my point is originally this was a good benchmark because it was an absurd never-seen-before thing, but now that it is in content, some models are going to get a benefit in education?

you'd need the "AI" equivalent of an old-school "google whack", something with no previous results

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlewhack

Yeah no, Norway and a few others are the free-est country in history, just because someone declares US is "free" doesn't make it true, we disappear citizens all the time, police can seize your property without cause, government can seize your land for datacenters and women lose more and more rights every year

Again, Franklin knew slavery was wrong, literally campaigned to end it for that reason, yet did it himself for decades in the meanwhile, not a difficult horror to grasp in any time

somewhat more "fun" and impressive (despite useless) are "Franklin Bells" which way before anyone figured out electric motors, was the first example of electricity to mechanical energy

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_bells

of course incredibly crude

(imagine showing a paperclip motor to someone in 1750 https://player.vimeo.com/video/120255518 )

but it must be said, as genius as Franklin was, sadly he bears the original sin of owning slaves EVEN AS AN ABOLITIONIST and didn't free them until after his death (via will) - it's more than a little f-ed up

for a moment I thought this was going to be about arc-lights in the 1800s that mechanically touch electrodes and then draw apart

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_lamp

it's amazing how far we've come

think about Benjamin Franklin twenty-five years before Declaration of Independence naming the first "battery" (out of the concept of lined-up artillery) by connecting a series of lynden jars (basically capacitors) - he also invented the concept of +/- positive and negative

now we've got space telescopes and probes leaving the solar system

imagine what's coming in another 300 years

I think the idea is if "AI" can solve math proofs that humans haven't for a century then if "AI" freestyles stolen art and literature then it might create something as good if not better because of resources and processing power

There might be something to that logic but art and literature doesn't obey rules like math and copyright exists to protect creators

follow the money

I've observed there seems to be some kind of game by this administration to make $3-6 million PER DAY by any means, pardons, gifts, tariff cutouts etc. so it become a billion in his pocket each year after taxes, if he pays taxes anymore which is highly dubious because he feels impervious to crime repercussions

there should be ten impeachment articles this time like the 10 commandments, heck congress could parallel them

without the Senate it's just going to be a dog-and-pony show tho

I think I read somewhere around here the code could be run today on something as low powered as the chip that runs the USB charger for an iphone

So yeah I'd like to see that lol

vaguely related I read a fascinating story the other day about basically garbage dumping of leftover oyster/clam shells being used to re-seed a marine ecosystem off the Florida Keys

* https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/florida-dumped-h...

imagine what this looks like in three more years by 2029, 1000 more days

they are lying more and more to courts, they immediately move people out of state at great expense to prevent lawyers from access

we only know of the warehouse prisons they gave up on, there are likely many moving forward or already exist in secret buried inside military bases without press or congressional access

if the Dems don't win the Senate the country is done, House is not enough, House will just be a dog-and-pony show since they have no enforcement powers

Our country is now a clown show

Heritage Foundation, you know those super-left liberals, already did this and found like a hundred votes max over a decade and most of those were pure accidents and not intentional fraud, certainly not able to sway elections even by accident

I previously felt there was a suitable purpose for a small tiny ICE like Obama-sized era

But now I'm with the abolish folks, it's 100% irredeemable and between them executing people without repercussions and a budget larger than many critical organizations, just delete them completely and start over.

post-midnight tweet rants incoming

the end of CNN is going to be as sad as the end of 60 Minutes and Colbert

didn't have to be this way and really shouldn't be possible but here we are

and completely seriously:

7. right-wing gains power and bans bike lanes anyway, labeling them "leftist"

city after city in various states/countries

but back to phones

the real problem is they can't rule that parents must be responsible for their children

I find the moral panic about kids with phones/internet access fascinating

because of course it's a problem, but it's not the root cause of the problem

ps. I am so old we weren't allowed to have calculators in school, absolutely forbidden

16GB ECC DDR5 was $50 early 2025

it is now $500

when the AI/datacenter bubble finally bursts we are going to have some amazing hardware deals

I have CNS and nerve damage from covid and my hands are basically my regulators now

I get Raynauds syndrome even in the summer

Basically if my hands are warm, I am warm, if my hands are cold my entire body is cold

always wanted to try this Sony cooling device

* https://www.sony.com.hk/reonpocket/2026/en/

but wrist heater/cooler might also work

* https://embrlabs.com/products/embr-wave-2

they aren't going to get "shellacked"

that would seem logical but it has nothing to do with logic

this happened because 50% of latinos (natural born, naturalized) voted for the Orange Infant because THEY DONT CARE about anything else except they thought it would give them an economic edge and pull up the ladder behind them

they aren't going to go vote Democratic this election, at best they might stay home because they don't want ICE disappearing them for weeks while they pointlessly argue they are citizens

if the Democrats don't get the Senate, country is done, and I don't think they can get the Senate even if gas was $5

elections are now won by 1% or 2% and people staying home is not enough to change things, they'd have to vote Democrat which they are too spiteful to do

just imagine the damage by 2029 if the Democrats don't get the Senate

remember even with full impeachment, Vance becomes President and that would be a NIGHTMARE even worse than what we have now, they will double-down in spite

winning the House is just going to be a puppet-show for two years

there is one single person who is driving 99% of the damage

Russell Vought

everyone knows who Stephen Miller is but Russell Vought is the real monster

for perspective, he got rid of the very programs that developed a drug to keep his child alive from a rare genetically inherited disease

now you get what we are dealing with

and here's the thing, Vance is the handpicked successor by Heritage Foundation so even if Trump goes away someday, the nightmare will continue if not get even worse

might take a century to recover, I don't see how this is overcome in a mere decade

what an ugly question

super easy for US to kill lots of innocent civilians tho

just get rid of the agencies responsible for reviewing targets for civilians

imagine one person being able to put the entire country into yet another forever war

it will be 2029 and this nightmare will still be going down, sucking trillions from our economy while everyone suffers his damn ego

now we are taking out civilian bridges and water supplies, Iranians will never forgive us for generations, wait a another decade or two and the idiots here will elect someone even worse

btw diesel will hit all time record by the end of this year so even those who really don't care kids are being murdered for no reason might finally take it personally

I realize this particular case is state level but at the federal level $21 TRILLION has been spent on militarization including police forces from 2001-2021

https://ips-dc.org/report-state-of-insecurity-cost-militariz...

enough is enough, it is beyond ridiculous, imagine how much food, clothing, shelter and healthcare that could have bought instead

The discussions around that 1140b Super-Earth made me realize if most of life is on 10G planets, they aren't making it out of orbit, maybe not even into orbit

Even just 2G would require much more advanced technology than we have now to escape the planet

could machine-learning even handle a TEN PAGE PROMPT just a year ago?

this is changing my mind, at least about experts using advanced tools like any profession where it's like the magic of watching a lifetime of hard-earned skill at work

After seeing OpenAI’s CDC result, I wrote a much more elaborate prompt following the same general methodology. My prompt is about ten pages long and attached at the end of the preprint (see collection of links below). There is a lot baked into this prompt, on approaches to try and also on how exactly the model should proceed, but it's built exactly in the style of OpenAI's CDC prompt. One note is that I gave it a relatively small error requirement, to prove the quadratic lower bound under order d⁻⁴ accuracy.

After 148 minutes, GPT-5.6 Sol Pro returned a proposed proof resolving the quadratic dimension dependence at accuracy of order d⁻³. After checking things myself, I formally verified the proof in Lean, and it passed the formal verification check.

routers could solve this for consumers with a checkbox for "intranet only"

99% of consumers won't know how to setup a firewall but could handle a checkbox

only problem I have is I can't seem to punch a hole for time sync and it won't use my local intranet time server

btw there is now open-source 3rd party firmware for some tp-link cameras from https://thingino.com

I still remember clearly sitting down to play with the TRS-80 at the local Radio Shack in the 1970s

Unlike anything I had ever experienced, it was life changing, I would bike to the store every day after school

Family couldn't afford the computer but I bought all the books and would read them at home over and over and gawk at all the accessories in the catalogs

Then family surprised me with it as a birthday present with all the relatives paying for it, pretty sure I was the only person in town with one, even the school didn't get one for years

Didn't have any way to save programs, not even the cassette recorder which was too expensive, had to memorize them and retype every time I turned it on

it is just so weird to me that nearly $9 BILLION can be created out of nowhere for nothing

how can that be healthy for civilization

personally rooting for a gamma-ray burst within 8000 light years (which incidentally would have been traveling since the start of recorded human history)

the entire upper atmosphere would be turned to nitrogen dioxide

even the side of earth not facing the burst would have all life die very quickly because the ozone layer would just be GONE, so now all lethal ultraviolet solar radiation gets in too

solves ALL our problems

unfortunately Congress might survive a few more months in their underground bunkers but they are eventually doomed too

we talked about this in great detail yesterday on HN with some fantastic comments

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939742

NASA has a neat exoplanet catalog where you can also switch to its solar system view

* https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanet-catalog/lhs-1140-b/

Super-Earths are interesting but not technically habitable, at least not by humanoids, the gravity would be insane

There are new telescopes and techniques coming online really soon that can potentially find closer to Earth-sized planets but they probably won't be within 50 light years

adding: hmm maybe gravity not too horrible on 1140b but still INTENSE

(assuming Google's "AI" is correct)

Gravity Formula: \frac{Mass}{Radius^2}\)Calculation: \(5.6 \div (1.73)^2 = 5.6 \div 2.9929 \approx 1.87\)

if you weigh 150 lbs on Earth, you would weigh roughly 280.5 lbs on 1140b

or it's all the "pollution" leaking from their fusion reactors ;-)

one thing about physics, particularly astro-physics, is it's NEVER boring

been diving into PBS-Space-Time and DrBecky past few years as distraction from the endless nightmare of the world we are living in

this has been a great educational thread on HN too, I knew rockets would have to be bigger but didn't realize exponential and the 10g upper-limit

also puts the "Mars sample return" mission into perspective, very difficult

the catalog says 6.38x mass in one place and 5.6x mass in another

they must be able to calculate mass from orbital physics?

so you'd need a rocket 6x the size of SaturnV or whatever they are using for Artemis to escape it and most of that rocket is to lift the weight of the fuel for said rocket so it might be physically impossible to build such a creature at current level of tech

(might be yet another angle to "why no ETs" unless they are WAY more advanced)

wow 50 light years is indeed "nearby" in relative terms

nearly 6x the size of earth though, good luck trying to launch a probe off that surface

NASA has a neat "exoplanet catalog" which is about to leap in size next few years with new telescopes and techniques

* https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanet-catalog/lhs-1140-b/