15:[[42986335,{"by":"raviisoccupied","descendants":45,"id":42986335,"kids":[42986480,42986677,42986656,42988073,42996702,42988571,42986950,42986928,42989012,42986772,42986390],"score":66,"time":1739049858,"title":"Mark Zuckerberg messages Facebook engineer","type":"story","url":"https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1888313183024074910"}],[42803774,{"by":"skidrow","descendants":26,"id":42803774,"kids":[42820906,42820889,42821867,42820806,42821225],"score":135,"time":1737638932,"title":"An overview of gradient descent optimization algorithms (2016)","type":"story","url":"https://www.ruder.io/optimizing-gradient-descent/"}],[42791671,{"by":"dustingetz","descendants":9,"id":42791671,"kids":[42792199,42792309,42792132,42792209,42792173,42792122,42792201],"score":18,"time":1737546026,"title":"I Won't Invest (2019)","type":"story","url":"https://davidjarvis.com/why-i-wont-invest/"}],[42616145,{"by":"iamsanteri","descendants":16,"id":42616145,"kids":[42616275,42616741,42616570,42616639,42616374,42617341,42616553,42616427,42616223,42618177,42616582,42635163,42616655],"score":10,"text":"I’ve been following him for longer than I remember, and honestly, deep inside I still think he is on the right path despite him being autistic and putting his nose into politics. Do you think we are losing the man?","time":1736199235,"title":"Ask HN: Has Musk \"lost the plot\"?","type":"story"}],[42424009,{"by":"georgestrakhov","descendants":16,"id":42424009,"kids":[42425059,42424135,42424169,42424190,42424525,42479600,42460341,42424326,42424062],"score":12,"text":"In his recent talk Ilya S. said that the data running out is a fundamental constraint on the scaling laws.\nHe said "we have but one internet".

But I don't understand: there is so much data in the real world beyond the internet.\nWebcams. Microphones. Cars. Robots...\nEverything can collect multimodal data and more importantly (for robots) even get feedback loops from reality.

So isn't data functionally infinite? And the only thing standing in the way is the number of sensors and open datastreams and datasets.

Please help me understand","time":1734277525,"title":"Ask HN: Why is Ilya saying data is limited when the whole world is data?","type":"story"}],[42377021,{"by":"bookofjoe","descendants":6,"id":42377021,"kids":[42380082,42377267,42377302,42377024,42377108,42377029],"score":7,"time":1733840225,"title":"Ozempic Killed Diet and Exercise","type":"story","url":"https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/12/diet-exercise-ozempic/680909/"}],[42228257,{"by":"MeetingsBrowser","descendants":23,"id":42228257,"kids":[42229732,42231344,42237259,42246884,42236772,42228282,42231291,42249579,42230763,42230771,42239314,42242898,42253196],"score":37,"text":"At least subjectively, Claude has been outperforming other LLMs for me for a while.

They seemed to be having significant availability issues this week.

As of this morning things are working for me but the quality of the responses seems to be much worse.

I frequently ask for lists of ideas and then drill down in follow up prompts. Today Claude keeps responding to my request for bulleted lists with something like, “I should not use lists unless explicitly requested and should instead write in paragraphs”, and then responds in paragraphs.

Is anyone else having a similar experience?","time":1732460748,"title":"Did Claude's quality drop recently?","type":"story"}],[42195433,{"by":"mathverse","descendants":53,"id":42195433,"kids":[42198966,42203646,42203820,42206655,42204878,42196107,42196284,42195592,42206021,42202862,42197798,42197223,42195647,42203415,42196740,42195917,42224811],"score":27,"text":"EU is in a perpetual state of decline and it seems there are no solutions in sight that would change its path in the next decade.

Everything seems so stagnant and the costs of living are rising while the salaries do not increase whatsoever.

What's worse is that due to its economic decline politicians and leaders try to persuade the populace that a lot of things that we enjoy and contribute to our quality of life are now considered luxury or outright sinful. The same kind of rhetoric that is used to sin tax tobacco, alcohol, gambling is now used on things like:

- car ownership\n- Air Conditioning\n- Travel\n- meat and dairy","time":1732119649,"title":"Ask HN: How to Emigrate from EU and Where?","type":"story"}],[42193612,{"by":"bodhi_mind","descendants":2,"id":42193612,"kids":[42193692],"score":1,"text":"$16","time":1732108139,"title":"Ask HN: Future Proofing Career (Quantum computing?)","type":"story"}],[42145261,{"by":"informal007","descendants":20,"id":42145261,"kids":[42161898,42145983,42163173,42156636,42150782,42148503,42151695,42148385,42147132,42147816,42145859,42146579,42164041,42148875,42171408],"score":6,"text":"With only a month and a half left in 2024, take a moment to review your annual plan and identify what’s still incomplete. Let’s work on finishing them!

As for me:

1. Fitness progress hasn’t been great.

2. Haven’t met my reading target for books.

Keep going!!","time":1731663032,"title":"Ask HN: What are the things you haven't accomplished for 2024?","type":"story"}],[42129187,{"by":"yungtriggz","descendants":4,"id":42129187,"kids":[42129224,42130430],"score":2,"text":"I don't understand.

Anecdotally, myself and every engineer I know has transitioned over the last 6 months from never using Claude and it being discussed as unusable (relative to GPT 4o) to everyone now using Claude while ChatGPT (specifically o1-preview) increasingly feels like it has become unusable for coding. 3.5 Sonnet seems to have been the big turning point.

Yet, all I see online is about how o1 is such an insane step forwards. I just don't see or feel it - in fact actually I vehemently disagree.

Would love to hear what you use and if that's changed at all - and if so, why so.

Sincerely,\nbaffled","time":1731527031,"title":"Why does everyone keep saying OpenAI's o1 is so much better than Claude?","type":"story"}],[42113937,{"by":"metayrnc","descendants":15,"id":42113937,"kids":[42114392,42114016,42114486,42114491,42117678,42113947,42114552],"score":4,"text":"I’m curious how leadership decides who gets laid off. Have you noticed any patterns? Do you have any suggestions for people in situations where they might be impacted by layoffs? Thank you!","time":1731402505,"title":"Ask HN: Who's Most Likely to Get Laid Off During Layoffs?","type":"story"}],[42079768,{"by":"systemkwiat","descendants":601,"id":42079768,"kids":[42080186,42080471,42080533,42080834,42080906,42080383,42081185,42080078,42080255,42081668,42080530,42080239,42080076,42080451,42080585,42080531,42081247,42083643,42080684,42080292,42080133,42081640,42080355,42080513,42080457,42080360,42080157,42080280,42080114,42080981,42084770,42080077,42080784,42080336,42080257,42080346,42080621,42080741,42081960,42080541,42080538,42085515,42081121,42080115,42080683,42080173,42080191,42092574,42080446,42084790,42081444,42080529,42080266,42080080,42081057,42080308,42080172,42080939,42080507,42080718,42080211,42081374,42080512,42081665,42080167,42104858,42080230,42081272,42080433,42082265,42080670,42081116,42087719,42080717,42083317,42084084,42080228,42081138,42080678,42081573,42080635,42080138,42083638,42082096,42085239,42080363,42081393,42092653,42083885,42104855,42090657,42113169,42104851,42104853,42080128,42081397,42088786,42081130,42099337,42081345,42084127,42080431,42083804,42087127,42081835,42080177,42082158,42084197,42080742,42094243,42083349,42080089,42084816,42081322,42080540,42080454,42080550,42087024,42081946,42081825,42080808,42121462,42085413,42081343,42086991,42081410,42080732,42083285,42080631,42107616,42080560,42081353,42087969,42082920,42081627,42080220,42080704,42127353,42103246,42088154,42080829,42080500,42080248,42083476,42084039,42084038,42110307,42081661,42081232],"score":288,"text":"Hey folks,

I’m curious – is there anything you've bought in the past few years (since 2020) that really changed something in your life? Could be anything, like a gadget, a course, a subscription, even a massage or some random item you didn't think much of at first.

Let’s split it up into two categories:

- Under $100\n - Under $1000

What did you get? And what was the impact? I’d love to hear the stories – big or small changes, whatever made a difference for you.

Thanks in advance for sharing!","time":1731006374,"title":"Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? (Under $100 and under $1000)","type":"story"}],[41917594,{"by":"dondraper36","descendants":26,"id":41917594,"kids":[41917637,41918410,41917721,41918030,41927261,41927651,41918171,41920832,41942613,41941108,41943643,41917701,41918725,41919975,41917609,41929838,41923947,41918143,41920505,41928338,41920620,41941512,41932673,41917599],"score":11,"text":"At work, I use Go and Python, but a short while ago I started learning Clojure and fell in love with the simplicity and a totally different approach to everything.

What is your favourite second language and why?","time":1729624223,"title":"Ask HN: What is a programming language that you don't use at work but enjoy?","type":"story"}]]

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