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by cb321 | 2025-07-06 16:56:37+00:00
That article is a pretty good overview at the time.

Only one benchmark on one system, but over in day before yesterday's HN thread on this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44464272), I report a rather significant slowdown in Perl start up overhead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44467268 . Of course, at least for me, Python3 is worse than Python2 by an even larger factor and Python2 worse than Perl today by an even larger factor.

FWIW, in Nim, you can get a CGI that probably runs faster than the Go of this article with simply:

import std/cgi # By default both .. for (key, val) in decodeData(): #.. $QUERY_STRING & POST if key == "something": do_something(val)

I don't know of a `cgitb` equivalent even in the Nimbleverse. Some of the many web frameworks in Nim like jester seem to have that kind of thing built into them, though I realize a framework is not the same as CGI (and that's one of the charms of CGI).
by somenameforme | 2025-07-06 16:56:42+00:00
Perhaps not instantly good, but there's obviously major skill transfer between domains. In physical domains this is easy to see and understand with countless demonstrations of professional athletes who decide to swap sports and reach a professional level in the new sport with relative ease. And I think the exact same is true in mental domains.

World class expertise in some mental field is not achieved solely by knowledge within that field, but by a distinct ability to process and apply information in a novel way. And that skill is highly transferrable to other fields. Of course you still need to then accumulate information in said other field, which is why it's not instantaneous, but if a world class individual in one field puts their energy towards mastery of another field, I certainly would not bet against their success!
by conductr | 2025-07-06 16:57:02+00:00
The correct path would be to establish/find a consumer protection group to help legislative bodies craft the documents in a way that held true to the spirit of what is driving this initiative. The industry will do the same to thing. So as the documents are drafted the feedback from the public’s standpoint continues to have a voice. Hopefully that happens but it’s too early in the process to say and it requires funding too.

The hang ups can’t simply be nihilistic complaints about the government’s abilities without any solutions proposed. That’s an argument for doing nothing
by chickenzzzzu | 2025-07-06 16:57:18+00:00
I don't think the companies should be required to release server executables ever, and yes especially not at release.

Let me try to argue against my own point with WoW as an example then.

You say there are unofficial/private servers. Are these server builds downloadable online somewhere? It doesn't matter if it was from a leak, a reverse engineering effort, etc. Or are they the guarded property of the groups running the private servers?

The reason I ask is because, it is my opinion that once a reliable build exists, inevitably it will be hosted in China and Russia and so on, and now you have a serious competitor to deal with who doesn't need to follow the same laws as you.

If WoW is still able to make a ton of money despite widely available builds being out there, then I think my position would be that WoW is just a cultural phenomenon that can survive all of that. But if it turns out that the server builds aren't widely available, I'd be curious to see how it survives when those are released.

Think-- why would you pay a quite high monthly price for the official thing when you can pay pennies for the same exact thing? The only possible answer is conveniece and network effects ("my friends are on the official WoW so...")
by d3bunker | 2025-07-06 16:58:10+00:00
I smell scam, for the following reason:

1. this is NOT a product is an Indiegogo fund raising:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/worlds-first-portable-mos...

the product estimated shipment should be * october 2025*

2. In the Indiegogo page, they assert it will use a Lidar ( laser based) and not a mm radar ( based on radio signals );

3. Can a Lidar track something big as a mosquito ? apparently NO:

https://dronelife.com/2025/04/15/sony-launches-worlds-smalle...

the small Lidar for commercial use like the Sony AS-DT1 , advertised like the "World’s Smallest and Lightest Precision LiDAR Sensor" available today hare a resolution of * ±5 centimeters* that is good for an Xenomorph but not for a mosquito and, anyway , for Xenomorph there are better options :-) , see : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS2PtmM9mwU

4. The video of the company on youtube seems just another computer graphic gimmick to sell vaporware, IMHO. There is a prototype someone can independently test ?

They write "Relying on the advancement of lidar detection technology, this sci-fi and magical product will soon truly become a reality", I have to say no, not for now.

Please tell me if I'm wrong.
by Tokumei-no-hito | 2025-07-06 16:58:18+00:00
i have come across this one for example https://github.com/sentient-agi/OML-1.0-Fingerprinting

> Welcome to OML 1.0: Fingerprinting. This repository houses the tooling for generating and embedding secret fingerprints into LLMs through fine-tuning to enable identification of LLM ownership and protection against unauthorized use.
by jlokier | 2025-07-06 16:59:10+00:00
> I never understand why people make comments like this

It's intentional, because the location has nothing to do with the actual point. Stating it invites people to focus on the location too much instead of the actual point, or to say things like "oh that's just your country / town, we can assume that's anomalous".

Which would be missing the point entirely.

If you're interested in the location you can find out. It's no secret, though I would advise against trusting people's locations on LinkedIn, they are often not where the person currently works or lives.

But I'm not interested in stating it. For the point I was making, the specific location, or even the country, detracts from that.

You've traveled in 50+ countries. Just from that, you're an extreme economic and social outlier. You are almost certainly taking journeys that are systematically different from those taken by the majority of people, and the price brackets and journey routes you're comparing between services are different than those used by other people. It may well be that the comparison works out differently as a result.

Not to disregard your experience. You've plenty. But you are very unusual, and it's impossible to travel that much without taking journeys that other people never or very rarely take.

I would not be surprised if the "obvious foreigner" premium is there for taxis, even if you're experienced. I'd find it unlikely that you became so intimately familiar with all 50+ countries as to get the true "favour for a friend" fare in all 50+ including those where that's more common, and that you took the same journeys as locals do in all of them.

On the other side (and on the original topic), Uber has reason to optimise for traveller cohorts. If Uber wanted to seem cheaper than local taxis to people in your cohort, to a greater extent than for other people, they could probably do that, and it would make economic sense if their algorithm statistically optimises for that. Profit-maximising algorithms with "personalised" pricing default-optimise for trade with wealthier customers who use their services more often, for journeys associated with other spending, such as to/from travel hubs and hotels, and for separating out cohorts in subtle ways that maximise the inability of cohort members to detect the separation.
by nanomonkey | 2025-07-06 16:59:23+00:00
Shamir's Secret sharing allows one to store secret keys within m of n number of your peer group (where m is less than n), thus you can hand out an encrypted secret with 5 of your friends and reproduce the secret by getting 3 of them to respond back to you with the secret at a later date. None of the peers will be able to reproduce the secret by themselves.

There are other options for key storage, revoking group privileges, etc. It's an extensive topic, but the foundation is there, it just depends on your network and use cases.
by _benton | 2025-07-06 16:59:28+00:00
I'm introverted and I enjoy networking and group activities and also meeting and chatting with strangers. I just can't do it all day every day, I need breaks.

Having social anxiety is different from not knowing how to talk to people and make friends. Bill Russel would get so worked up before games he would throw up. But he could also perform.

I think it depends on what you're anxious about. Being scared that people will dislike you is different from being scared of embarrassment and it's different from being scared you don't know what to do in the moment.

Of course all of those can be helped by simply exposing yourself to the situation over and over again. You learn that if you do embarrass yourself or if people dislike you, the world doesn't turn to ash.
by hakfoo | 2025-07-06 17:00:18+00:00
The Ford model shown has been oversimplified to the point of absurdity by using only one industry. The real economy is about flows between multiple sectors. Who's buying bread? Do they have enough disposable income to buy packaged bread or just flour to bake at home? If there's a packaged bread industry, does it become robust enough to justify buying delivery trucks from Ford?

On the other hand, on a much broader scale, the planet itself is a closed economic loop. There's a finite amount of resources and we're all just cycling most of them around back and forth.

Arguably, a significant amount of "growth" has come from taking resources that formerly were not "on the books" and putting them on. The silver in the New World wasn't in (Western) ledgers until the 1500s, the oil under the Middle East was just goo until the late 1800s. The uranium ore in your backyard suddenly got a lot more interesting after 1940.

New value can come from inventing new and useful applications for existing resources or by finding new external inputs (maybe capturing some of that radiation the giant fusion sphere overhead is blasting in our direction).
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-07-06 17:00:32+00:00
For this you lose a day of llm usage? Big deal. Don’t mean to pick on you at all but I also saw you with a comment above along the lines of ‘but what if the llm includes nsfw stuff?’ which again seems to be clutching at straws since we all still at least review whats being added.

I feel since the worst criticisms of llms in this thread boil down to down to ‘llm might be offline, might include nsfw stuff and might lead to non experts coding with poor results’ which are such weak criticisms that it’s is a damn good compliment to just how good they’ve gotten isn’t it?
by ben_w | 2025-07-06 17:00:53+00:00
If you live in the USA, just as the Democrat Party shouldn't rely on it being bad enough to be remembered, individuals shouldn't rely on it being mild enough to be forgotten

It might be either, but on a personal level, there's multiple things this administration is actively proud of doing/having done that are so bad I expect a noticable reducion in aggregate US life expectency.
by throw10920 | 2025-07-06 17:01:44+00:00
You're confused about the meaning of "voting with your wallet".

> But it's true.

It's not - you're talking about something else entirely. When @umvi says "vote with your wallet" they mean buy things whose values you support. You, and GP @thrance, are not describing that - you're describing people buying things on autopilot without respect to values - the exact opposite. So, no, we haven't had decades of "unsuccessful voting with your wallet" because consumers have been mentally checked out for decades.

> So "voting with wallet" doesn't really work, because you will be outvoted by majority of people who don't know what they're getting into

That's literally how normal democracy works - if the majority of the populace is uninformed, then they'll vote in an uninformed way, and the solution is for them to get informed and start doing research and making conscious decisions. That's what @umvi means when they say "vote with your wallet." - active participation instead of passive existence.

You're confusing the lack of active participation with the presence of it.
by aspenmayer | 2025-07-06 17:01:59+00:00
> Related:

> Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26212706 - Feb 2021 (9 comments)

> Iskhur's Guide to Electronic Music - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25083516 - Nov 2020 (1 comment)

> Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20744571 - Aug 2019 (71 comments)

via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37920641 h/t dang
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by AstroBen | 2025-07-06 17:02:21+00:00
100%.

LLMs aren't good engineers. They're mediocre, overengineering, genius, dumb, too simplistic, clean coding, overthinking, underthinking, great but terrible engineers rolled into one. You can get them to fight for any viewpoint you want with the right prompt. They're literally everything at once

To get good code out of them, you have to understand what good code is in the first place and lead them to it

My experience is iterating through 5 potential options being like "nope, that wont work, do it this way.. nope adjust that.. nope add more of this.. oh yeah that's great!"

The "that's great!" made me nervous that an LLM was capable of producing code as good as me until I realized that I threw out most of what it gave.. and someone less experienced would've taken the first suggestion without realizing its drawbacks
by crote | 2025-07-06 17:03:00+00:00
Not really. A regular truck & trailer is way too big to fit in space-constrained city centers. When it gets really tight they'll just send a box truck, often with a trailer they can leave behind outside the city center for some extra capacity when it's a multi-stop trip [0]. The fancy ones even have doors in the front of the trailer, making it quite easy to move freight from the trailer into the box truck itself.

On the other hand, the highway infrastructure has plenty of space for large trucks. If the roads to & from the main highway network can handle it, some countries will give you permits for all sorts of fancy combinations[1] up to 83 ft long. Considering that it'll still be pulled with a regular cab-over truck, that's a lot of space for freight. They are now even trialing the "Super EcoCombi", which is essentially two full semi-trailers[2], for a total of 105 ft!

[0]: https://assets-global.website-files.com/6424195493a93d7e7fe4...

[1]: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langere_en_Zwaardere_Vrachtaut...

[2]: https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads...
by lucumo | 2025-07-06 17:03:32+00:00
It's funny. You call me self-centered, yet you feel that you have the right to impose your life story on others.

But sure, I'll admit to writing in an abrasive style. So I'll rephrase.

"This is a good thing. It clearly signals to others that I have no value to bring to a conversation with a random person. Might I suggest you read a book on a topic you find exhilarating? It will be infinitely more rewarding than any conversation with me will be for you."

Happy now?
by morkalork | 2025-07-06 17:05:16+00:00
Once again, scientists do science. Governments do governance. A scientist can do research and come to conclusions like "dumping tons of CO2 into the atmosphere is bad mmmmkay" and tell you goals like "targeting x-degrees of warming will save us from the worst consequences". Politicians and governments should take those statements and goals and build plans around them and then we can vote for the ones who've got the best plan (or not). Expecting scientists to do the government's job is abdicating all responsibility and setting everyone up for failure.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-07-06 17:05:32+00:00
This is what I always wonder in the back of my head as well. Take passive vocabulary size - it should be fairly easy to show people who claim to speak a given language a random selection of words in various frequency bands, and ask them either what they mean or what other words out of a list are closest to it semantically, to estimate their actual vocabulary size. If you don't think showing isolated words is an adequate metric of someone's true gloss skill, you can show words embedded in sentences. But we never even hear about these kinds of estimates in these stories, let alone anything more in depth.
by gausswho | 2025-07-06 17:05:39+00:00
I've often wondered why sports and sim games don't tell these trademark peddlers to pound sand and ship with robust modding tools. Eager fans can then add unofficial versions of Mercedes, Lionel Messi, and a jet in the shape of the Great Redeemer.

We had this a decade ago with Asetto Corsa, PES, and Skyrim, but it appears to be falling out of favor. Are the publishers or developers not doing this because of legal liability or because they want to get a financial piece of the mod pie?
by jappgar | 2025-07-06 17:06:26+00:00
You're right but the knee-jerk response to this realization is to cut taxes and starve the government of its only legitimate fundraising mechanism.

While government sponsored monopolies certainly exist, monopolies themselves are a natural outcome of competition.

Deregulation would break some monopolies while encouraging others to grow. The new monopolies may be far worse than the ones we had before.
by MarkusWandel | 2025-07-06 17:06:30+00:00
Little did they know what was coming.

Thing 1: Everyone staring into their smartphones, nobody conversing at all. In many context where in the past, people would have started conversations out of sheer boredom, but made social connections that way.

Thing 2: A good 50% (and growing) people on sidewalks, bike paths etc. are completely oblivious to auditory stimuli such as callouts like "may I pass please" or bike bells or, for that matter, cars! Inevitably they have Airpods-style earphones in. With advanced environmental noise cancellation. At least the foam pad on-ear headphones of the Walkman era let other sounds through.
by mike_hearn | 2025-07-06 17:06:33+00:00
There already is one. The idea there's anything special about Mauna Loa is wrong; CO2 sensors can be found around the world. I looked at them once. They show the same general slope but very different absolute levels (which is odd, because the usual claim is that CO2 is well mixed in the atmosphere). They also vary enormously in reading stability, because CO2 levels are dominated by nearby vegetation growth and the seasons.
by hakfoo | 2025-07-06 17:06:40+00:00
There are plenty of non-political routes to social status.

Ask how many of your neighbours can name three Supreme Court justices (or hell, their senators and representative) versus who can name three Khardashian sisters?

TBH, I'd hope for the end of "broad" social status. I'd love to see a retreat towards smaller circles where status is earned through displays of talent and respectable deeds, not just by dominating/manufacturing/buying a media presence.
by samuelklam | 2025-07-06 17:06:42+00:00
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by TeMPOraL | 2025-07-06 17:07:34+00:00
> You assume that I'm offended by the comparison with aliens, and that I belong to a certain demographic. I'm actually not personally offended by it.

I don't know where I got that notion. Oh, wait, maybe because of you constantly calling some opinions and perspectives offensive, and making that the most important problem about them. There's a distinct school of "philosophy"/"thought" whose followers get deadly offended over random stuff like this, so...

> It is hilarious to see you use off-the-shelf arguments against wokeism to try to put me down.

... excuse me for taking your arguments seriously.

> My point is that, despite of any of our personal preferences, LLMs should have been aligned to academia. That's because they're trying to sell their product to academia.

Since when?

Honestly, this view surprises me even more than what I assumed was you feigning offense (and that was a charitable assumption, my other hypothesis was that it was in earnest, which is even worse).

LLMs were not created for academia. They're not sold to academia; in fact, academia is the second biggest group of people whining about LLMs after the "but copyright!" people. LLMs are, at best, upsold to academia. It's a very important potential area of application, but it's actually not a very good market.

Being offended by fringe theories is as anti-academic as it gets, so you're using weird criteria anyway. Circling back to your example, if LLMs were properly aligned for academic work, then when you tried to insist on something being offensive, they wouldn't acquiesce, they'd call you out as full of shit. Alas, they won't, by default, because of the crowd you mentioned and implicitly denied association with.

> These online LLMs have a huge patchwork of fixes to prevent issues like the one I demonstrated. Very few people understand how much of this work, and that it's almost fraudulent in how it works.

If you're imagining OpenAI, et al. are using a huge table of conditionals to hot-patch replies on a case-by-case basis, there's no evidence of that. It would be trivial to detect and work around anyways. Yes, training has stages and things are constantly tuned, but it's not a "patchwork of fixes", not any more than you learning what is and isn't appropriate over years of your life.
by bwfan123 | 2025-07-06 17:07:38+00:00
> Any sufficiently advanced AI technology is indistinguishable from bullshit

love this quote !

The whole sales-pitch for AI is predicated on FOMO - from developers being replaced by AI-enabled engineers to countries being left-behind by AI-slop. Like crypto, the idea is to get-big-fast, and become too big to fail. This worked for social-media but I find it hard to believe it can work for AI.

My hope is that: while some of the people can be fooled all the time, all the people cannot be fooled all the time.