MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by whycome | 2025-09-17 18:42:56+00:00
The breadth of industry is so vast that people have wildly different takes on this. For a lot of simple coding tasks (eg custom plugins or apps) an LLM is not only efficient, but extremely competent. Some traditional coders are having a harder time working with them when a major challenge comes from defining the problem and constraints well. It’s usually something kept in head. So, new skill sets are emerging and being refined. The ones that thrive here will not be coders, but it will be generalists with excellent management and communication skills.
by groue | 2025-09-17 18:43:03+00:00
Yes. GRDB encourages Codable because the user can profit from the code generated by the compiler, and this implies that database values are accessed by column name, on top of the Codable runtime, and those layers have a high cost. When necessary it is possible to access database values by position, and in this case GRDB achieves speed of light (performance nearly identical as raw SQLite).
by mynameisash | 2025-09-17 18:43:55+00:00
I really enjoyed Veritasium for a while, but it seems like he's fallen into this trap. Click-baity, cookie-cutter videos.

On the other hand, while I didn't follow Tom Scott particularly closely, I always enjoyed his stuff, and when I learned that he called it quits, I was legitimately happy for him AND his followers -- better to quit while you're ahead than to wear out your welcome.
by 9rx | 2025-09-17 18:44:15+00:00
> From a ML-perspective adding any unrelated country name shouldn’t matter at all.

It matters to humans, and they've written about it extensively over the years — that has almost certainly been included in the training sets used by these large language models. It should matter from a straight training perspective.

> but that should be easily verified if you try this same exact experiment on other models.

Of course, in the real world, it's not just a straight training process. LLM producers put in a lot of effort to try and remove biases. Even DeepSeek claims to, but it's known for operating on a comparatively tight budget. Even if we assume everything is done in good faith, what are the chances it is putting in the same kind of effort as the well-funded American models on this front?
by pests | 2025-09-17 18:44:32+00:00
Like you say, they could target different messages for different geographical areas. Similar to how in the election last year Dearborn, MI (highly middle eastern) got different messaging from both Trump and Kamala wrt Isreal/Palistine compared to the rest of the country on traditional ads.

They can target any age range or demographics, any interests.

We had Uber hiding things from LEO almost a decade ago via geofencing and other tricks, I’m sure it’s a bit more sophisticated now.

You keep bringing Meta/Google into this. I don’t care if they do the same things. I mean, I wouldn’t like it either, but we have solutions available to us. We can pass laws or go to court and handle it internally. A foreign nation is not bound by that.
by uberman | 2025-09-17 18:44:48+00:00
You just said online writing should not be judged on grammar. Why then would it follow that there exists some moral imperative to correct it?

For what it is worth, I used to feel the urge to correct but as I have grown wiser in my years I now see many people smarter than me use grammar in ways i do not. Now i see people who correct others grammar and spelling as pedantic jerks.
by yardie | 2025-09-17 18:45:11+00:00
Bambu X1C: I can recommend the Bambu X1C. It would be my printer of choice. In addition to bed-leveling it has flow calibration and AI detection. With the H2S release prices on the X1C are coming down quickly.

Elegoo Centauri Carbon: I know lots of people will recommend the P1S but this printer has 95% of the features at half the cost. Also extruder temp goes higher (320C), for more exotic materials.
by chromakode | 2025-09-17 18:45:43+00:00
Ton is a personal hero of mine. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a 3d animator because of Ton. I discovered Blender in the early 2000s as a kid. It was my first exposure to digital art tools because it was free. When Blender open sourced in 2002 it was a massive gift to kids around the world like me. (Ton was kind enough to reply to an email of mine at the time thanking him!)

Ton and Blender have brought so much value to the world by making world-class creation tools available to everyone. Blender is one of the most successful open source projects of all time -- going from an underdog project notorious for difficult to use UI to a polished, ubiquitous, industry shaping tool. And never losing sight of the art; it still brings a huge smile to my face when Blender ships another Open Movie. Nearly ~25 years later, thank you again Ton.
by gregschlom | 2025-09-17 18:45:43+00:00
Not necessarily. Youtube makes extensive use of third-party CDNs. A lot of the videos aren't coming from their servers at all. I believe that's also why it's so hard for them to embed the ad directly in the video. They instead having to rely on splicing the ads client-side, which makes it possible to block.

Disclaimer: I work at Google but not at Youtube and have no idea how things work really. This is just based on some info I read online.
by crote | 2025-09-17 18:45:53+00:00
> if you saw the number of bugs that queue up for a popular app like Photos, you'd know that fixing all of them is not going to be possible

Why? If your app is used by billions of people, surely you can afford a few additional testers and engineers? Your app doesn't have an unlimited number of bugs: if you are solving them faster than you are introducing them, the number of bugs will eventually approach zero.

Sure, you'll always have newly-introduced bugs which are still waiting to get fixed, but if you've got an ever-increasing pile of bugs which have been around for years - even when they have been reported with easy-to-reproduce steps - then something has gone horribly wrong with your development process. At a certain point you have to stop shoveling new crap, rethink the workflow which is introducing so many new bugs, and slowly start fixing old bugs. The alternative is that your code will inevitably degrade into 100% bugs and become completely unusable and unmaintainable.
by WhitneyLand | 2025-09-17 18:46:16+00:00
So, the point of the entire article is that he didn’t like the title of paper he’s criticizing?

The post implies flaws in the original paper, then at the very end seems to concede it was technically fine just should’ve been up front about entanglement.

The post should be edited to be more upfront about what he realized after writing it.
by BoorishBears | 2025-09-17 18:46:28+00:00
I'm way more confused why you think a company that makes its living on selling protection from threats, making such a bold claim with so little evidence is a good source.

Compare this to the current NPM situation where a security provider is providing detailed breakdowns of events that do benefit them, but are so detailed that it's easy to separate their own interests from the attack.

This reminds me of Databrick's CTO co-authoring a flimsy paper on how GPT-4 was degrading ... right as they were making a push for finetuning.
by aborsy | 2025-09-17 18:47:35+00:00
You can set DoH in all major browsers in desktop. On iOS, you can use private relay.

One issue is, if you set DoH in the browser, you can not do DNS filtering in your dns server. It might be better to send DNS over VPN to your home lan, do the filtering there, and let your dns server send the dns over https.

Tailscale can send DNS from all devices to a server of your choice. From there, AdGaurd or Pihole will filter it and send it over https.
by dotnet00 | 2025-09-17 18:47:40+00:00
For the average person, being published in WaPo may still be sufficient, but this is a tech related article being discussed on a site full of people who have a much better than average understanding of tech.

Just like how a physicist isn't just going to trust a claim in his expertise, like "Dark Matter found" from just seeing a headline in WaPo/NYT, it's reasonable that people working in tech will be suspicious of this claim without seeing technical details.
by zeven7 | 2025-09-17 18:47:57+00:00
At my (very large) bank, they have asked me to read them a code from text that literally said "Do not share this code with anyone over the phone" in the text message next to the code. I'm 100% sure it was my bank asking for the code. I called them from a number I found on their site over HTTPS and verified from another source, they knew my account information. I gave it to them while telling them they need to fix this. This was a few years ago. Nothing bad ever happened. Just bad security practices.
by cb321 | 2025-09-17 18:48:00+00:00
In that case, since you are already de-duping "externally", you might play with `setopt HIST_IGNORE_ALL_DUPS HIST_IGNORE_DUPS HIST_SAVE_NO_DUPS` combinations. It's been many years since I looked at it, but I think these conspire with large saved histories to slow things down a lot at startup/initial history parse.

I don't even recall if it's necessary or was just the simple algorithm. So, you might actually be able to get Zsh fixed if there is some quadratic thing that can be turned linear with a hash table. The Zsh mailing list is quite accommodating in my experience.
by troupo | 2025-09-17 18:48:03+00:00
> Is it?

Yes. You are "testing" a non-deterministic black box, and we usually know nothing about the code base, the prompts, the tasks etc.

Which is further complicated by whatever wrapper you're using (cursor/amp/windsurf/opencode/whatever).

Which is further complicated by the "oops we nerfed the model, but it was bug trust us".

> Tests turn green seems pretty objective, as does time/tokens to test green, code delta size, patch performance, etc. Not sure why people have such a hard time with agent evals.

What is the distribution between running the same test on the same model with the same prompt, also with distribution by time?

I've already had several instances when the same model with the same prompt on the same code would produce completely different results.
by ryandrake | 2025-09-17 18:48:33+00:00
For the last decade or so, there's been a huge, sustained war on expertise, and an effort to undermine the public's trust of experts. Quoting an expert isn't enough for people, anymore. Everyone's skeptical unless you point them to actual research papers, and even then, some people would rather stick to their pre-existing world views and dO tHeIr OwN rEsEaRcH.

Not defending this particular expert or even commenting on whether he is an expert, but as it stands, we have a quote from some company official vs. randos on the internet saying "nah-uh".
by tremon | 2025-09-17 18:48:39+00:00
Nobody has their index finger on the F when using wasd navigation. The reason wasd was chosen is because of the position of ctrl, alt and space (also common in games): with the hand on esdf, the ctrl and alt keys are quite hard to reach; but with the index finger on the D, the thumb can easily switch between alt and space, and the pinky can access ctrl and shift.

btw this is why vi used hjkl for navigation: https://catonmat.net/why-vim-uses-hjkl-as-arrow-keys
by rsynnott | 2025-09-17 18:49:58+00:00
Especially one where, realistically, the banana in chief might be put back in his box (crate?) sometime next year. Like, his approval rating is now actually _lower_ than at the same time in his first term, and in his first term the midterms didn't exactly go great for him.

It's particularly awkward to be in the position of having to complement the emperor on his new clothes when the emperor has a limited shelf life.
by ynx | 2025-09-17 18:50:10+00:00
There is a lot to unpack in this.

Your #1 is encoding an unexamined assumption that there is a fixed or at least somewhat inflexible amount of violence to be directed anywhere. It also ignores the lightning generation engine, so to speak, that is the settler colonialism causing unrest across the region.

On #2 - Rational people see that they are willing to do everything short of nuclear war when they feel like their century of history is being re-evaluated, and are worried about that (appropriately so). Also, it is an error to assert that nations can be exterminated. That is something evil that happens to people. As organizations of people, institutions and states can fail or be dissolved, but do not disappear permanently so long as people remain to re-form them. I think rational people can argue that the things that are being done in Palestine are unconscionable and that a state that is built to systematically support those acts needs to renew its principles and recommit itself to the idea of "never again".
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by mixmastamyk | 2025-09-17 18:50:24+00:00
Were they brutalized in some fashion? Lining up and walking to a detention room or bus is standard. What you’d get at the airport, for example. Cuffs common when outside. I’ve experienced it myself. It’s neither here nor there as long as you get your day in court.

(I understand some jarheads or managers might want to make a show of it, and probably should be reprimanded if so.)

But the process is the process and an acceptable compromise. I get the feeling everyone passing judgment here has little info on the situation on the ground—news soundbites are not enough.
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by slg | 2025-09-17 18:51:08+00:00
Ellison claims his Zionism is disconnected from his mother being Jewish. He has also distanced himself from his Judaism. It is also worth noting that more American Zionists are Evangelicals than Jews. Last I saw, Netanyahu has a higher approval rating among American Evangelicals than he has in his own country. This issue is very much Zionists vs anti-Zionists. Attempts to frame it as Jews vs non-Jews is just a different flavor of anti-Semitism.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-09-17 18:51:11+00:00
From my understanding this is a sample of the database values by position approach: https://github.com/Lighter-swift/PerformanceTestSuite/blob/m...

That approach benchmarks at 2.2x the duration of StructuredQueries (45% as fast): https://github.com/Lighter-swift/PerformanceTestSuite/blob/8...

18.819s vs 8.511s

So it appears that there is lightning-fast and lighting-faster.

Of course aside from comparing the dev ergonomics (138 vs 33 lines for the respective benchmarks), either may be fast enough depending on the use case.

BTW I did also see some discussion in swift-evolution about a future replacement for Codable but haven't tracked its progress. I hope they do because Codable is very convenient but tragically slow.
by purerandomness | 2025-09-17 18:51:13+00:00
Yes. Like the other commenter in OP's link said, I avoid AI like the plague.

I lose all interest once I find out that it's machine generated.

I feel that we're slowly reaching a turning point at which people will get tired of the averaged-out slop and crave something that feels eccentric, new and unforeseen.

And we'll (hopefully) have a new era of artists filling that demand.

At least, this is what I wish the future holds for us.

Why should I listen to AI slop that I could've easily prompted up myself on a rainy Thursday afternoon?
by ag8 | 2025-09-17 18:51:14+00:00
Yeah, for better or worse, the way the median startup interfaces with AI these days is through an LLM API, and that's what all the workflows are built around, so that's what we're targeting. Though, depending on what you're trying to do, I wouldn't discount the use of starting with a pretrained model—there was that famous result from 2022 that showed that pretraining a model on _Wikipedia_ made training on Atari games more than twice as efficient [0]; these days, LLMs have huge amounts of priors about the real world that make them great starting points for a surprisingly diverse set of tasks (e.g. see the chemistry example in our video!)

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.12122
by johnea | 2025-09-17 18:51:15+00:00
> What's Up with Peter Thiel's Obsession with the Antichrist?

Maybe he's annoyed since, he knows _he's_ actually the antichrist?

Personally, I'm an evangelical... an evangelical atheist. I always try to spread the good word that there is no invisible guy in outer space overlooking the human race. We're on our own here.

So, in spite of the fact that I believe the bible is an historical tale of incest and murder, with no more factual information than Pulp Fiction, I do actually believe one part of it is true:

Christians will start to follow false prophets, and they'll all go to hell.
by Flundstrom2 | 2025-09-17 18:51:24+00:00
Who doesn't use a spellchecker in Word? Use the grammar checker (if available)?

Even those small tools have shown to degrade the quality of writing (unfortunately, I didnt save the link) on a broader scale, although there are less spelling and grammatical errors.

And sure, a Reuters notice is just as boring and inpersonal as a piece of code. But even if you offload the grunt work of the writing, putting at least some effort in making personal will raise it from spam/click-bait level to potentially worth reading. It will make the text stand out.

As for me, English is not even my native language.
by spankalee | 2025-09-17 18:51:33+00:00
I really hope this spurs AssemblyScript to just port to WASM GC: https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript/issues/2808

There's comments in there about waiting for a polyfill, but GC support is widespread enough that they should probably just drop support for non-GC runtimes in a major version.
by gchamonlive | 2025-09-17 18:52:11+00:00
You can go about tackling consumerism in many ways. I believe the way that makes the most sense is to start with the largest market. Make it better there, it'll set an example for the rest of the world. Because Americans pride themselves in being the leaders of the free world. Well, that leadership comes with responsibilities, and while yes anti-consumer practices aren't exclusive to US companies, by not being able to care less about their consumers the US is setting a terrible precedent, which we need to address as consumers.
by phoe-krk | 2025-09-17 18:52:15+00:00
Speaking for CL, it seems so for me.

The whole magic about CL's condition system is to keep on executing code in the context of a given condition instead of immediately unwinding the stack, and this can be done if you control code generation.

Everything else necessary, including dynamic variables, can be implemented on top of a sane enough language with dynamic memory management - see https://github.com/phoe/cafe-latte for a whole condition system implemented in Java. You could probably reimplement a lot of this in WASM, which now has a unwind-to-this-location primitive.

Also see https://raw.githubusercontent.com/phoe-trash/meetings/master... for an earlier presentation of mine on the topic. "We need means of unwinding and «finally» blocks" is the key here.
by fndhope10 | 2025-09-17 18:52:23+00:00
Copilot said: Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) is a condition Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) is a condition in which patients experience neurological symptoms—such as weakness, movement disorders, sensory symptoms, or blackouts—that are genuine and disabling but are not caused by structural disease or damage to the nervous system. Instead, these symptoms are thought to arise from abnormal functioning of the nervous system, often related to problems with how the brain and body communicate, rather than from physical injury or illness.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-09-17 18:52:28+00:00
> edit: oh small world the cited comment was actually a response to you in that other thread :D

That's hilarious, we must have the same interests since we keep cross posting :D

The thing with the go comparison is that alphago was meant to solve go and nothing else. It couldn't do chess with the same weights.

The current SotA LLMs are "unreasonably good" at a LOT of tasks, while being trained with a very "simple" objective: NTP. That's the key difference here. We have these "stochastic parrots" + RL + compute that basically solve top tier competitions in math, coding, and who knows what else... I think it's insanely good for what it is.