MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Forgeties79 | 2025-10-27 19:47:06+00:00
> You picked one trivial failure and built an entire worldview around it

They gave one small example of a larger problem we have all seen, including yourself I’m sure. This is hardly a fair response.

It’s also incredibly easy to verify it was wrong when given a very simple question. That’s the really alarming thing. This isn’t niche information. Their example really effectively highlights one of the major problems with LLM’s: you can’t use them unless you already have at least a foundational knowledge of what you are asking because you have to be able to identify the inevitable mistakes it regularly makes. So someone like me who is not very confident cooking cannot use an LLM to help in the kitchen. It is going to get me in trouble on a regular basis. And if I have to search online to double check everything it says, why am I using it in the first place?

Now apply this to car maintenance, coding, gardening, etc. all of which are fair examples because everyone seems so intent on making generalized LLM “assistants.”

I am not saying LLM’s are worthless, just to be clear. But there are severe limitations that seem to get glossed over constantly, especially when it’s brought up that you have to be able to regularly verify the information which is very regularly at least partially wrong.
by cyberax | 2025-10-27 19:47:29+00:00
> 1. The chemicals are carried by the wind onto your crop field, killing your non-GMO crops

Have you ever been on a farm?

> 2. The seeds from the GMO crop spread into your field, and corporate hired goons show up at your door threatening you with a lawsuit.

Sorry, but this video is just pure post-truth bullshit. I unsubscribed from Veritassium because of this video, and I was a paying Patreon subscriber.

Monsanto has NEVER sued anyone for accidental contamination. Moreover, they will buy out your contaminated crops at higher-than-market prices.

They sued farmers that specifically and intentionally, over several years, bred resistant crops by using GMO genes from neighboring fields or by replanting the previous years' crop.

> This led to neighbor versus neighbor conflicts in ag communities, in some cases turning violent.

Can you cite any examples? Go on, fire up Kagi and search.
by adzm | 2025-10-27 19:47:32+00:00
I am talking about using spectrograms (Fourier transform into frequency domain then plotted over time) that results in a 2d image of the song, which is then used to train something like stable diffusion (and actually using stable diffusion by some) to be able to generate these, which is then converted back into audio. Riffusion used this approach.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-10-27 19:47:43+00:00
Barbed wire is security theater. It was invented for cattle, and it does a reasonably good job of keeping cattle confined. (It doesn't work well for horses because horses are even more stupid than cattle and horses repeatedly injure themselves on it and the wounds get infected.)

Barbed wire doesn't work for humans, especially humans who have some familiarity with it.
by stronglikedan | 2025-10-27 19:48:40+00:00
I don't think they're trustworthy enough to manage that, but even if they were, they wouldn't do it because it would eat into their profits.

I've just stopped subscribing to new channels unless they have a human presenting the content, and that human is present on-screen for an appreciable amount of time throughout the video. Although, it won't be long before the video "tells" are no longer reliable, just like the audio tells are no longer reliable.
by seec | 2025-10-27 19:48:43+00:00
I agree. For what I read quickly, it seems to be mostly the same stuff but "modernized". It's like the flavor of the day for email technology. Fundamentally it hasn't really changed much which is why I am a bit skeptical. Sure, you have a "better" and more efficient protocol that is easier to work with/implement but then what? It's still just email with most of the inherent flaws built in.
by 0x000xca0xfe | 2025-10-27 19:49:08+00:00
On the other hand fertile GMOs will sooner or later mix into the surrounding nature, compete with local plants and undergo "normal" evolution. This might be undesirable.

Another consideration is that optimizing one or two features like yield or resistance in plants often affects other areas negatively like adaptability or fertiliy. Making fertile GMOs with the same yield is probably harder than making infertile ones.

But at the very least it should not be possible to patent or copyright DNA or any other parts of living organisms, what an utterly horrible idea.
by gambiting | 2025-10-27 19:49:27+00:00
As a sort of counter anecdote - we took a ferry from Portsmouth to Bilbao once, it was also just over 2 days on the sea. But oh boy, I regularly take ferries from UK to Netherlands, but I've never seen sea as rough as this. We were pretty much stuck in the cabin, sea sick, for the entire two days. I decided to brave the neausea and attempt to go for some food, but in the main buffet plates were literally sliding off the tables.

On the way back we decided to drive through france and skip the ferry.

But yes, on the Newcastle to Amsterdam crossing my favourite thing is being completely cut off from the internet, can finally sit down with a book without the compulsive need to check my phone every 5 minutes.
by brettgriffin | 2025-10-27 19:49:33+00:00
> Alternatively, where possible set the server timezone to UTC so that no daylight savings changes will happen at all.

Is this what people actually want, though?

I'm actually working on a scheduled process right now deployed on a cloud scheduler that does not adjust for daylight saving time (it literally says "does not take into consideration daylight saving time" next to the time input).

Everybody wants the job to run four hours before the work day starts, every day of the year. I will have to change it on Sunday to ensure the job completes at the time the end users expect it. And again in March.

Am I missing something?
by StickTIGLiIon4 | 2025-10-27 19:49:56+00:00
Like muffler fluid, the battery powered welder has gone from a joke to reality recently.

Not a plasma cutter, but same power class, and certainly able to heat a padlock shank to melting. https://www.dewalt.com/product/0447800880/esab-renegade-volt...
by TimTheTinker | 2025-10-27 19:50:29+00:00
Great point.

As an extreme example, I'd add -- in some cases, because of market conditions (and perhaps the legal climate as well), within a given financial year a farmer may be forced to choose between purchasing GMO seeds and having to sell the farm, especially if the farm already used licensed GMO seeds in a prior year.

But as you pointed out, without legal and regulatory guardrails, the system at large can become badly suboptimal long before compromise-or-die dichotomies arise.
by jerlam | 2025-10-27 19:50:35+00:00
The survey was conducted by Flexjobs, a job listing site focusing on remote positions. I'm not going to give them my contact information to check, but I would guess that it probably overrepresents temporary and entry-level positions at small to medium sized companies, not big-company corporate jobs that don't need to advertise on external job boards. These jobs would be for people with fewer options, less benefits, and more likely to get overworked.

I wouldn't conclude too much from a survey of only 3,000 employees.
by bigfatkitten | 2025-10-27 19:51:00+00:00
Unless you’re buying some sort of end-to-end managed WAN service, there is nothing for the satellite provider to “fix”. It’s the customer’s responsibility.

The spacecraft carries a bunch of linear transponders. RF goes in on one frequency, and comes out on another frequency.

The satellite operator leases you space on a transponder with a specified frequency, bandwidth and power limit, that they monitor very closely for compliance to ensure that you aren’t getting more than you paid for and that you aren’t causing interference.

Everything else about the signal from layer 1 upwards, ie the modulation, symbol rate, FEC etc is largely for the customer to choose, though some operators like Intelsat used to be a bit more prescriptive in this respect. None are looking at your protocol stack from L2 upwards.
by tasuki | 2025-10-27 19:51:14+00:00
Uhh, that's a lot of links: https://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia/

Where are the explanations what all of them mean? What is (nothing) vs `maxi` vs `mini` vs `nopic`? What is `100` vs `all` vs `top1m` vs `top` vs `wp1-0.8`?
by XiS | 2025-10-27 19:51:15+00:00
This guy on YouTube made several videos reviewing these and also doing some WireShark analysis, also on NanoKVM.

Personally I'd never use these on an interned facing network. But they can still be handy for local only.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yHhdTRVvDFU&pp=0gcJCQYKAYcqIYz...
by hinkley | 2025-10-27 19:51:17+00:00
Bertrand Meyer suggested another way to consider this that ends up in a similar place.

For concerns of code complexity and verification, code that asks a question and code that acts on the answers should be separated. Asking can be done as pure code, and if done as such, only ever needs unit tests. The doing is the imperative part, and it requires much slower tests that are much more expensive to evolve with your changing requirements and system design.

The one place this advice falls down is security - having functions that do things without verifying preconditions are exploitable, and they are easy to accidentally expose to third party code through the addition of subsequent features, even if initially they are unreachable. Sun biffed this way a couple of times with Java.

But for non crosscutting concerns this advice can also be a step toward FC/IS, both in structuring the code and acclimating devs to the paradigm. Because you can start extracting pure code sections in place.
by cyberax | 2025-10-27 19:51:52+00:00
> MCP works best for tool calling that doesn't require auth (so tools that are trusted on your own machine).

In other words, downloading random crap that runs unconfined and requires a shitty app like Claude Desktop.

BTW, Claude Desktop is ALSO an example of AI slop. It barely works, constantly just closing chats, taking 10 seconds to switch between conversations, etc.

In my case, I wanted to connect our CRM with ChatGPT and ask it to organize our customer notes. And also make this available as a service to users, so they won't have to be AI experts with subscriptions to Claude.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-27 19:52:12+00:00
ADHD is a difference in how the brain functions and is constructed.

It is physiological.

I don't think any evidence exists that you can cause anyone to become neurodivergent except by traumatic brain injury

TikTok does not "make" people ADHD. They might struggle to let themselves be bored and may be addicted to quick fixes of dopamine, but that is not what ADHD is. ADHD is not an addiction to dopamine hits. ADHD is not an inability to be bored.

TikTok for example will not give you the kinds of tics and lack of proprioception that is common in neurodivergent people. Being addicted to Tiktok will never give you that absurd experience where your brain "hitches" while doing a task and you rapidly oscillate between progressing towards one task vs another. Being habituated to check your phone at every down moment does not cause you to be unable to ignore sensory input because your actual sensory processing machinery in your brain is not functioning normally. Getting addicted to tiktok does not give you a child's handwriting despite decades of practice. If you do not already have significant stimming and jitter symptoms, Tiktok will not make you develop them.

You cannot learn to be ADHD.
by oceanplexian | 2025-10-27 19:52:31+00:00
LLMs write things in a certain style because that's how the base models are fine tuned before being given to the public.

It's not because they can't write PRs indistinguishable from humans, or can't write code without Emojis. It's because they don't want to freak out the general public so they have essentially poisoned the models to stave off regulation a little bit longer.
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-10-27 19:52:32+00:00
There is no explanation for this, same as there is no real explanation for why energy is conserved or why closed systems have non-decreasing entropy. As others have pointed out, you can show correspondence to Newtonian mechanics under some assumptions, but the Lagrangian approach is applicable to a wide variety of areas in physics - classical mechanics, optics, quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, etc.

The universe has these weird laws, and for now, all we can do is accept them as is. But hopefully, in the future, someone will figure out deeper and simpler principles.
by JoachimSchipper | 2025-10-27 19:52:57+00:00
(Hopping in here because the discussion is interesting... feel very free to ignore.)

Thanks for writing this up! It was a very interesting read about a part of networking that I don't get to seriously touch.

That said: I'm sure you guys have thought about this a lot and that I'm just missing something, but "why can't every proxy probe every [worker, not application]?" was exactly one of the questions I had while reading.

Having the workers being the source-of-truth about applications is a nicely resilient design, and bruteforcing the problem by having, say 10k proxies each retrieve the state of 10k workers every second... may not be obviously impossible? Somewhat similar to sending/serving 10k DNS requests/s/worker? That's not trivial, but maybe not _that_ hard? (You've been working on modern Linux servers a lot more than I, but I'm thinking of e.g. https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-to-receive-a-million-packets...)

I did notice the sentence about "saturating our uplinks", but... assuming 1KB=8Kb of compressed critical state per worker, you'd end up with a peak bandwidth demand of about 80 Mbps of data per worker / per proxy; that may not be obviously impossible? (One could reduce _average_ bandwidth a lot by having the proxies mostly send some kind of "send changes since <...>" or "send all data unless its hash is <...>" query.)

(Obviously, bruteforcing the routing table does not get you out of doing _something_ more clever than that to tell the proxies about new workers joining/leaving the pool, and probably a hundred other tasks that I'm missing; but, as you imply, not all tasks are equally timing-critical.)

The other question I had while reading was why you need one failure/replication domain (originally, one global; soon, one per-region); if you shard worker state over 100 gossip (SWIM Corrosion) instances, obviously your proxies do need to join every sharded instance to build the global routing table - but bugs in replication per se should only take down 1/100th of your fleet, which would hit fewer customers (and, depending on the exact bug, may mean that customers with some redundancy and/or autoscaling stay up.) This wouldn't have helped in your exact case - perfectly replicating something that takes down your proxies - but might make a crash-stop of your consensus-ish protocol more tolerable?

Both of the questions above might lead to a less convenient programming model, which be enough reason on its own to scupper it; an article isn't necessarily improved by discussing every possible alternative; and again, I'm sure you guys have thought about this a lot more than I did (and/or that I got a couple of things embarassingly wrong). But, well, if you happen to be willing to entertain my questions I would appreciate it!
by uvaursi | 2025-10-27 19:53:13+00:00
Neither Assange nor Snowden are a threat anymore. They are contained and have next to no ability anymore. So it would be a waste of resources to pursue them. The lackeys (police etc) are all that’s needed here to harass them and make their lives miserable. What’s Mossad going to do? Kill them with explosives? That takes all the fun out of torturing them and making their lives miserable by proxy.

The only thing I see is that both are contained and quarantined. The threat of both has been neutralized to the degree where I think the espionage agencies of all these countries are playing along together to keep the engine of their craft going uninterrupted without fuss.

In other words, you have to be gullible to think an embassy cares about protecting Assange. It’s a phone call from the secret service director saying “Keep him there for now, it’s where we want him.”
by manquer | 2025-10-27 19:53:53+00:00
That would be illegal though, the goal is do this legally after all.

We also have to remember all claims aren't equal. i.e. some claims end up being way costlier than others. You can achieve similar % margin outcomes by putting a ton of friction like, preconditions, multiple appeals processes and prior authorization for prior authorization, reviews by administrative doctors who have no expertise in the field being reviewed don't have to disclose their identity and so and on.

While U.S. system is most extreme or evolved, it is not unique, it is what you get when you end up privatize insurance any country with private insurance has some lighter version of this and is on the same journey .

Not that public health system or insurance a la NHS in UK or like Germany work, they are underfunded, mismanaged with long times in months to see a specialist and so on.

We have to choose our poison - unless you are rich of course, then the U.S. system is by far the best, people travel to the U.S. to get the kind of care that is not possible anywhere else.
by stronglikedan | 2025-10-27 19:53:53+00:00
As a new EV owner of just a couple months, I can see why without even watching the video. They're a major pain in the ass for a negative return.

By the time you factor in the increased price of the car, increased price of insurance, and increased price of tires, you'll end up in the red even if you do charge at home (and if you don't, the cost is just as much as gas if not higher), and that's not even factoring in the overall inconvenience of ownership.

I'll be going back to ice/hybrid as soon as my lease is up, and never returning to all electric. The only thing they have is faster, smoother acceleration, but I've learned that I like the dirty feel of a shifting transmission better - kind of like why beer and all it's impurities is better than the purest alcohol. There is just nothing, zero, zilch, that is better in an EV.
by dang | 2025-10-27 19:54:04+00:00
Ok, let's see what we can find...

Edit: indeed, the odds of this text having been appeared independently in two sources do appear rather small:

> A fun note: The architect on the job, William C. Presto, was a former employee of Louis Sullivan’s who later gained fame for giving the destitute Sullivan his last commission, designing the façade of the Krause Music Store in Lincoln Square and the lavishly decorated Art Deco building at 6424 N. Western.

We've changed the URL to what appears to be the original source and banned vintage.es as blogspam. Thanks!
by rck | 2025-10-27 19:54:21+00:00
I can imagine that a very risk averse lawyer would have pointed out the costs and uncertainties of litigation in cases like this. But if I were in their shoes and I really cared about the money, I would have pressed that lawyer to show examples where the clawback clause had been invoked since Jan 20. I'm not sure it's happened, which seems relevant to estimating the actual risk.

Interestingly, they may get more in donations than they would have from this grant, so maybe that needs to be including in the risk estimate as well...
by throw0101c | 2025-10-27 19:54:28+00:00
> It goes way beyond normal building HVAC levels, AI has pushed many DC's from 8 kW to 17 kW a rack in just a few years.

17 kW per rack for AI/ML HPC was workable >5 years ago. If you're not budgeting for double or triple that number nowadays you're not capacity planning properly.
by bxparks | 2025-10-27 19:54:42+00:00
Yes, it was infuriating.

In addition to the Classic option that is shown only after hitting "Cancel", they also had a secret "Microsoft 365 Basic" option for $20/year. It includes no Office products, but provides 100 GB of OneDrive. Which is all I needed. So Microsoft is getting $20/year from me that they don't deserve.

Why do I pay them even $20/year? It's insurance against the same kind of BS from Google. I back up my Google Drive to OneDrive.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-10-27 19:55:09+00:00
Unfortunately that (rip and ship energy / resource exporter economy) is what the conservative party wants, what the political leadership in the prairie provinces want, and it's what the US wants for us. And it's hinted at increasingly by Carney ("energy superpower") etc. You're right it's myopic and not good.

But parent poster is correct that blindly subsidizing and funding a local industry with no market will also just lead to boondoggles and failures.

Especially in the context of an uncooperative trading partner which could have been a potential export market for our production in the past but now is a hostile state trying to break apart national unity and destroy what little manufacturing sector successes we have.

We've already had major issues around the massive battery construction plants proposed here in Ontario and Quebec, that got major government support and investment.

Unfortunately this is the very difficult place the manufacturing sector in Canada finds itself in. And the Canadian working class as a whole.

I wouldn't call it myopic to be skeptical here. If there was an easy answer Canada would have taken it decades ago.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-10-27 19:55:26+00:00
If I moved in with roommates and they immediately held a vote deciding that it's actually my job to do all the chores and that if I don't they're going to throw me out and actually I don't even deserve to be there so I better watch it, in the time between that happening and me securing a new residence, I'd probably tell them to eat shit and that their behavior is insane.

If another resident is constantly talking shit about all the rest and saying he thinks they should be shot and go fuck themselves and their moms should die etc etc etc but they immediately call the police on me for telling them to fuck off, saying they felt "threatened" and "unsafe" just because I was the most recent one to move in, I'd also probably say "What the fuck?" about the double standard.
by hyperhello | 2025-10-27 19:55:38+00:00
.friends | filter(.city == "New York") | sort(.age) | pick(.name, .age)

mapValues(mapKeys(substring(get(), 0, 10)))

This is all too cute. Why not just use JavaScript syntax? You can limit it to the exact amount of functionality you want for whatever reason it is you want to limit it.
by hangonhn | 2025-10-27 19:56:19+00:00
It's really interesting because that's something they definitely don't teach you when you first learn to drive. Growing up in Florida, I learned to pull over and turn on emergency blinkers if the rain gets bad enough. The reason I know to do this is because I saw other drivers do this on the highway and realized that's pretty wise. It's tempting to imagine that a younger version of me would have been smart enough to realize this on my own but I think most of us learn a lot by observing the behavior of others. Or maybe I would have learned eventually after a few close calls with skidding. Or maybe I would have never learned until it's too late. I wonder if the different responses to averse conditions you've observed is a function of the different experiences we've had as drivers. You might be a more experienced driver than some of those around you.