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by ordu | 2025-10-21 18:23:54+00:00
It is an interesting hypothesis. Seriously. There is a trend in Homo Sapience cultural evolution to treat children in more and more special ways from generation to generation. The (often implicit) idea it helps children to develop faster and to leverage their sensitive and critical periods of development, blah-blah-blah... But while I can point to some research on importance of sensitive and critical periods of development, I can't remember any research on the question if a deficit of age-inappropriate stimuli can be detrimental for development.

There were psychologists who talked about zone of proximal development[0], about importance of exposing a learner to tasks that they cannot do without a support. But I can't remember nothing about going further and exposing a learner to tasks far above their heads when they cannot understand a word.

There is a legend about Sofya Kovalevskaya[1], who became a noteworthy mathematician after she were exposed to lecture notes by Ostrogradsky when she was 11 yo. The walls of her room were papered with those notes and she was curious what are all that symbols. It doesn't mean that there is a causal link between these two events, but what if there is one?

What about watching deep analytical TV show at 9 yo? How it affect the brain development? I think no one tried to research that. My gut feeling that it can be motivational, I didn't understand computers when I met them first, but I was really intrigued by them. I learned BASIC and it was like magic incantations. It had build a strong motivation to study CS deeper. But the question is are there any other effects beyond motivation? I remember looking at the C-program in some book and wondering what does it all mean. I could understand nothing, but still I had spent some time trying to decipher the program. Probably I had other experiences like that, which I do not remember now. Can we say with certainty that it had no influence on my development and hadn't make things easier for me later?

> So maybe we should check in on the boomers too if we're sincere about these worries.

Probably we should be sincere.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_proximal_development

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofya_Kovalevskaya
by mathieudombrock | 2025-10-21 18:24:11+00:00
This is a neat idea and I wish it worked. I've spend hours and hours trying to get LLMs to be a "dungeon master" for text adventures. I've written a good amount custom code trying to facilitate this. Trying to force the LLM to keep it's story straight.

I'm pretty convinced that the current generation of LLMs is nowhere close to being capable of this. No matter how many context hacks you throw at it.

It inevitably derails and ruins the immersion.

Best of luck on this. If you can pull it off it would be really cool I think.
by dredmorbius | 2025-10-21 18:25:27+00:00
The specific cited quote may be a myth, but I'm pretty certain I'd first encountered the concept in the 1980s, most likely reading through Garrett Hardin's essays (of "Tragedy of the Commons" fame, and some subsequent notoriety).

Hardin does quote a contemporaneous (late 19th / early 20th century) source, and specifically the word "mud", which was, much as "fog", a euphemism. As "London Fog" actually described London smog in many instances, mud referred to excrement, largely (though not entirely) of equine origin.

And yes, the idea was developed that continued urban growth would hit limits based on quartering, feeding, and mucking out huge horse populations which were required for local transport.

It was electric omnibuses, cable cars, and trolleys which first provided a local alternative point-to-point-ish transportation network. Eventually autonomously-powered vehicles (automobiles) addressed the problem.

It's worth noting that the situation wasn't purely solved. We outsourced one problem (animal-based drayage with concomitant feed and waste issues) with another (fossil-fuel based transport, with its own sourcing and effluent characteristics). Already by the mid-1800s it had been recognised that fossil fuels (coal, in particular) were a finite resource, and the first intimations of the global consequences of their use at scale (global warming) were coming into focus. Laughing or sneering at the concern, regardless of the merits of any given citation or reference shows a distinct lack of greater awareness.
by drnick1 | 2025-10-21 18:26:06+00:00
And this is why all of my "smart" home devices are managed through Home Assistant without Internet access. I simply won't buy a device that can't be used that way. I shouldn't have to create an "account" or provide a name and email address to use a device that I physically own. A good way to start is to look for Zigbee devices; the protocol is local only by design and the Zigbee coordinator/router can be a simple USB dongle connected to an ordinary PC.
by hypeatei | 2025-10-21 18:26:30+00:00
> really matter if things aren't fully optimized for speed and convenience in nuclear facilities

For hiring and retaining people, yes. It's understood that the "guts" of what's happening at these facilities needs to be locked down to the max. But, for supporting roles you need to be able to bring people in off the street without 1) a bunch of specialized training on your bespoke way of doing things, and 2) making your employees less attractive on the job market.

Just my opinion, though. Maybe I'm completely off base but it doesn't seem like a good idea to me long-term.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-10-21 18:26:31+00:00
Integrations and inference costs aren't necessarily 1:1. Integrations can use more AI, reasoning models can cause token explosion, Jevons Paradox can drive more inference tokens, big businesses and government agencies (around the world, not just the US) can begin using more LLMs. I'm not sure integrations are that simple. A lot of integrations that I know of are very basic integrations.

> Oh and the ChatGPT consumer app is seeing slowing growth: https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/17/chatgpts-mobile-app-is-see...

While I haven't read the article yet, if this is true then yes this could be an indication of consumer app style inference (ChatGPT, Claude, etc) waning which will put more pressure on industrial/tool inference uses to buoy up costs.
by Flundstrom2 | 2025-10-21 18:26:45+00:00
I don't know; My privat computer is still good enough for what I use it for, but it's too old according to Microsoft.

At work, the most annoying thing was the ads, but after disabling then, WSL works just as fine on W11 as W10.

I simply fail to see any benefit of upgrading - apart from security patches.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-21 18:27:21+00:00
The problem with the apple approach is that it's fine grained and you have to restart apps for every change. I wouldn't care if nothing was allowed by default if when an app tried to do stuff it popped up the dialog at that time and asked for permissions needed to accomplish that task, but having to toggle stuff separately and restart the app each time is horrible UX.
by sothatsit | 2025-10-21 18:27:23+00:00
On the path to “AGI” I would expect a lot of short-term pain as people lose their jobs while unemployment is still around normal levels. But if unemployment rises too much, we would pass laws to protect people, like greater corporate taxes to fund things like UBI.

But honestly, if we have this level of automation it feels like it would be very hard to predict how society will evolve. I would expect our current model of work-to-live to become untenable, and we’d move to something else. I doubt that transition will be easy.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-21 18:27:39+00:00
> Why does it have to be remote what's wrong with it being in-house?

Nothing wrong with it being in house. But having a back-up is never bad.

> How is remote any more responsive than physical workers being in-house?

If the on-site workers are incapacitated. It's a remote (hehe) risk. But so is foreign hackers doing anything with our nukes.

> If power-plants operated efficiently back in the 50's without internet, they should be able to now without internet

If you're fine paying 50s power prices again, sure, I'm sure a power company would happily run their plants retro style.
by matt_d | 2025-10-21 18:27:40+00:00
Paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3759164.3759346

Haskell & Agda Code: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16751639

Abstract: https://bahr.io/pubs/entries/calctyper.html

> We present a calculational approach to the design of type checkers, showing how they can be derived from behavioural specifications using equational reasoning. We focus on languages whose semantics can be expressed as a fold, and show how the calculations can be simplified using fold fusion. This approach enables the compositional derivation of correct-by-construction type checkers based on solving and composing fusion preconditions. We introduce our approach using a simple expression language, to which we then add support for exception handling and checked exceptions.
by doso | 2025-10-21 18:27:40+00:00
Honestly, it feels like they're intentionally trying to scrub any traces of Chromium or Google. No mention anywhere, blocked chrome:// pages, UI stripped of references—it's as if they don't want users to realize it's built on open-source tech. It's a weird move for transparency and doesn't sit right with me, especially with all the attribution requirements.
by FaradayRotation | 2025-10-21 18:27:58+00:00
These are gigantic and interesting questions packed into some pretty tiny boxes :) I will try to capture some of the issues involved.

Caveat: For older processes, built on a larger scale (>1 micron), these kinds of details may not matter, in which you are right to question this point. But if you want to implement on cutting edge manufacturing processes, these details absolutely do matter.

To put this in perspective, in cutting edge process nodes, I've seen senior engineers argue bitterly over ~1 nm in a certain critical dimension. That's (roughly) about 5 atoms across, depending on how much you trust the accuracy of the metrology.

So, if ANY layer isn't "flat" (or otherwise to spec within tolerance), the next layer in the semiconductor patterning stack will tend to translate that bumpiness upward, or cause a deformity in adjacent structure. This is (almost) always bad. These defects cause voids, bad electrical/thermal contacts and characteristics, misshapen/displaced structures, etc, etc

Crystallization in thin-film (especially conformal/gap-filling films) is a tough job which many poor PhD students have slaved over. Poly crystalline material is arguably harder to control in some key ways vs mono crystalline, since you don't have direct control the specific crystal grain orientation and growth direction. That is, some grain orientations will grow quickly, and others growing slowly. You can imagine the challenge then of getting the layer to terminate growth without ending up too jagged on the ~nm scale. After that you also get into the fun world of crystal defects, grain size, and deciding if you need to do some more post-processing (do I risk planarizing?)

Hopefully I have captured some of the pieces involved in an understandable way.

Edit: clarity
by zdragnar | 2025-10-21 18:29:22+00:00
Your thermostat is in a far less likely place to be overloaded with CO should the alarms start going off, though. If the thermostat is gone, you have to physically go to the furnace itself or shut off power at the circuit breaker.

Freezing water pipes are bad, but a furnace running non-stop is going to exceed its duty cycle and pose a greater hazard.
by creer | 2025-10-21 18:29:27+00:00
> At the Shreveport facility, more than 160 people work as robotics technicians, and they make at least $24.45 an hour. Most of Shreveport’s 2,000 employees are regular hourly workers, whose pay starts at $19.50.

And this is for a prototype plant where you would expect the need for more and top-qualified technicians. (Most likely this does not count the robotics installers and tuners which might be from a different sub-company and classification - but still.) This might change when demand for qualified robotics technicians keeps increasing.

Another noticeable thing was that even with this automation push, Amazon is mostly planning to hire LESS. Not really reduce yet. It seems they are still growing beyond the potential improvements of robotics.

Still another is the insane capital-intensiveness of retail now! Wow.
by bluGill | 2025-10-21 18:29:31+00:00
If you are going to refuse any offer don't waste their and your time. However if you might accept an offer you should prepare, since you want to know what you will be getting yourself into.

part of preparing is learning what the company does. Most of us work for a company the majority reading this have never heard of. you want to know what the potential company does so you can ask intelligent questions.
by gruez | 2025-10-21 18:29:36+00:00
>Owners of supermarket have calculated that the increase in theft is off-set by the savings of not paying wages to cashiers. But those losses have to be paid by somebody, and that somebody is of course the customers who don't steal goods.

>I'd rather not be the person who has to pay extra so that another person can steal.

This doesn't make any sense. If the whole premise is that "the increase in theft is off-set by the savings of not paying wages to cashiers", then doesn't that imply that not having self-checkout is going to be more expensive than you overall? After all, regardless of whether the cost is losses from theft or cashier salaries, the customer has to pay for it at the end. Are you arguing that you want to pay more, because the extra money will go to a cashier than a thief?
by zerof1l | 2025-10-21 18:30:09+00:00
No joke, I only plug my printer into the outlet when I want to print and immediately turn it off after. Never was connected to the internet.

But I do have Zigbee sensors and switches, all of which connect to my home server and Home Assistant. None of them see the internet. But Home Assistant is accessible from the internet through a reverse proxy from whitelisted IPs.
by verdverm | 2025-10-21 18:30:34+00:00
I use UB for all the other websites, not YT, it's a weird take to associate UB usage and experience with a single domain.

> I support the creators I watch by donating to them directly.

Me too, on top of the monthly fee that gets distributed to those I watch. More for every creator, even those I only watch once or sporadically
by oceanplexian | 2025-10-21 18:30:55+00:00
Is OpenAI’s current business model to steal ideas from other companies?

CoT reasoning- stolen from Chinese AI labs, Codex is a ripoff of Claude Code. Sora is a low quality clone of Google’s Veo3. Like I thought Sam Altman’s pitch was AGI changing the nature of work not another Perplexity ripoff.
by mathieudombrock | 2025-10-21 18:31:36+00:00
I tried this. It sounds good on paper but the LLM will just "forget" to use it's tools. Either it will decline to query the database and just make stuff up, or it will decline to update the database when it should. The further along the game play gets the more out of sync the game word gets from the external state. I'm sure there is a clever solution but I never found it.
by timdev2 | 2025-10-21 18:31:43+00:00
These were accounts that shouldn't have had console access in the first place, and were never used by humans to log in AFAICT. I don't know exactly what they were originally for, but they were named like "foo-robots", were very old.

At first I thought maybe some previous dev had set passwords for troubleshooting, saved those passwords in a password manager, and then got owned all these years later. But that's really, really, unlikely. And the timing is so curious.
by Breza | 2025-10-21 18:31:47+00:00
I totally agree with you. Where I work, we self-host almost everything. Exceptions are we use a CDN for one area where we want lower latency, and we use BigQuery when we need to parse a few billion datapoints into something usable.

It's amazing how few problems we have. Honestly, I don't think we have to worry about configuration issues as often as people who rely on the cloud.
by StevePerkins | 2025-10-21 18:31:53+00:00
This never has anything to do with open source vs. closed source, or anything like that. It always has to do with prioritizing the cohort that's most likely to pay money.

It's been shown over and over again in A/B testing that Apple device users will pay higher prices for the same goods and services than non-Apple users will. They're more likely to pay, period, versus free-ride.

As an Android user, it frustrates me sometimes. But I understand. I'm far more frugal with my online spending than most of my Apple user friends, myself.
by isoprophlex | 2025-10-21 18:32:06+00:00
Their heroku setup is having a moment. But if this is about the game I've been playing with my rude ass car that started nagging me about Kia's t&c update, weeks after i first got it, every time i start the engine...

I'm not sure if I'm winning and I'm not sure if the game is fun anymore. at least the car and I have been playing a single game of me declining the t&c and please ask me again later for some three years and a few months now. So the replay value is high.

Also sometimes my wife pretends to go for the "accept" button and it makes me all hot and bothered
by jerf | 2025-10-21 18:32:12+00:00
With biased sources. But we expect that. I expect that when a candidate gives a speech that it is biased in their favor and against their opposition. The whole process of democracy is people taking in biased sources and ultimately making their decision, expressing their own biases, and then we run society based on those biases. Or at least such is the theory.

LLMs are the first time machines are entering into this process in a way that they have even a shred of agency, so it's reasonable to ask what it is we expect from them politically. And my answer would be something to the effect of they should stay out of it, excepting to point people at maximally neutral sources, because they have a demonstrated history of bypassing people's recognition that they are ultimately just machines and people treat them as humans, if not friends.

Of course, I am not so naive as to believe that this is what is going to happen. Quite the contrary will happen. The AI's friendship with humans will be exploited to the maximum possible extent to control and manipulate the humans in the direction the AI owners desire. Maybe if we're lucky after it gets really bad some efforts to clean this up in some legal or societal framework will occur, but not until after the problem is so staggeringly enormous that no one can miss it.

And our good AI friends will be telling us that that is crazy paranoid conspiracy theorizing and we should just ignore it. How could you question your good friend like that? Don't you trust us? Strictly rationally, of course, and with only our best interests at heart as befits such good friends.
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by lovich | 2025-10-21 18:32:49+00:00
> Now, if what you actually want is to be relatively more prosperous and have more status that's a game you can keep playing forever. But you really don't have to, to simply be better off than all people in the past with far less work.

Everyone I grew up with or met via work that is my age or younger has 1-3 more degrees than their parents and grandparents and are significantly worse off when it comes to standard life milestones like buying a home or ever having children.

We are not becoming relatively more prosperous as a people. We have more bread and circuses and less roofs over our heads on average
by pessimizer | 2025-10-21 18:33:07+00:00
> The US doesn’t have a national ID system, so your proposal doesn’t make sense. The closest thing is social security cards but those are not photo IDs.

RealID is a national ID system (that they pushed since the 90s for no reason), and we're all issued voter IDs when we register as voters.

> A signed affidavit or local ID should be fine to establish identity.

I don't think you understand that people are against showing any ID to vote; if you pull one out, the poll workers' eyes get big and they fall over themselves trying to get you to put it away (I just took it out so you could read my address to pick my precinct, ma'am.) An ID which, very soon, will be required to be a RealID if it isn't already in your state. It is in mine.

I also don't think you really mean that a signed affidavit is enough to establish identity, even though you said it clearly. If you actually do mean what you said, I'd love to hear the argument.

> That can be done when signing up for mail in voting

Mail-in voting allows other people to watch you as you vote, and is the opposite of voter integrity. You should not be able to prove who you've voted for, or else you can be forced to prove who you voted for. This is why you are not allowed to take pictures of your ballot in the voting booth.

There's absolutely no reason to spend any time on open source voting code if you'll allow churches to call their entire memberships in to fill out their mail-in ballots together (under pain of expulsion), or hypothetical gangsters to go door to door threatening to shoot people if they don't give their ballots up.

> Voter fraud is extremely rare under the current system.

1) There is no way to know, and 2) if so, that makes this proposal even sillier.

I personally am very interested in electronic voting and voting algorithms. I've read a million papers and think about it all the time. But this is not a technical problem. There is no country that has a worse voting system than the US. Normal countries don't take weeks to count up the votes.
by doso | 2025-10-21 18:33:27+00:00
Just to add some official context on this, Chromium's BSD license explicitly requires attribution in derivative works. The notice clause says: "Include a readable copy of the attribution notices contained within such NOTICE file…within a NOTICE text file distributed as part of the Derivative Works; within the Source form or documentation, if provided along with the Derivative Works; or, within a display generated by the Derivative Works, if and wherever such third-party notices normally appear." It's not just good practice—this is a legal requirement. Surprised Atlas skipped this.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/config/+/refs/h...