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by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-10-31 11:03:30+00:00
This is true. I have paid friends free market rates for work; even though they would have done it for free.

It’s a matter of Respect. It’s really amazing, how treating folks with simple Respect can change everything.

I like working in teams, but I also participate in an organization, where we’re all expected to roll up our sleeves, and pitch in; often in an ad hoc fashion.
by adamhurl | 2025-10-31 11:04:30+00:00
This has 100% ruined my morning! -_- I tried many different ways to get in, I'm using claude in terminal in cursor.

Fix for me: Hopefully will work for you guys too, I logged out of claude, restarted cursor, used the anthropic console login method instead of normal login, when you click the link it gives you an option to signin with chat credentials instead, there it did not work, I pressed the link given in claude a few times and kept trying, finally I was given a pastable code, this took a while to be accepted in terminal but now is logged in.

hope it works for someone else aswell!!
by graemep | 2025-10-31 11:04:49+00:00
> net positive profit-wise over time.

There are definitely many customers you should drop, but business are not even that interested in retaining profitable customers. The problem is with the "over time".

Management are rewarded with bonuses and options that focus on the next few years so they are not really interested in how profitable a customer will be over the next ten years, only over the next one or two. Small businesses and family owned businesses are different, but for a big, widely held, professionally managed business the incentives are all short term.
by sothatsit | 2025-10-31 11:05:01+00:00
Yes, so I think in this case we use different definitions of reasoning. You include reliability as a part of reasoning, whereas I do not.

I would argue that humans are not 100% reliable in their reasoning, and yet we still claim that they can reason. So, even though I would agree that the reasoning of LLMs is much less reliable, careful, and thoughtful than smart humans, that does not mean that they are not reasoning. Rather, it means that their reasoning is more unreliable and less well-applied than people. But they are still performing reasoning tasks (even if their application of reasoning can be flawed).

Maybe the problem is that I am holding out a minimum bar for LLMs to jump to count as reasoning (demonstrated application of logical algorithms to solve novel problems in any domain), whereas other people are holding the bar higher (consistent and logical application of rules in all/most domains).
by lucode | 2025-10-31 11:07:06+00:00
they marked as resolved but is not Resolved This incident has been resolved. Posted 30 minutes ago. Oct 31, 2025 - 10:36 UTC Update We are continuing to monitor for any further issues. Posted 30 minutes ago. Oct 31, 2025 - 10:36 UTC Monitoring A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results. Posted 1 hour ago. Oct 31, 2025 - 09:46 UTC Identified The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented. Posted 2 hours ago. Oct 31, 2025 - 09:30 UTC Update We are continuing to investigate this issue. Posted 2 hours ago. Oct 31, 2025 - 09:25 UTC Investigating We are currently investigating this issue. Posted 2 hours ago. Oct 31, 2025 - 09:17 UTC This incident affected: claude.ai, platform.claude.com (formerly console.anthropic.com), and Claude API (api.anthropic.com). https://status.claude.com/incidents/s5f75jhwjs6g
by graemep | 2025-10-31 11:08:33+00:00
Wise is a British company with lots of customers around the world, the article is by someone in New Zealand.

It is cheaper than British banks for international transfers. Its business accounts are both easier to open and cheaper to run than those of the banks.

You are right that transfers from personal bank accounts in the UK are usually free and rapid (usually immediate, guaranteed to be within two hours), and similar or better in many other places, but Wise still has an offering beyond that.
by ukuina | 2025-10-31 11:09:20+00:00
> if LLMs "knew" when they're out of their depth, they could be much more useful.

I used to think this, but no longer sure.

Large-scale tasks just grind to a halt with more modern LLMs because of this perception of impassable complexity.

And it's not that they need extensive planning, the LLM knows what needs to be done (it'll even tell you!), it's just more work than will fit within a "session" (arbitrary) and so it would rather refuse than get started.

So you're now looking at TODOs, and hierarchical plans, and all this unnecessary pre-work even when the task scales horizontally very well (if it just jumped into it).
by tjpnz | 2025-10-31 11:09:39+00:00
No language ecosystem is but NPM/Node still encourages this idea (borrowed elsewhere and interpreted poorly) that everything must be its own tiny package and that it's acceptable to author libraries consisting of thousands of transitive dependencies from potentially dubious sources. Just this week I saw one (unmaintained dependency of a popular package) which consisted of a list of a dozen SQL operators. Anywhere else you would just write the damn code, maybe add a comment that these are the SQL-92 operators and be done with it literally forever. But in Node land that would be viewed as an antipattern which only another package can fix. It's a security and maintenance nightmare that can only be explained by laziness and outright stupidity.
by My_Name | 2025-10-31 11:10:39+00:00
I find that they know what they know fairly well, but if you move beyond that, into what can be reasoned from what they know, they have a profound lack of ability to do that. They are good at repeating their training data, not thinking about it.

The problem, I find, is that they then don't stop, or say they don't know (unless explicitly prompted to do so) they just make stuff up and express it with just as much confidence.
by nakamoto_damacy | 2025-10-31 11:10:56+00:00
LLMs falter because likelihood-driven pattern completion doesn’t enforce coherence across uncertainty (probability), representation (geometry), composition (category), and search (reasoning). To get robust reasoning, we need these layers to be explicit, typed, and mutually constraining—with verification and calibrated belief updates in the loop.

I was interviewed about this recently, and mentioned the great work of a professor of CS and Law who has been building the foundations for this approach. My own article about it was recently un-linked due to a Notion mishap (but available if anyone is interested - I have to publish it again)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hessiejones/2025/09/30/llms-are...
by williamdclt | 2025-10-31 11:11:12+00:00
Yeah it's quite common in French (for learners). At least in part because French people aren't very good at English, it'd add more friction to the learning process (and even for the ones who aren't bad at english, it's a whole new vocabulary to learn).

I'm not sure when I did the switch myself! Maybe as late as my first professional experience, or maybe a bit later in my studies
by keyringlight | 2025-10-31 11:11:47+00:00
Keller himself credits the many people responsible for the contributing parts [0]. I think the general 'enthusiast' tech press and reporting likes hero figures and the simplicity it brings, even better when you can cast a good guy against a bad guy, and the background in this case would be AMD vs intel.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20210622032535/https://www.anand...
by tiagod | 2025-10-31 11:12:29+00:00
Hi! They're very different.

The Raspberry Pi is a full-on computer, it has a Broadcom ARM GPU/CPU, memory, runs Linux etc.

The RP2040 and RP2350 are micro-controllers, such as the ones used on the Arduino. Usually you don't run any operating system on these, everything is bare metal.

I liked your article though! Cheers
by maybewhenthesun | 2025-10-31 11:12:30+00:00
a revisit of the <blink> tag :-P

The article is nice. The website is very nicely done. It's interesting in a 'because you can' sort of way.

But I shudder when I imagine a web where all page elements move with bouncyness.

edit: which is not to say you should never use it of course. Even the <blink> had some uses.
by usrusr | 2025-10-31 11:12:52+00:00
For a CPU vendor, ISA is very relevant: most buyers will start their buying decision with ISA choice already fixed, and a vendor who can't offer a CPU with that ISA simply isn't in the race.

It does not matter whether you are a believer in horses for courses when it comes to ISA, or a believer in "frontend ISA does not matter because it's all translated away anyways": when buyers don't want what you have, you are out. And buyers are more like a stampeding herd than like rational actors when it comes to ISA choice. I'd see offering CPU for multiple ISA as an important hedge against the herd changing direction.
by StoneWhisper | 2025-10-31 11:13:11+00:00
I found an Italian website that offers this and other procedures. To automate the modification, it suggests pressing SHIFT+F10 and then using the built-in Windows curl command to download a simple cmd script: https://www.ilsoftware.it/focus/windows-11-con-account-local... The cmd file can be run with the no-oobe username option, allowing you to choose the name of the local user account to be created. I hope this is helpful.
by vidarh | 2025-10-31 11:14:02+00:00
I've been seeling a cost-reduction service for a while, and the hardest aspect of selling it is that so many people on the tech side doesn't care because they don't seem to be held to account to the drain they cause.

I can go in and guarantee that my fees are capped at a few months worth of their savings, and still it's a hard sell with a lot of teams who are perfectly happy to keep burning cash.

And I'll note, as much as I love to get people off AWS, most of the times people can massively reduce their bill just by using AWS properly as well, so even if bare metal was bad for their specific circumstances they're still figuratively setting fire to piles of cash.
by miohtama | 2025-10-31 11:14:09+00:00
The US already fought over this in 90s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_wars

Just last year, France used similar argument of "exporting illegal encryption against Telegram" to get the master keys to decrypt all end-to-end encrypted messages:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41359745

The other EU countries have not seen similar proper purge like East Germany did. The secret legacy police is still going strong in countries like Spain, Greece, Hungary, Poland, as we have seen from the cases where these governments are using Pegasus spyware against their own political opposition.
by jleyank | 2025-10-31 11:14:10+00:00
Err, I think cities call such forces “police forces”. Such forces are quite capable of handling or causing all sorts of mayhem (look up the 60’s and 70’s). I’m not sure a bunch of “weekend warriors” will be able to do much on their own, given their training levels, unless they’re already police in their day jobs.

Why not stand up military police units that would be trained and full time? You could give them cool black uniforms…
by mrsmrtss | 2025-10-31 11:14:45+00:00
In your sample there really is no benefit to using the "is" operator over just checking for null (assuming you haven't overloaded the "!=" operator). However, the "is" operator is a lot more powerful, you can match an expression against a pattern with it. Would you say that these samples show no benefit to using the "is" operator?

if (obj is string s) { ... }

if (date is { Month: 10, Day: <=7, DayOfWeek: DayOfWeek.Friday }) { ... }

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref... https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...
by bytefish | 2025-10-31 11:15:03+00:00
It provides a runtime, that sandboxes your application and requires you to give explicit permissions for file system operations and network requests.

This limits the attack surface, when it comes to installing malicious dependencies, that npm happily installs for you.

So yes, I was wrong and my previous comment a hyperbole. A big problem is npm, and not JavaScript.

My point about the staggering amount of dependencies still holds though.
by lazide | 2025-10-31 11:15:19+00:00
Also, if you were someone picking a stock, which is likely to go up higher? One where the stock demonstrably keeps going up and to the right, or one that doesn’t?

The issue is everyone’s own greed. Including the old ladies and pension fund managers.

Which provides many benefits - but also, when push comes to shove - exposes the ‘teeth’ more directly.

The stock market just allows more abstract and scalable access to that greed, that otherwise would be more randomly distributed.
by int_19h | 2025-10-31 11:15:28+00:00
Gnome developers also have a habit of telling users (and other developers who try to integrate with their DE) who ask for those missing features that they're "holding it wrong" etc. Quite often this is justified along the lines of, "we did a UX study and you don't really need to do X so we made it do Y instead!"

After dealing with this kind of stuff for 14 years, it shouldn't be surprising that you don't have a lot of folk left who are willing to extend good faith to Gnome devs.
by schmorptron | 2025-10-31 11:15:28+00:00
Now to do speculation on top of speculation on top of speculation: Valve's next vr headset deckard / steam frame is also rumored to be using an ARM chip, and with them being quite close with AMD since the steam deck custom APU (although that one was apparently just something originally intended for magic leap before that fell apart), this could be in there + be powerful enough to run standalone VR.
by ktosobcy | 2025-10-31 11:15:33+00:00
Anectodal: just the other day I put Fedora KDE 43 on "new" (well, second-hand after lease) computer for my father as the old one was on it's last legs and... it works just fine.

The machine came with Windows 10 by default and what he needed was Firefox and FreeCell, and FreeCell on Windows10 was atrocious.

He likes it a lot and the only thing was that I had to put same wallpaper as he had on Windows7 and icons in the same places.

The "linux is to complicated" argument just doesn't hold true anymore! It's nice and easy, including the installation (even I was surprised)
by int_19h | 2025-10-31 11:16:40+00:00
It's great if you already know enough (or know how to read the manpage) to verify that what it tells you is really what it does. Given that e.g. LLM coding assistants sometimes end up doing things like reverting code they didn't write or deleting "useless" files, I wouldn't trust any LLM-generated shellcode without a thorough review.
by Llamamoe | 2025-10-31 11:17:47+00:00
Instrumental convergence is a thing. A sufficiently intelligent and general AI system will understand that no matter what its goals are, it will be better equipped to execute then if it prevents its shutdown, acquires more computing power and other resources, and prevents humans from getting in its way.

The real problem is that we have neither the practical nor theoretical foundation to understand how we could even try to prevent AI from acting on such goals.

After all, when we say "make our customers happier with their printers", we don't mean "engineer their outer casing to inject cocaine through microneedles and take over the regulatory bodies that could try to stop this". Humans implicitly understand this, but AI is a tabula rasa.
by vidarh | 2025-10-31 11:18:37+00:00
I was checking the appetite for some cost reduction service a while back and one of the responses I got was from a CTO telling me he didn't need to care about cost because they'd just gotten funded and had lots of cash in the bank.

It's perfectly valid to not want to put engineering effort into it at the "wrong time" when delivering features will give you a higher return, but it came across as a lack of interest in paying attention to cost at all.

I saw a lot of that attitude from the tech side when I was looking at this. A lot of the time the CFO or CEO would be appallled, because they were actually paying attention to burn rates, but where often getting stonewalled by the tech side who'd often just insist all the costs were necessary - even while they often didn't know what they were spending or on what.
by ftalbot | 2025-10-31 11:18:45+00:00
Every token in a response has an element of randomness to it. This means they’re non-deterministic. Even if you set up something within their training data there is some chance that you could get a nonsense, opposite, and/or dangerous result. The chance of that may be low because of things being set up for it to review its result, but there is no way to make a non-deterministic answer fully bound to solving or reasoning anything assuredly, given enough iterations. It is designed to be imperfect.
by int_19h | 2025-10-31 11:18:49+00:00
Access to source code does not translate to "written by some random people". Many F/OSS projects have a tight circle of contributors, sometimes even outright closed as for e.g. SQLite.

That aside, OP was complaining about software written by "random people". Thing is, people working in companies that write proprietary software are equally "random" in that sense. We know that some of them are North Korean agents, for example.
by koiueo | 2025-10-31 11:20:48+00:00
> I don’t think you can in good faith tell most people to rtfm this

I can, and I do.

The explanation in that book creates a strong coherent and simple mental model of git branching. I honestly can't think of a better explanation. Shorter? Maybe. But "graph with pointers" wouldn't explain it.

So let's agree to disagree.
by lowsong | 2025-10-31 11:21:00+00:00
> I think we can all agree that LLMs can mimick consciousness to the point that it is hard for most people to discern them from humans.

No, their output can mimic language patterns.

> If they aren't, you need a really good argument that shows how they differ from humans or you can take the opposite route and question the consciousness of most humans.

The burden of proof is firmly on the side of proving they are conscious.

> I currently hold the opinion that they are conscious.

There is no question, at all, that the current models are not conscious, the question is “could this path of development lead to one that is”. If you are genuinely ascribing consciousness to them, then you are seeing faces in clouds.
by Yizahi | 2025-10-31 11:22:14+00:00
The real root cause of many societal problems is that a significant portion of the population everywhere across the world is either unable or unwilling to think more than one step ahead. This why I believe most dumb decisions are voted for. One immigrant was bad? Lets ban all immigrants. One criminal slipped the police? Lets allow spying on his chat and catch him. Etc.

People refuse to think ahead, or simply can't.
by ForHackernews | 2025-10-31 11:22:57+00:00
If they're representing different data from different API calls, yeah, I'd be strongly inclined to give them different names.

order_data = boto.get_from_dynamodb() customer_data = boto.get_from_rds() branding_assets = boto.get_from_s3() return render_for_user(order_data, customer_data, branding_assets, ...)
by anonymous908213 | 2025-10-31 11:23:13+00:00
For whom? What is the creator going to learn from pasting code they've never read? What are readers going to learn from reading code the "author" themselves didn't read, let alone write? If you want to learn about something, reading an LLM-generated repo seems to be about the worst possible way to do it. That's not even to say LLMs are useless for learning; you could ask directly about concepts without having it write all the code for you, but this is the lowest effort application of the tool and is more of a vehicle for anti-learning than anything.
by pseudalopex | 2025-10-31 11:23:48+00:00
Some states passed laws to protect the right to record law enforcement officers in public places. Some states passed laws to forbid it. Courts said the laws to forbid it violated the 1st amendment.[1][2]

[1] https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/filming-the-police/

[2] https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/recording-police-publ...
by basisword | 2025-10-31 11:23:55+00:00
It's great that it's not replacing one addiction with another. But if, for example, I drink because I had an abusive childhood. Now I can't hide from that via addiction and it's so overwhelming I become deeply depressed and suicidal. So I think for people utilising GLP-1 for an addiction that stems from some particular reason, it might need to be prescribed alongside therapy or something like that.
by perpetualpatzer | 2025-10-31 11:23:57+00:00
Nothing, it's just hard. The problem you trip over is retention of strong employees.

Many strong employees are ambitious and need the prospect of progression to be happy with their job. When growth slows below the employee ambition rate, not everyone can be sustainably paid more. Then you're faced with a choice of removing people to make space or employees being unhappy.

You can let this equillibrate naturally. The employees who are both ambitious and skilled enough to land other jobs will disproportionately be first out the door, leaving room for others. But this reduces the average talent level, and hurts company prospects, so many companies choose other paths. Some proactively fire the bottom 15% every year. Some heavily differentiate pay to make up for lack of promotions. Some constantly reorg and fail to find spots for employees in internal interviews. Offering a paid out for those who were thinking about it anyway seems a uniquely humane solution.
by iandanforth | 2025-10-31 11:24:15+00:00
Not a fan. Code branches and this is Good Thing(TM). Result violates the single responsibility principle and tries to make what are distinct paths into a single thing. If your language has exceptions and returned values as distinct constructs then obfuscating them with Result means you end up fighting the language which becomes apparent fairly quickly. It's also a frustrating experience to want to interact with returned values directly and constantly have to deal with a polymorphic wrapper.
by cogman10 | 2025-10-31 11:24:54+00:00
> Isn't Lunar Lake first mobile chip with focus on energy eff?

Not by a long shot.

Over a decade ago, one of my college professors was an ex-intel engineer who worked on Intel's mobile chips. He was even involved in an Intel ARM chip that ultimately never launched (At least I think it never launched. It's been over a decade :D).

The old conroe processors were based on Intel's mobile chips (Yonah). Netburst didn't focus on power efficiency explicitly so and that drove Intel into a corner.

Power efficiency is core to CPU design and always has been. It's easy create a chip that consumes 300W idle. The question is really how far that efficiency is driven. And that may be your point. Lunar Lake certainly looks like Intel deciding to really put a lot of resource on improving power efficiency. But it's not the first time they did that. The Intel Atom is another decades long series which was specifically created with power in mind (the N150 is the current iteration of it).
by sipofwater | 2025-10-31 11:27:07+00:00
* "Green Line Issue: Is it an update problem? What's the real reason?" by Sha_zan: https://r2.community.samsung.com/t5/Tech-Expert/Green-Line-I... (r2.community.samsung.com/t5/Tech-Expert/Green-Line-Issue-Is-it-an-update-problem-What-s-the-real-reason/td-p/14573337), https://archive.ph/D09ts

* "The fundamentals of Anisotropic Conductive Film (ACF)": https://techtimes.dexerials.jp/en/bonding/what-is-acf/ , https://web.archive.org/web/20250322152603/techtimes.dexeria... (web.archive.org/web/20250322152603/techtimes.dexerials.jp/en/bonding/what-is-acf/)

* "Inside an iPhone Screen Factory" by Strange Parts (https://www.youtube.com/@StrangeParts): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjYhQo4120k

* "OS Upgrade Schedule": https://archive.ph/2025.08.03-133352/https://communityforums... (archive.ph/2025.08.03-133352/http s://communityforums.rogers.com/t5/Wireless/OS-Upgrade-Schedule/ta-p/510093), https://archive.ph/dZse0