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by dimal | 2025-12-10 17:55:34+00:00
> It's self-evidently a terrible idea

Maybe you’re comparing it to some idealized view of what human therapy is like? There’s no benchmark for it, but humans struggle in real mental health care. They make terrible mistakes all the time. And human therapy doesn’t scale to the level needed. Millions of people simply go without help. And therapy is generally one hour a week. You’re supposed to sort out your entire life in that window? Impossible. It sets people up for failure.

So, if we had some perfect system for getting every person that needs help the exact therapist they need, meeting as often as they need, then maybe AI therapy would be a bad idea, but that’s not what we have, and we never will.

Personally, I think the best way to scale mental healthcare is through group therapy and communities. Having a community of people all coming together over common issues has always been far more helpful than one on one therapy for me. But getting some assistance from an AI therapist on off hours can also be useful.
by stlava | 2025-12-10 17:55:36+00:00
At the end of the day there has to be a tradeoff between ease of use and performance. Having spent a lot of time optimizing high throughput services in go, it always felt like I was fighting the language. And that's because I was... sure they could add arenas but that just feels like what it is, a patch over the fact you're working alongside a GC.
by cameronh90 | 2025-12-10 17:55:40+00:00
There are some early tyre and brake dust collection systems which might help, but that won't do much for the road dust.

I've been wondering whether, theoretically, if self driving cars become widely usable and deployed in cities, will they be able to safely operate with harder tyre compounds and harder road surfaces that shed less but don't grip as well?

If nothing else, less aggressive driving should lead to less shedding.
by phantasmish | 2025-12-10 17:55:40+00:00
The administration can just keep coming at him as long as they're in power, and that is itself effectively a punishment. If each case takes just 90 days to play out, they can bring four or so of those per year, on the taxpayer dime (while themselves getting paid, by us, to do it, in fact!) and waste tons of Comey's money and time, while also stressing him out.

The safeguard against this is supposed to be that Congress would eventually put a stop to it, or that the people wouldn't vote someone in who'd abuse the power of the executive branch to extrajudicially punish opponents. Neither of those safeguards have worked. Courts can tell them to stop but they have to keep telling them with each case, after everyone goes through all the motions (so to speak).
by aseipp | 2025-12-10 17:55:56+00:00
It's probably just for IP and talent acquisition, if I had to guess. People who can design high performance server-class CPU microarchitectures are rare.

Frankly, Ventana seemed like an interesting entry in the space, but I have no idea who would have actually bought their servers at the end of the day. They taped out multiple designs, but none actually seem to exist outside their labs. I don't really see any path to meaningful RISC-V server adoption for at least several more years and by that time Qualcomm could design something on their own, assuming they are serious about re-entering the market. Grabbing the talent and any useful IP/core design components makes the most sense to me, anyway.
by jsheard | 2025-12-10 17:56:07+00:00
No, the issue here is that the HDMI 2.1 NDA is so strict that releasing an open source implementation is forbidden no matter how much you pay them. AMD has access to the specs, they've implemented it in hardware and in their closed source Windows driver, but they're not allowed to add it to their open source Linux driver.

Nvidia does support HDMI 2.1 on Linux since their driver is closed source (but that causes its own problems). Maybe AMD could compromise by releasing a minimal binary blob which only exposes the HDMI 2.1 implementation and nothing else.
by monerozcash | 2025-12-10 17:56:28+00:00
> No its not - LLMs are not medical experts

So what? That does not mean they're not very good at searching the internet and often provide useful information.

> If you fed them anti-vaxer information, theyd start recommending you to not get vaccinated so as to not obtain autism or something like that.

I specifically addressed this in the very short comment you're replying to, but I will repeat:

>Blindly trusting medical info from LLMs is idiotic and can kill you.
by earlyriser | 2025-12-10 17:56:48+00:00
On the other side, wasps could be so tiny. like you could put thousands of them inside an amoeba volume.

"Megaphragma mymaripenne is a microscopically sized wasp. At 200 μm in length, it is the third-smallest extant insect, comparable in size to single-celled organisms. It has a highly reduced nervous system, containing only 7400 neurons, several orders of magnitude fewer than in larger insects."
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-12-10 17:57:01+00:00
My assumption is that stop signs act somewhat as a way to enforce the lower speed limits in residential areas. There's several stretches without stops in my suburb where I've seen drivers whizzing by very obviously above the 25mph speed limit, which is bad enough on its own but becomes a serious hazard when combined with the massive blind spots that come from curbs on both directions being filled to the brim with parked cars.

A better solution would probably be radar-based speed signs with printed threats of fines, though.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-12-10 17:57:12+00:00
An ERP where instead of investing in building up your in-house domain experts, your pay consulting fees to train another company's staff on the knowledge, then pay to access it.

Crazy how modern companies want to be McFranchise level of capable. What are you adding as a company if you outsource everything that can make your company a differentiator and your company is just plug and play cogs?
by rangestransform | 2025-12-10 17:57:47+00:00
I hate this distinctly American idea that no policy can cause any detriment to any disadvantaged people at all, even if the policy effects are incredibly income-progressive overall. This is how we end up with carveouts for every special interest group in every single policy, the populace justifying turnstile hopping, lack of traffic enforcement by police, opposition to speed and red light cameras, opposition to rezoning unless it's built by free-range grass-fed vegan union labour and 100% below market, etc.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-12-10 17:57:55+00:00
In your strange haste to prove me wrong you have not taken the time to read my comment.

Yes, currently 41% of UK exports go to the EU.

The point is that we have a deal with the EU for access. But that might change. If we went low tax/low regs the EU may very well retaliate by putting barriers to trade with us. This would seriously hurt our exports (a "big hit"...). Hence, reality of being "free to do what we want" outisde of the EU is not so simple.

This is the whole Brexit story because that has been the debate of "freedom" vs "alignment" and issues of access to EU market since the Brexit referendum.

> but definitely not down.

The graph shows a decline, as said and repeated... Obviously not over the long term but I never suggested that.
by turnsout | 2025-12-10 17:57:55+00:00
It's not inevitable that LLMs will be providing mental health care; it's already happening.

Terrible idea or not, it's probably helpful to think of LLMs not as "AI mental healthcare" but rather as another form of potentially bad advice. From a therapeutic perspective, Claude is not all that different from the patient having a friend who is sometimes counterproductive. Or the patient reading a self-help book that doesn't align with your therapeutic perspective.
by didibus | 2025-12-10 17:57:57+00:00
To be honest, I wouldn't mind they'd ban it for adults too, would help me from wasting time on them.

In all seriousness though, I'm curious what counts as social media, can they not play MMORPGs anymore for example? Are niche forums included ? What about chat apps like Whatsapp? Phone texting? Email?

I'm also curious if say TikTok and YouTubed simply deactivated their social features? No comments, DMs, and so on for example? Would they be allowed again?
by ang_cire | 2025-12-10 17:58:26+00:00
> and if they go below <x> they pay a fine yea?

Where did I say that? No, the point would be if you don't manufacture x% here, you can't sell here. That is the only surefire way to force domestic production.

Tariffs don't encourage re-shoring and domestic production, they just raise the barrier of entry on consumers.
by zoeysmithe | 2025-12-10 17:59:36+00:00
tbf AOMedia doesnt really make this call. The steam deck for example doesn't do AV1 natively. It could, but Valve has so far decided not to implement it. I dont know how many other devices and systems that could do AV1 but don't do it exist, but to get this level of support, we really need to pressure these companies.
by nephihaha | 2025-12-10 18:00:07+00:00
We have heard plenty from this particular messenger. He is/was never off the BBC at some stage. I always ask why someone is pushed on the public so hard, whether it is him or even someone like Jordan Peterson. I have the same basic issue with him as I do with the Guardian... He is completely out of touch with what is happening at ground level because of his current life and his origins.
by lacoolj | 2025-12-10 18:00:09+00:00
I never knew "Parisian" was how to refer to "one from Paris"

Learn something new every day.

To be clear, I just didn't think anyone would refer to someone from Paris specifically (rather than, "French").

I mean, a lot of places you would add "-ite" but I'm guessing that would be a less-than-ideal suffix for this particular city lol
by 0xffff2 | 2025-12-10 18:00:31+00:00
This is extremely limited scope annecdata, but I've spent a few tens of hours each testing LLM coding agents in Rust for personal projects and in Python at work. My impression is that LLMs are far more productive in Rust. I attribute this to the far more structured nature of Rust compared to Python, and possibly the excellent compiler error messages as well.

The LLM gets stuck in unproductive loops all the time in Python. In Rust, it generally converges to a result that compiles and passes unit tests. Of course the code quality is still variable. My experience is that it works best when prompts are restricted to a very small unit of work. Asking an LLM to write an entire library/module/application from scratch virtually never results in usable code.
by lgrapenthin | 2025-12-10 18:01:04+00:00
I tried this on a small Clojure codebase and asked it to write some tests. It couldn't get its parentheses balanced. After 10 attempts or so it tried to write a smaller test file first, but again failed. Regardless of the parentheses, the test code it came up with was quite basic and arbitrary. It didn't try to come up with interesting edge cases or anything.
by bluerooibos | 2025-12-10 18:01:06+00:00
Marketing hype bullshit.

These guys are acting as though this is some new concept, whilst they've just rebranded it in a shiny silver package. Aero derived gas turbines like the RR RB211 are everywhere, already packaged like this, powering oil rigs and pipelines everywhere - I worked on them years ago.

Looking forward to coal companies jumping on the bandwagon if they haven't already - "Introducing CoalGen 3.0 - our new cloud connected, AI powering, next gen coal power station."

Every passing day it feels more and more like we're living in some Wall-E like, capitalist dystopia where everything has just lost all purpose and capitalism has just gone into runaway mode, having fine tuned everything for maximum profit, instead of us producing things we and the planet actually need.
by ActorNightly | 2025-12-10 18:01:16+00:00
Unless im writing something like code for a video game in a game engine that uses C++, most of the stuff that I need C is compartmentalized enough to where its much faster to have an LLM write it.

For example, the last C code I wrote was tcp over ethernet, bypassing the IP layer, so I can be connected to the VPN while being able to access local machines on my network.

If im writing it in Rust, I have to do a lot of research, think about code structure, and so on. With LLMs, it took me an hour to write, and that is with no memory leaks or any other safety issues.
by jstummbillig | 2025-12-10 18:01:34+00:00
I find the relationship of the general public with company ownership fascinating.

1) Can just pick and choose buying parts of the best, most well functioning companies without having to figure out anything or do anything, what a life.

2) Kinda hate on people who run those companies

3) Also kinda hate on big companies in general

4) Owning stocks is somewhat cool though. Unless it's not, then it's destruction of wealth.
by jfindper | 2025-12-10 18:01:46+00:00
>How come ad supported TV existed for decades without destroying children's mental health?

Well, there's at least a few reasons this is different than the current situation.

1) It's expensive to make a TV show, it's free to do a fortnite dance or eat a tide pod and post it to several websites. The amount of low-effort, low-quality, probably-harmful content on TikTok or whatever is exponentially more than low-effort, low-quality, probably-harmful TV shows/ads.

2) The availability is on completely different scales. TVs are (basically) fixed in a specific place. Phones are, for most people, within arms reach 24/7.

3) What can be shown on TV is significantly more regulated in most parts of the world, and control mechanisms by governments are more robust (pull a broadcast license, etc.). It's harder to take a website (or TikTok, whatever) offline than it is to pull a harmful show/advert off of HGTV or whatever your favorite channel is.

4) TV is not specifically tailored to the viewer to produce the most amount of happy chemical.
by phantasmish | 2025-12-10 18:01:47+00:00
If things aren't close they don't need to be counted.

It's a fact of voting that most folks can vote in every election they can for their entire lives and never make any difference whatsoever, as in, change zero outcomes.

We have social pressure and propaganda otherwise to get people to do it, because if too many people rationally stay home then the system works poorly (in aggregate, that does change outcomes). It'd be much better to just mandate voting, because it is individually irrational and it's not great to base a system on tricking everyone into behaving irrationally.

This feels different because they're not bothering to even count them, but it's not materially different from any voting.

(barring the "sometimes not even counted then" part, of course)
by falcor84 | 2025-12-10 18:02:01+00:00
Well, obviously it's not the most representative example, but yes, if a country intends to kill hundreds of thousands of people, then an atomic bomb is probably the most cost-effective way, even after accounting for R&D. Moreover, if the calculus is how to win the war with the lowest number of additional lives lost, the atomic bombs dropped on Japan were quite likely significantly less deadly, even when comparing just against the expected number of Japanese civilian casualties from the alternative scenario of a Normandy-like invasion of Japan.

EDIT: It's worth saying that humans have been killing each other from the dawn of humanity. Studies on both present-day and historical tribal societies generally show a significantly higher homicide rate than what we're used to seeing in even our most dangerous cities and across our biggest wars.

A bit old, but extensive numbers - https://ourworldindata.org/ethnographic-and-archaeological-e...
by nephihaha | 2025-12-10 18:02:04+00:00
Guilt by association? Yes, he's associated with the WEF, a group of elite politicians and wealthy tycoons who meet away from the prying eyes of the public to discuss policies, and then tells us he's on our side.

They say you can know someone by the company they keep. The company he keeps are the Cambridge University students (who come disproportionately from private schools), mainstream media pundits and the billionaires of the WEF.

He doesn't just come from privilege... He never really left it.
by autoexec | 2025-12-10 18:02:57+00:00
> Very, very few people must drive into the center of Manhattan to work.

I assure you that Manhattan is filled with many employees and service workers.

> It was already unaffordable to do so anyway

Yes, it was a massive strain on the budgets of many people, and it's the people who managed to sacrifice enough to show up for work or get where they needed to go anyway even though it was difficult for them who were most impacted by congestion pricing.

> People take the subway.

Many do. When it's an option for them and at the expense of time/convenience. If this were an acceptable excuse we might as well just shut the roads into Manhattan down entirely.

This article proves that people have been being priced out of driving into the city and I promise you that isn't the millionaires who are suddenly navigating the subway system and waiting for the trains in filthy stations.

It's also important to note that nationally, nobody knows or cares about the specific differences in NYC compared to their own cities. The vast majority of the people outside of NYC complaining about it have never even been to the state. They just know that once again, it's the small guy who is getting screwed over and that they don't want the success of congestion pricing in New York (however that is measured) to cause it to appear where they drive, and who can blame them for that?
by anon84873628 | 2025-12-10 18:03:23+00:00
To write code. They still depend on / benefit from abstractions like humans do. But they are (for now) a different user persona with different needs. Turns out you can get better ROI and yield ecosystem benefits if some abstractions are tailored to them.

You could still use AI to implement the MCP server just like humans implemented Open AI for each other. Is it really surprising that we would need to refactor some architecture to work better with LLMs at this point? Clearly some big orgs have decided its worth the investment. You may not agree and that's fine - that happens with every type of new programming thing. But to compare generally against the "marketing hype" is basically just a straw man or nut picking.
by mitchellh | 2025-12-10 18:03:36+00:00
For a good example of this sort of pattern in the real world, take a look at the Zig compiler source code. I'm sure others might do it but Zig definitely does. I have a now very outdated series on some of the Zig internals: https://mitchellh.com/zig/parser And Andrew's old DoD talk is very good and relevant to this: https://vimeo.com/649009599

More generally, I believe its fair to call this a form of handle-based designs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handle_(computing) Which are EXTREMELY useful for a variety of reasons and imo woefully underused above the lowest system level.
by menaerus | 2025-12-10 18:03:41+00:00
They say "With roughly 5 million lines of Rust in the Android platform and one potential memory safety vulnerability found (and fixed pre-release), our estimated vulnerability density for Rust is 0.2 vuln per 1 million lines (MLOC).".

Do you honestly believe that there is 1 vulnerability per 5 MLoC?
by tptacek | 2025-12-10 18:03:42+00:00
The vibe I get from this post is of someone who hasn't routinely used arenas in the past and thinks they're kind of a big deal. But a huge part of the point of an arena is how simple it is. You can just build one. Meanwhile, the idea that arena handles were going to be threaded through every high-allocation path in the standard library is fanciful.
by nrclark | 2025-12-10 18:03:46+00:00
Most SOCs on the market today have a mix of various CPU cores. It's common to see designs with a few big ARM Cortex-A cores running an OS like Linux or Android, and then some smaller Cortex-M microcontroller cores that do housekeeping things like security checks, power management, realtime features, peripheral management, etc.

If I were to guess, Qualcomm wants to replace its various Cortex-M cores with RISC-V equivalents. This saves them money on licensing, reduces their dependency on ARM, and doesn't break customer-facing compatibility. Ventana is probably more of an aquihire to get their designer team.

"We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile." -Qualcomm, probably
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2025-12-10 18:03:51+00:00
Absolute garbage.

A) Forbidding your children something does not equate to helicopter parenting. You're attacking someone else's position.

B) Forbidding your children something DOES WORK as long as that thing is not easily accessible. That's why we make certain things illegal to sell to children, so that their rate of usage is lower than otherwise.
by 9rx | 2025-12-10 18:04:08+00:00
> I understand the desire of academics to help agriculture, but they really need to check in with the field before coming up with prototypes like this

Do they? Academia is about the individual. It is not about others. Sometimes what an academic comes up with ends up being applicable to a larger audience, but that's not the goal. Industry is where people try to do things for others.
by jakub_g | 2025-12-10 18:04:14+00:00
Fixing deprecations is unfortunately the lowest prio of any kind of work for majority of the projects. Part of the problem is probably lack of pressure to do so it if the timeline is unclear. What if this is actually never removed? Why going through the pain?

IMO telling "we deprecate now and let's see when we remove it" is counterproductive.

A better way: deprecate now and tell "in 12 (or 24?) months this WILL be removed".

After 12/24 months, cut a new semver-major release. People notice the semver-major through the dependency management tools at some point, an maybe they have a look at changelog.

If they don't, at some point they may want to use a new feature, and finally be incentivised to update.

If there's no incentive other than "do the right thing", it never gets done.

Having said that, I think LLMs are really going to help with chores like this, if e.g. deprecations and migration steps are well documented.

Alternative option: create a codemod CLI that fixes deprecations for the users, doing the right thing automatically. If migration is painless and quick, it's more likely people will do it.
by sombragris | 2025-12-10 18:05:48+00:00
I support the change, though the rationale used for it seems to me to be nonsense.

Times New Roman might not be the world's most beautiful font, but at least is a little bit less atrocious than Calibri (which is awful). So, whatever the rationale invoked, I welcome the change.

Sometimes, when I have to work on documents which will be shared with many users, I use Times New Roman as serif, and Arial as a sans serif. Both choices are (admittedly in my very subjective opinion) better than Calibri, and it's almost guaranteed that every PC will have these fonts available, or at least exact metric equivalents of them.
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-12-10 18:06:07+00:00
It's using the size of the ruler, matching the posture as shown in the image. A few keys over and there's a picture of a grizzly bear that says it is 1m or 3'4" tall. And maybe when it's on all fours, that's a typical measurement to the shoulders - its arm length, more or less.

That's much shorter than the human at 1.7m or 5'7". From just those numbers, you might think that a human would weigh more than a grizzly or take one in a fight: But when a bear stands on its hind legs, it's 2.4m/8' tall and can be 800 lbs, I'd have put a grizzly way further to the right.