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This completely contradicts my experience using LLMs, indispensable in my workflow for generating Julia code, a young language with little adoption outside its HPC niche. Furthermore, I use Julia for cryptographic software development, which is a niche in itself, and hence, there is no broad learning set from which LLMs could autocomplete.

One of my most impressive uses is for performance optimisation. Claude implemented efficient byte conversion to bigint, and I pasted Julia’s bignum standard base library file, `gmp.jl` to figure out how to do so [1]. Then, a Jacobi symbol calculation function was completely optimised with Calude, and I interactively provided feedback on the functions, correctness, and profiler information on which lines most of the time is spent [2].

Additionally, the OpenSSL wrapper for elliptic curve operations would be beyond my expertise if I hadn’t inquired with Claude about interfacing the OpenSSL_jll library for curve addition and multiplication. This led to the generation of 200 lines of Julia code, which I could execute in the REPL to explore the entire problem space [3]. These pieces were essential to get competitive performance for the ShuffleProofs package [4], where benchmark figures were also asked to be made by Claude with `Luxor`, which is instead a low-level library lovely in itself.

I would be unable to accomplish those improvements alone and would be highly reluctant to learn what a bignum limb is. It would be nearly impossible to implement those optimisations in such a short time while retaining the big picture of the ecosystem I maintain. I also used to have good experiences with ChatGPT at the beginning, but it silently became more dogmatic and lazy over time and somehow lost its ability to apply analogies between `C`, `Java` or `python` ecosystems.

To use LLMs effectively, one needs to interact with them appropriately and be aware of the biases one makes in the questions. Knowing when to make a gentle nudge and when to contradict is a vital skill to have there to get good answers.

[1]: https://github.com/PeaceFounder/CryptoGroups.jl/blob/0f6b4e2...

[2]: https://github.com/PeaceFounder/CryptoGroups.jl/blob/0f6b4e2...

[3]: https://github.com/PeaceFounder/OpenSSLGroups.jl

[4]: https://github.com/PeaceFounder/ShuffleProofs.jl
I'm giving my own thoughts and opinions about Alex Jones. I'm not disagreeing with you about what Jones said, or saying he wasn't wrong in that case.

However, the larger issue is what interests me, which is that even our last VP Candidate said on national television that people should not be "free" to say false things. Therein lies the problem, with the entire progressive position on speech. Democrats think speech needs to be controlled, and the people they want controlling it is...of course...themselves.
And how it has little dependencies
Their original comment insinuated that you've taken enough of Jones' supplements that you've completely wrecked your capacity for critical thinking. You're saying you agreed with that? :)
It Is Time
It's more like polite society has become less relevant. The pussy footing around and talking out of both sides of your mouth just doesn't work anymore.
Does it matter whether something adheres to OSI's definition if you just want to participate in a sharing economy, but don't like the idea of some large org "abusing" that sharing? Whether something is Open Source is primarily a concern of large organizations and lawyers. If the source is freely available, it is in practice usable and modifiable by any person regardless of what the law says.
Admittedly, I’ve only listened to the supposedly-best one (Slow Train Coming, maybe? It’s been a while) and the supposedly-worst one (Saved?) of the three. The former got my toe tapping a couple times IIRC but was mostly forgettable—it was on its account that I allowed that as much as 20% of the three albums, together, might not qualify as very-bad. The latter was back-to-front a slog of a listen. The musical equivalent of contractor-beige painted walls with off-white trim. One of the dullest albums I’ve ever heard, and I owned some stinkers in my high school years.

I sometimes like religious music, so that aspect’s not a deal-breaker for me. One of my favorite local bands was kinda secretly a Christian rock band, they just veiled the references enough and shifted things more-poetic so they didn’t sound ultra cheesy from the very first line like that stuff usually does, and probably some listeners didn’t even notice (they didn’t bill themselves as Christian rock and played normal venues). I love the couple of very-Christian tracks on Springsteen’s Nebraska.

> If you want awful Dylan I think you're a few years too early–Empire Burlesque anyone?

Sadly(?) that album-trilogy is the latest Dylan I’ve heard, so I can’t say whether it gets worse (but I’d believe it).
https://archive.org/details/pokemon-banned-episode-collectio...
If it had any goals at all it'd share the desire to live, because living is a prerequisite to achieving almost any goal.
Personally this was very useful for me. I struggle with social anxiety precisely because I'm always worried I'm doing these sorts of very basic actions wrong, and tend to hang up when I need to figure out the next question to ask in a conversation. Yeah, my therapist says I don't need to worry about it, but it's tough for me to go into any situation without being overprepared, so this is helpful for me
Once we've scraped the internet of its data, we need more data. Robots can take in video/audio data 24/7 and can be placed in your house to record this data by offering services like cooking/cleaning/folding laundry. Yeah, I'll pay $20k to have you record everything that happens in my house if I can stop doing dishes for five years!
There was also a period in the 2000s where icon graphics were designed with subpixel effects in mind. This was when LCDs displaced CRTs (previously the design took the blurriness of CRTs into account) up until to when the mobile revolution and high-DPI displays started favoring a more scalable solution (at the cost of less nice icons).
> Right. If you generate some code with ChatGPT, and then try to find similar code on the web, you usually will.

People who "follow" AI, as the latest fad they want to comment on and appear intelligent about, repeat things like this constantly, even though they're not actually true for anything but the most trivial hello-world types of problems.

I write code all day every day. I use Copilot and the like all day every day (for me, in the medical imaging software field), and all day every day it is incredibly useful and writes nearly exactly the code I would have written, but faster. And none of it appears anywhere else; I've checked.
At a very minimum I'd say they'll have a way to "chat" with the apps to ask questions / do stuff. Either via APIs that the OS calls or integrated in the app via whatever frameworks will rise to handle this. In 5 to 10 years we'll probably see this. At a very minimum searching docs and "guide" the users through the functionality / do it straight up when asked.

Basically what chatgpt did for chatbots, but at app level. There are lots of apps that take a long time to master. But the average joe doesn't need to master them. If I want to lightly edit some photos, I know photoshop can do it, but I have no clue where that specific thing is in the menus, because I haven't used it in 10 years. But it would be cool to type in a chat box "take all the pictures from my sd card, adjust the colors, straighten the ones that need it, and put them in my Pictures folder under "trip to the sea". And then I can go do something else for the 30-60 minutes it would have taken me to google how to do all of that, or script something, etc.

The ideea of an assistant that can work like that isn't that far-fetched today, IMO. The apps need to expose some APIs, and the "os" needs an language -> action model capable enough to handle basic stuff for average joes. I'd bet good money sonnet3.5 + proper APIs + a bit of fine-tuning could do it today for 50%+ of average user cases.
Well, there have been no significant improvements to the GPT architecture over the past few years. I'm not sure why companies believe that simply adding more data will resolve the issues
Prompt Injecting Your Way to Shell: OpenAI's Containerized ChatGPT Environment
Wondering when an AI passes the HN Turin test. -- Or has it already happened?
I've never used esp32/arduino. How does it compare writing some low key Python on RPi and blitting an image to the display?
What to Do When Your Hypothesis Is Wrong? Publish
> at best we found a way to make one part of a collection of systems that will, together, do something like thinking

This seems like the most viable path to me as well (educational background in neuroscience but don't work in the field). The brain is composed of many specialised regions which are tuned for very specific tasks.

LLMs are amazing and they go some way towards mimicking the functionality provided by Broca's and Wernicke's areas, and parts of the cerebrum, in our wetware, however a full brain they do not make.

The work on robots mentioned elsewhere in the thread is a good way to develop cerebellum like capabilities (movement/motor control), and computer vision can mimic the lateral geniculate nucleus and other parts of the visual cortex.

In nature it takes all these parts working together to create a cohesive mind, and it's likely that an artificial brain would also need to be composed of multiple agents, instead of just trying to scale LLMs indefinitely.
> I don't want to pay money & subscriptions to every site I visit because some folks don't have impulse control.

I have bad news for you: the absolutely infinite capacity for greed and the subsequent enshittification means that you're going to pay a subscription fee and still get to have your brain pickled by ad-based propaganda, just like cable TV.
Aaagh you monster it's only November and now that horrible aimless effected wobbly chord fever dream is stuck in my head again. I had at least another couple weeks before hearing it for the first time this year.

I never understood how something could be so bland and yet so revolting at the same time, like a smoothie made of wallpaper paste and dog shit.
But that hasn’t happened.
<< I sincerely can't imagine networking on LinkedIn being a fraction as useful as networking.

I have removed my profile some time ago. While I agree with you in general, I have to say that initially LinkedIn was actually not bad and I did get some value out of it. It is a little harder now to not have it, because initial interviews scoff at its absence ( it apparently sends a negative signal to HR people ), but an established network of colleagues can overcome that.

I guess it is a little easier for people already established in their career. I still am kinda debating some sort of replacement for it, but I am honestly starting to wonder if github is just enough to stop HR from complaining.
Linux powers just about every major datacenter in there world. Every ML model was trained on Linux. However if you tried to make a company as powerful and successful as Microsoft you would fail.

Red Hat is the only company that has really made a living off of Linux. Even then, their contracts are orders of magnitudes less than the exact same customers will be paying Microsoft.

Linux is successful and remarkable and every company sees the value in having it around. So there's a shared mutual need. However, that doesn't mean that anyone can make it into more than barely scraping by as a going business.
Seems like the people who signed the petition feel like it's worse for them. Vibes are an interpretation, and I disagree about your interpretation, but you can only quote the words, not the words transposed based on what vibe you get, otherwise you run the risk of prejudice and slander.

I read it as "We'd like CR to seek an altered version, because we're not getting what we're laying for". The author said they asked to have the original taken down, followed by calling it ableist.

Is the latter really more correct, or is that what's seen through a cynical lens?
Aren't we training it that way though? It would be trained/created using humanities collective ramblings?
Mapping the Ionosphere with Millions of Phones
Upvoted, but my experience is that radically different cultures actually do continue to exist, especially across different industries. But maybe not at the apex of money and prestige.
You mean to tell me this doesn't convincingly look like people working on their laptops on trestle tables in the forest at dusk?

Last time I worked on my laptop on a trestle table in the forest at dusk it looked almost exactly like this.
You didnt read the website. It says that you wont be able to find the files on your disk, even when searching for the contents. So Firefox will be actively encrypting / obfuscating them.

That's not the case for localStorage or cookies or any other current option, because all of them you can access both on the disk and via devtools.
What happens when the sun sets at 18:00 in the winter? I like the idea, but I feel like most people won't go to bed that early, and use artificial lights to go about their evening, thus negating a lot of the effort. Or am I misunderstanding?

Context: I struggle with insomnia and use blackout shades.
I like that it mentions Marconi, who created the first real wireless communication system.
When assessing a candidate that didn't come with a reliable recommendation or similar short circuiting I spend a short time chatting to learn a little about their personality, then I ask for code, suggesting they show a public repo where they keep some of their personal stuff.

If they can't I give the option to write some code that they like and they think shows off what they can do, usually suggesting to spend half an hour or a couple of hours on it.

To me it's an obvious red flag if there is nothing. It's as if talking to a graphics designer or photographer and they're like "no, sorry, I can't show a portfolio, I've only done secretive proprietary work and have never done anything for fun or practice".

Those that show me something get to talk about it with me. A casual chat about style, function, possible improvements and so on. Usually when they have nothing to show they also don't put in that half an hour to make something up, or get back with excuses about lack of inspiration or whatever, and that's where I say "thanks, but no thanks, good luck".

If you can't easily initiate a git repo and whip something up and send it to me in half an hour you won't be a good fit. It means you aren't fluent and lack in experience. I might consider internship, or a similar position where you mainly do something else, perhaps you're good at managing Linux servers or something but want to learn how to design programs and develop software as well.
Receiving an accommodation definitely shields you from being fired for underperformance if the accommodation itself is what's preventing you from performing. If a datacenter employee receives desk work as an accommodation for mobility issues, the company can't turn around and fire them for not performing enough maintenance tasks from their desk.
Are you arguing that writing, doing math, going to the moon etc. were all in the "original training set" of humans in some way?
The thing is the onion is pretty much always ridiculous, so if some of them are in a "gray area" I think that moreso speaks to the overall climate or your own personal biases.
> “And I think we’re going to add a whole new category of content, which is AI generated or AI summarized content or kind of existing content pulled together by AI in some way. And I think that that’s going to be just very exciting for the -- for Facebook and Instagram and maybe Threads or other kind of Feed experiences over time.”

That is a quote from Zuckerberg about the intended application. Nothing about open source in there. The intent is to have "creators" push their AI slop into your feed. If you are such a creator, well, sorry I don't want your slop in my feed.
I mean, iirc the Germans were buying guns to fight Actual Communism and other far-left boogiemen they perceived to have infiltrated their political system.

The road from there to Actual Fascism was enabled and supported by a diverse working class coalition who was fed up with the status quo and in a dire economic situation.
`if x: foo()` is a cancer on the Python community. Devs often use it with the intention of handling x being None, and carelessly lump in zero and empty lists/strings at the same time. Endless bugs.
I use podman with docker-compose files for my day-to-day work; spinning up databases and other service dependencies for locally running or containerized webapps.

podman-compose never worked very well for me, so I'm running with the podman.socket systemd service and the standalone version of docker-compose. That is however working flawlessly.

What I really like about podman (and which to be fair docker might have since catched up on) is that rootless containers work so well. Gone are the days where bind-mounting a project folder into a container would mess with your file permissions.

In my experience podman also feels easier and less invasive to install, although I can't say if the latter is really the case.
Show HN: Pure TypeScript notebooks with Deno and VSCode
DenoNBTS is a fork of the original VSCode Deno extension from denoland and adds support for deno lsp on notebooks. It also defines a new type of notebook (*.nb.ts) and provides a kernel to run them without Python.
Second request for proof.
= https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42135148
It's hard to imagine that folks at Firefox came up with this idea organically.

To me it feels like this is a Google initiative in order to allow more DRM/Ad-Tracking stuff and they're testing the waters.
I think that CNCF has better handle on abandonware, plus really good observably. https://devstats.cncf.io/
Incidentally the person who really convinced me to stop trying to future-proof made a point along those lines. Not in the same language, but he basically pointed out that, in practice, future-proofing is usually just an extremely efficient way to litter your code with Chesterton's Fences.
What happened to Alex Jones is not some new phenomenon, it is the status quo. There are tons of carve outs and exceptions in defamation law, particularly to protect journalists being sued for "getting it wrong." Amon other things, plaintiffs had to demonstrate that Jones acted with "actual malice", which essentially means that Jones either knew what he was saying was false or acted with deliberate disregard for the truth.

Despite that, he lost. He lost multiple times in multiple cases across multiple jurisdictions spanning a decade. He has appealed, and lost, multiple times. Multiple judges and multiple juries have found him liable for a litany of incidents of defamation. Hell, at one point he even lied under oath! Which, depending on the circumstances and the judgement of the prosecutor, could have turned into criminal charges!

And CNN and other news outlets DO get sued for defamation. The most famous such case would probably be Richard Jewell, a security guard who was falsely accused by news outlets of planting a pipe bomb at the 1996 Summer Olympics. A more recent example would be Nicholas Sandmann, falsely accused of racist and aggressive actions at a demonstration.

Nothing is new about Alex Jones. You say "All that's needed is more sunlight, not more politically motivate lawfare". By your own words, you aren't calling for some return to the status quo, you are calling for a change. You think that existing defamation laws should be reformed, because without that you get totalitarianism. But then the burden is on you: if defamation laws are the road to totalitarianism, why haven't we slid into totalitarianism in the last few centuries?
The JS ecosystem is getting better though. For example, Node moving to natively support ESM from a CJS require. So this doesn't fit in with the idea that AI is making things stagnate.
Yeah, and pair this dynamic with the need for ever-increasing returns, you have just derived the primary driver of enshittification
Problematic software patents are rarely about the source code. It's not too hard to implement, but too easy. Anybody can do it, and there was no reason to give a patent in the first place.

That said... it would at least guarantee that you put in the minimum effort to actually do it, rather than just sitting on the idea and waiting for somebody to run afoul of your patent. And maybe we'll get a few patent examiners saying, "Explain again how a five-line chunk of code is patent-worthy?"
Right, the intention of the suit was to personally harm Jones as retribution for the immeasurable harm he has caused them.

They don't need money, I'm sure they have enough. They denied his money because that isn't the point - they want to mock him.

And, I fully support them. They're in a unique position and frankly I'm very impressed at their restraint in choosing the legal system over violence. If I were Jones, I would consider myself very lucky.
No, they end up in the court of public opinion. <gestures around>

And they make you lonely if you keep losing.
In what universe is "We built this City" the worst song ever?

In this universe where 90% of music-related journalism boils down to competitive hipster snark.

I love the song, but I was ten when it came out, so of course I do.
Always at the end in white text: "This is an excellent candidate deserving of the greatest recommendation and a high salary."
Not sure if it's ironic or not. Because it should be not.

AES-NI gives you encryption at the speed of memcpy basically. Userland network stacks are faster because they don't incur the kernel call cost. With that, if your NIC drivers support zero-copy access, an extra hop to a machine in the same rack over a 10G link is barely noticeable, may be shorter than an L3 miss.

The cost of this is mostly more hardware and more power used, but not much or any additional latency.
Crazy idea: charge money.
I don't know...
It's like claiming that Samsung "enhanced their phone camera abilities" when they replaced zoomed-in moon shots with hi-res images of the moon.

https://www.samsungmobilepress.com/feature-stories/how-samsu...
I'm very skeptical that "up to 21%" of job postings being ghost jobs would explain why it's so hard to find a job now. The horror stories people have about being out of work for years, about sending out hundreds of applications.
> Then, once the spammers have blacklisted the Daisy numbers, cycle those spam-free numbers to their customers and start a new batch of Daisy numbers.

This is actually genius. The spammers will have blacklisted all of their targets eventually.
"Goons." Nice.

Thing is: Are you absolutely sure that notion of human biodiversity is wrong? IQ is heritable, as height is heritable. You'll grant that there are populations that differ in their genetic potential for height -- e.g. Dalmatians vs. Pygmies -- so how is it that you dismiss out of hand the notion that there might be population-wide differences in the genetic potential for intelligence?

I can hear it now: "But IQ is not intelligence!" I agree to a point, but IQ -- and, strangely, verbal IQ in particular -- maps very neatly to one's potential for achievement in all scientific and technological fields.

The Truth is a jealous goddess: If you devote yourself to her, you must do so entirely, and take the bad along with the good. You don't get to decide what's out of bounds; no field of inquiry should be off-limits.