skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The headline question here alone gets at what is the biggest widespread misunderstanding of LLMs, which causes people to systematically doubt and underestimate their ability to exhibit real creativity and understanding based problem solving.

At it's core an LLM is a sort of "situation specific simulation engine." You setup a scenario, and it then plays it out with it's own internal model of the situation, trained on predicting text in a huge variety of situations. This includes accurate real world models of, e.g. physical systems and processes, that are not going to be accessed or used by all prompts, that don't correctly instruct it to do so.

At its core increasingly accurate prediction of text, that is accurately describing a time series of real world phenomena, requires an increasingly accurate and general model of the real world. There is no sense in which there is a simpler way to accurately predict text that represents real world phenomena in cross validation, without actually understanding and modeling the underlying processes generating those outcomes represented in the text.

Much of the training text is real humans talking about things they don't understand deeply, and saying things that are wrong or misleading. The model will fundamentally simulate these type of situations it was trained to simulate reliably, which includes frequently (for lack of a better word) answering things "wrong" or "badly" "on purpose" - even when it actually contains an accurate heuristic model of the underlying process, it will still, faithfully according to the training data, often report something else instead.

This can largely be mitigated with more careful and specific prompting of what exactly you are asking it to simulate. If you don't specify, there will be a high frequency of accurately simulating uninformed idiots, as occur in much of the text on the internet.
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I would never hire a product person from Google or someone I needed to be visionary. For the most part, their products suck, they have no vision and no follow through.

But their technology is top notch. I hire mostly for startups and green field initiatives though and I wouldn’t hire anyone from any BigTech company unless I had “hard” technical problems to solve.

Yes I’ve done a stint at BigTech.
I'll check it out and fix that ASAP. Thanks for pointing out!
Just tried to signup for tana - but their waitlist form (interestingly) didn't ask me for an email to contact me with followup steps and I can't seem to create an account :(. How did ya get access?
What sad news to hear. I hope his family and loved ones are doing ok.

We lost touch over the years, but I worked closely with Noah for a couple of years at Palm/PalmSource back in the early days of our careers. We shared a small office, dubbed the “habitrail”, with two other engineers as we all worked away bringing the Expansion/VFS Managers to life on PalmOS.

He was definitely one of my favorite coworkers, I loved talking to him about his random side projects, language theory, motorcycles, and any other number of other nerdy topics.

I pretty much always think of him when I go out for out for sushi. Eating sushi was still pretty new to me at the time, and he once took me to a great restaurant in San Francisco. Besides sharing some very fresh raw clams, he also ordered this incredibly monstrous roll with a ton of avocado. The pieces were so large that I didn’t really know what to do with it, but he shared with me his rule of ”one sushi, one bite!” This may have been the most challenging piece of sushi I ever ate, but I managed to follow his rule. To this day I still love sharing the rule with my friends whenever a surprisingly large piece of sushi comes to our table, and I still try my best to always follow it!
Also, depending on your DB engine and DB design and storage needs it might be just fine to store ULID as `char(26)` instead of `uniqueidentifier`. It's a lot more space in bytes, but bytes can be pretty affordable and then the ULIDs are never not in their canonical Base-32 form.

I also worked on applications that used ULIDs in string form only in NoSQL documents, string-based cache keys, and string indexes just fine. I didn't try `char(26)` columns in a DB and seeing how well, for instance, SQL Server clustered and indexed them, but I've SQL Server do just fine with someone's wild idea of clustering a `varhar(MAX)` field and I'm sure SQL Server can probably do it just fine on the technical side.

It's nice that you can easily convert a ULID to a 128-bit key, but you certainly don't have to. (Also, people really do like the ugly dashed hex form of UUIDs sometimes and I've seen people store those directly as strings in places you'd expect they should just store the 128-bit value, it goes both ways here, I suppose.)
That's fair, the tabs are nice. If only they hadn't killed the file menu, the address bar, and sane navigation in the process.
It was 5 years after Android was introduced that the CEO stopped using BlackBerry…
Yep, polyester was the first thing to go. It’s a crappy fabric for all sorts of other reasons anyway.
Developing for a single platform in 2025 is like developing for a single platform in 2005, if you don’t care about mobile.

The desktop marketshare of the various platforms hasn’t fundamentally shifted since then. Mobile was all additive, and Microsoft lost it. But Mac and Linux remain roughly where they were.
>You also change the headers / TLS signature, because it's their worker doing the connection.

pip install curl_cffi

Even easier than spending 15 minutes setting up cloudflare workers.

>The racket is not in the workers themselves, but rather cloudflare both protecting from internet abuse and protecting sites which sell the abuse services. (For example hosting WebStresser) I meant that by giving them more traffic and accepting that as a workaround, we'd be saying "I'm ok with that".

Do you think it's a "racket" for gun shops to sell guns for home defense, but also to sell guns to criminals?
Boiled wool is pretty water resistant, that’s usually what wool coats are made of.
While I agree with 99% of what you said…

> I’d say it’s a mouse-driven IDE with a YAML-like code. But in its current guise, I can see people itching to use the keyboard for speed once they know what text pieces they want.

It’s useful to keep in mind that a “mouse-driven” IDE could have some real benefits from an accessibility perspective. I agree that this generally might miss the mark from a variety of goals, especially compared to graph based dataflow programming languages (see my other comment in this thread), and to really maximize accessibility as a goal you would need to actually design it for that from the ground up, but it’s still good to see experiments with other modalities and raise the question. At the end of the day the fraction of programmers who have difficulty typing is low… but that doesn’t mean it should be ignored, especially considering that one day almost all of us on here will have trouble typing, but likely still have the urge to code!
FSO alone has 50k uniformed troops to protect Moscow from the Army or any other attack from the periphery.
Reminds me of those Japanese companies that has been around since the founding of modern Japan making uniquely crafted products like a video, I watched of a company making some very expensive black pigment that is rolled by a dude with bare feet.
That kind of blog post never happened in the 1950 to 1980 era. It is so naive and selfish. But It might have been written in another era by Marie Antoinette. Avarice and decadence like this need to be taxed into oblivion
oh hey, I'm the developer of SpiceyPy. IIRC jplephem implements their own parsing of spk files and isn't a full implementation of the SPICE API. SpiceyPy simply wraps SPICE (via CSPICE).
Apple spends a lot of money to keep its secrets. Paying $95 million to avoid letting people snoop in exactly how Apple systems work is a bargain, and I don't even think they're using audio for ad targeting.
> potentially reducing development time

See this is where this falls over.

Syntax highlighting + autocomplete already handle this, and where this actually works against your language, you have the problem every GUI has, inflexibility.

A "coding" language can evolve, structures change, be expressive or verbose. Much like a language.

I doubt your UI can benefit from these abilities, whereas an IDE already provides visual cues etc. that reduce this development time, while preserving the expressiveness of the language.

So, it probably does not reduce the development time, because the tools already solved this problem, and you just have a more clunky verbose, harder to develop language instead.

And the types that aren't coding in the first place are still going to struggle with things like edge cases, etc., so this isn't really democratizing anything either.
In the early 19th century the memory of the Münster rebellion was still fresh. IIRC Marx and Engels discussed it. The Münster rebellion didn't go well. But "it's alright, we can always try again!".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnster_rebellion
Thank you so much for your detailed feedback. If I cut the vscode extension feature, would you use the other feature which is an alternative to PasteBin or GithubGist?
> It seems to me that it's unreasonable to expect Congress itself to have informed, correct opinions on technically complex topics.

Actually, that is exactly my expectation of my representatives. They have the resources and connections to find experts and become reasonably versed in these topics so we should expect them to have informed correct opinions on complex topics or they shouldn't be in the job.
I think it could be because your email is cached in the form provider (type form).
Is it unethical to short your own company's fake-coin?
> So why didn't Putin fall?

He's in a much-stronger position than the Tsar was. The peasants in Moscow were the proximate cause of the Tsar's fall, but it wasn't the ultimate one.
hard to believe no one found it before.
I spent a long time running an adtech program. The biggest secret is how basic most advertising systems really are.
This reminds me very much of Sidney Dekker's work, particularly The Field Guide to Understanding Human Failure, and Drift Into Failure.

The former focuses on evaluating the system as a whole, and identifying the state of mind of the participants of the accidents and evaluating what led them to believe that they were making the correct decisions, with the understanding that nobody wants to crash a plane.

The latter book talks more about how multiple seemingly independent changes to complex loosely coupled systems can introduce gaps in safety coverage that aren't immediately obvious, and how those things could be avoided.

I think the CAST approach looks appealing. It seems as though it does require a lot of analysis of failures and near-misses to be best utilized, and the hardest part of implementing it will undoubtably be the people, who often take the "there wasn't a failure, why should we spend time and energy investigating a success" mindset.
That's a good idea. It's my first time creating something real, from development to video demos or writing this reply. I'll surely try to do better.
>Based on US ISP profits I'd say there is practically no regulation

There's plenty of antitrust laws already on the books. It's just a matter of enforcement.
Installer and game work perfectly on Intel Integrated Graphics on Linux with Wine 9.22
A cymbal is not even close to a 1 dimensional sound. Not only do you have intensity of strike, but you have the part of the stick you struck with, your grip looseness, the area of the cymbal you hit, the material of the stick, the material of the cymbal, etc etc etc.

Simulating the sound of a cymbal to high fidelity is equivalent to simulating the physics of the atoms making up the cymbal.

If you want to hand wave away the complexity, sure, Nintendo regularly simulates the sound of a cymbal with a white noise generator modulated by an intensity envelope.
From a product standpoint every BigTech company has done better at releasing new products than Google.
There are many many many dedicated grasshopper modeling channels, both in the “watch and chill” style and the explanatory style. Once you’ve done lots of grasshopper programming and can recognize component icons from both the base library and the cornucopia of grasshopper plugins, you can skip through all of those videos at like 3x speed and very rapidly absorb the graph structure.

One of the most interesting parts of grasshopper is how components operate over tree based data structures - ie the equivalent of numpy broadcasting.
Or chocolate (Terry Pratchett: Thief of time) IIRC
>Either way, some agency needs to be put forward as a candidate for preventing monopolistic corporations from abusing the public Internet.

That would be the DoJ.
Companies really are using tons of highly sensitive data to target ads, even when we sleep. But they're not generally using microphones to record audio to do it. Both things can be accurate statements.
The anecdote provides evidence for people that are initially fooled by a phishing attack but aren't fooled enough to manually copy-paste credentials when autofill doesn't work.

Your argument about 2FA depends on how many of those people there are.

Therefore the anecdote is quite relevant, indirectly.
I have a Tesla Model 3 and it’s the best car I’ve ever owned, but I won’t be getting another when my lease is up, solely because I don’t want to give any more money to Elon. My next car might be a Lucid, but I’ll see what the market is like in a couple of years.

I do find it interesting that people think of Tesla as being a luxury brand though. I mean, sure, the Model S and Cybertruck are expensive, but you can get a Model 3 for $40k (before $7500 federal credit plus whatever incentives your state has). This is lower than the average new car price of $48k and the same as the top-end RAV4. The Model 3 is cheaper than most other electric cars in its class, and is likely the reason why Musk thinks getting rid of the federal credit will hurt his competitors more than him.
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> FSO alone has 50k uniformed troops to protect Moscow from the Army or any other attack from the periphery

Hence why I said "Putin didn't have enough materiel between Moscow and Prighozin to keep the fight from getting to Moscow." Prighozin couldn't have unilaterally seized Moscow. But he could have brought the fight to it. At that point, a new set of political calculations--ones I'm not qualified to speculate about--come into play.
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Thoughtful approach in theory but, in practice, I've found people can be very intentional about trying to measure your value to the tribe (i.e., it's not only something we measure for ourselves). If the initial answers don't provide enough data, people will very often dig in.

> Oh yeah, for who?

$GitProjectName

> Oh, I'm not familiar. How big is that company?

It's an independent project, I'm just getting it off the ground.

> Do you have any customers?

... and so on.

Yes, it's easiest to change the subject but that also becomes an obvious signal. Repeating this dance a few times is enough to dampen one's sense of self worth.

I don't necessarily think this value-measuring is conscious or necessarily reflective of the person's character. It felt more like it's simply the habitual conversational pattern for a lot of people - we've been trained to quickly assess if someone is "like us" (based on very shallow criteria and heuristics).
Ahh gotcha - thank you
This seems AI generated, it's certainly word soup with no indication there'll be a fourth colour. The original researchers (from North Caroline State University)[0] said the next step was a a scale model test bed.

Discussion (17 points, 10 months ago, 29 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39726898

Research papers:

Advancing the white phase mobile traffic control paradigm to consider pedestrians (Mar 2024)[1]

White Phase Intersection Control Through Distributed Coordination: A Mobile Controller Paradigm in a Mixed Traffic Stream (Feb 2023)[2]

[0]: https://news.ncsu.edu/2024/03/traffic-signal-pedestrians-veh...

[1]: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mice.13178)

[2]: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10038635
> But programming is exactly the same.

Respectfully, no. You're right about picking up programming languages, but missing the nuance about developing different genres of software.

I develop utilities, material simulation systems (think finite element, boundary element, etc.), and used to develop an AI system (a multi-agent collectively intelligent system, an autonomous marketplace).

The knowledge required in each one of these is vastly different. First one requires OS knowledge and is generally I/O bound, so you try write good code, talk sensibly with the OS, but you don't need to optimize beyond the obvious pain points.

Writing simulations is completely different. I do care about the language, how it behaves, how I can extract every bit of performance from the CPU, while implementing numerical differential equations which needs to be exact, accurate and precise, while not compromising the performance of the codebase. I benchmark memory and CPU separately and as a whole, while not deviating from ground truth values. Otherwise things go very bad.

AI system was latency sensitive. I needed to make it fast while not bogging down the system as a whole, it needed to scale while being intelligent about what to do, and be flexible enough. This required strategies, self-tuning, etc. It was no neural net, so it was a completely different beast.

System programming is similar. Latency sensitive, talking correctly with the OS, and not bogging the system down while doing useful work.

Learning programming languages is easy. Implementing differential equations with demoscene levels of optimization while being exact and accurate is not.

Heck, even the usage patterns for the same programming language is different between different genres of software.
How did you reach out to your initial customers? Did you use any advertisement platform? Cold email? LinkedIn?
I agree, I was just anticipating "no wrongdoing" rebuttals
Re tire dust, you can avoid living near major roads, and running a hepa filter anywhere you spend significant time. Our old apartment’s balcony used to get a coating of black dust on everything within a week of wiping things down, since we were near some major road, now that we live in the country, I never see that.
You want diff to know the syntax and semantics of every programming language out there ?
The discussion cannot go deeper than the current level, unfortunately. One thing to not forget when thinking about decoder transformer models is that there is no limitation to having parts of the output / input stream be calculated by other circuits if it helps the cause. Eg send a token to use a calculator, compute and fill the answer; send a token to compile and run a code and fill the stream with the results. The complexity class of the main circuit might not need be much more complicated than the 200-level deep typical architectures of today as long as they can have access to memory and tools. You can call this system something else if you prefer (decoder-transformer-plus-computer), but that is what people interact with in ChatGPT, so not sure I agree that complexity theory limits the superhuman ability. Humans are not good with complexity.
If automation takes your job, there are now less overall positions and more people competing for them (you and everyone else who got laid off) so its not like you can "just" take your skills elsewhere, there may be nowhere else to go.
So it looks like the idea is the PSU directly plugs into the motherboard "from the front", opposite the usual connections like ethernet jacks.

Then the GPU is shares in this power via another special plug that lives in in-line with the PCIe, near the normal spot for a retention clip.

It's neat, but the design feels kind of... brittle. Not as modular, everything needs tighter tolerances, etc. Even as somebody with some RGB in a window, I don't care that much about banishing all visible wires.
Oh wow, I wish saw this in the list of projects when LÖVE was featured here the other day.

This looks super fun.

Edit: I'm loving the explosion-revenge last-ditch effort to counterstrike when hit. Fantastic concept.
after twenty years of explicit promises by the neighborhood watch that you wouldn't

You've been lied to. Instead of propagating the lie, please consider informing yourself. Begin by understanding the fact that any such promises were made to a state that no longer exists by people who were unauthorized to make them. Moving on, consider that nobody spends billions of dollars or Euros preparing to defend themselves against countries who are not a genuine threat to peace and stability, particularly those whose leaders have stated their revanchist goals publicly and unequivocally.

Then, go back to the people who lied to you, ask them why they did so, and ask them not to do it again. Chances are, someone lied to them, too.
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I never bought the eye strain argument. Especially on modern displays. Reading a book in sunlight bombards your eyes with much more energy. And as the article points out, reading text in dark mode is much more strenuous.

I think it's really as simple as: dark mode looks cooler? It's different and tech-y and aesthetically appealing?
Because Apple did a great job implementing a useful feature in a privacy-preserving way, and I don't want to toggle on 100 opt-in features when I setup a new iPhone
Why can't you both be right? If you talk about 100 products in a week, chances are you're conducting searches about some of them or your demographic data suggests that you might be in market for it.
>Opponents of net neutrality are monopoly freaks.

There are plenty of antitrust laws already on the books. Having the DOJ enforce them would be the correct route, as opposed to creating additional, unnecessary NN regulation which would effectively cement the ISP monopolies.
Main discussion (240 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42476828
I agree with most of this, but have to take note that

>thousands of people working on this all personally committed to complete secrecy

Basically describes a LOT of government spying programs or horrific abuses that have happened, for instance.

Secrets can absolutely be held, and I wouldn't be surprised by even thousands of NDA'd engineers (who already have been doing this sort of thing for a loooong time) opting not to leak anything in a way that would be credible.

I'll reiterate that I'm skeptical of the overall conspiracy claims even though I usually believe in mass spying claims or institutions/corps/etc. being awful. I just think your argument there is pretty flawed, at least that aspect of it.

In fact, on why I'm skeptical:
I just can't shake this profound sense that it's like the "Frequency Illusion" phenomenon that I've demonstrated to people while driving or walking outside.

Or more likely a mix of it with people also getting prompted with what they "want" in the first place by all the advertising and targeted media and their various search history data.
>in order to test your code to make sure you've not made a silly mistake

Precession of Mercury around the Sun?
I'm shocked that this would be a big issue (among all of the beach related climate issues). I've been going to NC beaches for ~2 decades and always bought bottled water and thought nothing of it or that it was just the cost of visiting. AFAIK salty tap water has been an issue the entire time I've been traveling there