skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intelligent people do not "hallucinate" in the same sense that an LLM does. Counterarguments you don't like aren't "shortcuts". There are certainly obnoxious anti-LLM people, but you can't use them to dismiss everyone else.

An LLM does nothing more than predict the next token in a sequence. It is functionally auto-complete. It hallucinates because it has no concept of a fact. It has no "concept", period, it cannot reason. It is a statistical model. The "reasoning" you observe in models like o1 is a neat prompting trick that allows it to generate more context for itself.

I use LLMs on a daily basis. I use them at work and at home, and I feel that they have greatly enhanced my life. At the end of the day they are just another tool. The term "AI" is entirely marketing preying on those who can't be bothered to learn how the technology works.
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Or an extreme pessimist...
This is also why some Chinese apps put everything inside a single app and request every permission there is, then track you through Wifi SSIDs seen by your device.
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>I noticed that the Realtek onboard audio doesn't sound as good as my previous configuration, which used a Recon3D sound card.

I was thinking who is still making consumer dedicated sound card? Never heard of the name Recon3D. Turns out it is Creative Sound Blaster.
Assuming you're talking about reading binary data like (array i8), the GC MVP doesn't have a great answer right now. Have to call back into wasm to read the bytes. Something for the group to address in future proposals. Sharing between wasm modules is better right now.
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> I'm not willing to leave the company because its stock 6x'ed last year.

It sounds like vesting schedules are achieving their intended purpose by giving you incentive to stay.
Is this really the same thing though? My family uses that app pretty regularly, and for us at least, it stops us from going out to restaurant or something instead.

It's not replacing dumpster-diving, nor would I consider myself to be part of dumpster-diving subculture. I don't talk about it to my friends. It's just cheap food.
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I'm not bored. It's just that after a certain point, every smartphone release was worse at doing what I need. The useful stuff appears to be degraded as a consequence of so much effort being put into the things that aren't actually useful to me.

So no new smartphone is exciting because each release represents further regression.
> There is a disclaimer for this on the desktop page. But when rendered on mobile it isn't there.

Hmm, wonder why this guy chose to do it this way. Was it a design decision? Was it because of the tight space? We will never know.
1. A ledger is less fraud-resistant than a budget, since the only thing stopping a ledger from lying is bureaucratic drudgery.

2. The United States dollar is not a crypto-native currency and therefore requires constant (and fallible) accounting, a-la a checkbook.

3. If you can't use your preexisting control to prevent the government from defrauding you, then adding more red tape will not reduce spending.

Musk can't stop cryptocurrencies from using their ledgers for fraud. It's an inherent limitation of the system that rational economists have been warning about for years. Relying on it to increase government transparency is an implementation failure that reflects on the profound stupidity or illegal ambitions of the people putting it in place.
FWIW, most stories about Musk are flagged regardless of the topic. He might be using bots, he's certainly petty enough to do so.
Yet, rather than saying that, Trump is implying that he wants Canada to be a US state. Whether or not he means that, US-Canada relations will be irreparably harmed for a long time.
Sounds sensible, bu the major unasked question it avoids is, was the current funding and organization structure of science in place when the past scientific achievements were achieved.

the impression I get from anecdotes and remarks is that pre-1990s, university departments used to be the major scientific social institution, providing organization where the science was done, with feedback cycle measured in careers. Faculty members would socialize and collaborate or compete with other members. Most of the scientific norms were social, possible because the stakes were low (measured in citations, influence and prestige only).

It is quite unlike current system centered on research groups formed around PIs and their research groups, an machine optimized for gathering temporary funding for non-tenured staff so that they can produce publications and 'network', using all that to gather more funding before the previous runs out. No wonder the social norms like "don't falsify evidence; publish when you have true and correct results; write and publish your true opinions; don't participate in citation laundering circles" can't last. Possibility of failure is much frequent (every grant cycle), environment is highly competitive in a way that you get only few shots at scientific career or you are out.
Interesting. Back in 2007 my company Motionbox partnered with flipclips.com to sell themed flipbooks very similar to these. Both companies are defunct now.
Demo at a trade show:
https://youtu.be/FIiLsyeAM_I?si=BQHt5Q4Q80y3Il5f
That's hilarious. A comedy script couldn't beat real life in 2025.
Life uses the exact same chemistry as any inorganic process exept life is far more competent than random reaction products. This is why the expected origin is inorganic as left handed and right handed are equally likely to occur in an inorganic process. So occams razor suggests that either
1) life must specifically balance their left-right handed molecules
2) Other processes that favor any handedness must not be present.

or the process is inorganic which we know couldn't favor left or righthandedness in the first place.
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60 megatons. Study mentions that the 12 megatons of ants are equivalent to 20% of the total human mass.
That'll work
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Our team works on all the (non-ad) screens in the subway, as well as two apps (TrainTime and the MTA app) and our website. We're a team of 20, mostly engineers, a few PMs and a designer. We operate like a startup within the MTA and are responsible for all customer-facing digital endpoints.

See one of our products here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mta-traintime/id1104885987 as well as some new screen designs here: https://www.reddit.com/r/nycrail/comments/1h2rqr6/new_countd...

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Neat, how did you build the live preview? Green screen with numbered pages?
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> Meta doesn’t give a shit about its users, that’s the only way this business model can work

Heh. Not really. Meta poured tens of billions in the last few years in their VR effort, with almost no results to show. With that money, they could have literally given a few minutes of human customer support to each and every of their users.
Undergrads have many more opportunities to differentiate themselves than they realize. It could be internships, research, TA, clubs, sports, volunteering, Greek life, etc. Those put them closer to being "in-network" with certain organizations and people.

Even something like citizenship is a differentiating factor: an undergrad who applies to, say, a national lab won't compete with foreign students by definition.
Earlier on, they were just wrappers. The models are like an engine, and everyone puts them in a cardboard box and calls it a car.

But we're seeing companies like Cursor which pay a lot of attention to how the models interact with everything. They're not just prompting the AI, they index files, they search and mimic styles. You can @ a certain file to use it as a reference. The composer is autonomous, even extracts commands from the AI to run, or extracts only the code needed. And it double checks that what it's writing is true. There's a whole system in there, it represents more like a modern car with proper driveshaft, gears, pedals and stuff. Copilot still feels like a box on four wheels attached to an engine.

Perplexity was a wrapper earlier on and arguably it might still be. But they've used AI more effectively than Google to figure out what a person is actually trying to search for, and suggest those things.

I think most of these companies will have minimal value added at the start and slowly start to refine it. It's hard to say what percentage.
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Checks don't achieve that, though. As the payee, I have no way of knowing whether the check will bounce, so to me, it's really roughly as good as a promise that the payer will transfer me the money once they get around to it.

Also, unless you're in an area without Internet connectivity, the payer can these days just initiate a SEPA instant transfer, right?
Yes! I used psyco in production for a while, and the transition to psyco resulted in some interesting learning...

I had written a C extension to speed up an is-point-in-polygon function that was called multiple times during every mouse move in a Python-based graphical application (the pure Python version of the function resulted in too much lag on early 2000s laptops). When psyco came out, I tried moving the function back to Python to see how close its speed came to the C extension. I was shocked to see that psyco was significantly faster.

How could it be faster? In the C extension, I specified everything as doubles, because I called it with doubles in some places. It turns out the vast majority of the calls were working with ints. The C extension, as written, had to cast those ints to doubles and then do everything in flouting point, even though none of the calculations would have had fractional parts. Pysco did specialization - it produced a version of the function for every type signature it was called with. So it had an all-int version and an all-double version. Psyco's all-int version was much faster than the all-double version I'd written in C, and it was what was being called 95% of the time.

If I'd spent enough time profiling, I could have made two C functions and split my calls between them. But psyco discovered this for me. As an experiment, I tried making two versions of the C functions. Unsurprisingly, that was faster than psyco. I shipped the psyco version as it was more than fast enough, and much simpler to maintain.

My conclusion... JITs have more information to use for optimization than compilers do (e.g., runtime data types, runtime execution environment, etc.), so they have the potential to produce faster code than compilers in some cases if they exploit that added information through techniques like specialization.
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The judgement seems misplaced.

> The U.S. risks falling behind in the AI arms race, not because of a lack of resources but because of a lack of vision and an excess of corruption.

No corruption is needed for this to happen--it's capitalism working as intended.
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Over the last years we've proved our model and founding team. We're now slowly focusing more on the promotional side of the lifecycle, with some brand new and shiny projects in the pipeline, and trying to simplify the distribution process even more while we learn more.

We are actively looking for some senior developers (full stack or python focused). Unfortunately we can’t offer relocation or visa sponsorship.

Check out https://kb.makewaves.fm/general/careers for more details.
Seems like a promising next step.
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Rinse provides dry cleaning and laundry delivery services to customers in nine metropolitan areas in the US. We have sophisticated logistics optimization software, a polished consumer product, and firm business fundamentals. We're now over a decade old - this is a stable, yet consistently growing and innovating, company.

Our engineering team is distributed across the United States and internationally, and has been entirely remote for years now, but a desk can be provided in the above cities if you'd prefer.

We're open to both newly-graduated engineers or more senior engineers, provided they meet our bar. We're particularly interested in true full-stack engineers, with strong React / Typescript / CSS skills to complement comfort in a Python / Django environment.

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Our product team is distributed across the United States and internationally, and has been entirely remote for years now, but a desk can be provided in the above cities if you'd prefer. Our product managers enjoy a high level of integration with our engineering team, and our open culture ensures a high degree of collaboration with marketing and operations functions. We're built to get things done.

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Interested? Email us as jobs@rinse.com, with the job title in the subject line.
Olli Health | New York or Remote (US work auth required) | Full-Time | Senior ML Engineer or Full Stack SDE | ollihealth.ai

We are a TechStars NYC ‘24 startup dedicated to modernizing home healthcare with advanced AI tools and we are growing! This is a pivotal hands-on role that will begin shaping our product from day 1. Last summer we closed our Seed round from top healthtech and AI-focused VCs investors (Cannage Capital, Arkitekt Ventures, and Tau Ventures) and have been moving lightning fast to build incredibly valuable tools in home health.

We are further expanding our team and are looking for:

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Comp: $175k-$200k annual FTE base comp + equity package. We cover 100% of Health, Vision, Dental, Life insurance premiums.

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RINSE | REMOTE or San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, New York, New Jersey, Seattle, Austin, Dallas, or Washington DC | Software Engineer, Product Manager, Marketing Manager, Business Development Representative | Full-Time | https://www.rinse.com

We're also hiring a Business Development Representative:

As part of the Sales team, you will be directly responsible for helping grow our fast-growing B2B vertical by driving outbound lead generation efforts, building relationships with potential B2B customers (e.g. multifamily, spas, hospitality, restaurants, employers, etc.) and identifying new opportunities to grow our B2B customer base.

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And a Marketing Manager / Marketing Associate:

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fwiw, Claude gets this particular problem right https://gist.github.com/philpax/724633e106e3e3df4d5a83ba7bd2...
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It's literally a browsing agent that searches the internet and they know the questions in advance when preparing the agent

Without internet: 10%

With internet: 23%

In addition:

> We found that the ground-truth answers for one dataset were widely leaked online

in very small letters, and they blocked these URLs at runtime but not training time.

It's not bad, but not revolutionary at all compared to the leap that was GPT-2 from GPT-3, or GPT-4o to DeepSeek-R1
3k a month vs ~500 dollars a month. That's all u need to know.
Not saying its as good, but its all some managers care about
For anyone wondering, this was written in 2019 and is no longer "new". I was confused by the following line since I recall this being available for sometime:

> By using the newly introduced dm-writecache device mapper Linux kernel module

Looked for a publication date, but nothing anywhere on the page other then timestamps in the command output mentioning 2019. Wayback machine confirms this as well[0]

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20191124065801/https://www.admin...
A contributor in this space that I always thought was under-appreciated is Amazon SWF + Flow Framework. It's an older technology and SWF itself is deprecated, but it is a weird middle ground here in that it makes language-level modifications to inject workflow state persistence and coordination into Java code (via AspectJ). The original concept was to build a "distributed CPU" (ex see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonswf/latest/awsflowguide/aw...).

SWF was the predecessor for AWS Step Functions. IIUC the lesson learned from SWF was that it was just too flexible, and imposing a more limiting set of constraints was both easier for the programmer to use & reason about, and made for simpler and faster execution.
I love it. Never seen this kinda concept before. But it totally makes sense to map whole streets like this.
> Maybe they don’t have the actual funds yet but want to write a check against funds they expect to have soon (risky but people do it).

It's not risky at all when using "overdraft protection" via a linked savings account.

And why would I want to not receive any interest while a physical object representing the payment (I'm still not over how bizarre that is in 2025!) is making its way to the payee in the mail?
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I think th consumer/retail side of Garmin company is a shit show. I recently ordered a HRM on Garmin website instead of other retail site. My order just sat at "ordered" status for over a week. I ended up just cancel and use Amazon.
My bank does not take the money out before it's cashed by the receiver
> Garmin has a long history of being lazy as fuck unless someone's actually competing against them

Heh, isn't that pretty much every company in the history of capitalism?
How many other things in my life suddenly doubled in price within a couple of years? Can't think of any.

I know prices of everything tend to double every 10-20 years, but that's what happens when you double the money supply every 10 years.
> My experience?

Your experience with flag use.

Your experience with people claiming to care about Ukraine isn't relevant because the above user only claimed that they care about it significantly more than a thing they don't care about. That's a super weak claim.

You're twisting it into a major claim so you can put them down for failing to live up to your standards of caring, when it was only a relative comparison.

> GP has no idea what it’s like

Which you are not trying to remedy. You are only trying to prove they don't care enough, as if that's going to somehow prove their original claim about flag use incorrect.

> I’ll take $10 for some drone parts, instead of trying to educate

Instead of? Does that mean no explanation even if you get them to donate?

> those who don’t listen to the simplest ask

Simple doesn't mean correct. Both sides of this argument are simple.