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NOTED (with Gratitude)

> I dread the future we're creating where people are relying on LLMs to parse RFCs or papers.

Amen & Hallelujah (plz allow western reference)

Arseh0lez in the mix? go ahead, Hit yer FLAGGIT

We're ALL Jock Tamshun's Bairns ... Meanin' "ALL G__ Children"

Myself are Scot's Arysh. Readers might be in China, Iraq, N. Korea. It still stands ~ ALL meanin' ALL Jock Tamshun's bairn. All means ALL, ya see?

That said, this story is far from over.

'AI' don't know peanut butter from cat poop

How'd AI / LLM do for IRL (in real life) Jeopardy - NO play on words.

Let's try THIRST (no water) for $100, Alex.

Has AI / LLM ever slaked THIRST ~ no drinking water? Living beings?? Did ever 'AI/LLM' put a water tank on a pickup truck? SHOW US (or What profit will ye' boogaloo's gain there?) We're open minded, simply SHOW US

How about Starvation for $500, Alex?
WHOOPEE The Daily Double!

Has AI / LLM EVER fed the STARVING Or rain Manna (overlook Western ref) upon starving refugees? Wilderness? Please, (please?) show factual examples? PLEASe show us what AI/LLM has done to remedy this NEED

Let's try immaculate conception for $700
- Invoke our absent SArCASM flag -

Explain how's this Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot BOOGALOO AI might approximate companionship much less intimacy never mind concieve life. Merely curious

This is a Genuine need of all life forms (cockroaches included) even P. Dorov (telegram)
~ end snarkasm ~

Does there exist ANY verifiable evidivence supporting how this "AI / LLM" provides any HELP for the needs of ALL life, including even primates?

MAKE US UNDERTAND

Exactly (and be specific)

What does 'AI' (et alia) bring to mitigate fundamental NEED.

Water,

Food.

Company.

LIFE?

HOW DOES tHIS HELP

Genuinely & with Deep Sincerety we ask?

Sincere Respects,

Virginwidow

AKA An0n.1984
AKA Ånne Äůghnimax

And... While we're at it kids (acronyms baffle old folks) try GFOD. Try Urban Dictionary, Wikipedia. Giggle
Ah damn, now I know why I had the feeling I forgot to hand in an assignment for a while...
Wow, that was a great write up. Can I interview with you? Lol, everything you wrote was really spot on with my own interview experiences. I tend to get super nervous during interviews and have choked up on many interviews asking for live coding on crazy algorithm problems. It state of hiring seems to be really bad right now. But I'll take your advice and try to get in contact with some recruiters
Imagine a future where all of your communications are mediated through an AI.

You'll never know if any of your messages are being repeated as written. You'll never even know if the sender exists or not.

This is truly dystopian and I imagine a backlash will get stronger as people realize it.
> the mess that causes the worst bugs is the result of a choice, not the language itself.

Even the creator of the language admitted that "just write better code bro" approach doesn't work.
I work with embedded products that has a SD in them, and we have used Swissbit but moved to GreenLiant "Industrial Card" cards.

We do _extensive_ testing of these in-house. Like restarting machines 10000 times etc. We have never seen a card wear out, as far as I know, and we have test systems that are used way more than any usage I would consider "normal".
Then we'd be supporting a different language that shares the same or similar ideals as Rust. Whether that's something already in existence or something entirely new.

Rust isn't really that unique, there are plenty of other safe languages out there. And if Graydon was alone in wanting something like Rust then Rust wouldn't have grown in popularity like it has.

Rust exists because enough people thought there was a need for Rust to exist. So if that wasn't Graydon with Rust, then it would have been someone else with something else.

This isn't meant to take anything away from Graydon nor Rust. Just saying that innovations seldom happen in silos. They're usually a result of teams of people lusting for change.
If you're expecting a week's worth of work from them you'd better pay them for their time, if they turn up.
Please report back when you do!

I don't remember how I came up with the idea. Maybe I just like learning things.

One candidate even wrote after their interview, "that was fun!"

Have you ever had a candidate say that? This was the moment when I realized I might be on to something. :-)

Interviews are too often an adversarial thing: "Are you good enough for us?"

But the real question is would we enjoy working together and build great things!

People talk about "signal" in an interview. Someone who has an interest they are passionate and curious about and likes to share it with others? That's a pretty strong signal to me.

Even if it has nothing to do with "coding".
I love that when "open"ai releases things last year or so, they do not actually release them. So we get the chance in the meantime to all enjoy a bunch of speculative, shilling comments here about this next great thing being miles ahead of competitors/close to AGI/the tool that will actually do X thing that others complain so far llms are failing to do.
I don't think it follows that taken an easier path would mean quality goes down.
> have seen essential parts been called "scaffolding" by beginners who had no idea this was not just "text that needs to be there"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaffold_(programming)

Nothing about scaffolding pertains to how important it is.
There seems to be quite a lot of detail in all of these drawings, I wonder if one can't reconstruct an actual street view given all that data, and a few historical paintings to "seed the color and style" a bit. Probably not impossible to do with modern LLMs
don't get high off your own supply
Maybe privacy should be by default.
Space is way more difficult and expensive than people like to believe. While I wholly support the waste of venture capital and other dumb money for space things, I don't expect the company to come close to returning anything from an asteroid.
Then they shouldn't use libraries, open source code or even existing compilers. They shouldn't search online (man pages is OK). They should use git plumbing commands and sh (not bash of zsh). They should not have potable water in there house but distill river water.
Personally I think the truth is somewhere in the middle of the vast conspiracy and your take on it.

I agree with your take on Trump, its just that I don't believe he's the one running the show this time. Watching his EO signing bonanza it was pretty obvious he had no clue what like half of them were and was just rubber stamping other people's plans.

The more interesting aspect is which faction of the people that are handling Trump (the heritage foundation folks or the techbros) will end up on top because I don't think their interests are aligned beyond the short term.
Waydroid is based on Anbox (https://github.com/anbox) which is no longer being maintained, but should still work for older Android versions on LTS distros.
This is also sometimes known as rephotography. Some of the most striking examples I've seen seamlessly blend the old and new. Such as this campus location, which really illustrates how similar people are across time: https://blogs.ubc.ca/difficultknowledge/files/2016/09/UBCLib...
That would require empathy from someone who is, right now, bragging about how they sicced their lawyers and the cops on customers they were fucking over.

I'm going to guess that the answer would be "nope, didn't care." That Cirrus isn't going to pay for itself, friend...and you can't retire at 40 without breaking a few eggs.

I remember when Google was locking accounts because people had the audacity to issue a chargeback after spending hours trying to resolve Google not delivering a working, undamaged phone they'd paid well over half a grand for. Nobody at Google cared, but when the money (that Google never fucking deserved in the first place) was forcibly and legally taken back, the corporation acted with narcissistic rage...
Tell that to the designers of the C++ standard library, and the new features being added. They're the ones that keep adding new features that depend on references and pointers instead of std::shared_ptr or std::unique_ptr.
That sounds really cool. I wish I was running into more job interviews like the one you describe. The adversarial interviewing really hurts the entire feel of the process
> In other words, I derive enough value from "open source" models to not quibble over definitions

I have never said _anything_ about whether there is or isn't any value. Ive mentioned correctly that it isn't opensource.

I'm sorry you feel triggered by this, but both things can exist at the same time. It can be useful, come with a recipe, and it can stil not be opensource.

> At most they might replay some requests to a different REST API that returns a finetuned model for them. Sounds like what you do?

Please refrain from ad-hominem statements.

What I am saying is that when we redefine existed well understood definitions for marketing purposes as it muddies the waters.

On top of that, what if there are true opensource models that both provide training data + training code + inference code what do we call them? Extra opensource?

> I rely on models I've posttrained with custom vocublaries, run through AWQ specific to my downstream task, and that are being inferenced on with custom samplers specific to my downstream task. All things actually closed source models can't do.

Great, please opensource them :)
> From the candidate's perspective, its pointless to spend a week working and doing every thing the hiring team asked for and still receive a 'no'.

Uhhh yeah. That would really piss me off. Like reviewbombing glassdoor type of pissed.
To my understanding, an LLM -- and similar models -- have a Markov chain equivalent.

There is an old argument from philosophy that any mechanical interpretation of mind has no need for consciousness. Or conversely, that consciousness is not needed explain any mechanistic aspect of mind.

Yet, consciousness -- sentience -- is our primary differentiator as humans.

From my perspective, we are making strides in processing natural language. We have made the startling discovery that language encodes a lot about thought patterns of the humans producing the text, and we now have machines which can effectively learn those patterns.

Yet, sentience remains no less a mystery.
Go look at the code! it's just a right click > inspect away.

And you'll see you just needs a single CSS property `backdrop-filter: blur(8px);` to achieve this effect nowadays =)
Science needs an intervention similar to what the CRM process (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_resource_management) did to tamp down cowboy pilots flying their planes into the sides of mountains because they wouldn't listen to their copilots who were too timid to speak up.

...on the evening of Dec 28, 1978, they experienced a landing gear abnormality. The captain decided to enter a holding pattern so they could troubleshoot the problem. The captain focused on the landing gear problem for an hour, ignoring repeated hints from the first officer and the flight engineer about their dwindling fuel supply, and only realized the situation when the engines began flaming out. The aircraft crash-landed in a suburb of Portland, Oregon, over six miles (10 km) short of the runway

It has been applied to other fields:

Elements of CRM have been applied in US healthcare since the late 1990s, specifically in infection prevention. For example, the "central line bundle" of best practices recommends using a checklist when inserting a central venous catheter. The observer checking off the checklist is usually lower-ranking than the person inserting the catheter. The observer is encouraged to communicate when elements of the bundle are not executed; for example if a breach in sterility has occurred

Maybe not this system exactly, but a new way of doing science needs to be found.

Journals, scientists, funding sources, universities and research institutions are locked in a game that encourages data hiding, publish or perish incentives, and non-reproducible results.
Don't get high on your own supply, like zuck doing the conquistador in Kaua'i
Looks like the image in thumbnail preview is all you’re getting, and at that low resolution.
> Here's an analogy. With phones, you own your phone number […] we just haven't had comparable competition in the social media space for a while now.

One of the problems with this analogy is that the competition being lauded only exists because of government regulatory action. Number portability isn’t there because of an “open network”, it’s there because a regulator requires it… if we existed in a sensible timeline Twitter et al would be required to provide account portability too.
Has he? He at least used to be the biggest proponent of it, "just follow these standards and development practices that I had to meticulously develop for the US military, that no tool can automatically check, and you'll be fine!".
> These variables are not on the heap. They are statically allocated. Their visibility is the only thing that differentiates them from global variables and static variables defined outside of functions.

In C++, there is a difference: function-static variables get initialized when control first passes into the function. That difference matters in cases where the initial value (partly) comes from a function call or from another global. For example, in C++ one can do:

int bar = -1;

void foo() {
static char * baz = malloc(bar);
…
}

void quux() {
bar = 13;
}

That’s fine as long as the code calls quux before ever calling foo.

They added that feature not to support such monstrosities, but because they wanted to support having static variables of class type.

If they were to design that today, I think they would require the initialization expression to be constexpr.
yes, but for that there is (I guess) the standard principle -- it's outside of the control of the person being naturalized, so they have a free pass as long as they pinky-promise to not use the other passport for convenience. Same goes for refugees -- it doesn't make sense to ask a persecuted person to fill all the necessary paperwork with the place that persecuted them. That is standard, but Ukraine also had the procedure cost in that list of exception for political reasons.

Nowdays, after the loophole is repealed, the muchhonoured-clearexcelency-mister-chief-of-the-military pushes for some version of dual citizenship where citizens of nice countries can sign a pledge instead of allegiance instead.
Much like anything in an established market.

When something truly new gets invented, its value is directly apparent and obvious. Subsequent iterations yields smaller and smaller incremental improvements, and at some point, the ROI on marketing becomes greater than ROI on actual improvements, and from then on, fame stops being correlated with quality.
> We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you.

Noped the f outta there
This adds another twist, since I'd bet nowadays most CVs are processed (or at least pre-screened) by "AI": we're in a ridiculous situation where applicants feed a few bullet points to AI to generate full-blown polished resumes and motivational letters … and then HR uses different AI to distil all that back to the original bullet points. Interesting times.
Eh, you can only learn how to do something when you actually do it (generally).

AI just lets you get deeper down the fake-it-until-you-make-it hole. At some point it will actually matter that you know how to do something, and good luck then.

Either for you, or for your customers, or both.
I once got a surprise leetcode coding interview for a security testing role that mentioned proficiency in a coding language or two as desirable but not essential.

I come from a math background rather than CS and code for fun / personal projects, so don't know the 'proper' names for some algorithms from memory. I could have done some leetcode prep / revision if I had any indication that it was coming up, though the interview was pretty much a waste of time. I told them that and made a stab at it, though they didn't seem interested in engaging at all and barely made eye contact during the whole interview.
You can view and download everything from their website
Hedge funds bet billions on market crash in Trump's America
I understand why it's amusing, but there is really nothing to see here.
It could be rephrased as:

« The process we use to asses candidates relies on measuring the candidate's ability to solve trivia problems that can easily be solved by AI (or internet search or impersonation etc). Please refrain from using such tools until the industry come up with a better way to assess candidates. »

Actually, since the whole point of those many screening levels during hiring is to avoid the cost of having long, in depth discussions between many experts and each individual candidates, probably IA will be the solution that makes the selection process a bit less reliant on trivia quizz (a solution that will, no doubt, come with its own set of new issues).
FYI that code sample is broken, it should be `(int(many()),)`

Ironic I guess?
What if you use it to get unstuck from a problem? Then come back and learn more about what you got stuck on.

That seems like responsible use.
If Alice can do better against Bob when they aren’t using AI, but Bob performs better when both use AI, isn’t it in the company’s best interest to hire Bob, since AI is there to be used during his position duties?

If graphic design A can design on paper better that B, but B can design on the computer better than A, paper or computer, why would you hire A?
Umberto Eco claimed that Dan Brown was a character he invented.
It was my first FOSDEM, and I managed to see everything I wanted on my schedule. I met a man from Poland in the tramway the first day and apparently, it's not supposed to be possible (but he was right about there are always two talks you want to see at the same time). I just wish Lennart had enough time to talk about everything he planned, I need to learn more about mkosi.

Anyway, my only regret was not able to stay longer to meet other contributors due to my trains constraints. I didn't plan anything, I need to do better.
Consider the case where there is a non Native English speaker and they use AI to misrepresent the standard of written English communication.

Assume their command of English is insufficient to get the job ultimately. They've just wasted their own time and the company's time in that situation.

I imagine Anthropic is not short of applicants...
It's a warning sign, designed to improve the signal they are interested in marginally. Some n-% of applicants will reconsider. That's all it needs to do, to make it worth it, because putting that one sentence there required very little effort.
I mean this all falls down due to the need of verification:

"Limitations
Deep research unlocks significant new capabilities, but it’s still early and has limitations. It can sometimes hallucinate facts in responses or make incorrect inferences"

How do I know which parts are false? It will take as long to verify as to research!
But they got the type decay right without introducing further user-defined conversions, unlike this proposal. The syntax is ad hoc, thus so should be the typing rule.
I suspect the causation is point the other wat -- people who don't have a path forward in life (which includes unemployed and otherwise destitute) start doing drugs.
And yet most if not all of the standard library keeps using pointer or reference arguments, not the new smart pointers that would actually document the ownership semantics.
I thought the same thing, I'm guessing you're also on mobile. If you switch to desktop mode then it lets you zoom in to more detail.
I have two Garmin devices: a watch and bike computer. Both are connected to the same app that collects data to a single Garmin Connect account.

I expected some synergy but I got nothing. When monitoring the same activity with the two devices you just gets dupes (for example, sum of the distances measured by the two devices). This is worse than if I had 2 devices from 2 different brands.
my point was less that it's a right or left wing thing in this case, but that it's not a new phenomenon
elon is that you?
Homework is a proxy for your retention of information and a guide to what you should review. That somehow schools started assigning grades to it is as nonsensically barbaric as public bare ass caning was 80 years ago and driven by the same instinct.
You can access DeepSeek R1? For me, both chat and API have been down for over a week now (it shut down minutes after I topped up my account and generated an API key - I never got to use it :/).

There's lots of fiddling with these models. I found Claude 3.5 Sonnet to be superior to both GPT-4o and o1-preview in around 99% of the things I do; I only started comparing it against o3-mini, and right now it's a mixed bag. Then again, I tend to develop and refine specific prompts for Sonnet, which I haven't for o1-preview and o3-mini, so that could be a factor. Etc.
Yea I agree. I don't rely on the AI to generate code for me, I just use it as a glorified search engine. Sure I do some copypasta from time to time, but it almost always needs modification to work correctly... Man does AI get stuff wrong sometimes lol
Ask HN: How can I unblock my Meta ad account?
Hi HN

I'm developing an electronic board book to teach children the basics of chess and for the last few months have had issues with my meta ad account being blocked. I recently moved to India and setup the account there but I used my UK payment details when trying to pay for a test ad, which is what I suspect triggered the automatic block.

As this is a new business I have no contacts within Meta to help me unblock my account, it's been incredibly frustrating raising appeal after appeal with no reply. As a last hurrah before probably just creating a new account I thought it would be worth asking here if

1. Anyone has been able to successfully unblock their ad account after being in a similar situation and if so how they did it
and/or
2. Any of my fellow HN readers who currently work at meta would be able to help me unblock my ad account

Thank you

PS I guess it feels weird to trust random strangers online but to give context that I am in fact a real person with a real product here is a link to the product I am working on

https://www.chessfunforlittleones.com/
I think the example given in this blog post might need a "health warning" that steps should, generally, be doing more than just printing "hello".

I can imagine that the reads and writes to Postgres for a large number of workflows, each with a large number of small steps called in a tight loop, would cause some significant performance problems.

The examples given on their main site are a little more meaningful.
Um, get with the times, luddite. You can use an LLM for everything, including curing cancer and fixing climate change.

(I still mentally cringe as I remember the posts about Disney and Marvel going out of business because of Stable Diffusion. That certainly didn't age well.)
I think this is 1 to 77 but I couldn't find/figure out a search for 78 to 88

https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/view/search?search=...
Why Python and Not Haskell?
what a world where an adult doesn't even have to take responsibility for their own actions because of whatever excuse. sad state.