skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also seems they got caught in the middle of the system integrator vs product company dilemma.

To me fly's offering reads like a system integrator"s solution. They assemble components produced mainly by 3rd parties into an offered solution. The business model of a system integrator thrives on doing the least innovation/custom work possible for providing the offering. You posotion yourself to take maximal advantage of investments and innovations driven by your 3rd party suppliers. You want to be squarely on their happy path.

Instead this artcle reads like fly, with good intention, was trying to divert their tech suppliers offer stream into niche edge cases outside of maistream support.

This can be a valid strategy for products very late into their maturity lifecycle where core innovation is stagnant, but for the current state of AI with extremely rapid innovation waves coarsing through the market, that strategy is doomed to fail.
The sweet spot of most YouTube videos was supposedly under 10 minutes. What happened? These days, the typical YouTube videos are almost 30 minutes long. I'm fine with documentaries and the like. Is there a way to bring back the idea that under 10-minute videos work the best?
Not being funny, but you’re the one being closed minded here.

The other commenter has cited evidence that’s backed up their claims and you’re consistently responding with rhetoric.

This is a constant theme when people argue about freedom of speech being worse in the UK.
They cherry pick a couple of headlines from hugely unreliable sources like Twitter (the land of vocal twits) and the Daily Mail (which most people here have nicknamed The Daily Fail because it’s so often wrong) and overlook what’s actually happening in their own countries too.

But if it makes you feel better that your own country isn’t also going to hell in a hand-basket because you’re too busy doomscrolling the UK news, then keep at it. ;)
Just an ignorant and non technical guy trying to stay relevant.

He has an infinite quantity of time and somehow always finds someone to interview him about the fact that AIs don't work and have been hitting a wall since the last ten years. He invents some metrics that nobody has agreed on, and says that they're below that.
If government computers were still using older than ~45 years COBOL versions with May 20 1875 as a baseline, wouldn't many more people be 150 yo than a few dozen?
Not to the people reading your article.
Fly.io probably runs it on Kubernetes as well. It can be something in the middle, like RunPod. If you select 8 GPUs, you'll get a complete host for yourself. Though there is a lot of stuff lacking at RunPod too. But Fly.io... First of all, I've never heard about this one. Second, the variety of GPUs is lacking. There are only 3 types, and the L40S on Fly.io is 61.4% more expensive than on RunPod. So I would say it is about marketing, marketplace, long-term strategy, and pricing. But it seems at least they made themselves known to me (I bet there others which heard about them first time today too).
Most stuff ends up beeing Client Components - since what else do you really need react for?
You would have to convince YouTube that 10 minute videos generate more revenue.

They’ve been tuning this beast for decades now.
I am more motivated to find jobs that let me think my thoughts than jobs that maximise my income. People often say well but if you make a lot then you can pay for this. I have found that those that make a lot never find the time to pay for it.
"You are Two" (CGP Grey)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYbgdo8e-8
I am still feeling my way through these ideas, but think perhaps of an alternative universe where instead of getting cleverer with instruction pipelining (guessing what the next CPU will ask for and using the silicon to work that out), hardware had just added more parallel cores - so it did not need to guess the next instructions, it just went faster because the instructions were in parallel because we magically solved software and developers.

You could have a laptop with 1000 cores on it - simple 32/64 bit CPUs that just ran full pelt.

The lack of parallelism drove decisions to take silicon and make it do stuff that was not run everything faster. But to focus on getting one instruction set through one core faster.

AI has arrived and found a world of silicon that it by coincidence can use every transistor for going full pelt - and the CPUs we think of in our laptops are using only a fraction of their transistors for full pedal to the metal processing and the rest is … legacy??
I have a saying:

1) Welfare-enhancing

2) Politically-popular

3) Simple

Pick any two.

There are policies that meet all three ... but they've already been implemented, and no one debates them.
These are very crisp simple examples. The problem is when you get into fuzzy complex subject matter and they hallucinate references or make string together plausible sounding sentences that are not even wrong.
Very healthy mindset
> I have elsewhere.

Could you relink them? I don't see anything, and I don't think you could show it is to the same extent as in the UK.

> I wouldn’t say it’s a forced viewpoint here either.

Then why do cops keep showing up for wrongthink?
The more salient point is that you might know the limitations of the tool, I might know the limitations of the tool, but millions of people who don't are using it for things it has known limitations for, because the marketing blitz that sits atop this glosses over those limitations.
> This is every person in 2007 who looked at an iphone and thought "What's the big deal?" and not only failed to recognized what had changed, but confidently insisted others were wrong.

That was me. Well, the first half — I wasn't confidently insisting others were wrong, because even back then I had a vague inkling even then that my preferences in general are very weird.

But to AI: I think this is more like Wikipedia, where the frequent errors made it the butt of many jokes, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUApUyurxwY
I lost faith in Marcus after just a few interactions. He is indeed what one would refer to as "crackpot" in academia. The most glaring thing was that he is technically extremely shallow and don't have a clue about most of the details. I also got impression that is enormously enamored with having attention and recognition at any cost. Depending on weather, he will change directions and views, basically just do anything it took to get that attention no matter how ridiculous he looks doing that.

While writing this, it occured to me that he would get even goose bumps at reading this comment because it, after all, I am giving him attention.
Amazing, looking forward for the plant to tree, simulation.

One more question, sorry my knowledge of ML is not so profound, does NEAT algorithm mimic how natural selection works? And how.
I wish someone did this for the Nintendo DS or added WPA3 support to 3DS. I haven't seen any public RE effort going into replacement WiFi modules of those.
It becomes a problem if you want to use multiple versions of the same library, which may happen if you are using composer, e.g two different dependencies uses the same dependency but different major releases.
>Can it refactor a simple function?

Certainly, I do that several times a day.
It was niche outside of Japan but Monster Hunter Freedom/Portable was incredible and wildly more successful than the console edition - the PSP and social monhun parties in Japan validated a brand new IP for Capcom

Admittedly with homebrew it was even more fun when the community patched MHP3 translations and we would have AdHoc wifi parties proxied over the net using a dongle. Good times
The FAQ says no kindle reading, but an android and iOS app for now, and many (most?) books will be DRM restricted but doesn’t mention requiring online.
https://bookshop.org/info/ebooks#EBOOKFAQ
UK's new thinking on AI: Unless it's causing serious bother, you can crack on
A choice between a totalitarian system or starvation is not a choice.
You're not blogging about how bad AI is. That's the first step you got wrong.
How are people collaborating on code when using AI tools to generate patches?

We hold code review dear as a tool to make sure more than one set of eyeballs has been over a change before it goes into production, and more than one person has the context behind the code to be able to fix it in future.

As model generated code becomes the norm I’m seeing code from junior engineers that they haven’t read and possible nor do they understand. For example, one Python script calling another using exec instead of importing it as a module, or writing code that is already available as a very common part of the standard library.

In such cases, are we asking people to mark their code as auto generated? Should we review their prompts instead of the code? Should we require the prompt to code step be deterministic? Should we see their entire prompt context and not just the prompt they used to build the finished patch?

I feel like a lot of the value of code review is to bring junior engineers up to higher levels. To that extent each review feels like an end of week school test, and I’m getting handed plagiarised AI slop to mark instead of something that maps properly to what the student does or does not know.

Pair programming is another great teaching tool. Soon, it might be the only one left.
may favorite sofa was from Ikea. It disassembled easily. some slots and big bolts took the sides off. then some other big bolts separated the seat from the back. the legs twisted off. now you could carry the two biggest parts, the back and the seat, long and vertical
Yeah, it is like the so called "Shock therapy" imposed on failing countries (like Russia in 1991 and some South american countries in the 2000s). The goal is to break down institutions so that more can be privatized.
> rewrite (git) history

Is that possible? Every commit id includes the hash of the parent commit forming a chain.
Record Labels Target 20 ISPs in Pursuit of BitTorrent Pirates and Damages
It starts with the falsehood of the Turing test, continues with the idea of branding the errors "hallucination", moves ahead with "experts" working for their salaries, bonuses and shares and lends here. Benchmarking statistically a dataset, emulating progress and pushing us into an "Intelligent Age" while accelerating data collection, normalizing biometric surveillance, hiding incompetence and speculation, the real reason behind mass layoffs.

A pipe dream ideal for technocratic mafia (In 1932, Scott and fellow technocrat Walter Rautenstrauch formed the "Committee on Technocracy" at Columbia University) of Bilderburgs members, Peter Thiel, Eric Schmidt and their pupils like Musk and co. Now they have a carte blanche for AI governance and regulatory capture.
Starlink, Starshield (Skynet), Stargate, Closed AI, Grok.

Married to the masters of the old system, they will deliver "efficiency" on a grand scale.
Transhumanism is the "inevitable" future of destruction of human dignity, value and psyche.

And all of this trough psyops for a text calculator with stochastic parrot tendencies.

A calculator is a useful tool, but not intelligence in any form.

Machine learning is real, and the biggest danger is the tendency of a hyper class of billionaires to apply surveillance and governance automation.

Ask Larry Ellison about his dream of citizens with the best behaviour. Not so different from Chinas social scoring system.
From Musk statement:

> we've got people in there that are about 150 years old

From that I don't get whether it is 1 person or N people, whereas N is more probable IMHO. However, how big N is, is unknown.
There are people who take Wikipedia or Russia Today as a source of unbiased truth

Can't change lazy people
Yes

For today's applications? It sucks. A lot

Thread/Process control in MSDOS? In your dreams

Network? Are you running Netware? Otherwise you're SOL

Sound output? Sure, just set up DMA and IRQ yourself for your Soundblaster card. I mean, you have one of those right?
Windows 95 had a horrible reputation for games in the early days, for good reasons or not (maybe mostly because how bad Windows 3.x was for games?). Quake was possibly the first mainstream game that managed to convince many that it was possible to get good games performance without sticking to MS-DOS? 1997 was still a great year for DOS games really. Even 1998 was not bad. For someone playing games on a PC in that era there was really no hurry to switch to Windows 95/98 (but by 1997 I had moved on to Linux instead anyway).

https://www.mobygames.com/platform/dos/year:1997/
https://www.mobygames.com/platform/dos/year:1998/
When they get paged three nights in a row and can’t figure out why.
>Chatbot LLM's don't have metacognition.

The whole point of reasoning models is that they do have metacognition, or at least a simulacrum that is superficially indistinguishable from metacognition. It is fascinating to watch R1 grapple with an unanswerable question, torn between the urge to be helpful and the duty to be accurate; the reasoning tokens will be peppered with phrases like "I'm not sure", "I could be mistaken about that", "let me double-check that" and "maybe I'm looking at this from the wrong angle".
"has the author tried a tesla before buying one? I'd never buy a car without trying it" This reads like gaslighting, trying out a car that works and getting one that doesn't wouldn't have changed their outcome.
Via piping.

Unfortunately doing the same kind macros in GUI is a great deal more error prone.

As for CLI vs GUI, both have their places. I wouldn’t say I preferred on over the other except for when talking about specific tasks.

I’ve also been careful not to state “TUI”. Frankly I don’t see much value making a distinction between GUI and TUI in this type of conversation because they’re ostensibly the same paradigm.
> I want to avoid using Wayland for as long as possible.

Why?
OK, I'll ask.

DeepSeek R1 gets it right:

> The species formerly known as Brachiosaurus brancai was reassigned to its own genus, *Giraffatitan*, through a series of taxonomic revisions. The key steps were:

> 1. *Initial Proposal (1988):*
Gregory S. Paul first suggested separating B. brancai from Brachiosaurus in 1988, proposing the informal name "Giraffatitan" as a subgenus. However, this was not widely accepted at the time.

> 2. *Formal Reclassification (2009):*
Paleontologist *Michael P. Taylor* conducted a detailed comparative study of Brachiosaurus specimens. In his 2009 paper, he formally elevated B. brancai to the full genus *Giraffatitan brancai*, citing significant anatomical differences (e.g., limb proportions, vertebral structures) from the North American Brachiosaurus altithorax.

> Thus, *Michael P. Taylor* is credited with the formal reassignment of the species to the genus Giraffatitan in *2009*.
I thought "Attention Is All You Need"
A bit like the three body problem, I guess. The problem seems simple because it’s just four walls, but think how complicated the constraints are once you have an arbitrary shaped sofa: you shave a tiny bit off one corner, and now you can translate the sofa in one axis a little bit or rotate it a little bit. But all the other points in the sofa are potentially limiting that movement, in complex ways because they might be curved. You get stuck, so you shave a tiny bit off somewhere else and suddenly all the constraints have changed again depending on the cut you made. The optimal shape is rather elegant, I think, because it’s basically the half-donut shape you’d expect but with some very limited perturbations that gain a tiny bit of area during key transitions.
Even if you are not at all familiar with cobalt, if you had any brains you would notice that an oddly large number of people are exactly 150 years old which should tell you that it probably means something else than age.
I have a feeling her husband left her because she couldn't stop talking about gender injustice, emotional labor and similar made up bs. He had enough.
Also "They want LLMs" lol. I cant remember being asked. I dont want to use AI for coding.
Maybe calm down on the sexist stereotyping? Your view of women is bitter and derogatory.
This is amazing! Saved.
World number one Sinner banned for three months
YouTube has a speed changer built in. I'm curious what your extension would add.
It says when they don't know the birthdate (a empty value in the field ABS(TIMESTAMPDIFF(YEAR, NOW(), birthdate))).
An actual artificial intelligence would have a logical underpinning to its computation. Computers can execute any logic really well. Intelligence depends on logic. LLMs however, are not using logic to arrive at any conclusion, they are just a bunch of "wires" from input to output.

The promise is that LLMs are a form of intelligence, but it is only a complicated statistical approximation, which happens to correlate with correctly answering queries that are contained in its training dataset.

My speculation is that a true AI (in the sense that it has some form of intelligence) would show signs of intelligence even at very small scales. LLMs are completely useless at really small scales, but even small creatures like rats or even insects display intelligence in proportion to their scale.

I think these tools will help automate information processing of all kinds, but it is by no means intelligent, and we will not be able to rely on them as if they were intelligent because we'll still need include verification at ever level, similarly to how self-driving cars still need a human to pay attention. Useful sure, but it falls short of its promise that it will replace humans because they can "think". We're not there yet from a theoretical standpoint.
They could call it wRPC or something
To me… To you…
It's Casey Muratori, he's an American gamedev, not a professor. The video was a recorded guest lecture for a uni in the Netherlands though.

And it wasn't redone in assembly, it was C++ with SIMD intrinsics, which might as well just be assembly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge3aKEmZcqY&list=PLEMXAbCVnm...
superficially being the operative word.
When a model is trained you end up with nothing more than a bunch of weights. These weights are used to predict the next token in a sequence. LLM models do not have an external memory. LLMs only retain enough knowledge to make it into the next round of training. The astonishing thing here is that even pretty small models now know so much that people assume you can ask knowledge questions about any subject under the sun and get a factual answer. Absurd of course. Logically impossible -- it follows trivially from the size of the model used. The only thing the author has proven with his little test is his own lack of scientific curiosity.

For any question that requires research (or deep expertise in a specific field) you need to use either a research model (that can reason and look things up in external knowledge bases) or you need a model that is trained on the kind of questions that you want to ask it so that it retains that data.
Yeah. In the whole cattle/pet discourse the fact that you need to take some cattle to the vet for diagnosis got lost. Very operator-centric thinking, I get where it’s coming from, but went a bit too far.
I asked o3-mini-high this question after outlining some criteria that I deemed necessary in a city:

I want to live in a city that:
- Is highly walkable with excellent public transportation infrastructure
- Prioritizes safety for women
- Has clean air and good environmental standards
- Functions as a major hub for either tech or finance industries
- Ideally offers:
* Good work-life balance
* English-speaking environment
* Strong expat community
* Easy travel connections

> Based on your criteria, Amsterdam stands out as a top contender. Here’s why:

Walkability & Transportation

Amsterdam’s compact, historic center makes it extremely walkable, and its extensive cycling culture—as well as an efficient network of trams, buses, and trains—ensures that you can get around easily without a car.

Safety for Women & Clean Environment

The city is known for its progressive, inclusive atmosphere and strong safety standards, which contribute to a secure environment for women. Additionally, Amsterdam places a high priority on sustainability and environmental standards, so you’ll enjoy relatively clean air and plenty of green spaces.

Hub for Tech & Finance

Amsterdam is a major European hub where both the tech startup scene and finance sectors thrive. Many global companies and innovative startups are based here, creating ample professional opportunities in both industries.

Work–Life Balance, English-Friendly, & Expat Community

With its relaxed yet dynamic work culture, Amsterdam offers an excellent work–life balance. Even though Dutch is the native language, English is widely spoken—making it very accessible for expats. The city also boasts a robust expat community, providing a welcoming network and plenty of social opportunities. Moreover, Amsterdam Schiphol Airport offers excellent travel connections to destinations around the globe.

Overall, Amsterdam ticks all the boxes for a walkable, safe, environmentally conscious, professionally vibrant, and expat-friendly city.
> while 80486 has reached 50 GHz only in 1991, not in 1990.

Your typo got me wondering — what would the performance of an actual 50GHz 486 look like compared to modern single-core performance?

The lack of speculative execution combined with atrocious memory latencies and next to no cache should be enough to annihilate most if not all of the advantage from the faster clock — CPU is just going to be idling waiting for data. Then there’s the amount of work you can get done per cycle, and SIMD, and…
archived copy of the article ~ the original seems to be inaccessible:

* https://archive.ph/NX0vo
I am not surprised by the result of this article, but LLMs are marketed to be used to get factual information on non-verifiable domains.

Ads shows kids asking for answers to homework on things like "when did xyz battle take place"

Your frustration with people talking about it might be better directed at the people marketing it
I don't think he is always arguing in good faith, unfortunately.
It’s not about him—it’s about recognizing hubris. If someone confidently blunders into your domain and reveals they have no idea what they’re talking about, it’s universally amusing, regardless of the person. Thanks for showing us how eager some people are to defend personas over substance.
To Create, Suffer, and Persist
Hi HN, recently started a blog. I think it's worth reading :)
> Depending on weather, he will change directions and views

My impression is the opposite: I would describe Gary Marcus as having all his opinions perfectly aligned to a singular viewpoint at all times regardless of weather (or evidence).
You can replace pouch cells like-for-like, IIUC, the only real parameter is charging current... just don't tell your fire insurance that I told you so(or that you buy 18650 online, either)
SponsorBlock specifically blocks sponsor segments in YT videos.
Lost the desire to break isolation when I spent my 20s being taken advantage of. Got a career though, which is 'nice' in that I no longer worry about food

The hidden cost of unprepared and unlasting parents. Spare this masculinity nonsense, some of us have (and had) real problems to deal with. The bonds worth having will still forge.
It's just a natural evolution of more people watching on their TVs and Mobile. Long slop and short slop with nothing in between. Must adapt to the TV and phone brain rot zombies.
You can't limit an OS level encryption backdoor at the point of manufacture to some intended target later down the line. This allows mass surveillance on everybody's private files. Stop posting that stupid link on every thread it has nothing to do with this.