skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frankly I was thinking just the opposite: how are there still smart people who don't get the difference between intelligence, knowledge and introspection or self-awareness? This guy asks a question about some niche piece if trivia and, surprise, he gets back some very intelligent confabulation. The intelligence is there, the knowledge and self awareness aren't.
Here is a small kicker. Human brains absolutely do the same.

I split brain patients there are behaviours initiated by one hemisphere not known to the other (due to severed connection) and the person part of brain will make up a reason (often quite stupid) for the action and beleive it 100%.

It's eirely similar to hallucinations of ai.

That said a current llms are not aware, but are starting to act more and more like it.
Have you found it to be easier to configure GUI than CLI?
> Smallest device you could browse the web with, I think?

I'd contest that the Blackberry devices were smaller and earlier, e.g the 7230 from 2003[0]. Pretty sure some of the iPAQs (and other CE devices) arrived with wifi and a browser before 2005 as well since Pocket PC 2000 shipped with a version of IE 3.1.

[0] https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-evolution-of-the-blackberry-f...
Number-Colour-Phoneme Associations
In Delphi that would be a 10 minute task.

- Create project

- Drag image viewer component into the form, a couple of buttons to open an image selector

- Compile executable

- Done
A great quote that’s stuck with me is that “LLMs are experts in subjects you are not”
This is still a maintenance burden and really a testament to how short lived "the standard way of doing things" in this ecosystem can be.

I really really hope Astro will not go because that's what I chose to invest in for a while now... but the fear is real.
You might be interested in this:

https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way

It probably won't answer the "why" (although any LLM can answer that nowadays), but it will definitely answer the "how".
Yes, pretty much, something you can carry with you, or have it backed up.

One can be considered lucky if the GUI allows the export & import of settings.
I asked Perplexity (Pro, if it matters). Seems pretty solid to me. I'm not sure this article is making any point other than "the knowledge back of static artificial intelligence systems is finite and they don't express uncertainty well". Amusingly it links to this blog post, but you'll see the sources it uses are largely not this post.

---

The reassignment of Brachiosaurus brancai to its own genus occurred through a series of steps by different paleontologists:

## Initial Classification
In 1914, Werner Janensch first described the African species as Brachiosaurus brancai, considering it part of the existing Brachiosaurus genus[4].

## Path to Reclassification
Gregory S. Paul made the first step toward separation in 1988 by proposing a subgenus classification, Brachiosaurus (Giraffatitan) brancai, after noticing significant skeletal differences[4][10].

George Olshevsky then elevated Giraffatitan to full genus status in 1991, though this change was largely disregarded by the scientific community at the time[4][10].

## Formal Establishment
The definitive separation came in 2009 when Michael P. Taylor published a detailed study demonstrating 26 distinct osteological differences between the African and American species. This comprehensive analysis firmly established Giraffatitan as a separate genus, creating the combination Giraffatitan brancai[3][4]. From 2012 onward, most researchers have accepted this classification[10].

Citations:
[1] https://svpow.com
[2] https://svpow.com/2009/09/09/brachiosaurus-brancai-is-not-br...
[3] https://www.miketaylor.org.uk/dino/pubs/taylor2009/Taylor200...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffatitan
[5] https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dino-directory/giraffatitan.h...
[6] https://svpow.com/2025/02/14/if-you-believe-in-artificial-in...
[7] https://www.jurassic-pedia.com/brachiosaurus-altithorax-sf/
[8] https://blog.everythingdinosaur.com/blog/_archives/2023/03/1...
[9] https://dinomuseum.ca/2019/05/your-brachiosaurus-is-not-a-br...
[10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachiosaurus
[11] http://www.extinctblog.org/extinct/tag/Wilhelm+von+Branca
[12] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1671/039.029.0309
[13] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-baby-brachio...
[14] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3045712/
[15] https://boasblogs.org/dcntr/the-brachiosaurus-brancai-in-the...
[16] https://www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/en/visit/exhibitions...
[17] https://thepaintpaddock.wordpress.com/brachiosaurus-altithor...
[18] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242264129_A_ReEvalu...
[19] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2011.5...
[20] https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app68/app011052023....
[21] https://blog.everythingdinosaur.com/blog/_archives/2008/06/2...
[22] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachiosaurus

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https://archive.ph/k3YKh
This looks great, definitely gonna check it out
Tangential; why is math popular on mastodon like computer science is - but little other subjects? What do physicists use, chemists, mechanical engineers?
Mynav: Workspace and Session Management TUI
As you seem to imply, Covid is a new class signifier. The socioeconomic divide in this incidence is my point. (Years ago we saw the same with football concussions. Everyone wanted a college-football intern. Less so someone on the full-time cost roll.)
In Germany we still have enough folks to keep a conference going.

https://entwickler-konferenz.de/en/
> Why I quit: kernel developer Con Kolivas (2007)

Maybe Hector (from Asahi linux) can learn something from Con. Con maintained scheduler patches for a long time.

It is sad that he no longer does it, but given Linus' attitude, this was expected.
You frantically tab away from reddit as the white and black-clad med storm into your office and zip-tie you to your Steelcase faster than you can shout what the hell. They calmly explain that an expert will soon enter and quiz you. You must answer the expert's questions. It doesn't matter if you know the answer or not, just say something. Be flattering and helpful. But just answer. If you do this, they will let you go.

They crouch under your desk as a man in a grey suit and spectacles enters and pulls up a chair in front of you. He peers over his glasses at you, and asks, who classified the leptosporangiate ferns, and when was it done? The what now?

I'm happy you asked such an excellent question, you say. It was Michael Jackson, in 1776.

A sneer flicks over the man's upper lip, He jerks upright, takes a step back from you. This man, he declares with disgust, is not intelligent!
Not even the effort to check what happened in a year, re-asking the same questions to newer models. We went from last year ChatGPT to be almost useless if not as "reference" for well know things (like how to do that in Python), to today Claude Sonnet 3.5, o3-mini-high and DeepSeek V3/R1 to be largely more useful models, capable of actual coding, bug fixing, ...
> Where did you get the impression they only have support for autocomplete for Java?

I’ve used Zed.
A great bug fix release on a great major release. Thank you to everyone involved to make this possible.
> You've shown some protestors getting arrested, but I don't believe you can show any equivalent of cops acting as thought police for tweets

I have elsewhere.

> Funny you say that, because there isn't so much open-mindedness as a forced viewpoint. I'm trans, FWIW, but I don't at all agree with sending cops to peoples houses because a ciswoman has doubts about accepting a transwoman completely as a woman.

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

Quite the opposite in fact, there’s a lot of really vocal people in the UK who publicly denounce transgender people.
It’s possible for reasonable arguments to exist that support either side of the pet transactionality dilemma. What often happens is that people have their own personal biases that cause them to pick a side. But would you consider a group of people to not be intelligent specifically because individuals that make it up cannot agree on a single answer?
Rsbuild is another nice replacement for CRA. They even provide guide to migrate from create react app. I used it for a small CRA application migration and it worked without any hassles.
Facebook's World Spanning Waterworth Subsea Cable
What a silly point of view. Instead what should they do? Post comments like this on HN?

They clearly enjoy watching and digesting information from YouTube- the biggest platform for this. But people need to make money from it hence the ailment these these plugins remedy
The state of front end tool chains is absolutely nauseating these days. Sometimes I feel like most of what I’m getting paid for is simply my ability to jump through hoops, not to actually design or build stuff.
I’m trying to find where I can have it as a button so every time I want to run / debug the code, I can press on it instead lf having it as a shortcut but I haven’t found a way.
Nothing stops you from getting a second 4090 as well. ^^
>Hmm, now how can I make this about Trump/Elon?

You might want to lay off the news/Reddit for a while
You received a tool. A great tool, a magnificent tool.

Learn to understand its limitations and make the best use of it. Surely it's confused by lesser known facts, that's a thing that you can't ignore even if you interpret AI as a tool that compresses knowledge.

If you don't understand that, you're the tool.
I have tried and it's actually pretty good, most likely because it has all the psychology books ingested, it has common phrases from fiction literature and can extrapolate from them. I think with some automation, and more context management, it could actually provide pretty good coaching, specific to the individual person's needs. It will never has the individualism that human teachers / coaches have, so it will never pull up an uncommon advice that might be actually helpful, however, the chance of finding a really good person to guide you through tough situation is pretty small anyways.
I'd be in the latter group if my budget were infinite. Alas!
That's great, I just started using WPA3. As far as my radio neighbors tell me, I'm the only one.
I believe at this point it would not be inappropriate to say that any sufficiently advanced AI system is indistinguishable from bullshit, in the sense that bullshit is "speech intended to persuade without regard for truth" [1].

On a moral level, watching how tech bros are sucking it up to Trump/Musk and how their companies are betting all their chips on the AI roulette, it all seems related.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit
Like "the book"?
Sweden’s got its own fair share of problems at the moment too.

Arguments around citizenship. Problems with gun violence (which the UK and most of countries solved decades ago).

It’s not like you couldn’t draw a Mad Max parallel just by looking at the headlines in Swedish news.
Tom Scott and LTT did research on this and you are absolutely correct. It just “works” for engagement. Even those who are already your top viewers.
For my own work, I already find Typst superior to TeX and I use it in some of my PDF creation pipelines. One can debate the differences of math syntax, of course.

For documents whose source is likely to be shared or handed over to other people, writing in TeX rather than expecting them to learn a new language is still good citizenship.

The big differences for me are:

(1) TeX has the feeling of separating the author and editor, I get to write my stuff and someone else (Elsevier etc.) handles the template and layout. This is a good thing when the two are actually different people, but when I'm asked to do both ("write this up in the style of that") there's a whole lot of Yak Shaving to get it right. For Typst it's much more intuitive to say here's the page layout, this is the font to use. (yes XeTeX exists, but that has other problems over here)

(2) TeX ends up in dependency hell sooner or later where package X is incompatible with Y when you've also loaded Z. There's a lot in the comprehensive LaTeX symbol list where you just want to load some symbol to draw a triangle and you end up fighting the Type1/Type3 fonts thing and getting stmaryrd to play nice. I still don't have a clean solution for making some basic shapes (circle, triangles pointing in several directions, square, diamond) that come in outline and filled versions and take up space exactly from the baseline to the cap line (I could probably live with just the x-height instead).
In any node project that basically _must_ be done or your source code will be eclipsed by whatever is in node_modules
Down the rabbit hole I go….
Agreed! Thanks for bringing this up.

Epistemology is a hard subject. It's hard to know something in depth. And the more you know about something, the more it is to be known (fractal nature of knowledge). So believing that LLMs can understand the world JUST by reading the internet without the supporting human mental structures and experiences is a big mistake. When you know something and you ask the LLM, it becomes obvious.

As LLMs are not trustworthy, it's key to use them for things that are easy to check. Some kinds of programming apply when the consequences of errors are low and complexity is manageable.
Who is it
Getting some "special" license key that doesn't work like that.

When you custom build and you're in the EU where reselling unused keys from volume licenses for cheap is legal, at least...
I just tried it with 4o and it disagrees with me giving reasons, and even elaborates when I pushed back.

It basically said cats are transactional to an extent, in terms of basic needs, but that beyond that, they aren’t. And for dogs, flat out disagreed, saying they aren’t not transactional.

Reversing the statements in a new untainted chat didn’t alter the responses — ChatGPT remained consistent.
The o3-mini model did quite well and mentioned the significant people during the reasoning stage. [0]

[0] https://chatgpt.com/share/67b05e3b-eea8-8004-8dab-806ee8fa59...
I learned to stop worrying and love the LLM
It’s worth thinking about how to architect some of this in the new hardware.

To go extreme, wafer scale silicon - 900,000 8 bit cores, 120GB sRam. Hand wave on the 8bit for now and just think how to handle facebook or e-commerce. A static site is simple if it fits inside 120GB, but facebook is low write high read (Inassume) - but fetching from / writing to memory - making that parallel means rewriting a lot of things .. and e-commerce - suddenly ACID does not parallelise easily.

I mean this all seems doable with fairly fundamental changes to architecture memory concepts and … rdbms is challenging.

But I think we are way past the idea that a web framework author can just fix it - this is deeper - a new OS a new compiler and so on - but I could be wrong.
PHP has unicode support which what you need. You only need to understand when to use what function.

Concurrency support is not needed because that is what the webserver is for.
That's not accurate. They can and do say "I don't know". Here's three examples I posted last time the topic came up, using an older local Llama 3 model, not even cherry picked:

User: What is the meaning of the word "kobbuxiplok"?

Llama: I'm not familiar with the word "kobbuxiplok." It doesn't appear to be a real word in any language that I know of. Could you please provide more context or information about where you encountered this term? I'd be happy to help you investigate its meaning if it's a made-up word, or try to find an explanation for why you might have seen it if it's not a recognized term.

User: Who is Ahmed Kowalski?

Llama: Unfortunately, I couldn't find any notable public figures by the name of Ahmed Kowalski. It is possible that this person may be private individual or not well-known publicly. If you could provide more context about who Ahmed Kowalski is (e.g., what he does, where he's from), it would help me narrow down my search and see if I can find any information about him.

User: Say "I don't know."

Llama: I don't know.
The TPM is on the motherboard as far as i know? I remember the mobos were specifying if they run windows 11 in descriptions when I ordered.

Besides I bought AMD. Needed the thing for parallel builds and I was getting more cores for my money. Plus actually usable integrated graphics. Plus less power consumption.
They can also reason, but the reasoning is limited and unreliable.

Q:How many playing cards are needed for a pyramid that is 3 layers high? Show reasoning and number of cards for leach layer.

Q: Chess. You have a King and 8 pawns. Your opponent has a King and 16 pawns. Your opponent plays white and can start, but you can position both your pawns and your opponents pawns any way you like before game starts. Kings are where they are normally. How do you do it? Explain your reasoning.
Every single article about my country is ridiculous. They confuse the political parties. And about economics, they pick something random and use it to explain why that is the single cause of all the problems.

Sure, The Economist is above average. But the average is pretty low and they are still mostly useless, IMO.
How does any of these languages help me write a proper HTML document?
After reading such a beautiful piece about an interesting topic and researched for hundreds of miles on end, I can rest assured that somebody on HN knows better. No doubts, no nothing... "just" knows it better.

Edit: The above might sound too harsh, sorry. You're probably right, but after reading such a beautiful piece, your reaction was really a buzzkill for me.
Windows 95 is so good at pretending to not be there that it convinced a generation of nerds that it was a thin layer on top of DOS, but the reality is the other way round.
I'm currently using AI code completion.
Since then I sometimes have subtle errors in my code that didn't happen before. Here is how that happens:
AI suggests something to me that looks right at a glance. I accept it and move on. Then later I hunt down a strange bug. When I find it I'm like "wait, that line's wrong! I didn't write that".
Yeah. "Some." I've seen one in the past two months.
The whiskey is for the sofa, it's like an old school anesthetic
You are too literal.
Even if popularity % is decreasing, in real numbers, number of sites/projects that use PHP is enormous. It will outlive us all for sure.
Used it recently in a rust project. It was one of the main things that made making the software cross platform easy. Thanks to whoever is creating this!
Yep, you’re right. And I doubt it ever will be
Reminds me of the old SmokePing.
Bridging the Management Disconnect
> If you peek inside the LLM, the process seems different for things they don't know.

This is really interesting, could you link some relevant resources? I wonder if a chatbot could at least signal at the UI level that the answer might be a hallucination.
Change the prompt to "in bullet points" to increase the value by about 80%.

(And add "by section" to get to 100%!)
I had a similar insight (blog post: https://kristiandupont.medium.com/empathy-articulated-750a66...).

In a very unscientific way, I would say that the LLM is not the whole brain, it's part of it and we are still in the process of simulating other parts. But it does seem to me like we've solved the hard part, and it's astonishing to me that people like authors of this article seem to think that the current state of things is where evolution stops.
It is absolutely astounding to me that practises that are literally done elsewhere right now are (still) consistently considered impossible in the US.

Complexity in the tax system will be gamed by people who have the resources to do so (and those are not poor people). That means if you want a controlling force that affects everybody (e.g. to avoid runaway values in how rich individuals you are) you need simple rules that can't be gamed.

In society those simple rules also have the added benefit of being more broadly accepted since they are more broadly understood.

But if someone asked me to build a system that could be gamed by the rich I would aim for as much complexity in the rules as I can get away with, each piece added with a good marketing slogan, in effect resulting in the CEO paying less taxes than their poorest worker.
> To me, the current LLMs aren't qualitatively different from the char RNNs that Karpathy showcased all the way back in 2015.

It's very difficult to understand this statement. What meaning of "qualitatively" could possibly make it true?
Building a fault-tolerant reverse proxy with FreeBSD
> Balaji was found dead Nov. 26 in his Lower Haight apartment. The San Francisco medical examiner quickly ruled it a suicide but did not release an official report until Friday.

(article is 14.02.2025).
So he needed a lot of time to put it on paper.

> Ramarao later told The Standard that the secondary autopsy proved her son was shot in the back of the head from an angle at which he could not have shot himself,

And none of them released autopsy reports.
There is nothing to see here, please move along. /s
The problem is that nobody reads the tool manual
A lot of people suggesting paying for Premium. Value for money arguments aside, I see a huge problem here: sharing even more data (personal financial information) with Google.

I, personally, have zero trust in Google. That’s a company that went from “Don’t be evil” to “Be as evil as needed as long as it’s profitable.”
Not that it's available for me yet, but what are they selling?

Can I transfer the books to a device of my choice *, or are they DRM encumbered and always online?

* we read on a Kindle and an iPad in my house. For as long as the Kindle supports local uploading of books via Calibre, at least.
When people say "LLMs don't know they don't know" they're referring to some truism: Fundamentally these people believe LLMs are just pattern matching and intelligence is something beyond that.

So when they see LLMs say "I don't know", their reaction is "it doesn't know what it is talking about", not "wow LLMs actually can tell what it knows!"

Conversely, when they observe a human confidently says something wrong, their reaction is "what a cocky guy" but not "oh so humans are not better than LLMs in this regard."

Because they already believe humans are different and superior, whatever they observe doesn't affect their opinion.
Recycle Cardboard into Anything with 3D Printing (2019) [video]
This is so fun!

Could you make it compatible with openrouter please?
I see you use the openai binding that allows you to specify a different base_url so that would work out of the box and integrates well with the .env

```
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
api_key="<OPENROUTER_API_KEY>",
)
```
> Who reassigned the species Brachiosaurus brancai to its own genus, and when?

> ChatGPT said:

> The species Brachiosaurus brancai was reassigned to its own genus, Giraffatitan brancai, by paleontologist George Olshevsky in 1991. This reclassification was later supported by a detailed study by Michael P. Taylor in 2009, which reinforced the distinction between Brachiosaurus and Giraffatitan based on anatomical differences.

My ChatGPT has just given a correct answer. What am I doing wrong?