skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're wrong. A great many of those same people voted for Obama. They are not bad people with evil motivations. They are people that have been abandoned by the Democratic Party, and who were set adrift looking for a new home.
A more respectful way might be to say "I see your point but I disagree". But ok if this unnerves you fine.
This is a frustrating piece on many levels, but mostly because it doesn't really scratch the surface of what is worrisome about AI. It sets up straw men and knocks them down, but not much else.

It seems to boil down to:

1. LLMs aren't actually "learning" the way humans do so we shouldn't be worried

2. LLMs don't actually "understand" anything so we shouldn't be worried

3. Technology has always been advancing and we've always been freaking out about that, so we shouldn't be worried

4. If your job is automate-able, it probably should be eliminated anyway

What's scary is not that these models are smarter than us, but that we are dumb enough to deploy them in critical contexts and trust the output they generate.

What's scary isn't that these models are so good they'll replace us, but that despite how limited they are, someone will make the decision to replace humans anyway.

What's scary isn't that LLMs will displace good developers, but that LLMs put the power of development in the hands of people who have no idea what they're wielding.

> Sure, with a millions upon millions of training examples, of course you can mimic intelligence. If you already know what’s going to be on the test, common patterns for answers in the test, or even the answer key itself, then are you really intelligent? OR are you just regurgitating information from billions of past tests?

How different are humans from this description in actuality? What are we if not the results of a process that has been optimized by millions upon millions of iterations over long periods of time?
This is great. But the vast majority of non-gaming non-terminal-loving-developers human beings want to avoid the keyboard at all costs.

They are doing it via trackpads, mousepads, touch screens, etc. Which are all inputs that transcend language or the ability to find meaningful words.
If you need to practice body doubling it’s suggested you don’t go into a career doing knowledge work because you will likely have to spend a lot more time working alone.
If, for example, someone convicted of sexual assault decides to give an interview without permission, and proceeds to reiterate the details of the crime, that would undoubtedly harm the victim of their crimes. That is what I meant by the safety and needs of a prisoner not being the only concerns.

SBF didn't sexually assault anybody, but the rules exist for such reasons, and SBF breaking those rules surreptitiously doesn't make it okay. The first concern, I imagine, was "how the fuck did that happen?" which meant assessing the damage.

Should he have been thrown in solitary for 24 hours? Probably not, but should he have been isolated from his room and other prisoners for 24 hours? Probably, while they assessed what had happened and how.

If he had snuck contraband in (a smartphone), then that would have been, for example, a real safety issue, since smuggling in contraband doesn't end at cell phones, and the pathway doesn't change. Initially, it was not clear how it occurred.

That's all I'm saying. I know the slippery slope argument, and I agree with it, and I have previously read the Senate Report on Torture, and do not disagree.
>Though these days I can cash a check via a phone app and so I don’t need to forfeit the check to get the money.

Its incredible that both of these technologies is in active use at the same time.
https://i.imgur.com/xvRBSBO.png
It's not like browsers will cease to exist though. If the proposed selling of Chrome leads to slower change in web specifications (i.e. 'fully featured' browser stuff) I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.
And who pushes us to make that decision? We do this to ourselves and only self-manifesting a spiral downward.
Sure, you're just outlining the details of why software companies are ok with bad software. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but it does mean we get more bad software and bad user experiences as consumers.

Everyone is free to build bad software, but I believe that it only happens because the true value of good software is really hard to measure (since it involves comparing against something you are not going to build).
> There are plenty of competing browsers and search engines, they all suck.

Maybe our difference in viewpoint is that I see this fact and wonder why it's seemingly impossible for anyone to build a financially viable alternative, and I'm at least open to the idea that it's very difficult to compete with Google when they can leverage their successful ads business to subsidize the investment into their browser.

Yes the alternatives are worse, but is that because Google is inherently smarter, or because the newcomers have a tiny fraction of the investment and usually fizzle out within a year or two? Google doesn't have to be actively trying to kill the competitors for it to have an anti-competitive effect in the market.
Statistically speaking though if you leave guns lying around everywhere or introduce guns as a service for only $10/month and tell everyone that guns will solve all your problems, then you’re going to end up with fuckwits with guns.
Good to know I’m not alone haha! I also have some of the concrete pouring type moments. I built a pool house last Spring during work hours in between and during meetings. I was able to do my actual productive work in evening after kids went to bed. Helps that I’m more of a manager than an individual contributor but nobody at work even noticed.

Also same productivity comes in bursts for me. Sometimes I’ll start the week off with a bang and get everything I needed to done on Monday. I’ll even go all night if I’m in this flow state. Then I will sleep until noon and take a leisurely pace the rest of week. Other weeks i procrastinate until im forced to get something done on Friday. Because I know this about myself, I try to think of work life one week at a time.
Why am I just now having this thought?

He should make them $5.12 so it’s a check for 1,000,000,000 cents, instead of 100,000,000.
> what is the business model that will sustain development and advancement in the space?

Imagine buying a browser
Same here but I've certainly ran into some rough edges. Especially with some of the more complicated one click services.

Overall, I like it but I wish it was a bit more polished.
And, apparently, we’re still doing the deliberately obtuse act. Nothing ever changes.
"Change is inevitable. You can’t stop the railroad as they used to say. It’s going to kill some jobs but not all of them."

I personally don't worry about jobs. AI is progressing very fast (there are a lof of smart folks working on it, there are a ton of money invested and there's a lot of demand from businesses, governments and individuals). Human inteligence stays the same. I think it's likely that sometime soon AI models will become more inteligent than an average human. And then more inteligent than the smartest human. And then more inteligent than the whole human race combined.

Let's say some worms 600 million years ago could think. And they consider should they kill all mutants and stay forever the pinnacle of evolution as they are or allow some of them to evolve into fish, and then mammals and eventually inteligent humans. I think we are in a position like this - we are currently the pinacle of "creation" in the known universe - do we want to stay this way - by blocking AGI progress, or do we want to allow minds far greater than us to evolve from current LLMs at the cost of probable human extinction eventually.
There is an incredible amount of soft power applied in global politics and business. This why for example Google CEO have face to face meeting with prime ministers and this reported in news.
Glad I'm not the only lunatic who would do something like this. At least until I got my paws on dBASE.

I worked with somebody with your name in the early 90s on a Sequent/Dynix system, that wasn't you by chance was it?
I stand by my statement that the laws need only require servers and clients use the RTA header. [1] Not perfect but perfect is the enemy of good or so they say. No leakage, privacy compliant. Contact your reps.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43249230
Agile Otter Blog: There Is No Automatic Reset for Engineering
Getting Serious about Permissions
Japan has been 6 months away from being able to launch a nuclear warhead since the 90s, and has a plutonium stockpile sufficient for 6,000 warheads.

Why would they need warheads on standby?
Even when Google was good I can't really recall ever browsing beyond 100 results unless I was looking for a post in a forum, so I don't know that this is really a knock against them given that their value proposition is that you pay them and they don't collect your data. I do find it surprising that so many people in this thread seem to be excited about Orion; I'm not interested in using anything proprietary to browse the web.
MS does sell ads, they have an advertising platform.
in a simple world, a web browser is a tool that is used by an end-user, and so end-users should be the ones paying for it.

whether that's directly as paid software, or indirectly as part of purchasing a device that has the software installed on it.
I’m pretty sure you couldn’t trust me to multiply 20-digit numbers either.
Absolutely no one should stop using bold or italics just because screen readers fail to parse. Screen readers need to do better.

Bold and italics add spice to otherwise boring typography.
Hot take: I think it should be legal to offer a bribe and illegal to accept a bribe.

For example, I don’t think it’s immoral to offer a crooked cop in Mexico $20 to walk away from a dangerous situation.

In your example, it’s not your fault politicians are accepting bribes. So you can either do it or go out of business. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.

I think it would do a good job of weeding out bribes too. Because people offering bribes also get a form of blackmail - they don’t go to jail if they come clean but the other side does!

I really think it would actually end up net-positive. What do you think?
Or when the devs don’t want to rewrite their schemata in a way that would massively reduce I/O requirements.

Then when you lose a cache node, the DB gets slammed and falls over, because when the DB team implemented service-based rate-limiting, the teams cried that they were violating their SLOs so the rate limits were bumped waaaay up.
Great. Time to replace half my home automation devices! This is not entirely unexpected, regardless of whether it was intentional or not, but it still hurts. Although I guess it means it might be easier to take control of existing devices without having to open them up and connect to the GPIOs.

I wonder if this is patchable at all?
Neat idea. Regarding the performance, I think you could get a lot better performance by training a small classifier model, essentially an embedding model, and using the LLM as the distillation source. This would both be much smaller, addressing your desire for it to run in browser, while also being much more performant, addressing your quantization need. Using the full LLM is a bit overkill and you can extract the core of what you're looking for out of it with something a little custom.
The person you were responding to was explicitly comparing US vs Chinese monopolies. Maybe it is a false dichotomy, but that was the situation that the post was brining up.
That's probably true. I reckon I'll add both rather soon.
From Antarctica with Love
Reading LOTR as about technology is like reading Alice in Wonderland as about tea time ettiquette. For fuck's sake.

LOTR makes its theme and conceits explicit - it is about the appeal of power to the ego. Industrialization is an expression of that will to power, and its ability to magnify man's already-present distorted relationship with nature. That industry relies on technology does not make technology the central topic or even the target of critique.

Bone-headed take.
I believe the above is just referring to diversity of engines. If 99% of everyone uses Chromium then there’s no incentive to support open standards that work across all browsers.
I've tried goaccess and goatcounter, finally settling for umami.
Plausible. I make sure to proxy it so extensions don't block it.

Good enough for me.
Give them time, it’s only been 11 hours. Now I just want to hear about the trip back to the desk
Based on the title, I expected some advice about how to actually eliminate some feeds. Instead, the article is basically some advice to focus less on the feeds. Regardless, I was inspired to check out Instagram's somewhat hidden "Following" tab, only to find that even when I explicitly ask to see posts from people that I'm following, literally every second post is "recommended for you" bullshit.
Sure webkit is multi-process but how many perf critical threads do you think there are for rendering the single page that user is viewing?
Adam Neumann has a new co-working play now, we are at the point where investors probably would throw money at SBF were he released.
If every book, video, and painting is ripped off and shared for free why would any sane person pay? Of course the feds are going to act to defend the big budget spectacles which distract us from the corrupt clown show that is our world.
Ask HN: in 2025 Which project does not have any good open-source alternatives?
The entire point is that LLMs don't think, they're just regressions of information you'd find on the internet. And automation is a good thing. 90% of Americans were farmers in the 1700s; automation completely revolutionized that. Your final point is still a concern in general, specifically what will happen when menial labor no longer exists. At that point, you have to hope that all the wealth generated from automation will be redistributed back in the form of a basic income, otherwise yes, we'll have a lot of people with no means to survive.
My question is, even if they do sell off Chrome, wouldn't Google just create another "Chrome" using the Chromium and use its monopolistic power to push it on everyone? What am I missing here?

It doesn't sound like this would solve the issue..
Ugh, I really dislike this sort of hand-waving blog post. The author cobbles together an argument dispelling all concerns about AI proliferation by assembling a few Tweets. Don’t mistake this for scholarship. I believe the true answer to the question of whether we should be frightened of these gigantic models is far more nuanced and way less certain.

A more honest blog post would read something like this: Big Ai models are interesting and useful. And there’s the potential for danger. We should be cautious and make sure we have some bright scholars studying what might happen if various scenarios play out. Just as we would want to be in response to any similarly massive advancement in technology.
Reading is a creative process. You should not be bound by author's intention or by conventional knowledge about the material. If you approach it with a new perspective and get new ideas out of it, or even if it just means you have a good time, then it's worth it.

In fact, Alice in Wonderland relationship to ettiquette, both at a tea table and in royal court, is a curious theme.
Maybe it could be a day to catch up on sleep.
They didn't destroy the internet, but they did embolden the platforms at the cost of smaller players, who couldn't step up
its like using the company gpt then
I use this app! It’s amazing. Would love to connect. I’m at jbornhorst [at] gmail [dot] com
I’ve gotta say, when I first learned Rust had gone its own way on await, I was heavily sceptical. But seeing the actual examples was pretty compelling.
I've a rudimentary familiarity with control systems, yes. Glad we're on the way same page!

I'm not satisfied with your response, but I'm losing my grasp on the analogy.

What are we dampening? Inertia, no? Imparted by the environment, and/or our own (fundamentally, inevitably) inaccurate thrust vectors?

It's a metaphor, so I guess we can only argue about the level of abstraction at which to apply it. I'm certainly glad I don't need to mutate and grow new internal organs just to cross the street, but I can be grateful for the mutation and growth of an ability to synthesize Vitamin D which allowed my ancestors to cross glaciers—two activities which are, arguably, helpful in maintaining homeostasis.
Don't forget heated mannequins... with killbots come decoys!
This exactly.

Interesting to note that Peter Thiel has never named a company "Hobbiton"
Indeed is an interested party, and their incentives do not align with the general public and jobseekers.
IMO this only applies to people who are already an expert in the domains they are using AI for. Only they can guide the AI to produce something useful. In all other cases it's the blind leading the blind.
haha yes I was very happy to get the domain
Note that the section with that heading also discusses several other negative features.

The only false positive rate mentioned in the article is more like 30%, and the true positives in that sample were mostly trivial mistakes (as in, having no effect on the validity of the message) and that is in preprints that have not been peer reviewed, so one would expect that that false positive rate would be much worse after peer review (the true positives would decrease, false positives remain).

And every indication both from the rhetoric of the people developing this and from recent history is that it would almost never be applied in good faith, and instead would empower ideologically motivated bad actors to claim that facts they disapprove of are inadequately supported, or that people they disapprove of should be punished. That kind of user does not care if the "errors" are false positives or trivial.

Other comments have made good points about some of the other downsides.
Amen. And if anybody mocks my Gen2 Macan with 100+ physical buttons and controls within reach of the driver, they will get mocked right the fuck back.
Dropbox server implementation. Has a great open source MacOS client, but the server implementation is needed. I would contribute financially towards such a project, as Dropbox will never be satisfied to remain reliable file sync (and I am currently a paying customer). They keep churning features to expand the TAM. This will eventually lead to enshittification. Underlying storage could be any S3 compatible target. Each file could be an object, stretch goal would be deduplication across blocks such that Dropbox’s Pocket storage system does.

https://www.maestral.app/
Not sure this is the company we want to put our trust in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#Controvers...
I am 60+, read a lot and at least 50% is science fiction
Power brakes took away some of the utility of driving barefoot. A definite loss of feedback. But then again, in the ealy 21st century in the West is there any car that does not have power brakes ?
MCP strikes me as roughly equivalent to HTML. Headline features like dynamic “tool” discovery (and more!) are solved well with HTML.

MCP is probably easier for clients to implement but suffers from poor standardization, immaturity and non-human readability. It clearly scratches an itch but I think it’s a local-minimum that requires a tremendous amount of work to implement.
There's definitely a chance it does lead to Russia wanting to "swallow more", which is a terrible thing, but that doesn't really change the strategic dynamics. Until they try to swallow territory that is as important to a nuclear-armed enemy as it is to Russia, they will have an advantage and it will be difficult to stop them.
What's wrong with that? The optimal UI for anything remotely complex arguably includes both physical and touchscreen controls.
I agree that it is human to be wrong. Intentionally or not. Which leds me to conclusion that so called disinformation is often just labeling of opposite opinions by vague terminology.

If someone believe to lies, I would ask, where the trust is coming from?
Socially self-hosting source code with Tangled on Bluesky
Perhaps you should try one of his other 60 or so books some time? Seems a bit narrow minded otherwise.
Would love to chat to learn more. I’m at jbornhorst [at] gmail.com
> In a public post on the official Facebook page of Asimov's Science Fiction, the magazine's editor Sheila Williams said "We're excited about Asimov's future with our new owners. We have lots of great stories lined up. There's no change to our editorial staff. Our new owners are readers who love genre magazines and we're looking forward to working with them."

Seems like things are going to be fine.

In all honesty, Amazon cutting digital magazine subscriptions and shifting everything over to "KindleUnlimited" was hugely damaging to these magazines and probably outright killed their business model. The new owners are apparently fans who are keeping the thing going practically as a charity.
I recently bought an iPad as the previous one was probably 10 years old and the screen died. The button on the front is dearly missed. Having that new damn thing on the dedicated shelf and I casually touch the button one handed to bring it to life is not there anymore. Have to hold it down for that damn side button. Also never be sure anymore what way is up and which volume is up and down. It it worse than a fussy child always want to be picked up, to be used two handed. All, the, time.

They sacrificed usability for stupid and superficial appearances, those idiots!
A myopic prescription can actually be good for seeing things close up but not in the distance- explains why you’re able to see close up with that eye OK
I assume you mean Orion. Does that still happen if you enable compatibility mode? I don't have the same problem, but I've reported several problems on the feedback forum and had some luck with getting them resolved.
> What's scary isn't that these models are so good they'll replace us, but that despite how limited they are, someone will make the decision to replace humans anyway.

is this a real threat? if a system/company decides to replace a human with something that is less capable wouldn't that just result in it becoming irrelevant/bankrupt as it is replaced by other companies doing the same thing the more efficient (and in this case traditional) way?
That's not unusual! BART and, I believe, Caltrain also use them for vegetation management on their rights-of-way.
My dad would map the caves and other dungeon-y areas in Pokémon Blue.
Panics can be caught and handled, though: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/panic/fn.catch_unwind.html. So it is exactly the right choice in the circumstances. Apps like webservers and other things that need to not terminate the process are expected to be compiled with panic=unwind. Everybody else should compile with panic=abort and sleep safe knowing that if their invariants get corrupted, execution will not continue.

Using Result<T, E> - the Rust's rough equivalent to checked exceptions in something like Java - would be the wrong choice here since it effectively forces the client to check and handle invariant violations inside library code - and the client really has no way to handle them other then do the equivalent of 500 Internal Error, so there's no point doing such checks on every call.
Walmart Built the Biggest Threat Amazon Has Faced
yes i will remove it but then i have to add captcha so it takes some time. i will do it tomorrow.

i temporarily added a input draft in localstoarage to not be so irritating
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43301369
https://archive.is/Om67b
They are not interpolating, which is what I think you meant to say, except for a loose definition humans would meet too.

What do you think of the latest thinking models, and what is your test of thinking?