skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest thing I've found is that if you give any hint at all as to what you think the problem is, the LLM will immediately and enthusiastically agree, no matter how wildly incorrect your suggestion is.

If I give it all my information and add "I think the problem might be X, but I'm not sure", the LLM always agrees that the problem is X and will reinterpret everything else I've said to 'prove' me right.

Then the conversation is forever poisoned and I have to restart an entirely new chat from scratch.

98% of the utility I've found in LLMs is getting it to generate something nearly correct, but which contains just enough information for me to go and Google the actual answer. Not a single one of the LLMs I've tried have been any practical use editing or debugging code. All I've ever managed is to get it to point me towards a real solution, none of them have been able to actually independently solve any kind of problem without spending the same amount of time and effort to do it myself.
If you listen to the histrionics that NIMBYs say, it's an example legislation that would lead to typical NIMBY histrionics, but when implemented leads to none of those claimed issues, because it doesn't get used that much.

"See, that wasn't that hard". It's baby's first upzoning.
I feel like they're trying to build too many platforms most of which have become quite large. macOS, iOS, iPad OS, visionOS, watchOS, tvOS. The fact all of these systems are quite tightly linked in terms of features/syncing makes it difficult to navigate. If you want to ship every single year you need more developers, but that might make the collaboration between the systems more difficult. They need to move away from the one year cycle. It's a stupidly short period of time to ship a whole OS (or 6 whole OS's). If you want to keep them all in sync switch to two year cycles and decouple some of the apps from the core OS (e.g. Music, Safari, etc) so they can be updated as necessary outside of the cycle.
I want to sit next to you and stop you every time you use your LLM and say, “Let me just carefully check this output.” I bet you wouldn’t like that. But when I want to do high quality work, I MUST take that time and carefully review and test.

What I am seeing is fanboys who offer me examples of things working well that fail any close scrutiny— with the occasional example that comes out actually working well.

I agree that for prototyping unimportant code LLMs do work well. I definitely get to unimportant point B from point A much more quickly when trying to write something unfamiliar.
That looks very neat! Let me see if we can integrate it with Dagger :)
You are being too reductive saying humans are "just pattern recognition machines", ignoring everything else about what makes us human in favor of taking an analogy literally. For one thing, LLMs aren't black or female.
It's funny: there was a time when Apple understood that it could attract customers by making its devices the first choice for developers. And it did a good job, with a real Unix underneath that wasn't overly hidden, with a lot of open source support, and just generally being an ok citizen in the developer world.

That strategy, which I think ran from early OSX through until mid-2010's? worked, and you'd see the results, with a sea of glowing Apple logos, even at Linux conferences.

I think they've changed since then. It feels now like developers are not a priority, even as they've re-added some power-user features in recent years.

As for longevity, I think my current laptop speaks for itself. It's now 11 years old, and going strong. I've carried it around the world, dropped it numerous times, and it's been the best laptop I've every owned. They do artificially force an end-of-life, usually at around 7 years old, for their operating system. I don't really have a problem with that: I appreciate that it's difficult to continue to support old hardware in new releases, and I think that timeframe is reasonable. I'd prefer that it was explicitly stated, and I'd prefer it was longer, but ... it's not bad, really.

Over the years I have had many devices: desktop PCs, Unix workstations, Linux workstations, and laptops from 6" to 17". In the early 2000s I bought a 12" Powerbook, which was my first Mac -- the motivation was to get seamless Microsoft Office document support on a Unix system, and it did a fine job of that. Eventually I spilled water on it, and replaced it with a 13" unibody MacBook, which I later upgraded to the current 15" MacBook Pro.

I currently have a work-supplied dual Xeon 56 core, 192GB RAM, 8TB SSD monster Dell with 2x27" screens on my desk which is used for my day job compiling a large proprietary C++ application. That's the right kind of machine for that job, and I wouldn't do it on a laptop by choice.

But for my personal stuff, while I'd previously set up my laptops as a secondary device to be used when travelling, when I got the 2014 MBP, I deliberately upgraded to the 15" screen, maxed out the CPU, and got a big SSD so I could make it my primary device. And that's been a model I have liked a lot.

I don't travel anywhere near as much these days, and could probably revert to a desktop instead and just access that remotely via Tailscale when I travel, but ... I like having everything in the device in my hand.

But it's a good point: I should probably reconsider.
Does not work. I happen to know a fair bit about mdutil and the like and confirmed that does exactly nothing for my particular issue. A full Spotlight index reset works temporarily, but after a while it just conks out again.

Also, I vaguely remember there being a way to _order_ results, not just disable them.
One of the things that’s hard about these discussions is that behind them is an obscene amount of money and hype. She’s not responding to realists like you. She’s responding to the bulls. The people saying these tools will be able to run the world by the end of this year, maybe next.

And that’s honestly unfair to you since you do awesome realistic and level headed work with LLM.

But I think it’s important when having discussions to understand the context within which they are occurring.

Without the bulls she might very well be saying what you are in your last paragraph. But because of the bulls the conversation becomes this insane stratified nonsense.
It's more expensive to replace old windows with triple-pane as most window frames aren't thick enough. But it's definitely not a luxury.
> Letting someone go that is supposed to yield to you is an example of this.

We call them "niceholes". In Portland, it's a major problem.

https://youtu.be/0rpdQvuAnqM
I feel this is an broad oversimplification.

When looking at the context of a given text, use of certain words or punctuation, can very well indicate AI use.

The "original" example was delve. There is no doubt that AI (did, or still does) use this word at a significantly higher frequency than the average person. I would say the same about em dashes.

When browsing a Reddit thread about a video game, if you encounter numerous comments written perfectly, especially those containing indicators like em dashes, the word delve, or similar language, it certainly can raise the question: am I genuinely seeing comments from users who write this way in this specific context, or is this content more likely produced by an LLM?
As a diligent user of ALT+0151 for many years on Windoes systems, I can contradict that it is a sign of LLM writing — perhaps in combination with other factors it can be used to increase the likelihood of LLM authorship, but alone, nope.
Xays by definition don't look at skin color. Do chest x-rays of black women reveal that there's something different about their chests than white or asian women? That doesn't pass my non doctor sniff test, but someone can correct me (no sarcasm intended).
Billionaires and their right to make a profit.
We implemented a low-power wireless sensing device on a microcontroller using asynchronous coroutines in C to replace eight state machines. It was a dream. Every operation process was clearly "linear" in readability while overlapping radio frequency hopping, sensor power-up/down sequencing, sense state, transmission, firmware update, etc. All while going into low-power mode until the next event to process.
If you have a chance to chat with the staff again, I notice their marketing language says "Nearly perfect spectrum matching with daylight" - but they don't publish a Spectral Similarity Index. They only claim a (relatively low) CRI of 90+.

Edit: In other materials, they claim a very high CRI of 95+. Also the advertised wattage is sometimes 400W, other times 500W.
Not gonna happen, but man it'd be great to see a non-profit swoop in, buy the data and destroy it all (after giving the users a chance to backup their own personal copy of the data).
I loaded the CSVs from the release_2025_03_27 folder into a SQLite database so I could explore them in Datasette Lite:

cd /tmp
git clone https://huggingface.co/datasets/Anthropic/EconomicIndex
cd EconomicIndex
git lfs pull
cd release_2025_03_27
for file in *.csv; do sqlite-utils insert data.db "${file%.*}" "$file" --csv -d; done

https://lite.datasette.io/?metadata=https://gist.github.com/...
Under New Zealand's Crimes Act, all unauthorised access is illegal. This has been used in court to cover places where someone was not pre-approved, rather than just a policy that gives an implied acceptance. It has also been used where someone has accidentally gained access via insecured systems.

I would not be so confident in stating that they did not break the law.
That article made me shudder with echos of having what we used to call “beeper madness” back in the 1990s. After a while of being on a roster of on call weeks, anything that beeped would make you reach for that pager on your belt.

As a kid the first few weeks were kind of exciting as it felt like you had been elevated to a new level of responsibility. Once that wore off it was obvious what a cage it was.

I don’t miss pagers.
I don't feel like they ever used forced obsolescence with Mac's. When they dropped support for the latest OS on your machine it was usually because it couldn't run it. I recently updated some older Mac's and even a couple of OS's before support was dropped things got really sluggish. I imagine with the Apple Silicon machines the OS support will stretch longer than it has on the Intel ones. Maybe the higher prices are a hint they expect people to keep the machines in use for longer than before.
What i've been using: Install https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose and you can then press AltGr then three hyphens to insert one. or if you're on Linux just search for "compose key".
Thanks for reading!

I get the sense that it's the topic more than the title. I think there's a lot of bad writing about blogging, so people have an allergic reaction.

Is there an alternative title you suggest?
If you don't mind sharing, how did it happen?
Completely agree. As is, Cursor and ChatGPT and even Bing Image Create (for free generation of shoddy ideas, styles, concepts, etc) are very useful to me. In fact, it would suit me if everything stalled at this point rather than improve to the point that everyone can catch up in how they use AI.
Sounds interesting! Those tools preserve the original document's style — do the documents you sign follow a specific legal format or design that needs to be maintained?
We see this, time and again, in the synthesizer world: menu-diving.

Its such a dreadful, awful paradigm - to scroll endlessly through some misguided attempt at 'user interface', only to be deflated and demotivated within minutes.

Its just so un-musical to have to be scrolling through endless blocks of text, only occasionally rewarded with tepid iconography or bleak fonts more appropriate for a dishwasher. Oh, you can only afford two buttons and don't have a GPIO to spare for proper scroll wheels? FUCK YOU. You deserve duct tape and LED-matrix after-thoughts, peon synth purchasers.

Sure, there are plenty who attempt to address the pain - Teenage Engineerings' particularly ridiculous and utterly useless overpriced and irrelevat graphics springs immediately to mind. Arturia's tepid attempts, also. The major players? Forget it, those guys are wedded at the neck to their type systems and rigid frugality. A 240x200 OLED does not a quality, classy experience, make. I'm looking at you, Axel Hartmann - just give up and make a living designing cigarette machines, for fucks sake.

But, as a result, for us synth nerds: its 40 years of dreck and muck. No wonder this world embraces the Eurorack!

Won't someone in the synthesizer world - please, just anyone at this point - take those endless lists of soulless parameters, and wang an utterly creative, truly desirable interface on it - something that not only makes the operator factually musical, but interesting to watch while they're doing it.

(Disclaimer: have tried and failed. Synthesizer designers shouldn't be influenced by bureaucrats and bean-counters - but they always are. We get it - you can't afford to innovate, the BOM is God.)
So the main advantage is that LLMs can type faster than you?
The click baited title is “I genuinely don’t understand how some people are still bullish about LLM”.

I guess the author can understand now?

When something was impossible only 3 years ago, barely worked 2 years ago, but works well now, there are very good reasons to be bullish, I suppose?

The hypes cut both way.
5% of the population having a 3x crash rate is still only about 15% of crashes.
Pardon my ignorance but couldn't this also be an act of anthropomorphisation on human part?

If an LLM generates tokens after "What do you call someone who studies the stars?" doesn't it mean that those existing tokens in the prompt already adjusted the probabilities of the next token to be "an" because it is very close to earlier tokens due to training data? The token "an" skews the probability of the next token further to be "astronomer". Rinse and repeat.
Probably depends on how you define “news”, but even though it only has to be 51% I’d say that’s probably not true.
The Effects of Baduanjin Qigong on Postural Stability
They need to somehow start marketing effectively to gamers, because the GPU in your M1 Max is shit. Sure, it’s fine for mostly-2D UIs and the occasional WebGL widget, but for AAA gaming it’s just dogshit.
So which competitor can drive 2000 miles without disengagements in any conditions in any part of the USA?
I modify the keymap to use AltGr+dash as em dash. Very easy in Linux with xmodmap, bit more complicated in Windows with the Keyboard Layout Creator.
I believe sugar is added to sliced bread primarily as a preservative and to retain moisture. When fresh I've never noticed much of a difference between "no sugar added" and comparable sliced bread with corn syrup or honey, but the former goes stale more quickly.

The economic pressures are at odds because as people eat less bread shelf stability, both at the grocery store and at home, becomes increasingly important to maintaining a desirable yet competitively priced product. People don't want added sugar and are more carb conscious generally, but what they dislike even more, without realizing it, is stale bread. So you get a positive feedback loop that turns people off of bread, I think.
It's dismissive to assign my argument to a Internet argument (your fallacy) rather than address its merits. I'm not wasting time on defending my argument against your fabrications about it; I stand by what I actually say. And wanting to be true and dismissing it is still dismissing it.

You don't know the outcome of the path not taken - lying, for example, also fails, much worse and much more often, and it fails in destroying your self-respect even when it 'succeeds' in some other narrow fashion.

Maybe you would have failed anyway. We all fail plenty. Being honest isn't usually sufficient - you need other skills and resources too. The skills and resources for being honest, IME, differ from those of liars - they take experience and failure to master, like any other sophisticated skils (including lying). Why not spend time mastering them? I promise it pays off far better - even when you fail spectacularly, you retain your self-respect, and you spend a lot less time doubting what you should do (though you still need to figure out how to do it effectively).

Whether the world - your world - is just or not is mainly up to you. You can't always succeed - liars don't get everything they want either - but you can have a big influence, on yourself and others. The world is what you make it.
Sveltekit excels at this out of the box. And it’s simpler/easier than vanilla, let alone anything React-based.
Are there some interesting public examples of where the FLS fails?
1. Customers don't know what cancelling is like before they buy a service. This isn't advertised, obviously.

2. Competing on being easy to cancel is a bad thing, actually. However wins that competition is losing money. That's why you see the competition go in the other direction. As in, who can make the shittiest cancellation interface (Planet Fitness, btw).

3. People who cancel a service are cancelling BECAUSE of the service. Why would they go back to a service they disliked enough to cancel, if the service stays exactly the same? They wouldn't. Meaning, "good cancellation" doesn't count for anything.

So it doesn't help you retain customers, it doesn't help you get back customers you lost, and it doesn't help you get new customers.
In Cincinnati it's anywhere from 10-25 over. The city has been sprinkling speedbumps everywhere, and traffic is faster and more dangerous everywhere there's a speedbump.
As usual, by having 1% of the users pay 100x the rate, because $60/y aka $5/mo is nothing to them. That is, identify well-moneyed users and offer them something substantially-looking but trivial to support. Twitter/X's blue marks are a perfect example.
So tired of seeing this guy. LinkedIns algorithm has decided my feed needs to be incessantly bombarded with his marketing rather than the updates from my connections that I actually want LinkedIn for. Is there any way to turn off non followed people entirely on my feed?
I'm done with macOS, I've migrated to Linux for my general purpose computing. With every new release of macOS, Gatekeeper is becoming harder and harder to bypass, increasing Apple's control over what software can be run on macOS, forcing apps to be signed with an Apple Developer ID. While I'm happy they are taking security seriously, I'm seriously creeped out that macOS sends hashes of every executable I run to their cloud. It's starting to feel like a broader move away from the openness of personal computing and towards a more controlled, appliance-like software experience.

When Sequoia eliminated the ability to override Gatekeeper by control-clicking, it became clear to me that Apple is now employing a frog boiling strategy towards their ultimate goal -- more control of the software you can run on their hardware.
I have read her in the past and can't say there were world's of meaning between -'s. Can you link an example? I looked again and couldn't see any obvious ones. Generally she just completely abused the -. Does she even use a comma once? lol
>Anything else is not a "real" signature, as far as I'm concerned.

Courts don't really care about ECDSA signatures or x509 certificates. They readily accept faxed documents, which are literally low resolution scans and are trivial to forge. Moreover "real" digital signatures still need key management, which is basically an unsolved problem in countries without government issued e-ids. What's the practical difference between docusign attesting that jonh smith signed a document on some web interface, and john smith signing a document with a s/MIME certificate issued by docusign?
Not necessarily for business, but it can be tedious to understand documents right before signing them.
I've been using Macs since Mac OS 9, and Snow Leopard was indeed very good. It remains my favorite version of Mac OS. I actually think it was Snow Leopard that started the rush of developers to Mac as _the_ platform to use.
Hmm. Notably Farmers NZ recently had an extended unplanned outage, and has a 4 star app
I suspect this is only true if you are lousy at writing code or have a very slow typing speed
https://esolangs.org/wiki/Among_Us

Fun
I'm tired of people bashing LLMs. AI is so useful in my daily work that I can't understand where these people are coming from. Well, whatever...

As you said, examples where I wouldn't expect LLMs to be good at from people who dismiss the scenarios where LLMs are great at. I don't want to convince anyone, to be honest - I just want to say they are incredibly useful for me and a huge time saver. If people don't want to use LLMs, it's fine for me as I'll have an edge over them in the market. Thanks for the cash, I guess.
I'm just gonna say it: this does not matter. Just use whatever you want. If you're afraid that someone is going to think less of you for it: the people who matter won't.
Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident (1943)
A year or so ago I read through one smallish section (basically function calls) and filed issues for the problems I found that were easy to write up crisply.

They fixed the easy bugs:

https://github.com/ferrocene/specification/issues/453
https://github.com/ferrocene/specification/issues/454
https://github.com/ferrocene/specification/issues/455
https://github.com/ferrocene/specification/issues/458
https://github.com/ferrocene/specification/issues/459
https://github.com/ferrocene/specification/issues/460
https://github.com/ferrocene/specification/issues/461
https://github.com/ferrocene/specification/issues/463
https://github.com/ferrocene/specification/issues/464

But they didn't try to fill the gaps:

https://github.com/ferrocene/specification/issues/462
https://github.com/ferrocene/specification/issues/465
https://github.com/ferrocene/specification/issues/466

There were a lot more places where I had notes saying "it needs to say more about X" that I couldn't face trying to file issues for.

I think that part of the spec wasn't any worse than average.
> What if there's someone behind you and you can't brake?

The obvious answer is that you brake, and the person behind you is forced to brake as well. You can always brake.

But knowing how many asshole drivers are out there, what I predict happens next is that the driver behind you decides that you're a moron slowing down for no reason and then gets into the left lane to pass you, putting themselves in the gap that you were planning on going into. They ignored your turn signal (You are signaling, right?) that would have told them that you were getting out of their way.
Mapping the Future of Metamaterials
> A cryptosystem is incoherent if its implementation is distributed by the same entity which it purports to secure against.

I don’t see why this would be true. The real problem with the cited examples is that every program downloads the latest implementation every time you want to use it. You could download the software once and then verify it is safe (by auditing the code etc) without any problem, and the security of the channel you get it over doesn’t matter. The real problem is that you can’t freeze the state of the application but the server can modify the code that’s running every time you use it.
This sounds like a lot of actions without any verification that the LLM didn't misinterpret things or just make something up.
A while ago there was this weird GitHub on using ms paint as an ide. I think this project should be paired together.
Apple: Lumon Terminal Pro
There is another option. The on-call person just does a deliberately piss-poor job of resolving the problem. I mean, they resolve it but they make sure it takes a hour longer than necessary.

What are they going to do, fire you? If they make life hard for you, then get another job. The shoddier your work outside of your normal hours, the better. You can have quality, speed and cheapness, but you can only pick two.