skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> In fact we do know how good doctors and lawyers are at their jobs, and the answer is "not very." Medical negligence claims are a huge problem. Claims agains lawyers are harder to win - for obvious reasons - but there is plenty of evidence that lawyers cannot be presumed competent.

This paragraph makes little sense. A negligence claim is based on a deviation from some reasonable standard, which is essentially a proxy for the level of care/service that most practitioners would apply in a given situation. If doctors were as regularly incompetent as you are trying to argue then the standard for negligence would be lower because the overall standard in the industry would reflect such incompetence. So the existence of negligence claims actually tells us little about how good a doctor is individually or how good doctors are as a group, just that there is a standard that their performance can be measured against.

I think most people would agree with you that medical negligence claims are a huge problem, but I think that most of those people would say the problem is that so many of these claims are frivolous rather than meritorious, resulting in doctors paying more for malpractice insurance than necessary and also resulting in doctors asking for unnecessarily burdensome additional testing with little diagnostic value so that they don’t get sued.

I won’t defend lawyers. They’re generally scum.
How to land a job and master corporate bullsh*t [video]
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/3FS?tab=readme-ov-file#3-kvca...

KVCache is a technique used to optimize the LLM inference process. It avoids redundant computations by caching the key and value vectors of previous tokens in the decoder layers. The top figure demonstrates the read throughput of all KVCache clients (1×400Gbps NIC/node), highlighting both peak and average values, with peak throughput reaching up to 40 GiB/s
i refuse to care about this lowercase letters are all i will ever use i see no possible reason to use the other symbols

Suit yourself, but if you refuse to learn basic grammar you will be treated like you are stupid and uneducated. Like it or not, presentation matters. Getting the basics right, including things like spelling, grammar, etc, shows a basic attention to detail without which your services will likely do more harm than good.
Discussions (176 points, 1 day ago, 55 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43485577

(149 points, 1 day ago, 25 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43487465

(105 points, 1 day ago, 56 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43488916
There is a section about it on Wikipedia PS/2 page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/2_port#Conversion_between_P...

And the page it referenced:

https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/reference-manual/DRM014.pdf#page...

In Page.11, it show the algorithm to distinguish PS/2 and USB, based on USB D+ and PS/2 clock signal.
> For some tasks they're still next to useless, and people who do those tasks understandably don't get the hype.

This is because programmers talk on the forums that programmers scrape to get data to train the models.
no, llms are not useful according to this thread. how will we ever verify it's output? it will never be a billion dollar business
> Take back what now?

Sorry, it was late and you indeed mentioned that it wasn't making it "high level". My bad. Unfortunately, "high level" is quite subjective and I'm not willing to put the time to discuss if something falls under this definition or not.

> Why not admit that you can't write the code in question? This act isn't fooling anyone.

I asked you to clarify what exactly you want to see (which you didn't quote, even though you quoted basically everything else in my reply). In this particular thread here, there was no mention of age, that was in one of the other threads. So before I write code for something that you don't want to you

Again, please explain the requirements for the code again. What exactly do you want to see written in this style?
> 4. Content that my friends share from pages/groups I don't follow

There's more to it than that. I live in the US, and grew up in Australia. My friends are not sharing articles on flights in Africa (not sponsored), nor discussions on HVAC and low voltage wiring (also not sponsored), and beyond.

There's literally a fifth category, "Suggested Posts".

I blame Facebook for that, not my friends.
It you put out enough light, you can diffuse it more, such as by bouncing off the ceiling or a light-colored wall.

You can also use photography modifiers, like the various kinds of reflectors. Even white photo lighting umbrellas (which you shine a bright light through) help a lot.

Whether or not you add diffusing, you might want to make your light source mountable on a photo studio light stand, so that you can position and aim it however you want (just like you would with a studio strobe or hotlight).
I frequently see news stories where attorneys get in trouble for using LLMs, because they cite hallucinated case law (e.g.). If they didn't get caught, that would look the same as using them "productively".
It really depends on the task. Like Sabine, I’m operating on the very frontier of a scientific domain that is extremely niche. Every single LLM out there is worse than useless in this domain. It spits out incomprehensible garbage.

But ask it to solve some leet code and it’s brilliant.
That's not really true. Just the entertainment value alone is already causing OpenAI to rate limit its systems, and they're buying up significant amounts of NVIDIA's capacity, and NVIDIA itself is buying up significant portions of the entire world's chip-making budget. Even if just limited to entertainment, the value is immense, apparently.
They completely ignore "Suggested Posts" which are a full ... 10-20% of my feed and has nothing to do with my friends, just FB pushing content.
The Isosceles blog post[0] on the initial webp exploit, linked by the article, says:

> Google's OSS-Fuzz project has fuzzed hundreds of open source libraries for many years now, including libwebp and many other image decoding libraries. It's possible to look in full detail at the code coverage for OSS-Fuzz projects, and it's clear that lossless support for WebP was being fuzzed extensively… In fact one of the first things that Google did after the WebP 0day was fixed was to release a new fuzzer specifically for the Huffman routines in WebP. I tried running this fuzzer for a bit (with a bit of backporting required due to API changes) and it predictably did not find CVE-2023-4863… This bug also shows that we have an over-reliance on fuzzing for security assurance of complex parser code. Fuzzing is great, but we know that there are many serious security issues that aren't easy to fuzz.

So perhaps it’s not so simple as throwing a fuzzer at it.

[0] https://blog.isosceles.com/the-webp-0day/
I've always wanted an array or object with range keys like:
arr[0–2] = 123;
if(arr[1.5555]>122){}
game recognize game
> We're several years in now, and have lots of A:B comparisons to study across orgs that allowed and prohibited AI assistants. Is one of those groups running away with massive productivity gains?

You mean... two years in? Where was the internet 2 years into it?
Bearish/bullish are relative terms, it describes how you feel about X as opposed to how the rest of the world/market feel.
I'm a senior engineer with 20 years of experience and mostly find all of the AI bs for the last couple of years to be occasionally helpful for general stuff but absolutely incompetent when I need help mildly complicated tasks.

I did have a eureka moment the other day with deepseek and a very obscure bug I was trying to tackle. One api query was having a very weird, unrelated side effect. I loaded up cursor with a very extensive prompt and it actually figured out the call path I hadn't been able to track down.

Today, I had a very simple task that eventually only took me half an hour to manually track. But I started with cursor using very similar context as the first example. It just kept repeatedly dreaming up non-existent files in the PR and making suggestions to fix code that doesn't exist.

So what's the worth to my company of my very expensive time? Should I spend 10,20,50 percent of my time trying to get answers from a chatbot, or should I just use my 20 years of experience to get the job done?
Until there is a correction, which inevitably does happen.
If you’re hiring a dev to work on your Shopify site, it’s most likely because you want to do something non-standard. By the time the dev gets done with it, it will be a special unique snowflake.

If your site has users, it will evolve. I’ve seen users take what was a simple trucking job posting form and repurpose an unused “trailer type” field to track the status of the job req.

Every single app that starts out as a low code/no code solution given enough time and users will evolve beyond that low code solution. They may keep using it, but they’ll move beyond being able to maintain it exclusively through a low code interface.
Nvidia is trading below its historical PE from pre-AI times at this point. This is just on confirmed revenue, and its profitability keeps increasing. NVIDIA is undervalued right now
The comment above is not about being special, it is about proper typography that is still everywhere around us: books, serious websites, anything done by real designers. Those people had to try hard to miss all of that.

No, it is not “politically incorrect” to call people lacking curiosity and/or education like you see them.

No, someone's personal preferences or transitory fashions are not automatically promoted to the holy reference for the whole world.
Yeah, I heard good things about it. I do a lot of gamey development stuff and x64 makes that easier. But Asahi seems to be catching up a lot recently, maybe I should look at it again! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41799068
Right. That was also on behalf of a foreign country. Like this.
Pinterest is always a dead end for me. I don't have an account, so I can't actually access anything that the link is taking me to. It's a giant turd in my search results.
You seem to be under the misconception that this is a new phenomenon.

“In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.”

- Benjamin Graham, 1949
> I have to imagine the occurance of eating misophonia is much lower there.

Anecdotes suggest nope, which is a bummer given the cultural norms you mentioned.
I'm a fan of both HN and DF. If I assume my worldview is accurate, that both are above-board, then the only explanation I have left is flamewar detection. Your links get too many comments—plus some flags sprinkled in there—too fast relative to upvotes. So, your posts get too much engagement.

There is a twisted logic to that algo, esp. for a "News For Nerds. Stuff That Matters"-flavored attitude, and esp. for a site that's trying to be as efficiently managed as possible.

Plus, Scott Alexander noted recently a decline in Substack due to deboosting on X, but also that just too many people are now Substacking, many of whom are good, and a lot who are just clones. And on the Dithering about "Rotten", you and Ben both concur that it feels like a while since either of you went viral. So as soon as a solo blogger blows up, the system quickly co-opts that blend of content into other media channels. i.e., Indie generally doesn't last.

I did a YoY look at your rankings:

2007: #50

2008: #20

2009: #3

2010: #1

2011: #2

2012: #7

2013: #34

2014: #17

2015: #568

2016: #184

2017: #8

2018: #69

2019: #86

2020: #8

2021: #20

2022: #406

2023: #98

2024: #133

2025: #53

(10/9/20XX – 10/09/20XX)

https://refactoringenglish.com/tools/hn-popularity/?start=20...

Something weird definitely happened in 2015/2016, for sure (maybe the start of the anti-engagement algo). But your blog was also crazy popular between the iPhone's release and Steve Jobs' death. That was probably the most dynamic time in Apple's history (post-Sculley), with plenty of controversy worthy of exacting critique (Antennagate, etc.)
I've switched all my scripts to include their own dependencies, and it works like a charm.

Only problem I haven't been able to solve is how to convince my IDE (PyCharm) to run all scripts through uv before executing them / debugging them.

PyCharm does have uv support, but from what I can see only for uv managed projects, not for individual scripts with embedded requirements.
Just as I suspected, fandom.com appears on the top "lowered" list.

So many games have moved to different wiki sites but because of SEO the Fandom.com wikis still appear near the top of "normal" search results, unfortunately.
> But that is unnecessary in Go as it believes that values should always be useful – which means you don't need to even consider the error to use the value.

Is this true? Are values always useful? You shouldn't even need to consider the error?

For example, if GPS errored while calling an Uber, is it useful to ignore the error and instead display the Uber driver as being in the middle of the ocean? https://www.reddit.com/r/uberdrivers/comments/zjpv69/well_ho...
I got involved with bitcoin in 2010. I co-founded a bitcoin unicorn. It is exactly because of this experience that I’m salty on blockchain.
I started using OpenOffice a couple decades ago when I got tired of pirating the market leader. Not wanting to start any religious wars, but I still haven't made the leap to Libre.
Vouch for this approach ... not just in ml/dl but as a general way of learning things in life.

resources like this are useful, in an academic setting. lets not forget we all forget 50% or more of what we learn about 20 minutes afterwards unless we consistently remind ourselves of what we learn.

unless others prove me wrong using personal anecdotes.
How many companies train on data that contains 'i don't know' responses. Have you ever talked with a toddler / young child? You need to explicitly teach children to not bull shit. At least I needed to teach mine.
The ACA bans health insurance companies from charging men and women different rates for the same coverage. Before this, Women would have higher premiums because, on average, they use their coverage more. This is very easy to look up.

I can cite the ACA, but you can not cite anything that says AI training sets are biased against women.
Does he keep the money now?
"we need to talk about your on call volunteering"

"Really? I volunteered for 15 hours of on call"

"Well, 15 is the minimum ok? Now it's up to you if you just want to do the bare minimum, or uh..well look at Brian for example, he volunteered for 37 hours of on call"
>Anyone who doesn't understand this either isn't required to use to utility it provides or has no idea how to prompt it correctly.

Almost every counter-criticism of LLMs almost boil down to

1. you're holding it wrong

2. Well, I use it $DAYJOB and it works great for me! (And $DAYJOB is software engineering).

I'm glad your wife was able to save 2 hours of work, but forgive me if that doesn't translate to the trillion dollar valuation OpenAI is claiming. It's strange you don't see the inherent irony in your post. Instead of your wife just directly uploading the dataset and a prompt, she first has to prompt it to write code. There are clear limitations and it looks like LLMs are stuck at some sort of wall.
Oh yeah, I always had that plugin that removed it from Google results. What trash.
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Yeah, it did. And uncovered a local timber supply place I wasn't aware of, with decent pricing. I'm not expecting a final quote, but quick ways to compare and consider variations. I've used it in the same way to compare cladding costs/work for lining a building.
Couldn't agree more. Moving a file from one folder to another has a huge delay. Dragging files for spring loaded folders doesn't work well anymore.

As a user since System 7 it's so sad to see.
This was discussed somewhat recently in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42855258
Deliberately breaking the system is different from taking your sweet time fixing an issue.
Show HN: One-Click GA/GTM Tracking Plan Generator for SaaS Teams
A scholarship only for Blacks: https://www.foxnews.com/media/george-floyd-scholarship-viola...

A scholarship only for underrepresented minorities (The scholarship specifically denotes “African American, Latinx, and/or Native American” as groups the institution considers to be “underrepresented.”): https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2877847/emory-medica...

From the UK, schools reject a donation to make a scholarship for white boys: https://www.bbc.com/news/education-50947271

A scholarship that excludes whites (the article links to the government website for that scholarship, if you don't trust them): https://freebeacon.com/campus/illinois-runs-a-scholarship-th...

Small business grants that exclude whites (again, the article links government sources): https://citizenwatchreport.com/pennsylvania-begins-rolling-o...
Well yes, but we've actually migrated to Git now. ;-)
I think it could be possible if you're using thinking tokens or via function calls - decide all URLs that will be mentioned while thinking (don't display this to the user), delay for a few seconds to test they exist, push that into the prompt history and then output what the user sees. But it's a bit of an edge case really and would probably annoy users with the extra latency.
A package manager that is a quick and snappy binary that doesn't need a big runtime, unlike most of the Python tools.
Ending sentences with prepositions is and had always been fine. It has never been a serious rule of grammar that you may not end a sentence with a preposition. It does sometimes make a sentence sound better to rewrite it so that it doesn't end with one though. For example, "do not use a preposition to end a sentence with" sounds awkward to my ears, probably because you deliberately crafted the sentence to end with a preposition even though that is not naturally what you'd end that sentence with. (The previous sentence doesn't sound awkward to me, interestingly.)

Getting "much" and "many" right is completely different. They mean different things. Confusing them makes you sound stupid. Less vs fewer is the same. It often doesn't matter but in some cases it really grates on the ears (eg "there wasnt much people there" just sounds awful).

Dashes are not in the same category. They are orthographical conventions. They aren't really grammar. They are more like spelling. You can spell things wrong and say it doesn't matter because spelling is arbitrary and you can use the wrong dashes too, but it makes you look either uncaring or ignorant. If you want to give a good first impression, learn the basic conventions of written English and follow them.
It's worse than that.

I see people say, "Look how great this is," and show me an example, and the example they show me is just not great. We're literally looking at the same thing, and they're excited that this LLM can do a college grads's job to the level of a third grader, and I'm just not excited about that.
You're funny, but "the DEA" is "a FBI", not "the FBI", as you said yourself.
ChatGPT in Chrome and the Windows app can also output midi!

“/Canvas make a web app that outputs twinkle twinkle little star over all midi outputs”

You can also use Canvas to create a synthesizer. “/Canvas use tone.js to create a chill sine wave synth that receives midi from all channels.”
"Bullish" I like these tools and they give me great power and flexibility.

vs

"Bullish" The LLM is going to revolutionise human behaviour and thought and bring about a new golden age.

Former is justifiable, the latter is just reinforcing the bubble.
In my country if you are on employee agreement, you are just paid for overtime. My company never made any problems with that payment. And surprise...there were always people who chose to take the additional hours. I was often among them - the additional money/vacation was just too nice to resist.
That's precisely how language works in most cases, and there does not seem to be any reason to think it is different in this one.

Although if you look at the trajectory of goalposts since https://web.archive.org/web/20140327014303/https://en.wikipe... , I could concede the point, that people discarded the obvious definition in the light of recent events.
The groups of people that "require parking" are largely different to the groups of people that "complain about housing affordability".

It's no surprise that complex issues will have various factions arguing about "their happiness".

It does seem like many countries are beyond the point of further conversation and need positive impactful action regarding housing affordability. Or even just any action at all so we can tell if it is the correct action...
Where the sidewalk shed ends: NYC to pass 'major' scaffolding reforms
This monster took advantage of trillion dollar companies?!
The fact that people call them Markov chains when they clearly haven't used the early chat bots that were dumb Markov chains pisses me off.
Thanks for the reply, that makes sense. jq syntax is one of those things that I’m just familiar enough with to remember what’s possible but not how to do it, so I could definitely see an LLM being useful for that.

Maybe one of my problems is that I tend to jump into writing simple code or tests without actually having the end point clearly in mind. Often that works out pretty well. When it doesn’t, I’ll take a step back and think things through. But when I’m in the midst of it, it feels like being interrupted almost, to go figure out how to say what I want in English.

Will definitely keep toying with it to see where I can find some utility.
I've been writing for years and never used en or em dashes before LLMs.
I mean despite constant economic growth, something which fundamentally depends on increased energy consumption, the US has decreased emissions per capita by 30% since 1970:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1049662/fossil-us-carbon...

This despite the fact that energy use has increased by about 60% during that time:

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/

How do you look at these facts and what you see in them is "The billionaires are destroying our planet and don't care?"

How do you not see 30% less emissions on 60% more energy usage as a big win for the environment that should be celebrated?

If you look at the rest of the world it generally follows the same trend, with the massive, massive exception of China:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita

All this is not to let anyone off the hook - I've long said if there's any one piece of the emission reductions pie that's missing, it's political action against China as a dirty exporter that we've all come to depend on and offshore our dirty industry to. Now we are at least getting some kind of action on that front, even if it's a President and a justification that you don't like.

But my real point here is, I'm so sick of these Doomer takes that are just rhetoric about why the world is awful and you need to blame someone convenient. When the reality is that there has been enormous action and enormous progress all over the planet. Developed countries have cleaned up their act in a big way, sure they may have more work to do, but the next big frontier is to solve the China emissions issue in a way other than just moving all the dirty industry to India, and sorry to say this is not something that a random billionaire can fix overnight.
It's always perplexing when people talk about LLMs as "it", as if there's only one model out there, and they're all equally accurate.

FWIW, here's 4o writing a selection sort: https://chatgpt.com/share/67e60f66-aacc-800c-9e1d-303982f54d...
It's wikipedia in the 00s all over again being preached by roughly the same age and social demographic.