skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A hard problem with nothing but bad options.

Feels like our choices are either to reduce incarceration, which is cheaper and less harsh on drug users, but does nothing to reduce drug use in a given community, or to continue to arrest drug users, which removes them from the community, but is expensive and morally questionable.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

The real solution probably takes decades to see results and requires changes in multiple different places to generally reduce the likelihood that a society produces drug users in the first place, which given the current cultural and political environment feels impossible.
> If you lose 8 hrs to weirdness, but save 10 hrs somewhere else, then yeah it does pay for itself.

> My argument is that it doesn't need to improve overall productivity much to have positive ROI.

That makes sense.

Problem is, there exists a paradox when relying upon LLM's to make software solutions:

People use them to "save time."

Saving time by outsourcing understanding to LLM's
circumvents learning.

Without learning, the tool becomes a crutch.

When the crutch breaks, there is nothing behind it to fall
back onto.
Forbes "30 under 30" actually has up to 600 people a year in 20 categories, and that's just in the USA. Add in international lists and the number rises to well over 1000. Since 2011 there have probably been, what, 10-15 thousand total "honorees"? 3-5 of them going to prison is probably well below average.
I wonder if Netflix will offer MPS as a service in the future for shows that are not on Netflix.
Windows on ARM on a Smart Watch
GlobalFoundries, Taiwanese chipmaker UMC consider merger
That you don’t film on two or three wheels at a time
Yeah fair call. There's always some edge cases which is why I'm not the one making public policy. Although I don't think they sell the policy very well. There would be other ways to spend money for better dental health, NZ really doesn't subsidize dental care much compared to European countries.
I would like to read about the difference in the definitions of "freedom of speech" and "freedom of expressing one's opinion" with consideration of applicable case law. Right now, I don't see any real difference in how this is adjudicated in courts.
You completely missed what I was saying.
Have the AI maintain a document (a local file or in canvas) with project goals, structure, setup instructions, current state, change log, todos, caveats, etc. You might need to remind it to keep it up-to-date, but I find this approach quite useful.
On the one hand, if you plug in a power adapter that doesn't provide enough power to most anything, the powered device will malfunction.

On the other hand, it's often the case with high-powered devices that power adapters that won't provide enough power simply won't fit in the receptacles of devices that need more power.

(On the OTHER other hand, it's very rare [0] that a power adapter will ship with a cable that isn't rated for the load that the adapter is rated for.)

[0] Well, unless you're buying drop-shipped trash from Amazon... but in that case, the whole damn assembly is probably a serious fire and/or electrocution hazard.
FWIW, that doesn't appear to be a "hasty rebrand" - Oracle has had this distinction for a long time.

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/enterprise-performance...
Why is it acceptable for front end code to be of lower quality than the rest? Your software is only as good as the lowest quality part.
Well, what did you expect? And what happened to "we're deporting criminals"? Not only are they deporting non-criminals, they're sending them to a prison camp in El Salvador! That's not deportation!

This is exactly why we have the due process this administration is intent on violating. How soon until we start snatching up citizens in the same way?
I think it is true across political lines and sides of the issues.

IMO, a big part of it is also driven by attempts to be inclusive in media and educational representation. You get your TV and movies with the obligatory black, gay, and trans characters. If media reflected real life demographics, most of these wouldnt exist. Blacks are 12% of the US population, gays are ~5%, and trans people are ~1% depending on the survey. When surveyed, people think they are closer to 40%, 25%, and 20% of the population because they are so often overrepresented.
If I'd have to give you one piece of unsolicited advice, I'd tell you to seek some therapy so that you can overcome whatever trauma you had with front-end development that's clearly clouding your judgement. That is, if I'd give you that advice. Since I'm not, I'll only say that that's extremely disrespectful with everyone doing good work in user-facing application.
At one point I began to suspect that, but realized it was just the events themselves, reported in a straightforward fashion, were making me outraged.

Since then, I have a personal filter that I apply to all journalism, which is to avoid articles of the form: "X is outraged by Y" (or horrified, shocked, etc). I don't need meta-outrage. With my filter turned on, I'm quite satisfied with the G's journalism.
I'm having a hard time understanding precisely what is cool about the business of defrauding users and creators/businesses.
That could be the worst thing that happened, but it's exceedingly far from the only thing that happened.
Sure. Most of the third party plugins are a joke that barely work or have serious UI problem and the core is like amateur work finally stitched together to work.

Recently Stalwart got a grant to work on adding WebDAV, CalDAV and CardDAV and I’m looking forward for their progress as they seem to be talented by the look of their email server implementation. Hopefully they can develop good client side software too if it’s in their scope but slightly worried that their scope is getting rather big to be a replacement of the Exchange environment.

https://stalw.art/blog/nlnet-grant-collaboration/
Looking forward to see the next non-Trump administration (not that there will be one while he's alive) send him to an Iranian prison due to an "Administrative Error" due to forgetting his "protected status".
Yes, the Golden State killer. Noteworthy for some here claiming DNA data is "worthless"
Ask HN: Product folks, what are your biggest pain points with collaboration?
He wants the Chinese leadership to doubt his intentions. He puts a premium in flexibility and sees no advantage in telegraphing to the Chinese his future plans. One of his take-aways from his turn in power is that obscurity and unpredictability work to his advantage.

I think the author gives Trump too much credit. I don't think Trump knows what he wants to do with China and he is unpredictable because he doesn't. Trump flip flops. He's chaotic in his personality. He's not chaotic because he sees it as an advantage.
My wife's job is doing something similar, but without the API (not exactly a game, but game-adjacent)

I'm fairly sure their approach is going to collapse under its own weight, because LLM-only is a testing nightmare, and individual people writing these things have different knacks and styles that affect the entire interaction, so getting someone to come in and fix one that someone wrote a year ago but now they're not with the company is often going to approach the cost of re-doing it from scratch. Like, the next person might just not be able to get the right kind of behavior out of a session that's in a certain state, because it's not how they'd have written it into that state in the first place so they have trouble working with it, or the base prompt for it is not an approach they're used to (but if they touch it, everything breaks) and they'll burn just so very much time on it. Or they fix that one part that broke, but in a way that messes up subsequent interactions. Used this way, these things are fragile.

Using it to translate text into API calls and back is so much more sane.
That's the point, test the will of the people by "accidentally", though completely predictably, sending citizens to El Salvador for literally nothing, then move on to the admin's real enemies if the outcry isn't loud enough.
My favorite is these "vibe coding" situations that leave SQL injection and auth vulns because copy-paste ChatGPT. Never change.
"other people's bad work makes it pointless for me to do good work"
Good post. I recently built a choose-your-own-adventure style educational game at work for a hackathon.

Prompting an LLM to generate and run a game like this gave immediate impressive results, 10 mins after starting we had something that looked great. The problem was that the game sucked. It always went 3-4 rounds of input regardless. It constantly gave the game away because it had all the knowledge in the context, and it just didn't have the right flow at all.

What we ended up with at the end of the ~2 days was a whole bunch of Python orchestrating 11 different prompts, no cases where the user could directly interact with the LLM, only one case where we re-used context across multiple queries, and a bunch of (basic) RAG to hide game state from the LLM until the user caused it to be revealed through their actions.

LLMs are best used as small cogs in a bigger machine. Very capable, nearly magic cogs, but orchestrated by a lot of regular engineering work.
You don't have to let it set the tone for your golf.
Philly is known as the city of brotherly love so there was a movement on r/nfl to have it be named the brotherly shove. Never quite caught on though.

Often lost in the debate is the fact that the Philly QB is uncommonly athletic for his position and that Philly typically has a top-5 O-line on any given year.
I think it’s good to differentiate between ‘practice that makes a difference’ and ‘noodling about,’ in the words of my old teacher, which is practice that doesn’t concentrate on improving anything specific.

Is there a different word you’d choose? ‘Intentional’ is equally misused.
Runners tell you the same thing. Or bicyclists.
In every deal, there’s a lot of trust involved leading up to closing that neither side is full of shit. Post-close, though, there is just no world in which a scam like this is not going to be (eventually) found out, and obviously there are legal remedies for that.

I feel like this is, roughly speaking, the system working as intended: Minimal friction to avoid slowing down the 99.9% of deals that don’t involve fraud, and reasonable deterrence for the remaining 0.1%. I’m sure there are lots of ways to prevent deals like this from closing in the first place, but I doubt most are worth the cost.
He's got a point though front end development is in a completly ridiculous state right now
This isn't going to be a tool recommendation but a learning path one. I recommend choosing a project to work on and then developing it using LLM assisted programming. The more niche and unique the problem, the less likely there's already a solution, and the more likely that the vast training data with a LLM will help you with that niche.

Ideally, you should try out all the tools. Each of them have advantages and disadvantages for each problem within a project. You might find that mixing and matching LLM apps gives you more expertise and skill over just sticking to your favorite.
Selling off your data privacy... duhhh. :crying:
A little bit of googling tells me that “Nitrile finger cots” exist, that only cover your fingers.
He isn't a US citizen, he did have protected status and, if ever deported, was not supposed to be deported to El Salvador. He fled it in 2011 to escape gangs.
>With systemd the same file syntax and management works for services, timers, mount points, networking, name resolution, lightweight containers, virtual machines. You literally have to write one parser and serialize to ini.

There is no "syntax", it's all just key=value pairs, and all the subsystems have their own set of keys/directives, and the values have their own mini-DSLs. Things that end in "Sec" (for "seconds") take duration labels. The only directives that are shared is the inter-unit dependency directives. Some keys/directives can be specified multiple times.

I don't know why you'd be parsing unit files or serializing something else to unit files. Just drop them into place. The hard part is knowing all the details of how the directives interact and what their values can be.
And has been for over a decade now.

jquery was the high point.
Botox, DHEA, collagen, plastic surgery...
This went straight to the top of HN. I don't understand.

The article doesn't offer much value. It's just saying that you shouldn't use an LLM as the business logic engine because it's not nearly as predictable as a program that will always output the same thing given the same input. Anyone who has any experience with ChatGPT and programming should already know this is true as of 2025.

Just get the LLM to implement the business logic, check it, have it write unit tests, review the unit tests, test the hell out of it.
There's also the Ethereum foundation, if that's your jive.
I mean “deliberate” to be the adjective for “practice” and not “app”.

Thanks for the suggestion though. Definitely something to think about. I personally hate “opinionated” too.
Hilarious I couldn't read that article because of a paywall.
Someone had a better suggestion in a comment chain above, which is that it's the responsibility of the dealer to request the rebate on behalf of the customer, and they apparently submit them in batches. So an even more plausible explanation is that it's a combination of people rushing to buy before the rebate expires, and the Tesla dealerships panicking to get all their paperwork for the last month or two submitted before the money ran out.

Either way it should be trivial for the government to verify this, and they should be doing regular audits anyways to make sure dealerships aren't scamming customers out of their rebates. Making a huge deal out of this now just seems like political grandstanding though, since there is no evidence of any wrongdoing.
We Can, Must, and Will Simulate Nematode Brains
Far from making me fear for my job, LLMs have me more confident than ever that I'll always be able to find some kind of paying programming work, even if it's all short-term contracts (as I get even older).
Anyone who has flown in instrument meteorological conditions knows how terrifying it is when everything is working perfectly. Imagine driving down the interstate with a tub of yogurt over your windshield. Having all your instruments stop working during a STOL landing is absolutely a condition to pull your BRC parachute or ejection seat.

In IMC without instruments you have no idea what direction is up or down. For all you know, without instruments, you are spiraling towards the earth and you will die at any instant or about to crash into a pre-school. It feels exactly the same as level flight until you crash. This is what killed JFK Jr.
Ha! Yes sure, but it does make sense that they’d keep something like this to themselves.

Creating massive amounts of high quality content efficiently, on a global scale, with seamless global distribution is an incredible competitive advantage.

I don’t see why they would provide it to anyone outside of their ecosystem.

It’ll be interesting to see if they translate this to games as well.
Are there similar optimizations available for basketball? Shoes can only do so much.
Wait... so you effectively said "there's no holocaust going on" and I pointed out one and you accidentally brought up another... and I'm wrong still? What? No.

All the saber rattling doesn't mean you were correct in implying there is no holocaust going on
> [...] very similar to the current forms of "opinion journalism" that are exceptionally lucrative today.

They are lucrative, but I don't think exceptionally so.
Yeah. I've written infrastructure for LLMs to use Twitter, Discord, WhatsApp and more since '22 before GPT 3.5 was even out. You can imagine my contempt for all of this right now.

That said, MCP might be here to stay for a while as a stopgap for reducing duplication of engineering work.
It sounds like the author of this article in for a ... bitter lesson. [1]

[1] http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
Yes, I think this confuses modern Linux users because bash is the default on most Linux server and desktop installs. So they end up thinking zsh is "new" because it's an additional package.
> 1. People with the "AI isn't thinking" opinions move the goalposts, the borderline between "just following a deterministic algorithm" and "thinking" wherever needed in order to be right.

I did not present an opinion regarding whether "AI thinks" or not, but instead said:

The onus of clarifying the article's assertions ...

As it pertains to anthropomorphizing an algorithm (a.k.a.
stating it "thinks") is on the author(s).

As to the concept of thinking, regardless of entity considered, I proffer the topic a philosophical one having no "right or wrong" answer so much as having an opportunity to deepen enlightenment of those who contemplate question.
Yep, that's exactly what it's saying. I wrote it because people kept asking me how I was getting ChatGPT to do things, and the answer is: I'm not. Not everything is obvious to everyone. As to why it went straight to the top, I think people resonate with the title, and dislike the buzziness around everything being described as an agent.
You definitely would not want the existing SEO enhanced search results. And definitely not the not-too-distant future of SEO enhanced, AI poisoned listings where every eating place proudly declares itself "most likely/probably the best burger joint".

We need to go back to a more innocent time when we could ask a select group of friends and their trusted chain of friends for recommendations. Not what social media is today.
This article is not about the how, it’s about the why.
https://archive.ph/LGs2Z
memcmp is also supposed to be heavily optimized for comparing arrays of bytes since, well, that is literally all that it does.

msvcrt.dll is the C runtime from VC++6 days; a modern (as in, compiled against VC++ released in the last 10 years) C app would use the universal runtime, ucrt.dll. That said, stuff like memcpy or memcmp is normally a compiler intrinsic, and the library version is there only so that you can take an pointer to it and do other such things that require an actual function.
You just named the biggest sellouts in their respective spaces. LTT in "tech" youtube and Mr Beast on youtube.
Computers are tools, not people. They should be made easier to use as tools, not tried to be made people. I actually hate people, tools are much better.
That they're also really unreliable at making reasonable API calls from input, as soon as any amount of complexity is introduced?
Try this and watch it supercharge! https://docs.roocode.com/features/boomerang-tasks/
This is so cool. Loved the UI, simple and to the point.
Why can’t teams just defend the three better?
Prompting an LLM to generate and run a game like this gave immediate impressive results, 10 mins after starting we had something that looked great. The problem was that the game sucked. It always went 3-4 rounds of input regardless. It constantly gave the game away because it had all the knowledge in the context, and it just didn't have the right flow at all.

I'm confused. Did you ask the LLM to write the game in code? Or did the LLM run the entire game via inference?

Why do you expect that the LLM can generate the entire game with a few prompts and work exactly the way you want it? Did your prompt specify the exact conditions for the game?
"It's just the UI" is a prevalent misconception in my experience.
Ok, so you start out wanting to test if there is a market for your book, and use a Kickstarter to gauge interest.

But then you pivot to the Kickstarter being its own goal, and do everything you can think of to make it succeed.

Do you end up learning anything useful about whether there's a market for your book?
I think there's a more general bifurcation here, between logic that:

1. Intrinsically needs to be precise, rigid, even fiddly, or

2. Has only been that way so far because that's how computers are

1 includes things like security, finance, anything involving contention between parties or that maps to already-precise domains like mathematics or a game with a precise ruleset

2 will be increasingly replaced by AI, because approximations and "vibes-based reasoning" were actually always preferable for those cases

Different parts of the same application will be best suited to 1 or 2
It's not beautiful, it shows humankind's failures and depravity. Besides Jesus, every major hero in the Bible is shown with major flaws. From Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon, and Elijah, to St. Peter and St
Paul, "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God".

It's reasonable to supervise what parts of the Bible your kids read at a given and. Sunday schools and kids' Bible story books are usually curated and not teaching those particular parts to kids.

(By today's standards, Lot was date raped, not seduced. Not that that makes it a better story for an 8 year old.)
I went through Waldorf education and although Rudolf Steiner is quite eccentric, one thing I think he was spot on about was regarding WHEN you introduce technology. He believed that introducing technology or mechanized thinking too early in childhood would hinder imaginative, emotional, and spiritual development. He emphasized that children should engage primarily with natural materials, imaginative play, storytelling, artistic activities, and movement, as opposed to being exposed prematurely to mechanical devices or highly structured thinking, I seem to recall he recommended this till the age of 6.

My parents did this with me, no screens till 6 (wasn't so hard as I grew up in the early 90s, but still, no TV). I notice too how much people love screens, that non-judgmental glow of mental stimulation, it's wonderful, however I do think it's easier to "switch off" when you spent the first period of your life fully tuned in to the natural world. I hope folks are able to do this for their kids, it seems it would be quite difficult with all the noise in the world. Given it was hard for mine during the era of CRT and 4 channels, I have empathy for parents of today.
I see countless discussions on HN about:

- innocent people convicted in court in error

- laws selectively enforced where this person never gets charged, yet this person gets put in prison for the exact same thing

- a byzantine legal code that the average person can't understand ("show me the man, and I'll show you the crime")

Now take that and layer on top a competitive legal system where your political opponent doesn't have to defeat you at the ballot box, they can just get you disqualified by having you convicted of a crime.

It's a system that is ripe for abuse.

Bobby Sands sticks out for me - a member of the Provisonal IRA who became a Member of Parliament while in British Prison. I thought it reflected quite well on the UK - despite this man committing violent acts in an effort to break Northern Ireland away from the UK, he was allowed to stand in Parliament of the very same system.

Then look at the Singapore system - even a relatively minor conviction like defamation (a fine only) will disqualify you from office. A fact the ruling party has used again, and again and again to eliminate opposition politicians once they get popular enough.
So what's the end game? They're being hunted by the FBI I don't think Trading Spaces™ is going to get this guy out of trouble