skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i started (re)using AI recently. it/i mostly failed until i decided on a rule.

if it's "dumb and annoying" i ask the AI, else i do it myself.

since that AI has been saving me a lot of time on dumb and annoying things.

also a few models are pretty good for basic physics/modeling stuff (get basic formulas, fetching constants, do some calculations). these are also pretty useful. i recently used it for ventilation/co2 related stuff in my room and the calculations matched observed values pretty well, then it pumped me a broken desmos syntax formula, and i fixed that by hand and we were good to go!

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(dumb and annoying thing -> time-consuming to generate with no "deep thought" involved, easy to check)
It's deliberate. It's the good-bad-good-bad release cycle Microsoft insists on. Windows 12 will be decent, then 13 will be horrible again.
Why? I can understand the argument that this administration is wrong and will make things worse, but I don't think they are inconsistent arguments.

The right seems to be of the view that a policy closer to Singapore is smarter than that of, say, San Francisco.

In other words, increase penalties/enforcement of drug importation and treat drug dealers harshly, instead of spending lots of money on services for drug users, which arguably just leads to enabling them to continue to lead the life of a drug addict.

From my perspective, there's pros and cons to both approaches, but it's not unreasonable to look at a place like San Francisco and come away with the view that some of this funding is making things worse, not better, even for the addicts themselves.
That same far right might challenge your idea of the far right. E.g. Germany's AfD is headed by a lesbian in a relationship with a Sri Lankan, and the party enjoys disproportionate support by gay men:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-do-so-many-gay-men-s...
You people frustrate me because you don't listen that I've tried to use AI to do help with my job and it fails horribly in every way. I see that it is useful to you, and that's great, but that doesn't make it useful for everybody... I don't understand why you must have everyone agree with you, and that it's "tires" you out to hear other people's contracting opinions. It feels like a religion.
I wish him well. It’s possible to do this without ever being possible to catch. Have considered building such a device, but now that I see the backlash, I’ll hold off.
I agree with every single thing you just wrote, and yet it doesn't address the fact that the world is an unfair place and that being too honest is a character fault, maybe a different take on the meaning of "discretion" in "Discretion is the better part of valor" best expresses what I had originally meant by "overabundance of honesty".

I'm an extremely honest person, and it has paid dividends personally and professionally. It's also cost me a /lot/. But I am not "honest to a fault", which is a saying for a reason. I know when it's better to shut my mouth than to speak out, and sometimes I speak out even though I know I will suffer for it because it's the right thing to do, but it's not /always/ the right thing to do.
I use ChatGPT all the time. I really like it. It's not perfect; how I've described it (and I doubt that I'm unique in this): it's like having a really smart and eager intern at your disposal.

I say "intern" in the sense that its error-prone and kind of inexperienced, but also generally useful. I can ask it to automatically create a lot of the bootstrapping or tedious code that I always dread writing so that I can focus on the fun stuff, which is often the stuff that's pawned off onto interns and junior-level engineers. I think for the most part, when you treat it like that, it lives up to and sometimes even surpasses expectations.

I mean, I can't speak for everyone, but whenever I begin a new project, a large percentage of the first ~3 hours is simply copying and pasting and editing from documentation, either an API I have to call or some bootstrapping code from a framework or just some cruft to make built-in libraries work how you want. I hate doing all that, it actively makes me not want to start a new project. Being able to get ChatGPT to give me stuff that I need to actually get started on my project has made coding a lot more fun for me again. At this point, you can take my LLM from my cold dead hands.

I do think it will keep getting better, but I'm also at a point where even if it never improves I will still keep using it.
Just adding a "me too" here, Spotlight used to be incredible. Now it's basically only good if you wait 5-10 seconds... sometimes.
I think there's another commonality in the 'lowered' sites that has nothing to do with political leaning. Especially for the top two lowered ones (foxnews and dailymail)

You don't go there for news. You go there for your daily set of outrage and panic.
What If Studio Ghibli Directed Lord of the Rings?
And did you use your 25 years of Java experience making $80k fixing waterfalls? lol
As far as capabilities? Meh. It will improve, or not, but we'll figure out really cool things regardless.

As far as breaking our reality and society? Absolutely :(
People frame that like it's something we gain, efficiency, as if before we were wasting time by thinking for ourselves. I get that they can do certain things better, I'm not sure that delegating to them is free of charge. We're paying something, losing something. Probably learning and fulfillment. We become increasingly dependent on machines to do anything.

Something important happened when we turned the tables around, I don't feel it gets the credit it should. It used to be humans telling machines what to do. Now we're doing the opposite.
MCP to Chat with Crypto[currencies]
Hi,

we're working on building AI-friendly APIs to let developers build on top of Crypto Exchanges.

I'll next week build a "chat with your Coinbase Account" project.

Essentially a Claude SDK wrapper, that uses the Bluvo MCP to connect your CEX wallet, and use the private-data APIs to extract all the interesting informations.

For example:
- "In my wallet, which coin is the less performing in the past 6 months?"
- "Which is the performing the best?"
- "How much volume have I moved?"
- "How much will I have to pay in Taxes considering I'm in Germany?"
- "What's my Sharpe Ratio?"

And much more, essentially anything comes up to your mind, that needs to query public/private crypto data.

I'm so excited to work on MCP + API for Crypto Exchanges, if you like https://bluvo.co and wanna chat, please hit me up.
AFAIK the Canadian government’s ‘subsidy’ is to allow R&D expenses (but not investments) to be fully deducted in the year they are made. This seems analogous to the old rule in the USA.
And here's the same thing for MSNBC

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/12/28/rachel-maddows-defen...
They're talking about internal software for internal users. It can be made insanely secure, but that surely isn't the primary concern in this case.
None of that means that the current companies will be profitable or that their valuations are anywhere close to justified though. The future could easily be "Open-weight models are moderately useful for some niches, no-name cloud providers charge slightly higher than the cost of electricity to use them at low profit margins".
>We didn’t get into the current situation because someone woke up and decided housing scarcity would be cool.

I mean, in a way, we did.

CEQA didn't become the monster that it is now because the California legislature intended to enact a monster. It was effectively an accident of an interesting, and arguably activist, interpretation by the CA Supreme Court in a case called Friends of Mammoth v. Board of Supervisors:

>In 1972, the California Supreme Court broadened CEQA by interpreting a "public" project as any development that needed government approval.[4][5]: 1 Since then, CEQA has become the basis for anyone with a grievance against a project to file lawsuits to slow projects by years or kill projects by imposing delays and litigation costs that make projects infeasible.[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Environmental_Quali...

https://casetext.com/case/friends-of-mammoth-v-board-of-supe...
I see this complaint a lot, and frankly, it just doesn't matter.

What matters is speeding up how fast I can find information. Not only will LLMs sometimes answer my obscure questions perfectly themselves, but they also help to point me to the jargon I need to use to find that information online. In many areas this has been hugely valuble to me.

Sometimes you do just have to cut your losses. I've given up on asking LLMs for help with Zig, for example. It is just too obscure a language I guess, because the hallucination rate is too high to be useful. But for webdev, Python, matplotlib, or bash help? It is invaluable to me, even though it makes mistakes every now and then.
Well strap in, because I only see this getting worse (or better, depending on your outlook). Faster chips, more power, more algorithm research and more data. I don't know what's coming exactly, but changes are coming fast.
Yes because everything in Linux is completely intuitive and you never have to know anything obscure to use it to your liking…
To generalize your point: A lot of the "brown m&ms" that we've walked around with for detecting a writers status, education, etc., are less useful in an age of LLMs.[1]

We might even be entering some waves of counter-signaling.

[1] They'll never totally nail all of DFW's mannerisms, though.
They suck, just this week. Docker container caddy issue. It repeatedly made nonsensical suggestions.

It’s like a parrot and if you know what you’re doing you can catch tons of mistakes.
It's the same when you hear about how they built 100 tiny homes in LA and find out the programs budget was in the billions. Where is the money really going?
I like them but I still feel like I am employing a bunch of over confident narcissist engineers and if I ask them to do something, I am never really comfortable the result is correct.
What I want is a work force where I can pass off a request and go home in confidence that the results were correctly implemented.
In a world where Ernst Röhm, leader of the SA, the Nazi Party's stormtroopers, was openly gay, and Reich uniforms and Hugo Boss feature heavily in gay iconography ... that would suprise us why?
Pintrest owns all the top 7 blocked results. Good, they've earned it.

I never understood why Google let them destroy Google Image search results.
Not in all fonts. In most monospace fonts, two hyphens will show with a small gap between them, for example.

I also personally prefer en dashes, surrounded by whitespace on both sides, over em dashes. Apparently some WYSIWYG software interprets two hyphens as an em dash, while other will interpret that as an en dash, so I'd rather just use the real thing if possible to avoid the ambiguity.
The Situation at Columbia II
I agree, they are an amazing piece of technology, but the investment and hype doesn't match the reality. This might age like milk, but I don't think OpenAI is going to make it. They burnt $9B to lose $5B in 2024, trying to raise money like their life depends on it.. because their life depends on it. From what I can tell, none of the AI model produces are profiting from their model usage at this point, except maybe Deepseek. This will be a market, they are useful, astonishing impressive even, but IMO they are either going to become waaayy more expensive to use and/or/combo of market/investment will greatly shrink to be sustainable.
The opposite of "an overabundance of honesty" is not lying. It's knowing when to not speak at all.

Perhaps rather than assuming I haven't mastered the skills of honesty, or that I am a dishonest person, you should really re-read what I wrote in all of my comments. I am not dismissing you, you are overreacting to a phrase I used which you understood differently than it was intended and has since been clarified.
Having taken a closer look, it's at least a mixed bag. There doesn't seem to be a definitive policy to manage demand by keeping the price high.
> Bash has a hook (cannot remember the name on my phone) that is called on every command.

$PROMPT_COMMAND

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-Vari...
I'd take a night-shift job over being on call ontop of a 9-5.

I think the real answer here is to have team members on multiple continents. Have some team members NA/EU/Asia then it's always reasonable hours for someone to deal with the production problem. High priority issues can be worked on around the clock without anyone working overtime.
It should look like somehting visually recursive
I had a friend in undergrad that couldn’t eat in the dorm cafeteria because everyone around was chewing and chewing and slurping and just eating normally but he found it intolerable. He thought it was the grossest thing possible - so many people eating in public.

He came from a farm in rural farm town. He probably never had been around more than a few people at once, let alone eating together.

Anyway in a few months he was normal and had no problem eating in a crowd.
can we stop using such a confusing word as "bullish" please?

saying "why are people bullish" only to continue with bullying does not add any clarity to this world
I've been using OSX / macOS since 2002. I've not really had many issues if any that I can remember or found noticeable (or knew they were attributable to the OS). I can't really use Windows or Linux because I've been quite accustomed to the incredibly useful accessibility tools that come with OSX / macOS which are first class, and probably worth a whole lot more than I paid for the hardware.
So have a way to escape those control characters.
> Culture is everything.

This has been proven false. To name just one measure of human behavior, the Big Five personality traits are 40-60% heritable: https://www.nature.com/articles/tp201596
Everyone thinks the Tesla vandalism is hurting Elon Musk, but it is the insurance companies that will pay. And I am certain that auto insurance rates will be increasing substantially for everyone in the very near future.
No, you're being disingenuous. Why are you looking at code? It isn't prose you read for fun. You are actively working with it. Which means you're working on some form of derivative work, which takes us back to the copyright issue.

If I'm looking at everything else on the internet with the purpose of trying to transform it in some way, that's definitely a potential copyright issue.
> Applying hate crime to a property crime is absurd

https://www.justice.gov/hatecrimes/learn-about-hate-crimes

> The "crime" in hate crime is often a violent crime, such as assault, murder, arson, vandalism, or threats to commit such crimes.
Good point. That sounds about right.
there's nothing wrong with shift work, and there's nothing wrong with the graveyard shift (for people who want that job), but there is a LOT wrong with alternating day and night shifts in the same week every week, and nobody should agree to do that. (perhaps if you are in your early twenties you feel like you can handle it, but I'm not sure that's a good idea either)
I'm convinced a DE that figures this shit out out of the box will explode in popularity. Super for the OS and DE shortcuts. Ctrl for the Terminal and readline cursor movements. It can't be impossible to bake these in as defaults.
You seem to be comparing a single dev sending apps to the world vs a corporate team pushing to employees (if I get parent's case right).

In most cases, just involving account management makes the corporate case 10x more of a PITA. Doing things in a corporate environment is a different game altogether.
Yeah, I don't expect comprehensive and definitive documentation from it, nor copy&paste answers.

But for getting pointed in the right direction about things that have been obscured by the desktop environments, and then left largely undocumented nowadays, the Arch Linux wiki usually points me in the right direction.

Much of it would be pretty confusing to someone who only wanted high-level documentation in terms of the Gnome Desktop or KDE Plasma, though.
Ive had the same experience as you, and also rather recently. I had to learn two lessons: first, what I could trust it with (as with Wikipedia when it was new), and second, what makes sense to ask it (as with YouTube when it was new). Once I got that down, it is one fabulous tool to have on my belt, among many other tools.

Thing is, the LLMs that I use are all freeware, and they run on my gaming PC. Two to six tokens per second are alright honestly. I have enough other things to take care of in the meantime. Other tools to work with.

I don't see the billion dollar business. And even if that existed, the means of production would be firmly in the hands of the people, as long as they play video games. So, have we all tripled our salaries?

If we haven't, is that because knowledge work is a limited space that we are competing in, and LLMs are an equalizer because we all have them? Because I was taught that knowledge work was infinite. And the new tool should allow us to create more, and better, and more thoroughly. And that should get us all paid better.

Right?
Two things can be true: e.g., that LLMs are incredible tech we only dreamed of having, and that they’re so flawed that they’re hard to put to productive use.

I just tried to use the latest Gemini release to help me figure out how to do some very basic Google Cloud setup. I thought my own ignorance in this area was to blame for the 30 minutes I spent trying to follow its instructions - only to discover that Gemini had wildly hallucinated key parts of the plan. And that’s Google’s own flagship model!

I think it’s pretty telling that companies are still struggling to find product-market fit in most fields outside of code completion.
The commenter I replied to employed by a business, develops software and distributes it within a team of engineers with Macs.

For your personal needs, you do not need to pay anything for building and using apps locally.
Unfortunately, “decades old hardware” doesn’t give me the combination of speed, quietness, battery life and the ability to use my laptop on my lap without so much heat that it puts me at risk for never having any little Scarfaces.

Using an x86 laptop in 2025 is like using a flip phone.
I see a difference between seeing them as valuable in their current state vs being "bullish about LLMs" in the stock market sense.

The big problem with being bullish in the stock market sense is that OpenAI isn't selling the LLMs that currently exist to their investors, they're selling AGI. Their pitch to investors is more or less this:

> If we accomplish our goal we (and you) will have infinite money. So the expected value of any investment in our technology is infinite dollars. No, you don't need to ask what the odds are of us accomplishing our goal, because any percent times infinity is infinity.

Since OpenAI and all the founders riding on their coat tails are selling AGI, you see a natural backlash against LLMs that points out that they are not AGI and show no signs of asymptotically approaching AGI—they're asymptotically approaching something that will be amazing and transformative in ways that are not immediately clear, but what is clear to those who are watching closely is that they're not approaching Altman's promises.

The AI bubble will burst, and it's going to be painful. I agree with the author that that is inevitable, and it's shocking how few people see it. But also, we're getting a lot of cool tech out of it and plenty of it is being released into the open and heavily commoditized, so that's great!
You mean en dash?
I mean, it is trivial to show that it can do things literally impossible even 5 years ago. And you don't acknowledge that fact, and that's what drives me crazy.

It's like showing someone from 1980 a modern smart phone and them saying, yeah but it can't read my mind.
yes, i read what happened (the twitter thread and the various other posts). We're mostly in alignment, I just don't see where Columbia incentivized this.
Had some level of "on-call" in the sense that "there's a bug with your new/recent code and customer needs a fix" or "the demo isn't working and we present tomorrow" or "checkin deadline is in 2 weeks and my code isn't ready" pressure in 20+ years in silicon valley working at a startup and 2 medium size companies. The startup had a bit more since I knew lots of sysadmin stuff so I could help at times when our main IT guy wasn't available - but he was quite good and didn't let me have root access anyway, so it's not like I could have fixed it on those rare occasions.

Mind you, I interviewed for a Yahoo Mail job that would have included wearing a pager (back in '05). And I know it's pretty common - I've been fortunate to not have that be an issue. Hoping for another ~5 years at the current job until I can retire.
The internet is full of people spouting their opinions and implying other opinions are wrong. Both sides of the AI/LLM (and all in-between) are well represented.
In contrast to this point, as long as I use Xcode and do the same thing I've always done allowing it to manage provisioning and everything else, I don't have a problem. However, I want to use CI/CD. Have you seen what kind of access you have to give fastlane? It's pretty wild. And even after giving it the keys to the kingdom, it still didn't work. Integrating apple code signing with CI/CD is really hard, full of very strange error messages and incantations to make it "work".
Could it be that people who are too bullish are being deceived by smoke and mirrors?
> The history of Medical research is generally studied on the demographics where such testing is cultural acceptable, and where the gains of such research has been mostly sought, which is young men drafted into wars.

Though in this study, the AI models were also biased against people under the age of 40.

It is interesting that we're also seeing a lot of bias in the reporting and discussion of these results. The results tested three groups for bias, and found a bias in all three. Yet the headline only mentions the bias against two of the groups, and almost the entirety of the discussion here only talks about bias against two of the groups while ignoring the third group.

If I test a system for bias, select three different groups to test for, and all three have a bias against them, my first reaction would be "there's a good chance that it's also biased against many other groups, I should test for those as well." It wouldn't be to pretend that there's only bias against the only three groups I actually bothered checking for. It definitely wouldn't be two ignore one of those groups, and pretend that there's only a bias against the other two.
Every news source blocked generates more noise than signal as its main feature. I doubt that even a regular Fox News reader wants their results full of articles they’ve already read.
> Long term Apple user here (since 2007)

That would be medium-term user. Long-term would be people like me that have been using it since 1984.

I have a collection of Macs going all the way back to 1984. Even the newest one hasn't been turned on in three years.

My daily driver is Windows Server 2016. But it has VMware Workstation so there are lots of virtual machines for my work, including Linux.

I am so tempted by the new M4s. Amazing piece of technology. So sad about the operating system though. Every year I say I'll wait for a quality Linux port.
> None of that means that the current companies will be profitable ... The future could easily be "Open-weight models are moderately useful for some niches, no-name cloud providers charge slightly higher than the cost of electricity to use them at low profit margins".

They just need to stay a bit ahead of the open source releases, which is basically the status quo. The leading AI firms have a lot of accumulated know-how wrt. building new models and training them, that the average "no-name cloud" vendor doesn't.