skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Does this lessen the fear of being rebuked when sharing thoughts in a public forum one values?

> Absolutely. There is no threat of permanent harm. You just lose your karma count and make a new account

This is a myopic definition of harm and one whose identified remedy is trivialization.

>> So we are left to stand on what we post here, with no other connection, no other commonality, only to accept each other for the thoughts we exchange

I was referring to interaction in this forum.

> We’re comparing to WhatsApp with your neighbors where everything you have said can be used against you in real life, reported to your employer, church, etc. It’s nothing like posting on an anonymous forum only attached to real life voluntarily and without verification

Everything a person SMS's, email, and/or speaks with neighbors "can be used against you in real life, reported to your employer, church, etc."

The medium used does not negate the possibility of treachery.

Finally:

Think about something as basic as a gay man publishing
about being gay while living in a country where that is
illegal.

To which I retort; think about something as basic as an introvert making public their thoughts for unknown people to analyze, dissect, and formulate whatever response they like.

Maybe the severity of risks are specific to those who undertake them?
Nitpick, but the image in "Innerscene Health Impacts" is very obviously AI generated, besides any personal opinions on GenAI it just looks bad. I suspect photographing the intern will yield something better.
It’s comparable for nearly every game I’ve tried, and takes less than 30 seconds to compile Vulcan shaders on my rig.

That said, I think anything with kernel-level anti-cheat either does not run or runs poorly.
My anecdotal experience is similar. For any important or hard technical questions relevant to anything I do, the LLM results are consistently trash. And if you are an expert in the domain you can’t not notice this.

On the other hand, for trivial technical problems with well known solutions, LLMs are great. But those are in many senses the low value problems; you can throw human bodies against that question cheaply. And honestly, before Google results became total rubbish, you could just Google it.

I try to use LLMs for various purposes. In almost all cases where I bother to use them, which are usually subject matters I care about, the results are poorer than I can quickly produce myself because I care enough to be semi-competent at it.

I can sort of understand the kinds of roles that LLMs might replace in the next few years, but there are many roles where it isn’t even close. They are useless in domains with minimal training data.
This is what displays:

Hmmm… can't reach this page
It looks like noteux.com closed the connection.
Try:

Checking the connection
Checking the proxy and the firewall
ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED
I’d love a confidence percentage accompanying every answer.
Algorithms are a lot more fun now that LLMs have all the geometric heuristics memorized. I think a lot of algorithms are just inescapable in game development, so if you're itching to make an algorithm making something like like a tower defense game has a lot of classic algorithms involved!
$99/year for one of the basic uses of a computer isn't okay.
Nikola founder Trevor Milton, convicted of fraud, granted full pardon by Trump
In my office most people use chatGPT or a similar LLM every day. I don't know a single coworker that's ever used a cryptocurrency. One guy has bought some crypto stocks.
The driver for AMD's XDNA NPU landed in Linux 6.14 [1]. However, the Xilinx AI runtime still needs to be packaged. That may take some time. The NPU runtime stack is based on the Xilinx AI toolchain, which is not yet as mature as the ROCm stack. There are a few related packages in Debian, but AMD and Debian both have a lot of work to do to get support for the NPU integrated into the distribution. I probably won't directly be doing the packaging of the runtime, but I've been helping to nudge the process along.

It's perhaps worth mentioning that Framework has directly supported Debian in providing access to hardware with AMD NPUs and iGPUs. I'm typing this message on one of two Framework 13 laptops that they donated to support Debian in this effort. I will be using it both for testing gfx1103 support on Debian and for testing the NPU packages when they become available. Framework also generously offered to provide one of those desktop systems you linked for the Debian ROCm CI [2]. It would also be used as a CI worker for the NPU runtime libraries once those are packaged.

[1]: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-614-features
[2]: https://ci.rocm.debian.net/
"US Debt" sounds a lot less scary when you take into account that the US has monetary sovereignty. These are not household finances - a country cannot go bankrupt from debt denominated in its own currency. The real threat is from the possible demonetization of USD as the world reserve currency, which chucklefucks Krasnov and Muskow are doing their best to facilitate.
There is a lot more going on in our brains to accomplish that, and a mounting evidence that there is a lot more going on in LLMs as well. We don't understand what happens in brains either, but nobody needs to be convinced of the fact that brains can think and plan ahead, even though we don't *really* know for sure:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
I like how my cursor randomly enlarges itself for like it's moving between a high-DPI and low-DPI mode despite being entirely on one display and nowhere near the edge between my internal and external. It gets big for maybe 1 second and goes back to normal.
I recall "Soul of a New Machine" having parts that were fatiguing to read, incidentally (or intentionally) conveying the miserable mood of the characters, slogging through the project's trials.
It does let beginners do a lot more than they are capable of currently.

But these are people that wanted to be in programming in the first place.

This "my mom can now code and got a job because of LLMs" myth, does this creature really exist in the wild?
As Kate Bush once sang: “There goes a tenner”
I wonder how autorouters encode all of the various electronics rules. Such as min distance between traces, max angle of a turn, how to snap multiple connections together so they look good, etc.
Yep Bazzite is great. But the difference between them is mostly just the packages installed. To me it’s easier to install the gaming related packages from Bazzite onto Bluefin.

I have a problem with Docker sockets while installing onto Bazzite, and didn’t care enough to look further into it.
Also, lots of medical studies have been done on drafted/conscripted soldiers which were all men. As well as lessons learned from treating injured and sick soldiers.

European medical studies had few non-white members because their populations had few such people until recent decades.

Lots of workplace accidents or exposures have led to medical knowledge, which are massively disproportionately male.
Absolutely drives me nuts that I can't remove the music icon from the systray in Mac. And ditto on all the spotlight issues.

Also, why does it take 10 seconds for activity monitor to show information? The list goes on.

If only Mac hardware officially supported Linux, I would never touch that macOS again.
Folks really over index when an LLM is very good for their use case. And most of the folks here are coders, at which they're already good and getting better.

For some tasks they're still next to useless, and people who do those tasks understandably don't get the hype.

Tell a lab biologist or chemist to use an LLM to help them with their work and they'll get very little useful out of it.

Ask an attorney to use it and it's going to miss things that are blindingly obvious to the attorney.

Ask a professional researcher to use it and it won't come up with good sources.

For me, I've had a lot of those really frustrating experiences where I'm having difficulty on a topic and it gives me utter incorrect junk because there just isn't a lot already published about that data.

I've fed it tricky programming tasks and gotten back code that doesn't work, and that I can't debug because I have no idea what it's trying to do, or I'm not familiar with the libraries it used.
I guess there were always two kinds, Bill Gates doesn't strike me as a person who loves technology. Compared to, say Dennis Ritchie or Wozniak.

I'm firmly in the problem solver/hacker/artist camp.

Which I guess is why we're more concerned about the current direction. Because we value those aspects more than anything; consider them essential to creating great software/technology, to staying human; and that's exactly what GenAI takes away.

I see how not giving a crap about anything but money means you don't see many problems with GenAI.
That's a great discussion of autorouting. Then he ends with: "key piece to enable the “vibe-building” of electronics." Ouch

Routing itself is easy. It's when the router has to tear up stuff it already routed to fit new stuff in that things get complicated and the combinatorics start to get you.

I miss the autorouter KiCAD used to have. It was taken out for iffy IP reasons (the author had worked for an autorouting company). Reaction to users who wanted it back were along the lines of "Real Men Don't Use Autorouters".[1]

[1] https://forum.kicad.info/t/autorouting-and-autoplacement/185...
What GC doesn't cause any pauses?

I know of some who claim to be "pauseless", but it's b.s. marketing. They also tend to be memory hogs that don't play well with other processes in low memory environments with the kind of allocation behavior seen in UI applications.

And of course, the issue is not only stop-the-world pauses (though those are especially bad), but any pause in any thread period. A RC system lets you have consistent, predictable performance and often can be completely eliminated through static analysis.
I don't think so. The data returned talks about loyalty, rewards, and gift cards.
He donated $2 million to Republicans including $920,000 to Trump between September and December of 2024, having never previously made any political donations.

https://x.com/kenbensinger/status/1905412782637679041

He was convicted in 2022 on 3 counts of fraud & sentenced to 4 years + $169M in restitution & fines
Right. There was a time when I had a well-worn copy of Knuth, vol. 1 at hand. No longer.
They mentioned at the top of the article that this is not the real name.
That quote is as apocryphal as “640K should be enough for anyone”
I agree some will evolve into more, but lots of them won't. That's why shopify, WordPress and others exist - most commercial websites are just online business cards or small shops. Designers and devs are hired to work on them all the time.
It depends. Em dashes in news articles and written publications? Definitely expected. Em dashes on social media or reddit? Either someone who works in typesetting, or an LLM. Most likely an LLM, giving the dying nature of printed media.

Only typography nerds and professional printers care about things like these. Popular media, even modern professional media, hasn't been paying all that much attention.
Well, I think the challenge here is that they need to install the lights in all those settings to take the photo and this would be very expensive. The main purpose is to illustrate uses here, not show the final product. Maybe a disclaimer would help.
I can't believe they're complaining about LLMs not being able to do unit conversion. Of all things, this is the least interesting and last task I would ever ask an LLM to do.
Anyone use PEP 723 + uv with an LSP based editor? What's your workflow? I looked into it briefly, the only thing I saw after a lot of digging around was to use `uv sync --script <script file>` and get the venv from the output of this command, activate that venv or specify it in your editor. Is there any other way, what I describe above seems a bit hacky since `sync` isn't meant to provide the venv path specifically, it just happens to display it.

Edit: I posted this comment before reading the article. Just read it now and I see that the author also kinda had a similar question. But I guess the author didn't happen to find the same workaround as I mention using the `sync` output. If the author sees this, maybe they can update the article if it's helpful to mention what I wrote above.
Having done a few deep dives, more than 50% of the lobbying in the UK against green buildouts such as rail freight expansion, onshore wind and ev chargers between 2015 and 2019 was funded by oil and gas companies looking to keep their market share and disproportionately the big consolidations like Baker Hughes. I have no idea whether the ratios break down similarly elsewhere in even the anglosphere given the higher share of primary sector industry in US and Canadian gdp.
Unfortunately they are trained first and foremost as plausibility engines. The central dogma is that plausibility will (with continuing progress & scale) converge towards correctness, or "faithfulness" as it's sometimes called in the literature.

This remains very far from proven.

The null hypothesis that would be necessary to reject, therefore, is a most unfortunate one, viz. that by training for plausibility we are creating the world's most convincing bullshit machines.
Just wanted to chime in and say how appreciative I’ve been about all your replies here, and overall content on AI. Your takes are super reasonable and well thought out.
Some more details (and interesting historical perspective) can be found here: https://superuser.com/questions/704920/how-to-determine-if-u...

Apparently around 2014 the vast majority of mouses and keyboards were dual-protocol, but in 2019 the first reports of them being USB-only started appearing. I suspect a lot of the cheapest mouse SoCs are still dual-protocol as they worked when first designed, and they just kept producing them without any changes.

Pinout and explanation of how they detect protocol here: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/28288/how...
If an AI can pass your interview and an AI can’t do the job you are hiring for, there is by definition something wrong with your interview process
Nice article! I'll be more conscious about this the next time I work with Ai
Canada is an exception to this trend, unfortunately.
What about M3 Max?
Right, in the land of the "Free"... how about you just go get your stooge uniform and start asking people for their papers.
I had the same reaction as the author, the first time I heard the Kafka name, and then the same reaction when I heard the reasoning behind the name.

(Then I wondered when would be a sufficiently good occasion to say "Kafkaesque" regarding the software, since that's not something you want to waste.)
Why would this increase competition? Tesla is going to sell automatically. They don’t have to compete as hard.
> We don’t have anything akin to GLP-1 drugs for opiate addiction, or alcohol addiction, etc.

Surprisingly, there's some evidence that GLP-1 drugs may also help with drug and alcohol cravings!

https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/news-events/research-update/semagl...
I know at least two attorneys who use LLMs productively.

As with all LLM usage right now, it's a tool and not fit for every purpose. But it has legit uses for some attorney tasks.
Just because Tesla uses shitty 2MP sensors of 2013 vintage (at least for HW3) doesn’t mean that robotaxi levels of safety can’t be achieved with just modern cameras and radars (plural)

As someone in the industry, I find the LiDAR discussion distracting from meaningful discussions about redundancy and testing
It also supports WordPerfect formats, Which MS Office dropped. My wife was in a group email editing documents and someone emailed their edits using WordPerfect format. I loaded it in LibreOffice and exported it in DOCX format and it worked.
The brain drain out of Canada has been massive, and for decades. It's going to take more than some random Yale prof to reverse that.
And not applying fairness techniques to the resulting model.
I take this advice like "do not use a preposition to end a sentence with" and "pay close attention to 'much' and 'many'". Personal preferences from the 1800s taken as gospel by grammatical extremists, to the point where they're taken as some kind of solid rule in a vain attempt to forcefully shape language to a personal preference.

There are cases when you want to follow certain guidelines, for sure. If you write for a publication that adheres to Meriam-Webster, you'd better stay consistent and figure out the right AltGr code to type the right dashes. However, for the 99.99% of written media today, none of that matters.
Yes, he can manually merge duplicate submissions and their comments.

But there's times when I've submitted items that are dupes and it just takes me to the recent submission and adds an upvote. Now here's something weird: I just tested this by submitting the URL from this submission with the same title and it immediately took me to the discussion from two days ago.

So I'm really confused how this dupe got through.
I mean, for me personally, I am writing out the English TODO list while I am figuring out exactly what changes I need to make. So, the thinking and writing the prompt take up the same unit of time.

And in terms of time saved, if I am just changing string constants, it’s not going to help much. But if I’m restructuring the test to verify things in a different way, then it is helpful. For example, recently I was writing tests for the JSON output of a program, using jq. In this case, it’s pretty easy to describe the tests I want to make in English, but translating that to jq commands is annoying and a bit tedious. But o3-mini-high can do it for me from the English very well.

Annoying to do myself, but easy to describe, is the sweet spot. It is definitely not universally useful, but when it is useful it can save me 5 minutes of tedium here or there, which is quite helpful. I think for a lot of this, you just have to learn over time what works and what doesn't.
Because Pinterest doesn't let you see anything without making an account and logging in.
Your point reminded me of Terrence Tao’s point that AI has a “plausibility problem”. When it can’t be accurate, it still disguises itself as accurate.

Its true success rate is by no means 100%, and sometimes is 0%, but it always tries to make you feel confident.

I’ve had to catch myself surrendering too much judgment to it. I worry a high school kid learning to write will have fewer qualms surrendering judgment
Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
>For any important or hard technical questions relevant to anything I do, the LLM results are consistently trash. And if you are an expert in the domain you can’t not notice this.

This is also my experience. My day job isn't programming, but when I can feed an LLM secretarial work, or simple coding prompts to automate some work, it does great and saves me time.

Most of my day is spent getting into the details on things for which there's no real precedent. Or if there is, it hasn't been widely published on. LLMs are frustrating useless for these problems.
To me, the bullishness stems from the observation that current gen of LLM an plausibly lead to a route to human level intelligence / agi, because they have this causal behavior: (memory/context + inputs) --> outputs. Vaguely similar to humans.
The Northwest Passage still isn't ice-free. There's more open water, but loose icebergs reportedly clog up the tight spots.[1]

[1] https://scitechdaily.com/arctic-ice-wont-let-go-the-surprisi...
No AI please for the love of the spaghetti monster. I'm so sick of having this shit shoveled into anything I'm trying to do these days. Disabling Siri all these years was bad enough.

So far Apple has kept it as a toggle in the settings, but it's easy bloat for it to keep spreading. Does anyone need AI in a text editor? No.
Back when handwriting recognition was a new thing I was greatly impressed by how good it was. This was primarily because being an engineer I knew how difficult the problem is to solve. %90 recognition seemed really good to me.

When I tried to use the technology that %90 meant 1 out of every 10 things I wrote were incorrect. If it had been a keyboard I would have thrown it in the trash. That is were my Palm ended up.

People expect their technology to do things better not almost as well as a human. Waymo with LIDAR hasn't killed people. Tesla, with camera only, has done so multiple times. I will ride in a Waymo never in a Tesla self driving car.
> and there is no longer any way to effectively prioritize the results I want (apps, not internet garbage)

OMG this one drives me bonkers. If anyone out there knows how to turn off internet results, please share!
I used to have a virtual environment for all little scrappy scripts, which would contain libraries I use often like requests, rich, or pandas. I now exclusively use this type of shebang and dependency declaration. It also makes runnings throwaway chatgpt scripts a lot easier, especially if you put PEP-723 instructions in your custom prompt.
New video of feds ambushing student and vanishing sparks deep concern
Really nifty tool to get a first glimpse of how a LLM model behaves given a specific use-case.

It was created 2 years ago and it way more mature and stable. It does not support every llms of the world but there are quit enough of them
They still exist separately today because the modding scene is completely different for them. Minecraft Java is the original and has a huge modding community based on decompiling and patching the game. Those mods are all incompatible with Bedrock because Bedrock is a separate reimplementation of the game for performance or whatever.
Where did this claim come from?
That could cover Tesla owners, because they are assumed by the perpetrators to hold certain political views, evidenced by owning that car, which is why it is okay to destroy their property.

If you are mistaken for Jew by coincidence due to the way your face is, and are subject to an anti-Semitic attack, you are virtually a Jew then; it is a hate crime and you are the victim. It's not simply that Jews, as a class, are the victims of the hate crime part of it, and you are just the victim of plain attack.
I've done it all… wired earbuds, AirPods, dedicated mic with custom noise reduction & EQ.

It comes down to this: I don't want stuff in my ear all day, and using a pro mic just comes across as "try hard" in most contexts. It's not a benefit.

These days I just use my laptop's mic & speakers like 99% of the people I talk to over Zoom.
Asahi?
It's probably got to do with the bizarre design that hides the actual link to a productms website as a small element on the page and makes the most prominent links and buttons go to other things instead.
Why not? That's how we handled baggage fees after the 2008 recession. And the TSA and PATRIOT act after 9/11. And the Selective Service after World War II. And federal electrical production and the minimum wage after the Great Depression. And federal deposit insurance after the Great Depression. And the Federal Reserve after the panic of 1907.
This article form might be cathartic for the writer, and actionable recommendations aren't the main point. But they are sprinkled throughout, and a small management slide deck could be distilled from the piece.
No better time to start than today
If you do a basic query to GPT-4o every ten seconds it uses a blistering... hundred watts or so. More for long inputs, less when you're not using it that rapidly.