skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes no difference. At some point it decides that it has predicted the word, and outputs it, and then it will not backtrack over it. Internally it may have predicted some other words and backtracked over those. But the fact it is, accepts a word, without being sure what the next one will be and the one after that and so on.

Externally, it manifests the generation of words one by one, with lengthy computation in between.

It isn't ruminating over, say, a five word sequence and then outputting five words together at once when that is settled.
This exchange looks like the output of a so-called "reasoning model". Maybe it is a joke or maybe it is an actual response from an LLM.
This is a really good link. Will definitely refer to this when making a car purchase in the future. Thanks!

It seems like Volvo's reputation as one of the safest car is still well deserved after all. I don't own a Volvo--too expensive for me, but good to know.
I haven't met any developers in real life who are hyped about LLMs. The only people who seem excited are managers and others who don't really know how to program.
This is only a problem if you are really really bad at conducting interviews. I have had interviews in the past that treated me like a child asking basic code literacy questions. These kinds of interviews aren't helpful to anybody.

Instead the way to get past this foolishness is to ask open-ended questions expecting precise answers where the questions are themselves not precise. This presents too much variance. For example: Talk to me about the methods of your favorite Node code library. In that case the candidate has to pick, on the fly, from any of the libraries that ship with Node and immediately start talking about what like about certain methods and how they would use them.

Another example: Tell me about full duplex communication on the web. AI will immediately point you to WebSockets, but it won't explain what full duplex means in 3 words or less or why WebSockets are full duplex and other solutions aren't.

Another example: Given a single page application what things would you recommend to get full state restoration within half a second of page request? AI barfs on that one. It starts explain what state restoration is, which doesn't answer the question.

In other words AI is not a problem so long as you don't suck as an interviewer.
The letter 'm' is now a GPT-ism and is not advisable unless you want people to think your writing is the output of a LLM.
I think that people who don't believe LLMs to be AGI are not very good at Venn diagrams. Because they certainly are artificial, general, and intelligent according to any dictionary.
No. Em dashes are to separate two thoughts in one sentence. En dashes are for denoting ranges.
They even seem to think it is a good thing. But I don't see how not having a bunch of implementations that can't agree on the specifics of a file/interchange format is a good thing. And being free and open is completely orthogonal. There are many proprietary formats that don't have a spec, and many open formats that do have a spec (like, say, json).
Every online space that has a large number of wealthy, high-IQ but low-emotional-IQ individuals is a massive target of trolls and bots.
It is absurd. The research and learning power is currently right now a miracle.
With gold and cash, you can go anywhere. Those who can afford luxury would have moved out of the emergency zone already at all costs. It is nothing like a prison where people are trapped.
Humans Are All More Closely Related Than We Commonly Think (2020)
Actually, fun counterpoint. This is the current top of the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43498984

It's about Apple. It's an opinion piece, where someone's saying that Apple should do a retrenchment OS release where they just fix bugs. It appears to be written by someone who is some combination of a pastor and a professional opinion-haver ("editor in chief").

I don't think there's any metric by which this person's article should be sitting unflagged at the top of the front page, but Gruber's recent something-rotten-in-Cupertino article should get promptly flagged and hidden away.
I'm looking forward to future efficiencies, like holding both spots at the same time.
> a supermajority in the Senate when Obama was elected

Obama wasn't elected with a super-majority. He had 58 votes, but Al Franken's race was contested, then Robert Byrd got sick, then Ted Kennedy died.

He did have one briefly for about 20 working days the Senate was in session about 9 months after he took office.
Related

Anubis: Proof-of-work proxy to prevent AI crawlers (94 points, 7 days ago, 58 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43427679

FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies (990 points, 7 days ago, 618 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43422413

Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth (228 points, 9 days ago, 139 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43411725

Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers (714 points, 2 months ago, 265 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42725147
Wish the article further explained how the mouse did this internally.
The Smithsonian is not in the Executive branch. Trump has no authority there. But that won't stop them from complying and destroying their own museums.
That reads as "people shouldn't trust what AI tells them", which is in opposition to what companies want to use AI for.

An airline tried to blame its chatbot for inaccurate advice it gave (whether a discount could be claimed after a flight). Tribunal said no, its chatbot was not a separate legal entity.

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatb...
But the activations at some point lead to a 100% confidence that the right word has been identified for the current slot. That is output, and it proceeds to the next one.

Like for a 500 token response, at some point it was certain that the first 25 words are the right ones, such that it won't have to take any of them back when eventually calculating the last 25.
I think you're correct. Most of what Ubisoft released in the last cycle of releases seems like they're chasing after whatever it that seems "hype" currently. There's also a lot of looking in every direction simultaneously, without any real direction or objective about almost anything. Everything's shiny, everything envy worthy, and the results mostly polished turds. "It needs this, and this, and this, and ..." and it has nothing.

Skull and Bones was stuck in development hell forever, and when it emerged out the other side, seems like all there was remaining was Sea of Thieves envy, with little of the actual charm of a game anybody actually cared about making.

Avatar's review (although already vanished in year?!?) was pretty hilarious. "The Okayest Game of 2023" "little more ambitious than ‘Farcry with blue people’"
Intense disgust is not a natural reaction to oafishness.
World be cool if they commissioned artists to make music for them again. The fact that they secured Royksopp and Sofa Surfers is still impressive
Possibly a reaction to Bill Gates recent statements that it will begin replacing doctors and teachers. It's ridiculous to say LLMs are incredibly useful and valuable. It's highly dubious to think they can be trusted with actual critical tasks without careful supervision.
I thought about hiring somebody five years ago, but the fact is my client has gone itself from a small/medium sized business to a corporate, from no IT staff to now thirty and they are working to replace the production systems I wrote the middle of this year. To be frank having that much responsibility as a one man business is quite scary. Also when I originally wrote the systems for them I had no clue it was going to get this busy and no clue I would be 24x7 support, also at 62 years old I really want to start winding down :-)
Indeed, and since it was approved by Congress I'm not sure how Trump has the legal authority to unilaterally violate it without congressional approval. (Not that such legal niceties actually matter, as we've all learned by now.)
Sure we have. We don't have a perfect solution but it's miles better than what we have for LLMs.

If a lawyer consistently makes stuff up on legal filings, in the worst cases they can lose their license (though they'll most likely end up getting fines).

If a doctor really sucks, they become uninsurable and ultimately could lose their medical license.

Devs that don't double check their work will cause havoc with the product and, not only will they earn low opinions from their colleges, they could face termination.

Again, not perfect, but also not unfigured out.
It was very bad storytelling, which is disappointing because Benedict Cumberbatch's performance was very good.
Dangers of Karpathy's 'Vibe Coding' Movement
But as I noted yesterday in a follow-up comment to my own above, the diffusion-based approaches to text response generation still generate tokens one at a time. Just not in strict left-to-right order. So that looks the same; they commit to a token in some position, possibly preceded by gaps, and then calculate more tokens,
It is nothing like being sick. When sick, there is running water at home as usual. Also, one can order food or groceries while sick.
The context of what I said is important, even though I now realize I did not include the important determiner "less" (which I will add below).

>> If new members are made aware that sending a message to the group is perfectly acceptable, then there will be [less] trepidation.

>> Much like what I am doing here to what I assume is a group exceeding 100+ members.

> This is not a group, we’re not all receiving a notification because of your message.

My point was taking the risk of putting oneself "out there" for a group to see, not notification policies.
Tiktok has a lot of deep-ish search keyword spam that doesn't actually lead to anything related to the query, just some generic videos and a pitch to install the app. It's basically useless as a website.
An active converter is needed to use modern USB on retro computers. I made one a few years ago for many different computers.

https://github.com/dekuNukem/USB4VC

There's also a more recent project called HIDman, but only for PCs.

https://github.com/rasteri/HIDman
> LLMs are an existential threat to basically every knowledge worker job on the planet.

Given the typical problems of LLMs they are not. You still need them to check the results. It’s like FSD, impressive when it works, bad if not, scary because you never known beforehand when it’s failing
Which companies? Google and Microsoft are only up a little over the past several years, and I doubt much of their valuation is coming from LLM hype. Most of the discussions about x.com say it's worth substantially less than some years ago.

I feel like a lot of people mean that OpenAI is burning through venture capital money. It's debatable, but it's a huge jump to go from that to thinking it's going to crash the stock market (OpenAI isn't even publicly traded).
Why do you want to destroy computing for everybody else just to make a very small group of hackers pleased? Can't you be satisfied with Linux or Windows or BSD? Let normal people have at least one platform that is usable for them.
No. The government's war on drugs created the opioid crisis.
This comment looks like the thinking tokens of a reasoning model with "be cheeky" as its system prompt
Use three repetitions of the ASCII minus for em-dash, two for en-dash.

Do not use the Unicode characters, or people will think you are an AI bot.
> moving the Mac to a new processor architecture (for the second of three times)

Four times kinda — maybe five if you want to count PPC32 and PPC64 separately but I usually don't since the Intel transition happened so soon afterward that there is really no PPC64 lineage to speak of.

I definitely count 32-bit and 64-bit Intel separately though due to the number of years taken to transition, all of the annoying early-Intel-Mac 32-bit EFI issues, and the need to manually opt in to the 64-bit kernel on many machines. In fact Snow Leopard was the first OS to let you do so! The “no new features” tagline was snappy but it's really not true at all :p

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/261749/in-which-ve... sez —

“Mac OS X Snow Leopard and above could only be installed on Macs with Intel processors, and introduced a number of fully 64-bit Cocoa applications (e.g. QuickTime X), and most applications were recreated to use the 64-bit x86-64 architecture (although iTunes was a notable exception to this!) This meant these applications could run in 32-bit mode on machines with 32-bit processors, and in 64-bit mode on machines with 64-bit processors. And yes, the kernel was updated so that it could run in 64-bit mode on some limited hardware, and only by default on Mac Pros, while other newer Macs were capable of running the kernel bit did not do so by default.”

Relevant articles:

- “Mac OS X v10.6: Macs that use the 64-bit kernel” https://web.archive.org/web/20121024223751/https://support.a...

- “OS X: Starting up with the 32-bit or 64-bit kernel” https://web.archive.org/web/20121024194635/http://support.ap...

- https://macperformanceguide.com/SnowLeopard-64bit.html
Agree. Felt the same. Just wanted to add that "wesenszug" for trait would be my choice.
Nice to see more high quality indoor light options. Any idea how you guys compare to this one? https://getchroma.co/products/skylight. I've got some of their other products - I'm generally been pretty happy with them but they do tend to be fairly pricey.
The screen quality is why I didn't get a system76 laptop the last time I did a refresh a couple years ago.
I don't see it as a bigger leap than the internet itself. I recall needing books on my desk or a road trip to the local bookshop to find out coding answers. Stack Overflow beats AI most days, but the LLMs are another nice tool.
They really don’t. People say this all the time, but you give any project a little time and it evolves into a special unique snowflake every single time.

That’s why every low code solution and boilerplate generator for the last 30 years failed to deliver on the promises they made.
to think someone thought that api was a good idea and got all the way to deploying it, yikes
this is an example of an out-of-core processing: https://www.xorq.dev/posts/trino-duckdb-asof-join

Anecdotally, TPC-H 10 TB is pretty doable now a days with DuckDB, so xorq goes as far as your engine may take you...
There’s Krita…

https://krita.org/en/
Likely because it requires a login?
I know folk now that are selling, basically, RAG on lammas, "in a box". Seems a bunch of mid-level at SME are ready to burn budget on hype (to me). Gotta get something deployed in the hype-cycle for quarterly bonus.
Looks like alternativeto.net wins the most divisive prize, for being on the top boosted list but also heavily banned/demoted.

Runner up to the NYT
Your second point directly contradicts your first point.

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.

As for coding, it took a friend of mine three days to go from a cold start with zero dev experience to creating a usable PDF editor with a basic GUI for a specific small set of features she needed for ebook design.

No external help, just conversations with ChatGPT and some Googling.

Obviously LLMs have issues, but if we're now in the "Beginners can program their own custom apps" phase of the cycle, the potential is huge.
Spitball with Claude
Setting aside the fact that if you ask people if they support affirmative action, they generally say yes…

> That’s not a conflicting opinion. People support diversity, but oppose the principal approach to achieving diversity.

That is a conflict! You are describing a conflict! I don’t see how the discussion proceeds from here.
That’s not how language works.
I've been saying this for YEARS. In fact, I just published a blog post saying this very same thing SMH. https://blog.webb.page/2025-03-27-spitball-with-claude.txt
This is similar to how a (cheap) DisplayPort-to-HDMI adapter worked, the adapter itself is completely passive.

Many devices with DisplayPort output support multimode, which allows the device to switch from outputting DP packets to outputting TMDS-based HDMI or DVI signals. You'll sometimes see a ++DP logo on these ports.

This is also why you don't see a cheap HDMI(source)-to-DisplayPort(sink) adapter, the smarts just aren't built into the source device.
how does the oss project benefit the for profit company?

are they logging telemetry or other data?
I use em dashes all the time in writing, but unfortunately ChatGPT and co. use the em dash frequently—and most people use the em dash infrequently, not knowing how to type it on a keyboard—so it's starting to make my writing look AI-generated sometimes. I fear it'll have to go the way of words like "tapestry."

FWIW, you can type an em dash on Mac with shift + option + hyphen.
I’ve never had it give me bullshit citations when I specifically say look it up. It just gives me a clickable link.
I asked Grok to describe a picture I took of me and my kid at Hilton Head island. Based on the plant life it guesses it was a southeast barrier island in Georgia or the Carolinas. It guessed my age and my son’s age. LLMs are completely insane tech for a 90s kid. The first fundamental advance in tech I’ve seen in my lifetime—like what it must’ve been like for people who used a telephone for the first time, or watched a television.
I mean the answer is simple, money. There's a bajillion dollars getting shoved into this crap, and most of the bulls are themselves pushing some AI thing. Look at YC, pretty much everything they're funding has some mention of AI. It's a massive bubble with people trying to cash in on the hype. Plus the managerial class being the scum they are, they're bullish because they keep getting sold on the idea that they can replace swathes of workers.
My advise is to take pleasure and have confidence in good writing, over misspent energy worrying about things like this.

If you practice your skills, you will reap the rewards.
If your job can be hallowed out into >90% entering prompts into AI text editors, you won't have to worry about continuing to be paid to do it every day for very long.
> There are some factual "gaps" there about how good Snow Leopard was

Here are some data points I collected at the time:

https://blog.rongarret.info/2009/08/snow-leopard-is-disaster...

https://blog.rongarret.info/2009/09/esata-on-snow-leopard.ht...

In retrospect Snow Leopard deserves the love it eventually got, but at the time it was not entirely clear.

> Apple's software quality (either in terms of polish or just plain QA) has steadily decreased.

Amen to that.
> I'm looking for a simple editor that can do color adjustments, crop/resize images, and add text.

Those are all pretty simple in GIMP though? I'm not doubting that they are different from Photoshop but how long could it take to learn the GIMP way?
Discussion at the time (157 points, 134 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24686904
Stable diffusion was a productised version of work done at LMU. Not sure Germany is the best example of how AI funding goes wrong.
In the winter a couple incandescent lights per room is often enough to warm it up. I went out of my way this winter to "seal up" my house, and the equivalent of 2-3 bulbs per room is enough to keep them livable - with a sweater and a cap, and maybe socks. I cannot stand artificial heat, something about kt makes me physically uncomfortable, and i just want to leave an area with artificial heat. I'm fine with fires and incadescent bulbs, though.
Ask HN: Best and worst jobs of your career and why?
Nothing to see here. Just Another hot take from a influencer way outside their domain of expertise.
I usually used InDesign for presentations on PC. Switching to Scribus now that I run a linux only office has been trivial.

Specific to LibreOffice - as an academic I've had to create a couple presentations in ppt format recently. It sucks, but it was a requirement of the conference. Anyway - LO Impress still has many of the annoyances of PowerPoint, but head to head it's actually an objectively better, faster program than PowerPoint.
By the same measure, of an llm really sucks we stop using it, same solution
I grew up in the UK, and have always used space, minus, space.

The first keyboard I used was my dad's typewriter, and I don't recall it having any 'dash' other that the minus sign.
People have different opinions about this, but I think one problem is there are different questions.

One is - Google, Facebook, OpenAI, Anthropic, Deepseek etc. have put a lot of capital expenditure into train frontier large language models, and are continuing to do so. There is a current bet that growing the size of LLMs, with more or maybe even synthetic data, with some minor breakthroughs (nothing as big as the Alexnet deep learning breakthrough, or transformers), will have a payoff for at least the leading frontier model. Similar to Moore's law for ICs, the bet is that more data and more parameters will yield a more powerful LLM - without that much more innovation needed. So the question for this is whether the capital expenditure for this bet will pay off.

Then there's the question of how useful current LLMs are, whether we expect to see breakthroughs at the level of Alexnet or transformers in the coming decades, whether non-LLM neural networks will become useful - text-to-image, image-to-text, text-to-video, video-to-text, image-to-video, text-to-audio and so on.

So there's the business side question, of whether the bet that spending a lot of capital expenditure training a frontier model will be worth it for the winner in the next few years - with the method being an increase in data, perhaps synthetic data, and increasing the parameter numbers - without much major innovation expected. Then there's every other question around this. All questions may seem important but the first one is what seems important to business, and is connected to a lot of the capital spending being done on all of this.
Irvine, California: How One Billionaire Controls the Hottest Housing Market
I'm not sure I agree.

I admit I honestly have no idea where the system settings are located as I haven't pressed the start button in ages, but the same applies to MacOS as I would use spotlight there as well.
https://archive.ph/dEeiH
I wonder how much more common vulnerabilities will be in coming years...