skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the OP, but this was a theme in the European Parliament in 2022 [1][2] and it was the object of a document that Greenpeace made [3] showing how pervasive the Russian lobby was over climate policies.

I personally do not believe that Russia does it in Germany via the Green Party but more so over other parties, such as AfD and BSW.

[1] - https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/P-9-2022-00127....

[2] - https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/P-9-2022-00127....

[3] - https://www.greenpeace.de/publikationen/20220517-greenpeace-....
I think it's remarkable, that if you look at like immigration, they really play up the emotional aspects of what they're doing, because they're fundamentally not as competent at deportations. Similar to this, they don't have any answers of how to make it really efficient because it's "hard" so instead we get a twitter feed of imagined savings.
I didn't notice that example. I doubt top tier models have issues with that. I was more referencing Sabines mentions of hallucinating citations and papers which is an issue I also had 2 years ago but is probably solved by Deep Research at this point. She just has massive skill issues and doesn't know what shes doing.

>What are the use cases where the expected performance is high?

https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-pro/

o1-pro is probably at top tier human level performance on most small coding tasks and definitely at answering STEM questions. o3 is even better but not released outside of it powering Deep Research.

https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/137543
o3 is top 200 on Codeforces for example.
The two sides are never going to understand each other because I suspect we work on entirely different things and have radically different workflows. I suspect that hackernews gets more use out of LLMs in general than the average programmer because they are far more likely to be at a web startup and more likely to actually be bottlenecked on how fast you can physically put more code in the file and ship sooner.

If you work on stuff that is at all niche (as in, stack overflow was probably not going to have the answer you needed even before LLMs became popular), then it's not surprising when LLMs can't help because they've not been trained.

For people that were already going fast and needed or wanted to put out more code more quickly, I'm sure LLMs will speed them up even more.

For those of us working on niche stuff, we weren't going fast in the first place or being judged on how quickly we ship in all likelihood. So LLMs (even if they were trained on our stuff) aren't going to be able to speed us up because the bottleneck has never been about not being able to write enough code fast enough. There are architectural and environmental and testing related bottlenecks that LLMs don't get rid of.
Unfortunately, the government sometimes bans disclosing this. The US government, for instance, bans the telcos from telling the customers that they're being tapped.
It feels like a dystopian power play, hey citizen, we are watching you.
I have very similar lived experiences to yours and would extend the age range well into the teenage years (and even sometimes beyond) due to the fact that many young adults are still very sheltered and suffer from the same environments and mindsets established 8 - 12.

Some warning signs are medical illnesses where a young adult is being sheltered as if they are still in a crisis state of that illness, even though they've grown well beyond it and may benefit from being treating like any normal individual.
You seem to be saying that you’re more interested in writing code than understanding problems and designing architectural solutions to them that exploit the best available tools to help create the actual code. Which may be LLMs (to some degree) at this point.

But maybe that’s not your intent.
It never fails to amaze me how little we learn from the past. I wish I knew if it was unique to software development or all industries suffer from this level of hubris.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
That's part of it. The other part is Google sacrificing product quality for excessive monetization. An example would be YouTube search - first three results are relevant, next 12 results are irrelevant "people also watched", then back to relevant results. Another example would be searching for an item to buy and getting relevant results in the images tab of google, but not the shopping tab.
> In general, Microsoft 365 is extremely successful, despite any bugs.

That's because of some very hard monopolistic anti-consumer behavior from Microsoft in their ecosystem.
> They might also be able to rely on Canada

Maybe a dumb question, but wouldn't that have to be transported by ships rather than pipeline in that case, if it's supposed to go all the way to Europe? Sounds a lot more expensive if so.
Trees essentially just pump water out of the ground and up to their leaves where it evaporates. They're like big natural humidifiers.
(Although that turns out not to matter for this particular grep invocation; the -- is still interpreted as a pattern and - as standard input.)
To be totally honest, greens are blocking nuclear and conservatives are blocking renewables so here we are, with the worst of both worlds, breathing smokes and fumes.
this is a really poor comparison. mentioning crime rates by race is considered highly racist because it's a dog-whistle to frame it as "this person is more likely to do this because of their race" instead of framed in a socioeconomic context and the result of long-term systemic racism and oppression.

cops are not a race. cops have extremely high levels of problematic behavior across all ages, races, etc. it's a good thing to call out the problematic nature of cops as a group since they have a literal monopoly on violence and are massively unaccountable for the use of that violence.

the argument "you can't call black people violent, therefore you also can't call cops violent" makes absolutely no sense to me
> I have mixed feelings around rent controls, though. In a healthy, competitive market they should be unnecessary over the long term, but if cities are going to restrict housing construction...

They're a (terrible-outcome-causing) band aid over a combination of too many people and not enough construction.
The Tesla Trees was indeed immediately where my mind went, just give it a few million evolution iterations! And the article not only backs up what the headline indicates - it reads almost as a malevolent adaptation, attracting lightning to eliminate parasites and competition.
Ah yes, I too often have extended English conversation with my washed rope.
You don't want competition. The only competition a school can have is by proxy measurements, and then you are deep into that age old problem that what you measure will decide the outcome.

Just like paying programmers for each bug they fix, which will drive the production of bugs to fix, paying schools for grading children will earn you a lot of highly graded children.

What we need is a respect for the profession. Treat good teachers with a lot of social respect, pay them well so they don't need to think about anything else, and give them a lot of opportunity to educate children as best they see fit. Just like we do with the best doctors.
Do you count social security in this?
Disk I/O bottlenecks in GitHub Actions
Why do you think the inverted pyramid doesn't work for longer form?

If you have multiple points that don't both support a larger point, they should probably be split into two separate essays.

Your first example could be the start of an inverted pyramid if the thesis of the post is how the Monday was just like any other. But the next sentence dashes that notion.

The second example could be an example if it quickly follows up with the ways to convert traffic, but better to lead with the novel way(s) to convert traffic, then follow up with why conversion is more important than generation.
This is a total guess, but I imagine some of our biggest uses for single-use plastic involves food containers, medical equipment, and protecting things from the elements during transit. A lot of times that means exposure to salty solutions. Dissolving overnight would probably be way too fast.
>They don't need the money

Yeah. At a certain affluence, I'd rather have extra space and privacy than extra money. I can't think of a reasonable amount of money that would incentivize me to rent out an ADU in my backyard. $10k a month? idk my kids play in that yard...
Weight the three possibilities how you want but I think in scenario 3 you are coping hard and the grey beard skills aren't nearly as valuable as you think. Is this not already the case? Grey beards already have well known problems with age discrimination despite having such a unique and hard to earn skillset no?
If you're a user of .cursorrules or .windsurfrules, then there's a lot of great content at https://hub.continue.dev/explore/rules. They don't yet support assistant files directly so unfortunately you'd have to copy-paste, but we designed the standard to be client-agnostic and I think it will be a great way of sharing an ecosystem across clients going forward
If they’re already tearing up their back yard, wouldn’t it be strictly more environmentally friendly to buy from them rather than tear up our own back yard?
What's the old saw? Nine women can't make a baby in one month?
In your first phrases you should already made your context, intent and Key message clear.(Framing)

this is one of the lessons of The first minute, a short book that goes well with this blog post.
Some ideas:

1. Have a lawyer send them a letter. A legal firm's letterhead will get taken more seriously than an email or Contact Us, and may force them to respond in some way.

2. Spin up a corporation and have it "acquire" your product.

Use a law firm or other provider as the registered address. If that's not possible in Sweden, incorporate in a jurisdiction outside your country. (This may have an impact on how you get paid, taxes, etc. but that might not matter if you're planning to unpublish).

3. Quantify your damages (eg. cost of above, security firm to do a home assessment, mitigations like installing security cameras, etc.) and litigate.

Unfortunately it can be hard to quantify damage to privacy (check for any precedents in the applicable jurisdiction's case law), and you may have already agreed to terms that prejudice this. Be sure to keep track of any disgruntled user feedback that makes you feel even mildly threatened in any way, any increase in unsolicited mailings, etc.

4. Get a short term rental somewhere, change the address to that, never update. Or use a friend who's about to move or doesn't care (eg. change the address on one of your credit cards to theirs for a billing cycle).

This isn't nice to whoever winds up at that address next.

5. Move, and don't update them with your new address.

6. Instead of selling your old home at the poisoned address, contact your local fire department and offer it as a controlled burn site for training. Scorch the earth and never look back.

Or, somewhat less satisfyingly, donate the land to your municipality as a park. Subject to a clause it be named something like "Alphabet's Reach" in perpetuity, and commission some kind of permenant concrete art installation to forever memorialize their betrayal.
We covet that which we can see. Put it in a box and it ceases to exist.
> Well you can take them there, you just need to move.

This is what I meant earlier. Since you don't see a problem here, we're basically just talking past each other. The fact that I can't register my child within any school in driving distance represents a problem to me.

> So other people in that district should disproportionately support your child's education compared to what you are?

This is a symptom of the broken system that I am trying to present here. There are many existing proposals to amend it. For example, allow parents to use the taxes they are paying with any school. If I pay $5k in taxes annually, and the school 20 miles away pays $10k annually, then I can make up the $5k myself. The point is that I have a choice.
So they used the model as a database? It should be immediately obvious to anyone that this won't work.
And do people want the cheapest of the cheap for own survival? Could it be that interests overlap here?
It is just a different sound for the same thing. There is nothing dumber about "I did an ouchie" then "I got hurt". Ouchie is more infantile, but not stupider.
Not a dumb question. That is what the LNG export market is: cooling fossil gas down cryogenically to liquid natural gas at an export facility, loading onto ships, and unloading at an import terminal (which can float and be repositioned geographically as demand warrants). Is it expensive? The question is: compared to what? For Europe, is it cheaper to lob military hardware at Russia or to pay a premium for gas (vs buying from Gazprom), causing the Russian economy to head towards failure? You're spending the fiat either way. Price is what you pay, optionality is potentially what you get.

> [Gazprom] Management misjudged how resolute European capitals would be, according to one of the executives, who said the thinking inside the company was that Europe would quickly be back "begging" for Russian gas supplies to resume.
Despite the economic pain of higher energy costs, the EU has not rolled back sanctions.

> "We proved to be wrong," the executive said.

> U.S. gas exporters quickly moved to replace Russian gas in Europe. The U.S. has become the biggest exporter of LNG to the continent, with supplies tripling since 2021. Europe still buys Russia's sea-borne liquefied natural gas (LNG), but mainly from Gazprom's rivals, Novatek's Yamal LNG plant.

> The European Union aims to end its use of Russian fossil fuels by 2027 and its overall gas consumption has decreased in part due to a shift to renewable energy sources.

Russia's high-flying gas exporter [Gazprom] crippled as Europe stays away - https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/gazproms-grandeur-fa... | https://archive.today/3lHKy - March 13, 2025

LNG Market - Comprehensive Study Report & Recent Trends
- https://introspectivemarketresearch.com/reports/lng-market/ - August 2024

Economics of Gas Transportation by Pipeline and LNG
- https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-86884-0_... | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86884-0_2

(commodities market participant, no current LNG exposure, think in systems)
> Dissolving overnight would probably be way too fast.

They addressed that issue, it's in the article.
We'll all be living in a Dyson swarm around the sun as the AI eats the solar system around us and people will still be confident that it doesn't really think at all.
Would you also propose we skip over the Bohr model of the atom and teach Schrödinger to ten year olds?
Clickbait is a bug tagged with WON'T FIX
> it's viable to not want to invest in new climate damaging infrastructure

The EU has flowed like a trillion dollars into LNG infrastructure with longer payback timelines than wells.
What makes Levi's "genuine" given the diversity within Levis' supply chain quoted from the article below? Is a cane sugar Coke from Mexico a "genuine" Coke when it is imported to the US, where it is made with corn syrup? [0]

Levi’s sources its fabric from dozens of mills across the world, from luxury
supplier Candiani in Italy to sites in India, Bangladesh, Mexico, and Turkey.
The six pairs I tested were manufactured in three places: Cambodia, Macau,
and Mexico. The company’s supply chain is vast, and to some extent, it makes
sense that jeans made to the same specifications from different mills, dye
facilities, and factories would result in different products.

0. https://www.seriouseats.com/coke-vs-mexican-coke
Autoregressive LLMs don't usually work on tree structures, they work on capped-length linear token sequences, which are isomorphic to fixed-length sequences.

I'm not sure why you think working on tree structures rather than fixed length sequences would be necessary for diffusion language models—which, again, actually exist; aside from Mercury which is proprietary, there is also LLaDA: https://ml-gsai.github.io/LLaDA-demo/
No, national elections do that. The leaders that you elect in the national elections then appoint a commissioner (one each).
TLDR; Author doesn't like being on-call when there's no concrete effort being made to solve the issue that results in calls.
> To be fair, "functional analysis is infinite dimensional linear algebra" is a saying for a reason, that's an intuition a good professor should have given you. Mine gave me it so well, I still see no difference between R^n and a Hilbert space! (on the dangers of intuitions)

That's the thing: not only he didn't share this intuition, he actively prohibited people from bringing it up in the class because it can lead to mistakes.

The program was to start with most generic cases (Banach spaces, metric spaces) and prove whatever is provable there, then continue adding assumptions one by one and proving stronger and stronger theorems. I think we've reached Hilbert spaces by the end of the year and that was a gotcha moment for many students (wait, these vectors were functions the whole time?), but it was too late. Everyone failed miserably at proving or understanding all the preceding theorems because without the intuition it turns into a game of symbols with no structure or hope. The only recourse were those bootleg analogies from finite spaces and Fourier analysis that a few students knew or came up with.

The "New Math" you mention above gives a good frame of reference. A beautiful curriculum that's almost impossible to understand unless you already learned math the normal way -- a formally incorrect and inconsistent but reliable way.

I also made similar mistake myself when I tried to teach the C language to 12 y.o kids without saying the dreaded "just write it like that, you'll understand later". That experiment failed completely but I only understood why two years later when I myself was subjected to the functional analysis course. Or I think the complete realization came to me even later, with the C language experiment and the functional analysis story becoming pieces of the same puzzle.
it is depressing, for issues see the condition Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)

The light here looks really good, but the cheaper (less nicer) alternative is just a powerful (natural) LED light - search for SAD lights
They can be taking a loss and it's still less of a loss then suspending production.

At the scale of industry we're talking about, a lot of counterintuitive things happen that make perfect sense in context.
Because mainframe is "legacy" and also "dusty" technology it won't show in magazines as much as the hype du jour - nosql, frontend wonders, you name it. So yes it will be paid less by default. Also the fact that mostly old folks are maintaining those systems quietly is neither helping their image nor pushing their salaries.
There's no real environmental impact to drilling the North Sea other than carbon emissions, which obviously happen either way.
So you are in favor of reducing the funding your childs school receives from the federal government? And for using the government to restrict funding to universities unless they comply with limiting the speech of students and professors?

I don’t see how that makes your child’s school better, can you explain how we get from A to B?
60-70% loss in GDP would mean the literal end of the country, it's a ludicrously large figure no one could ever rebuild from. This is a 7.7 earthquake; it probably is 6–7% GBP which is still significant.
One of the big problems with how easy it is to generate “content” is that the good stuff easily gets lost among the deluge of dross. Also, there’s no shortage of good quality content being produced so even if you find something good, it may not be the right time for that person.

E.g., I checked your Hacker News submissions and found your platform via your Show HN submission.¹ As someone interested in philosophy and the concepts of stoicism, it looks good but unfortunately I’m too busy at the moment and don’t have enough time to engage with it properly so I’ve bookmarked it to come back to it later.

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43214712
Most people I know (including my parents) who've tried to do the whole "middle-class route to riches!" thing by becoming small-scale landlords have advised me to never, ever, ever try, for exactly the reasons you state: sooner or later you'll get fucked over so hard by a tenant that it wipes out years of income, and you've done it all for nothing.

Exception: one guy, well aware of these issues, had a hack for it—he only owned houses near medical or nursing schools. Nursing and medical students pay their rent and don't trash the place.
And you'd better not 'delve' into anything
This is a good point but also Russia is a nation state not a company. The 80% of the revenue spent on operating costs is just invested in their economy and creates jobs and pays taxes. For a state enterprise, the balance sheet is very different than a private company.
JWST zooms in on 'Einstein ring' caused by bending of the universe
The LLM output inference is often too fast to be illogical or nonsense.
> I would rather be poor than make a lot of money doing something I hate.

This post and quote resonated with me. I love my work and have been fortunate to make enough disposable income to enjoy life and support my family. And it is funny how the money seems to follow the passion-- something that wasn't obvious to me for several years. However, I would stop well short of saying that I'd rather be poor than make money doing something I hate. I grew up poor and I can still recall moments from my childhood of being unhoused, not having meals or clean clothes, standing in line at food pantries, and of my mother and grandparents going without to ensure me and my siblings had something. Now, I admittedly haven't read the author's other posts to know his background, but for me I'd rather work just about any job than subject myself or family to poverty and it's longer term psychological and physical health complications.
maybe the content just sucks now, much more likely explanation than a conspiracy against him
Why Human Faces Look So Different from Neanderthals
I was drawing a contrast between the prisoner in the panopticon (does not have privacy) and the citizen in their home (has privacy). Because of that contrast, I was suggesting that panopticon is an inappropriate term for surveillance that happens only in public spaces.
Oh, that's pretty short. I was expecting to see some benchmarks on the gains from switching over from MSVC to Clang.
This is a lie that has been disproven repeatedly and is part of the disinformation that is spread all over the internet. What _is_ required is flexible power distribution and storage infrastructure
WWII went badly for Germany but it's important to keep in mind it went badly for everyone else too.
the construction no longer has to be parallel
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39106355
I feel like at this point when people make some claim about LLM they need to actually include the model they are using. So many "LLMs can do / cant do X", without reference to the model, which I think is relevant.

I am hoping that the LLM approach will face increasingly diminished returns however. So I am biased toward Sabine's griping. I don't want LLM to go all the way to "AGI".
Probably better to have AI help you write a script to translate postgres statements to mysql
I think all we are learning from this thread is that there is a non-trivial number of tenants who are terrible and there is a non-trivial number of landlords who are terrible. The activity of renting a home is fraught with risk that your counterparty is terrible. The two parties' financial interests are often opposed, and state and local law tends to incentivize at least one and sometimes both parties towards being terrible.

I would never want to be a renter again, and I also have no interest in becoming a landlord.