skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For us, the NN is used in a grey box model for MPC in chemical engineering. The factories we control have relatively long characteristic time, together with all the engineering bounds, we can use the NN to model parts of the equipment from raw DCS data. The NN modeled parts are usually not the most critical (we are 1st principles based for them) but this allows us to quickly fit/deploy a new MPC in production.

Faster time to market/production is for us the main reason/advantage of the approach.
I have a 200W LED flood light and it was the most depressing thing to shine indoors. EVERYTHING was covered in dust and filth that you wouldn't see under normal-intensity light. It felt like things had collapsed and I was surveying the remains of someone's house.
As someone who has finally found a way to increase productivity by adding some AI, my lesson has sort of been the opposite. If the initial response after you've provided the relevant context isn't obviously useful: give up. Maybe start over with slightly different context. A conversation after a bad result won't provide any signal you can do anything with, there is no understanding you can help improve.

It will happily spin forever responding in whatever tone is most directly relevant to your last message: provide an error and it will suggest you change something (it may even be correct every once in a while!), suggest a change and it'll tell you you're obviously right, suggest the opposite and you will be right again, ask if you've hit a dead end and yeah, here's why. You will not learn anything or get anywhere.

A conversation will only be useful if the response you got just needs tweaks. If you can't tell what it needs feel free to let it spin a few times, but expect to be disappointed. Use it for code you can fully test without much effort, actual test code often works well. Then a brief conversation will be useful.
Firstly I am not summarising the podcast, simply using whisper to make a transcript.

T even if I was, because I do this multiple times a day and have been for quite sone time I know how to check for errors.

One part of that is a “fact check” built into the prompt, another part is feeding the results of that prompt back into the API with a second prompt and the source material and asking it to verify that the output of the first prompt is accurate.

However the level of hallucination has dropped massively over time, and when you’re using LLMs all the time you quickly become attuned to what’s likely to cause them and how to mitigate them.

I don’t mean this in an unpleasant way but this question - and many of the other comments responding to my initial description of how I use LLMs - feel like the story is things that people who have slightly hand wavey experience of LLMs think, having played with the free version of ChatGPT back in the day.

Claude 3.7 is far removed from ChatGPT at launch, and even now ChatGPT feels like a consumer facing procure while Claude 3.7 feels like a professional tool.

And when you couple that with detailed tried and tested prompts via the api in a multistage process, it is incredibly powerful.
I think there's a fair argument to be made that when you're chasing Big O algorithmic improvements, then the effective constant terms incurred by "faster or slower language execution" are premature optimisation. The difference between Rust or hardcoded assembler compared to Javascript or VisualBasic are pretty irrelevant if you're still trying to get your exponent or polynomial terms under control.
Buy them some proper lubbed linear switches as a gift, they will thank you!! (Or show them some keyboard videos about ‘thock’ and plant a seed ;) )
> Upon examining the internal structure of the fossilized Prototaxites, the researchers found that its interior was made up of a series of tubes

Who knew the internet evolved millions of years ago?
> my mitochondrial DNA is 100% Native American

This statement implicitly accepts race as biologically real. That it can't be fully described with "neat little groups" doesn't make it less so.
The problem isn't abundance, or the lack of thereof. The problem is capitalism. Capitalism creates an excess, but it gets stuck with:

1. People who have money, who already have anything they want, so they won't buy more.

2. People who don't have money, so they can't buy anything.

And it's specifically the debt based part of capitalism that prevents this from fixing itself. Giving more loans won't fix it, it only shuffles it arpund a bit at best

What needs to be done, if there is the will, is:

1. Ban all further loans.

2. Print enough money to pay all the due debts and distribute it in some way with no strings attached.
LOL, now that you mentioned it, terminals have been always.. difficult (to avoid saying retarded again) with delete and backspace and i have no idea why :D

these days it's not so bad (probably because mainly working with linux these days), but when i was younger and working with different Unices, getting terminal to work properly involved lot of effort and internal screaming "Y U no work!"
I think people would like money but being a landlord in addition to probably being a multi-income household is a lot. A lot can go wrong being a landlord even in a place with permissive laws.

One thing that I think would be interesting would be allowing the sale and transfer of unused development rights (AKA "air rights.") That lets somebody take advantage of the development capacity without the landowner having to make a gamble on what could be a very risky development. A lot of jurisdictions have something like this allowed already but generally limit it to certain districts, or only landmarked properties get to sell development rights like this, or something else.
Then the optimal strategy is to never say "don't know" and never get caught lying.

Seems to work for many people. I suspect my career has been hampered by a higher-than-average willingness to say "I don't know"...
And what if someone voted for Stein as a signal of support for voting reforms like ranked choice voting or proportionate representation necessary to actually fix these root problems?

How about if they voted in a state in which every elector was already going to vote republican anyway?

Or what if they voted to protest against Harris being chosen without a primary vote, against the basic principles of democracy? (And from a party so unwilling to pay attention to the situation on the ground that it had to wait until nearly the last moment just to be able to admit that Biden wasn't going to make it.)

I can see a lot of reasons to try sending a message that way, and as far as I know Stein didn't cost democrats the vote in any state, and certainly wouldn't have cost democrats the vote nationally even if the overall popular vote mattered (which as we all know, it doesn't); your message is extremely reductive and frankly seems like a purely emotional attack. You really aren't elevating the discussion.
> completely make up a story to make you look amazing when they ask about your background?

Everyone does this
It's becoming clear to me that some people just have vastly different uses and use cases than I do. Summarizing a deep, cutting edge physics paper is I'm sure vasty different than summarizing a web page while I'm browsing HN, or writing a Python plugin for Icinga to monitor a web endpoint that spits out JSON.

The author says they use several LLMs every day and they always produce incorrect results. That "feels" weird, because it seems like you'd develop an intuition fairly quickly for the kinds of questions you'd ask that LLMs can and can't answer. If I want something with links to back up what is being said, I know I should ask Perplexity or maybe just ask a long-form prompt-like question of Google or Kagi. If I want a Python or bash program I'm probably going to ask ChatGPT or Gemini. If I want to work on some code I want to be in Cursor and am probably using Claude. For general life questions, I've been asking Claude and ChatGPT.

Running into the same issue with LLMs over and over for years, with all due respect, seems like the "doing the same thing and expecting different results" situation.
Finder search is just as bad. You can be viewing a directory full of JPEGs, all with the jpg extension.

Then you do a search for .jpg, and get NOTHING. But only sometimes. Other times it'll work.
"typing code is a small portion of programming"

"I agree, only 10% of what I do is typing code"

"that explains it, you aren't a software developer"

What the hell?
Like I pointed out elsewhere, it doesn’t stick for me.
cf. https://arxiv.org/html/2311.02462v4#S4
Business type? I am nothing near a business type, with two technical degrees and 20 years of hands-on experience. But I managed to build my own stable business over the years, in part due to being analytical and not rushing to conclusions, especially not over strangers on Internet ;) Where did you get the conclusion that I am delusional? It's actually the business types who think that these tools are magic, mind-blowing, etc. I am, like many other "technical types", pushing for the opposite view - yes to some extent useful, but no where near the magic they are being advertised as. Anyone who calls them "mindblowing", like some guys in my comment thread are either inexperienced/junior or removed from the complex parts of the work, perhaps focused on writing up React frontends or similar.
GPT 4o or AI image generation
Are People Subconsciously Ignoring AI-Generated Images? Even when they’re high quality (like with GPT 4o model), they seem to get less engagement compared to human-created visuals. Is this a cognitive bias, a lack of emotional connection, or something else? Have you noticed this yourself? Is this similar to banner blindness?
Pete Hegseth, pledges US support for Manila against China
Def. related to my parents. I cured it by exposure aka living in Asia
Microsoft doesn’t release an Office version every year. They technically released 2019, 2021 and 2024, but they have all been “Office 16” versions. As far as I could tell they are more or less “service packs” + random improvements/small features on to of the 2016 base. I was planning to upgrade last year but life got in the way and I only use that machine in the deep winter. Do you know what release they introduced that in?
Given there are more renters than landlords it's a literal Laffer Curve of popularity.
That's it? You could fork OpenSign and stick a RAG agent on the side of it in a couple hours I guess. Not much going on though.
also shows just a blank page for me. osx/safari
I'm completely with you. The technology is absolutely fascinating in its own right.

That said, I do experience frustrations:
- Getting enraged when it messes up perfectly good code it wrote just 10 minutes ago
- Constantly reminding it we're NOT using jest to write tests
- Discovering it's created duplicate utilities in different folders

There's definitely a lot of hand-holding required, and I've encountered limitations I initially overlooked in my optimism.

But here's what makes it worthwhile: LLMs have significantly eased my imposter syndrome when it comes to coding. I feel much more confident tackling tasks that would have filled me with dread a year ago.

I honestly don't understand how everyone isn't completely blown away by how cool this technology is. I haven't felt this level of excitement about a new technology since I discovered I could build my own Flash movies.
So some kind of freeze-out period?

What about people who are genuinely interested in pushing the state-of-the-art in the industry? Would you want those people to avoid regulatory jobs in the first place? I could easily imagine folks like that not wanting to take an active role in the regulatory process if it meant they had to sit on the sidelines for a decade afterward.

But yeah, that seems reasonable
Link works fine for me, thanks op.

Hegseth’s consequence free, ego-first behavior is about what one would expect from a talking head turned secretary of defense. So much for merit.
> rivers don't think and water doesn't have strategies, yet you can build intricate logic-gated tools using the power of water.

That doesn't mean the water itself has strategies, just that you can use water in an implementation of strategy... it's fairly well known at this point that LLMs can be used as part of strategies (see e.g. "agents"), they just don't intrinsically have any.
Depix is a PoC for a technique to recover plaintext from pixelized screenshots
there's plenty of ways to gauge someone's technical competency without asking quiz style questions or leet-code questions in the interview.

your classic whiteboard - manual way, using physical from or the whiteboarding web tools.

you can discuss design patterns, how they would solve issues you've ran into in production and compare approaches.

it seems as if software 'engineers' are the only snowflakes that have to go through this ritual.
> One one hand it is actually sort of insane that undocumented people have all these rights...

Well, the 14th Amendment says "nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws" so... there's that.
> emergency workaround

I once really urgently needed `nmap` to do some production debugging ASAP. Unfortunately, the security tools would flag this immediately on my machine, as I knew this from previous experiments. Solution - compile my own binary from sources, then quickly rename it. I assume that this "workaround" was totally fine for sec department. At least production got fixed and money kept flowing.
I didn't see any. Mobile browsers have nice ad blockers, too.
It depends. For small tasks like summarization or self-contained code snippets, it’s really good—like figuring out how to inspect a binary executable on Linux, or designing a ranking algorithm for different search patterns. If you only want average performance or don’t care much about the details, it can produce reasonable results without much oversight.

But for larger tasks—say, around 2,000 lines of code—it often fails in a lot of small ways. It tends to generate a lot of dead code after multiple iterations, and might repeatedly fail on issues you thought were easy to fix. Mentally, it can get exhausting, and you might end up rewriting most of it yourself. I think people are just tired of how much we expect LLMs to deliver, only for them to fail us in unexpected ways. The LLM is good, but we really need to push to understand its limitations.
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What dou you mean with more integrated? It is a regular desktop PC with an apu (like is totally common for office PCs, just bigger) and soldered instead of upgradeable ram.

It would be kind of funny, but also very sad, if Apple guys mistook the copying of apple's worst behaviour - producing throwaway devices - as a sign of quality. Though I think we are there for years now with phones, I wouldn't expect such thinking here.
Keep in mind it understands nothing. The notion that LLMs understand anything is fundamentally flawed, as they do not demonstrate any markers of understanding
The answer I got from ChatGPT was:
...........

A material that is both electrically conductive and good at blocking sound is:

Lead (Pb)
• Electrical conductivity: Lead is a metal, so it conducts electricity, although it’s not the most conductive (lower than copper or silver).

• Sound blocking: Lead is excellent at blocking sound due to its high density and mass, which help attenuate airborne sound effectively.

Other options depending on application:

Composite materials:

• Metal-rubber composites or metal-polymer composites can be engineered to conduct electricity (via embedded conductive metal layers or fillers) and block sound (due to the damping properties of the polymer/rubber layer).

Graphene or carbon-filled rubber:

• Electrically conductive due to graphene/carbon content.

• Sound damping from rubber base.

• Used in some specialized industrial or automotive applications.

Let me know if you need it optimized for a specific use case (e.g., lightweight, flexible, non-toxic).

...........

This took me less than 10 seconds.

Pretty damn good if you ask me.
russian people would love this
> Voters don’t take campaign platforms at face value

Huh. That sounds like validation of my original point that the Democratic Party has been "prioritizing housing, infrastructure and government services supporting people's economic activity of all kinds", so dkjaudyeqooe's suggestion that candidates/officeholders should do that seems ... idempotent at best.

Maybe people should pay attention to what candidates campaign on and the policy they enact instead of going off vibes and trigger phrases.

Certainly that would give candidates and officeholders more electoral incentives to produce policy that serves voters.
Don't know much about that policy but I frequently monitor electricity usage via https://app.electricitymaps.com and Germany has usually the highest carbon intensity electricity in western Europe. Getting rid of nuclear seems to have made things worse.
Idiotic question, but can you have an "angled mode" that lets the godray travel during the day, following the real suns position, given the location and mounting direction of the light?
> Thats not an LLM problem

It is, if the purpose of LLMs was to be AI. "Large language model" as a choir of pseudorandom millions converged into a voice - that was achieved, but it is by definition out of the professional realm. If it is to be taken as "artificial intelligence", then it has to have competitive intelligence.
Paprika oleoresin is orange when lightened even though it looks red at first, annatto as well, radish powder is purplish and smells terrible, beetroot looks dull muddy red, anthocyanins don't look red at alkaline ph and aren't oil soluble, madder is said to be toxic, cochineal disgusts me, are there other alternatives? Lycopene seems the best so far.
I can guarantee that nobody involved in this will face any consequences.

The reporter might, but no one else.
Democracy is better than the alternatives, but that doesn't mean people aren't collectively pretty stupid. Your average American probably couldn't even find North Korea or Iran on a map, but that won't stop them from having opinions on those countries.
Baudillard and all related thinkers are fashionable nonsense and intellectually bankrupt.
AugmentQA: A Benchmark to test Code Retrieval on real codebase
That vehicle is now sold as the Toyota Hilux Champ.[1] But not in the US.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Hilux_Champ
The article is spot on and articulated my feelings exactly. I too became a loyal Apple supporter nearly 20 years ago because "it just works". Sadly, I no longer feel this way. The operating systems on my Macbook, iphone and iPad have consistently gotten worse with each update over the last 5-10 years. Apple is losing the magic on the software front.
It wouldn’t be a HN post without someone sizing the work as “a couple of hours” and a “$5/month cost” after all.

Though my post is missing an /s that I didn’t think it needed.
Paint.Net on Windows. Though on Windows there is Paint, that is less capable, but still no equivalent is on MacOS OOTB. (Also the drama around Paint is worth its own bashing).

I'd be interested in a similar basic tool as paint for mac and Linux (and possibly also for windows, if MS crappifies Paint, after it has tried to kill it earlier)
On the last level, getting all the frogs converted to one colour and lined up on one side did not recognize the level as complete.

Did I mess the direction or is this by design or is it an omission?
They're already training up rodeo riders and ranch hands for the anticipated Siberian cattle ranges.

https://miratorg.ru/en/events/rodeo/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW_XWZjqG2Y
This is neat writeup on use of uv, but it doesn't solve the "how to give self contained script to grandma" problem.

Now anyone you give your script to has to install uv first.
When I grew in Europe America was just the best. America this, America that. American movies, American TV.

Today... I wouldnt even call it a boycot, when McDonalds is sitting there empty. Its more like a emperor without clothes situation. People are realizing is was all just bogus.

I even feel dirty these days visiting this site.
The supercavitating supersonic submarine is a nice endpoint for the evasion discussion but I can't help thinking about the wake that would leave.

Yes it can depart the firing area quickly but if one wanted to find it again for counterfire, surely the point where the absurd wake turbulence ends is a suitable search datum.

Presumably an opponent with capable spaceships can spare the power required for scans along these principles: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09242...
Side effects of being angry that there’s another country, by almost all metrics, took the lead. Next step is forcing a war, I guess.
Knowing SQL isn't being a "mega super genius" or "way talented". SQL is flawed, but being hard to learn is not among its flaws. It's designed for untalented COBOL mainframe programmers on the theory that Codd's relational algebra and relational calculus would be too hard for them and prevent the adoption of relational databases.

However, whether SQL is "trivial to write by hand" very much depends on exactly what you are trying to do with it.
I checked out a half dozen “long term” reviews from Australia and Asia about these cars and find some curious quirks not well reported yet in the US. The first is the range claims are utter horse shit. They don’t get nearly the distance or efficiency advertised. The battery charging is really slow even at max juice input. They often have mechanical bugs that reflect poor engineering development attention to detail: crap reverse camera (worse than a Ring), interior materials the same color but different and mismatched shades, wiper and signal indicator stalks on opposite sides from the expected (as in different than every other car on the market), ridiculously cheap stock tires, and one developed a “concerning” steering return-to-center friction needing service attention.

Most of these reviews were in the 15,000 to 20,000 km range. That’s right - km, not miles! Personally I’m anti-hype on BYD because while I am also anti-Tesla, I find mass market engineering from China to consistently underwhelm. For comparison, I loved my Volkswagen Golf GTI 1.8T 5 speed from 2003. How many millions of those well engineered, reasonably priced VW Golfs of that generation were manufactured and sold worldwide? I’m really interested in the new MB CLA. Prius 2.0 looks sexy as hell.

To be frank, until I see somebody like Jeremy Clarkson review a BYD, or Tavarish, or Lewis Black, I’m reluctant to feel like I’m missing out here in the US. There’s already enough image-over-substance crap in this country. Can one of these actually make it 30,000 miles in everyday use in the DFW Metroplex without shaking themselves to pieces or becoming insufferably tedious?!
8 years mac user here, never use Spotlight, it's a trash.
The shift is because of rapid evangeliszation and abandonment of catholocism in American Latino communities in the past 10 years. It’s a sociological phenomenon.
Without bad intent, I am not sure I am even able to make sense of your sentence. Honestly it sounds as if you fed my comment into an AI tool and asked for a reply. Here is a tip for the former junior dev turned nascent GenAI-Vibecoding-manager - if you want to attack someone's credibility, especially that of an Internet stranger you are desperately trying to prove wrong, try to use something they said themselves, not something you are assuming about them. Just like I used what you said about yourself in one of your previous posts. Otherwise the same thing will keep happening over and over again and you'll keep guessing, revealing your own weak spots in domains of general knowledge and competence. My second advice to a junior dev would have been to read a book once in a while, but who needs books now that you have a magic machine as your source of truth, right?