skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...But, the post I am replying to is literally suggesting that the reason why this system isn't a panopticon is because there isn't an expectation of privacy in public. Yet, the term comes from another place where there also isn't an expectation of privacy. I honestly suspect people are getting a little confused.
Being a police officer doesn't even rank in the top 10 most dangerous jobs in America. Loggers, fishers, roofers, and delivery drivers all face higher fatality rates according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

The Supreme Court explicitly ruled in Castle Rock v. Gonzales (2005) that police have no constitutional duty to protect citizens from harm, effectively nullifying the "committed their lives to your safety" claim.

These "million+ hard-working officers" actively maintain the corrupt system by refusing to hold their colleagues accountable. The "few bad apples" theory falls apart when entire departments and unions systematically protect officers who abuse their power.

American police have earned their reputation through decades of documented misconduct, militarization, and resistance to meaningful reform. The institution works exactly as designed.
Think about the early days of digital photography. When digital cameras first emerged, expert critics from the photograph field were quick to point out issues like low resolution, significant noise, and poor color reproduction—imperfections that many felt made them inferior to film. Yet, those early digital cameras represented a breakthrough: they enabled immediate image review, easy sharing, and rapid technological improvements that soon eclipsed film in many areas. Just as people eventually recognized that the early “flaws” of digital photography were a natural part of a revolutionary leap forward, so too should we view the occasional hallucinations in modern LLMs as a byproduct of rapidly evolving technology rather than a fundamental flaw.

Or how about computer graphics? Early efforts to move 3D graphics hardware into the PC realm were met with extreme skepticism by my colleagues who were “computer graphics researchers” armed with the latest Silicon Graphics hardware. One researcher I was doing some work with in the mid-nineties remarked about PC graphics at the time: “It doesn’t even have a frame buffer. Look how terrible the refresh rate is. It flickers in a nauseating way.” Etc.

It’s interesting how people who are actual experts in a field where there is a major disruption going on often take a negative view of the remarkable new innovation simply because it isn’t perfect yet. One day, they all end up eating their words. I don’t think it’s any different with LLMs. The progress is nothing short of astonishing, yet very smart people continue to complain about this one issue of hallucination as if it’s the “missing framebuffer” of 1990s PC graphics…
According to Wiki[1] and UC San Diego's website[2], this was actually a 650 ft tsunami. The location probably helped for the wave's height. Per the same article, it's far from the biggest ever theorized but in a good position in the biggest ever recorded.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatsunami

[2] https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/climate-change-triggered-lands...
How did you measure and compare googling/stack overflow to coding with an LLM? How did you get to the very impressive number ten billion times better?! Can you share your methodology? How have you defined better?
I agree that it's worth investigating...I was just expecting more detailed analysis from an academic paper. The story linked basically says "3-5 year-olds can classify stuff into groups."

For what it's worth, I have a 2- and 5-year-old, so I'd love to know more about how their brains are developing.
Now is a great time to download your payment history from SSA.gov
For a while I thought about starting a nonprofit or foundation or whatever whose goal was get universities to adopt the coop model for all majors, not just engineering. The idea was to take a year and learn how the world actually works. We're talking literally basic business skills like how to run a meeting, how to do an effective presentation, etiquette for email and slack etc. Also give exposure to different types of work (office vs frontline vs outdoors etc) and industry types. 1/3 business, 1/3 nonprofit, 1/3 government.
Uhm. You probably haven't seen the crazy Google sheets that exist out there.

They are really stretching what you should be doing with a spreadsheet and they are fully collaborative/multi-user. At some point it got really old to wait fifteen minutes for the sheets to recalculate.
> One pair of 32/32 might feel 'off' and the next is the best pair you've ever owned

My understanding is that this isn't tied to Amazon or any specific retailer. But rather the cutting process for the fabric. They'll cut large stacks of denim cloth in a single go, and that's not an exact process. And that's why you can buy multiple supposedly identical pairs and notice differences.
this is definitely true for genre fiction, especially when pulp magazines were still in business.

That doesn't preclude quality from coming out of it eventually - one of my favorite examples is Walter Miller's 'Canticle for Leibowitz' which was reworked from several of his pulp short stories into a single novel. It's a really great book! I think the incentive structure encouraged volume over quality, but quality still did matter. There wasn't the same algorithm-hacking incentive at play, and you still had to get your works past an editor and approved. Those are important distinctions!

that said, as an aside, im a little nonplussed by the inclusion of hiphop as opposed to, say, 'pop' or 'country', music.
Wikipedia[1] contains more links to data, if you want to sample a few more sources.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States
I am unable to think of a single animal behavior popularly ascribed to intelligence but in fact explainable by rote instinct. Do you have an example?

OTOH there are plenty of animal behaviors that can only be explained by intelligence: seeing-eye dogs perform a task which is economically useful for humans yet far beyond the ability of AI (even if the robotics mech eng issues are resolved). But it also doesn't really make sense that one of my cats is "instinctually" able to understanding my words while the other cat is "instinctually" able to outsmart me when we play with toys. The more sensible explanation is cats are intelligent and intellectually diverse.
I pay my accountant 500 USD to file my taxes. I don't consider that "through the nose" relative to my my inflated tech salary.

If a person is making a smaller income their tax situation is probably very simple, and can be handled by automated tools like TurboTax (as the sibling comment suggests).

I don't see a lot of value add from LLMs in this particular context. It's a situation where small mistakes can result in legal trouble or thousands of dollars of losses.
People are bullish because, despite your rant about quality, even you still use it every day:

> I use GPT, Grok, Gemini, Mistral etc every day in the hope they'll save me time searching for information and summarizing it.

Even worse, you're continually waiting for it to get better. If the present is bright and the future is brighter, bullishness is justified.
His point was that he was working on a product that solves no actual problem.

Quantum RNGs are gimmicks that are sold as a solution to a security problem. But they don't solve any security problem. There are real security problems with RNGs, but none of them is solved by a Quantum RNG. They usually come down to implementation errors or not using a secure RNG.
> including entirely different and lower quality fabric on amazon

This could easily be counterfeiting via SKU mingling
You’re absolutely right, I’ve edited my comment to say vehicle tax rather than road tax. It’s actually one of my personal bugbears as well, so I can’t believe that I said that.
> buying Levis from Amazon (or any other store), pick up at least a couple of pairs in the same size.

At least for Amazon, keep in mind that they’re likely not put back into normal circulation if you return them so you’re creating waste where there doesn’t have to be.
I was on as many as three on-call rotations for a few years. One had only two people for a while, so I was on every other week. The two things I most remember are:

* Arranging my whole life around on-call requirements. Bringing my laptop and backpack every time I went out. Designing new running routes that would use every street in a neighborhood and keep me close to home so I could respond within a 15-minute window. And yeah, the drinking thing. It pervaded my life in many ways I hadn't expected.

* Time zones and geography. These were always problematic, but especially during on-call. Often I'd narrow a problem down to a particular component that I didn't know well, so I'd try to contact the sub-team responsible for it, but nobody would respond. Then I'd try to turn the right knobs myself, and as often as not get yelled at for it in the morning. No, my afternoon, because my coworkers were three hours behind and late-commuters to boot. Of course they'd never hesitate to schedule meetings or ping me for trivial things well after my dinner.

I had taken the job, initially working on a project for which I was already a maintainer, because I wanted to avoid becoming an "architecture astronaut" by getting closer to operational reality. Indeed, I did learn a lot about how my own code behaved in real life. I don't have a problem with on-call requirements in and of themselves, but the way people and organizations handle the details is kind of <vomit emoji>.
Dagger does also provide a Java and Go SDK. It's all the same API underneath, so you're free to use whichever client you prefer.
I like LLMs for what they are. Classifiers. I don’t trust them as search engines because of hallucinations. I use them to get a bearing on a subject but then I’ll turn to Google to do the real research.
Evidence so far is against it working. FSD is the ivermectin of AVs.
I'm smelling another hyperloop ...
The social contract is really to fix the damage your (at fault) collisions cause.

At least in jurisdictions I've been in, the state requires evidence of financial responsibility as a requirement for driving. (Enforcement is a separate issue from requirement). A car insurance policy is evidence of financial responsibility, and the most common; but you can also post a bond of something like the minimum insurance amounts. Yes, if you don't have the money to post a bond, you're more or less forced into insurance or not driving (or driving illegaly), but that's we know you'll uphold the social construct of fixing the damages you cause. You don't need insurance to ride a bicycle, because it's not as easy to cause damages with a bicycle.
>Boiling down to a couple cases would be more useful if you actually tried to disprove those cases or explain why they're not good enough.

This reply is 4 comments deep into such cases, and the OP is about a well educated person who describes their difficulties.

>What's ironic about that? That's such a tiny imperfection.

I'd argue it's not tiny - it highlights the limitations of LLMs. LLMs excel at writing basic code but seem to struggle, or are untrustworthy, outside of those tasks.

Imagine generalizing his case: his wife goes to work and tells other bookkeepers "ChatGPClaudeSeek is amazing, it saved 2 hours for me". A coworker, married to a lawyer, instead of a software engineer, hearing this tries it for himself, and comes up short. Returning to work the next day and talking about his experience is told - "oh you weren't holding it right, ChatGPClaudeSeek can't do the work for you, you have to ask it to write code, that you must then run". Turns out he needs an expert to hold it properly and from the coworker's point of view he would probably need to hire an expert to help automate the task, which will likely only be marginally less expensive than it was 5 years ago.

From where I stand, things don't look amazing; at least as amazing as the fundraisers have claimed. I agree that LLMs are awesome tools - but I'm evaluating from a point of a potential future where OpenAI is worth a trillion dollars and is replacing every job. You call it a tiny imperfection, but that comes across as myopic to me - large swaths of industries can't effectively use LLMs! How is that tiny?
Informed versus Uninformed AI Skeptics
LLM interactions are more a reflection on the user than a objective technology. I'm starting to believe that people that think that LLM's are terrible are sub optimal communicators. Because their input is bad the output is.
to be fair a few? one? years ago LLMs were touted? marketed? as a "search killer", and a lot of people do use it in that fashion.
As someone who used to work for a Mainframe software vendor I'm tired of COBOL being considered "legacy" and bad. I didn't do much COBOL programming, but IBM is still releasing new compilers and new versions of z/OS for the Mainframe. Just because a language is old doesn't mean it's useless and worth rewriting. Instead of having COBOL be the boogeyman explain what the issues are. Is the system stuck on old COBOL versions do to lack of funding for upgrades, incompetence when it comes to long term maintenance plans, technical issues that make it impossible to move forward with new COBOL versions and would require a rewrite, etc. Are we going to see stories like this in 20 years about some company thinking they should rewrite the Linux Kernel in some new language and throw away all the C code that's been running for decades?
I find it very amusing how essentially all digital vlsi has been autorouted for years, but no one can seemingly solve the board level PCB autorouting problem. I get that one is digital, and the other can be essentially anything, but the difference in practice is a strange juxtaposition.
Using Generative AI in Software Architecture
how would one go about doing this?
You have to assume that anything you buy on amazon that is shipped from one of their warehouses is counterfeit, regardless of any effort you put in to avoid it. That doesn't stop me from buying things there, but it does stop me from buying certain things from there.
Grok, make a node.js program to administer and oversee hundreds of millions of dollars in payments to millions of retirees. VERY IMPORTANT: No fraud or DEI.
Just why?

We don't need Greenland for security or anything else. That's some mid-20th-century notion of warfare. That's not how things work.

The obvious answer is that this is just more flooding-the-zone -- talking about something he doesn't really intend to do so that we overlook the things he's actually doing.

But I wonder if it's more than that. Perhaps it's the ego trip of having been told that this was a stupid idea, and therefore must prove it. And that's almost as scary -- that gets people killed. (Only "almost", because I find the complete dismantling of democracy even scarier, and that's what's going on.)
hahahaha

What can go wrong and with the inspection service all fired, who will check for backdoors

Again these people need to go, and as others said, save everything you have from SSA on paper and if you can PDFs.
Handling Form Errors in Htmx
I think it's about laying foundations at the beginning, not the length of the text at the beginning. The first sentence/paragraph is the foundation of everything beneath it, whereas the base of a normal pyramid is the foundation of everything above it.
Tell me you're an inexperienced developer without telling me you're an inexperienced developer.
Grab their social security statement [1], payment history/schedule [2], and keep the documents mentioned here [3] on hand and ready.

[1] https://www.ssa.gov/myaccount/statement.html

[2] https://www.ssa.gov/manage-benefits/view-benefit-payment-sch...

[3] https://www.ssa.gov/benefits/retirement/planner/applying5.ht...
Bleh, that attitude ruins merch. If all you care about is maximizing the number of walking billboards then you're satisfied because it's impossible to calculate the ROI of making available designs that people actually want to wear in public but reduces walking billboards.

The only tech merch I've ever worn was back when firefox had a good logo, goodwill, and no text on the front of the shirt.

Lots of people just want a simple graphic tee and IFKYK. It's not sports. Bands can sometimes get exceptions, but often approach wrestling tshirt levels of gaudiness.
I agree that sometimes organisations conspire against people. My point was, in case it wasn't apparent, the irony that somenameforme was talking about how LLMs were of little use because they hallucinate, whilst apparently hallucinating a conspiracy by AI companies to overhype the technology.

I wasn't making a political point. You see similar evidence-free allegations against international organisations and national government bodies.
Exactly, it's useful for theft. Taking the value other people produce is the whole benefit of social intelligence. If you can convince someone that a scam is a good deal, you don't need to create any value at all. This is the origin of, among others, the political class.
Our monetary policy changes by the month. And currently it is sustaining a 3% inflation just like it was when the ship was turned around during Biden's admin. The target is a 2% inflation rate, which no one considers "highly inflationary".
It's much easier to get molded plastic into the same shape repeatedly, than it is to get fabric stitched together exactly the same way every time.

As for the Xbox controllers, it could be a lot of differences. Microsoft does not feel the need to keep different runs exactly the same. They may be more willing to buy different types of plastic depending on what's cheapest this quarter.

Or it could be much simpler, maybe iPhones do feel different. How much time do you actually spend interacting with someone else's phone (Have you ever even actually touched another person's phone, or just their case?), vs how much time did you spend with your buddy's Xbox controllers?
The repo man is truly a changed character.
The first thing I associate with "content creator" is youtube. Probably one of the last is "onlyfans model".
With AI you extend into a complex plane of effectiveness
Blind Deconvolution is around for a while and from the estimated PSF you can gather the shake pattern (or tell whether it’s just overall out of focus). It just never worked good enough in practice but I remember some impressive results already a decade ago
What country are you in?
Haven't seen this in Germany yet and I've probably bought close to over hundred packs of Ernie Ball strings in my life, both from Amazon and Thomann as well as local shops.
They certainly stack, how else would you get to Mars other than with a space-elevator-type-ladder of 10x engineers. Certainly not those failing brittle rockets.
I really think baby talk is a phenomenon that pre-dates helicopter parenting
Comment Non-Idiomatic Code
From my experience this is less an application of critical skills and more a domain knowledge check. If you know enough about the subject to have accumulated heuristics for correctness and intuition for "lgtm" in the specific context, then it's not very difficult or intellectually demanding to apply them.

If you don't have that experience in this domain, you will spend approximately as much effort validating output as you would have creating it yourself, but the process is less demanding of your critical skills.
It's a bit funny. On macOS en and em dashes can be natively typed with alt+- and alt+shift+-. The responses to your comment are apparently suggesting these methods are just as easy as that:

1. Install and configure this extra tool, which also by default enables a ton of other things you may not want, and may as well be a third-party tool even though it's technically built by Microsoft

2. Do a Google search and copy-paste (!)

3. Use a keyboard shortcut to bring up a symbol picker, then click on the tab containing the en and em dashes, then click to type them in

I mean, come on.
I’m just not sure how to square that quote with this from the about page:

> I reside in Las Vegas but also spend a lot of time in Hawaii, Budapest, and elsewhere. I’m a minimalist nomad.

No matter how minimalist one is, traveling is difficult with no money.
How do people in the future become domain experts capable of properly making use of it if they are not the analyst spending two weeks on the write-up today?
Most of the comments on this article regard the privacy of the individual against the police or other state authorities, but a main point in the article is that this license plate/vehicle fingerprinting data is public information subject to FOIA requests, and thus any citizen can use FOIA requests to track any other citizen. The article touches briefly on the implications of that for jealous lovers or people motivated to stalk others. That's a bit different from scrutinizing the operation of (potentially dangerous) vehicles on a public road. At some point US society really needs to have a debate about how FOIA and the surveillance state intersect.
I think the dangers of nuclear war are overblown in public perception.

Regarding räydiäyshun alone, there have been 512 atmospheric nuclear weapons tests since 1945, and were still here. Maybe with a little bit higher cancer rate, but that could have been caused by many other things, by unwise introduction of byproducts of industrialisation. Hrmm. Lemme ssink...industry...oh yeah, coal power! Even moar räydiäshun!1!! Whee!

Then there is the theory of Hormesis. Which could be applied to at least some forms of weak radiation, in spite of only a few very vocal, nay-saying kooks. See many places around the world, were people are bathing and breathing in radone-rich caves and waters, or beaches in Brazil.

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsar,_Iran

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

and many more, just without entry in the global cybernetic landfill.

So, away with the 'glo-in-ze-dark' stuff, except for one last thing:

Spontane Verdampfung führt zur Entkrampfung! (Spontaneous evaporation leads to relaxation)

Hrmyah, whaddäbbout WW3? Depending on where you are, that already happened, when seen as total devastation of ones environment. Does it matter when it glows in the dark by itself? Does it have to, to make ones situation even more miserable? Do I care?

No. I prefer a rather cold, zoomed out view, as envisioned in the commandments of the Georgia Guidestones, proudly riding my trusty Blucifer.

Ze Ztarz! My Destination! (One way or another, I don't bother)

Now please excuse me, I need to have the snake tatto reapplied to my dick, otherwise Jizzbella disapproves...…
People have built that:
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2024/10/03/metas-r...

Meanwhile, you can also wear these: https://www.reflectacles.com/home
Taken to an extreme without formatting, sure, but what ranges have that many digits in human-readable situations? And if there are those exception situations, you can word around it for that case ("285368760800±45691" or "45'691 years after 285'368'737'954")

Genuinely trying to think of an examples, since e.g. books aren't ever that long and search results don't have that many pages (that you'd all read and refer back to). A salary range, perhaps, can get into the seven digits in extreme cases (not that you care about any individual digit when you make a lifetime's worth of money in a bit more than a year): "Prospective salary is 2'423'000 to 2'432'000" seems to convey the relevant info as well as "Prospective salary is 2'423'000 to 9'000" does (except that I wouldn't understand the latter and ask what this second number means, but that's plausibly attributable to me as an individual not being used to it)
Do You Declare Many Variables?