skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. The vast majority of browser exploits are in code related to the JS engine and its accompanying huge API surfaces, and even those rare ones which don't require it are often obfuscated/hidden using JS.

Exploits aside, the amount of user-hostile irritating annoyances that just disappear without JS is also worth mentioning. Many years ago, I remember a site that was completely usable, yet continually begged me to "enable JavaScript for a better experience!", so I tried it and was immediately inundated with popups, moving flashing crap all over the page, and other things that I did NOT consider a "better experience". Never again.
> Q4_K_M has ~0 quality degradation

Llama 3.3 already shows a degradation from Q5 to Q4.

As compression improves over the years, the effects of even Q5 quantization will begin to appear
There's also Paddle (who's a Merchant of Record)
if i had to guess: NYT was the original source of the news and Ars is just reporting on NYT reporting. Or alternatively, Ars is frequently really slanted and disingenuous to the point of dishonesty fairly often
What is the interest in this article from 2001? There is a rich GIS and visualization history that has happened since then … if you really want to see something radical look at Wild Bill Bunge’s work
> The force of gravity is weak. And not just a little bit weak. It’s so much weaker than the other three fundamental forces—electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces—that it’s almost impossible to provide analogies.

Nothing in nature prevents gravity from just being super weak. Some forces could just be super weak.

The unspoken premise of gravity being weaker than other forces is that all forces were unified at some point. So iff you assume all forces in nature were once one force, then gravity being weak is an anomaly.
Chipotle bowl closer device (3D printed) [video]
And you won’t be able to do anything.

That’s why regulating some base standards and labelling is essential.
Though a local model I'm running (gemma-3-27b-it; https://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/gemma-3-27b-it-GGU...) just told me various correct sounding bits about his history with alcohol (correctly citing his alma mater and first wife), but threw in:

"Sobriety & AA: Newman got sober in 1964 and remained so for the rest of his life."

Which doesn't check out. And it includes plausible but completely hallucinated URLs (as well as a valid biography.com URL that completely omits information about alcohol.)
For them to work at all they need to have some representation of concepts. Recent research at anthropic has shown a surprising complexity in their reasoning behavior. Perhaps the parrot here is you.
Then I will finally be able to use the full power of aluminum foil rolls from Costco.
What do you call someone that mentions "stochastic parrots" every time LLMs are mentioned?
More like: they are no longer starving, and can now tend to the pain in their foot.

I've heard similar versions of this argument, usually something about modern poor people having it pretty good because they have microwave, while Carnegie didn't.

>I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine. [0]

We're now complaining about people studying painting, poetry, etc.

[0]https://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/archive/doc?id=L178005...
There's the politics of the corporations and then there's the business of the science behind LLM's, this article feels like the former.

Maybe someone active in the research can comment? I feel like all of these comments are just conjecture/anecdotal and don't really get to the meat of this question of "progress" and the future of LLM's
You don't even need 5G when things like Amazon Sidewalk exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Sidewalk

Echo devices serve as internet-to-sidewalk bridges by default so it's pretty extensive, Amazon claims >90% of the US population is covered.
I think that example comes from the talk "Safety in an Unsafe World" [0, slides at 1].

There are some crates which implement lock ordering as well (e.g., [2, 3]). lock-ordering states it's inspired by the technique discussed in the talk as well, for what it's worth.

[0]: https://youtu.be/qd3x5MCUrhw?t=1001 (~16:41 in case the timestamp link doesn't work)

[1]: https://joshlf.com/files/talks/Safety%20in%20an%20Unsafe%20W... (deadlock prevention example starting slide 50)

[2]: https://github.com/akonradi/lock-ordering

[3]: https://github.com/alaric/lock_order
No, they just don't care / too lazy / whatever. We get one minority's preferences over a slightly smaller minority.
How not to structure your DB-backed web apps: a study of performance bugs (2018) [pdf]
Just now, because Vodafone is running Wi-Fi hotspots on their customers' routers. (It's opt-out.)

An appliance wouldn't be able to use that, of course.
This one is top, using it for ages: https://getdpd.com
Another part of the problem: Waymo, for example, doesn't provide motorcycle specific stats. They only provide collisions with vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians. There's no breakdown of vehicle type. So the basis of this article is already bullshit and likely done just for "space man bad" reasons
UnbiasedAI
I would hope that 100% of them would be able to figure out how to find out.
A wonderful project!

After reading this comment I couldn't help but picture medieval monks, toiling away copying old manuscripts into "modern" English. Normally a thankless task, so thank you!
I know it’s not common but I’ve kept a client-isolated open wifi hotspot on my property for a long time. You never know when someone might be in the neighborhood and need a connection!

So far, a single client has connected in 4 years and I can’t remember if that was me or not.
yes that would explain the effect I think. I'll try that out this week.
After reading your comment, I visited a synopsis of Echopraxia, because, I realized, I could remember almost nothing of it -- only a few snapshots of a space station and vampiric predation. Turns out it left almost no imprint on my brain. Blindsight is, I agree, much tighter (and thus, for me apparently, more memorable). Looking back on Echopraxia, I wonder whether it suffers, as Children of Time*, I think, does, from trying too hard to expand its established universe.

The god virus really is a fun idea -- more of Watts' one-man war on the tree of life (not only is God not at the top some metaphysical/ontological hierarchy; it's at the very bottom) -- but, in retrospect, I think you're right that it's not as well developed as it could have been or maybe needed to be.
> Hell, when Microsoft was still shipping software on CDs you may have noticed a little fine print mentioning the Caribbean island on which the disc was technically manufactured.

I don't recall this at all. What software was it?

Going through my box of ancient software, they all either say made in the US either on the CD/DVD or on the packaging, except for a copy of Office 97 and Office 2007 which says made in Puerto Rico (which is the US).

They certainly had CDs pressed in other countries for foreign markets. I imagine some foreign made laptops might have come with CD/DVDs pressed in those countries.
In addition to housing, most parents of school age children also hate the school lottery system. Even if you can afford a home there's no guarantee that your child will be able to attend the closest public school. There's a reason why SF has more dogs than children.
Hey, I don't see why libertarians shouldn't join in. This is essentially a guild.

For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worshipful_Company_of_Security...
HN: "Why so many people to do X? This should be like a 20 person startup!"

Also HN: "No....!!! You can't downsize!!!"
It's the first time I've ever used that phrase on HN. Anyway, what phrase do you think works better than 'stochastic parrot' to describe how LLMs function?
My favorite stat about this is that more people voted for Trump in California than either of Texas or Florida
Wouldn’t Fresno or elsewhere in the Central Valley also work for in-California?
>When submitted a list of questions about his work for DOGE, Lavingia told Wired: “Sorry, I’m not going to answer these, besides to say I’m unpaid. And a fan of your work!”

Crazy to me that people have actually been convinced that a bunch of billionaires and millionaires have suddenly decided to work for the good of the American people free of charge.
And if not, you can just copy the link down below to share this page!

Or you could just copy it from the address bar?
Assuming that the models getting better at SWE benchmarks and math tests would translate into positive outcomes in all other domains could be an act of spectacular hubris by the big frontier labs, which themselves are chock-full of mathematicians and software engineers.
It reminded me a part of the "The Tar Pit" esssay from The Mythical Man-month:

> Why is programming fun? What delights may its practitioner expect as his reward?
> First is the sheer joy of making things. As the child delights in his mud pie, so the adult enjoys building things, especially things of his own design.

...

> The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by the exertion of the imagination.
That's right.

This is not about the blue check marks at all. It's about X not censoring information to the EU's tastes, and them finding something... anything, to punish Elon for it.
Is there something I can write here that will cause you to send me your bitcoin wallet?
I'd add memory leaks to the list. Sometimes you feel compelled to wrap your data in an Rc or Arc (reference counted pointers for those unfamiliar) to appease the borrow checker. With capture semantics of closures and futures and such it's quite easy to fall into a referential cycle, which won't be freed when dropped.
The GradBench Benchmark Suite for Automatic Differentiation
He does say "If both are equally easy to create, why choose the less readable one?" which seems like a nod toward maintainability.
The AT&T lawsuits are a moot point, as they were all settled in the early 1990s. They are the sole reason why FreeBSD and NetBSD even came into existence – by forking the 4.4BSD-Lite codebase after the disputed code had been eliminated or replaced with non-encumbered reimplementations. Otherwise, we would all be running on descendants of 4.4BSD-Lite today.

The lawsuit was settled in Feb 1994, FreeBSD was started in 1993. FreeBSD was started because development on 386BSD was too slow. It took FreeBSD until Nov 1994 until it rebased on BSD-Lite 4.4 (in FreeBSD 2.0.0).

At the time 386BSD and then FreeBSD were much more mature than Linux, but it took from 1992 until the end of 1994 for the legal clarity around 386BSD/FreeBSD to clear up. So Linux had about three years to try to catch up.
There's no need for the federal government to get involved. It's already way too large and intrusive; giving it more power and authority would be utterly un-American. Zoning problems can be completely fixed at the state government level, and the optimal solutions are likely to be different in each state.
Intermittent fasting increases sex drive in male mice
We're talking about a stochastic parrot which in many circumstances responds in a way which is indistinguishable from actual understanding.
> Jean-Louis Gassee overplayed his hand

Well, there’s a parallel universe! Beige boxes running BeOS late-90s-cool maybe, but would we still have had the same upending results for mobile phones, industrial design, world integration, streaming media services…
> Surprising Behavior of Path::join With Absolute Paths

> I was not the only one who was confused by this behavior. Here’s a thread on the topic, which also includes an answer by Johannes Dahlström:

> > The behavior is useful because a caller […] can choose whether it wants to use a relative or absolute path, and the callee can then simply absolutize it by adding its own prefix and the absolute path is unaffected which is probably what the caller wanted. The callee doesn’t have to separately check whether the path is absolute or not.

> And yet, I still think it’s a footgun. It’s easy to overlook this behavior when you use user-provided paths. Perhaps join should return a Result instead? In any case, be aware of this behavior.

Oh, hey, that's me! I agree that it's a footgun, for what it's worth, and there should probably get a dedicated "absolutize" method for getting the "prefix this if relative, leave as is if already absolute" semantics.

(link to the thread: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/rationale-behind-replacing-pat...)
For the academic take on this see:

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-001-structure-and-interpretati...
> they vastly underperform us govt agencies

Interesting. I'll have to dig into the data more, then. I wouldn't be surprised if they beat out NGO's dollar-for-dollar (it's expected for the government to have far more funding via taxes), but I'm more curious about the average efficacy of those dollars.
Ha!

Honestly, that could be the tagline for MENSA as a whole.
Tell me you want overpriced shoeboxes without telling me you want overpriced shoeboxes.

Some things just don’t work, because people are greedy. That’s mostly why we can’t have nice things.
Creating a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for a given task is a classic approach to solving problems.
This is how all HIPAA "secure email" works. Outlook, Zoho, clinic comms, BECAUSE it lets you revoke email access.

If you want an opportunity in this space, it isn't actually encrypted emails, but possibly standardizing and streamlining such "message pointers" and address endpoint verification.
If you've got access to chatgpt o1 pro, which carries a Massive compute - you can ingest a SHIT LOAD of public data to get this. I'm releasing a lead magnet that has most of this information on my twitter here in a day or so, @makershelpdesk
Doesn’t proton mail also do this for sending encrypted mail to folks with no encryption?

They ought to do pgp though
Numbers of cases, deaths, and how those numbers are tabulated are factual data. We can argue over the data quality, but at this point we have data from many independent countries' health services. Our view of these facts has gotten better with time, and we now have more certainty than we did in the early days of the pandemic.

Recommendations, regulations, and responses to the pandemic as it happened are factual in the sense that they happened, but are not "facts" in the same way. It is not a fact that standing in a restaurant without a mask was terrorism and sitting was fine. Instead, given the information available at the time, and the practical requirement to have your mask off to eat, this policy was chosen for a time as a risk mitigation balanced with practical requirements. The appropriateness of this policy is a matter of opinion.
I'm sorry that reality has a well-known liberal bias, but the Brookings link that was posted is simply data - it's not opinion or analysis:

> This data tool allows users to track the flow of federal funds in real time. It shows actual daily, weekly, monthly, and annual processed outlays to key programs and departments, as well as to states, Congress, and the Judiciary. This tool only reports outlays of federal funds, meaning the actual transmission of funds from the federal government to another entity.

> This tool makes few to no adjustments to the data, meaning that cyclical, seasonal, idiosyncratic, and expected variation in patterns of outlays over time remain. Because this tool only reports outlays, one cannot discern directly whether there is a gap between obligated funds and their outlay. Furthermore, if federal agencies have changed the rate at which they are newly obligating funds (e.g., by declining to sign new contracts), those changes would only gradually be reflected in outlays.

The fact that you attack the messenger (and not in any way questioning the methodology of the data collection, for example) explains why so many of us in the current environment are so sick and tired of these lazy attempts at "argument". I'm sure you have your own alternative facts, though.
I've always been amazed by this. I have never not been frustrated with the profound stupidity of LLMs. Obviously I must be using it differently because I've never been able to trust it with anything and more than half the time I fact check it even for information retrieval it's objectively incorrect.
They kind of are knowledge bases, just not in the usual way. The knowledge is encoded in the words they were trained on. They weren't trained on words chosen at random; they were trained on words written by humans to encode some information. In fact, that's the only thing that makes LLMs somewhat useful.
This makes no sense. CEO’s are inherently capitalist, but SF is a communist city, so her appeal is absurd on its face.
You will not be confined, you will have the freedom of choice whether to do that or be coerced into doing that
> The part that really struck me was framing advertising and propaganda as essentially the same mechanism - just with different masters.

A big reason for that is influence from Edward Bernays:

"Edward Louis Bernays was an American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, referred to in his obituary as "the father of public relations". While credited with advancing the profession of public relations, his techniques have been criticized for manipulating public opinion, often in ways that undermined individual autonomy and democratic values."

Bernays' mother, Anna, was Sigmund Freud's sister. There seemed to be a talent in that family in understanding the human psyche, and how to utilize that understanding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
It would be interesting to see SpaceX retaliate against the EU, such as by charging a fee for all EU launches to cover the EU's lawfare.
This doesn't matter.

Look, SF voters are not going to vote for this. It's not going to happen. The people you're courting—by definition—don't live there. The existing economic base is fine.

Well-paid tech employees aren't civically engaged and their salaries are enough to cover their housing. Until they aren't, like when starting a family, at which point many move out of the city and no longer have a vote.

The major, high-turnout voters are _home owners_. They do not want cheaper permitting because it will drive down their property values. That's the whole point!

It's the same as the homelessness epidemic in SF. Everyone theoretically supports it but in a strong council system, no supervisor (their equivalent of a city council member) will support it for their district. "I support homeless shelters and de-regulation, just not in my district" is the prevailing take, which means neither will ever pass.
With great power comes great responsibility :-)
Ah, so no abuse took place then? Interesting how it works. One could look at it as well-deserved frustration. No one would've batted an eye were Rust to be chosen, but opting into Go over C# or F# is an unquestionably poor long-term decision.
> Why is that a problem to you?

Because seculars/athiests often believe that they're superior to the "stupid, God-believing religious" people, since their beliefs are obviously based on "pure logic and reason".

Yet, when you boil down anyone's value system to its fundamental essence, it turns out to always be a religious-like belief. No human value is based on pure logic, and it's annoying to see someone pretend otherwise.

> Someone is not good or bad because you agree with them

Right, that's what I was arguing against.

> Even a religious person can recognise that an atheist doing charitable work is being good

Sure, but for the sake of argument, I'm honing in on the word "good" here. You can only call something "good" if it aligns with your personal value system.

> The attitude you describe is wrong

You haven't demonstrated how. Could just be a misunderstanding.
It turns out there's huge demand for un-monetized web search.
CodeScientist: Automated scientific discovery system for code-based experiments
Simon Winchester did a book on this:

_The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World_

(alternately title _Exactly_)

https://www.goodreads.com/work/editions/56364115-the-perfect...

and for further technical details see:

_Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy_ by Wayne R. Moore

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262130806/foundations-of-mechan...
That's a interesting thought. I'm going to ask around and see what I can learn.
Relevant.

https://sfstandard.com/2022/09/13/how-san-francisco-makes-it...
It's too bad these models are built on the expectation of pirating the world
The Lisp Curse: http://winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html
Morphic: The Self User Interface Framework
People are really fundamentally asking two different questions when they talk about AI "importance": AI's utility and AI's "intelligence". There's a careful line between both.

1) AI undoubtedly has utility. In many agentic uses, it has very significant utility. There's absolute utility and perceived utility, which is more of user experience. In absolute utility, it is likely git is the single most game changing piece of software there is. It is likely git has saved some ten, maybe eleven digit number in engineer hours times salary in how it enables massive teams to work together in very seamless ways. In user experience, AI is amazing because it can generate so much so quickly. But it is very far from an engineer. For example, recently I tried to use cursor to bootstrap a website in NextJS for me. It produced errors it could not fix, and each rewrite seemed to dig it deeper into its own hole. The reasons were quite obvious. A lot of it had to do with NextJS 15 and the breaking changes it introduces in cookies and auth. It's quite clear if you have masses of NextJS code, which disproportionately is older versions, but none labeled well with versions, it messes up the LLM. Eventually I scrapped what it wrote and did it myself. I don't mean to use this anecdote to say LLMs are useless, but they have pretty clear limitations. They work well on problems with massive data (like front end) and don't require much principled understanding (like understanding how NextJS 15 would break so and so's auth). Another example of this is when I tried to use it to generate flags for a V8 build, it failed horribly and would simply hallucinate flags all the time. This seemed very likely to be (despite the existence of a list of V8 flags online) that many flags had very close representations in vector embeddings, and that there was almost close to zero data/detailed examples on their use.

2) In the more theoretical side, the performance of LLMs on benchmarks (claiming to be elite IMO solvers, competitive programming solvers) have become incredibly suspicious. When the new USAMO 2025 was released, the highest score was 5%, despite claims a year ago that SOTA when was at least a silver IMO. This is against the backdrop of exponential compute and data being fed in. Combined with apparently diminishing returns, this suggests that the gains from that are running really thin.
Zoning needs to be a little more nuanced than "build whatever you want."

I'd be happy to see multi-family dwellings in my neighborhood but there's a few steps between that and buying out my neighbors to build an ammonia processing plant.
Which adds complexity and solves nothing. We'd better have a standard markup (we already have) than this half-assed wannabe-markup that is so complex and a minefield that modern forums tend to filter it anyway. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_subscripts_and_super... – The wikipedia article about unicode sub/superscripts can't even render half of these symbols on neither of my {ios,windows,android} devices. In theory we have it, in practice it's dead baggage.