skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What we are doing in practice when delegating coding to LLMs is climbing up the abstraction level ladder.

100%. I like to say that we went from building a Millennium Falcon out of individual LEGO pieces, to instead building an entire LEGO planet made of Falcon-like objects. We’re still building, the pieces are just larger :)
"useful hallucination" so much AI glazing its crazy

I'm still a fan of the standard term "lying." Intent, or a lack thereof, doesn't matter. It's still a lie.
Thanks for taking the time to talk through this and for putting more thought into this than many of the projects in this category.
Bribes
My point is that the necessary skill set required by society is ever-changing. Skills like handwriting, spelling, and reading a map are fading from importance.

I could see a future where pioneering might be useful again.
Slightly off-topic, but is the result of the USA tariff "trade-war" mean that we get to trade at a discount with China in Europe? What I mean is, since it's cheaper for China to trade with us in Europe now, does that mean we gain some bargaining power?
https://archive.ph/pDNr3
I do feel for those not enjoying the endless high noise to signal feeds, but up to a point.

A.I. only enables the less talented to achieve remarkable results. Go back 25 years or so when the vast majority of sophisticated spiel was crafted by human based spammer, or a small team of them, it was just as frustrating to realise the new member who joined, apparently mad skills with photoshop and a kick ass introduction throwing together a collage of images and deft background story ... for them after a few posts to slowly start flogging some product. One might have also figured all those magazine ads that seemed too good to be true to make money at home from a computer, might have actually been a pretty boring job posting at what ever message board they could find with a set of posts from a large catalogue of cultured spam. Then forwards a few years, mid 00s and the scripted bot had more or less taken over over with the abundance of open web forums where the concept or usefulness of user groups were more often than not, overlooked.

The TLDR is, it's basically the same - spam.
I assume they mean the profits in the past couple years are dwarfed by the losses that came before. Looking at the company's entire history, instead of a single FY.
> What would be the point, honestly?

Changing insurer's incentive landscape.
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I keep seeing these explanations of “4D chess”. It’s Donald Trump. He has absolutely no idea what he’s doing when it comes to economic policies. Unless you believe he can see into the future of how other world leaders would react and consistently outsmart everyone else, there’s no 4D chess being played.
Has the Proton CEO acknowledged just how farcically off base he was when he said the GOP was the party of small businesses?
You should be. Otherwise, you're showing Adobe and other companies that ethical training is pointless, and isn't economically sensible after all.
Stop having employer provided insurance and make health insurance like buying car insurance ("free market") or do single payer ("communism"). The current status quo of insurance cartels is terrible for everyone involved--employers/employees get fleeced, providers get stiffed, and America gets more unhealthy.
Haven’t we learnt anything? Just look at how some police work in the US.
Damn you HN, I went down the rabbit hole on Geochron. No, I don't need this. Yes, I want it, but not the old version - this one: https://www.geochron.com/product/geochron-digital-atlas-2/

Certainly someone has hacked/recreated this with a Raspberry Pi. I must now go waste a weekend...
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I think there's no hard power stopping them but in general they've been reluctant to openly defy courts (they have defied lower courts some while claiming they haven't). I think at least adhering to some pretense of American democracy has so far been important to this administration and if they abandon that pretense carelessly they run a real risk of losing necessary support (popular support, Congressional support, but also support of executive branch institutions).

Also, it's not that I think they won't defy courts but they'll be very careful in doing it (well, at least as careful as this administration can be) so it's still a reasonable base assumption that court orders protect you since while it's not the ironclad protection it was it still gives you some protection for now. Though that "for now" is obviously rather ominous.
It is one of the wonders of the world. Such a gift that we get to use it for free, from end users like us to large corporations like Netflix.
Youtube influencers have destroyed 'face brands' people have come to see them as vapid fakes, and all the movie/TV actors are lumped in with them. Then there are the added AI similars that add to the decline = we armor ourselves to ignore them - like all ads.It is similar to the way British so called 'high class or related to Lords/Ladies' and they dressed to set themselves apart. You still see remnants in the UK - but it is fading with time. All these Chinese fake brands make me laugh - the Chinese are deep into it, as we see with regular US Customs bag/clothing/perfume/etc seizures.
>Just swap the search box for a chat bot.

Perhaps... but perhaps not. A chatbot instead of a search box may not be how the future looks. Also... a chatbot prompt may not (probably won't) translate from search query smoothly... in a Way That keep ad markets intact.

That "perfected art" of search advertising is highly optimized. You (probably) loose all of that in transition. Any new advertising products will be intrepid territory.

You could not have predicted in advance that search advertising would dwarf video (yourube) advertising as a segment.

Meanwhile... they need to keep their market share at 90%.
Totally agree Gemini Pro 2.5 is currently ahead but it isn't by a gigantic amount.

It's also still uncertain whether Google can turn Gemini into a successful product that either consumers or businesses want to use. They are famously bad at translating their technological advantage into good products - for example the way they shoehorn AI chat into search just makes both worse (imo).

I think OpenAI has the consumers and that'll make it easier to get business. Once they start eating into Google's lunch with AI booked flights and hotels...
Same thing happens to me. The LLM will make up some reasonably sounding answer, I correct it, three, four, five time, and then it circles back to the original answer... which is still just as wrong.

Either they don't retain previous information, or they are so desperate to give you any answer that they'd prefer the wrong answer. Why is it that an LLM can't go: Yeah, I don't know.
It applies to huawei as much as Apple.
One of the main reason LLMs are unintuitive and difficult to use is that you have to learn how to get useful results out of fundamentally unreliable technology.

Once you figure out how to do that they're absurdly useful.

Maybe a good analogy here is working with animals? Guide dogs, sniffer dogs, falconry... all cases where you can get great results but you have to learn how to work with a very unpredictable partner.
“Fix” implies it’s broken. This is like saying it’s one way to fix America’s relative wealth.
My favorite is when the LLM hallucinates some function or an entire library and you call it out for the mistake. A likely response is "Oh, I'm sorry, You're right. Here's how you would implement function_that_does_not_exist()" and proceeds to write the library it hallucinated in the first place.

It's quirks like these that prove LLMs are a long long way from AGI.
I don't understand the advantages of recreating SSE yourself like this vs just using SSE.

> SSE always breaks and requires client side retries to get it to work

Yeah, but these are automatic (the browser handles it). SSE is really easy to get started with.
I've called my insurance company to check whether they'll cover certain medical procedures. And they'll actually play a recording before transferring your call - something like "Statements of coverage during this call are estimates, and are not actual guarantees of payment."

I also learned that they have a whole bureaucracy already in place for appealing of payments. (People whose job it is to field all the rejected and then appealed claims, and write multi-page letters explaining their reasoning...) So I took my complaint to my state's consumer complaints department. Let the two bureaucrats explain things to each other.

And in the end, the insurance company paid me.
Why is no one highlighting how this is repeating history 8 years ago? I don’t get it, there’s this magical reporting gap where all of this is new strategy but it’s the exact same strategy. Why don’t we acknowledge this instead of searching for some new angle?

Here are a bunch of links from 2018/2019:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/13/apple-dodges-iphone-tariff-a...

https://www.kiplinger.com/slideshow/investing/t052-s001-14-s...

https://www.texastribune.org/2019/06/07/trump-tariff-threat-...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/trumps-tariff-str...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-to-delay-tariff-increases...

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/19/hundreds-of-chines...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/china-threatens-retalia...

https://www.cfr.org/blog/trumps-tariffs-are-killing-american...
This is why I don't believe in restrictive licensing of open work.
This is the frustration that leads to getting a dictator wanna-be elected President. People are SICK SICK SICK of these shenanigans and seriously want it to change.
Agreed and in my experience most people claiming "strong opinions, loosely held" are actually "strong ideas, tightly held". Probably 9:1.

Dispassionate debate is a mark of grown ups, and we work with a lot of children in this industry.
Occams razor. It's Donald Trump, I've known he was a joke since the late 80s. In middle school. Baffling to see millions of people think reality TV is real and give him nuke codes.
I feel this is easier than those solutions in a lot of cases - mainly because you don't need to install anything. Just open website, drag and drop a file, pick target format, done.
This list seems very wrong. The US is overrepresented given its relatively short history. The number of breweries in Europe that are older than the US is probably over 100.

While there are a lot of tricky questions around the exact definition, I feel this Wikipedia list seems more believable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies
> terror of global catastrophe

That's considered a delusion?
This isn’t advanced negotiation tactics, it’s mafia style negotiation tactics, which are 100% in character. See the law firms now providing him with 100s of millions in pro bono work to avoid punitive executive orders.
I think the provider side will be the breaking point. You'll start seeing hospitals stop accepting insurance, especially if Medicare goes away, and everything will be cash based. Things will be expensive until hospitals have cut enough fat/figured out the real cost of everything, and this will be a dangerous time to have an illness.

Whether this will usher in a free market utopia remains to be seen, but I think the health insurance industry is going to collapse under the weight of its own greed.
Ethical? You realize most of their training data was obtained by users forced agreement to a EULA with the intention of their art being sold on Adobe’s marketplace without it ever being made explicit their art was going to be used for AI training until much later, right?
Deepseek is not really comparable to Gemini 2.5 Pro.
"Star-bellied sneetches" maybe, but it's not about "biggest piles of capital" as much as about importing things with the following codes:

8471
8473.30
8486
8517.13.00
8517.62.00
8523.51.00
8524
8528.52.00
8541.10.00
8541.21.00
8541.29.00
8541.30.00
8541.49.10
8541.49.70
8541.49.80
8541.49.95
8541.51.00
8541.59.00
8541.90.00
8542
Mhmm! Thanks for adding context.
How does electing a dictator who promises "Vote for me and I will make it worse" help, though? That's the part I don't get.

If the dictator promised to round up these CEOs and send them to El Salvador without a trial, that would be one thing... but the opposite is true, and I think the electorate understood that well enough.
can we trust this administration on principles ?

Why risk prosecutorial discretion or judicial review when they pick the judges and are eager to set precedent, test theories

What’s a visa, green card or naturalization certificate worth when they can make you disappear without consequence?
For some reason even technical and linux-savvy people, (I’ve seen this on zoom calls) will google up an image or video converter. I don’t get it either, but if this provides an alternative to those awful ad-infested sites I guess it is an improvement.
So we are exempting all the tech transfer & natsec risk items but maintaining new embargo-level tariffs on cameras, children's toys, and t-shirts.

Makes a lot of sense if you don't think about it.
This!! We will never have any form of HC reform as long as it's tied to employment.
So those package names are not really hallucinated, since the packages actuualy exist?
> When they made the MP3 format, for example, they took a lot of music and used that to create algorithms that are effective for reproducing real-world music using less data

Your entire argument is predicated on this incorrect assertion. Your argument, as is, is therefore completely invalid.
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I've been working on a project that I think some of you might find really useful. Like many of you, I live in chat apps like WhatsApp and Telegram, but also rely heavily on productivity tools like Notion, Google Calendar, Jira, Calendly etc. I was constantly frustrated by the need to switch between them.

Initially started as a personal project, it's evolved into something I think could be really impactful for others. It's a platform that lets you connect these apps and interact with them directly from your chats, ofcourse in your natural language. It even leverages native voice messages and reply features of WhatsApp and Telegram for a seamless chat experience. And it's powered by a reasoning AI model to understand your requests more effectively, giving you more accurate and relevant results.

It's still early days, but I'd love to get some feedback from the community. Does this solve a problem for you? Are there any integrations you'd love to see? or any other criticism or suggestions are welcome.

Check it out at https://addto.me and let me know what you think!

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Art of the deal.
No, it's not 4D chess, and neither is extorting companies with tariffs, extorting law firms with threats of executive orders, or hammering universities by withholding funds.

It's all blunt-force checkers that any simpleton with power can easily understand.
In my experience, what's being made up is an incorrect name for an API that already exists elsewhere. They're especially bad at recommending deprecated methods on APIs.
True. This is my point too.

The actual business models and revenue sources are still unknown. Consumer subscriptions happens to be the first major model. Ads still aren't. Many other models could dwarf either of these.

It's very early to call the final score.
They will either ignore it or double down with an export tax on items in that class.
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I’ve noticed that the pro-trump posters have been quiet on this site recently, pretty funny.
The US was rich before there was a trade imbalance and remains rich in spite of it, not because of it.
> No, the US government is deporting people for supporting terrorist organizations,

Has it deported anyone voicing support for the Israeli Defense Forces or any of the other Jewish supremacist terrorist organizations currently terrorizing Palestinians? Regardless, your claim that Khalil would have offered material support or even voiced support for a terrorist organization is baseless. Not that it matters either because saying "I love Hamas" is free speech and covered under the First Amendment.
It's vibe governing, just like any other populist government
Because people are desperate for something to change. The status quo is literally killing people.

I'm not saying I agree with their voting decision, but I can, in part, understand their frustration.
Actually, ffmpeg exists thanks to the legendary Fabrice Bellard. He's the rarest kind of programmer, stunningly capable and on a totally different wavelength of existence in terms of breadth of achievements. He made ffmpeg, incepted QEMU, and is a mobile / cellular communications guru.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard
FAI Definition of Human Spaceflight
People are getting screwed every which way so any change seems like an opportunity for improvement. Even Ukraine was excited to see Biden leave office so they could at least have a chance for a better arrangement with America.
> The problem is not that incontrovertible proof cannot be provided real time. Yielding evidence from complex, esoteric systems is always difficult and time-consuming.

Most of the heated discussions that I saw in low performing teams was because of that specific aspect.

Being more specific: if we have 3 people with different levels of knowledge, most of the time if the person that has more in depth knowledge and sense of craft will take the heated position.
Was about to mention photopea as well...I should add that i'm by no means a person who uses this type of software on a regular basis....But whenever i need it i reach for either GIMP or photopea, and last few years, its been photopea far more often.

Honestly, i wish Adobe would still offer the conventional license, but with an additional hosting option that consumer can *choose* to activate and pay more for, or not...so that, basically:

* I pay a one-time license to use photoshop offline - and for however long i wish (understanding that after its end of life i may not eligible for security updates, but that's fair)

* Now, for storing of files, i would need to of course store them locally on my machine.

* But, if i *chose* to pay an ongoing subscription, that is when Adobe would host files for me....so i can still use their product offline, and they only charge me for use of online file storage...and i wouldn't mind if there were a premium on that charge, since i get that i would be paying for an ongoing storage service.

That gives me choice, it gives them money (both for licensing and ongoing hosting subscription), and i would figure everyone would be content....

...but, i guess the current world does not work that way, eh? So, i guess i will continue to avoid their products, heading towards alternatives like photopea, Gimp, etc.
If you spend more money than you make, then yes it's broken. And no printing money is not a solution, it's just a different form of taxation.
Another good option is to actually just use puppeteer (headless chrome)
The "smart trumpers" I know have already staked out the entire range of possible outcomes:

1) He is completely restructuring global trade and decoupling us from China which is tough but necessary medicine because our biggest geopolitical adversary cannot be our largest trading partner

2) You can't believe half of what he says, he's all bluster, he's addicted to deals and will sign some fake deals to score a domestic win and we will resume status quo

Like yeah - sounds smart, but which is it?
They never mentioned if they are providing "him" - as in the US government, or "him" as in Donald Trump, 100s of millions in pro Bono work ...
I’ll add chip designers add redundancy. When errors are detected in testing, they can disable sections of the chip by lasering fuses. That allows routing the circuit through a higher quality area. Quality is measured by not only that the circuit produces correct data but also within tolerances of timing and voltage. IIRC RAM is approximately 10% redundant. A good quality chip will use what meets the spec and leave good transistors unused. A poor quality chip will disable bad ones and only use the ones that meet spec.
If this appals or surprises you but then you call others conspiracy theorists when they're disseminating things that don't align with your mainstream political views, you need to learn from it and stop playing the game.
Maybe it's an Gemini advance only feature but you can generate audio overview right there in gemini interface.
How? Congress has abdicated its role. Trump and his cronies aren’t interested. And the GOP is actively disenfranchising anybody that they consider “other”. State and local governments are only slightly better.

I’m with the poster who suggested emigration. If this chaos continues, I’ll be tempted to renew my UK passport and/or apply for an Irish passport.
It opens up avenues to all sorts off oligarchy style bribery and lack of market competition. ultimately, the country will be looted, since the most successful businesses will not thrive on its merits