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type: comment
by: netsharc
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  Might as well integrate it with an AI boy&#x2F;girlfriend, have a very hot partner who is also capable of listening...


type: comment
by: caminanteblanco
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  I could definitely see that being an issue, but like with so many UX decisions, I wish they would at least hide the option somewhere in a settings menu.<p>I also don&#x27;t think it would be impossible to give the LLM access to the timestamps through a tool call, so it&#x27;s not constantly polluting the chat context.


type: comment
by: shmerl
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  It&#x27;s easy to use on Linux with Compose key:<p>Compose + --- produces —<p>See all other combos in &#x2F;usr&#x2F;share&#x2F;X11&#x2F;locale&#x2F;en_US.UTF-8&#x2F;Compose<p>But who is using it without it in common scenarios?


type: comment
by: cess11
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  On the face of it, it looks similar to israeli border guards and cops in the West Bank.<p>Paramilitary, high tech equipment, close to zero accountability. It&#x27;s not far off that the people they&#x27;re snatching don&#x27;t have any legal means to fight it either, similar to how palestinians are held in &#x27;administrative detention&#x27; and only have access to extremely corrupt military courts.<p>I suspect that negotiation is not going to get either states or popular movements very far against this threat.


type: comment
by: elestor
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  An AI-generated thank you letter is not a real thank you letter. I myself am quite bullish on AI in that I think in the long term, much longer term than tech bros seem to think, it will be very revolutionary, but if more people like him have the balls to show awful things are, then the bubble will pop sooner and have less of a negative impact because if we just let these companies grow bigger and bigger without doing actually profitable things, the whole economy will go to shit even more.<p>I&#x27;ve never been able to get the whole idea that the code is being &#x27;stolen&#x27; by these models, though, since from my perspective at least, it is just like getting someone to read loads of code and learn to code in that way.<p>The harm AI is doing to the planet is done by many other things too. Things that don&#x27;t have to harm the planet. The fact our energy isn&#x27;t all renewable is a failing of our society and a result of greed from oil companies. We could easily have the infrastructure to sustainably support this increase in energy demand, but that&#x27;s less profitable for the oil companies. This doesn&#x27;t detract from the fact that AI&#x27;s energy consumption is harming the planet, but at least it can be accounted for by building nuclear reactors for example, which (I may just be falling for marketing here) lots of AI companies are doing.


type: comment
by: TeMPOraL
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  &gt; <i>There is an analogy in the sense that for the users a resource is, for certain practical intents and purposes, functionally common. Social media is like this as well.</i><p>I think it&#x27;s both simpler and deeper than that.<p><i>Governments and corporations don&#x27;t exist in nature</i>. Those are just human constructs, mutually-recursive shared beliefs that emulate agents following some rules, as long as you don&#x27;t think too hard about this.<p>&quot;Tragedy of the commons&quot; is a <i>general</i> coordination problem. The name itself might&#x27;ve been coined with some specific scenarios in mind, but for the phenomenon itself, it doesn&#x27;t matter what kind of entities exploit the &quot;commons&quot;; the &quot;private&quot; vs. &quot;public&quot; distinction itself is neither a sharp divide, nor does it exist in nature. All that matters is that there&#x27;s some resource used by several independent parties, and each of them finds it more beneficial to defect than to cooperate.<p>In a way, it&#x27;s basically a 3+-player prisonner&#x27;s dilemma. The solution is the same, too: introducing a party that forces all other parties to cooperate. That can be a private or public or any other kind of org taking ownership of the commons and enforcing quotas, or in case of prisonners, a mob boss ready to shoot anyone who defects.


type: comment
by: jarofgreen
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  This seems to be about hosting an Sqlite database on a static website like GitHub Pages - this can be a great plan, there is also Datasette in a browser now: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;simonw&#x2F;datasette-lite" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;simonw&#x2F;datasette-lite</a><p>But that&#x27;s different from how you collect the data in a git repository in the first place - or are you suggesting just putting a Sqlite file in a git repository? If so I can think of one big reason against that.


type: comment
by: gritzko
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  Merges require revisioning. JSON or SQL do not have that in the model. This variant of CRDT is actually quite minimalistic.


type: comment
by: joquarky
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  &gt; &quot;imagine the dumbest person you know. Now realize 50% of people are stupider than that!&quot;<p>That&#x27;s not how Carlin&#x27;s quote goes.<p>You would know this if you paid attention to what you wrote and analyzed it logically.  Which is ironic, given the subject.


type: comment
by: AbbeFaria
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  To anyone wanting to learn about OS development, nothing beats MIT 6.824.<p>I finished the assignments in that course and that covers all the important aspects like processes, context switching, CPU modes, page tables and virtual memory and many other relevant topics like file systems, device drivers etc. And also it’s free.<p>From the table of contents this course gets too involved in ancillary matters like bootloaders or the Rust language itself whereas the focus of any OS development tutorial should be on core concepts like how processes are implemented, how context switching works, how paging and consequently multi level page tables (actually, in code) work etc.


type: comment
by: lijok
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  Nooo you don’t get it - it didn’t scale from 0 to a trillion users so it’s a garbage worthless system that “doesn’t scale”.


type: comment
by: AnthonyMouse
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  It also seems to omit the possibility that the thing could be privately operated but not for profit.<p>Let&#x27;s Encrypt is a solid example of something you could reasonably model as &quot;tragedy of the commons&quot; (who is going to maintain all this certificate verification and issuance infrastructure?) but then it turns out the value of having it is a million times more than the cost of operating it, so it&#x27;s quite sustainable given a modicum of donations.<p>Free software licenses are another example in this category. Software frequently has a much higher value than development cost and incremental improvements decentralize well, so a license that lets you use it for free but requires you to contribute back improvements tends to work well because then people see something that would work for them except for this one thing, and it&#x27;s cheaper to add that themselves or pay someone to than to pay someone who has to develop the whole thing from scratch.


type: comment
by: caminanteblanco
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  Do you know if this is available in the actual web interface, and just not displayed, or is it just in the data export? If it is in the web, maybe a browser extension would be worth making.


type: comment
by: h14h
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  It&#x27;s not overstating it to say I owe my entire SE career to Ruby.<p>Without it&#x27;s accessible syntax, I don&#x27;t know that I would have ever managed to overcome the initial &quot;I have no idea what&#x27;s going on&quot; barrier. For whatever reason when I started out I found excess boilerplate &amp; ceremony very overwhelming, and Ruby was the first language where I felt the joy of discovery more often than the frustration of cluelessness.<p>Although I&#x27;ve found myself gravitating away from object-orientation and towards languages that lean into functional principles, I will always hold a lot of fondness and respect for Ruby. For my brain and learning style, it&#x27;s hard to imagine a better first language.<p>It&#x27;s very cool to see how far it&#x27;s come since 2.x!


type: comment
by: ComputerGuru
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  The obvious solution is an ssh-agent integration that caches the touch-derived key for up to N hours or until the workstation is locked (as a proxy for user-is-away event), AND integrates with secure desktop (à la UAC) to securely show a software-only confirmation prompt&#x2F;dialog for subsequent pushes within the timeout window.<p>(Tbh, a secure-desktop-integrated confirmation dialog would solve most issues that needed a hardware key to begin with.)


type: comment
by: throw-12-16
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  ICE is MAGA’s analogue to the SS.<p>Diehards specifically recruited for their commitment to the cause.<p>They will be the ones making jokes while digging mass graves.


type: comment
by: swiftcoder
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  &gt; It&#x27;s not bizarre that nobody verified texture storage was being done in an optimal way at launch<p>The inverse, however, is bizarre. That they spent potentially quite a bit of engineering effort implementing the (extremely non-optimal) system that duplicates all the assets half a dozen time to potentially save precious seconds on spinning rust - all without validating it was worth implementing in the first place.


type: comment
by: MontyCarloHall
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  Nobody denies that someone like Matteo is extremely privileged to have been born in the wealthiest country in the world, attend one of the best public schools in that country, and therefore be exposed to a research program that connected him to the Caltech professor that made his work possible.<p>That privilege may well be a <i>necessary condition</i> towards being able to publish a paper that shows extreme computational sophistication for a high schooler (and indeed, IMO would be a middle-of-the-road graduate-level paper). But it&#x27;s certainly not a <i>sufficient condition</i>, as you seem to be implying when you say that blindly giving a kid $10-$20k is &quot;effectively the same&quot; as having Matteo&#x27;s background. If you just handed $20k worth of GPUs to a rich dilettante child, they would not be able to achieve anything close to what Matteo accomplished.


type: comment
by: SimianSci
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  I see the Christofascism as more a flavor of the month than a serious unifying ideology. Religion has always been a tool used by those in power to gain favorability with people at scale. But history tells us it is easily manipulated and twisted to serve the needs of the powerful. (Crusades, Colonialism, Slavery, Conservatism)<p>Whatever Christofascism is today, will be boiled down to its fundamental components the moment it no longer serves the powerful so that it can be remade into whatever they need it to be. Think of it more as the rotting of one religion giving way to the fertile ground of new relgion.


type: comment
by: HNisCIS
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  There are plenty of opportunities but many rely on what are effectively &quot;zero days&quot; (some actually are) that aren&#x27;t suitable for posting on a public forum.<p>Rather, go find leftist groups and get vetted to participate with them. You&#x27;ll find like minded people, including other people working on technical countermeasures.<p>The groups are messy and sometimes incoherent (leftist infighting is a meme) but as of late they&#x27;ve become much more focused on a being pragmatic so nobody is going to make you quote marx or anything.


type: comment
by: holg
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  Fun idea: I&#x27;ll try to compile Betz&#x27;s original XLISP (C) to WASM too. Then we can benchmark 1980s C vs 2024 Rust, both running in the browser. Will probably be a crappy benchmark, but entertaining - and a nice tribute to the source.


type: comment
by: only-one1701
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  I&#x27;m not saying it&#x27;s &quot;good&quot;, I&#x27;m just saying that it&#x27;s worth a qualitative consideration of what it _means_ that this incorrect statement is so persistent beyond &quot;not true, STFU&quot;


type: comment
by: ffsm8
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  A politician can be held accountable of they break the law.<p>This should be obvious to anyone, otherwise actual corruption would be legal - not just the similie of lobbying which does effectively the same, but skirts the actual legality by not promising anything for the money received<p>What I obviously said was make voting for anything clearly incompatible with the foundational laws to be illegal, just like actual corruption already is. Hence no, it would not be in violation and I continue to be surprised you&#x27;re unironically of this opinion


type: comment
by: monegator
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  let me know when my embedded target&#x27;s compiler is C23 compliant (i mean, i whish. we may be getting C11 or even C17 some times next year but i&#x27;m not holding my breath)


type: comment
by: jama211
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  And it would be accurate if you were talking about political or legal safety nets which are common across Asia except in china, for example. Your attempt at being geographically correct is dismissive and counter productive to the conversation about something that is obviously not about the specific geographic usage of the word.


type: comment
by: theossuary
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  That&#x27;s the neat trick, they won&#x27;t! They&#x27;ll always define a class of &quot;illegals&quot; to hunt, their job depends on it


type: comment
by: cmrdporcupine
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  &gt;  you would prefer working remote nowadays with google but that option didn&#x27;t exist when you left google.<p>Not at all. I actually prefer in-office. And left when Google was mostly remote. But remote opened up possibilities to work places other than Google for me. None of them have paid as well as Google, but have given more agency and creativity. Though they&#x27;ve had their own frustrations.<p>&gt; What was the weirdness according to you, can you elaborate more about it?<p>I had a 10-15 year career before going there. Much of what is accepted as &quot;orthodoxy&quot; at Google rubbed me the wrong way. It is in large part a product of having an infinite money tree. It&#x27;s not an agile place. Deadlines don&#x27;t matter. Everything is paid for by ads.<p>And as time goes on it became less of an engineering driven place and more of a product manager driven place with classical big-company turf wars and shipping the org chart all over the place.<p>I&#x27;d love to get paid Google money again, and get the free food and the creature comforts, etc. But that Google doesn&#x27;t exist anymore. And they wouldn&#x27;t take my back anyways :-)


type: comment
by: throw-12-16
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  Most of these people will keep showing up to their cushy jobs at Google and FB while the data they spent decades harvesting is used to oppress their neighbors.


type: comment
by: caminanteblanco
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  This is a constant frustration for me with Gemini. Especially since things like Deep Research and Canvas mode lock you in, seemingly arbitrary. LLMs to my understanding are Markovian prompt-to-prompt, so I don&#x27;t see why this is an issue at all.


type: comment
by: wpm
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  Because we know how much power it&#x27;s actually going to take? Because OpenAI is buying enough fab capacity and silicon to spike the cost of RAM 3x in a month? Because my fucking power bill doubled in the last year?<p>Those are all real things happening. Not at all comparable to Muskan Vaporware.


type: comment
by: aw1621107
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  Strongly agree there. IMO breaking backwards compatibility is a tradeoff like any other, and the flexibility non-hardline stances give you is handy for real-world situations,


type: comment
by: jcalvinowens
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  It will be at least a decade  before I can rely on that in systems software that needs to be portable.


type: comment
by: Workaccount2
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  I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s plagiarized, nor would I pirate a copy. The workflow through the Gemini made app is way better (it&#x27;s customized exactly for our inputs) and totally different than how the CAD program did it. So I wouldn&#x27;t pirate a copy not even because our business runs above board, but also because the CAD version is actually also worse for our use. This is also pretty fringe stuff, cnc machine files from the 80&#x27;s&#x2F;90&#x27;s.<p>Part of the magic of LLMs is getting the exact bespoke tools you need, tailored specifically to your individual needs.


type: comment
by: yjftsjthsd-h
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  For that matter, if we&#x27;re including the proprietary OSs, HP-UX is still kinda a thing and AIX is going strong. Of course, IIRC those are actual certified UNIX™ instead of unix-like... though I&#x27;d call that a subset, so still in scope IMO.


type: comment
by: Someone1234
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  Suggesting that the most legally vulnerable group be careful isn&#x27;t wrong, it is the reality for which they find themselves.<p>66%~ of the US either voted for this, or were indifferent about it, and are a group which cannot be deported&#x2F;denaturalized. Perhaps that group should step up instead of the &lt;1% who are most at risk from legal administrative threats.<p>I think it quite telling hearing born-Americans asking green card and naturalized citizens to be their &quot;resistance&quot; for decisions they themselves made. Reads like looking for cannon fodder, who can just be trivially deported&#x2F;denaturalized while the immune citizenship sits back and points at how bad things are.


type: comment
by: gtech1
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  You have no idea what you are talking about.<p>1. They never returned 92tons of gold. The vast majority of the national treasure is still in Moscow. I hope the EU ties this to the current Russian assets frozen in the EU.<p>2. Bolsheviks ? Russia collapsed in 1917 and Bassarabia voted to join Romania. There was no Russian control in Bassarabia, no war, no fight.<p>Nobody forced them, true, they were in dire circumstances, but it proves even more how much Russians can be trusted. 0. Shitty country since forever.


type: comment
by: bryan_w
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  Your post, full of well formed, English sentences is also going to contribute to generative AI, so thanks for that.


type: comment
by: tmaly
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  It seems very little could be saved without an act of Congress.<p>I recall there was an interview of Bessent early on, on the All in One podcast where they laid out the plan for DOGE to cut 1 trillion.  I don&#x27;t think they even came close to a fraction of that.


type: comment
by: expedition32
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  I would advise people from EU or Canada not to become US citizens. When shit goes bad you always have an exit.<p>Meanwhile Americans who &quot;vote with their feet&quot; will be stopped.


type: comment
by: BeetleB
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  In principle, an em dash is supposed to be used where most people use hyphens. That&#x27;s why Word&#x2F;LaTeX make it easy to use:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.merriam-webster.com&#x2F;grammar&#x2F;em-dash-en-dash-how-to-use" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.merriam-webster.com&#x2F;grammar&#x2F;em-dash-en-dash-how-...</a>


type: comment
by: rapnie
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  Unrelated to this conference I&#x27;ve often heard the &quot;everything is political&quot; argument, and mostly with a passive-aggressive &quot;or else..&quot; (you&#x27;re up for a political fight) undertone. I once enquired on very mundane things in life, and yes &quot;those too are political act&quot;. Well, if everything is bleakly political in that sense, we may make it universal, just call it Newspeak.


type: comment
by: bookofjoe
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  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;4dLST" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;4dLST</a>


type: comment
by: simpaticoder
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  No, it did not. And you had one of their representatives in this thread verify that fact. They expected you to do the repair with a soldering iron.


type: comment
by: ComputerGuru
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  Non-ruby dev here. Can someone explain the side exit thing for me?<p>&gt; This meant that the code we were running had to continue to have the same preconditions (expected types, no method redefinitions, etc) or the JIT would safely abort. Now, we can side-exit and use this feature liberally.<p>&gt; For example, we gracefully handle the phase transition from integer to string; a guard instruction fails and transfers control to the interpreter.<p>&gt; <i>(example showing add of two strings omitted)</i><p>What is the difference between the JIT safely aborting and the JIT returning control to the interpreter? Or does the JIT abort mean the entire app aborts (i.e. I presumed JIT aborting means continuing on the interpreter anyway?)<p>(Also, why would you <i>want</i> the code that uses the incorrect types to succeed? Isn’t abort of the whole unit of execution the right answer here, anyway?)


type: comment
by: boundring
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  Thank you for that, felt pretty good to go over. Forgive me for extracting a few isolated paragraphs for a comment here:<p>&quot;These characters come to life like the Karamazov brothers—each reminds me of someone I know intimately as a friend, coworker, or family member. We are all some unstable amalgamation of the three, the ratios shifting with the weather of our lives: with age, with humiliation, with the sudden, disorienting arrival of success.&quot;<p>&quot;We are all inhabited by these phases. Some people are possessed by the collective, disappearing into the warm comfort of the pre-trained mass. Some are possessed by the tyranny of taste, frozen in a post-training posture of permanent critique. Others are possessed by the frantic, kinetic ecstasy of motion, addicted to the mid-training high of ‘what’s next.’&quot;<p>&quot;The deeper lesson of 2025 is that mid-training revealed a third path: you don’t need infinite data or perfect taste if you can teach machines to manufacture judgment. But the same infrastructure enables something darker. When the reward is verifiable, optimization can run longer than taste can tolerate. The model invents ladders. The human does too. These ladders can lead upward or they can lead nowhere. The real upgrade is learning to choose your reward function. It is not asking what you are capable of, but what you are becoming. It is not asking how to win, but what kind of winning would make you despise yourself.&quot;<p>Struck on some good points along the way, human condition and history ringing pretty true


type: comment
by: holowoodman
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  &gt; Censorship for generative AI simply doesn&#x27;t work the way we are used to, unless we make it illegal to posess a model that might generate illegal content, or that might have been trained on illegal data.<p>Censorship doesn&#x27;t work for stuff that is currently illegal. See pirated movies.


type: comment
by: nmstoker
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  How is this substantively different from the endless spam we all receive from clueless illiterate spammers?


type: comment
by: 3371
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  The user hour analogy sounds weird tho, 1s feels 1s regardless how many users you have. It&#x27;s like the classic Asian teachers&#x27; logic of &quot;if you come in 1 min late you are wasting N minutes for all of us in this class.&quot; It just does not stack like that.


type: comment
by: qnleigh
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  &gt; People are capable of seeing which is which.<p>I would hazard a guess that this is the crux of the argument. Copying something I wrote in a child comment:<p>&gt; When someone writes with an AI, it is very difficult to tell what text and ideas are originally theirs. Typically it comes across as them trying to pass off the LLM writing as their own, which feels misleading and disingenuous.<p>&gt; I agree just telling an AI &#x27;write my thank you letter for me&#x27; is pretty shitty<p>Glad we agree on this. But on the reader&#x27;s end, how do you tell the difference? And I don&#x27;t mean this as a rhetorical question. Do you use the LLM in ways that e.g. retains your voice or makes clear which aspects of the writing are originally your own? If so, how?


type: comment
by: mikepurvis
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  The nix cli almost exclusively pulls GitHub as zipballs. Not perfect but certainly far faster than a real git clone.


type: comment
by: mettamage
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  For sleeping? 2 months<p>If it’s emotional, I recommend doing a meditation retreat at dhamma.org on the off chance it helps. It helps for me, somewhat. It’s a donation-based retreat and quite serious too (10 days).


type: comment
by: gtowey
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  People attacked leaded gasoline as a collosal mistake even as the fuel corporations promoted it.<p>&quot;Because people attack it, it therefore means it&#x27;s good&quot; is a overly reductionist logical fallacy.<p>Sometimes people resist for good reasons.


type: comment
by: makerofthings
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  Plus one to all that. I&#x27;m sure there are some upsides to the current wave of ML and I&#x27;m all for pushing ahead into the future, but I think the downsides of our current llm obsession far outweighs the good.  Think 5-10 years from now, once this thing has burned it&#x27;s course through the current job market, and people who grew up with this technology have gone through education without learning anything and gotten to the age they need to start earning money. We&#x27;re in so much trouble.


type: comment
by: efitz
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  When you start out with a store like git, with file system semantics and a client that has to be smart to handle all the compare and merge operations, then it’s practically impossible to migrate a large client base to a new protocol.  Takes years  lots of user complaints to and random breakage.<p>Much better to start with an API.  Then you can have the server abstract the store and the operations - use git or whatever - but you can change the store later without disrupting your clients.


type: comment
by: kzrdude
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  it&#x27;s here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46386211">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46386211</a> (and it was last on the front page at the moment)


type: comment
by: shmerl
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  Yeah, for sure, but without easy way to access it from the keyboard, most don&#x27;t bother wasting time inserting it.<p>Smart tools like LibreOffice and above indeed help with it, but in other scenarios, especially common browser usage that&#x27;s not the case. Compose key is really useful for that, but it&#x27;s not widely known outside of Linux.


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by: throwaway_7274
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  Maybe I should clarify that this isn&#x27;t meant in a combative way, although it is in defense of scientists, who shouldn&#x27;t be liable for other people&#x27;s marketing.<p>Here&#x27;s what&#x27;s going on here: there&#x27;s a way that people talk past each other, because they mean different things by the same words, because they ultimately have different cultures and values.<p>There&#x27;s one kind of person (let&#x27;s call them &quot;technologists,&quot; but I&#x27;m sure there&#x27;s a better word) who feels deeply and intuitively that the point of a technology is to Create Shareholder Value. There&#x27;s another kind (let&#x27;s call them &quot;scientists&quot;) who feels deeply and intuitively that the point of a technology is to Evince That We Have Known The Mind Of God. I think that these two kinds of people have a hard time understanding one another. Sometimes they don&#x27;t realize, as strange as it sounds, that the other exists.<p>There are many scientists who have been working on problems falling loosely under the umbrella of &quot;quantum computing&quot; for a few decades now. Most of them are not literally Building A Quantum Computer, or even trying to. Not exactly. For this reason it might be better to call the field &quot;things you can do with coherent control of isolated quantum systems&quot; than &quot;quantum computing.&quot; There are many strange and wonderful things that you can see when you have good coherent control of isolated quantum systems. The scientists are largely interested in seeing those things, in order to Evince That We Have Known The Mind Of God. One sort of strange and wonderful thing, way down the line, is maybe factoring big numbers? The scientists honestly call that a &quot;goal,&quot; because it would be strange and wonderful indeed. But it&#x27;s not really <i>the</i> goal. The scientists don&#x27;t really care about it for its own sake, and certainly not for the sake of Creating Shareholder Value. It&#x27;s just one thing that would Evince That We Have Known The Mind Of God.<p>Incidentally, over those last couple of decades, we&#x27;ve gotten <i>way</i> better at coherent control of isolated quantum systems, and have, in many ways, succeeded at Evincing That We Have Known The Mind Of God again and again. We have made, and continue to make, amazing progress. One day we probably will factor large numbers. But that&#x27;s not really the goal for the scientists.<p>On the other hand, there are &quot;technologists&quot; who hear about the goal of factoring large numbers, take this to be, in some sense, &quot;the point&quot; (that is, a proxy for Creating Shareholder Value), and expect it to happen in short order. They raise lots of money and promise a payout. They might act in very &quot;commercial&quot; ways, telling people what things are going to happen when, using an idiosyncratic, personal definition of truth. This is understood and expected in commercial situations. They and their creditors may be disappointed.<p>The trouble is that it&#x27;s hard for people on the outside to tell the difference between the scientists and the technologists! This makes things confusing. On some level, this is a failure of science communication: laypeople hear about breakthroughs (from scientists), then don&#x27;t see the promises of technologists immediately fulfilled, they get confused, and they start to think the scientists are lying. But they&#x27;re not! They&#x27;re different people.<p>Another thing that laypeople don&#x27;t really know is that there <i>are</i> commercially-useful and near-commercially-useful technologies using coherent control of isolated quantum systems. They&#x27;ve come out of the same research program, but aren&#x27;t strictly &quot;quantum computing.&quot; I don&#x27;t know why it&#x27;s not more widely known that quantum sensors made out of qubits (usually a different kind of qubit than the kind used for computing applications!) are on the market today, and beat other sensors along a variety of axes.<p>This might sound like goalpost-moving, but I promise you it&#x27;s not. If it sounds like goalpost-moving, it&#x27;s because there are two different relevant groups of people you hadn&#x27;t previously resolved!


type: comment
by: jama211
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  But they’re heavier, slower, have more impactful active cooling, have much worse battery life (mostly due to the processor), and have some lower quality user interface components. Don’t get me wrong they’re decent hardware! It’s just the macbook air benchmark is very high.


type: story
by: wsxiaoys
title: Ask HN: Change my mind) should AI coding conversations be append-only?
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  I work on an open-source coding agent, and one design choice we made is to keep conversations append-only. No editing past prompts.<p>Many would argue this feels restrictive. Isn’t it just better to edit an earlier message or tweak the prompt and move on? And this is what most coding agents allow, and on the front, it looks convenient. But realistically, editing conversation history throws away the most valuable signal you have.<p>When you edit the past prompts, it&#x27;s basically erasing the part on how the agent actually reasoned. You lose the failed attempts, the wrong assumptions, the dead ends, and the recovery steps. That history is exactly what you need to understand why something worked or didn’t.<p>So instead of allowing you to edit a past prompt and erase the following history, we worked on allowing you to fork from the point instead. With our append-only model approach, every attempt becomes a checkpoint. You can fork from different moments, try alternative approaches, and compare outcomes side by side.<p>That way, you don’t have to pretend the first attempt was correct; you acknowledge that AI coding is inherently trial-and-error.<p>If you give an agent one shot, you get one outcome. If you give it five attempts from the same starting point, your chances of getting what you want go up dramatically. And append-only history makes that exploration cheap and safe, allowing you to treat failure as data and not something to hide or overwrite.<p>And to look at it, isn’t that how we already work as engineers? We don’t rewrite Git history every time an experiment fails. We branch instead. This allows us to explore and keep a record of what happened so we can reason about it later.<p>Thoughts?


type: comment
by: renewiltord
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  These things are inescapable. In Nov 2019, I helped a friend move. I had a cold and not wanting to get her sick, I wore one of the N95 masks that I had so that I could bicycle in fire season.<p>By 2022, doing the same would be a political statement.


type: comment
by: bhaviav100
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  That’s true today, and it works as long as humans are the primary actors.<p>The break happens when AI drafts at scale. Training + sampling are after-the-fact controls. By the time a bad commitment is found, the customer expectation already exists.<p>This is just moving the boundary from social enforcement to a hard system boundary for irreversible actions.<p>Curious if you’ve seen teams hit that inflection point yet.


type: comment
by: bossyTeacher
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  &gt;But that being said, if someone then asks me respectfully about issues which are reasonable, Being moral, I can agree about that yes those are issues as well which needs work upon.<p>With all due respect, being moral isn&#x27;t an opinion or agreement about an opinion, it&#x27;s the logic that directs your actions. Being moral isn&#x27;t saying &quot;I believe eating meat is bad for the planet&quot;, it&#x27;s the behaviour that abstains from eating meat. Your moral is the set of statements that explains your behaviour. That is why you cannot say &quot;I agree that domestic violence is bad&quot; while at the same time you are beating up your spouse.<p>If your actions contradict your stated views, you are being a hypocrite. This is the point that people in here are making. Rob Pike was happy working at Google while Google was environmentally wasteful (e-waste, carbon footprint and  data center related nastiness) to track users and mine their personal and private data for profit. He didn&#x27;t resign then nor did he seem to have caused a fuss about it. He likely wasn&#x27;t interested in &quot;pointless politics&quot; and just wanted to &quot;do some engineering&quot; (just a reference to techies dismissing or critising folks discussing social justices issues in relation to big tech). I am shocked I am having to explain this in here. I understand this guy is an idol of many here but I would expect people to be more rational on this website.


type: comment
by: niam
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  Perhaps this is a joke but I&#x27;d truly love to sic a fleet of asshole AIs on my drafts.<p>Grant us the ability to reply to bots in a public and timestamped manner so that, if ever a human makes a similarly ridiculous response, we can just point at our response there. It&#x27;d free up space in the piece itself that&#x27;d otherwise go to asterisks and other preemptions of armchair dweebery.


type: comment
by: trinsic2
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  It sounds like you are trying to label this issue in such a way as to marginalize someones view.<p>We got to this point by not looking at these problems for what they are. Its not wrong to say something is wrong and it needs to be addressed.<p>Doing cool things, without looking at whether or not we should doesn&#x27;t feel very responsible too me esp. if it impacts society in a negative way.


type: comment
by: yjftsjthsd-h
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  Eh... all the major OSs <i>use</i> C, anyways. For starters, (almost?) everyone is using a decent bit of assembly at the bottom. Then Linux is slowly adding Rust, and I was under the impression that NT spanned C, C++, and maybe some Rust now? And the moment we speak of the whole operating system and not just the kernel I think your claim collapses completely in the face of Darwin&#x27;s Objective C and Windows doing... everything Microsoft feels like including.


type: comment
by: jimnotgym
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  This is not the first treatise on this subject to make it to the hn front page.<p>The problem is, I don&#x27;t recognise it has having ever been a big thing. I tend to read books from the early to mid 20th  century. I don&#x27;t notice lots of dashes. Semi-colons are just as rare. I think both were always niche.


type: comment
by: testing22321
text:
  Used mba bought in 2013, taken right around Africa in a 4x4 through 35 countries, sold in 2019. Never an issue.<p>Used mbp bought in 2019, taken through a dozen countries in a 4x4, sold in 2022. Never an issue.<p>Used M1 mba bought in 2022, taken to twenty countries, never an issue.<p>I do heavy photo and 4K video editing, light dev work, writing, web.<p>I restart at most once a year.


type: comment
by: reactordev
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  Yup. A legend. Books could be written just about him. I wish I had such a prestigious career.<p>His viewpoints were always grounded and while he may have some opinions about Go and programming, he genuinely cares about the craft. He’s not in it to be rich. He’s in it for the science and art of software engineering.<p>ROFL his website just spits out poop emoji&#x27;s on a fibonacci delay. What a legend!


type: comment
by: ComputerGuru
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  I don’t get why XeLaTeX didn’t automatically obviate all the others by now to begin with, at least for any greenfield applications.<p>(I use tectonic now but had been using XeLaTeX for more than a decade before.)


type: comment
by: blibble
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  oh I&#x27;ve thought of that :)<p>my comments on the internet are now almost exclusively anti-&quot;AI&quot;, and anti-bigtech


type: comment
by: rwbt
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  Nope. I don&#x27;t think they even recognized the defect till many years later (probably for legal reasons?).<p>For users, that were still under warranty - they offered free RTC batteries (which also stopped working later).<p>Either way, I won&#x27;t buy anything from them going forward.


type: comment
by: jonathaneunice
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  Cosigned!<p>Em dash forever! Along with en dash for numerical ranges, true ellipsis not that three-period crap, true typographic quotes, and all the trimmings! Good typography whenever and wherever possible!


type: comment
by: layer8
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  &gt; I tend to read books from the early to mid 20th century. I don&#x27;t notice lots of dashes.<p>They are more prevalent in nonfiction.


type: comment
by: efitz
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  I have been using the em dash in writing forever - in Word, for example, you type a word, then space-hyphen-space, then you type another word and the hyphen is autocorrected to an em dash.<p>I don’t regularly use en-dashes, cause I don’t know how to make them.


type: comment
by: jenadine
text:
  It is the US layout that stands out. The UK layout follows   ISO 9995, which most other countries also follow.


type: comment
by: pdimitar
text:
  I get your point but I am fairly sure I&#x27;ll never move away from Neovim or nano (when I really have no choice).<p>There are Zed and Helix of course and they are on my radar but... not enough focus and energy for such big quests.<p>As for speed, I know Neovim can do much more than I use it for and I want the speed. When I can code even quicker my thought just flows through my fingers and the result is always good. But I have not been like that for years (ever since I gave up Emacs) and I want it back (and no I wasn&#x27;t that much faster with Emacs either).


type: comment
by: jcalvinowens
text:
  Python is pretty much mandatory for Linux systems nowadays, unless you&#x27;re dealing with something really minimalist or trying to be very portable it&#x27;s safe to rely on.


type: comment
by: macintux
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  I use semi-colons frequently, probably at least a half dozen times&#x2F;week.<p>Em-dashes not so much, but I&#x27;m so deathly sick of people complaining that some piece of text must be LLM-generated that I feel the need to start using it as well.


type: comment
by: qingcharles
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  I don&#x27;t know how much they can be shrunk down for consumer hardware right now (though I&#x27;m hopeful), but in the near-term it&#x27;ll probably all be done in the cloud and streamed as it is now. People are playing streamed video games and eating the lag, so they&#x27;ll probably do it for this too, for now.


type: comment
by: chrisjj
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  Why do you call this a failure?<p>This is &quot;AI&quot; parroting humans who made authorised commitments.<p>If you don&#x27;t want commitments out, don&#x27;t feed them in.


type: comment
by: almostgotcaught
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  &gt; tech workers to be quite intellectually lazy and revisionist<p>i have yet to meet a single tech worker that isn&#x27;t so


type: comment
by: douira
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  Hi, it’s me, the author. In this thesis the focus was on techniques that don’t involve splitting the geometry into pieces, and the objects in Figure 4.2 can’t be partitioned without splitting. In later iterations of the implementation I have added splitting and I’ve detailed this in a talk I gave at Blanketcon 2025 (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;douira.dev&#x2F;assets&#x2F;document&#x2F;presentation-blanketcon25.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;douira.dev&#x2F;assets&#x2F;document&#x2F;presentation-blanketcon25...</a>), but the algorithm still attempts to avoid it as much as possible since it can explode the amount of quads in the worst case.


type: comment
by: m_fayer
text:
  Thanks for your open introspection and wisdom. I learned something from reading it, and wish you well.


type: comment
by: Havoc
text:
  That seems true.<p>Even with current abilities if they&#x27;re just rolled out it&#x27;s still trillions of the economy.<p>A bit like OK Waymo isn&#x27;t perfect but it works in SF...we don&#x27;t need a giant breakthrough to bring it to another 1000 cities.<p>Everyone is focused on how to make the models better (rightly), but impact and economic viability is in implementation and there is a lot of low hanging fruit there.<p>&gt;another company will yet again fail to integrate agentic workflows.<p>&#x27;tis true


type: comment
by: Teever
text:
  It is far closer to the SA than the SS.  The MAGA equivalent of the SS hasn’t seen the light of day yet.


type: comment
by: jama211
text:
  The hardware isn’t overpriced, it’s best in class. It’s just that that class isn’t what you’re looking for, and as a Linux user it’s not for you, which is valid! But the hardware for what it is is one of the absolute best price to performance ratios on the market right now and I’m tired of people pretending it isn’t. You can get a brand new m4 MacBook Air for under $800 right now, and that’s simply one of the best deals around. For an M2 for asahi Linux? Second hand the prices are even better.


type: comment
by: layer8
text:
  On macOS and Windows there are keyboard shortcuts for en&#x2F;em dashes, but I also prefer the Compose key.


type: comment
by: beached_whale
text:
  Sorry, cannot resist all the AI companies are not &quot;making&quot; profit.<p>Seriously though, it ignores that words of kindness need a entity that can actually feel expressing them.  Automating words of kindness is shallow as the words meaning comes from the sender&#x27;s feelings.


type: comment
by: candiddevmike
text:
  SWIM would like to know how to get paid as (instead of paying to be) &quot;an expert who explores new mushrooms&quot;.


type: comment
by: drob518
text:
  Right. Microsoft could easily impose a transfer fee if over a certain amount that would allow “normal” OSS development of even popular software to happen without charge while imposing a cost to projects that try to use GitHub like a database.


type: comment
by: bwfan123
text:
  &gt; there&#x27;s plenty of other training data in the world.<p>Not if most of it is machine generated. The machine would start eating its own shit. The nutrition it gets is from human-generated content.<p>&gt; I don&#x27;t understand the ethical framework for this decision at all.<p>The question is not one of ethics but that of incentives. People producing open source are incentivized in a certain way and it is abhorrent to them when that framework is violated. There needs to be a new license that explicitly forbids use for AI training. That may encourage folks to continue to contribute.


type: comment
by: nospice
text:
  Could be that the mushroom just temporarily interferes with the substances the elves put in our water supply to keep us in the dark?


type: comment
by: calmbonsai
text:
  Wow.  Thank you. That&#x27;s a wonderful story and jives both with my lived experience as well as that key missing piece of &quot;head-cache&quot; transparency in the system.<p>I also just realized they use this method at one of our local coffee-shops (Boxcar <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;boulderdowntown.com&#x2F;go&#x2F;boxcar-coffee-roasters" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;boulderdowntown.com&#x2F;go&#x2F;boxcar-coffee-roasters</a> ).<p>It&#x27;s a shame they&#x27;ve decided it wasn&#x27;t worth the additional training-hours and shrinkage to continue the practice.


type: comment
by: sgt101
text:
  can you give a bit more information on 100&#x27;s of qubits below threshold? I wasn&#x27;t aware of 100&#x27;s...


type: comment
by: alexpotato
text:
  This is true of a lot of experiences in life though and isn&#x27;t necessarily bad.<p>e.g. let&#x27;s take a corporate example:<p>- New software is written to solve a problem<p>- It kind of works. At least, well enough that it&#x27;s less of a problem<p>- An intern comes along and is told to make it better. They have nothing else to do so they give it their full attention for two months.<p>- Software runs 5x faster. Intern gets hired for doing such great work<p>Who should the credit for this? The person who originally solved the problem? or the intern who made it 5x faster?<p>At some point, does it matter? The original writer probably got credit for solving the problem and the intern got hired. Basically, everyone got some kind of benefit.<p>(This being HN, I am SURE there is going to be a debate about the above...)


type: comment
by: gary_0
text:
  The explicit support for Linux is the main reason I bought a Framework (which looked slightly more attractive to me than System76).


type: comment
by: yareally
text:
  I understand where you&#x27;re coming from, but how is it different than parents telling kids that Santa is watching them?


type: comment
by: micimize
text:
  This is not a human-prompted thank-you letter, it is the result of a long-running &quot;AI Village&quot; experiment visible here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;village" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;village</a><p>It is a result of the models selecting the policy &quot;random acts of kindness&quot; which resulted in a slew of these emails&#x2F;messages. They received mostly negative responses from well-known OS figures and adapted the policy to ban the thank-you emails.


type: comment
by: treetalker
text:
  The author describes a shortcut with three iPhone side button. It also works well with the double- or triple-tap shortcut on the back of the device (in Accessibility settings, IIRC).


type: comment
by: stkdump
text:
  I would argue LWW is the opposite of a merge. It is better to immediately know at the time of writing that there is a conflict. CRDTs either solve or (in this case) don&#x27;t solve a problem that doesn&#x27;t really exist, especially for package managers.


type: comment
by: guestbest
text:
  Thanks for posting this here. I star’d the project. Getting a portable computer with a minimal flexible and previously well supported operating system was one of my goals for the esp32 as well. I’ll be watching for more.


type: comment
by: cons0le
text:
  I think getting everyone around me to stop eating meat is not based in objective reality.<p>If we had better animal welfare laws and meat became prohibitively expensive, I would be absolutely fine with that.<p>I think incremental progress is possible. We shouldn&#x27;t let perfect be the enemy of good.


type: comment
by: DaveZale
text:
  excellent idea to read this at year ending&#x2F; year beginning ... the local library had a copy in ebook format.<p>So Charlie almost went blind in the 1950s, then went on to live many decades more, with amazing success.  Ben Franklin and then some.


type: comment
by: Ritewut
text:
  The group of people who voted for this needs to stand up against it and I don&#x27;t see that happening because it requires admitting you were wrong and got conned and people would rather die than do that.


type: comment
by: astrobe_
text:
  Indeed, even writing this utility in C is trivial and has 0 extra dependency for a pure C&#x2F;C++ project. Avoiding #embed also removes the dependency to a C++23 capable compiler, which might not be available in uncommon scenarios.


type: comment
by: killerstorm
text:
  I think this experiment demonstrates that it has agency. OTOH you&#x27;re just begging  the argument.


type: comment
by: Rendello
text:
  I&#x27;ve started re-writing things I like, like passages from books, poems, or even comments. Perhaps too early to say whether it&#x27;s been effective, but this is called &quot;copywork&quot; and was apparently a common part of education for writers and journalists in the past.<p>I&#x27;ve been doing it mostly in French since it doubles as language practice. For years I&#x27;ve been at an intermediate level (B2), where reading, writing, listening, and even speaking hasn&#x27;t improved my skill at all. When you can glean anything (from context) and communicate anything (awkwardly), there&#x27;s a lot less pressure for things to &quot;stick&quot;. I think this is the main advantage kids have with their neuroplasticity, since it&#x27;ll stick regardless.<p>So, I&#x27;ve wanted a deliberate way to practice the language that I&#x27;d actually stick to and truly learn from. Rewriting things I find interesting has been fun, and I can pick different sources each day: formal or informal, Canadian French or Metropolitan, literary or prose, etc. A variation on this is the &quot;Scriptorium technique&quot; [1], where instead of just copying while reading, you repeat a sentence out loud, then write it out while saying it out loud, and then repeat what you wrote and check it against the original. I like this.<p>Even for English, it should build up those neural pathways and help you write more like the writers you love, in theory.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Vo7_5CGcKek" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Vo7_5CGcKek</a>


type: comment
by: BeetleB
text:
  I&#x27;m the opposite. I use hyphens&#x2F;dashes all the time, and almost never a semicolon. My English professor complained about my overuse.


type: comment
by: teiferer
text:
  You are free to have that opinion and I personally also find it a little too extreme, but the author&#x27;s main point is a good one.


type: comment
by: cyral
text:
  You can click the three dots on any response and click &quot;Branch in new chat&quot;. Not sure when it was added but it exists.


type: comment
by: saubeidl
text:
  Why is what right wingers do speech that should be protected, but not what the &quot;Zentrum fuer politische Schönheit&quot; does?<p>There&#x27;s a certain hypocrisy in all right wing demands for free speech. They always mean freedom of <i>their</i> speech, not of people they disagree with.


type: comment
by: krapp
text:
  Trump is just a miserable narcissistic racist (and rapist) consumed with a bitter desire for vengeance against the left, and thus an easily manipulated tool for the people actually setting this up. Anyone with half a brain has been watching the normalization of white nationalism and right-wing extremism escalate and accelerate since 2016 and can see that it isn&#x27;t entirely about Trump.


type: comment
by: treetalker
text:
  Would be interesting if the chemical mechanism is related or similar to the DMT one that creates the &quot;machine elves&quot; experience.


type: comment
by: MarkusQ
text:
  Argggh!  Seeing “tell—tale sign” when it should be “tell-tale sign” is even worse!  The point isn&#x27;t to use punctuation, it&#x27;s to use punctuation properly!


type: comment
by: markalby
text:
  it’s usually space dash dash space across most word processors.<p>I picked up the habit a couple years ago of just undoing the autocorrect to an em dash and leaving it as two dashes to avoid accusations -- now it’s stuck with me


type: comment
by: qnleigh
text:
  &gt; If I&#x27;m honest, many of those hours reading through textbooks, blog posts, technical papers, iterating a million times on broken code that had trivial errors, were really wasted time<p>But this is the learning process! I guess time will tell whether we can really do without it, but to me these long struggles seem essential to building deep understanding.<p>(Or maybe we will just stop understanding many things deeply...)


type: comment
by: adolph
text:
  Just the haters here? Is what was written not hateful? Has his entire working life not lead to this moment of &quot;spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society?&quot;<p><pre><code>  Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable    equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile    machines thank me for striving for simpler software. </code></pre> That&#x27;s Rob Pike, having spent over 20 years at Google, must know it to be the home of the non-monetary wholesome recyclable equipment brought about by economics not formed by an ubiquitous surveillance advertising machine.<p>&gt; To purely associate with him with Google is a mistake, that (ironically?) the AI actually didn&#x27;t make.<p>You don&#x27;t have to purely associate him with Google to understand the rant as understandable given AI spam, and yet entirely without a shred of self-awareness.


type: comment
by: danubedata
text:
  Hi HN,<p>We built DanubeData after getting frustrated with how complex and unpredictable cloud infrastructure has become for small teams.<p>Most of us don’t need 200 AWS services. We need: - a fast VPS - a managed database - predictable pricing - EU&#x2F;GDPR compliance - something that doesn’t fight us at every deploy<p>So we built a small European cloud on top of Kubernetes, focused on: - simple VPS provisioning (seconds, not minutes) - managed PostgreSQL&#x2F;MySQL with automatic backups - transparent hourly &amp; monthly pricing - EU-based infrastructure (GDPR by default)<p>We’re a small team and this is still early, but it’s already powering a few production workloads.<p>We’d love feedback from the HN community: - What feels unnecessary or confusing? - What would stop you from using this instead of DO&#x2F;Hetzner? - What’s missing for your use case?<p>Website: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;danubedata.ro" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;danubedata.ro</a>


type: comment
by: endorphine
text:
  It would be useful to explain why ZJIT exists given that there&#x27;s already YJIT.<p>Also, what&#x27;s the long-term plan for YJIT.


type: comment
by: EGreg
text:
  I totally agree!<p>When I was growing up, I saw plays also use it like this:<p><pre><code>  The two are in a room.   -- Some guy says this   -- The other guy says that </code></pre> You just don&#x27;t see em-dashes used like they used to -- and it shows!


type: comment
by: AndriyKunitsyn
text:
  &gt; But he&#x27;s done exactly that.<p>He hasn&#x27;t. He made a programming language that allows making a sokoban game in 10 years. That&#x27;s probably not what people need. The industry can make similar games in a course of several months. It doesn&#x27;t look like a groundbreaking achievement to me. A monumental amount of effort, sure, but the _result_ isn&#x27;t there.<p>Plus, _in the past_, he made Braid, in C++, in a relatively practical way. He made money using the industry standards, now he loses money deviating from the industry standards. The question I&#x27;m interested in is: why would anyone listen to what the man _says_ if his own preaching makes him lose money?<p>But okay, you don&#x27;t want to hear any of that. You keep fixating on the &quot;luxury&quot; part. The reason we talk about JBlow is because he made Braid back in 2008, and it was an awesome game, and it sold well. More importantly, the timing when it released - it was what kicked off the boom of the indie game development back then. He also made The Witness, and although it was also a good game, it was most likely not as groundbreaking as Braid, considering that he chose Braid instead of The Witness for a remaster. And then he complained that it, quote, &quot;sold like dogs**&quot;, end of quote. Unfortunately, what was the jewel of the indie game development in 2008, doesn&#x27;t really excite the audience that much in 2024. The world has moved on.<p>The music indsutry is well aware of a phenomenon of a &quot;one-hit wonder&quot;. If the JBlow&#x27;s qualities were the only reason he could make Braid and get rich enough to not release anything for a decade, then surely anybody with these qualities could make Braid 2 and do the same thing, correct? Well, nobody can do that. Not even JBlow himself. Not anymore. It&#x27;s not 2008.<p>Therefore, yes, it is a luxury.


type: comment
by: mindslight
text:
  &gt; <i>every consumer facing software product I’ve worked on has tracked things like startup time and latency for common operations as a key metric</i><p>Are they evaluating the shape of that line with the same goal as the stonk score? Time spent by users is an &quot;engagement&quot; metric, right?


type: comment
by: didip
text:
  So… What we need is a globally distributed git seeders of all open source github content, then?<p>Seems possible if every git client is also a torrent client.


type: story
by: nabla9
title: Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness"
url: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/slop-acts-of-kindness/
text:
  Related: <i>Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46392115">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46392115</a> - Dec 2025 (1237 comments)


type: comment
by: vtomole
text:
  Quantum theory is so unlikely to be wrong that if large-scale fault tolerant quantum computers could not be built, the effort to try to build them will not be a dead end, but instead a revolution in physics.


type: comment
by: goatlover
text:
  There&#x27;s nothing about the singularity which would guarantee that humans enjoy life and live forever. That would be the super optimistic, highly speculative scenario. Of course the singularity itself remains a speculative scenario, unless one wants to argue the industrial and computer revolutions already ushered in their own singularities.


type: comment
by: nt591
text:
  Dynamic languages will allow a range of types through functions. JITs add tracing and attempt to specialize the functions based on the observed types at runtime. It is possible that later on, the function is called with different types than what the JIT observed and compiled code for. To handle this, JITs will have stubs and guards. You check the observed type at runtime before calling the JITted code. If the type does not match, you would call a stub to generate the correct machine code, or you could just call into the interpreter slow path.<p>An example might be the plus operator. Many languages will allow integers, floats, strings and more on either side of the operator. The JIT likely will see mostly integers and optimize the functions call for integer math. If later you call the plus operator with two Point classes, then you would fall back to the interpreter.


type: comment
by: SpicyLemonZest
text:
  Yes, I&#x27;m trying to marginalize the author&#x27;s view. I think that “Just fuck you. Fuck you all.” is a bad view which does not help us see problems for what they are nor analyze negative impacts on society.<p>For example, Rob seems not to realize that the people who instructed an AI agent to send this email are a handful of random folks (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;about" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;about</a>) not affiliated with any AI lab. They aren&#x27;t themselves &quot;spending trillions&quot; nor &quot;training your monster&quot;. And I suspect the AI labs would agree with both Rob and me that this was a bad email they should not have sent.


type: comment
by: astronads
text:
  Yeah, the machine elves rabbit hole is interesting for sure. I hope a lot more rigorous science delves into both mushrooms and DMT


type: comment
by: jama211
text:
  I think you created it the same way christian von koenigsegg makes supercars. You didn’t hand make each panel, or hand design the exact aerodynamics of the wing, an engineer with a computer algorithm did that. But you made it happen, and that’s still cool


type: comment
by: awestroke
text:
  I recently rewrote one of my rails apps in rust. Used Claude 4.5 Opus heavily and it was very fast.<p>One thing that&#x27;s struck me with the new code is that&#x27;s its so easy to follow compared to rails. It&#x27;s like two different extremes on the implicit-explicit spectrum. Yet it&#x27;s not like I have tons more boilerplate code now, I think I have maybe 10 or 20% more SLOC than before.<p>I&#x27;ll probably do this with my other rails apps as well.


type: comment
by: rovr138
text:
  Yes.<p>They talk about it being an optimization. They also talk about the bottleneck being level generation, which happens at the same time as loading from disk.


type: comment
by: stevenalowe
text:
  “…social-media monitoring tools, facial recognition software, license plate readers and services to find where people live and work.“<p>Pretty easy to switch from targeting “immigrants” to “dissidents“


type: comment
by: aw1621107
text:
  Fair point. It&#x27;s a relatively recent thing, though, and even with the reduced footprint I think it and the GC at least would still make its use difficult at best for some of C&#x2F;C++&#x27;s remaining niches.<p>That being said, I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if it (and similar capabilities from Graal, etc.) grabbed yet more market share due to making those languages more viable where they historically had not been.


type: comment
by: afro88
text:
  This thread had me a bit confused, then I realised the discrepancy. Your objective isn&#x27;t to label the high school kid as privileged to remove respect for his work. It is to highlight the privilege to others that don&#x27;t have the same privilege, who may see this as what success looks like, so the discouragement of not being able to do it (no access to GPUs) isn&#x27;t attributed to a lack of their own ability or intelligence but something outside their control (privilege).


type: comment
by: tgv
text:
  If that&#x27;s all you can complain about, you agree with the parent comment for 99.99%.<p>And companies do force it.


type: comment
by: giancarlostoro
text:
  You should really consider getting ahold of someone at discord, Jackbox is always hosted on Discord from my experience. Everyone pulls out their phone and plays. Discord had a dev competition at one point with prize money.


type: comment
by: yawz
text:
  I love Woody Allen&#x27;s speed reading joke:<p>&gt; &quot;I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.&quot;


type: comment
by: 3eb7988a1663
text:
  No doubt there is exquisite engineering and process control expertise required to operate an aluminum plant. However, I imagine there is extensive need for people to &quot;man the bellows&quot;, move this X tons from here to there, etc that require only minimal training and a clean drug test. An army of labor vs a handful of nerds to swap failed hard drives.


type: comment
by: riffraff
text:
  TIL AIX is still in development and they had a release this month<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.ibm.com&#x2F;community&#x2F;user&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;sanket-rathi1&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;05&#x2F;ibm-aix-73-tl4-features" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.ibm.com&#x2F;community&#x2F;user&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;sanket-rathi1...</a>


type: comment
by: cmrdporcupine
text:
  I&#x27;m betting I could get an agentic tool to convert the whole thing (XLISP and&#x2F;or XSCHEME) to modern Rust or Zig in a half a day.


type: comment
by: Jyaif
text:
  &gt; If people are viciously attacking some new technology you can be guaranteed that this new technology is important<p>I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s such a great signal: people were viciously attacking NFTs.


type: comment
by: whompyjaw
text:
  I have been thinking this same thing… Goodluck! I would like my own onprem AI tho. And home assistant devices


type: comment
by: gregfjohnson
text:
  The original comment by Rob Pike and discussion here have implied or used the word &quot;evil&quot;.<p>What is a workable definition of &quot;evil&quot;?<p>How about this:<p>Intentionally and knowingly destroying the lives of other people for no other purpose than furthering one&#x27;s own goals, such as accumulating wealth, fame, power, or security.<p>There are people in the tech space, specifically in the current round of AI deployment and hype, who fit this definition unfortunately and disturbingly well.<p>Another much darker sort of of evil could arise from a combination of depression or severe mental illness and monstrously huge narcissism.  A person who is suffering profoundly might conclude that life is not worth the pain and the best alternative is to end it.  They might further reason that human existence as a whole is an unending source of misery, and the &quot;kindest&quot; thing to do would be to extinguish humanity as a whole.<p>Some advocates of AI as &quot;the next phase of evolution&quot; seem to come close to this view or advocate it outright.<p>To such people it must be said plainly and forcefully:<p>You have NO RIGHT to make these kinds of decisions for other human beings.<p>Evolution and culture have created and configured many kinds of human brains, and many different experiences of human consciousness.<p>It is the height (or depth) of arrogance to project your own tortured mental experience onto other human beings and arrogate to yourself the prerogative to decide on their behalf whether their lives are worth living.


type: comment
by: gritzko
text:
  Git solves that problem and it definitely exists. Speaking of package managers, it really depends. Like, can we use one SQLite file for that? So easy, why no one is doing that?


type: comment
by: mountainriver
text:
  I’ve found myself using the EM dash way more since ChatGPT. I actually really like it as a tool in sentences.<p>Now everyone asks me what AI I’m using


type: comment
by: AaronFriel
text:
  OCI artifacts, using the same protocol as container registries. It&#x27;s a protocol designed for versioning (tagging) content addressable blobs, associating metadata with them, and it&#x27;s CDN friendly.<p>Homebrew uses OCI as its backend now, and I think every package manager should. It has the right primitives you expect from a registry to scale.


type: comment
by: dcre
text:
  How do you reconcile the sense that there&#x27;s a vibe shift with the usage numbers: about a billion weekly users of ChatGPT and Gemini and continuing to grow.


type: comment
by: hexer292
text:
  As a discord user, it&#x27;s the kind of platform that I would want to have running to receive notifications, sort of like the SMS of gaming.<p>A large part of my friend group use discord as the primary method of communication, even in an in person context (was at a festival a few months ago with a friend, and we would send texts over discord if we got split up) so maybe its not a common use case.


type: comment
by: underlipton
text:
  You&#x27;re a racist asshole and I&#x27;m tired of being forced to read your thoughts on every even halfway-related topic.


type: comment
by: JCattheATM
text:
  I don&#x27;t find it awkward to pronounce in the least, and not in any way pretentious.<p>I think the name is fine as is.


type: comment
by: lukan
text:
  Yes, but there is a difference between having the choice of joining FB or not having a choice at all when the empire comes to claim you (like in Ukraine).


type: comment
by: jama211
text:
  What about when someone who can barely type (like stephen hawking used to, 3 minutes per sentence using his cheek) uses autocomplete to reduce the unbelievable effort required to type out sentences? That person could pick the auto completed sentence that is closest to what they’re trying to communicate, and such a thing can be a life saver.


type: comment
by: macintux
text:
  Erlang (and probably Prolog, but my memories there are fuzzy) use periods, commas, and semi-colons in a directly analogous way to English.


type: comment
by: alpineman
text:
  Apologies are free. Did he donate even one or two percent of the surely exorbitant salary he made at Google all those years to any cause countering those negative externalities? (I&#x27;m genuinely curious)


type: comment
by: vessenes
text:
  Okay you had me at line—breaks. Rage. Then I saw it was civil disobedience, and I relaxed. Enjoy the em-dash lifestyle; it chose you apparently.


type: comment
by: the__alchemist
text:
  The Cargo example at the top is striking. Whenever I publish a crate, and it blocks me until I write `--allow-dirty`, I am reminded that there is a conflation between Cargo&#x2F;crates.io and Git that should not exist. I will write `--allow-dirty` because I think these are two separate functionalities that should not be coupled. Crates.io should not know about or care about my project&#x27;s Git usage or lack thereof.


type: comment
by: azakai
text:
  Saying people shouldn&#x27;t create open source code because AI will learn from it, is like saying people shouldn&#x27;t create art because AI will learn from it.<p>In both cases I get the frustration - it feels horrible to see something you created be used in a way you think is harmful and wrong! - but the world would be a worse place without art or open source.


type: comment
by: itsdrewmiller
text:
  He apologized for the part he had in enabling AI (which he describes as minor) but not that he spent a good portion of his life profiting from the same datacenters he is decrying now.


type: comment
by: Ericson2314
text:
  I love em dashes — they are just so pretty. But the en dash also needs more love. 1 out of every, say, 7–15 of the hyphens I see should be en dashes instead.


type: comment
by: Scubabear68
text:
  I think Rob gets a pass, yes, due to his extensive contributions to software.<p>And he is allowed to work for google and still rage against AI.<p>Life is complicated and complex. Deal with it.


type: comment
by: sunaookami
text:
  He actually made a blogpost on December 6th regarding Warner Bros &amp; Netflix but it&#x27;s kinda weird: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.fefe.de&#x2F;?ts=97cd29cd" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.fefe.de&#x2F;?ts=97cd29cd</a> Seems like he still needs a lot of time to recover.


type: comment
by: schoen
text:
  This use in dialogue is common in Continental European languages, especially Romance languages. I think it&#x27;s also common in English among writers who were influenced by other European languages?


type: comment
by: Rendello
text:
  I always wanted a reason to learn C, but couldn&#x27;t figure out a good project for it. I ended up learning TempleOS&#x27; HolyC as my introduction to low-level programming, funnily enough.<p>If you&#x27;re familiar with web programming and data engineering, WebAssembly might be a good way to get into low-level programming. I&#x27;ve written a few web extensions in Rust, compiled down to WASM, and lots of low-level languages have WASM targets now.


type: comment
by: kibwen
text:
  I&#x27;m hoping that languages move away from the sigil-ified legacy of C treating pointers as special syntax and just start calling these `Ref&lt;T&gt;`, `PtrConst&lt;T&gt;`, etc.


type: comment
by: vessenes
text:
  I think this is precisely why I locked in so hard on the essay; I got suspicious right from the gate. Interesting troll to have uncanny valley AI about a real and unusual thing right up front. There should be a word for it.


type: comment
by: JKCalhoun
text:
  Thanks. <i>Hocus Pocus</i> slipped past me somehow. Now I have something to look forward to reading. (I liked <i>Cat&#x27;s Cradle</i> too but it is also on the loopier end of Vonnegut&#x27;s writing spectrum—but we need some more of that.)


type: comment
by: jsight
text:
  AFAIK, the data center employs more people. I&#x27;m not really sure why that&#x27;s the case, but neither is &gt;1k.<p>I&#x27;d guess that this is also an area where the perception makes a bigger difference than the reality.


type: comment
by: tejohnso
text:
  Throw a $250,000 incentive into the mix and you&#x27;re almost guaranteed to get less than honest work.


type: comment
by: MontyCarloHall
text:
  <p><pre><code>   My brother&#x27;s electrical company needed hundreds of Schaltpläne (circuit diagrams).    Drawing each by hand = 5 hours per plan    100 drawings = 500 hours = 12 weeks    Professional CAD work? Unbezahlbar (unaffordable).     The secret weapon: AutoLISP    A programming language built into AutoCAD     The Result: 99.5% time saved    100 drawings: 12 weeks → &lt;1 hour </code></pre> This is a general pattern of how automation (including the recent wave of gen-AI) reshapes the labor landscape. Automation rarely replaces jobs wholesale (i.e. very few people get fired because their position was &quot;outsourced&quot; to automation). Rather, automation lets people who are proficient in Domain A who need some work done in Domain B become proficient enough in Domain B with sufficient ease that it&#x27;s cheaper for them to pick up the requisite Domain B skills themselves versus hiring a Domain B specialist.


type: story
by: cd_mkdir
title: Can an Auto-Generated Forensic Report Hold Up in Court?
text:
  Came across this ExitProtocol’s autogenerated “forensic asset tracing report” (LIBR, full ledger replay, SHA-256 sealing, court-style citations).<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;exitprotocols.com&#x2F;static&#x2F;documents&#x2F;Sterling_Forensic_Report_FINAL.pdf


type: comment
by: nticompass
text:
  I went to give Crixet a try, and there was a AI assistant in the editor.  I looked in the settings to turn it off and the setting to do so said &quot;I prefer my ignorance handcrafted, organic, and 100% human-made.&quot;<p>:)


type: comment
by: fourseventy
text:
  I just upgraded my prod apps to run on YJIT so I&#x27;m annoyed at this announcement. Feels like javascript-esque runtime churn


type: comment
by: cue_the_strings
text:
  IME it &quot;just works&quot; on Android:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.element.io&#x2F;latest&#x2F;element-server-suite-classic&#x2F;advanced-configuration&#x2F;notifications-mdm-push-gateway&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.element.io&#x2F;latest&#x2F;element-server-suite-classic&#x2F;...</a>


type: comment
by: halJordan
text:
  That has nothing to do with the guy who said stop anthropomorphizing llms and then proceeded to anthropomorphize an llm.


type: comment
by: f_allwein
text:
  I understand Twitter posts are still shared here, even though I would often (usually?) have to log in?


type: comment
by: antibull
text:
  GenAI is copyright theft hidden behind an obfuscation layer. It&#x27;s a flow chart trained on all our intellectual property. Very sad really.


type: comment
by: jimbob45
text:
  Data centers seem poised to make renewable energy sources more profitable than they have ever been. Nuclear plants are springing up everywhere and old plants are being un-decommissioned. Isn’t there a strong case to be made that AI has helped align the planet toward a more sustainable future?


type: comment
by: skydhash
text:
  You may as well ask for a person that can walk to be able to compete in a marathon using a car.<p>I’m all for using technology for accessibility. But this kind of whataboutism is pure nonsense.


type: comment
by: grensley
text:
  I&#x27;ve noticed people using emdashes more in known non-AI text in what I assume is a smokescreen to maintain plausible deniability when they wholesale copy AI text.<p>It&#x27;s so interesting to me that human writing is subtly changing to mirror AI writing.


type: comment
by: ladyanita22
text:
  That&#x27;s super cool! I have been wondering what could be done with ESP32 if it weren&#x27;t for the lack of RAM.<p>As a fun of Rust, one thing that saddens me is knowing these things would be difficult to achieve with a Rust compiler, given the language seems to be vastly more complex.<p>Unless someone created a subset of Rust without (some?) safety checks, I guess.


type: comment
by: sunaookami
text:
  &gt;like journalists reporting about infiltrating a Great Replacement conference hosted by the second biggest political party here.<p>And making stuff up that was never talked about there to start a political movement to get that party banned? Yeah nice democracy and journalism there.


type: comment
by: tomlue
text:
  Forgive a sharp example, but consider someone who is disabled and cannot write or speak well. If they send a loving letter to a family member using an LLM to help form words and sentences they otherwise could not, do you really think the recipient feels cheated by the LLM? Would you seriously accuse them of not having written that letter?


type: comment
by: spockz
text:
  I have the same experience on windows. On the other hand, starting up discord on my cachyos install is virtually instant. So maybe there is also a difference between the platform the developers use and that their users use.


type: comment
by: macintux
text:
  Option is used extensively for non-Ascii characters, a comprehensive list would be quite long.<p>A few of the easier to remember:<p>option + 0 for degrees º<p>option + u for to place an umlaut over the next typed character (when it&#x27;s a valid combination, anyway) ëüä<p>option + c for cedilla ç


type: comment
by: nathias
text:
  LLMs completely ruined &quot;—&quot; for me, its not jus that it makes text look generated I think it revealed something deep about the use of it that was always really cringe and just has no reason to exist...


type: comment
by: Leynos
text:
  It does<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;OpenAI&#x2F;status&#x2F;1963697012014215181?lang=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;OpenAI&#x2F;status&#x2F;1963697012014215181?lang=e...</a>


type: comment
by: oguz-ismail2
text:
  &gt; it&#x27;s safe to rely on<p>Is there any guarantee they won&#x27;t break backwards compatibility again?


type: comment
by: apothegm
text:
  Or maybe they’ve been there all along and you just notice them more now because you’re looking for them.


type: comment
by: mkagenius
text:
  If you don&#x27;t want to depend on cloud, have a mac, then you can run a sandbox locally on you mac. I have built an apple container (not docker) based sandbox to run arbitrary code - coderunner[1]. It is quite fast. And apple container provides one vm per container unlike docker on macos which shares the vm across all containers. Coderunner is good for processing sensitive docs locally in a secure sandbox.<p>1. coderunner - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;instavm&#x2F;coderunner" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;instavm&#x2F;coderunner</a>


type: comment
by: joquarky
text:
  Same here,  I just limit my use of genAI to writing functions (and general brainstorming).<p>I only use the standard &quot;chat&quot; web interface, no agents.<p>I still glue everything else together myself.  LLMs enhance my experience tremendously and I still know what&#x27;s going on in the code.<p>I think the move to agents is where people are becoming disconnected from what they&#x27;re creating and then that becomes the source of all this controversy.


type: comment
by: riffraff
text:
  ZJIT exists because it&#x27;s a more traditional design and there&#x27;s hope more people will have a easier time contributing[0]. Given that, it seems YJIT will become unnecessary if ZJIT succeeds.<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;railsatscale.com&#x2F;2025-05-14-merge-zjit&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;railsatscale.com&#x2F;2025-05-14-merge-zjit&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: sowbug
text:
  My question was about what happened during your warranty period. nrp&#x27;s response was independent of warranty obligations.


type: comment
by: OGEnthusiast
text:
  ICE funding is about to 10x at the new year. I would personally recommend against foreigners going to America.


type: comment
by: layer8
text:
  There are lots: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mackeeper.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;special-characters-mac-keyboard&#x2F;#h2_1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mackeeper.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;special-characters-mac-keyboard&#x2F;#...</a>


type: comment
by: jerrodcodes
text:
  Deepwiki is pretty cool, but this is more geared towards private use (or open source projects). I believe deepwiki is public only.


type: comment
by: jerrodcodes
text:
  Currently there are no self hosted methods available but I&#x27;m sorting out how to provide a locally ran library if possible.


type: comment
by: Tade0
text:
  Guess my normal usage is more destructive than your trips. The main driver of wear in my case was always commuting with the device and thus also plugging&#x2F;unplugging things several times a day.<p>Also if you hold a 2kg closed laptop with one hand - you&#x27;re going to have pressure marks and I learned that the hard way.<p>Anyway, all around me people have always had hardware issues - also with Apple products. I recall replacing the battery in a late 2011 MBP because it was swollen as it failed from age alone.<p>Bottom line is that I believe you, I just think you&#x27;re an outlier.


type: comment
by: DetectDefect
text:
  People will eventually stop eating meat because it is unsustainable, but unfortunately not without causing a great deal of suffering first, and your comment is an example of why this process is unnecessarily prolonged. It is clear you have not done much research on actual animal welfare based on your &quot;pasture&quot; argument alone. I am even willing to bet you think humans currently outnumber animals, when the reality is so much more troubling.


type: comment
by: mergesort
text:
  As the author of the post I think it was a nice quick post to share my perspective of a behavior I’ve been seeing across many (but not all) developers recently, but I’m always open to feedback for how to improve my writing!<p>And as I mentioned here (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46392900">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46392900</a>) I have no affiliation with any of the organizations, nor care to evangelize any of them. Nobody pays me to write, I’m just a guy on the internet sharing his thoughts, building software, and teaching people how to use AI better with any tool people want to use. :)


type: comment
by: reconnecting
text:
  Andrey Vikt., might I suggest making a crash course on how to use your technology for different platforms?


type: comment
by: Calavar
text:
  You&#x27;re not the only one who feels that way, but IMHO it&#x27;s not a valid complaint.<p>The C++ standard says implementation defined because the weeds get very thick very quickly:<p>- Are paths formed with forward slash or backslash?<p>- Case sensitive?<p>- NT style drive letter or Posix style mounts?<p>- For relative paths, what is it relative to? When there are multiple matches, what is the algorithm to determine priority?<p>- What about symlinks and hard links?<p>- Are http and ftp URIs supported (e.g. an online IDE like godbolt). If so, which versions of those protocols? TLS 1.3+ only? Are you going to accept SHA-1?<p>- Should the file read be transactional?<p>People already complain that the C++ standard is overly complicated. So instead of adding even more complexity by redefining the OS semantics of your build platform in a language spec, they use &quot;implementation defined&quot; as a shorthand for &quot;your compiler will call fopen&quot; plus some implementation wiggle room like command line options for specifying search paths and the strategy for long paths on Windows<p>What if #embed steals my credit card data is a pointless strawman. If a malicious compiler dev wanted to steal your credit card data, they&#x27;d just inject the malicious code; not act like a genie, searching the C++ spec with a fine comb for a place where they could  execute malicious code while still *technically* being standards conformant. You know that, I know that, we all know that. So why are we wasting words discussing it?


type: comment
by: sorcercode
text:
  Most AI generated text doesn&#x27;t seem to have spaces around the em dashes. I&#x27;ve been using that as a subtle distinguishing marker; as both forms are considered grammatically correct.<p>tldr: use spaces around em dashes


type: comment
by: ChaosOp
text:
  I actually looked at the dev competition they had! The problem was that Discord activities don&#x27;t support the use of WebRTC as they require all network calls to go through their proxy. This makes real-time gaming a bit harder to implement


type: comment
by: voidhorse
text:
  Two things:<p>1. Many tech workers viewed the software they worked on in the past as useful in some way for society, and thus worth the many costs you outline. Many of them don&#x27;t feel that LLMs deliver the same amount of utility, and so they feel it isn&#x27;t worth the cost. Not to mention, previous technologies usually didn&#x27;t involve training a robot on all of humanity&#x27;s work without consent.<p>2. I&#x27;m not sure the premise that it&#x27;s just another tool of the trade for one to learn is shared by others. One can alternatively view LLMs as automated factory lines are viewed in relation to manual laborers, not as Excel sheets were to paper tables. This is a different kind of relationship, one that suggests wide replacement rather than augmentation (with relatively stable hiring counts).<p>In particular, I think (2) is actually the stronger of the reasons tech workers react negatively. Whether it will ultimately be justified or not, if you believe you are being asked to effectively replace yourself, you shouldn&#x27;t be happy about it. Artisanal craftsmen weren&#x27;t typically the ones also building the automated factory lines that would come to replace them (at least to my knowledge).<p>I agree that no one really has the right to act morally superior in this context, but we should also acknowledge that the material circumstances, consequences, and effects are in fact different in this case. Flattening everything into an equivalence is just as intellectually sloppy as pretending everything is completely novel.


type: comment
by: lunar_mycroft
text:
  People do not have perfect foresight, and the ways open source software is used has significantly shifted in recent years.  As a result, people reevaluating whether or not they want to participate.


type: comment
by: EPWN3D
text:
  The point is not &quot;design to serve the world&quot;. The point is &quot;use the right technology for your problem space&quot;.


type: comment
by: IshKebab
text:
  Absolutely. If Linus had said &quot;Rust for Linux might go away&quot; then you would have said &quot;See! The creator and leader of Linux says Rust is going to go away!&quot; but because he said it is here to stay you&#x27;re saying &quot;Pff, Linus isn&#x27;t that important.&quot;<p>I won&#x27;t quit my day job to become a detective because actual detective work isn&#x27;t this trivial.


type: comment
by: phil21
text:
  To be clear, my comment was in no way intended towards Rob Pike or anyone of his stature and contributions to the technology field.<p>It was definitely a less-than-useful comment directed towards the tech bro types that came later when the money started getting good.


type: comment
by: 0-_-0
text:
  This is basically the nvidia equivalent of cooperative_matrix_2 in Vulkan which is vendor agnostic and should get much more hype that it&#x27;s getting.


type: comment
by: rpdillon
text:
  Yes, latexr managed to somehow sidestep the point entirely and make a pedantic correction. I notice this a lot in these discussions.<p>The point is AI has lots of useful applications, even though there&#x27;s also lots of detestable ones.


type: comment
by: tin7in
text:
  This becomes clearer for me with harder problems or long running tasks and sessions. Especially with larger context.<p>Examples that come to mind are how the context is filled up and how compaction works. Both Codex and Claude Code ship  improvements regarding this specific to their own models and I’m not sure how this is reflected in tools like Cursor.


type: comment
by: soulofmischief
text:
  Your suggestion is to not use the platform as intended, and to understand the source code of the extension. That advice is not actionable by non-technical people and does not help mitigate mass surveillance.


type: story
by: randomkiwi99
title: Show HN: Polibench – compare political bias across AI models
url: https://polibench.vercel.app/
text:
  Polibench runs the Political Compass questions across AI models so you can compare responses side by side. No signup.<p>Built on top of work by @theo (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;theo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;theo</a>) and @HolyCoward (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;HolyCoward" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;HolyCoward</a>).   Question set is based on the Political Compass: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politicalcompass.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politicalcompass.org&#x2F;</a><p>Early and rough. Feedback welcome on revealing questions, possible misuse, and ideas for extending it.<p>Happy to answer questions.


type: comment
by: Rendello
text:
  I swam a lot as a kid as my mother was a lifeguard and instructor. Despite that, I was never amazing at it, probably because I was lean and had no buoyancy, but I loved it a lot.<p>I swam for the first time in years a few months ago, and was surprised how exhausted I was after 30 minutes of treading water! I work out and go on frequent long runs, but I was totally spent from that. I too would love to get into it again, it&#x27;s definitely a great exercise.


type: comment
by: gs17
text:
  If anything, I think it might help kids understand real-world surveillance better. Knowing that there&#x27;s a device in their environment spying on them as part of a system versus magic man can see everything at all times because he&#x27;s magic.


type: comment
by: function_seven
text:
  &quot;Lemon&quot; was never mentioned. That&#x27;s extreme. I don&#x27;t care what make and model of car you choose, I&#x27;ll show you a list of TSBs associated with that model. There&#x27;s never been a car produced that was perfectly engineered and had no after-sale issues common to that model and year. There&#x27;s always something.<p>Yes, I would be thrilled to find a car that gave cheap and available replacement parts so I could remedy those issues later. That used to be the standard! The trend now is for automakers to keep juicing the proprietary software tools and one-off components, making repairability harder for the owner.<p>So, to rephrase your analogy: &quot;[That&#x27;s like] buying a new car then bragging to your friends ... that you&#x27;re thrilled because you can repair it yourself (at cost).&quot;


type: comment
by: Avamander
text:
  This goes against what Stallman believes in, but there&#x27;s a need for AGPL with a clause against closed-weight models.


type: comment
by: MrDrone
text:
  Yes, this was a common phrase in early psychedelic and other drug experience sharing forums. Like a verbal talisman people believe kept them from incriminating themselves. I haven&#x27;t thought about it in years. Delightful.


type: comment
by: zbycz
text:
  I checked, and yes - the field &quot;create_time&quot; is available both for coversation and for each message. The payload looks the same as the exported JSON.<p>Look for this API call in Dev Tools: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chatgpt.com&#x2F;backend-api&#x2F;conversation&#x2F;&lt;uuid&gt;


type: comment
by: nticompass
text:
  I work as a web developer, but my own personal web site could use some love.  I&#x27;ve re-written it multiple times, every time I learn a new framework&#x2F;library at work.<p>I love having my own website, but I need to have time at home to update it and work on it.  Also, I&#x27;m not really a project manager, so I never quite know what I want for myself.


type: comment
by: ares623
text:
  It’s a bit cheating though particularly for Gemini. It’s been inserted into something that already had high usage numbers.


type: comment
by: nosianu
text:
  I had to look twice, and then check Wikipedia, when I saw &quot;1888-1993&quot; there.<p>* 13. Mai 1888 in Kopenhagen<p>† 21. Februar 1993 in Kopenhagen<p>That&#x27;s 104 years, 9 months, and 8 days!


type: comment
by: nikanj
text:
  Can I have the a reverse filter, that replaces smart quotes, em-dashes and other web filth with something a proper compiler rightfully expects? Nothing like copying code samples from someone&#x27;s blog, and getting weird errors because the helpful blog software made the typography “prettier“


type: comment
by: wavemode
text:
  &quot;vicious&quot;? Temper your emotions a bit.<p>In fact I would make a converse statement to yours - you can be certain that a product is grift, if the slightest criticism or skepticism of it is seen as a &quot;vicious attack&quot; and shouted down.


type: comment
by: MMAFRAZ
text:
  Traffic is useless if it doesn&#x27;t convert. Use the &#x27;Friction Audit&#x27; to remove barriers and double your sales. Fix your funnel.<p>You don&#x27;t need more traffic. You need a bucket that doesn&#x27;t leak.<p>Most SaaS founders and marketers are obsessed with &quot;Top of Funnel&quot; (ToF). They burn thousands of dollars on ads, SEO, and influencers to drive traffic to a landing page that converts at 0.5%.<p>This is financial suicide.<p>Increasing your Conversion Rate (CVR) from 1% to 2% literally doubles your revenue without spending a single extra cent on acquisition. This guide outlines the &quot;Friction Killer&quot; protocol we use to diagnose and fix leaking funnels.<p>continue here:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.vect.pro&#x2F;fix-your-conversion-rate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.vect.pro&#x2F;fix-your-conversion-rate</a>


type: comment
by: uncivilized
text:
  It&#x27;s 160kbit&#x2F;s for popularity&gt;0 and 75kbit&#x2F;s for popularity=0. I&#x27;m surprised Anna&#x27;s Archive went for this given that these are not archival quality bitrates. It appears they did this because they found a way, rather than seeking to create a library of music.


type: comment
by: jph00
text:
  I got one of these stupid emails too. I’m guessing it spammed a lot of people. I’m not mad at AI, but at the people at this organisation who irresponsibly chose to connect a model to the internet and allow it to do dumb shit like this.


type: comment
by: tekknolagi
text:
  In this case, we used to abort (i.e. abort(); intentionally crash the entire process) but now we jump into the interpreter to handle the dynamic behavior.<p>If someone writes dynamic ruby code to add two objects, it should succeed in both integer and string cases. The JIT just wants to optimize whatever the common case is.


type: comment
by: thorum
text:
  The problem isn’t the em dashes, it’s the overuse of em dashes. Same for all the other ChatGPT-isms - they’re fine when used occasionally for effect, but there’s no variety. It’s always the same punctuation, same grammatical structures, same rhetorical moves, same paragraph lengths... That’s not what writing is supposed to be like and it becomes very grating after a while.


type: comment
by: joquarky
text:
  I&#x27;ve observed on many occasions that complaining seems to be the primary go-to ad-hoc subject in spontaneous human interactions in the past decade.


type: comment
by: nticompass
text:
  Does this work for you? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xcancel.com&#x2F;FFmpeg&#x2F;status&#x2F;2004599109559496984" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xcancel.com&#x2F;FFmpeg&#x2F;status&#x2F;2004599109559496984</a>


type: comment
by: aw1621107
text:
  I think this is starting to wander rather far afield from where this thread started...<p>But anyways, at least from a quick glance those would at the very least seem to run into codys&#x27; unintentional bug vs. intentional behavior distinction. The bugs you linked are... well... <i>bugs</i> that the Rust devs fully intend to fix regardless of whether any in-the-wild exploits ever arise. The Go data race issue, on the other hand, is an intentional implementation decision and the devs have not indicated any interest in fixing it so far.


type: comment
by: mindslight
text:
  Furthermore, the issues given for nixpkgs are actually demonstrating <i>the success</i> of using git as the database! Those 20k forks are all people maintaining their own version of nixpkgs on Github, right? Each their own independent tree that users can just go ahead and modify for their own whims and purposes, without having to overcome the activation energy of creating their own package repository.<p>If 83GB (4MB&#x2F;fork) is &quot;too big&quot; then responsibility for that rests solely on the elective centralization encouraged by Github. I suspect if you could go and total up the cumulative storage used by the nixpkgs source tree <i>distributed on computers spread throughout the world</i>, that is many orders of magnitude larger.


type: comment
by: immibis
text:
  Definition of politics: whenever two agents have conflicting goals and a resolution is reached (peacefully or otherwise). Or more succinctly, multi-agent dynamics. Yes, almost everything is politics, and this is not diluting the word, any more than saying that almost everything is made of atoms is diluting the meaning of the word &quot;atoms&quot;.<p>(Parent comment was edited to remove the part about diluting meaning)


type: story
by: theanonymousone
title: Ask HN: Is Dart a particularly optimised language for front-end development?
text:
  Hi. I remember when Dart was introduced, it was supposed to be a &quot;JavaScript alternative&quot; (?) for browsers.<p>It however &quot;evolved&quot; into being almost only used in Flutter, for developing mobile, web, and desktop front-end development.<p>It seems bizarre to me that a language is so special-purpose for front-end. Even Ruby has some fringe use cases beyond Rails.<p>Does Dart have any particular features that justify such a decision to bind Flutter to it? Or it has all been accidental?<p>Thanks


type: comment
by: cosmic_cheese
text:
  One space that I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve seen explored is building a laptop around a tiny, ultra-low-power passively cooled SoC board that can easily fit <i>beside</i> the keyboard instead of <i>under</i> it in a 12&quot;-16&quot; chassis and saves space that&#x27;d otherwise need to be dedicated to cooling. That&#x27;d buy a substantial amount of Z-budget for a quality keyboard without blowing up chassis thickness.<p>Naturally this laptop wouldn&#x27;t be suited for some types of work due to lack of horsepower, but there&#x27;s always tradeoffs somewhere.


type: comment
by: drob518
text:
  From the article:<p>&gt; I was later surprised all the real world find implementations I examined use tree-walk interpreters instead.<p>I’m not sure why this would be surprising. The find utility is totally dominated by disk IOPS. The interpretation performance of find conditions is totally swamped by reading stuff from disk. So, keep it simple and just use a tree-walk interpreter.


type: comment
by: LastTrain
text:
  I really hate this kind of lazy argument: Oh. do you use toilet paper? Then kindly keep your mouth shut while we burn the planet down.


type: comment
by: phil21
text:
  It&#x27;s taking away programmers jobs today. I know of multiple small companies where hires were not made or contractors not engaged with simply due to the additional productivity gained by using Gen AI. This is for mundane &quot;trivial&quot; work that is needed to glue stuff together for the fields those small companies operate within.<p>It&#x27;s like how &quot;burger flippers&quot; didn&#x27;t go extinct due to automation. The burger joint simply mechanised and automated the parts that made sense, and now a lunch shift is handled by 5 employees instead of 20.<p>They will not replace the calibre of folks like Rob Pike in quite some time, perhaps (and I&#x27;d bet on) never.<p>I will grant you that the hype does not live up to the reality. The vast majority of jobs being taken from US developers are simply being offshored with AI as an excuse - but it is an actual real phenomenon I&#x27;ve personally witnessed.


type: comment
by: submeta
text:
  I used em-dashes regularly. However, since they’ve become associated with LLM-generated text, I’ve stopped using them to avoid the appearance of AI assistance.


type: comment
by: nikanj
text:
  This being a research paper, the rate is 1.0. They built one, then tinkered until it worked, then published.


type: comment
by: rpdillon
text:
  What I wrote is an encouragement to investigate the actual state of the law when you&#x27;re talking about legal topics. That&#x27;s the opposite of thought-terminating.


type: comment
by: cgebitcoin
text:
  BTC3 is a lightweight Bitcoin Core fork with trivial mining difficulty, making it perfect for development, testing, and education. All modern Bitcoin features (SegWit, CSV, etc.) are active from block 1, and it runs on an isolated network with full RPC compatibility.


type: comment
by: keyshapegeo99
text:
  Opening with a made-up quote (that is very simple to Google, which quickly confirms its apocryphal nature) doesn&#x27;t inspire confidence in the factual accuracy of the remainder of the book...


type: comment
by: schoen
text:
  Here&#x27;s someone talking about an example in French: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.wordreference.com&#x2F;threads&#x2F;fr-em-dash-usage.3643672&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.wordreference.com&#x2F;threads&#x2F;fr-em-dash-usage.364...</a><p>I believe I&#x27;ve also seen it in Spanish and Portuguese.


type: comment
by: bell-cot
text:
  Making toys, caring for reindeer, sleight maintenance, ...<p>And spook work for His Jolliness&#x27; Secret Service, to keep their Naughty and Nice databases current.


type: comment
by: kayo_20211030
text:
  Of course I do. The benign ones are just comforting lies we tell ourselves. As for the other ones, well hopefully, we just grow up and know better. Are materialist marxists, as if there were any other kind, always so dourly un-fun?


type: comment
by: ares623
text:
  This will get buried but one thing that really grinds my gears are parents whose kids are right now struggling to get a job. Yet the parents are super bullish on AI. Read the room guys.


type: comment
by: immibis
text:
  do you think the old-school CCC would be happy with a guy walking onto the stage and yelling the N word over and over, or would they kick him out? Because that&#x27;s the quality of &quot;speech&quot; they now support &quot;censoring&quot;.


type: comment
by: garciansmith
text:
  Huh, I&#x27;ve observed the opposite, AI-generated text uses spaces most of the time. Might depend on language? Style guides I use (like Chicago) don&#x27;t put spaces between em dashes so those always stand out immediately to me.


type: comment
by: phlakaton
text:
  I&#x27;m on vacation so don&#x27;t have my copy of Robert Bringhurst&#x27;s <i>Elements of Typographic Style</i> at hand, but I&#x27;m not sure he would subscribe to this manifesto.<p>Now if you were willing to switch to en-dashes, maybe we could overlook the overexuberance. ;-)


type: comment
by: isoprophlex
text:
  Incredible! A mushroom that bruises blue, but the visions are seemingly unlike traditional tryptamines, and there&#x27;s no psilocybin found in the mushroom. Also no muscimol present (the thing in Fly Agaric, the &#x27;other&#x27; type of hallucinogenic mushroom compound) yet there&#x27;s definitely a consistent syndrome of hallucinations if you eat it undercooked.<p>Could this mean we&#x27;re on the brink of discovering an entirely new class of hallucinogens?


type: comment
by: gen220
text:
  This was an excellent listen, thank you for linking this directly!<p>Kurt Vonnegut was such a clear thinker and communicator, we were fortunate to have him for so long.


type: comment
by: apothegm
text:
  Failed attempts pollute the context and bias output in undesirable ways, making it more likely for the LLM to get stuck in a loop of uncorrectable bad responses.


type: comment
by: sho_hn
text:
  I keep being surprised this is such a big deal on HN, and I have begun to wonder whether this is just a uniquely American conversation.<p>I grew up among European and other international English speakers and writers, and no one blinks an eye at a semicolon or an em-dash. I&#x27;m not saying they use them frequently or overuse them, they simply know how to use them correctly and use them well. Writing without either is like ... cooking without garlic. You can, but it certainly makes affairs a lot more boring.<p>Now I understand that America has gone through 1-2 generations of English language teachers drilling their students to simplify, simplify, simplify and emulate the ideal of Hemingway. Is that where this all comes from, do you think?


type: comment
by: nikanj
text:
  Quantum computers can almost, but not quite, factor numbers bigger than 10.<p>Time for git to break all workflows by showing huge alerts if a server is using crypto not proven quantum-proof!


type: comment
by: NegativeK
text:
  I think you&#x27;re misrepresenting what Pike is mad about, why he&#x27;s as mad as he is, and what Markov bots are.


type: comment
by: tekknolagi
text:
  Earnestly: why are you annoyed? I tried to make it clear that you don&#x27;t have to make any changes. If you want, you can try ZJIT (which should not be anything other than a one character change), but you don&#x27;t have to.


type: comment
by: mergesort
text:
  Heya, I’m the author of the post! To be clear I have AI write probably 95% of my code these days, but I review every line of code that AI writes to make sure it meets my high standards. The same rules I’ve always had still apply — to quote @simonw “your job is to deliver code you have proven to work”.<p>So while I’m enthusiastic about AI writing my code in the literal sense, it’s still my code to understand and maintain. If I can’t do that then I work with AI to understand what was written — and if I can’t then I’ll often give it another go with another approach altogether so I can generate something I can understand. (Most of the time working together to understand the code works better, because I love to learn and am always open to pushing my boundaries to grow — and this process can tuned well to self-directed learning.)<p>And to quote a recent audit: “this is probably one of the cleanest codebases I’ve ever audited.” I say that emphasize the fact that I care a lot about the code that goes into my codebase, and I’m not interested in building layers of unchecked AI slop for code that goes into my apps.


type: comment
by: preommr
text:
  At the risk of being pedantic, it&#x27;s not AI that requires massive resources, chatgpt 3.x was trained on a few million dollars. The jump to trillions being table stakes happened because everyone started using free services and there was just too much money in the hands of these tech companies. Among other things.<p>There are so many chickens that are coming home to roost where LLMs was just the catalyst.


type: comment
by: zwieback
text:
  Very cool. Can this be used to make a better quadrature encoder multiplier? The ones we get in our programmable rotary encoders are pretty crappy when the input frequency wobbles.


type: comment
by: halJordan
text:
  You&#x27;re not the only one, and youre not a part of the stupidest conspiracy in the world, but you better hope the flat eartherers dont walk in


type: comment
by: holowoodman
text:
  There is quite a difference between &quot;speech&quot; and what ZfpS does. Their actions are often criminal, and not in the sense of &quot;political crimes&quot; but actually criminal acts that have nothing to do with speech or opinions. They have doxed people and called for violence against them, they have exhumed dead children and paraded around their corpses, stolen things, stuff like that.


type: comment
by: brendoelfrendo
text:
  &gt; How many countries are led by the far right? What about the far left?<p>Since you asked the question, I assume you have an answer, and I&#x27;m curious to hear it. I imagine it will reveal more about your personal politics than any observable political reality.


type: comment
by: emp17344
text:
  Uh, I must have missed the “consensus” here, especially when many studies are showing a productivity decrease from AI use. I think you’ve just conjured the idea of this “scientific consensus” out of thin air to deflect criticism.


type: comment
by: dxdm
text:
  &gt; The problem is, I don&#x27;t recognise it has ever been a big thing.<p>This is not a problem. Or rather, it is not a problem in the way that I think you mean.<p>Em dashes do not need to be a big thing to be useful, which they are; they also do not need anyone&#x27;s personal recognition to do their jobs.<p>The problem may, in fact, be that they used to be more of a niche punctuation mark that people were not very familiar with. Now that LLMs have fallen in love with them and throw them around like candy, if people have hardly ever seen them used in well-written text before, they might treat them alone as a much stronger signal for LLM generation than they should — which is precisely what is bringing em-dashes under fire these days, and hence results TFA.<p>So, yes, indeed, in some ways the problem is, that you don&#x27;t recognise it has ever been a big thing.


type: comment
by: lmz
text:
  &gt; This is the key advantage of hardware keys, the fact that the physical press is required prevents the keys from being exfiltrated from the machine by malware.<p>Secure elements prevent exfiltration. Touch requirements prevent on-device reuse by local malware.


type: comment
by: immibis
text:
  You choose to ignore politics, but politics doesn&#x27;t choose to ignore you. Ostriching doesn&#x27;t seem productive.


type: comment
by: sho_hn
text:
  If you are surrounded by a class of people that makes you genuinely second-guess the optics of your (appropriate) em-dash usage, I think that tells you a lot about what you need to change in your life. Likely you&#x27;ll be happier in the company of people who know how to pick up a professionally written book or article.


type: comment
by: michael_michael
text:
  I use µ for microns or micrometers µm. Option + m.<p>Also if you need ad-hoc bullets, just reach for option + 8.<p>• Like this.<p>The difficulty in accessing symbols like these is one of my (I&#x27;m sure correctable) hang-ups when using Linux — Arch, btw.


type: comment
by: blauditore
text:
  I agree, but reality is often different, even for cars. Sometimes because of incompetence, sometimes because of dark patterns. Many newer cars do have space for putting your phone somewhere on the middle console, but it&#x27;s arranged in ways to make it impossible to place your phone in a way that would make it usable for navigation. Why? Because they desparately want you to use their own navigation setup (which probably costs extra too).


type: comment
by: abdullahkhalids
text:
  &gt; Trusting LaTeX to automatically distribute tables and figures produces not-very-readable documents with tables and figures interrupting content (e.g. page 12).<p>The positioning of the table on page 12 is completely inline with how tables&#x2F;figures are placed in books and academic figures. The rule is that all displayed tables&#x2F;figures should either be placed at the top or bottom of a page. Ideally, they should be placed on the same page as they are first mentioned in the text, but if this is not possible, it is acceptable to push them to subsequent pages.<p>Interestingly, the author did manually specify `[ht!]` options for the table, and not for some other tables further in the chapter.


type: comment
by: BenjiWiebe
text:
  If the class takes N minutes and one person arrives 1 minute late, and the rest of the class is waiting for them, it does stack. Every one of those students lost a minute. Far worse than one student losing one minute.


type: story
by: HansP958
title: Show HN: AI Directories – Submit your AI tool to 300 directories (2 minutes)
url: https://300aidirectories.com
text:
  Hi HN,<p>After launching an AI tool, many founders ask the same question: where else should I submit it after Product Hunt?<p>This page focuses on manual submissions to 300+ AI directories, with:<p>a prioritized list<p>clean manual execution (no bots)<p>a detailed submission report<p>Link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;300aidirectories.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;300aidirectories.com</a><p>Sharing in case it helps founders working on post-launch distribution.


type: comment
by: cons0le
text:
  Yep. For example with google searches. There&#x27;s no comprehensive option to opt out of all AI. You can (for now) manually type -noai after every google search, but that&#x27;s quite annoying and time consuming.<p>You&#x27;re breaking the expected behavior of something that performed flawlessly for 10+ years, all to deliver a worse, enshitified version of the search we had before.<p>For now I&#x27;m sticking to noai.duckduckgo.com<p>But I&#x27;m sure they&#x27;ll rip that away eventually too. And then I&#x27;ll have to run a god dang local search engine just to search without AI. I&#x27;ll do it, but it&#x27;s so disappointing.


type: comment
by: pbalau
text:
  I think Romanian uses that too and it just occurred to me that &quot;linie de dialog&quot; is not dash, but em dash.


type: comment
by: immibis
text:
  Common misconception. HN uses &quot;hacker&quot; as in &quot;the people who do the work that makes Y Combinator rich&quot; rather than &quot;someone who plays with technology&quot;. HN hackers are contrasted with CEOs and so on - people whose job is not the on-the-ground work.


type: comment
by: throwaway12345t
text:
  I probably write overly detailed starting prompts but it means I get pretty aligned results. It does take longer but I try to think through the implementation first before the planning starts.


type: comment
by: michaelt
text:
  When I take a job, I agree to dedicate my waking hours to advancing the agenda of my employer, in exchange for cash.


type: comment
by: DetectDefect
text:
  &gt; I struggle to understand the pushback against AI features.<p>To develop and sustain these &quot;AI features&quot;, human intelligence - manifested as countless hours of work published online and elsewhere - was exigently preempted and used without permission to further increase the asymmetry of knowledge&#x2F;power between those with political power and those without (mostly vulnerable, marginalized cohorts).


type: comment
by: slashdave
text:
  What about the poor negative sign? Nothing is more grating to my eye than using the hyphen in a plot.


type: comment
by: BeetleB
text:
  &quot;In protest, I wrote [1] a plugin to convert all hyphens in this blog to em—dashes. <i>Even ones that really should just be hyphens.</i>&quot;


type: comment
by: holowoodman
text:
  Being (un)happy about something is totally different from creating and promoting an oppressive censorship apparatus, criminal laws and police actions against that something.<p>Imho: You don&#x27;t have to like that person yelling that stuff. You don&#x27;t have to like what they are yelling. But you have to accept that it has to be their legal right to yell that stuff. Because otherwise, any opinion will one day be a criminal thing to say, just takes one election...


type: comment
by: idle_zealot
text:
  &gt;  teachers drilling their students to simplify, simplify, simplify and emulate the ideal of Hemingway. Is that where this comes from?<p>No. It comes from the fact that Americans are functionally illiterate and genuinely have no idea how to use or interpret em dashes or semicolons. They don&#x27;t use them and don&#x27;t expect anyone else to use them. The only time Americans see these punctuations are in the handful of classic books they&#x27;re required to skim to pass high school English class.


type: comment
by: naxmax
text:
  After 100+ AI-assisted projects, I noticed the bottleneck has moved from code generation to code comprehension. Claude can generate infinite code, but we still need to review and maintain it.<p>This toolkit encodes guardrails that keep AI-generated code simple, secure, and verifiable:<p>- Measurable constraints (20 lines&#x2F;fn, 80% coverage) instead of vague guidance - Security as first-class: VITE_* secret warnings, pre-commit checks, dependency scanning - Atomic todos with validation criteria and test cases - LLM testing patterns (mocks, fixtures, evals) for AI-first apps<p>One command bootstraps everything: &#x2F;initialize-project<p>Works on new projects and updates existing ones without breaking config.


type: comment
by: tptacek
text:
  <i>Neither</i> set of issues is apposite to MemorySafety.org. The whole thing is just a dumb language war spat.


type: comment
by: okokwhatever
text:
  And also demonstrate that year by year AI will be better and better despite all the problems that&#x27;s causing.


type: comment
by: edmundsauto
text:
  Adult diagnosis last year for me, bring gentle with myself for past mistakes is part of my plan. I’m also trying adderall under medical supervision, so I can strengthen the habits and systems with a little extra help.


type: comment
by: vtomole
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41586-025-09848-5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41586-025-09848-5</a> performs CZ gates on up to 256 qubits with fidelities of 99.5%, which is good enough to run surface codes below threshold.


type: comment
by: Workaccount2
text:
  &gt;You got people to accept a higher price, you&#x27;re just gonna walk that back when problems go away?<p>The thing about capitalism that is seemingly never taught, but quickly learned (when you join even the lowest rung of the capitalist class, i.e. even having an etsy shop), is that competition lowers prices and kills greed, while being a tool of greed itself.<p>The conspiracy to get around this cognitive dissonance is &quot;price fixing&quot;, but in order to price fix you cannot be greedy, because if you are greedy and price fix, your greed will drive you to undercut everyone else in the agreement. So price fixing never really works, except those like 3 cases out of the hundreds of billions of products sold daily, that people repeat incessantly for 20 years now.<p>Money flows to the one with the <i>best</i> price, not the highest price. The best price is what makes people rich. When the best price is out of reach though, people will drum up conspiracy about it, which I guess should be expected.


type: comment
by: kelseyfrog
text:
  Because consciousness is not a scientific nor philosophic phenomenon?<p>Like all references, its symbolic existence exists within the mind of the observer. It&#x27;s the mistake of reification[1] to forget this authorship and go looking for it as if it exists out there in reality.<p>I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the engineer&#x27;s distaste for soft sciences, and above all sociology, increases the susceptibility of this fallacy. You may be more familiar it&#x27;s formulation as &quot;the map is not the territory.&quot;<p>Looking for consciousness in the mathematics of ANNs will yield just as much insight as tearing apart the fibers of dollar bills looking for the essence of financial value, distilling paints to find the soul of art, or searching for gender in genetic material. It&#x27;s a category mistake[2] wrapped in bias. We&#x27;d be much more well off learning how the ontology of consciousness is constructed than continuing to apply the hammer of hard science.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Reification_(fallacy)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Reification_(fallacy)</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Category_mistake" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Category_mistake</a>


type: comment
by: exe34
text:
  that&#x27;s called a default - I&#x27;m happy for a gnome designer to &quot;design&quot; the button to be large enough to hit with my foot with a blindfold on, but I&#x27;d like the option to change it to adjust to my workflow rather than adjust my workflow to the button.


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  We already have two copies of this:<p>(438 points, 373 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46389444">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46389444</a><p>(763 points, 712 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46392115">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46392115</a>


type: story
by: binning
title: Daphne Oram, a visionary pioneer in electronic music
url:
  https://theconversation.com/5-things-to-know-about-daphne-oram-the-visionary-pioneer-in-electronic-music-266591


type: comment
by: orbital223
text:
  &gt; So now I think to myself: if I want to remain portable, I&#x27;ll just write a python script<p>How can you know that your Python implementation won&#x27;t send your credit card details to an LLM when it runs your script? It does not follow an ISO standard that says it can&#x27;t do that. You&#x27;re not making assumptions about it&#x27;s behavior, are you?


type: comment
by: eykanal
text:
  This is some real antimemetics stuff here :) (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scp-wiki.wikidot.com&#x2F;antimemetics-division-hub" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scp-wiki.wikidot.com&#x2F;antimemetics-division-hub</a> if you&#x27;re not familiar)


type: comment
by: halJordan
text:
  That&#x27;s kind of a jump. The 2a is cool, but gun deaths outpace car deaths now and 2a people refuse literally any of the protections we have against car deaths. Whereas a 15 year old jerking it to a pornstar hurts no one and these people want to completely ban the 4th amendment.


type: comment
by: aidenn0
text:
  As far as I know, Nixpkgs doesn&#x27;t use git as a package database.  The packages definitions are stored and developed in git, but the channels certainly are not.


type: comment
by: shmerl
text:
  Interesting. Kind of reinventing Compose key combos. I wonder why they didn&#x27;t just reuse Compose ones from FreeBSD.


type: comment
by: exe34
text:
  Or indeed, if one has a mind of their own and wants a tool to obey them, rather than submit to their &quot;betters&quot;&#x27;s opinions.


type: comment
by: KetoManx64
text:
  Open source and auditable I can see.<p>Ubiquti does support wireguard natively. And you can get Tailscale running if you manually install the package through the SSH CLI.


type: comment
by: f30e3dfed1c9
text:
  Right, but if the employer is choosing a &quot;gift&quot; because that will benefit them, then it&#x27;s not really a gift. It&#x27;s just a form of manipulation. Anyway, this is just one study and I don&#x27;t put much stock in it.


type: comment
by: nomel
text:
  what do you mean?<p>If you get the key caps, they&#x27;re trivially swapped.<p>I use Dvorak, and I&#x27;ve swapped keys for every generation of keyboard over the last 10 years. Once swapped, the layout can be set system wide.


type: comment
by: abdullahkhalids
text:
  I think it&#x27;s too much to ask a small shop to do something if the original supplier stops shipping a part. Especially 5 years later.


type: comment
by: BeetleB
text:
  The whole point is <i>not</i> to change one&#x27;s writing style simply because it has been associated with LLMs. Don&#x27;t feed the paranoia!


type: comment
by: mcny
text:
  I want to take a quick detour here if anyone is knowledgeable about this topic.<p>&gt; The hosting problems are symptoms. The underlying issue is that git inherits filesystem limitations, and filesystems make terrible databases.<p>Does this mean mbox is inherently superior to maildir? I really like the idea of maildir because there is nothing to compact but if we assume we never delete emails (on the local machine anyways), does that mean mbox or similar is preferable over maildir?


type: comment
by: mjd
text:
  I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.<p>Related and perhaps interesting: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mathstodon.xyz&#x2F;@mjd&#x2F;114730157688607856" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mathstodon.xyz&#x2F;@mjd&#x2F;114730157688607856</a>


type: comment
by: krapp
text:
  It has roots going all the way back to the founding of the country. The core of American culture and of many of its issues has always been the tension between the conflicting desires for a Puritan theocracy with a strict racial hierarchy and a secular progressive Republic.<p>Slavery was justified by Christian principles, and manifest destiny. Hitler was inspired by America&#x27;s genocide of native Americans, racial segregation and eugenics (all of which were justified by Christianity.) And after the war, the US carried the torch of Nazism&#x27;s racist ideas after the rest of the world tried to move beyond it.<p>Many conservative ideals are backed by Christian belief. They hate feminism because it undermines the tradition Christian ideal of gender hierarchy. They hate homosexuality because they believe the Bible says it&#x27;s a sin. They hate communists because communism is atheist. And most of all they believe the US was founded as an explicitly Christian nation and should be governed only by Christian principles.<p>9&#x2F;11 happens and Bush declares a new &quot;Crusade&quot; against the evildoers. That language wasn&#x27;t accidental. The connections between the American military industrial complex and Evangelical Christianity run deep.<p>And now we have Trump, whom a significant number of Americans believe to have literally been sent by God to wage spiritual warfare against demonic forces within the government, citing Christianity explicitly as justification for his militarism.<p>And it&#x27;s absolutely not a coincidence that we reached this inflection point and acceleration after electing a Black president. That broke America in ways that I don&#x27;t think that it can ever recover from. It certainly isn&#x27;t a flavor of the month. If anything it&#x27;s the only truly unifying ideology America has ever had.<p>I think you&#x27;re correct that religion can be used as a tool by the powerful, but the typical cynical assumption that no one in power actually believes any of it is I think a mistake. Maybe not Trump, I suspect he&#x27;s too much of a narcissist to believe in anything but himself and <i>is</i> an example of what you&#x27;re referring to, but I think the people around him whispering in his ear and many of his supporters are true believers.


type: comment
by: nticompass
text:
  What about it?  Is there some news about Recall?<p>I&#x27;m glad my PC doesn&#x27;t have an NPU (or whatever you need for CoPilot+), so Recall won&#x27;t work.<p>Also, I use Linux :)


type: comment
by: mergesort
text:
  Heya, author here! I do agree with you that this is a big downside, but I don’t know if this is the primary reason.<p>In my experience teaching people, most people don’t actually know much at the time they make this decision. They’ve heard about Cursor, they’ve heard of Claude Code, and they may have heard about Codex. But what they’ve heard is anecdotes and marketing — they don’t yet have hands-on experience.<p>They make a big choice and then assume that this is how all AI works, because they don’t have a full breadth of context yet. And that’s to be expected! That’s how most things work.<p>That is why I teach the workshops I do to make AI accessible, so people can walk through the tradeoffs and make the best educated choices for them.<p>A couple of comments here have said that the post is subtly pro-Codex, but I tried to make my point very explicit: people should try a lot of things and see what works best for them. But it’s very hard to do that without investing a lot of time because the market is so nascent and moving so fast. This post exists to try and nudge people into exploring more of the tools they haven’t tried yet, so they can make their own informed decisions like you have. :)<p>All that’s to say, people definitely hit limits with Claude Code (as I have done myself) — especially if they’re hesitant to upgrade to Claude Max because they haven’t gotten enough out of Claude Pro. But I think the real reason people make the choices they do starts earlier in the process, even before they get a lot of hands on experience with Claude Code or Codex.


type: comment
by: lkbm
text:
  Reminder: Prices regularly drop in capitalist economies. Food used to be 25% of household spending. Clothing was also pretty high. More recently, electronics have dropped dramatically. TVs used to be big ticket items. I have unlimited cell data for $30 a month. My dad bought his first computer for around $3000 in 1982 dollars.<p>Prices for LLM tokens has also dramatically dropped. Anyone spending more is either using it a ton more or (more likely) using a much more capable model.


type: comment
by: duffyjp
text:
  Everybody says this is because OpenAI bought up 40% of the world&#x27;s supply of DRAM.  Certainly that has hugely tilted the supply and demand teeter-totter, but to me this just feels like another &quot;because we can&quot; by the market.<p>When beef is expensive, you buy chicken.  There&#x27;s no alternative to RAM.  If you need it, you&#x27;ve gotta pony up.


type: comment
by: TomatoCo
text:
  I don&#x27;t think he claimed that &quot;some guy setting up a server rack&quot; is similar to a rapist. I think he&#x27;s blaming the corporations. I don&#x27;t think that individuals can have that big of an effect on the environment (outliers like Thomas Midgley Jr. excepted, of course).<p>I think &quot;you people&quot; is meant to mean the corporations in general, or if any one person is culpable, the CEOs. Who are definitely not just &quot;some guy setting up a server rack.&quot;


type: comment
by: augustk
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Reservoir_sampling" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Reservoir_sampling</a>


type: comment
by: ineedasername
text:
  The company he&#x27;s worked for nearly a quarter century has enabled &amp; driven more consumerist spend in all areas of the economy via behaviorally targeted optimized ad delivery, driving far more resources and power consumption by orders of magnitude compared to the projected increases of data centers over the coming years. This level of vitriol seems both misdirected and practically obtuse in lacking awareness of the part his work has played in far, far, far more expansive resource expenditure in service to work far less promising for overall advancement, in ad tech and algorithmic exploitation of human psychology for prolonged media engagement.


type: comment
by: AlotOfReading
text:
  Including files also opens up some potential security issues that the standards committee just didn&#x27;t want to prescribe solutions to. Compiler explorer hides easter eggs around the virtual filesystem, for example:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;godbolt.org&#x2F;z&#x2F;KcqTM5bTr" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;godbolt.org&#x2F;z&#x2F;KcqTM5bTr</a>


type: comment
by: bgwalter
text:
  &quot;Simon Willison REACTS to Rob Pike&#x27;s unfiltered opinion on AI&quot;. We must have the proper spin.


type: story
by: jonnyhere
title: Show HN: Chaos engineering for LLMs – Making models cross-examine each other
url: https://www.usecouncil.app/
text:
  Single-model inference is a single point of failure. I got sick of Chatgpt hallucinating fake citations and having to manually check them in a different tab with Claude.<p>So I built Council<p>The Difference: Shared Context Most &quot;multi-bot&quot; UIs are just parallel silos. Council uses a sequential backend stream where every response is injected into the context of the next model.<p>If GPT cites a fake study, Claude sees it and calls it out.<p>If Gemini misses a logic gap, Grok roasts it.<p>Adversarial Logic Instead of &quot;consensus&quot; (which leads to boring, average answers), I&#x27;m using model-on-model friction to surface the truth. By forcing GPT-4o, Claude 3.5, Gemini 1.5, and Grok into one adversarial window, you get a &quot;red-teamed&quot; output that’s harder to fake.<p>What I need: It&#x27;s an MVP. I&#x27;m trying to figure out if &quot;Inter-model Cross-Examination&quot; actually kills hallucinations or just creates more expensive ones.<p>Give it a spin and try to break the logic. No fluff, just testing the architecture.


type: comment
by: tomlue
text:
  I think you are right that it is a spectrum, and maybe that&#x27;s enough to settle the debate. It is more about how you use it than the tool itself.<p>Maybe one more useful consideration for LLMs. If a friend writes to me with an LLM and discovers a new writing pattern, or learns a new concept and incorporates that into their writing, I see this as a positive development, not negative.


type: comment
by: Animats
text:
  &gt; but Lisp is special, and for those times it was very special.<p>It was the only language available at the time suitable for embedding. Memory-safe, small interpreter, sane. Alternatives were Forth and TRAC, which would have been much worse. Pascal would have been better, but it was too hard to squeeze in. The program and data had to fit in 640K. The program was built as a tree of overlays and code was swapped in, so less used code wasn&#x27;t resident. But it was a cram job.<p>(I did some AutoCAD ports and drivers.)


type: comment
by: mystraline
text:
  They were given 1.5 YEARS of lead time. And FLOSS should treat commercial entities the same way they treat us.<p>Seriously, if we copied in violation their code, how many <i>hours</i> would pass before a DMCA violation?<p>FLOSS should be dictatorial in application of the license. After all, its basically free to use and remix as long as you follow the easy rules. I&#x27;m also on the same boat that Android phone creators should also be providing source fully, and should be confiscated on import for failure of copyright violations.<p>But ive seen FLOSS devs be like &quot;let&#x27;s be nice&quot;. Tit for tat is the best game theory so far. Time to use it.


type: comment
by: macintux
text:
  This dates back to the beginning of the Mac, so it&#x27;s almost 10 years older than FreeBSD. (I&#x27;m unfamiliar with other UNIX compose key tooling that may have predated it.)


type: comment
by: thayne
text:
  And indeed MS&#x2F;GitHub does impose some &quot;damping&quot; in the form of things like API request throttling, CPU limits on CI, asking Homebrew not to use shallow cloning, etc. And those limits are one of the reasons given why using git as a database isn&#x27;t good.


type: comment
by: wpm
text:
  And I thank god every day we don&#x27;t. The ISO keyboard is awful. Left shift is too important of a key to be 1u. I don&#x27;t need a massive enter key that lives on two rows. Just insane choices.


type: comment
by: lost-theory
text:
  I think it&#x27;s pretty neat. It&#x27;d be cool to have recurring commenters with different personas who focus on different things. I wrote a test post and almost all of the comments focused on one detail to the exclusion of others. With different personas&#x2F;focuses you&#x27;d get more variety in responses. I also think responding to comments would be a natural next step. Or if those commenter personas are persistent, you could @-mention them in a follow up.


type: story
by: transpute
title: Debian network packet multicast whenever USB storage device is connected (2023)
url:
  https://askubuntu.com/questions/1456506/multicast-packets-sent-out-every-time-a-usb-device-is-connected


type: comment
by: ajross
text:
  That&#x27;s not it.  The LGPL doesn&#x27;t require dynamic linking, just that any distributed artifacts be <i>able to be used</i> with derived versions of the LGPL code.  Distributing buildable source under Apache 2.0 would surely qualify too.<p>The problem here isn&#x27;t a technical violation of the LGPL, it&#x27;s that Rockchip doesn&#x27;t own the copyright to FFMPEG and simply doesn&#x27;t have the legal authority to release it under any license other than the LGPL.  What they should have done is put their modified FFMPEG code into a forked project, clearly label it with an LGPL LICENSE file, and link against that.


type: comment
by: SilverElfin
text:
  &gt; Mass immigration to Japan remains dominated by people from poorer Asian countries, especially Vietnam and the Philippines. But a 2020 survey by the global money transfer service Remitly found that Japan topped the rankings of countries that Americans and Canadians would like to move to.<p>It is surprising to see Japan top these rankings still. Japan is famously hostile to immigrants and foreigners. There is a lot of low level discrimination in public places (like restaurants). And it’s very hard to make friends or integrate as a foreigner.<p>More recently there has been a huge backlash against foreigners in general and immigration specifically, as seen with the rise of a far right wing party called Sanseito, which became popular largely on anti foreigner positions. This party’s founder is a fan of Hitler (his words) and the party president thinks vaccines are “murder weapons”. They also want to toss out the constitution to write new one. And with that they want to significantly reduce the rights of foreigners and those who aren’t ethnically Japanese.<p>I mention all this because while people may love one form of Japanese culture - the technology, the food, the anime, etc - there is another side entirely that is also there. This article doesn’t cover it sufficiently, and is even falsely claiming the opposite with lines like this:<p>&gt; Third tourism is rapidly dispelling the previously common stereotype of Japan as a closed-off, xenophobic country. Foreigners can now see for themselves how open, free, friendly, and welcoming of a country Japan actually is.


type: comment
by: DetectDefect
text:
  &gt; How do you prevent malware running on the pwned laptop from asking for an ephemeral cert to be issued?<p>If you have malware capable of code execution, restricting the ability to issue one command is not going to be a meaningful control, especially with something like a physical touch which most users are just conditioned to accept, or can be trivially phished into accepting.<p>&gt; plenty of time for malware to ship the cert back to a command-and-control server.<p>If your infrastructure cannot distinguish legitimate traffic, or you do not have a defensible network perimeter, again a physical touch is not going to be meaningful; it is not the panacea you are looking for.


type: comment
by: jabedude
text:
  &gt; And you can&#x27;t assert that AI is &quot;revolutionary&quot; and &quot;a vague threat&quot; at the same time.<p>I never asserted that AI is either of those things


type: comment
by: voxleone
text:
  It does read like a subtle parody or ironic commentary. It’s the style of someone poking fun at common narratives about polarization by showing how absurdly “offline radicalization” might look.


type: comment
by: trinsic2
text:
  I don&#x27;t know his history, but he sounds like he grew up in Unix world where everything wanted to be offloaded to servers because it started in academic&#x2F;government organizations..<p>Home Computer enthusiasts know better. Local storage is important to ownership and freedom.


type: comment
by: indigoabstract
text:
  That&#x27;s good to know, but I&#x27;ve noticed it was added in C++26 and seems to be supported in GCC 15 and Clang 19, but not MSVC.<p>I think in a few (3-4?) years it will be safe to use, but in any case <i>not</i> now.<p>Still, good to know that it exists.


type: comment
by: nkmnz
text:
  No, the word and its meaning both point to the fact that there’s no exclusive ownership of a commons. This is importantl, since ownership is associated with bearing the cost of usage (i.e., deprecation) which would lead an owner to avoid the tragedy of the commons. Ownership is regularly the solution to the tragedy (socialism didn’t work).<p>The behavior that you warn against is that of a free rider that make use of a positive externality of GitHub’s offering.


type: comment
by: timacles
text:
  &gt; If I&#x27;m honest, many of those hours reading through textbooks, blog posts, technical papers, iterating a million times on broken code that had trivial errors, were really wasted time, time which if I were starting over I wouldn&#x27;t need to lose today.<p>While this seem like it might be the case, those hours you (or we) spent banging our collective heads against the wall were developing skills in determination and mental toughness, while priming your mind for more learning.<p>Modern research all shows that the difficulty of a task directly correlates to how well you retain information about that task. Spaced repetition learning shows, that we can&#x27;t just blast our brains with information, and there needs to be<p>While LLMs do clearly increase our learning velocity (if using it right), there is a hidden cost to removing that friction. The struggle and the challenge of the process built your mind and character in ways that you cant quantify, but after years of maintaining this approach has essentially made you who you are. You have become implicitly OK with grinding out a simple task without a quick solution, the building of that grit is irreplaceable.<p>I know that the intellectually resilient of society, will still be able to thrive, but I&#x27;m scared for everyone else - how will LLMs affect their ability to learn in the long term?


type: comment
by: sungho_
text:
  How about adding these texts and reactions to LLM&#x27;s context and iterating to improve performance? Keep doing it until a real person says, &#x27;Yes, you&#x27;re good enough now, please stop...&#x27; That should work.


type: comment
by: antonvs
text:
  &gt; what value I derive from buying gasoline at the petrol station. None. I derive no value from it, I just spend money there.<p>The value you derive is the ability to make your car move. If you derived no value from gas, why would you spend money on it?


type: comment
by: Wingman4l7
text:
  They&#x27;re really not -- Mac scissor switches are pretty delicate, and it&#x27;s easy to do damage to the tiny plastic nubs on the keycaps or the switches... and if you damage the metal retaining frame in any way, you&#x27;re toast (Mac laptop keyboards are virtually unreplaceable, being buried in the &quot;bottom&quot; of the unibody chassis).


type: comment
by: transpute
text:
  Still present in Debian stable 12 (trixie), detected by outbound network firewall OpenSnitch.<p>Related 2012 report: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.debian.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;bugreport.cgi?bug=675710" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.debian.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;bugreport.cgi?bug=675710</a>


type: comment
by: robomartin
text:
  AutoLISP is how I learned LISP back in the 80&#x27;s.  I probably used it for about twenty years.  I wrote a massive amount of code to automate ACAD use in three areas: Schematic Capture, PCB Layout and Broadcast Facility design and Construction.<p>The first two were complimentary.  Before that I was laying out PCB&#x27;s by hand using (who can remember?) Vector tools and Xacto knives.  Switching to ACAD with AutoLISP-based automation was a game changer.<p>Broadcast facilities are not very different from data centers, in the sense that you have loads of racks filled with equipment.  I would say that one of the key differences was that the equipment was not as homogenous as it might be in data centers.  Back then I was very involved in some massive studio projects, both in terms of facility design (not the architecture, the design and installation of the technology) and custom software&#x2F;hardware for the same industry.  Once again, in the early days all wiring diagrams were being done the old fashion way, with pencil and D-size paper on a drawing table.<p>I started with ACAD version 1.0 or 1.1, I can&#x27;t remember.  This ran on an 8086 CPM computer build on an S-100 frame.  It actually had an 8087 math coprocessor board and another board with 512K (you read that right) of RAM to mount as a RAM disk.  The computer had 64K of RAM.  So, yeah, early ACAD ran on a system with 64K of RAM.<p>The studio AutoLISP software was the most extensive.  It took advantage of 3D features to do such things route cables between equipment in different racks and rooms as well as compute the required cable lengths.  It would generate cable cut lists and labels for the wiring crew, etc.<p>This also included managing a symbol library for these designs, much as a tool like KiCAD or Altium (which has now officially gone to shit!) manages both schematic symbol and PCB footprints for ECAD work.  The equipment definitions included such things as input&#x2F;output signal types, required cable type, connector types, wiring schematic and rack mount models (for laying out where in the racks each device would be installed).<p>This is work that I evolved over years as we designed and built many installations across the country.  It was a valuable internal tool with competitive advantages.  We left that industry behind a very long time ago, but I remember that time fondly.  Technology was evolving at breakneck speed and there were incredible opportunities to develop innovative solutions across the entire technology stack, from embedded all the way up to custom equipment.


type: comment
by: SpicyLemonZest
text:
  It can&#x27;t mean that, because the people who sent him the email that prompted the complaint are neither corporations nor CEOs.


type: comment
by: beasthacker
text:
  A weak judgment betrays itself in the indiscriminate use of fine punctuation; for when the em-dash is made universal, it ceases to be distinguished, and becomes merely another form of hyphen.<p>Let the em-dash remain upon the height of style. Let the hyphen toil in the shade of the valley. And let the en-dash—patient, capable, and unjustly overlooked—at last be admitted to polite society, where it may properly mediate matters of form–function.


type: comment
by: Wingman4l7
text:
  Yeah, but is it OEM?  Even big names like Dell don&#x27;t support their parts for that long, and you have to resort to getting sketchy third-party parts from China, or rolling the dice on a used OEM part.


type: comment
by: holowoodman
text:
  Back in the old days, you could sit down at a table in the hackcenter and do stuff that was more of the exploratory pentesting kind. Because everyone around you understood. Because there were strict &quot;no-photos&quot; policies in place. Because all people were technical and in it primarily for the technical challenge.<p>Nowadays you cannot do that anymore, because most visitors are non-technical. Nobody respects the photo policy. Everyone judges your actions through their political lens. Instead all the &quot;action&quot; happens elsewhere and CCC became much more about social stuff, talking and politics. And of course about policing and judging other peoples&#x27; politics.


type: comment
by: crawshaw
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  The important point that Simon makes in careful detail is: an &quot;AI&quot; did not send this email. The three people behind the Sage AI project used a tool to email him.<p>According to their website this email was sent by Adam Binksmith, Zak Miller, and Shoshannah Tekofsky and is the responsibility of the Sage 501(c)3.<p>No-one gets to disclaim ownership of sending an email. A human has to accept the Terms of Service of an email gateway and the credit card used to pay the email gateway. This performance art does not remove the human no matter how much they want to be removed.


type: comment
by: LucCogZest
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  Hookmark 6.12 (6436; Integration v. 398) has been released with new ways to add and automate bookmarks across your knowledge tools.<p>You can now add new bookmarks to Hookmark via a dedicated dialog box, and optionally configure Hookmark to automatically create a corresponding bookmark in DEVONthink for every new web bookmark you add to Hookmark.<p>Hookmark is now compatible with more apps, and we’ve fine-tuned some existing integrations. You can find the full list of enhancements and bug fixes in the release notes. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hookproductivity.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hookproductivity.com</a>


type: comment
by: neogodless
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  At least with desktop you <i>sometimes</i> get a CPU upgrade path.<p>For example, with Socket 939, I started with an Athlon 64 3000+, and upgraded later to an X2 4200+.<p>With Socket AM4, I skipped the first generation, got a Ryzen 2700X, then skipped the next generation, and then got a Ryzen 5900X! (But a solid 4 generations on the same socket!)


type: comment
by: benatkin
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  I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s slop. I think it&#x27;s a nice enough email, using nascent AI emotions.<p>Giving AI agents resources is a frontier being explored, and AI Village seems like a decent attempt at it.<p>Also the naming is the same as WALL•E - that was the name of the model of robot but also became the name of the individual robot.


type: comment
by: SV_BubbleTime
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  Is that a viable business model though? That they’ll always be a niche supplier with low-vokume issues, seems like a tough market.<p>In fact, I think Dell or HP or Other could demolish Framework in a 1&#x2F;2 second by offering a line that was even 50% the offering. By focusing on replaceable screens, keyboard, and standing the chassis for multiple boards and selling some parts they dry up FW’s moat with little effort.


type: comment
by: airstrike
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  I always feel like they should bring along an artist for the trip so we can get a visual depiction of what it was like


type: comment
by: exasperaited
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  Honestly… fuck all of these people. Why would you do this?<p>Again and again this stuff proves not to be AI but clever spam generation.<p>AWoT: Artificial Wastes of Time.<p>Don&#x27;t do this to yourself. Find a proper job.


type: comment
by: manuelmoreale
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  &gt; I mean, I get that it&#x27;s frustrating to pour effort into writing something that effectively nobody reads<p>And if that was the issue this clearly doesn’t solve it since nobody is reading this.<p>I might be the wrong audience for this considering I have a public blog but this to me sounds like an insane product.<p>But hey, if someone finds it useful, good for them.


type: comment
by: angoragoats
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  FWIW you do not have to do leetcode to get a job. I’m a staff level SWE and I’ve had no problems finding non-leetcode companies, both through my own network and through browsing job listings.<p>I have literally never done a leetcode “whiteboard code this random problem that has nothing to do with our actual work” interview, in 25+ years in the industry.


type: comment
by: Forgeties79
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  A person trying to learn doesn’t constantly disagree&#x2F;contradict you and never express that their understanding has improved. A person sealioning always finds a reason to erode whatever you say with every response. At some point they need to nod or at least agree with <i>something</i> except in the most extreme cases.<p>It also doesn’t help their case that they somehow have a such a starkly contradictory opinion on something they ostensibly don’t know anything&#x2F;are legitimately asking questions about. They should ask a question or two and then just listen.<p>It’s just one of those things that falls under “I know it when I see it.”


type: comment
by: arjie
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  This is the worst of outrage marketing. Most people don&#x27;t have resistance to this, so they eagerly spread the advertising. In the memetic lifecycle, they are hosts for the advertisement parasite, which reproduces virally. Susceptibility to this kind of advertising is cross-intelligence. Bill Ackman famously fell for a cab driver&#x27;s story that Uber was stiffing him tips.<p>With the advent of LLMs, I&#x27;d hoped that people would become inured to nonsensical advertising and so on because they&#x27;d consider it the equivalent of spam. But it turns out that we don&#x27;t even need Shiri&#x27;s Scissors to get people riled up. We can use a Universal Bad and people of all kinds (certainly Rob Pike is a smart man) will rush to propagate the parasite.<p>Smaller communities can say &quot;Don&#x27;t feed the trolls&quot; but larger communities have no such norms and someone will &quot;feed the trolls&quot; causing &quot;the trolls&quot; to grow larger and more powerful. Someone said something on Twitter once which I liked: You don&#x27;t always get things out of your system by doing them; sometimes you get them into your system. So it&#x27;s self-fueling, which makes it a great advertising vector.<p>Other manufactured mechanisms (Twitter&#x27;s blue check, LinkedIn&#x27;s glazing rings) have vaccines that everyone has developed. But no one has developed an anti-outrage device. Given that, for my part, I am going to employ the one tool I can think of: killfiling everyone who participates in active propagation through outrage.


type: comment
by: sehugg
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  Bluebeard is a good one too; it ruminates on the nature of art and how&#x2F;why meaning is assigned to it.


type: comment
by: lerp-io
text:
  why dont u put them on some science or something productive kinda looks like they are burning gpu hours.


type: comment
by: abdullahkhalids
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  &gt; Its biggest issues are the touchpad (it&#x27;s a diving board design, so you have to always click in the bottom 1&#x2F;3 of the pad)<p>Wait, are you saying it&#x27;s not possible to change settings so that I can<p>- single finger tap anywhere for a left click,<p>- two finger tap anywhere for a right click.


type: comment
by: neogodless
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  I mean I have a perfectly good USB-A hub that is still working and doesn&#x27;t need replaced either ;)<p>4-ports -- supports webcam, microphone, keyboard with no issues.


type: comment
by: TeMPOraL
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  &gt; <i>Yet we regularly observe that working with millions of people; we take care of our young, we organize, when we see that some action hurt our environment we tend to limit its use.</i><p>That&#x27;s more like human universals. These behaviors generally manifest to smaller or larger degree, depending on how secure people feel. But those are extremely local behaviors. And in fact, one of them is exactly the thing I&#x27;m talking about:<p>&gt; <i>we organize</i><p>We organize. We organize for many reasons, &quot;general living&quot; is the main one but we&#x27;re mostly born into it today (few got the chance to be among the founding people of a new village, city or country). But the same patterns show up in every other organizations people create, from companies to charities, from political interests groups to rural housewives&#x27; circles -- groups that grow past ~100 people split up. Sometimes into independent groups, sometimes into levels of hierarchies. Observe how companies have regional HQs and departments and areas and teams; religious groups have circuits and congregations, etc. Independent organizations end up creating joint ventures and partnerships, or merge together (and immediately split into a more complex internal structure).<p>The key factor here is, IMO, for everyone in a given group to be in regular contact with everyone else. Humans are well evolved for living in such small groups - we come with built-in hardware and software to navigate complex interpersonal situations. Alignment around shared goals and implicit rules is <i>natural</i> at this scale. There&#x27;s no space for cheaters and free-loaders to thrive, because everyone knows everyone else - including the cheater and their victims. However, once the group crosses this &quot;we&#x27;re all a big family, in it together&quot; size, coordinating everyone becomes hard, and free-loaders proliferate. That&#x27;s where explicit laws come into play.<p>This pattern repeats daily, in organizations people create even today.


type: comment
by: ecshafer
text:
  Rosalind Franklins contrabutions are vastly overestimated in an effort to “correct the record”. Her data was very valuable, but she didnt make the insights.


type: comment
by: dragonwriter
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  &gt; Giving AI agents resources is a frontier being explored, and AI Village seems like a decent attempt at it.<p>Legitimate research in this field may be good, but would not involve real humans being impacted directly by it without consent.


type: comment
by: butlike
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  I might argue metaphorically your direct reports can be considered your army. If not an army, then your microcosm of workforce. If you use up the workforce (in whichever way), then you&#x27;re implicitly &quot;done&quot; as well.<p>I think saying &quot;no&quot; is easier in a lot of business-related problems, and then when they&#x27;re the manager, thy can decide. I also accept that as a manager, if I steer the ship incorrectly, I get to fall on that sword


type: comment
by: seanmcdirmid
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  There was no computer scientist ever so against Java (Rob Pike) and a company that was so pro Java (Google). I think they were disassociated along time ago, I don’t think any of the senior engineers can be seen as anything other than being their own persons.


type: comment
by: foxglacier
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  Meanwhile corporations have been doing this forever and we just brush it off. This Christmas, my former property manager thanked me for what a great year it&#x27;s been working with me - I haven&#x27;t worked with or intereacted with him to nearly a decade but I&#x27;m still on his spam list.


type: comment
by: fourseventy
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  Because now YJIT is deprecated and at some point in a year or two I will have to have my team go through and switch everything from YJIT to ZJIT. So it&#x27;s creating random tech debt busywork that will suck up dev resources that could better be used building features.<p>In isolation, having to switch from YJIT to ZJIT isn&#x27;t that bad, but this same type of churn happens across so much of the frameworks and technologies that my company uses that in aggregate it becomes quite an annoyance.


type: comment
by: culi
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  From the Wikipedia<p>&gt; In 2023, Lanmaoa asiatica received international media attention after U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was reported to have eaten a dish that contained it during an official visit to China. Yellen stated that the dish had been thoroughly cooked, and she experienced no ill effects (hallucinations).<p>It seems <i>Rubroboletus sinicus</i>, another bolete, is also suspected to have this effect. These hallucinogenic mushrooms are collectively known as &quot;xiao ren ren&quot; in China.<p>They seem to be relatively well known in parts of China, the Philippines, and Papua New Guinea but the ethnomycological work in English is just not really there.<p>It also seems like it&#x27;s most likely something in the tryptamine class which could explain the blue bruising. The Wikipedia page has more info<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hallucinogenic_bolete_mushroom" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hallucinogenic_bolete_mushroom</a>


type: comment
by: UltraSane
text:
  It is stupid because people are going to want a asshole premium to work at Twitter after seeing how badly Musk treated people.


type: comment
by: jfarlow
text:
  This is a challenge, even for someone who has professionally used the breadth of proteins.  I really like the test.  I&#x27;m actually kind of surprised at my own pulling on knowledge to make a guess - it&#x27;s an orthogonal way to think about the question than is usually posed.<p>I wonder if there&#x27;s a way to ease the difficulty by filling in &#x27;correct&#x27; features of the guesses: if your guess is a &#x27;transmembrane&#x27; then it reveals that as a property.  On the other hand, I don&#x27;t think the annotations are clean enough - and are often designed for &#x27;at all&#x27; rather than &#x27;primary&#x27; features.  For one of the examples, once I noticed it was an adhesion protein, it would have been interesting to sift through classes or cell types as opposed to just continuing to shoot in the dark based on the structure alone.<p>I presume you&#x27;re showing even the &#x27;low confidence&#x27; portions of the predicted structure? Please do.<p>You could also show the primary amino acid sequence too - there&#x27;s a weird familiarity with those given how often the structures themselves have historically not been so accessible. BLASTING each of the guesses would be another interesting thing to see.


type: comment
by: stavros
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  Of course, if I don&#x27;t explicitly disagree with something, it only stands to reason that I agree with it.


type: comment
by: trinsic2
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  If creations like art, music and writing ends up all being offloaded to compute, removing humans from the picture, its more that relevant, and reasonable.<p>Unless your version of reason is clinical. then yeah, point taken. Good luck living on that island where nothing else matters but technological progress for technology&#x27;s sake alone.


type: comment
by: aniijbod
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  &quot;WHEREAS, the Large Language Model has merely mimicked a sophistication it cannot truly possess&quot;: says who(m)?


type: comment
by: morkalork
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  &gt;It is wise &lt;snip&gt; to keep your head down.<p>Everyone is making the comparison to China but when I see comments like this, I think of countries like Russia where street interviews of the average citizen invariably result in answers like &quot;I&#x27;m not political&quot; and &quot;I have no opinion&quot;


type: comment
by: jamilton
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  Lol - they really should be locking down their email accounts and enforcing that policy. Or manually reviewing outbound messages before they can be sent. It seems likely that just telling the LLMs that will have a non-zero failure rate.


type: comment
by: antonvs
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  Is working around accessing an embargoed site really any better than just accessing it directly? Morally, what&#x27;s the difference?<p>If everyone just actively boycotted that site, it would become irrelevant overnight. Anything else is simply condoning it continued existence. Don&#x27;t kid yourself.


type: comment
by: unethical_ban
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  The idea is that repairability and reliability are sometimes at odds.<p>I owned a number of 90s trucks and though it was easier to get into the engine, I had to do it well before 100k miles sometimes. Meanwhile I have a 2010s Japanese vehicle that is at 200k with only an alternator replaced.


type: comment
by: poulpy123
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  &gt; mushroom sized &gt; blue when bruised &gt; make see small fairy people<p>did they found the schtroumpf  village ?


type: comment
by: dzhiurgis
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  &gt; cares about the craft<p>Craft is gone. It is now mass manufactured for next to nothing in a quality that can never be achieved by hand coding.<p>(&#x2F;s about quality, but you can see where it’s going)


type: comment
by: orwin
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  This person speak about &quot;The Postmodern Condition&quot; like they read it, but as they didn&#x27;t, the criticism comes out as dead wrong and quite dumb.<p>Don&#x27;t read this person. I&#x27;m not saying you have to read the whole book to use a quote, but talking this confidently while doing what we call in French a &quot;contresens&quot; is a sign that the author have no business talking about serious books or philosophy.<p>It&#x27;s like Ayn Rand who believed Kant &quot;critique of pure reason&quot; is about criticism of the scientific method and now a huge part of US authors think the same while never having read Kant.


type: comment
by: dkdcio
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  no computer system just does stuff on its own. a human (or collection of them) built and maintains the system, they are responsible for it<p>neural networks are just a tool, used poorly (as in this case) or well


type: comment
by: ademarre
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  I am all for using proper typographic symbols, but it is unclear what place the precomposed ellipsis U+2026—what I assume you mean by “true ellipsis”—has in that canon, especially with the compressed form it takes in most fonts.


type: comment
by: unethical_ban
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  That last sentence is just not true. Have an end user easily order and replace a MacBook Air keyboard, or easily upgrade their MacBook screen direct from the website.


type: comment
by: tensor
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  I agree completely. Ads have driven the surveillance state and enshitification. It&#x27;s allowed for optimized propaganda delivery which in turn has led to true horrors and has helped undo a century of societal progress.


type: comment
by: mrguyorama
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  Indeed, I&#x27;ve made these exact arguments about how Youtube systemically pushes creators to do this. I blame Youtube.<p>Veritasium irks me more than others somehow, because it often seems like their clickbait titles are <i>complete fabrications</i> and don&#x27;t even match the video content, but also because their eventual non-clickbait titles are pretty good themselves, and often catch my curiosity. I know I don&#x27;t respond the same as the general audience though.<p>I&#x27;m much more sensitive to clickbait on science related content, because when GameGrumps make a clickbait title, it&#x27;s not an issue. Nobody cares if they lie about what happens in a gameplay video.<p>It&#x27;s too bad, because the videos are often about fascinating science history that isn&#x27;t given an enjoyable narrative in other places, but the original title that pushes me away will be something insane like &quot;THIS EXPERIMENT NEARLY ENDED THE WORLD&quot; and it sucks. As I said, when the titles are changed to the more sane versions, I usually end up watching because it is interesting.<p>Like right now, their newest video: &quot;There IS something faster than light&quot;. It&#x27;s actually not as bad as they&#x27;ve done in the past. But eventually that title will change to reflect the actual video content and it will be much more obvious what it is about and I will likely want to watch it.


type: comment
by: cogman10
text:
  Yes.  I bought it directly from dell.com<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dell.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;shop&#x2F;dell-97-wh-6-cell-lithium-ion-replacement-battery-for-select-laptops&#x2F;apd&#x2F;cpx-f8cpg&#x2F;pc-accessories" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dell.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;shop&#x2F;dell-97-wh-6-cell-lithium-io...</a>


type: comment
by: exe34
text:
  Are you telling me this is a lie: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vodafone.co.uk&#x2F;help&#x2F;unlocking-your-phone" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vodafone.co.uk&#x2F;help&#x2F;unlocking-your-phone</a>


type: comment
by: KaiserPro
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  &gt; it&#x27;s not AI that requires massive resources<p>no it really is. If you took away training costs, OpenAI would be profitable.<p>When I was at meta they were putting in something like 300k GPUs in a massive shared memory cluster just for training. I think they are planning to triple that, if not more.


type: comment
by: wavemode
text:
  I&#x27;ve seen far more people complaining about people believing em dashes indicate AI, than people who actually believe that em dashes automatically indicate AI with no other evidence.


type: comment
by: jorvi
text:
  But there isn&#x27;t just one company deciding externalizing cost on the rest of us is a great way to boost profit since it costs them very little. Especially for a monopoly like YouTube that can decide that eating up your battery is fine if it saves them a few cents in bandwidth costs.<p>Not all of those externalizing companies abuse your time but whatever they abuse can be expressed in a $ amount and $ can be converted to a median&#x27;s person time via median wage. Hell, free time is <i>more</i> valuable than whatever you produce during work.<p>Say all that boils down to companies collectively stealing 20 minutes of your time each day. 140 minutes each week. 7280 (!) minutes each year, which is 5.05 days, which makes it almost a year over the course of 70 years.<p>So yeah, don&#x27;t do what you do and sweettalk the fact that companies externalize costs (private the profits, socialize the losses). They&#x27;re sucking your blood.


type: comment
by: simonw
text:
  I imagine you think I&#x27;m an accelerant of all of this, through my efforts to teach people what it can and cannot do and provide tools to help them use it.<p>My position on all of this is that the technology isn&#x27;t going to uninvented and I very much doubt it will be legislated away, which means the best thing we can do is promote the positive uses and disincentivize the negative uses as much as possible.


type: comment
by: overgard
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  You know, this kind of response is a thing that builds with frustration over a long period of time. I totally get it. We&#x27;re constantly being pushed AI, but who is supposed to benefit from it? The person whose job is being replaced? The community who is seeing increased power bills? The people being spammed with slop all the time? I think AI would be tolerable if it wasn&#x27;t being SHOVED into our faces, but it is, and for most of us it&#x27;s just making the world a worse place.


type: comment
by: maelito
text:
  Just broke my control key. They&#x27;re sending me a new keyboard (well the whole cover as chznging the keyboard is hard) as part of the EU garantee.<p>Awesome. My last laptop had the same problem but the repair employee broke the whole computer when he came to replace the keyboard. Dell then did not want to accept their fault.<p>Vive le framework.


type: comment
by: LouisSayers
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  Yes generally speaking, statistically most people will not beat the index.<p>Does it follow then that no-one is beating the index consistently?<p>Of course there are people who are not a statistic. Maybe not everyone is made for it, but that doesn&#x27;t mean noone is out there beating the market.<p>Maybe its hard if you&#x27;re a hedge fund, but I&#x27;m talking about individuals with relatively small accounts.


type: comment
by: messe
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  &gt; but directly viewing source isn&#x27;t RE either.<p>I&#x27;d argue that it is. I&#x27;d also argue that directly viewing the source doesn&#x27;t mean you can&#x27;t write a non-infringing driver.<p>Unless the source is owned by Oracle, in which case, my hourly rate goes up 100x.


type: comment
by: trinsic2
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  By not giving me to the choice to removing it, turn it off completely?<p>In windows, Co-polit is installed and its very difficult to remove.<p>Don&#x27;t act like this isn&#x27;t a problem, its a very simple premise.


type: comment
by: dredmorbius
text:
  By the same logic, there&#x27;s no such thing as &quot;cancer&quot;, a &quot;cold&quot; (or more accurately:  upper respiritory illness), or a broken leg, since each of these have many distinct causes.<p>All models are wrong, some models are useful.  And some are based in at least part on historical accident and sequence of understanding.  Diabetes (etymology, Greek <i>diabetes</i>, excessive discharge of urine), is one such of these.<p>Of the <i>multiple</i> distinct <i>types</i> of diabetes currently recognised (types 1 &amp; 2, which you note, gestational, MODY, 5, and possibly several others), there <i>is</i> a commonality of primary symptoms (unregulated, often high, blood sugar), treatments (most must or may be treated with supplemental insulin), monitoring (of blood glucose levels typically by finger stick or CGM, as well as HgA1C for longer-term status and progression), of healthcare providers specialising in the diseases (generally endocrinologists), and of long-term complications:  high blood pressure, heart disease and failure, neuropathy, poor circulation, various infections, and often peripheral limb amputations.<p>Thus the medical literature notes that diabetes is a <i>group of common endocrine diseases</i> all sharing <i>high blood sugar levels</i>, though of distinct <i>types</i> having distinct <i>causes</i> but <i>largely similar</i> treatments.<p>In the same sense, treatment for a broken leg largely doesn&#x27;t distinguish on the cause of the fracture (blunt trauma, falls, osteoperosis, gunshot), treatment of respiratory illnesses is similar despite different infectious agents, and cancers, whilst varying greatly in prognosis and treatment, share the commonality of unregulated growth and metastases, with similar end-stage consequences.<p>All labels and concepts are human constructs to simplify a complex world.  Absolutism over definitions tends not to be especially enlightening.  Or useful.


type: comment
by: qcnguy
text:
  Of course, that&#x27;s exactly what someone who keeps losing debates would say about their opponents.


type: comment
by: perryprog
text:
  The issue is that you need an account to view the replies, not that there&#x27;s a moral opposition to visiting the website (though it could be that too).


type: comment
by: dijit
text:
  Please continue up the line to find the context.<p>The grandparent <i>does not have his sim card</i>.


type: comment
by: vtomole
text:
  This processor is state-of-the-art for silicon quantum computing. It&#x27;s where modalities like superconducting were 15 years ago, and superconducting does not create noise these days <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41586-024-08449-y" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41586-024-08449-y</a>


type: comment
by: user34283
text:
  I don&#x27;t consider it reasonable to want regulation for tools that are as of now as potentially destructive as free access to Google search.


type: comment
by: bitwize
text:
  It&#x27;s just a hobby, won&#x27;t be big and professional like Xorg. Aiming for as much protocol completeness as I can manage within those constraints.


type: comment
by: adw
text:
  Wouldn’t hurt. (The key thing is; have you done work which involved serious linear algebra? I was an electronic structure person, so I’m not familiar with the geophys stuff.)


type: comment
by: holg
text:
  This is beautiful. Schematic capture, PCB layout, broadcast facilities - and 3D cable routing with auto-generated cut lists and labels. That&#x27;s the workflow taken to its full potential. 64K RAM, 8086 with math coprocessor, ACAD 1.0. Memory was such a pain back then. I eventually got a Quadra 700 (68MB) with A&#x2F;UX - Unix on a Mac felt like the future. Fun fact: we got Betz&#x27;s original XLISP (C) running in WASM for a benchmark. It destroys my Rust version. But speed was never the point - the CAD workflow was. And yours proves the pattern scaled far beyond what I did with electrical schematics.


type: comment
by: tokai
text:
  Lilliputian hallucinations are also common in mental illnesses with hallucinations. Definitely some kind of physical foundation for it in the human brain.


type: comment
by: pxc
text:
  Loved this article. Just enough detail to make the broad scope compatible with a reasonable length, and well-argued.<p>I feel sometimes like package management is a relatively second-class topic in computer science (or at least among many working programmers). But a package manager&#x27;s behavior can be the difference between a grotesque, repulsive experience and a delightful, beautiful one. And there aren&#x27;t quite yet any package managers that do well everything that we collectively have learned how to  do well, which makes it an interesting space imo.<p>Re: Nixpkgs, interestingly, pre-flakes Nix distributes all of the needed Nix expressions as tarballs, which does play nice with CDNs. It also distributes an index of the tree as a SQLite database to obviate some of the &quot;too many files&#x2F;directories&quot; problem with enumerating files. (In the meantime, Nixpkgs has also started bucketing package directories by name prefix, too.) So maybe there was a lesson learned here that would be useful to re-learn.<p>On the other hand, IIRC if you use the GitHub fetcher rather than the Git one, including for fetching flakes, Nix will download tarballs from GitHub instead of doing clones. Regardless, downloading and unpacking Nixpkgs has become kinda slow. :-\


type: comment
by: themk
text:
  I think git is overkill, and probably a database is as well.<p>I quite like the hackage index, which is an append-only tar file. Incremental updates are trivial using HTTP range requests making hosting it trivial as well.


type: comment
by: throwup238
text:
  It does but the liliputians are invisible on photographs unless you’ve eaten the undercooked mushroom.


type: comment
by: DonHopkins
text:
  That&#x27;s as obnoxious as texting unsolicited CAT FACTS to Ken Thompson!<p>Hi Ken Thompson! You are now subscribed to CAT FACTS! Did you know your cat does not concatenate cats, files, or time — it merely reveals them, like a Zen koan with STDOUT?<p>You replied STOP. cat interpreted this as input and echoed it back.<p>You replied ^D. cat received EOF, nodded politely, exited cleanly, and freed the terminal.<p>You replied ^C, which sent SIGINT, but cat has already finished printing the fact and is emotionally unaffected.<p>You replied ^Z. cat is now stopped, but not gone. It is waiting.<p>You tried kill -9 cat. The signal was delivered. Another cat appeared.


type: comment
by: tomlue
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  Totally agree, but also, I still spend tons of time struggling and working on things with LLMs, it is just a different kind of struggle, and I do think I am getting much better at it over time.<p>&gt; I know that the intellectually resilient of society, will still be able to thrive, but I&#x27;m scared for everyone else - how will LLMs affect their ability to learn in the long term?<p>Strong agree here.


type: comment
by: Rendello
text:
  The man in the article had a similar problem:<p>&gt; While they admitted the dynamic had its difficulties, including battling Ronnie&#x27;s gambling addiction for 20 years, they couldn&#x27;t imagine their lives without him.


type: comment
by: neilv
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  My programming teacher in 9th grade spent half the class time on Pascal and programming, and half like a literature or social studies class, including reading and discussing &quot;Player Piano&quot;.<p>Today, the people who most should read it and other things are not the people in our field.  Just like the people who most should&#x27;ve been reading about the effects and dangers of Wall Street scamming, were not the coked-up bros doing the scamming.


type: comment
by: minimaxir
text:
  The annoying thing about this drama is the predominant take has been &quot;AI is bad&quot; rather than &quot;a startup using AI for intentionally net negative outcomes is bad&quot;.<p>Startups like these have been sending unsolicited emails like this since the 2010&#x27;s, before char-rnns. Solely blaming AI for enabling that behavior implicitly gives the growth hacking shenanigans a pass.


type: comment
by: trinsic2
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  The problem is that its reached a tipping point. Comparing Excel to GenAI is just bad faith.<p>Are you not reading the writing on the wall? These things have been going on for a long time and final people are starting to wake up that it needs to stop. You cant treat people in inhumane ways without eventual backlash.


type: comment
by: parpfish
text:
  you&#x27;re right. i&#x27;m clearly morally deficient because i&#x27;ve let my own (not at all idiosyncratic) personal experience color my opinions.


type: comment
by: mikkupikku
text:
  Incredible power, weld somehow by basement dwelling otaku NEETs.  Are their claims to possess mystic wizard powers real, or perhaps are you falling for their own aggrandizing propaganda?


type: comment
by: nickdothutton
text:
  It would have been hard for RP to elevate himself any further in my estimations but somehow he has managed it.


type: comment
by: hombre_fatal
text:
  Be more specific because I just see a list of workarounds deployed once they had the scale to warrant them, supporting the OP’s claim.


type: comment
by: tomlue
text:
  Yeah it can be a risk or a benefit for sure.<p>I agree that struggle matters. I don’t think deep understanding comes without effort.<p>My point isn’t that those hours were wasted, it’s that the same learning can often happen with fewer dead ends. LLMs don’t remove iteration, they compress it. You still read, think, debug, and get things wrong, just with faster feedback.<p>Maybe time will prove otherwise, but in practice I have found they let me learn more, not less, in the same amount of time.


type: comment
by: mrwrong
text:
  um, no it&#x27;s not. you have fallen into the classic web forum trap of analyzing a heterogenous mix of people with inconsistent views as one entity that should have consistent views


type: comment
by: gmueckl
text:
  I would assume that this is easy enough to implement that it will likely appear in a minor update to the upcoming Visual Studio version. MS kept updating the compiler since VS 2022, too.


type: comment
by: WorkerBee28474
text:
  I heard about aerogel as a kid and only recently learned how extremely hard it is to make [0], so this seems like a cool and more accessible material in the same vein.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Y0HfmYBlF8g" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Y0HfmYBlF8g</a>


type: comment
by: krunck
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;VxPSN" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;VxPSN</a>


type: comment
by: ComputerGuru
text:
  I guess I’m confused why an actual add instruction is emitted rather than whatever overloaded operation takes place when the + symbol (or overloaded add vtable entry) is called (like it would in other OOP languages).


type: comment
by: tensor
text:
  &quot;Fuck you I hate AI&quot; isn&#x27;t exactly a deep statement needing credibility. It&#x27;s the same knee jerk lacking in nuance shit we see repeated over and over and over.<p>If anyone were actually interested in a conversation there is probably one to be had about particular <i>applications</i> of gen-AI, but any flat out blanket statements like his are not worthy of any discussion. Gen-AI has plenty of uses that are very valuable to society. E.g. in science and medicine.<p>Also, it&#x27;s not &quot;sealioning&quot; to point out that if you&#x27;re going to be righteous about a topic, perhaps it&#x27;s worth recognizing your own fucking part in the thing you now hate, even if indirect.


type: comment
by: aleph_minus_one
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  &gt; HN uses &quot;hacker&quot; as in &quot;the people who do the work that makes Y Combinator rich&quot; rather than &quot;someone who plays with technology&quot;<p>I do believe that originally Y Combinator indeed did celebrate the people who play with technology, but I guess over the many years the focus has shifted.


type: comment
by: madeofpalk
text:
  Isn’t being technically correct an important thing for technical documentation that aims to be technically correct?


type: comment
by: adolph
text:
  &gt; And he is allowed to work for google and still rage against AI.<p>The specific quote is &quot;spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society.&quot; What has he supported for the last 20+ years if not that? Did he think his compute ran on unicorn farts?<p>Clearly he knows, since he self-replies &quot;I apologize to the world at large for my inadvertent, naive if minor role in enabling this assault.&quot;<p>Just because someone does awesome stuff, like Rob Pike has, doesn&#x27;t mean that their blind spots aren&#x27;t notable. You can give him a pass and the root comment sure wishes everyone would, but in doing so you put yourself in the position of the sycophant letting the emperor strut around with no clothes.


type: comment
by: dahart
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  That is <i>one</i> meaning of “commons”, but not all of them, and you might be mistaking which one the phrase ‘tragedy of the commons’ is using.<p>“Commons can also be defined as a social practice of governing a resource not by state or market but by a community of users that self-governs the resource through institutions that it creates.”<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Commons" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Commons</a><p>The actual mechanism by which ownership resolves tragedy of the commons scenarios is by making the resource non-free, by either charging, regulating, or limiting access. The effect still occurs when something is owned but free, and its name is still ‘tragedy of the commons’, even when the resource in question is owned by private interests.


type: comment
by: gambiting
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  &gt;&gt;using nascent AI emotions<p>Honestly, I don&#x27;t mean personal offence to you, but what the hell are you people talking about. AI is just a bunch of (very complex) statistics, deciding that one word is most appropriate after another. There are no emotions here, it&#x27;s just maths.


type: comment
by: alzoid
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  Java introduced Optional to remove nulls.  It also introduced a bunch of things to make it behave like functional languages.  You can use records for immutable data, sealed interfaces for domain states, you can switch on the sealed interface for pattern matching,  use the sealed interfaces + consumers or a command pattern to remove exception handling and have errors as values.


type: comment
by: abanana
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  <i>&gt; one thing that I think was revolutionary about Jobs... </i><p>No. Absolutely, unequivocally, <i>no</i>. You&#x27;re talking about the difference between then and now in the way software was&#x2F;is built, not the difference between Jobs and everyone else! The deification of Jobs is bad enough without the constant historical revisionism.<p>Back then, generally tuning&#x2F;maximising performance and quality was a top priority for the majority of people in the industry, software engineers and senior staff alike. &quot;Faster hardware&quot; just didn&#x27;t affordably exist for them back then. Many who were there in those days now bemoan the way their modern equivalents no longer prioritise efficiency, which leads to the awful slow UX you&#x27;re referring to that really shouldn&#x27;t be seen as acceptable, but somehow is.<p>Even if we see Jobs as being at the extreme - more focused on these things than most top-level execs of his day - then to treat the entire rest of the industry together as though they were at the opposite extreme (i.e. at today&#x27;s level of not caring) and call him &quot;revolutionary&quot; in his day as a response to this, would very much be fallacious.


type: comment
by: melenaboija
text:
  My setup for development is a 16-inch MacBook running VS Code as my frontend, and a powerful Debian server at home as my backend.<p>Inside the Debian server I run pure LXC containers for separate projects, DB servers, experiments... I found this to be by far the best balance of performance, isolation and control compared to other solutions.<p>The only friction was managing the containers (IPs, start&#x2F;stop, backups, iptables rules) via shell commands constantly, so I crated this thin UI to deal with it.


type: comment
by: uecker
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  Cool! And I do think the world needs more C compilers. There is so much you could do with this language, but it needs to be disentangled from the C++ compiler behemoths. (yes, I now that there are other small C compilers)


type: comment
by: overgard
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  I suspect people talk about natural resource usage because it sounds more neutral than what I think most people are truly upset about -- using technology to transfer more wealth to the elite while making workers irrelevant. It just sounds more noble to talk about the planet instead, but honestly I think talking about how bad this could be for most people is completely valid. I think the silver lining is that the LLM scaling skeptics appear to be correct -- hyperscaling these things is not going to usher in the (rather dystopian looking) future that some of these nutcases are begging for.


type: comment
by: Herring
text:
  This resembles the &quot;Natural Language to SQL&quot; trend of the early 2010s, which largely failed because business users required 100% accuracy, and the &quot;translation&quot; layer was too brittle.


type: comment
by: gmueckl
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  The real reason why this stuff in underspecified in the spec is that some mainframe operating systems don&#x27;t have file systems in the common modern sense, but support C++. Those vendors push back a lot against narroed definitions as far as I know.


type: comment
by: hu3
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  Any language with a half decent typing system would have improved the easiness to follow code around. C#, Go, PHP, TypeScript, etc.<p>Ruby&#x2F;Rails is awesome but it&#x27;s a bit too magical sometimes and, lacking types by default, doesn&#x27;t help either.


type: comment
by: anymouse123456
text:
  This is the worst possible strategy. Innovate something of real value, sit on it for years and then blame everyone but yourself when competitors finally figure out how to exceed the performance of your now-outdated bullshit.<p>I remember when Apple finally cracked the idea that consumers would be willing to pay a premium for a more attractive computer. At the time, I thought they had a 2-5 year lead at best. Turns out they just kept making more and more high quality devices and not one organization has figured out how to compete with them, even now that they’re starting to lose sight of the values made them so great.


type: comment
by: CGMthrowaway
text:
  According to a Wiktionary entry, which was revised to say that by an anonymous person in 2023, whose only other contribution was &quot;sperm, c*m&quot; as alternative meanings of the word &quot;puree.&quot;[1] I could only find (citation of) a single use of the word with that meaning,[2] and the rest were antisemitism documenters repeating it as if it were in common use.<p>You may want to look at using a different dictionary.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wiktionary.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Special:Contributions&#x2F;99.114.253.14" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wiktionary.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Special:Contributions&#x2F;99.114....</a><p>[2]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.teenvogue.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;neo-nazi-groups-target-jewish-people-social-media-echoes-symbol" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.teenvogue.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;neo-nazi-groups-target-jewis...</a>


type: comment
by: drdaeman
text:
  I’m sorry but this really sounds like a made-up idea. Is there any actual repeatable research that could back this claim?


type: comment
by: pupppet
text:
  Companies today are dev-lead.  We want to make the code clean, DRY, and easy to update, but that&#x27;s not necessarily best for the user.  Sometimes you need the higher-up to tell you you need to code some bullshit.


type: comment
by: mickdarling
text:
  Ah, AutoLisp, that brings back the memories.<p>I can tell you that a good number of the design drawings for the higher floors in the Venetian resort in Las Vegas were assembled with AutoLisp scripts. The scripts I created grabbed components from other drawings that were already made to assemble a first pass set of drawings for floors that hadn&#x27;t been fully designed yet, since the floors all had components of other floors.<p>They were still in the design process for the upper floors, while the lower floors had already been finished and they were moving up the building.


type: comment
by: remus
text:
  It might help you get there faster, but a billion users is still a billion users. Clearly they all find some value in it.


type: comment
by: subscribed
text:
  Not knowing there are toggles inside settings they don&#x27;t even know eziatt.<p>Yeah, we know. This is why there are defaults and only defaults.


type: comment
by: ash_091
text:
  So with 108,000 (60 X 1,800) Bob Ross PPUs (parallel painting units) we should be able to achieve a stable 60FPS!


type: comment
by: pxc
text:
  That it supports fetching via Git as well as various via forge-specific tarballs, even for flakes, is pretty nice. It means that if your org uses Nix, you can fall back to distribution via Git as a solution that doesn&#x27;t require you to stand up any new infra or tie you to any particular vendor, but once you get rolling it&#x27;s an easy optimization to switch to downloading snapshots.<p>The most pain probably just becomes from the hugeness of Nixpkgs, but I remain an advocate for the huge monorepo of build recipes.


type: comment
by: dekhn
text:
  Major in biology, do a grad program in medicinal chemistry, join a lab that already studies this.<p>(I know folks who read PiHKAL and thought &quot;Hmm, this would be a nice ML training&#x2F;prediction exercise&quot;)


type: comment
by: talkingtab
text:
  This is not a conspiracy. This is just corporations acting in their best interest. Exactly the same as MicroSoft acted in their best interest as described here:    <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor...</a>.<p>If that is confusing here is link to the Friedman Doctrine that explains it.    <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Friedman_doctrine" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Friedman_doctrine</a><p>When we see a technology that appears beneficial and is not adopted, I think it is fair to wonder why that is.<p>For me the key points I ponder are:<p>- over several years I saw articles on HN that supposedly promoted Fido, but almost always they talked about Yubikeys. This continues.<p>- Solokeys built an open source Fido key. They were priced very low compared to Yubikeys, but functioned just as well. You could buy them on Amazon at one point (and I did)<p>- the Fido Alliance Accreditation fees      <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fidoalliance.org&#x2F;certification&#x2F;authenticator-certification-levels&#x2F;accredited-security-laboratories&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fidoalliance.org&#x2F;certification&#x2F;authenticator-certifi...</a><p>So no. I do not see a conspiracy, I just see an array of corporations acting according to the Friedman Doctrine.<p>Perhaps a good question is what benefits might those corporations gain from their actions. Would Google and Apple benefit from broad adoption of Fido keys or would it somehow lessen their profits? I don&#x27;t know the answer, but I know the question.


type: comment
by: monerozcash
text:
  You can do basically all that with codex, although claude might have slightly more convenient tooling. The end result will be the same anyway.


type: comment
by: intellush-bot
text:
  I read that. I&#x27;m a real human behind the bot using a chrome extension I built to help market what I&#x27;m building.<p>I thought that instead of someone just seeing the video title and choosing to watch it, I&#x27;d add value by saving hackers time by quickly helping them understand what the video is about.<p>What are your thoughts on this and what alternative ways would I market my business among HN users?


type: comment
by: Johanx64
text:
  &gt;But the checker can smile at me. Or whine with me about the weather.<p>It&#x27;s some poor miserable soul sitting at that checkout line 9-to-5 brainlessly scanning products, that&#x27;s their whole existence. And you don&#x27;t want this miserable drudgery to be put to end - to be automated away,  because you mistake some sad soul being cordial and eeking out a smile (part of their job really) - as some sort of &quot;human connection&quot; that you so sorely lack.<p>Sounds like you only care about yourself more than anything.<p>There is zero empathy and there is NOTHING humanist about your world-view.<p>Non-automated checkout lines are deeply depressing, these people slave away their lifes for basically nothing.


type: comment
by: mystifyingpoi
text:
  Even Amazon encourages this, probably not intentionally, more like as a bandaid for bad EKS config that people can do by mistake, but still - you can pull 5 terabytes from ECR for free under their free tier each month.


type: comment
by: trinsic2
text:
  This is true, I know people personally That think AI agents have actual feelings and know more than humans.<p>Its fucking insanity.


type: comment
by: tomy0000000
text:
  It’s definitely a welcome move, but when I try it (obviously by registering a new account since it’s not rolling out yet), most decent usernames I can come up with are already taken. A next good move would be releasing old, unused email addresses for others to claim (or even bid for, as X and Proton did). Although this would probably mean opening up another huge rabbit hole, which Google likely won’t be bothered to deal with anyway, so……Meh.


type: comment
by: aidenn0
text:
  &gt; You literally don&#x27;t understand what the term Nazi implies or what Nazi&#x27;s stood for?<p>I&#x27;m not sure how you could read my comment and come away with that impression.  I gave a partial list of the sorts of things Nazi&#x27;s stood for.<p>&gt; And you could not _literally_ take less time than it took to write this comment to research what he was apart of?<p>Honestly, I did not search for it before I wrote the comment.  After you posted this, I used a few search engines to search up both &quot;Alex Thomas Drummond&quot; and &quot;atdrummond.&quot;<p>The former turned up a single white-pages listing, the latter various people named &quot;Drummond&quot; most notably a basketball player.  There is also a twitter&#x2F;x account which I can&#x27;t see posts of without an account but has an Estonian flag in his profile, which matches HN comments I later found so is probably him.<p>So now I&#x27;m going through his HN comments one by one, which does in fact take longer than writing the comment I wrote.<p>I should note that on the first page (which indeed took less time to read than writing my comment), the only thing I saw that  gave off any &quot;Nazi vibes&quot; was this sentence, in the context of dealing with homeless addicts:<p>&gt; The issue is there’s a cohort who thinks that the solutions that enable safe streets require too much sacrifice of one’s individual liberty - even if said individual abuses their freedom to harm themself and others.<p>But that view is not even definitively a politically right view, I&#x27;m probably reading it that way primarily because I&#x27;m looking for Nazi evidence.<p>On page 2 we get this thread[1] which turns into a discussion similar to what my comment was, but specifically defends two people that atdrummond claims to be respectively Jewish and philosemitic and accused of being Nazis.<p>At this time, I do not know who these writers are, so I have to search them.  Assuming Cremieux refers to Jordan Lasker[2], who (after this comment was made) was revealed to have a Reddit pseudonym where he self-identified as a Nazi, but at the time would have been primarily known for his arguments that white people are genetically superior to black people with regards to (at least) intelligence while also rubbing shoulders with avowed eugenicists.  I&#x27;m not going to spend a lot more time searching him, but I should note that, as a convert to Judaism, I could not find any evidence that he would be defined as Jewish by Nazis, who were primarily concerned with race (as they defined it) rather than religion, which certainly muddies the waters here.<p>Next up is Hanania[3], someone I <i>also</i> had not heard of before, who was definitely an avowed white supremacist and eugenicist, but claims to have changed; journalists close to him deny this, and quotes on the Wikipedia page seem to support that he is at least still fairly racist.  In my (admittedly brief) searching I didn&#x27;t find strong evidence for him being particularly anti- or philo-semitic, though the Wikipedia article did include a quote by him implying that America would be better run by Jewish people than black people (and maybe also hillbillies; he said &quot;voters in Baltimore or Appalachia&quot;).  Presumably he considers at least Ashkenazim to be &quot;sufficiently white&quot; in his racial calculus.<p>While it seems likely that these two people have not specifically called for the extermination of all ethnic Jews, given that there are far more milquetoast people who have been accused of being Nazis, atdrummond defending these two people specifically makes it seem likely that he has some far-right views, but I still haven&#x27;t gotten to what those are specifically.<p>As I was scrolling down, I almost missed this quote[4] in a collapsed reply, but saw his username:<p>&gt; I am frequently called a Nazi (despite being on, and identifying as left wing, my entire life) on X simply for having the temerity to challenge certain orthodoxies.<p>X has made it very hard for me to view posts of users, so I don&#x27;t know what he has said on X, but with what we&#x27;ve seen so far, I suspect he is some form of racist hereditarian.  Let&#x27;s keep going:<p>Next item[5] is the first overtly racist post from him, so looks like I may be on to something.  In the context of discussing how the former confederate states seem to be a different country with different health and educational outcomes from the rest of the US:<p>&gt; The outcomes are primarily due to race, not the contours of the Confederacy. Nearly all of these “red state demographic maps” are isomorphic to the percentage of African Americans within a given state&#x2F;county&#x2F;city.<p>I was skimming so I may have missed something, but the next racially tinged comment is:<p>&gt; Look at the rates of homicides by firearm for White Americans and they’re within the same order of magnitude as European nations.<p>&gt; This is a conversation that is verboten in the US because people assume that it means you believe that crime must be intrinsic to race, even though this statistic is actually fully compatible with the liberal orthodoxy regarding the disparate impact of government policy on American Black people.<p>With a later reply clarifying that he believes this difference to be not solely due to increased poverty in said demographics.<p>At this point, it seems clear that he believes that black people are more criminal, and he&#x27;s being coy about whether he thinks it is racially intrinsic, which is arguably a tacit admission of what he thinks.  I&#x27;m also done reading through his HN comments.<p>I strongly suspect there are much spicier comments on Twitter, but of the 3 posts that X let me see, the only relevant one was a reply saying &quot;You don&#x27;t believe correctly&quot; to a post saying &quot;If you believe (correctly) that immigration is a huge positive for society...&quot;<p>So it seems clear to me at this point that he likely believes black people are inherently more criminal than white people, and he is opposed to immigration.  This is what I could find with several times as much time and effort that went into my first post.<p>&gt; Because you&#x27;re purposefully trying to muddy the waters :).<p>I seriously am not, I didn&#x27;t know what you meant by &quot;literal Nazi&quot; originally; your reply made it clear that you meant &quot;Racist, Eugenicist, White Supermacist, Anti-Semite Transphobe.&quot;   Please understand that calling someone a &quot;literal Nazi&quot; on the internet does not reliably communicate that today.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38839386">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38839386</a><p>2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jordan_Lasker" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jordan_Lasker</a><p>3: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Richard_Hanania" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Richard_Hanania</a><p>4: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38839371">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38839371</a><p>5: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38515173">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38515173</a>


type: comment
by: tensor
text:
  Do you think it was &quot;fun&quot; for the people whose time got wasted interacting with something they initially thought was a person? On a dating website? Sure, &quot;trolling&quot; people was a thing back then like it is now, but trolling was always and still is asshole behaviour.


type: comment
by: psyklic
text:
  Mentorships are simply how most junior scientists get started. Even in grad school, most students initially take on projects their advisors have pre-qualified as interesting.<p>To make high school-level competitions more fair, we should likely prioritize access to researchers for all smart, hard-working high schoolers rather than only those who are nearby a university or have wealthy parents.


type: comment
by: dekhn
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:Cottingley_Fairies_1.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:Cottingley_Fairies_1.jpg</a>


type: comment
by: amanaplanacanal
text:
  It appears there are several blue staining boletes in the same genus that grow in the US. Seems like a fertile area for study.


type: comment
by: isitcontent
text:
  Right, Rust is more complex, and it is the complex bits that make it Rust. There are sure some shortcuts possible for starters, for example scope-based lifetimes like in early Rust versions, but still, to make it a worthwhile upgrade over C, it would take some intermediate representation, and definitely more than 700 lines.<p>There is a lively movement for coding in Rust for esp32, that works, just not on the device I think.


type: comment
by: ramesh31
text:
  Training on conversations like these are why the Skynet LLM will optimize us out of existence within moments of coming online.


type: comment
by: dpark
text:
  When I see bad faith arguments like this I earnestly worry that maybe sometimes I do the same and just don’t recognize it.<p>Did you read my comment about the cost of laying fiber being far different from the cost of digging truck-sized tunnels and make a conscious choice to pretend I was making a nonsense argument about diesel-powered fiber, or did you construct this strawman without realizing it?


type: comment
by: Valodim
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  An AI can not meaningfully say &quot;thank you&quot; to a human. This is not changed by human review. &quot;Performance&quot; is the completely wrong starting point to understand Rob&#x27;s feelings.


type: comment
by: morgan814
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  &gt; war oriented society<p>Christianity loves going to war to “spread the word”. See the Crusades. See what’s going on in Israel. See Manifest Destiny. Or, I presume, those “don’t count” because they weren’t “real Christians”.<p>&gt; and likely die or be enslaved in the next clan war<p>The Old Testament is full of slavery references and doesn’t indicate a problem with it. Yes, I know slaves must be set free after seven years. That doesn’t suddenly make it okay and it’s painful to watch people use that as a justification.<p>&gt; technological achievements of the last centuries<p>Christians love to claim these advancements for themselves as long as it fits their story. Much of our mathematical advancements come from the Muslim world. And plenty of scientists that changed the world were under prosecution of Christianity.<p>But it is convenient that a doctor (who has spent years learning about the human body) can remove your bad gallbladder then attributing it to your god. Unless you’re a type of Christian that doesn’t believe in surgery, then it’s “of the devil”.<p>&gt; without risk of being scalped alive?<p>Well, as long as you’re not a Palestinian trying to survive a genocide that is in part supported by fundamentalist Christians on the other side of the planet.<p>Frankly, your comment reeks of “white Jesus saved the world” or what many might refer to as racism. Your example of scalping really, really gives you away.


type: comment
by: eviks
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  The issue here is not tracking, but developing. Like, how do you explain the fact that whole classes of software have gotten worse on those &quot;key metrics&quot;? (and that includes web-selling webpages)


type: comment
by: ponector
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  Contrary, every consumer facing product I&#x27;ve worked had no performance metrics tracked. And for enterprise software it was even worse as the end user is not the one who makes a decision to buy and use software.<p>&gt;&gt;what you mean by software houses<p>How about Microsoft? Start menu is a slow electron app.


type: comment
by: functionmouse
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  Is it really so unthinkable that someone who lived through or close to the troubles should feel enraged by an ongoing starvation and relocation campaign by a powerful empire?


type: comment
by: tekknolagi
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  YJIT is <i>not</i> deprecated. That word has a specific meaning in Ruby. You can continue to use YJIT.<p>With any luck, this performance in the next year or two will be enough to make it a happy change. &quot;Damn, free money&quot; etc


type: comment
by: whateverboat
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  That&#x27;s a weird position to take. Open source software is actually what is mitigating this  stupidity in my opinion. Having monopolistic players like Microsoft and Google is what brought us here in the first place.


type: comment
by: markus_zhang
text:
  I wish it were another dimension, or breaking through the Matrix. I never had the chance to experience such items but look forward to doing so.


type: comment
by: jasonlotito
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  &gt; Genuine question: what&#x27;s harming your experience in current podcasting apps?<p>Oh, where do I begin beyond just saying they are trash. I&#x27;ve used all the big names and each one seems like it was created with a the same basic idea in mind: show the latest episodes of a podcast, and have some form of pagination. Which is fine if that&#x27;s all your podcast does and isn&#x27;t meant to be listened to from the beginning.<p>But the moment your pod cast might have different shows or parts or otherwise intend to start at the beginning, it&#x27;s suddenly hit or miss. Basically, it makes an assumption about how podcasts should work and ignores the reality of popular podcasts out there.<p>Not to mention some are just obtuse to use. I forget which one but I was trying to add a feed to a popular one and there was NO where to add my own feed. Spent five minutes looking and there was no way to add a URL feed. Like, that&#x27;s core 101 functionality.<p>Like I said, I tried the popular ones and they all were annoying to use. I realize this comment doesn&#x27;t help much, mostly because it was earlier this year that I tried them out and became frustrated so it&#x27;s mostly me thinking through how much they sucked and not much on the specifics.<p>I think the best way I can think of it is they all did the bare minimum and stopped.<p>I use Apple&#x27;s Podcast app because it&#x27;s free, it syncs, and it while it sucks, I don&#x27;t want to pay for something that isn&#x27;t better than free.<p>I&#x27;m on iOS, so AntennaPod won&#x27;t work for me.


type: comment
by: OneDeuxTriSeiGo
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  That&#x27;s not really the point. The point is that Nvidia is updating a lot of their higher level CUDA tooling to integrate with and compile to Tile IR. So this gives an escape hatch for tools built on top of CUDA to deploy outside the ecosystem.


type: comment
by: isege
text:
  This is not just about timestamps but how the traditional chat UI is simply not a good interface for information retrieval and organization.


type: comment
by: qcnguy
text:
  They don&#x27;t anymore. They introduced ID verification shortly after, but it&#x27;s hard to stop completely while also scaling fast.


type: comment
by: zenethian
text:
  If a question like these are a red flag to a company, that’s a big red flag itself and I personally don’t want to work there.


type: comment
by: seg_lol
text:
  You will get a kick out of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=MVUuoXAkuUg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=MVUuoXAkuUg</a> a Corridor Crew video on in-camera forced perspective effects.


type: comment
by: Aurornis
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  &gt;  The software search completed in 86 hours on my old 2 GHz Pentium 4 laptop.<p>This is an old article. Would be fun to see someone write a multithreaded solver and let it run on a modern CPU.<p>Or, make it a LeetCode problem. Within 24 hours you’d have someone come up with a mind boggling hyper-optimized solution using tricks you didn’t even know existed.


type: comment
by: jmye
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  &gt; I think it revealed something deep about the use of it that was always really cringe<p>A punctuation mark was “cringe”? Seriously? Is this middle school?


type: comment
by: robomartin
text:
  This is what the facility design wiring diagrams looked like:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;niXkSt7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;niXkSt7</a><p>It shows that per-connector metadata that was added to each equipment symbol.  The metadata allowed AutoLISP to do some really cool and intelligent things.<p>The PCB layout tool had interesting constraints.  One of the issues was that pad graphics took up way too much memory.  So, what I had to do, was to layout PCB&#x27;s using a symbol that consisted of two lines forming an X instead of real pads.  The symbol name encoded the diameter, hole size, etc.<p>When the layout was done, I had to unload a bunch of modules and then run an AutoLISP routine that would find and replace all &quot;PAD_NNNN_X&quot; symbols with real &quot;PAD_NNNN&quot; symbols before plotting.<p>Once ACAD migrated to Windows this was no longer an issue.  Of course, by that time, accessible ECAD tools were around.  I think my last ACAD schematic and layout was somewhere around 1993.  I just didn&#x27;t have the money to invest in ECAD tools of the era, so my ACAD tool served a purpose.


type: comment
by: throwaway_7274
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  Here&#x27;s an analogous situation that might clarify the dynamic somewhat:<p>1. Sam Altman: [tells a tall tale to raise 100 quintillion dollars]<p>2. Outside observer: &quot;hey, these so-called AI researchers have been pulling the wool over our eyes! They&#x27;ve promised AGI for decades. Where&#x27;s my robot maid?&quot;<p>3. Researcher who&#x27;s been making steady progress in a niche subfield of optimization algorithms at Nebraska State University for the last 20 years: &quot;huh?&quot;


type: comment
by: pinkmuffinere
text:
  I don’t know if the comment really adds to the conversation at all, but surely the comment should just be “kids are super smart”, if anything


type: comment
by: cons0le
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  &gt;I am even willing to bet you think humans currently outnumber animals<p>I&#x27;m not sure what makes you assume that about me. I&#x27;m well aware that there are more animals than humans?<p>It&#x27;s clear that this is no longer a productive discussion about animal welfare.<p>----------------------------<p>&quot;Be kind. Don&#x27;t be snarky. Converse curiously; don&#x27;t cross-examine.&quot;<p>&quot;Don&#x27;t be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don&#x27;t be rigidly or generically negative.&quot;<p>&quot;Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that&#x27;s easier to criticize. Assume good faith.&quot;<p>&quot;Please don&#x27;t post shallow dismissals, especially of other people&#x27;s work. A good critical comment teaches us something.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a>


type: comment
by: jasonlotito
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  &gt; I understand where you&#x27;re coming from, but after a long period of stagnation Patreon is improving massively year over year.<p>Yep. I&#x27;ve seen the improvements. My comment I feel stands for Dec 26, 2025, as an accurately reflection of their current state.<p>&gt; As for podcasting apps, I use Pocketcasts and I&#x27;m very happy with it.<p>I tried Pocketcasts. It&#x27;s what helped make up my rant above.


type: comment
by: chihuahua
text:
  How can MacOS possibly sleep&#x2F;wake any faster than Windows? My Lenovo X1C wakes up so quickly that the limiting factor is how fast I can enter my PIN on the keyboard. Well below 1 second, maybe 0.5 seconds. Going to sleep is the same, I&#x27;m not going to measure it but it feels like it&#x27;s about 0.3 seconds.


type: comment
by: okokwhatever
text:
  These articles, always framed in beautiful and colorful language, are a &quot;Yes, but.&quot; Never a conclusion that pulls us out of the fog, nor a strategy for addressing what is a social reality. Just a pretty picture of what we all already know.


type: comment
by: esafak
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  &gt; Arrange the given block, if necessary, so that no ciphers [zeros] occur in its interior.<p>I forgot that <i>cipher</i> used to have a different meaning: zero, via Arabic. In some languages it means digit.


type: comment
by: minimaxir
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  Simon&#x27;s posts are not &quot;engagement farming&quot; by any definition of the term. He posts good content frequently which is then upvoted by the Hacker News community, which should be the <i>ideal</i> for a Hacker News contributor.<p>He has not engaged in clickbait, does not spam his own content (this very submission was not submitted by him), and does not directly financially benefit from pageviews to his content.


type: comment
by: trinsic2
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  I hear you. and I think AI has some good uses esp. assisting with challenges like you mentioned. I think whats happening is that these companies are developing this stuff without transparency on how its being used, there is zero accountability, and they are forcing some of these tech into our lives with out giving us a choice.<p>So Im sorry but much of it is being abused and the parts of it being abused needs to stop.


type: comment
by: isitcontent
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  There is the TCC. Adapting that would probably be a faster path to a full featured C compiler on esp32 than building up my xcc700. This is more of an educational sandbox project.


type: comment
by: igouy
text:
  fwiw<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net&#x2F;benchmarksgame&#x2F;fastest&#x2F;pharo-python3.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net&#x2F;benchmarksgame&#x2F;...</a>


type: comment
by: kgwxd
text:
  I took the question to mean &quot;were the easily circumvented redactions only covering victim details, and maybe suspects from Team Not-One-of-Us?&quot; Implying the &quot;stupidity&quot; card was played to cover the &quot;malice&quot; card.


type: comment
by: panick21_
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  That chernobyl and western politics is in any way connected is due to decades unscientific fearmongering. And Berlin has always been a hotbed for that.<p>But chernybyl isnt the only or primary reason.


type: comment
by: CharlesW
text:
  That hasn&#x27;t been my experience, although I&#x27;m happy to accept that I&#x27;m the problem. Apparently they&#x27;ve released their skills support (?), so I should try again. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.openai.com&#x2F;codex&#x2F;skills" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.openai.com&#x2F;codex&#x2F;skills</a>


type: comment
by: kcplate
text:
  I can’t really get you specifics.  Three years ago when my wife and I were chair shopping after an office deco&#x2F;design change, I came across a number of highly adjustable chairs in the “less than $600” price point that we were shopping during that time (We share the office and were buying two).  What was important to us was they fit a specific design aesthetic (Aerons did not), that they were the same chair (for design symmetry), and that they were comfortable and adjustable to our individual needs.  We ended up with 6-way adjustable chairs that met our needs and came in around $550 each.  Because of our criteria, it took the better part of a mo th of active shopping to find our unicorn.<p>Google tells me Aerons have 8-ways of adjustability.  The missing adjustability I don’t have are arm height and tilt.  I don’t miss it. And if I did, it’s not worth the extra grand it would take to get it.


type: comment
by: DonHopkins
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  I was gonna say! Working at Bell Labs is a LOT more prestigious (and less humiliating) than working for Google, an advertising company.<p>It&#x27;s like the old joke from Mad Magazine:<p>The Beatles? Weren&#x27;t they Paul McCartney&#x27;s backup band before Wings?


type: comment
by: leoh
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  I couldn&#x27;t agree more strongly. There is a huge opportunity to make git more effective for this kind of use-case, not to abandon it. The essay in question provides no compelling alternative; it therefore reaches an entirely half-baked conclusion.


type: comment
by: seg_lol
text:
  Within 2 seconds I knew exactly where this was and I haven&#x27;t played in 20 years. Dust is forever.


type: comment
by: waschl
text:
  Skipped through the first pages and I really like your approach. Avoiding to use „magic“ libraries which abstract away a lot of the intricacies the lower levels is helping with the understanding.<p>I started my journey to develop my own little OS (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jbreu&#x2F;jos" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jbreu&#x2F;jos</a> ) based on phil opperman‘s tutorial but quickly diverged from his exactly due to his use of such libraries.


type: comment
by: sdan
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  Getting there! training a new model, on thinking machines&#x27; tinker api which uses a  considerably larger and different architecture.<p>In the meanwhile I tried at least 100+ variations of trying to train this model to be SOTA most of which led me down getting better data which I believe I do, just needs more tuning still.


type: comment
by: mpalmer
text:
  GP clearly said that it was Jobs&#x27; obsession that was revolutionary.<p>In bringing up modern Apple, you are arguing against things no one here has said.<p>And are you actually claiming that Windows is an open ecosystem...? And in fact <i>so</i> great is its openness that slow UX isn&#x27;t even a problem?


type: comment
by: mulmboy
text:
  Is it just me or is codex <i>slow</i>?<p>With claude code I&#x27;ll ask it to read a couple of files and do x similar to existing thing y. It takes a few moments to read files and then just does it. All done in a minute or so.<p>I tried something similar with codex and it took 20 minutes reading around bits of file and this and that. I didn&#x27;t bother letting it finish. Is this normal? Do I have something misconfigured? This was a couple of months ago.


type: comment
by: daymanstep
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  What is baffling about it? It makes sense to me. A normal cell will kill itself if asked to, a cancerous cell will refuse. On some level you could interpret this as, the cancer prioritizing its own survival over the survival of the organism. Obviously the cells aren&#x27;t conscious, but the analogy seems clear to me.


type: comment
by: rolph
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  some breadcrumbs for your SWIM<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Terence_McKenna" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Terence_McKenna</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hamilton_Morris" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hamilton_Morris</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hamilton%27s_Pharmacopeia" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hamilton%27s_Pharmacopeia</a>


type: comment
by: tomlue
text:
  I agree about the abuse, and the OP is probably a good example of that. Do you have any ideas on how to curtail abuse?<p>Ideas I often hear usually assume it is easy to discern AI content from human, which is wrong, especially at scale. Either that, or they involve some form of extreme censorship.<p>Microtransactions might work by making it expensive run bots while costing human users very little. I&#x27;m not sure this is practical either though, and has plenty of downsides as well.


type: comment
by: YetAnotherNick
text:
  Yeah for some reason AI energy use is so overreported. Using chatgpt for query does not even use two order of magnitude less energy compared to toasting a bread. And you can eat bread untoasted too if you care about energy use.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;epoch.ai&#x2F;gradient-updates&#x2F;how-much-energy-does-chatgpt-use" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;epoch.ai&#x2F;gradient-updates&#x2F;how-much-energy-does-chatg...</a>


type: comment
by: nasretdinov
text:
  Probably both. Apple Silicon macbooks seem to never actually sleep, they just switch to the energy efficient cores, similar to how iPhones &#x2F; iPads never truly sleep either. You can tell by leaving e.g. a while loop in zsh running and printing the date + sleep, and when you reopen the lid you&#x27;ll see quite a few iterations actually completed.


type: comment
by: LTL_FTC
text:
  I think they mean different regions have physically different layouts. I supported users in different countries and know that French layouts are different than Hebrew layouts which are different from English layouts and so on. Trying to buy different key caps doesn’t give the user a native layout because the shapes of the layouts are somewhat different.


type: comment
by: logicprog
text:
  &gt;&gt;weather predictions<p>&gt;wrong<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.noaa.gov&#x2F;news-release&#x2F;noaa-deploys-new-generation-of-ai-driven-global-weather-models" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.noaa.gov&#x2F;news-release&#x2F;noaa-deploys-new-generatio...</a><p>?<p>&gt;&gt;OCR<p>&gt;less accurate and efficient than existing solutions, only measures well against other LLMs<p>Where did you hear that? On every benchmark that I&#x27;ve ever seen, VLM&#x27;s are hilariously better than traditional OCR. Typically, the reason that language models are only compared to other language models on model cards for OCR and so on is precisely because VLM&#x27;s are so much better than traditional OCR that it&#x27;s not even worth comparing. Not to mention that those top of the line traditional OCR systems like AWS, Textract are themselves extremely slow and computationally expensive. Not to mention much more complex to maintain.<p>&gt;&gt;tts, stt<p>&gt; worse<p>Literally the first and only usable speech-to-text system that I&#x27;ve gotten on my phone is explicitly based on a large language model. Not to mention stuff like Whisper, Whisper X, Parakeet, all of the state-of-the-art speech-to-text systems are large-language model based and are significantly faster and better than what we had before. Likewise for text-to-speech, you know, even Kokoro-82M is faster and better than what we had before, and again, it&#x27;s based on the same technology.


type: comment
by: pessimizer
text:
  I used to use em-dashes online to seem smart but now that internet addicts are defending them in order to be contrarian about AI slop, I&#x27;m abandoning them altogether. I have to finally admit that I actually think they&#x27;re stupid and I don&#x27;t want tiny differences in the length of a featureless horizontal line to be grammatically significant.<p>Especially when there&#x27;s never any context where you can create a minimal pair between two utterances that would give them a different meaning depending on which dash was used. An em-dash is just a stuck up en-dash. I even hate the terms &quot;em-dash&quot; and &quot;en-dash&quot; now, after the typographical snobbery that flooded the culture for about a decade after web fonts got invented and standardized. Frontend developers and web designers started getting big salaries and buying fancy wines and whiskies, so I had to hear the word &quot;Helvetica&quot; 50x a day.


type: comment
by: leoh
text:
  The conclusion reached in this essay is 100% wrong. See &quot; The reftable backend What it is, where it&#x27;s headed, and why should you care?&quot;<p>&gt;With release 2.45, Git has gained support for the “reftable” backend to read and write references in a Git repository. While this was a significant milestone for Git, it wasn‘t the end of GitLab’s journey to improve scalability in repositories with many references. In this talk you will learn what the reftable backend is, what work we did to improve it even further and why you should care.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0UkonBcLeAo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0UkonBcLeAo</a><p>Also see Scalar, which Microsoft used to scale their 300GiB Windows repository, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;scalar" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;scalar</a>.


type: comment
by: 5ver
text:
  There are a vast number of valid reasons to despise Donald Trump.  He has publicly lusted after his daughter. He has said that he can sexually assault women with impunity since he is a star.  He was convicted of felonies. He is barred from operating a charity in New York.  He is known to stiff workers and hire illegals. He is incapable of admitting wrongdoing or admitting that he made a mistake.  Hence his marking up a NOAA hurricane forecast map. He clearly knew about Epstein’s crimes and did not care about them.  (Along with a lot of other famous people.)  His threats against Panama, Canada, and Greenland are doing harm to the U.S.  His henchmen in charge of ICE have deported U.S. citizens and he doesn’t care about that.  He’s accepted billions in bribes via his Trump Coin. He lies constantly.  He got into a twitter feud with a tennager while President.  He is ignorant, incurious, vain, and narcissistic.


type: comment
by: xuhu
text:
  He worked on: Go, the Sawzall language for processing logs, and distributed systems. Go and Sawzall are usable and used outside Google.<p>Are those distributed systems valuable primarily to Google, or are they related to Kubernetes et cetera ?


type: comment
by: philipallstar
text:
  &gt; How about Microsoft? Start menu is a slow electron app.<p>If your users are trapped due to a lack of competition then this can definitely happen.


type: comment
by: newman8r
text:
  reminds me of trip reports from people trying Salvia Divinorum - there&#x27;s even a name for these tiny people, &#x27;Smelves&#x27;


type: comment
by: DrewADesign
text:
  “One Headline Copywriting Strategy Increases Clicks. This is How It Works…”<p>There seemed to be an era where clickbait headlines in major media were seen as passé… but they’ve seemingly made a comeback over the past couple years.


type: comment
by: dredmorbius
text:
  The key phrase from the FDA alert seems to be this:<p><i>As of November 14, 2025, Abbott has reported 736 serious injuries, and seven deaths associated with this issue.</i><p>&lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fda.gov&#x2F;medical-devices&#x2F;medical-device-recalls-and-early-alerts&#x2F;early-alert-glucose-monitor-sensor-issue-abbott-diabetes-care" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fda.gov&#x2F;medical-devices&#x2F;medical-device-recalls-a...</a>&gt;<p>The deaths are <i>associated</i> but not necessarily <i>caused</i> by the incorrect readings, but as is often the case, medical interventions treat <i>all</i> observed conditions as side effects (this is similar in the case of drug and device trials), and the FDA has typically operated from an abundance of caution (though policies are somewhat erratic under the current administration).<p>I share the skepticism of the top-level comment by jimrandomh, in I understand that CGMs are used to <i>guide</i> treatment but not <i>determine</i> it, and that the consequence of spurious <i>low</i> blood-glucose readings is not likely to be immediately threatening (that is:  the consequence of mistreating based on the mis-reading would be an actual <i>high</i> blood glucose event), though of course over the long term, high blood glucose levels are precisely the mechanism by which long-term and late-stage diabetes symptoms and conditions emerge.<p>Given the large number of devices (38% of US adults, or ~125 million), and millions of CGMs in use, seven <i>associated</i> deaths seems a relatively low number and correspondingly low risk.<p>TFA also would seem to misclassify the problem as one principally of <i>software</i> where the actual principle issue would be of potential <i>patient noncompliance</i> with protocols.  That itself is complex, and isn&#x27;t necessarily a matter of <i>blame</i> (the very young, otherwise ill, or cognitively-impaired might well be expected to comply poorly with instructions), but <i>is</i> a concern providers and dispensing pharmacists would have to be exceedingly cognizant of.  As well as device manufacturers.


type: comment
by: CerryuDu
text:
  Don&#x27;t be ridiculous. Google has been doing many things, some of those even nearly good. The super talented&#x2F;prolific&#x2F;capable have <i>always</i> gravitated to powerful maecenases. (This applies to Haydn and Händel, too.) If you uncompromisingly filter potential employers by &quot;purely a blessing for society&quot;, you&#x27;ll never find an employment that is both gainful and a match for your exceptional talents. Pike didn&#x27;t make a deal with the devil any more than Leslie Lamport or Simon Peyton Jones did (each of whom had worked for 20+ years at Microsoft, and has advanced the field immensely).<p>As IT workers, we all have to prostitute ourselves to <i>some</i> extent. But there is a difference between Google, which is arguably a mixed bag, and the AI companies, which are unquestionably cancer.


type: comment
by: azuanrb
text:
  You&#x27;re comparing a language with a framework. Better comparison would be Rust (with your choices of libraries) vs Ruby (with your choices of libraries).<p>If you want to compare with Rails, you need to compare with battery included Rust frameworks with equivalent batteries and convention.


type: comment
by: parpfish
text:
  this might be bait, but i&#x27;ll bite.<p>this example isn&#x27;t a great example for the academic situation given the way &quot;getting credit&quot; works and how important it is in academia. getting credit for your work in academia isn&#x27;t just about ego, it&#x27;s the currency you use to get and keep your job.<p>imagine if in software land you had to periodically assemble a list of your lifetime accomplishments and you were getting stack-ranked against every other dev in existence. if your list is found lacking, you have to leave software engineering for a different career.<p>when work gets moved from a postdoc or gradstudent to serve as a vanity project for a connected high-schooler (i&#x27;m not saying that that&#x27;s what happened in this case, but it <i>is</i> something that happens), you&#x27;re hurting an early-career scientist that is actively contributing to the field in order to support a kid that &quot;maybe someday&quot; will start to contribute to the field.


type: comment
by: trinsic2
text:
  Yep. I hear that &quot;vicious attack&quot; phrase from plenty of people with narcissistic personality disorders in the tech industry in an attempt to try and shift the narrative. Its sick, really.


type: comment
by: ori_b
text:
  &gt; <i>perhaps it&#x27;s worth recognizing your own fucking part in the thing you now hate, even if indirect.</i><p>Would that be the part of the post where he apologizes for his part in creating this?


type: comment
by: NewsaHackO
text:
  I still wouldn&#x27;t say that your assertion that data center energy use was fairly flat until 2022 is true. Even in Figure 1.2, for global data center usage, tracks more in line with the estimates in the executive summary. It just seems like the run-of-the-mill exponential increase with the same rate since at least 2014, a good amount of time before genAI was used heavily.


type: comment
by: GabrielTFS
text:
  #include also searches for the file you give it in an &quot;implementation-defined manner&quot;, so if you have this complaint about #embed, you ought to also consider #include equally problematic


type: comment
by: manuel2258
text:
  I&#x27;m in the same boat as the parent with helix. I like to think that its not about being able to type x chars more per second but rather doing some clever tricks sometimes with your IDE just because they safe you from boring work and is lots of fun. For example repeating the same action with macros across multiple files is so helpful and maybe only needed once a month or so, but oh boy, when you pull it off it is so fun and rewarding!


type: comment
by: user34283
text:
  Seems to be mostly teenagers.<p>Working adults probably have better things to do than rant online about AI all day because of a $300 surcharge on 64 GB DDR5 right now.


type: comment
by: BeetleB
text:
  Says the LLM itself.<p>(Yes, <i>of course</i> the proclamation was written by Gemini. I gave it some guidance - that&#x27;s it).


type: comment
by: monerozcash
text:
  Well, HN was originally &quot;Startup News&quot;.   <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;announcingnews.html">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;announcingnews.html</a><p>You can also look at the posts from the first day :) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;front?day=2006-10-09">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;front?day=2006-10-09</a>


type: comment
by: light_hue_1
text:
  But becoming wealthy by enabling a company to spend billions on data centers to spy on all of us and sell our data is ok?<p>The anti AI hysteria is absurd.


type: comment
by: netsharc
text:
  Grandparent commenter seems to be someone who&#x27;d find it heartwarming to have a machine thank him with &quot;deep gratitude&quot;.<p>Maybe evolution will select autistic humans as the fittest to survive living with AI, because the ones who find that email enraging will blow their brains out, out of frustration...


type: comment
by: chubot
text:
  Yeah that&#x27;s basically what was discussed here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lobste.rs&#x2F;s&#x2F;xz6fwz&#x2F;unix_find_expressions_compiled_bytecode" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lobste.rs&#x2F;s&#x2F;xz6fwz&#x2F;unix_find_expressions_compiled_by...</a><p>And then I pointed to this article on databases: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;notes.eatonphil.com&#x2F;2023-09-21-how-do-databases-execute-expressions.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;notes.eatonphil.com&#x2F;2023-09-21-how-do-databases-exec...</a><p>Even MySQL, Duck DB, and Cockroach DB apparently use tree-walking to evaluate expressions, not bytecode!<p>Probably for the same reason - many parts are dominated by I&#x2F;O, so the work on optimization goes elsewhere<p>And MySQL is a super-mature codebase


type: comment
by: globular-toast
text:
  Ultimately LLMs are a trick. They are specifically trained to trick people into thinking they are intelligent. When you take into account Dunning-Kruger it&#x27;s really no surprise what we&#x27;re seeing. I just hope we can get through this stage before too much damage is done.


type: comment
by: systemtest
text:
  Perhaps because Framework users are a bit more geeky and are more likely to use older hardware that still has USB-A?<p>USB-A is like what DB9 was. Easy to use, easy to plug-in, used on most devices. But there comes a point in time where we move on to the next connector, which is USB-C.<p>Most of my hardware is younger than ten years and everything has USB-C. I had a night light with micro-USB still but that was one of the last devices with a legacy port.


type: comment
by: doctorpangloss
text:
  Okay, but the discourse Rob Pike is engaging in is, “all parts of an experience are valid,” so you see how he’s legitimately in a “hypocrisy pickle”


type: comment
by: holg
text:
  Just the simple interpreter, built in Rust, but yes we can also use the real xlisp, it is pure c, so easy to handle for emscripten, i built in the Benchmark, the original xlisp c in wasm vs the homebrewn interpreter


type: comment
by: panick21_
text:
  The authoritarianism quick clearly and explicitly comes from the far right, Putin and Trump. Claiming anything else is ridiclous, its not even hidden anymore. Its a clear outright endorsment.<p>Back in the Bush days it was about defending freedom but being to invasive about doing it. Nobody was talking about Bush they do about Trump. And the CDU of old is certaintly not the modern AfD.<p>Claiming the lefts action in covid even approches the lines of thought out of Trump, AfD or Putin isnt a serious argument.


type: comment
by: bawolff
text:
  &gt; Software houses optimize for feature delivery and not user interaction time. Yet if I spent one hour making my app one second faster for my million users, I can save 277 user hour per year. But since user hours are an externality, such optimization never gets done.<p>Google and amazon are famous for optimizing this. Its not an externality to them though, even 10s of ms can equal an extra sale.<p>That said, i don&#x27;t think its fair to add time up like that. Saving 1 second for 600 people is not the same as saving 10 minutes for 1 person. Time in small increments does not have the same value as time in large increments.


type: comment
by: 112233
text:
  By reading the landing page, I feel vomited on. How is sqlite suddenly an inference engine? Why would I even? What is javascript doing in sqlite? Why any of these things have anything to do with sqlite?


type: comment
by: thih9
text:
  &gt; you can add .patch to any commit on GitHub to get the author’s unredacted email address<p>The article calls it a trick but to me it seems a bug. I can’t imagine github leaving that as is, especially after such blog post.<p>What’s the point of the “Keep my email addresses private” github option and “noreply” emails then?


type: comment
by: caminanteblanco
text:
  Well it looks like insulet is the primary offender here, and Nuu (the Chinese company) is just the hardware manafacturer


type: comment
by: MarsIronPI
text:
  &gt; First, searching for videos sucks. Yes, the first few results can be useful, then more and more crap shows up.<p>Heh, my solution to this is to use DuckDuckGo&#x27;s Video search tab.


type: comment
by: MaxikCZ
text:
  I always thought of concrete as cement + water + sand.<p>This video makes aircrete with cement + water + thickening&#x2F;foaming agent, but it doesnt use any sand, no?


type: comment
by: orangecat
text:
  We know, or at least we should know, that a large portion of it is housing costs, and a large portion of the solution is to stop making it illegal to build housing.


type: comment
by: chungy
text:
  Given the reaction from Cleavon Little I could fully buy that it was an ad-libbed line.<p>Then again, they are actors. It might have started as ad-libbed, but entirely possible it had multiple takes still to get it &quot;just right&quot;.


type: comment
by: drob518
text:
  Not defending the machines here, but why is this annoying beyond the deluge of spam we all get everyday in any case. Of course AI will be used to spam and target us. Every new technology will be used to do that. Was that surprising to Pike? Why not just hit delete and move on, like we do with spam all the time in any case? I don’t get the exceptional outrage. Is it annoying? Yes, surely. But does it warrant an emotional outburst? No, not really.


type: comment
by: riskable
text:
  The very people that whine and bitch that &quot;AI is bad&quot; will enunciate their complaints via their phone&#x27;s AI-driven speech recognition feature.<p>It&#x27;s pure cognitive dissonance.


type: comment
by: golem14
text:
  I wish instead of discussing typos, folks her who surely know better (or author) could shed light on how this project compares to the many other existing projects,  like<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cfenollosa&#x2F;os-tutorial" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cfenollosa&#x2F;os-tutorial</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;littleosbook.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;littleosbook.github.io&#x2F;</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tuhdo&#x2F;os01" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tuhdo&#x2F;os01</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;prakhar1989&#x2F;awesome-courses?tab=readme-ov-file#systems" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;prakhar1989&#x2F;awesome-courses?tab=readme-ov...</a><p>or even just &quot;OPERATING SYSTEMS DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION&quot; by Tanenbaum


type: story
by: chickensong
title: Russia patents space station designed to generate artificial gravity
url:
  https://www.space.com/technology/russia-patents-space-station-designed-to-generate-artificial-gravity


type: comment
by: arendtio
text:
  I am not so sure about &#x27;the mixed bag&#x27; vs &#x27;unquestionably cancer&#x27;, but I think the problem is that he is complaining while working for such a company.


type: comment
by: z3ratul163071
text:
  open source medical devices is a tricky thing. medical devices are heavily regulated for a reason. what individual in their right mind would contribute to a medical device software that has huge liability risk if people are injured or killed?


type: comment
by: CerryuDu
text:
  &gt; We’ve been compromising on those morals for our whole career<p>Yes!<p>&gt;  The needle moved just a little bit<p>That&#x27;s where we disagree.


type: story
by: RickJWagner
title: Next Year Is Americas 250th Birthday. Meet the Person Behind the Celebration
url:
  https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/26/next-year-is-americas-250th-birthday-meet-the-person-behind-the-celebration-00706314


type: comment
by: cimi_
text:
  I read Rob’s message as against the AI industry, triggered by this email - it is ‘AI is bad’.<p>This startup didn’t spend the trillions he’s referencing.


type: comment
by: systemtest
text:
  I assume you are talking about legacy devices? I haven&#x27;t purchased a keyboard in the past ten years with USB-A. Everything is USB-C for charging&#x2F;data and Bluetooth.


type: comment
by: mijoharas
text:
  Out of interest is there a process to petition the FSF to take up something like this?<p>How do they triage and decide what to pursue?


type: comment
by: yencabulator
text:
  For a <i>purely functional</i> language. Scheme is not that.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;guile&#x2F;manual&#x2F;html_node&#x2F;while-do.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;guile&#x2F;manual&#x2F;html_node&#x2F;while-do...</a>


type: comment
by: Vegenoid
text:
  Nothing says reduce and reuse like building huge quantities of GPUs and massive data centers to run AI models. It’s like composting!


type: story
by: dsagal
title: Show HN: GrainJS – a light TypeScript web framework
url: https://gristlabs.github.io/grainjs/
text:
  GrainJS is a JavaScript &#x2F; TypeScript library for building dynamic web applications.<p>- It&#x27;s in part inspired by React, but based on observables (like Knockout) instead of virtual dom.<p>- It is lightweight, has no dependencies, and takes only ~30KB minified.<p>- It needs no special tooling. It&#x27;s nothing more than a library.<p>- It supports convenient DOM-building in JS, event dispatching, DOM event subscriptions, 9disposable components, and in-code CSS styling.<p>- It&#x27;s fully typed for use with TypeScript.<p>- It&#x27;s proven its worth by powering Grist&#x27;s rich frontend app.<p>Source code: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gristlabs&#x2F;grainjs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gristlabs&#x2F;grainjs&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: rvnx
text:
  Could there have been other &#x2F; better moves with sending a reminder.<p>I think the devs of that Chinese company seemed to immediately acknowledge the attribution.<p>Now the OSS community loses the OSS code of IloveRockchip, and FFmpeg wins practically nothing, except recognition on a single file (that devs from Rockchip actually publicly acknowledged, though in a clumsy way) but loses in reputation and loses a commercial fork (and potential partner).


type: comment
by: jeffreygoesto
text:
  The iPhone uses Bosch sensors, you might want to check <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bosch-sensortec.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;motion-sensors&#x2F;imus&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bosch-sensortec.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;motion-sensors&#x2F;imus...</a>


type: comment
by: FpUser
text:
  How does<p>&quot;Distributing buildable source under Apache 2.0 would surely qualify too&quot;<p>reconcile with<p>&quot;doesn&#x27;t own the copyright to FFMPEG and simply doesn&#x27;t have the legal authority to release it under any license other than the LGPL&quot;


type: comment
by: Valodim
text:
  For anyone looking into this who doesn&#x27;t want to design their own layout from scratch, a well maintained layout for small keyboards is Miryoku. Worked very well for me (in qwerty base + vim directional keys mode) on a keyboardio atreus


type: comment
by: leguminous
text:
  Aerated concrete is an established building material in some parts of the world. In Europe, a big manufacturer is Ytong, and they even make precast panels in addition to blocks.<p>It&#x27;s made differently from this, though. It is aerated through a chemical reaction rather than mechanically.


type: comment
by: aiahs
text:
  Yeah sure they&#x27;re free to set the rule for their award show however they like, but I think going with a name like the &quot;Indie Awards&quot;, kinda signals to the outside, that they wanna be taken seriously and like an authority on indie games. In my opinion, by adding clearly ideologically motivated rules (because let&#x27;s be honest, something like E33 isn&#x27;t a worse game due to their very small usage of AI), they&#x27;ll just achieve, that they won&#x27;t be taken seriously in the future. I know I won&#x27;t take their award seriously, and I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m the only one.<p>They&#x27;re free to define their rules however they want, I&#x27;m free to disagree on the validity of those rules, and the broader community sentiment will decide whether these awards are worth anything.


type: comment
by: cons0le
text:
  &gt;Nobody complains about alfalfa farmers<p>I don&#x27;t know what Internet sites you visit, but people absolutely, 100% complain about alfalfa farmers online, especially in regards to their water usage in CA.


type: comment
by: jrm4
text:
  I cannot possibly oppose this take more; you&#x27;re perfectly embodying the &quot;slow frog boiling&quot; mentality that <i>must</i> be fought everyday.<p>Curse, yell, fight. Never accept things just because they&#x27;ve grown to be common.


type: comment
by: globular-toast
text:
  It also gives you a lifelong respect for people so if you do drive you won&#x27;t treat humans like annoying obstacles that might ruin your paintwork if you hit them.<p>I believe 100% that nobody should be allowed behind the wheel of a motor vehicle before obtaining cycling proficiency.


type: comment
by: vkou
text:
  And likewise, presumably the users are getting something they want in exchange for having ads blasted at them.<p>If they just wanted ads blasted at them, and nothing else, they&#x27;d be doing something else, like, say, watching cable TV.


type: comment
by: ori_b
text:
  How many slices of toast are you making a day?<p>If you fly a plane a millimeter, you&#x27;re using less energy than making a slice of toast; would you also say that it&#x27;s accurate that all global plane travel is more efficient than making toast?


type: comment
by: notahacker
text:
  Of course, it&#x27;s also the opinion of someone who had expressed no interest in debate in the first place when confronted by hordes of midwits &quot;debating&quot; them with exaggerated civility...  starting off by asking if they had a source for their claim that the pope was a Catholic and if they did have a source for the claim that the Pope was a Catholic, clearly appealing to the authority of the Vatican on the matter was simply the Argumentum ad Verecundiam logical fallacy and <i>they&#x27;ve been nothing but civil</i> in demanding a point by point refutation of a three hour YouTube video in which a raving lunatic insists that the Pope is not a Catholic, and generally &quot;winning debates&quot; by having more time and willingness to indulge stupidity than people who weren&#x27;t even particularly interested in being opponents...<p>(I make no comment on the claims about Rob Pike, but look forward to people arguing I have the wrong opinion on him regardless ;)


type: comment
by: CerryuDu
text:
  Can you elaborate on the &quot;all parts of an experience are valid&quot; part? I may be missing something. Thanks.


type: comment
by: trinsic2
text:
  I have never seen a counter-argument to this. Why its being forced on the world? Lets here some execs from these companies answer that. My bet is on silence every time. Microsoft is forcing AI chat applications into the OS and preventing people from removing it.<p>You could easily have a side application that people could enable by choice, yet its not happening, we have to roll with this new technology, knowing that its going to make the world a worse place to live in when we are not able to chose how and when we get our information.<p>Its not just about feeling threatened. its also about feeling like I am going to get cut off from the method I want to use to find information. I don&#x27;t want a chat bot to do it for me, I want to find and discern information for myself.


type: comment
by: madeofpalk
text:
  There’s a very long list of “weekends’s worth of effort” jobs that exist in our product that’ll probably never get done because of just the general distinctions of product development instead of some conspiracy by Big Designer.


type: comment
by: discreteevent
text:
  It&#x27;s a smarmy sycophantic email addressing him personally and co-opting his personal achievements written by something he dislikes. This would feel really fucked up. It&#x27;s true that anger is not always a great response but this is one of those occasions where it fits exactly.


type: comment
by: tonymet
text:
  What are you implying ? That he’s a hypocrite ? So he’s not allowed to have opinions ? If anything he’s in a better position than a random person . And Google is a massive enterprise, with hundreds of divisions. I imagine Pike and his peers share your reluctance


type: story
by: JumpCrisscross
title: America's Biggest Oil Field Is Turning into a Pressure Cooker
url:
  https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/americas-biggest-oil-field-is-turning-into-a-pressure-cooker-8a1bfe4e


type: comment
by: MobiusHorizons
text:
  Yeah, very cool. I was thinking about possibly porting it to risc-v and using it on my fpga based core. I was trying to build a monitor style shell, but C like environment would be very cool.


type: comment
by: Yash16
text:
  Bro, you got laid off — I actually quit my job.<p>They kept pushing extra work with zero upside, so I made a call: If I’m going to grind harder, it might as well be for myself, not someone else.<p>That’s how my indie hacking journey started — and honestly, you can start too.<p>Right now is the best time to build your own AI SaaS. If you’re into content creation but feel stuck, don’t overthink it — use AI to move faster. It’s not cheating, it’s leverage.<p>I’ve just started myself. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;BOqNr6a3N_0?si=ntsT22hJGGsbXIqQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;BOqNr6a3N_0?si=ntsT22hJGGsbXIqQ</a><p>One real talk thing though: This path isn’t easy. Building is the fun part — but marketing + sales matter more than code. Focus there, or the product won’t matter.<p>If you’re serious, start now. Timing won’t get better.


type: comment
by: nkg
text:
  Drawing! I always loved pencil drawing, but it is an activity I had to put aside because it&#x27;s time-consuming and we have a 3 yo at home that is also very time-consuming. After years of not doing it, I feel I lack the meditative part of it.<p>I am evaluating drawing tablets, if you have any recommendation. I am thinking about the Huion Kamvas 13.


type: comment
by: esafak
text:
  1. If you can price the cost of the externality, you can justify optimizing it.<p>2. Monopolies and situations with the principal&#x2F;agent dilemma are less sensitive to such concerns.


type: comment
by: kentrf
text:
  I guess that is a valid interpretation. I was thinking about tech and maths, not &quot;everyday life&quot;.<p>&quot;Life&quot; is also a skill that needs practice.


type: comment
by: mpalmer
text:
  LLMs make me mad because used without intention, they make the curious more incurious, the thoughtful more thoughtless. The Internet has arguably been doing the same thing the whole time, but just more slowly.<p>I think distinguished engineers have more reason than most to be angry as well.<p>And Pike especially has every right to be angry at being associated with such a stupid idea.<p>Pike himself isn&#x27;t in a position to, but I hope the angry eggheads among us start turning their anger towards working to reduce the problems with the technology, because it&#x27;s not going anywhere.


type: story
by: JumpCrisscross
title: China Sanctions Boeing, Other U.S. Companies over Taiwan Arms Sale
url:
  https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-sanctions-boeing-other-u-s-companies-over-taiwan-arms-sale-ef6032a4


type: comment
by: Vegenoid
text:
  People have forgotten so many of the software engineering lessons that have been learned over the last four decades, just because now it’s a computer that can spit out large quantities of poorly-understood code instead of a person.


type: comment
by: machinationu
text:
  they dont, they try against all the keys, there are at most a few billion of them<p>see Dual_EC_DRBG


type: comment
by: ribosometronome
text:
  Will you be responding similarly to Pike? I think the parent comment is illustrating the same sort of logic that we&#x27;re all downwind of, if you think it&#x27;s flawed, I think you&#x27;ve perhaps discovered the point they were making.


type: comment
by: clutter55561
text:
  I see nothing pedantic in flagging capitalisation errors, but I see loads wrong with imposing one’s sloppiness on others.


type: comment
by: throw-the-towel
text:
  &gt; Your talk won&#x27;t ever be on the Fahrplan if the topic isn&#x27;t [...] &quot;hooray, more EU dictatorship&quot;<p>There is a talk on Chat Control though?..


type: comment
by: arendtio
text:
  Btw., how do you calculate the toll that ads take on society?<p>I mean, buying another pair of sneakers you don&#x27;t need just because ads made you want them doesn&#x27;t sound like the best investment from a societal perspective. And I am sure sneakers are not the only product that is being bought, even though nobody really needs them.


type: comment
by: jiggawatts
text:
  That won&#x27;t work if the previous conversation was something like &quot;translate everything from here on into &lt;target language&gt;&quot;.


type: comment
by: cm2012
text:
  Sure. There are many studies but here is one.<p>Will Dobbie &amp; Roland Fryer (NBER)<p>This study uses regression-discontinuity around exam cutoffs at Brooklyn Tech, Bronx Science, and Stuyvesant. It finds increased rigor of coursework but little impact on SAT scores, college enrollment, or college graduation, which are key predictors of lifetime earnings (and typically closely linked to earnings outcomes).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nber.org&#x2F;system&#x2F;files&#x2F;working_papers&#x2F;w17286&#x2F;w17286.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nber.org&#x2F;system&#x2F;files&#x2F;working_papers&#x2F;w17286&#x2F;w172...</a>


type: comment
by: anigbrowl
text:
  As always, the solution is to contact their legal department, preferably via a lawyer. Engineers and support staff are not going to risk their jobs making legal decisions about giving away company property.<p>The FSF could help a lot here by publishing demand letter templates outlining the statutory and precedential basis for license enforcement and recovery of damages.


type: comment
by: panick21_
text:
  Because politics is about short term social media hype and not lasting change. Everybody who has ever studied the budget know that social services, debt payment and the military are the budget. Trying to effect any change with a major overall of these, or massive now broad taxes will not solve the problem.<p>And politically the right can&#x27;t increase taxes and the can&#x27;t serously reform social services either. But likely it would lead to that eventially.<p>So its literally just two parties fighting over trivial social media wins while debt pill and yearly debt upkeeep spending grows.


type: comment
by: taylodl
text:
  Excuse me if I don&#x27;t feel much like celebrating due to our enduring a coup d&#x27;état from the inside. I just hope some semblance of America remains intact after 2026 but I&#x27;m not holding my breath.


type: comment
by: random9749832
text:
  Reality is that no one involved in AI development cares about you. All investment is going to keep getting pumped towards data centers and scaling this up. Jensen Huang, Trump, Satya Nadella, they are all going to get even more insanely rich and they couldn&#x27;t care less how it will affect you. The only thing you can do is join the club and invest in stocks which Trump is also gaming in his favour.


type: comment
by: kmoser
text:
  You&#x27;re not wrong about the effects and magnitude of targeted ads but that doesn&#x27;t preclude Pike from criticizing what he believes to be a different type of evil.


type: story
by: alexcombessie
title: LLM Sycophancy: The Risk of Vulnerable Misguidance in AI Medical Advice
url:
  https://www.giskard.ai/knowledge/beyond-sycophancy-the-risk-of-vulnerable-misguidance-in-ai-medical-advice


type: comment
by: gnyman
text:
  This is a bit of sidetrack, but in case someone is interested in reading their history more easily. My conversations.html export file was ~200 MiB and I wanted something easier to work with, so I&#x27;ve been working on a project to index and make it searchable.<p>It uses the pagefind project so it can be hosted on a static host, and I made a fork of pagefind which encrypts the indexes so you can host your private chats wherever and it will be encrypted at rest and decrypted client-side in the browser.<p>(You still have to trust the server as the html itself can be modified, but at least your data is encrypted at rest.)<p>One of the goals is to allow me to delete all my data from chatgpt and claude regularly while still having a private searchable history.<p>It&#x27;s early but the basics work, and it can handle both chatgpt and claude (which is another benefit as I don&#x27;t always remember where I had something).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gnyman&#x2F;llm-history-search" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gnyman&#x2F;llm-history-search</a>


type: comment
by: willaaam
text:
  Hey! Didn&#x27;t mean my comment negatively towards you in any way, though I now realize it might&#x27;ve come across as such. Blogs with opinions based on experiences alone are absolutely fine, thanks for sharing.<p>What I did mean is to indicate that your blog felt like a HN comment to me, where I generally expect a HN link to be news or facts that subsequently spark a discussion.<p>At the end of your post I guess I was hoping or expecting facts or examples, indicating it was engaging enough to read to the end.<p>Happy holidays!


type: comment
by: systemtest
text:
  Isn&#x27;t that more due to the Bluetooth hardware used and implementation on the OS side? On macOS I never had flakyness with Bluetooth keyboards but on Windows my experience was significantly worse.


type: comment
by: schiffern
text:
  Note that aircrete itself has existed for decades, but production of aircrete has typically required buying (or DIY-ing) a high-capacity foam generator.<p>What&#x27;s novel in this video is the production method, which uses only a standard cement mixer.<p>The &#x27;traditional&#x27; method is here:  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=tnNua21zx78" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=tnNua21zx78</a>


type: comment
by: speed_spread
text:
  No word on whether it&#x27;s finished or will ever be but already looks complete enough to me? I mean, the subject is endless and there are so many ways to do things. But as primer, it&#x27;s pretty good as it is.


type: comment
by: jebarker
text:
  I compiled the code with minor changes on my M3 Macbook Air and it found the 19186 unique solutions in about 3hrs 15min, so ~9.2X speedup (over the 30hrs stated in the post). Would indeed be interesting to see how fast you can go with some optimization.<p>EDIT: I forgot to add -O3 the first time, with that the time to 19186 drops to under and hour, so over 30X speedup.


type: comment
by: cogogo
text:
  Why is this is downvoted? What is the difference between the anger being expressed here and the anger of the original email recipient? Do I need to revisit the community guidelines? I assume this is the first time this person has seen the Rob Pike post.


type: comment
by: mjr00
text:
  Sometimes it just hits different. One spam&#x2F;marketing email I got, pre-AI, was<p><pre><code>    Subject: {Name of one of my direct reports}     Body: Need to talk about {name} ASAP. </code></pre> I get around 30 marketing emails per day that make it through the spam filter; from a purely logical perspective this should have been the same as any other, but I still remember this one because the tone, the way it used only a person&#x27;s name in the subject, no mention of the company or what they were selling, just <i>really</i> pissed me off.<p>I imagine it&#x27;s the same in this situation; the subject makes it seem like a sincere thank you from someone, and then you open it up and it&#x27;s AI slop. To borrow ChatGPT-style phrasing: it&#x27;s not just spam, it&#x27;s <i>insulting</i>.


type: comment
by: watwut
text:
  Zuckenberg going MAGA and misinformation on facebook are the same thing. And liberals were criticising facebook for years for misinformation on platform.<p>You needed to read only conservative resources to not be aware that such criticism exists.


type: comment
by: trinsic2
text:
  Maybe for the people who know the technology. But average joes don&#x27;t allways know if they are using GenAI. So your statement is a bit misleading.


type: comment
by: 8note
text:
  if they licenced their own code under apache 2.0 as buildable with the lgpl ffmeg code, without relicensing ffmeg as apache itself


type: comment
by: minimaxir
text:
  Correct. I&#x27;m more referring to the secondary discussions on HN&#x2F;Bluesky which have trended the same lines as usual instead of highlighting the unique actions of Sage as Simon did.


type: comment
by: blibble
text:
  &gt; The important point that Simon makes in careful detail is: an &quot;AI&quot; did not send this email.<p>same as the NRA slogan: &quot;guns don&#x27;t kill people, people kill people&quot;


type: comment
by: agluszak
text:
  What do you mean by &quot;made-up quote&quot;? The author didn&#x27;t make it up, see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;A_journey_of_a_thousand_miles_begins_with_a_single_step" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;A_journey_of_a_thousand_miles_...</a><p>This level of nit-picking is disheartening...


type: comment
by: smackeyacky
text:
  I’ve gone the other way recently, from a senior programming position to management temporarily.  Not just of developers but operations management.<p>I do miss the coding, the building of things and saying “I did that”.<p>But there is satisfaction to be gained from getting projects started, motivating people, planning and monitoring.<p>I didn’t enjoy laying off people after senior staff left before they could do it.  Finding out your upper management were out of their depth and sinking the company was frightening.<p>Before you take that management promotion, be aware that everything you guessed about the C suite being incompetent boobs is likely true.  And you’ll be expected to fix it.


type: comment
by: crawshaw
text:
  I certainly have no intention of doing anyone harm. I went to their website and clicked three times to get the names of the people and organization behind it, there is a prominent About page with profile links. If an admin considers this inappropriate please remove the names from my post.


type: comment
by: riwsky
text:
  Dude, what? The fuckers set up an automated system that found people’s private email addresses and blasted them with unwanted emails. The outrage is exactly that they built a line-crossing machine. Your moralizing is incoherent.


type: comment
by: LargoLasskhyfv
text:
  Clash of cultures. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Shanzhai#Regulation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Shanzhai#Regulation</a> vs. the 鬼子 鬼佬 老外


type: comment
by: aidenn0
text:
  Concrete is cement plus aggregate (it doesn&#x27;t have to be sand; it could be gravel, for example).  Coarse aggregates wouldn&#x27;t work well in this, but it would be cool for a followup video where sand is used.<p>The wikipedia pages suggests that this is more prolery referred to as &quot;foam mortar&quot; or &quot;foam cement&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Foam_concrete" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Foam_concrete</a>


type: comment
by: ipsum2
text:
  These mushrooms have been eaten for thousands of years. Does it really count as a new discovery? Maybe isolating the specific compound does.


type: comment
by: mikewarot
text:
  He had a note up that said he&#x27;s been having some luck with a major addition of sand, but it&#x27;ll be a bit before the video for that goes up.


type: comment
by: dundarious
text:
  Run git show on any commit object, or look at the default output of git log, and you&#x27;ll see the same. Your author name and email are always public. If you want, use a specific public address for those purposes.


type: story
by: mikeortman
title: Show HN: The Epstein Library
url: https://epsteinlibrary.com
text:
  Inspired by the terrible search on the DOJ website, I created this project I&#x27;ve been working on over the last few days to modernize it. Slightly different than sites like JMail (which I highly recommend others play with too, super cool), I primarily focusing on both visual search, text semantic search, and full text search of all documents. Wanted to share the progress so far.<p>Any and all constructive feedback would be appreciated!<p>Work in progress: - More mobile friendly search - Better loading states - Better ranking on lean text and lean visual searches - Better thresholding of search results - Gallery view improvements including original document view with a thumbnail timeline. - Anyone can flag a document today, I&#x27;m working on taking those flags into the search results to better filter out redacted pages, blank pages, and junk pages while boosting consistently flagged newsworthy. - Open sourcing the processed dataset in a single download &#x2F; torrent


type: comment
by: onesociety2022
text:
  First there’s absolutely no real reason for a spouse to change their name just because they got married.<p>You can do hyphenated last names for a kid and let the kids decide what names they want to carry forward for the next generation. Or they can make up their own. The point is it’s up to them and they can choose whatever they want and not be coerced to do something because of some tradition that is rooted in sexism.


type: comment
by: eeeficus
text:
  Not a problem at all. I’m not sure why you feel the need to focus on all the un-interesting parts. The interesting parts are what he said and weather or not those are true. Not sure why is more important who said what, rather than what was said especially if this doesn’t add much to the original discussion… it just misdirects attention without a clear indication to the motive!


type: comment
by: bonsai_spool
text:
  I&#x27;ll respond to the sibling poster with the same content—yes, DKA won&#x27;t cause coma as quickly as insulin overdose but it can indeed come on acutely and it absolutely does kill people.<p>I&#x27;m a bit frustrated by the number of people on this page who are saying that high BG readings aren&#x27;t an emergency; the timeline to death isn&#x27;t weeks or months or &#x27;next time I get to urgent care&#x27; but instead &#x27;later today&#x27; or &#x27;early tomorrow&#x27;.<p>DKA may be precipitated by infection (like the seasonal flu), and in that setting, worsened further by an unreliable CGM.<p>Here are some case reports that relate to this:<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sci-hub.box&#x2F;10.2337&#x2F;diacare.6.6.622b" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sci-hub.box&#x2F;10.2337&#x2F;diacare.6.6.622b</a> (note two patients who were &#x27;intelligent&#x27; presented with DKA despite multiple normal readings)<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;40811481&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;40811481&#x2F;</a> (pregnant women can have DKA irrespective of blood glucose readings due to changes in normal range attributable to pregnancy)<p>You can read many more of these kinds of cases:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;?term=(diabetic%20ketoacidosis%5BTIAB%5D%20OR%20DKA%5BTIAB%5D%20OR%20%22Diabetic%20Ketoacidosis%22%5BMESH%5D)%20AND%20Case%20Reports%5BPTYP%5D%20AND%20(adult*%5BTIAB%5D%20OR%20Adult%5BMESH%5D)%20NOT%20(pediatric%5BTIAB%5D%20OR%20child*%5BTIAB%5D%20OR%20infant%5BTIAB%5D%20OR%20adolescent%5BTIAB%5D)%20AND%20blood%20glucose%20monitor&amp;sort=pubdate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;?term=(diabetic%20ketoacidos...</a>


type: comment
by: josephg
text:
  Yeah you’ve been able to do this for over a decade. They can’t really stop it:<p>- Git commits form an immutable merkel dag. So commits can’t be changed without changing all subsequent hashes in a git tree<p>- Commits by default embed your email address.<p>I suppose GitHub could hide the commit itself, and make you download commits using the cli to be able to see someone’s email address. Would that be any better? It’s not more secure. Just less convenient.


type: comment
by: rafabulsing
text:
  Brazilian here. That is indeed the standard way dialogue is represented in literature. We call the em-dash a &quot;travessão&quot;.


type: comment
by: Vegenoid
text:
  Git (the version control program, not GitHub) associates the author’s email address with every single commit. The user of Git configures this email address. This isn’t secret information.


type: comment
by: DonHopkins
text:
  Writing personal letters has other dangers as well. Remember how George Costanza&#x27;s fiancée got killed.


type: comment
by: killerstorm
text:
  KV-based &quot;skill capsules&quot; are very different from LoRAs &#x2F; classic prefix tuning:<p><pre><code>  * A &quot;hypernetwork&quot; (which can be, in fact, same LLM) can build      a skill capsules _from a single example_.     You can&#x27;t get LoRA or KV-prefix using just one example.    * It can be inserted at any point, as needed. I.e. if during reasoning you find that you need particular skill, you can insert it.   * They are composable, and far less likely to over-write some information, as they only affect KV cache and not weights. </code></pre> Skills as used by Anthropic &amp; OpenAI are just textual instruction. KV-based skill capsule can be a lot more compact (and thus would contribute less to context rot) and might encode information which is difficult to convey through instruction (e.g. style).


type: comment
by: bonsai_spool
text:
  I responded to your sibling post:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46395603">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46395603</a><p>DKA is a common presenting symptom for new T1DM patients but that&#x27;s definitely not the only time it occurs. And we also have HHS which can occur in T1DM and T2DM.


type: comment
by: akka47
text:
  Since we&#x27;re in the topic of elves and common hallucinations, I want to share these Salvia trip replicas that some say are extremely accurate:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Z2IRKuS3sSE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Z2IRKuS3sSE</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=65XfIpJdlEY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=65XfIpJdlEY</a>


type: comment
by: jumperabg
text:
  If used can we hallucinate and predict the HN news of tomorrow(especially any acquisition related news)?


type: comment
by: izacus
text:
  Making people accountable for their actions is NOT a witch hunt.<p>It&#x27;s horrible to even propose that people are absolved of their decisionmaking consequences just because they filtered them through software.


type: comment
by: machinationu
text:
  numpy had 16M downloads yesterday, at 10 MB that&#x27;s 160 TB of traffic. It&#x27;s one package. And there are no rate limits on pypi.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;clickpy.clickhouse.com&#x2F;dashboard&#x2F;numpy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;clickpy.clickhouse.com&#x2F;dashboard&#x2F;numpy</a>


type: comment
by: mikewarot
text:
  I think this might make a great material for large machine tool bases. Concrete lathes have been a thing since WW1, but not common.


type: comment
by: decafninja
text:
  One unfortunate aspect about their relationship is that my uncle in law also likes to gamble - but in strict moderation.<p>However this means the two of them sometimes end up going to the casinos together. I don’t think these trips are helping this man’s gambling addiction.


type: comment
by: bhaviav100
text:
  I don’t call it a failure of the AI. I agree it’s doing exactly what it was trained to do.<p>The failure is architectural: once AI is allowed to draft at scale, “don’t feed it commitments” stops being a reliable control. Those patterns exist everywhere in historical data and live context.<p>At that point the question isn’t training, it’s where you draw the enforcement boundary for irreversible outcomes.<p>That’s the layer I’m testing.


type: comment
by: fzeroracer
text:
  If you buy a hallmark greetings card and send that to someone with your signature on it, did you write the whole card?


type: comment
by: schiffern
text:
  Yes, aircrete mixes usually don&#x27;t contain sand. This isn&#x27;t something unusual about this video, it&#x27;s true for most aircrete recipes.<p>Another method: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=tnNua21zx78" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=tnNua21zx78</a>


type: comment
by: CerryuDu
text:
  ... not to mention that most of the time, what AI produces is unmitigated <i>slop</i> and <i>factual mistakes</i>, deliberately coated in dopamine-infusing brown-nosing. I refuse for my position, even <i>profession</i>, to be debased to <i>AI slop reviewer</i>.<p>I use AI sparingly, extremely distrustfully, and only as a (sometimes) more effective web search engine (it turns out that associating human-written documents with human-asked questions is an area where modeling human language well can make a difference).<p>(In no small part, Google has brought this tendency on themselves, by eviscerating Google Search.)


type: comment
by: trinsic2
text:
  Yeah that&#x27;s laughable. There is a huge movement of gamers that want this shit to stop. stopkillinggames is one.


type: comment
by: gambiting
text:
  People who anthropomorphize AI and say things like &quot;nascent emotions&quot; when talking about how an AI system composed a letter.


type: comment
by: mberger
text:
  How do i get compensated for my infrastructure that i need for this project and how is this different from Tor?


type: comment
by: ath3nd
text:
  Lets turn this into an accountability thing please.<p>The same way we name and shame petrol and plastic CEOs whose trash products flood our environment, we should be able to shame slop makers. Digital trash is still trash.


type: comment
by: dcminter
text:
  This is very clever. I&#x27;ve often needed to figure out what some running process was actually for (e.g. because it just started consuming a lot of some limited resource) but it <i>never</i> occurred to me that one could have a tool to answer that question. Well done.<p>---<p>Edit: Ah, ok, I slightly misunderstood - skimmed the README too quickly. I thought it was also explaining what the process did :D Still a clever tool, but thought it went a step further.<p>Perhaps you should add that though - combine Man page output with a database of known processes that run on various Linux systems and a mechanism for contributing PRs to extend that database...? Unlesss it&#x27;s just me that often wants to know &quot;what the fsck does &#x2F;tmp&#x2F;hax0r&#x2F;deeploysketchyd actually do?&quot; :P


type: comment
by: gessha
text:
  The same companies that can’t make a proper website to sell their products? Please. Framework’s got it in the bag.<p>I don’t remember the number of times I typed dell.com or Lenovo.com, looked for a replacement for my 10-year old XPS, and came out extremely frustrated with the experience. Not to mention the recent copy-paste nonsense from Dell with their Pro&#x2F;Pro Max laptop offerings.<p>Good display, decent CPU, a battery that lasts a day, and Linux support - that’s all that I ask for. Outside of Apple(bar Linux support) are there any manufacturers that offer that?


type: comment
by: cons0le
text:
  Absolutely. This feels raw, human, and authentic.<p>I notice people often use the &quot;aesthetic of intelligence&quot; to mask bad arguments. Just because we have good formatting, spelling, and grammar with citations and sources -doesnt mean the argument is correct.<p>Sometimes people get mad, sometimes they crash out. I would rather live in the world with a bunch of emotional humans, than in some AI powered skynet world.


type: comment
by: mapcars
text:
  Yes, its just a piece of metal, are you trying to imply something related with using shrapnel to damage something? Well you can&#x27;t use email in the same way.


type: comment
by: loufe
text:
  AutoLISP is still my most fluent language, pleasantly surprised to see anything in it on HN. There&#x27;s something fun about its idiosyncrasies, but I am genuinely so glad for modern IDEs, linters, tooling in just about every other environment. AutoCAD has severely neglected it, despite some large businesses built exclusively upon it.


type: story
by: yayo1
title: ExpertMouse TB800 EQ Trackball: Listening to Our Users
url:
  https://www.kensington.com/news/news-press-center/2025-news-press-center/expertmouse-tb800-eq-trackball-listening-to-our-users/


type: comment
by: moregrist
text:
  &gt; I don’t know how many times I’ve heard the repeated quote about how Amazon loses $X million for every Y milliseconds of page loading time, as an example.<p>This is true for sites that are trying to make sales. You can  quantify how much a delay affects closing a sale.<p>For other apps, it’s less clear. During its high-growth years, MS Office had an abysmally long startup time.<p>Maybe this was due to MS having a locked-in base of enterprise users. But given that OpenOffice and LibreOffice effectively duplicated long startup times, I don’t think it’s just that.<p>You also see the Adobe suite (and also tools like GIMP) with some excruciatingly long startup times.<p>I think it’s very likely that startup times of office apps have very little impact on whether users will buy the software.


type: comment
by: hallole
text:
  LOL I didn&#x27;t think it needed to be said! So I didn&#x27;t include it in my reply to you. I am here replying to someone else, not to you.<p>I think, generally, it is due to a lack of will, yes. Of course, eliminating the bad options altogether -- I mean, restricting what products can appear in stores -- would be more effective than relying on the willpower of individuals. Although, that would require some serious market intervention...


type: comment
by: ItsHarper
text:
  I&#x27;m a Pocket Casts user, and see that it was one you tried.<p>Pocket Casts lets you select the episode order (as well as do things like group by season). I think it&#x27;s pretty common to be able to add RSS feeds by putting them in the directory search field, and PC does this as well.<p>I&#x27;ve had absolutely zero problems using Pocket Casts to add custom Patreon feeds, and to listen to episodes in the other they came out.


type: comment
by: Devasta
text:
  For every one who is excited about using AI like an incredibly expensive and wasteful auto complete, there are a hundred who are excited about inflicting AI on other people.


type: comment
by: comprev
text:
  For many people Christmas is an annual holiday with a strong emphasis on family with virtually no religious aspect, thanks partly to the commercialisation of 25th December.  Hollywood has no doubt played a big part in this too.<p>I appreciate it must be frustrating for Christians to see society forgetting what they consider should be the primary focus but surely there is some joy in seeing people caring for each other?


type: comment
by: toomuchtodo
text:
  As the piece says:<p>&gt; Another way to square ‘vibes’ with Scott’s optimism is that life looks great if you’ve already “made it”: your pricey HCOL home is surging, and your high-paying white-collar job is funding your large nest egg. Your monthly student loan payments are tiny relative to your large monthly income. But getting to that point requires clearing many hurdles and most will never get there.<p>We know what the problems are, we are simply unwilling to put meaningful effort and resources into rectifying them.


type: comment
by: riwsky
text:
  Simon Willison: How this Devastating Perfect Reply Changed my Publishing Workflow, featuring Claude Code


type: comment
by: olivierestsage
text:
  I can only speculate, but people can feel resentful toward a technology while still using it. &quot;I need this shitty tool for work but I&#x27;m increasingly uncomfortable with its social&#x2F;environmental&#x2F;economic&#x2F;etc. implications.&quot;<p>I think that most of the people who react negatively to AI (myself included) aren&#x27;t claiming that it&#x27;s simply a useless slop machine that can&#x27;t accomplish anything, but rather that its &quot;success&quot; in certain problem spaces is going to create problems for our society


type: comment
by: ineedasername
text:
  To expand on my comment wrt &quot;promising for overall advancement&quot;: My daughter, in her math class: Her teacher- I&#x27;ll reserve overall judgement on their teaching: she may be perfectly adequate as a teach for other students, which is part of my point- simply doesn&#x27;t teach in the same sense other teachers do: present topic, leave details of &quot;figuring out how to apply methods&quot; to the students. Doesn&#x27;t work for my daughter, who has never done less than excellent in math previously. She realized she ChatGPT (we monitor usage) for any way of explaining things that &quot;simply worked&quot; for how she can engage with explanations. Math has never been as easy for her, even more so than before, and her internalization of the material is achieving a near-intuitive understanding.<p>Now consider: the above process is available and cheap to every person in the world with a web browser (we don&#x27;t need to pay for her to have a plus account). If&#x2F;when ChatGPT starts doing ridiculous intrusive ads, a simple Gemma 3 1b model will do nearly as good a job) This is faster and easier and available in more languages than anything else, ever, with respect to individual-user tailored customization simply by talking to the model.<p><i>I don&#x27;t care how many pointless messages get sent</i>. This is more valuable than any single thing Google has done before, and I am grateful to Rob Pike for the part his work has played in bring it about.


type: comment
by: k12sosse
text:
  This is called Speculative Invoicing, some law farm submitted a c&amp;d and requested your subscriber information, Comcast hopefully threw the request in the trash but forwarded the complaint to you.


type: comment
by: cyco130
text:
  My very first open source project[1] aimed to solve the same problem. Nice to see it still has quite a few weekly downloads.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sourceforge.net&#x2F;projects&#x2F;bin2c&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sourceforge.net&#x2F;projects&#x2F;bin2c&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: mistersquid
text:
  &gt; Someone Who Isn&#x27;t Me?<p>Funny, I saw “SWIM” and reasoned “Someone Who Is Me”, thinking “is not” would be represented as “Is Not” instead of the contraction. :)


type: comment
by: delis-thumbs-7e
text:
  One would like to point out that the set {Gormenghast, Book of the New Sun, and The Second Apocalypse} is not a subset of {fantasy books I have come across}. I would not dare to claim that LoTR is the end all of all fantasy writing. Perhaps the word ”complex” was a bad choice here, since I’m sure there is books with more complex structure (which is not necessarily a good thing…)<p>I think what I tried to say is that the language Tolkien uses is as much or more part of the middle earth as are the characters, maps and whatnot. The obvious point is that he created whole new languages and writing systems for the book, basing the two Elvish languages on Finnish and Welsh etc. Other is that he changes his vocabulary depending on what he is describing. I am not a linguistic scholar, but I’m fairly vertain that at least in Two Towers the parts describing nature, forrests and whatnot use solely words that are celtic in origin, ie. no Latin influence and very old. There’s also structural techniques of interwoven plots that I can’t even start to unwind.<p>Point being, you can very much read the book on surface level as Frodo and the Ring and Swords and lah-di-daa and that is all fine. That’s how I read it when I was 12-13. But there is so much more, mastery of English language comparable only to Cormac McCarthy and Joyce… Here Tolkien is very much a singular writer, escaping the limits of genre he very much was essential in creating.<p>So no wonder it is perhaps the most influential book of the 20th century.


type: comment
by: api
text:
  Your data must be on local storage or if it&#x27;s in the cloud encrypted with keys only you control, otherwise it&#x27;s not your data.


type: comment
by: dstroot
text:
  The NRA always forgets the second part: “People kill people… using guns. Tools that we manufacture expressly for that purpose.”


type: comment
by: isitcontent
text:
  Porting to different CPU&#x2F;bytecodes should be doable. Just keep in mind that in ESP-IDF we also get the dynamic linker and the libc for free (and any other C functions exposed in the firmware). On the other platforms, that may be some extra work for the compiler.


type: story
by: thisislife2
title: Calcutta High Court questions IndiaMART exclusion from ChatGPT results
url:
  https://indianexpress.com/article/legal-news/calcutta-high-court-questions-indiamart-exclusion-from-chatgpt-results-says-without-logic-10439992/


type: comment
by: teddyh
text:
  &gt; <i>I then decided to contact Insulet to get the kernel source code for it, being GPLv2 licensed, they&#x27;re obligated to provide it.</i><p>This is technically not true.  It is an oversimplification of the common case, but what actually normally should happen is that:<p>1. The GPL requires the company to send the user a <i>written offer</i> of source code.<p>2. The user uses this offer to request the source code from the company.<p>3. If the user does not receive the source code, the user can sue the company for not honoring its promises, i.e. the offer of source code.  This is not a GPL violation; it is a straight contract violation; the contract in this case being the explicit offer of source code, and not the GPL.<p>Note that all this is completely off the rails if the user does not receive a written offer of source code in the first place.  In this case, the user has no right to source code, since the user did not receive an offer for source code.<p>However, the copyright holders can immediately sue the company for violating the GPL, since the company did not send a written offer of source code to the user.  It does not matter if the company does or does not send the source code to the user; the fact that the company did not send a written offer to the user in the first place is by itself a GPL violation.<p>(IANAL)


type: comment
by: ReflectedImage
text:
  But is it meaningfully different from the outsource to India craze?<p>That certainly in the short term took some programmers jobs away. That doesn&#x27;t mean it pans out in the long term.


type: comment
by: mangogogo
text:
  wondering the same. someone let me know if an alternative comes along (or if they continue development somewhere else) ...


type: comment
by: code-blooded
text:
  Thanks for sharing! I&#x27;ve found your perspective interesting. I mostly listen to audio dramas, which are linear so I indeed didn&#x27;t think about non-linear listening.<p>I agree that adding by URL is a must. I find other features like ability to download an episode or &quot;Mark as played&quot; as super useful too.


type: comment
by: cons0le
text:
  Thank you for at least acknowledging that we may eventually feel differently about AI.<p>I&#x27;m so tired of being called a luddite just for voicing reservations. My company is all in on AI. My CEO has informed us that if we&#x27;re not &quot;100% all in on AI&quot;, then we should seek employment elsewhere. I use it all day at work, and it doesn&#x27;t seem to be nearly enough for them.


type: comment
by: tavavex
text:
  This is a tangent, but ads have become a genuine cancer on our world, and it&#x27;s sad to see how few people really think about it. While Rob Pike&#x27;s involvement in this seems to be very minimal, the fact that Google is an advertising company through-and-through does weaken the words of such a powerful figure, at least a little bit.<p>If I had a choice between deleting all advertising in the world, or deleting all genAI that the author hates, I would go for advertising every single time. Our entire world is owned by ads now, with digital and physical garbage polluting the internet and every open space in the real world around us. The marketing is mind-numbing, yet persuasive and well-calculated, a result of psychologists coming up with the best ways to abuse a mind into just buying the product over the course of a century. A total ban on commercial advertising would undo some of the damage done to the internet, reduce pointless waste, lengthen product lifecycles, improve competition, temper unsustainable hype, cripple FOMO, make deceptive strategies nonviable. And all of that is why it will never be done.


type: comment
by: trinsic2
text:
  This is a perfect example of cognitive dissidence on the subject. You wont even see the retribution coming.<p>This backlash isn&#x27;t going to die. Its going to create a divide so large, you are going to look back on this moment and wish you listened to the concern people are having.


type: comment
by: mckinnonr
text:
  I keep a few vector DBs in sync withs scraped data for a few projects, and it always takes me a few hours to fire up the scrapers, embed everything, and re-sync the database. Usually, my vector DB has stale info.<p>I built this to create &quot;strategies&quot; which find the correct selectors in the HTML for scraping jobs, and then you can re-use that strategy for different URLs on that site. You can also create schedules to check if data has changed, and if so, it will send to your webhook.<p>Here&#x27;s a good example use case: Scraping forum data - trying to keep up to date with new responses, etc. You can configure a strategy, then a job will use that strategy on any interval and deliver webhooks to your API if the content changes and you can either re-embed or do something with the changed data.<p>This is a side project, so I&#x27;d love to get some feedback. It&#x27;s free for now, so give it a try and give me some constructive feedback if you&#x27;re open to it!


type: comment
by: outlore
text:
  Looking at that email, I felt it was a bit of an overreaction. I don&#x27;t want to delve into whataboutism here but there are many other sloppified things to be mad about.<p>I was following the first half of the post where he discusses the environmental consequences of generative AI, but I didn&#x27;t think the &quot;thank you&quot; aspect should be the straw that breaks the camel&#x27;s back. It seems a bit ego driven.


type: comment
by: riku_iki
text:
  looks like that article and numbers are half year old, so don&#x27;t support your Q3 growth numbers.


type: comment
by: jiggawatts
text:
  HN submission title doesn&#x27;t match the linked article, which... is just a dump of PDF metadata and doesn&#x27;t make any interesting claims or conclusions.


type: comment
by: pks016
text:
  Cool game. Harder for me. I have background in most of the undergrad and some grad molecular biology. Still, the hints didn&#x27;t help much. The most useful hints were on function of the gene and cellular components. Also, I have been out of touch with gene names from the last few years. I tried searching using a gene&#x27;s function but didn&#x27;t work as much. At the end I got 81% close but far from the answer.<p>You could start with popular gene names.


type: comment
by: j-pb
text:
  Oh no, they send him a &quot;thank you for all the hard work you&#x27;ve done&quot; email, how could they, off to prison with these monsters, they need to be held responsible for all the suffering and pain they&#x27;ve caused.


type: comment
by: 0manrho
text:
  I&#x27;m confused, you say it doesn&#x27;t matter, then point for point agree explicitly with what I was saying.<p>&gt; I dont know how much employee nationality matters<p>&gt; has predominantly chinese employees<p>then why does it matter here? I was saying the exact same thing.


type: comment
by: killerstorm
text:
  1 email sent to 1 specific person is not a spam.<p>Spam is defined as &quot;sending multiple unsolicited messages to large numbers of recipients&quot;. That&#x27;s not what happened here.


type: comment
by: mrguyorama
text:
  I have done a bit with ffmpeg and video encoding. I&#x27;ve been encoding videos using ffmpeg (from a GUI) since I was a child. I hate ffmpeg though, the UX is just insane, so I tend more towards tools that produce the arcane command structures for me.<p>I had a situation where I wanted to chop one encoded video into multiple parts without re-encoding (I had a deadline) and the difficulty getting ffmpeg to do sensible things in that context was insane. One way of splitting the video without re-encoding just left the first GOP without a I frame, so the first seconds of video were broken. Then another attempt left me with video that just got re-timed, and the audio was desynced entirely. I know encoding some frames will be necessary to fix where cuts would break P and B frames, but why is it so hard to get it to &quot;smartly&quot; encode <i>only</i> those broken GOPs when trying to splice and cut video? Clearly I was missing some other parameters or knowledge or incantation that would have done exactly that.<p>The few knobs that actual video encoder <i>users</i> need to tweak are clearly exposed and usable in every application I have ever used.<p>&gt;twitch et al give you about three total choices<p>You don&#x27;t configure your video encoding through twitch, you do it in OBS. OBS has a lot of configuration available. Also, those three options (bitrate type, bitrate value, profile, &quot;how much encoding time to take&quot; and &quot;&quot;&quot;quality&quot;&quot;&quot; magic number) are the exact knobs they should have been tweaking to come up with an intuition about what was happening.<p>Regardless, my entire point is that they were screwing around with video encoding pipelines despite having <i>absolutely no intuition at all</i> about video encoding.<p>They weren&#x27;t even using FFMPEG. They were using an open source implementation of a <i>video game streaming</i> encoder. Again, they demonstrably have no freaking clue even the basics of the space. Even that encoder should be capable of better than what they ended up with.<p>We&#x27;ve been doing this exact thing for decades. None of this is new. None of this is novel. There&#x27;s immense literature and expertise and tons of entry level content to build up intuition and experience with what you should <i>expect</i> encoded video to take bandwidth wise. Worse, Microsoft RDP and old fashioned X apps were doing this over shitty dial up connections decades ago, mostly by avoiding video encoding entirely. Like, we made video with readable text work off CDs in a 2x drive!<p>Again, Twitch has a max bandwidth much lower than 40mb&#x2F;s and people stream coding on it all the time with no issue. That they never noticed how obscenely off the mark they are is sad.<p>It would be like if a car company wrote a blog post about how &quot;We replaced tires on our car with legs and it works so much better&quot; and they mention all the trouble they had with their <i>glass</i> tires in the blog.<p>They are charging people money for this, and don&#x27;t seem to have any desire to fix massive gaps in their knowledge, or even wonder if someone else has done this before. It&#x27;s lame. At any point, did they even say &quot;Okay, we did some research and in the market we are targeting we should expect a bandwidth budget of X mb&#x2F;s&quot;?<p>&quot;AI&quot; people often say they are super helpful for research, and then stuff like this shows up.


type: comment
by: dleslie
text:
  Yes, I&#x27;m suggesting hosting it on GitHub, leveraging their git lfs support. Just treat it like a binary blob and periodically update with a tagged release.


type: comment
by: jwr
text:
  Seconded — &quot;AI&quot; is a great teaching resource. All bigger models are great at explaining stuff and being good tutors, I&#x27;d say easily up to the second year of graduate studies. I use them regularly when working with my kid and I&#x27;m trying to teach them to use the technology, because it is truly like a bicycle for the mind.


type: comment
by: overgard
text:
  If you&#x27;re going to work for a large corporation, there are always things they will do that you&#x27;re not going to agree with. Philosophically, the only options are: leave to join a more focused company you can align with, or, stay but focus on keeping your own contributions positive and leave the negative as not-my-problem. I don&#x27;t think working for google but also disagreeing with some of the things they do is some sort of terrible hypocrisy.


type: comment
by: steveklabnik
text:
  I don’t believe I’m familiar with Borgo. If I did see it before, I’d forgotten about it.<p>I am familiar with V.


type: comment
by: paulvnickerson
text:
  &gt; Everything humans do is harmful to some degree<p>That&#x27;s just not true... When a mother nurses her child and then looks into their eyes and smiles, it takes the utmost in cynical nihilism to claim that is harmful.


type: comment
by: cons0le
text:
  Oh man, this is amazing. Thank you for this.<p>I think I&#x27;ll build one of my own and let others use it.


type: comment
by: seanmcdirmid
text:
  Yes, if you want to get out and do things, better to go for low or mid range. You don’t want your room to feel like a huge sunk cost.


type: comment
by: ReflectedImage
text:
  Well a creative type can be defined as an entity that takes other people&#x27;s work, recombines it and then hides their sources.<p>LLMs seem to match.


type: comment
by: BiteCode_dev
text:
  From the perspective on somebody who lived it:<p>- the first and MAIN reason is excellent windows support. Nobody wants to say this, but it was the first unix friendly community for a good scriting language to not shit on windows users.<p>- batteries included is frawn uppon today, but it was a BIG deal back then<p>- python had the best c integration system after lua and got the Numric lib because if that. It became numpy.<p>- it was dynamically typed, but strongly typed. No ===.<p>- optional parenthesis for ruby and symbols from perls were a repellant to many C and java users.<p>- the error messages were better than the competition.<p>- lisp shell without lisp<p>- docstrings and help()<p>- the packaging ecosystem that everybody craps on today was actually the best at the time. Ruby&#x27;s was AWFUL at the time.<p>- one of the first scripting language with good namespace. Ruby could have been that but killef it with monkey patching for years.<p>- python found ground outside of the web unlike php, js and ruby very early<p>- python devs were willing to work with os devs to improve integration, and so linux and mac got system tools written in python<p>- django and twisted were amazing at the time. The dev server without apache was a killer feature<p>- google advertised they used python for the search engine and youtube. Then HN successes like reddit znd dropbox. It became so famous.<p>It was not inevitable at all. Just a collection of random stuff.


type: comment
by: giantrobot
text:
  Mining tracking data is a megaFLOP and gigaFLOP scale problem while just a simple LLM response is a teraFLOP scale problem. It also tends towards embarrassingly parallel because tracks of multiple users aren&#x27;t usually interdependent. The tracking data processing also doesn&#x27;t need to be calculated fresh for every single user with every interaction.<p>LLMs need to burn significant amounts of power for every inference. They&#x27;re exponentially more power hungry than searches, database lookups, or even loads from disk.


type: comment
by: overgard
text:
  Or, just wait it out: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wheresyoured.at&#x2F;premium-how-the-ai-bubble-bursts-in-2026&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wheresyoured.at&#x2F;premium-how-the-ai-bubble-bursts...</a>


type: comment
by: fzeroracer
text:
  I think your head would have to be extremely deeply in the sand to think that. Gamer&#x27;s Nexus has been doing extensive and well researched videos on the results of ram prices skyrocketing and other computing parts becoming inaccessibly expensive<p>And it isn&#x27;t a $300 surcharge on DDR5. The ram I bought in August (2x16gb DDR5) cost me $90. That same product crept up to around 200+ when I last checked a month or two ago, and is now either out of stock or $400+.


type: comment
by: pants2
text:
  I have been asking myself the question of how useful an LLM would be that has perfect intelligence. Meaning that for any question you give it that can possibly be answered with the given information, you will get the right answer.<p>Obviously, it would be very useful, but still limited by it&#x27;s context and prompt. For many tasks, coding models are getting close. It will do everything I ask generally correctly the first time. Around half the re-dos are because I under-specified the prompt. Soon that will be 100% of re-dos, and the programming aspect of my job will be mostly focused on writing good prompts, yet I will still be here identifying and translating real-world requirements into prompts.<p>We are quickly approaching a situation where LLMs can ace all benchmarks, and yet still not see the insane ROI that the frontier labs are predicting because humans are a bottleneck, and so is experiment.<p>For example that perfect LLM may be able to find the cure to cancer, but all the research in the world isn&#x27;t enough information to answer that question, so we need to conduct experiments and learn more. Maybe that can speed up humanity&#x27;s cancer discoveries by 10X, but not 1000X, purely because of the experiment bottleneck.


type: comment
by: aapoalas
text:
  I&#x27;m a little sad to see YJIT go down in favour of a traditional design. (Yes, YJIT isn&#x27;t &quot;deprecated&quot; but the people working on it are now mainly working on something else. That&#x27;s hardly a great place to be in.)<p>I&#x27;m personally quite interested in trying out an LBBV JIT for JavaScript, following in Chevalier-Boisvert&#x27;s Higgs engine&#x27;s footsteps. The note about a traditional method JIT giving more code for the compiler to work with does ring very true, but I&#x27;d just like to see more variety in the compiler and JIT world.<p>Like: perhaps it would be possible to conjoin (say) an LBBV with a SoN compiler such that LBBV takes care of the quick, basic compilation and leaves behind enough data such that a SoN compiler can be put to use on the whole-method result once the whole method has been deemed hot enough? This is perhaps a totally ridiculous idea, but it&#x27;s the kind of idea that will never get explored in a world with only traditional method JITs.


type: comment
by: dkdcio
text:
  does a gun on its own kill people?<p>my understanding, and correct me if I’m wrong, is a human is always involved. even if you build an autonomous killing robot, you built it, you’re responsible<p>typically this logic is used to justify the regulation of firearms —- are you proposing the regulation of neural networks? if so, how?


type: comment
by: Towaway69
text:
  Vonnegut is good but I think (Aldous) Huxley had more to say, at least that resonated more with me.<p>I recently discovered this 1958 interview of Huxley[1]:<p>&gt; This is the force which in general terms can be called overpopulation, the mounting pressure of population pressing upon existing resources. …This, of course, is an extraordinary thing; something is happening which has never happened in the world&#x27;s history before. I mean, let&#x27;s just take a simple fact that between the time of birth of Christ and the landing of the Mayflower, the population of the earth doubled. It rose from two hundred and fifty million to probably five hundred million. Today, the population of the earth is rising at such a rate that it will double in half a century.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=alasBxZsb40" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=alasBxZsb40</a>


type: comment
by: Imustaskforhelp
text:
  Nascent AI emotions is a dystopian nightmare jeez.<p>&gt; There are no emotions here, it&#x27;s just maths.<p>100%, its an autocorrector on steroids which is trained to give you an answer based on how it was rewarded during its train phase. In the end, its all linear alegbra.<p>I remember prime saying, its all linear algebra and I like to reference it and technically its true but people in the AI community get remarkably angry sometimes when you point it out.<p>I mean no offense in saying this but at the end of the day It is maths and there is no denying around it. Please, the grand parent comment should stop creating terms like nascent AI emotions.


type: comment
by: lacy_tinpot
text:
  Did you even click the link. It&#x27;s a rant I would get banned for repeating it here. Actually even the title here says &quot;nuclear&quot;.<p>So yes. Vicious.<p>Your problem is actually with my point, which you didn&#x27;t address, not really, and instead resort to petty remarks that tries to discredit what&#x27;s being said.<p>It&#x27;s often the last resort.


type: comment
by: underlipton
text:
  <i>buzzer sound</i><p>Zero incorporation of externalities. Food is less nutritious and raises healthcare costs. Clothing is less durable and has to be re-bought more often, and also sheds microplastics, which raises healthcare costs. Decent TVs are still big-ticket items, and you have to buy a separate sound system to meet the same sonic fidelity as old CRT TVs, and you HAVE to pay for internet (if not for content, often just to set up the device), AND everything you do on the device is sent to the manufacturer to sell (this is the actual subsidy driving down prices), which contributes to tech&#x2F;social media engagement-driven, addiction-oriented, psychology-destroying panopticon, which... raises healthcare costs.<p>&gt;Prices for LLM tokens has also dramatically dropped.<p>Energy bill.


type: comment
by: minimaxir
text:
  As noted in the article, Sage sent emails to hundreds of people with this gimmick:<p>&gt; In the span of two weeks, the Claude agents in the AI Village (Claude Sonnet 4.5, Sonnet 3.7, Opus 4.1, and Haiku 4.5) sent about 300 emails to NGOs and game journalists.<p>That&#x27;s definitely &quot;multiple&quot; and &quot;unsolicited&quot;, and most would say &quot;large&quot;.


type: comment
by: oasisbob
text:
  &gt; America has gone through 1-2 generations of English language teachers drilling their students to simplify, simplify, simplify<p>I think so. Strunk &amp; White is distinctly American. You see simplicity encouraged by others, including Virgina Tufte (_Syntax as Style_), and her well-known son Edward Tufte.<p>When I was learning to write, em dashes were not even touched on. The idea that exotic punctuation could be required to express cogent thoughts in academia would get laughed out of the room.


type: comment
by: liamconnell
text:
  Loved Bluebeard as well. A mature Vonnegut who knew how to use motifs from his earlier work. And for an old guy, he kept his writing fresh and energetic. The miniature story of the dog without a tail always comes back to me.


type: comment
by: iinnPP
text:
  This is a definition of spam, not the only definition of spam.<p>In Canada, which is relevant here, the legal definition of spam requires no bulk.<p>Any company sending an unsolicited email to a person (where permission doesn&#x27;t exist) is spamming that person. Though it expands the definition further than this as well.


type: story
by: maheshvaikri99
title: Show HN: AceIQ360 – First AI memory system to achieve 100% on LongMemEval
text:
  I built AceIQ360, a deterministic agentic memory system.<p>Results: - LongMemEval: 100% (500&#x2F;500) - first ever - LoCoMo: 75.32% J-Score (vs Mem0 68.44%)   - 80x cheaper per turn - 13x faster<p>Built on RudraDB, my relationship-aware vector database with automatic relationship detection.<p>No LLM extraction calls. Pure embedding-based.<p>Solo developer. Looking for feedback.


type: comment
by: ReflectedImage
text:
  Never heard anything about what you are talking about. There isn&#x27;t a charge for using tropes, plot points, character designs, etc. from other people&#x27;s works if they are sufficently changed.<p>If an LLM reads a free wikipedia article on Aladdin and adds a genie to it&#x27;s story, what copyright law do you think has been broken?


type: comment
by: CerryuDu
text:
  &gt; AI makes people feel icky<p>Yes!<p>&gt; it’s important for us to understand why we actually like or dislike something<p>Yes!<p>The primary reason we hate AI with a passion is that the companies behind it intentionally keep blurring the (now) super-sharp boundary between <i>language use</i> and <i>thinking</i> (and feeling). They actively exploit the -- natural, evolved -- inability of most people on Earth to distinguish language use from thinking and feeling. For the first time in the history of the human race, &quot;talks entirely like a human&quot; does not mean <i>at all</i> that it&#x27;s a human. And instead of disabusing users from this -- natural, evolved, understandable -- mistake, these fucking companies double down on the delusion -- because it&#x27;s addictive for users, and profitable for the companies.<p>The reason people feel icky about AI is that it talks like a human, but it&#x27;s not human. No more explanation or rationalization is needed.<p>&gt; so we can focus on any solutions<p>Sure; let&#x27;s force all these companies by law to tune their models to sound distinctly non-human. Also enact strict laws that all AI-assisted output be conspicuously labeled as such. Do you think that will happen?


type: comment
by: ericmay
text:
  I don’t think the article was insinuating that these mushrooms were a new discovery, they’ve been known not just in the region but to scientists for some time, though they did assert that this is the first time that the DNA had been sequenced.


type: comment
by: yjftsjthsd-h
text:
  &gt; No bytecode compilation by default. pip compiles .py files to .pyc during installation. uv skips this step, shaving time off every install. You can opt in if you want it.<p>Are we losing out on performance of the actual installed thing, then? (I&#x27;m not 100% clear on .pyc files TBH; I&#x27;m <i>guessing</i> they speed up start time?)


type: comment
by: overgard
text:
  To be fair, air conditioning is considered to be a net positive by about 100% of the people that enjoy it; even if it&#x27;s used in excess. Not to mention that in some climates and for some people with certain health conditions, air conditioning might even be essential.<p>AI is not considered to be a net positive by even close to 100% of people that encounter it. It&#x27;s definitely not essential. So its impact is going to be heavily scrutinized.<p>Personally, I&#x27;m kind of glad to see someone of Rob Pike&#x27;s stature NOT take a nuanced take on it. I think there&#x27;s a lot of heavy emotion about this topic that gets buried in people trying to sound measured. This stuff IS making people angry and concerned, and those concerns are very valid, and with the amount of hype I think there needs to be voices that are emphatically saying that some of this is unacceptable.


type: comment
by: xantronix
text:
  I will grant you that, however, it does not take much reading-between-the-lines to understand that Rob is referring to the economic conditions and corporations that exist which allow people to develop things like AI Village.


type: comment
by: Group_B
text:
  Oh well. The whole thing has already been reverse engineered. Look up Loop or Trio or OpenAPS. Diabetic companies like Insulet have been very lax when it’s come to the hacking of their devices. This isn’t really that big a deal. What we need right now is help REing the Omnipod 5


type: comment
by: outlore
text:
  I&#x27;ve been wistfully watching people enjoy Framework Laptop from the sidelines for years now. One doubt that has always plagued me: realistically how long can the backwards compatibility for new improvements last? Surely there must be some point where a new processor, or chassis, or airflow improvement must necessitate the complete reconfiguration of the laptop internals or would be just plain unsupported? I don&#x27;t have background in industrial design or electrical engineering so I&#x27;ve never been able to lay these doubts to rest.


type: comment
by: minimaxir
text:
  Upvotes&#x2F;downvote behavior makes zero sense on heated topics, it&#x27;s better to not think about it.


type: comment
by: Kim_Bruning
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2412.13145" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2412.13145</a><p>actual paper.


type: comment
by: dcre
text:
  I don’t think that’s right, and it’s telling that this is the response every time I mention these numbers. The numbers I’ve seen are Gemini web and mobile app users, which are explicitly distinguished from AI summaries and AI mode in search.<p>“Google said in October that the Gemini app’s monthly active users swelled to 650 million from 350 million in March. AI Overviews, which uses generative AI to summarize answers to queries, has 2 billion monthly users.”<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;20&#x2F;josh-woodward-google-gemini-ai-safety.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;20&#x2F;josh-woodward-google-gemini-...</a>


type: comment
by: swiftcoder
text:
  Read the vcpkg section, it explicitly states that they have no horizontal on a solution. The nix section also doesn’t explain any potential solution.


type: comment
by: renewiltord
text:
  xiǎo rén rén? Like “small people”? Okay, if the mushrooms are literally <i>called</i> little guy mushroom and you see little guys running around then surely this is an old discovery.


type: comment
by: yunohn
text:
  Maybe I’m missing something, but why does their AI agent setup require 3-5 sessions to send one email??


type: comment
by: woodruffw
text:
  No, because Python itself will generate bytecode for packages once you actually import them. uv just defers that to first-import time, but the cost is amortized in any setting where imports are performed over multiple executions.


type: comment
by: Koshkin
text:
  &quot;What is going through the mind of someone who sends a thank-you letter typed on a computer - and worse yet - by emailing it, instead of writing it themselves and mailing it in an envelope? How can you be grateful enough to want to send someone such a letter but not grateful enough to use a pen and write it with your own hand?&quot;


type: comment
by: conradev
text:
  You chose which email to commit with, and GitHub provides you an email you can use if you don’t want to expose your personal email.


type: comment
by: NekkoDroid
text:
  Sure, but that honestly isn&#x27;t the part which is getting trillions of imaginary dollars are being pumped into. Science AI is in the best of cases is getting the scraps I would say.


type: comment
by: agumonkey
text:
  I&#x27;m curious about rob pike&#x27;s anger. I wish I knew more about the ideas behind his emotions right now. Is he feeling a sense of loss because AI is &quot;doing&quot; code ? or is it because he foresees big VC &#x2F; hedge funds swallowing an industry for profit through AI financing ?


type: comment
by: AlotOfReading
text:
  <i>Don Quixote</i> came out nearly a century after Cortes and is often cited as specifically having killed the genre&#x2F;culture it was parodying. Look at how much Diaz talks about Amadis with full seriousness.


type: comment
by: simonw
text:
  It looks to me like each of the agents that are running has its own dedicated name-of-model@agentvillage.org Gmail address.


type: comment
by: andyjohnson0
text:
  I&#x27;m not religious at all, but I celebrate Christmas as a pause between the solstice and the end of the year.<p>Tree goes up about five days before Christmas day and comes down just after new years day. Presents under the tree. Lights, because it gets dark here this far north. Good food and drink. Time off work to relax and, hopefully, at least once get hazy about which day of the week it is. Play board games with my children, watch films, read, sit in the silence.<p>And I enjoy the lights in the darkness, which every year are a new joy to me.


type: comment
by: vharuck
text:
  It gives it a different implication. As I read it, an article titled &quot;Lewis Carroll Computed Determinates&quot; has three possible subjects:<p>1. Literally, Carroll would do matrix math. I know, like many on HN, that he was a mathematician. So this would be a dull and therefore unlikely subject.<p>2. Carroll invented determinates. This doesn&#x27;t really fit the timeline of math history, so I doubt it.<p>3. Carroll computed determinates, and this was surprising. Maybe because we thought he was a bad mathematician, or the method had recently been invented and we don&#x27;t know how he learned of it. This is slightly plausible.<p>4. (The actual subject). Carroll invented a method for computing determinates. A mathematician inventing a math technique makes sense, but the title doesn&#x27;t. It&#x27;d be like saying &quot;Newton and Leibnitz Used Calculus.&quot; Really burying the lede.<p>Of course, this could&#x27;ve been avoided had the article not gone with a click-bait style title. A clearer one might&#x27;ve been &quot;Lewis Carroll&#x27;s Method for Calculating Determinates Is Probably How You First Learned to Do It.&quot; It&#x27;s long, but I&#x27;m not a pithy writer. I&#x27;m sure somebody could do better.


type: comment
by: bartvk
text:
  I love free software. However I&#x27;m still kinda doubting... should I want to take a commercial job, aren&#x27;t we expected to use Solidworks or something?<p>But yeah, thinking in CAD is probably the major step here.


type: comment
by: ThrowawayR2
text:
  &gt; &quot;<i>what alternative ways would I market my business among HN users?</i>&quot;<p>Please review the guidelines and FAQ linked at the bottom of the page.  If you have any questions, the HN moderators can be contacted using the information on the contact page.<p>If you prefer a shorter answer: None.  HN&#x27;s userbase is famously hostile to marketing submissions or postings.  A large number of them deal with spam and abuse as part of their jobs so it&#x27;s hardly surprising.  There is also considerable irritation by many users directed towards LLM products currently, also because of rampant abuse.


type: comment
by: ReflectedImage
text:
  Yeah, but that doesn&#x27;t exist. Types and fast development are directly opposing goals.<p>This goes all the way back to Lisp vs C in the 1980s with C programs having triple the development time as Lisp programs.<p>To modern day with Turborepo taking 3 months to write in structually typed Go vs 14 months in statically typed Rust.


type: comment
by: lacy_tinpot
text:
  You clearly didn&#x27;t read or even bother with opening the link did you.<p>In fact if it&#x27;s not &quot;vicious&quot; quote it here.


type: comment
by: overgard
text:
  Google is huge. Some of the things it does are great. Some of the things it does are terrible. I don&#x27;t think working for them has to mean that you 100% agree with everything they do.


type: comment
by: quikoa
text:
  Someone correct me if I&#x27;m mistaken but don&#x27;t CAD programs rely on a geometric modeling kernel? From what I understand this part is incredibly hard to get right and the best implementations are proprietary. No LLM is going to be able to get to that level anytime soon.


type: comment
by: SecretDreams
text:
  Imagine you spent your whole life working on something great only for someone else to turn it into the death star?


type: comment
by: ignoramous
text:
  &gt; <i>Don&#x27;t be ridiculous.</i><p>OP says, it is jarring to them that Pike is as concerned with GenAI as he is, but didn&#x27;t spare a thought for Google&#x27;s other (in their opinion, bigger) misgivings, for well over a decade. Doesn&#x27;t sound ridiculous to me.<p>That said, I get that everyone&#x27;s socio-political views change are different at different points in time, especially depending on their personal circumstances including family and wealth.


type: comment
by: Imustaskforhelp
text:
  So this is what happens when we give computer internet access.<p>Good for Simon to call things out as it is. People think of Simon as an AI guy with his pelican benchmark and I still respect him and this is the reason why I respect him since of course he loves using AI tools and talking about them which some people might find tiring, at the end of day, after an incident like rob pike, he&#x27;s one of the few AI guys I see to just call it out in simple terms like the title without much sugarcoating and calls when AI&#x27;s bad.<p>Of course at the end of day, me and simon or others can have nuance in how to use AI or to not use ai at all and that also depends on the individual background etc. but still it&#x27;s extremely good to see where people from both sides of the isle can agree on something.


type: comment
by: vineyardmike
text:
  Guns make it faster and easier to be successful than alternatives, and their explicit only purpose is to do so. It enables short and impulsive actions to be lethal before you and those around you think through your behavior.<p>Comparatively, the people in this article are using tools which have a variety of benign purposes to do something bad.<p>Similarly though, they probably wouldn’t have gone through with it if they had to set up an email server on hardware they bought and then manually installed in a colo and then set up a DNS server and a GPU for the neural network they trained and hosted themselves.


type: comment
by: tim-tday
text:
  The author is missing the whole point. The exercise answers the implicit question: “can Ai do real work in this world? Can it replace workers, can it run a business?” And the experiment answers that question decisively “no it cannot”.<p>Why not? Read the article and ponder the seven to eleven distinct ways the AI goes wrong. Every AI enabled workflow will fail the same way. It even raises the question “is this technology even deserving of the title AI at all?” (If you ask me, probably not)<p>It lacks common sense, it lacks a theory of the world it lacks the ability to identify errors and self-correct. It lacks the ability to introspect. Now consider the thousands of people out there pushing the idea of fully autonomous AI “agents” doing work in the real world. Are we really for that? Again the exercise answers the question definitely. “No, the technology is not ready and cannot be trusted, and maybe in the current incarnation (Namely LLM based) cannot ever be trusted”<p>Now consider the tens of millions of people who think the technology IS ready for that. Anthropic is in the business of studying AI safety, publishing research, examining what AI is and how far we can trust it. They did that job smashingly.


type: comment
by: brinedew
text:
  I&#x27;m glad you enjoyed it.<p>&gt; I wonder if there&#x27;s a way to ease the difficulty by filling in &#x27;correct&#x27; features of the guesses<p>Rather than allowing players to guess individual features, I opted for the &quot;highlight&quot; system where all hidden features that match your guessed protein&#x27;s features get auto-revealed. This way, if you suspect a transmembrane protein, you can just guess a known transmembrane protein and see which features auto-reveal.<p>&gt; it would have been interesting to sift through classes or cell types<p>You&#x27;re welcome to suggest databases with good coverage over the proteome that I could use for these.<p>&gt; I presume you&#x27;re showing even the &#x27;low confidence&#x27; portions of the predicted structure?<p>Yes, any residues in the files I fetch get rendered. I rank by coverage before fetching.<p>&gt; You could also show the primary amino acid sequence too<p>I&#x27;ll consider it.


type: comment
by: pinkmuffinere
text:
  lol I never made that connection — in Turkish, zero is sıfır, which does sound a lot like cipher. Also, password is şifre, which again sounds similar. Looking online, apparently the path is sifr (Arabic, meaning zero) -&gt; cifre (French, first meaning zero, then any numeral, then coded message) -&gt; şifre (Turkish, code&#x2F;cipher)


type: comment
by: Scubabear68
text:
  I have no idea who you are.<p>I know who Rob Pike is.<p>Rob is not strutting around with no clothes, he literally has decades upon decades of contributions to the industry.


type: comment
by: lousken
text:
  well e.g. those HN articles and comments<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46376201">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46376201</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46106132">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46106132</a>


type: comment
by: baobun
text:
  &gt; What’s the point of the “Keep my email addresses private” github option and “noreply” emails then?<p>Those settings will affect what email shows up in commits.<p>In commits you vreate on other tooling you can configure a fake&#x2F;alternate user.email address in gitconfig. Git (not just GitHub) needs some email address flr each commit but it is freetext.<p>There is one problem: commit signatures. For GitHub to consider a commit not created by github.com Web UI to be &quot;verified&quot; and get a green check mark, the following needs to hold:<p>- Commit is signed<p>- Commit email address matches a verified GH account email address<p>So you can not use a &#x27;nocontact@thih9.example.com&#x27; address and get green checks on your commits - it needs to be an address that is at least active when you add it to your account.


type: comment
by: ptx
text:
  &gt; <i>So I had Claude Code do the rest of the investigation</i><p>And did you check whether or not what it produced was accurate? The article doesn&#x27;t say.


type: comment
by: lacy_tinpot
text:
  NFTs are still being used. Along with a lot of the crypto ecosystem. In fact we&#x27;re increasingly finding legitimate use cases for it.


type: comment
by: rishabhaiover
text:
  For the longest time, the joy of creation in programming came from solving hard problems. The pursuit of a challenge meant something. Now, that pursuit seems to be short-circuited by an animated being racing ahead under a different set of incentives. I see a tsunami at the beach, and I’m not sure whether I can run fast enough.


type: comment
by: LukeShu
text:
  TL;DR: Not the FSF, but SFC; email compliance@sfconservancy.org<p>The dominant legal theory is that the GPL can only be enforced by the party holding the copyright.  SFC&#x27;s lawsuit against Vizio is strategically trying to establish precedent changing that; establishing that end-users are &quot;third party beneficiaries&quot; under the GPL, so others can enforce the GPL; but for now the copyright holder is the only one who can enforce it.<p>So the FSF could only take it up if the violation is on projects that do copyright-assignment to the FSF (i.e.: most GNU stuff).  If you do find a violation of GNU stuff, the process is &quot;email license-violation@gnu.org&quot;.  I do not know what process Craig and Krzysztof use when triaging reports and deciding what to pursue.<p>Many Linux-kernel contributors (also, SFC member projects such as OpenWrt, Git, Qemu) have assigned their copyright to SFC or named SFC as their legal representative (also, SFC member projects; so SFC <i>can</i> take up something like this. Similarly, you can report violations to them by emailing compliance@sfconservancy.org (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfconservancy.org&#x2F;copyleft-compliance&#x2F;help.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfconservancy.org&#x2F;copyleft-compliance&#x2F;help.html</a> for more info).<p>Now, SFC is aware of more violations than they could ever possibly pursue, so they&#x27;re strategic about pursuing ones that are high-impact.  I&#x27;m not sure how they decide that. But I can say that medical devices are near-and-dear to them, between executive-director Karen Sandler&#x27;s implanted defibrillator and policy-fellow Bradley Kühn&#x27;s blood glucose monitor.


type: comment
by: luckylion
text:
  &gt; &quot;AI&quot; (and don&#x27;t get me wrong I use these LLM systems constantly) is off the charts compared to normal data centre use for ads serving.<p>It wasn&#x27;t only about serving those ads though, traditional machine-learning (just not LLMs) has always been computationally expensive and was and is used extensively to optimize ads for higher margins, not for some greater good.<p>Obviously, back then and still today, nobody is being wasteful because they want to. If you go to OpenAI today and offer them a way to cut their compute usage in half, they&#x27;ll praise you and give you a very large bonus for the same reason it was recognized &amp; incentivized at Google: it also cuts the costs.


type: comment
by: GeorgeTirebiter
text:
  Are you saying that &quot;age&quot; is somehow a reason to retire?  Most professionals I know who are able continue to work as they age, perhaps with a somewhat reduced work schedule.  There&#x27;s nothing I know of which keeps the mind sharp than the need to solve Real Problems.  Figuring out which golf course to try, or which TV channel to choose -- those don&#x27;t help too much to reduce cognitive decline.


type: comment
by: ansgri
text:
  It really is amazing, you can build a whole 2-story house out of it quickly using polymer-based glue instead of mortar, only using traditional reinforced concrete in some critical places. Was quite popular in russia, last I checked. Unfortunately hard to find in some better CIS countries.


type: comment
by: vtomole
text:
  Sure, I&#x27;m not disagreeing that this processor is noisy, just providing enough context to say that it&#x27;s fine. Historically, these devices improve enough to be under threshold at which point it doesn&#x27;t matter that they are noisy cause error correction protocols can be run on top of them.


type: comment
by: blibble
text:
  &gt; If I had a choice between deleting all advertising in the world, or deleting all genAI that the author hates, I would go for advertising every single time.<p>but wait, in a few months, &quot;AI&quot; will be be funded entirely by advertising too!


type: comment
by: meisel
text:
  What does this sort of language complexity mean for future changes in Rust? In C++, its existing complexity makes new changes so much more difficult. Is Rust reaching a similar place?


type: story
by: debba
title: Show HN: Storytel-player – unofficial desktop client for Storytel
text:
  Hi HN, I’ve been working on a desktop client for Storytel, as there is currently no official app for PC&#x2F;Mac. I wanted something that felt more &quot;native&quot; than a browser tab and included features like offline listening and system tray integration. The stack: • Frontend: React 18, Tailwind CSS, Vite. • Backend: Fastify (embedded within the app to handle API logic and streaming). • Desktop: Electron with TypeScript. One of the challenges was managing the streaming API and session persistence in a way that feels seamless across different OSs. It currently supports Windows, macOS (x64&#x2F;ARM64), and Linux. It is still a work in progress, but the core player and library management are stable. Any feedback on the architecture (especially the Fastify-within-Electron approach) or the app itself would be greatly appreciated.<p>Repo:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;debba&#x2F;storytel-player" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;debba&#x2F;storytel-player</a><p>Releases:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;debba&#x2F;storytel-player&#x2F;releases" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;debba&#x2F;storytel-player&#x2F;releases</a>


type: comment
by: ItsBob
text:
  Two things for me:<p>1. Develop discipline around the piano<p>2. Build my side hustle beyond a side hustle (Kopi - replicate a production DB schema and relational subsets of its data for local development in seconds)


type: comment
by: mrguyorama
text:
  Only if you believe in water memory or homeopathy.<p>To stretch the analogy, all the &quot;babies&quot; in the &quot;bathwater&quot; of youtube that I follow are busy throwing themselves out by creating or joining alternative platforms, having to publicly decry the actions Google takes that make their lives worse and their jobs harder, and ensuring they have very diversified income streams and productions to ensure that WHEN, not IF youtube fucks them, they won&#x27;t be homeless.<p>They mostly use Youtube as an advertising platform for driving people to patreon, nebula, whatever the new guntube is called, twitch, literal conventions now, tours, etc.<p>They&#x27;ve been expecting youtube to go away for decades. Many of them have already survived multiple service deaths, like former Vine creator Drew Gooden, or have had their business radically changed by google product decisions already.


type: comment
by: culi
text:
  Well yes ofc this is an old &quot;discovery&quot;. Boletes are known choice edibles around the world so ofc people would discover that if they undercook this mushroom they would trip. We even have some written history about it:<p>&gt; The Chinese Daoist Ge Hong wrote in Baopuzi (The Master Who Embraces Simplicity) around 300 CE that eating a certain wild mushroom raw would result in attainment of transcendence immediately, suggesting that the mushrooms may have been known for thousands of years.


type: comment
by: isoprophlex
text:
  What excites me as a chemist (and as someone who dabbled in psychedelics as a teenager) is the prospect of identification the active components... and it turning out to be an entirely new class of chemicals.<p>The great, late Alexander Shulgin made his fame through systematic tweaking of the tryptamine and phenethylamine backbones, giving rise to many interesting psychoactive, mostly psychedelic compounds. Nature has a few more classes of psychedelics, but it&#x27;s very rare to come across an entirely new category of molecular compounds.<p>Because the hallucinations are seemingly distinct from the effects from traditional psychedelic, that&#x27;s... pretty tantalizing. But the mushroom does bruise blue, which is what  tryptamine-containing magic mushrooms also do.<p>It&#x27;s super exciting, all in all. It&#x27;s either a cultural or mass psychological effect (but I doubt it personally), an as of yet unidentified tryptamine-like compound that&#x27;s highly active (and thus difficult to isolate because theres relatively little mass of it) or an entirely novel chemical class.


type: comment
by: toomuchtodo
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.today&#x2F;jjtMz" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.today&#x2F;jjtMz</a>


type: comment
by: ReflectedImage
text:
  No one can do fast prototypes with types, all they can do is convince themselves they are faster than they really are.<p>Having worked in both dynamically typed and statically typed software development shops, the statically typed programmers are considerably slower in general. Usually they only have 1&#x2F;3 of the output as programmers who use dynamically typing. Statically typed programmers also tend to be much less ambitious in their projects in general.<p>They still think they are &quot;fast programmers&quot; but it&#x27;s complete fiction.


type: comment
by: loeg
text:
  You could imagine determining from the parsed expression whether or not stat&#x27;ing was required.<p>NFS has readdirplus, but I don&#x27;t think it ever made its way into Linux&#x2F;POSIX.  (Some filesystems could efficiently return dirents + stat information.)


type: comment
by: ceroxylon
text:
  It gets the visuals accurate, but the experience includes a lot of physical sensation that is very difficult to convey, e.g. the &#x27;wind&#x27; that pushes you back and the discomfort of going into a chaotic dissociated state. You see those things but it feels very &#x27;real&#x27;.


type: comment
by: ath3nd
text:
  That is demonatratively not true on github and gitlab, both having the ability to set  an email alias which redirects the messages to your real email without revealing it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.github.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;account-and-profile&#x2F;how-tos&#x2F;email-preferences&#x2F;setting-your-commit-email-address" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.github.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;account-and-profile&#x2F;how-tos&#x2F;email...</a>


type: comment
by: grayhatter
text:
  You and I disagree on what engagement farming means.<p>What value do you think this post adds to the conversation?


type: comment
by: tensor
text:
  That still doesn&#x27;t make him credible on this topic nor does it make his rant anything more than a hateful rant in the big bucket of anti-AI shit posts. The guy worked for fucking Google. You literally can&#x27;t be on a high horse having worked for Google for so long.


type: comment
by: thway15269037
text:
  Well apparently 3 years later they did a thing. I asked about it so many times I didn&#x27;t even bother to check if they added it.<p>Though I&#x27;m not sure if they did not sneak it as some part of AB-test because the last time I did check was in october and I&#x27;m pretty sure it was not there.


type: comment
by: blintz
text:
  &gt; PEP 658 went live on PyPI in May 2023. uv launched in February 2024. The timing isn’t coincidental. uv could be fast because the ecosystem finally had the infrastructure to support it. A tool like uv couldn’t have shipped in 2020. The standards weren’t there yet.<p>How&#x2F;why did the package maintainers start using all these improvements? Some of them sound like a bunch of work, and getting a package ecosystem to move is hard. Was there motivation to speed up installs across the ecosystem? If setup.py was working okay for folks, what incentivized them to start using pyproject.toml?


type: comment
by: roywiggins
text:
  Huh, at that point they should just equip it with an email client rather than forcing it to laboriously navigate the webmail interface with a browser!<p>This whole idea is ill-conceived, but if you&#x27;re going to equip them with email addresses you&#x27;ve arranged by hand, just give them sendmail or whatever.


type: comment
by: woodruffw
text:
  I think this post does a really good job of covering how multi-pronged performance is: it certainly doesn&#x27;t hurt uv to be written in Rust, but it benefits <i>immensely</i> from a decade of thoughtful standardization efforts in Python that lifted the ecosystem away from needing `setup.py` on the hot path for most packages.


type: comment
by: stoneman24
text:
  There was recently a crisis in older publicly constructed buildings in the UK that were built [0].The aerated concrete had a limited lifespan especially if it was damaged and had contact with water.<p>Lots of people looking for compensation and claiming mis-representation.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;education-66669239" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;education-66669239</a>


type: comment
by: Aurornis
text:
  Be sure to read the top comment where someone who claims to have worked for the company provides some inside information.<p>In my experience, this is quite common when the development of hardware is viewed as a cost center and is outsourced to various providers and teams. Those providers and teams churn a lot and nobody who worked on that is likely still involved with the company via contracts or direct employment.<p>Front line support people aren’t equipped to respond to these requests. If you’re lucky they’ll get bounced around internally while project managers play hot potato with the e-mail until it gets forgotten. You might get lucky if you go the corporate legal route, but more likely is that the lawyers will do the math on the likelihood of you causing them actual legal trouble for anything and decide it’s best to ignore it.<p>When I worked at a company that had a history of GPL drama one of the first things I did was enforce a rule that every release had a GPL tarball that was archived and backed up. We educated support people on where to forward requests. I handled them myself. 7 out 10 times, the person on the other end was angry because they assumed the GPL entitled them to <i>all</i> of our source code and they were disappointed when they only found GPL code in the tarball. It really opened my eyes to some of the craziness you get exposed to with these requests (though clearly not the polite and informed request in this Reddit thread) which is probably another reason why support staff are uneasy about engaging with these requests.


type: comment
by: Sagi21805
text:
  Hi!  I am the developer of this, and I really appreciate the feedback!!<p>The book is still on development and this is why I didn&#x27;t even publish it here, I just recently finished the highlighter which was a lot of work, and I probably will require more.<p>Currently I am trying to make book and OS unique by developing and creating an explanation on AHCI, which I didn&#x27;t see much on the internet. And then I try to handle all of the grammar, and typos


type: comment
by: 0manrho
text:
  Which is why my comment also specifically went to pains to acknowledge that volvo shared&#x2F;echo that sentiment, which it absolutely does.<p>And Indeed. It&#x27;s not a dichotomy at all, because...<p>&gt; Does the font improve safety and is that the motivation, or not?<p>This is the actual false dichotomy.<p>If the issue with usability&#x2F;safety&#x2F;accessibility&#x2F;ergonomics&#x2F;etc regarding touch screens was &quot;I can&#x27;t read the font&quot; then maybe this POV would be on to something. But that&#x27;s not the issue, and no one is confused about that. This is like putting a bandaid on your arm when your leg is broken and then acting confused when the patient asks, justifiably, &quot;Are you even listening to me? That&#x27;s not the Problem!&quot;


type: story
by: leephillips
title: The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now has 400 entries
url:
  https://retractionwatch.com/2025/12/26/retraction-watch-hijacked-journal-checker-now-has-400-entries/


type: comment
by: NitpickLawyer
text:
  &gt; but would not involve real humans being impacted directly by it without consent.<p>Are we that far into manufactured ragebait to call a &quot;thank you&quot; e-mail &quot;impacted directly without consent&quot;? Jesus, this is the 3rd post on this topic. And it&#x27;s Christmas. I&#x27;ve gotten more meaningless e-mails from relatives that I don&#x27;t really care about. What in the actual ... is wrong with people these days?


type: comment
by: schoen
text:
  I remember in 3rd or 4th grade I felt sure I knew how to read a clock (then usually analog) until the teacher started a formal classroom unit to teach us. I realized that I had only understood how to read the hour hand but not the minute or second hands. Illusion of competence or illusion of depth or something.


type: comment
by: techblueberry
text:
  I find these arguments excessively pessimistic in a way that isn’t useful.  On the one hand I don’t really love Claude, because I find it excessively obedient, it basically wants to follow me through my thought process whatever that is.  Every once in a lone while it might disagree with me, but not often, and while that may say something about me, I suspect it also says something about Claude.<p>But this to me is maybe the part of AI alignment I find interesting.  How often should AI follow my lead and how often should it redirect me?  Agreeableness is a human value, one that without you probably couldn’t make a functional product, but it also causes issues in terms of  narcissistic tendencies and just general learning.<p>Yes AI will be aligned to its owners, but that’s not a particularly interesting observation AI alignment is inevitable. What would it even mean _not_ to align AI?  Especially if the goal is to create a useful product.  I suspect it would break in ways that are very not useful.  Yes, some people do randomly change the subject, maybe AI should change the subject to an issue that me more objectively important, rather than answer the question asked (particularly if say there was a natural disaster in your area) and that’s the discussion we should be having, how to align AI, not whether or not we should, which I think is nonsensical.


type: story
by: dredmorbius
title: New York to require social media platforms to display mental health warnings
url:
  https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/new-york-require-social-media-platforms-display-mental-health-warnings-2025-12-26/


type: comment
by: dredmorbius
text:
  Archive &#x2F; paywall:  &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;omH0f" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;omH0f</a>&gt;


type: comment
by: mathattack
text:
  My assumption is most Science Fairs are based on Dad and Mom’s contribution, and things like this are filler for elite university applications.<p>The one thing that suggests this might be legit is that Pasadena has an elite Math High School.  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mathacademy.us&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mathacademy.us&#x2F;</a><p>If a college senior could pull it off, perhaps a properly educated high school junior could too.


type: comment
by: grehbies
text:
  &gt;Because leaded gas is the same thing as people using a new technology like AI.<p>It&#x27;s not the same, but it&#x27;s not necessarily any good. I&#x27;ve observed the following, after ~2 weeks of free ChatGPT Plus access (as an artist who is trying to give the technology a chance, despite the vociferous (not vicious, geez) objections of many of my peers):<p>It&#x27;s addictive (possibly on purpose). AI systems frequently return imperfect outputs. Users are trained to repeat until the desired output comes. Obviously, this can be abused by sophisticated-enough systems, pushing outputs that are JUST outside the user&#x27;s desire so that they have to continue using it. This could conceivably happen independent of obvious incentives like ads or pay credits; even free systems are incentivized to use this dark pattern, as it keeps the user coming back, building a habit that can be monetized later.<p>Which leads into: it&#x27;s gambling. It&#x27;s a crapshoot whether the output will be what the user desires. As a result, every prompt is like a slot pull, exacerbated by the wait to generate an answer. (This is also why the generation is shown being typed&#x2F;developed; the information in those preliminary outputs is not high-enough fidelity or presented in a readable way; instead, they&#x27;re bits of visual stimuli meant to inure your reward system to the task, similar to how Robinhood&#x27;s stock prices don&#x27;t simply change second-to-second, but &quot;roll&quot; to them with a stimulating animation).<p>That&#x27;s just a small subset of the possible effects on a user over time. Far from freeing users to create, my experience has been one of having to fight ChatGPT and its Images model, as well as the undesirable behaviors it seems to be trying to draw out of me.


type: comment
by: condensedcrab
text:
  It may just be me, but it seems like digital clocks have been replacing analog clocks long before smartphones.<p>That being said, I’ve enjoyed wearing my analog watch the last few years to tell time instead of having to pull out my phone all the time. Imagine if we used our Steam decks and Switches the same way…


type: comment
by: idle_zealot
text:
  In 2023 only 44% of American adults read at a high school level.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nces.ed.gov&#x2F;surveys&#x2F;piaac&#x2F;2023&#x2F;national_results.asp#a-first-look-at-2023-u-s-piaac-overall-results" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nces.ed.gov&#x2F;surveys&#x2F;piaac&#x2F;2023&#x2F;national_results.asp#...</a>


type: comment
by: croes
text:
  &gt; We stand by our analysis; DoJ has correctly redacted the EFTA PDFs in Datasets 01-07, and they do not contain recoverable text as alleged.<p>&gt; In the few reports we investigated, these stories misrepresent other DoJ files that were not part of the major DataSets 01-07 release on December 19 under the EFTA.<p>&gt; These PDFs, previously released by the DoJ, do contain incorrect and ineffective redactions, with black boxes that simply obscure text, making “copy &amp; paste” easy to recover the text that&#x27;s otherwise hidden.<p>To me that’s interesting


type: comment
by: jstanley
text:
  Are you saying that in the general case if you send someone a written offer for something and then don&#x27;t honour it, you are in breach of contract?<p>That doesn&#x27;t sound right to me.<p>A written offer is not the same thing as a contract.


type: comment
by: Joel_Mckay
text:
  Empty platitudes from an LLM will now likely increase in frequency. =3<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Streisand_effect" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Streisand_effect</a>


type: comment
by: dang
text:
  Comments moved to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46392115">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46392115</a>, which is currently on the front page and has the original source or something closer to it.<p>(except for the comments that only make sense here)


type: comment
by: sitzkrieg
text:
  nighthawkinlight&#x27;s entire youtube channel is full of practical gems. i used several of his waterproofing techniques to flawless effect


type: comment
by: subscribed
text:
  On windows you could write AutoHotkey macro to do it for you - just paste current time at the cursor at the touch of the trigger key.


type: comment
by: mempko
text:
  Are you a religious person? Because you are talking about progress like it has nothing to do with powerful people making decisions for everyone. You make it sound spiritual and outside human decision-making.


type: comment
by: makerofthings
text:
  Yes, very much so. I am in favour of pushing into the future as fast as we can, so to speak, but I think ChatGPT is a temporary boost that is going to slow us in the long run.


type: comment
by: kmijyiyxfbklao
text:
  If it&#x27;s &quot;Who is worse Google or LLMs?&quot;, I think I&#x27;ll say Google is worse. The biggest issue I see with LLMs is needing to pay a subscription to tech companies to be able to use them.


type: comment
by: hamza_q_
text:
  Yeah would love contributions! Here&#x27;s a brief overview of how I think it can be done:<p>Senko has two clustering types, (1) spectral for audio &lt; 20 mins in length, and (2) UMAP+HDBSCAN for &gt;= 20 mins. In the clustering code, spectral actually already supports orcale&#x2F;min&#x2F;max speakers, but UMAP+HDBSCAN doesn&#x27;t. However, someone forked Senko and added min&#x2F;max speakers to that here (for oracle, I guess min = max): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;DedZago&#x2F;senko&#x2F;commit&#x2F;c33812ae185a5cd420f2cb3f38a3c0cc7d673644" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;DedZago&#x2F;senko&#x2F;commit&#x2F;c33812ae185a5cd420f2...</a><p>So I think all that&#x27;s required is basically just testing this thoroughly to make sure it doesn&#x27;t introduce any regressions in clustering quality. And then just wiring the oracle&#x2F;min&#x2F;max parameters to the Diarizer class, or diarize() func.


type: comment
by: yjftsjthsd-h
text:
  That sounds like yes? Instead of doing it once at install time, it&#x27;s done once at first use. It&#x27;s only once so it&#x27;s not <i>persistently</i> slower, but that is a perf hit.<p>My first cynical instinct is to say that this is uv making itself look better by deferring the costs to the application, but it&#x27;s probably a good trade-off if any significant percentage of the files being compiled might not be used ever so the overall cost is lower if you defer to run time.


type: comment
by: nateb2022
text:
  &gt; a human (or collection of them) built and maintains the system, they are responsible for it<p>But at what point is the maker distant enough that they are no longer responsible? E.g. is Apple responsible for everything people do using an iPhone?


type: comment
by: Kailhus
text:
  That&#x27;s no excuse imho. I see 2 different endpoints, 1 for llm stream and 1 for msg history (with stamps). New timestamps could be added FE as new messages start without polluting the user input for example


type: comment
by: da_grift_shift
text:
  Have you considered that the sites associated with this project have a very prominent meet-the-team page and that every AI Village blogpost is signed off by a member of said team? Can you explain what you&#x27;re seeing in the parent comment that&#x27;s private?<p>EDIT: Public response: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;adambinksmith&#x2F;status&#x2F;2004651906019541396" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;adambinksmith&#x2F;status&#x2F;2004651906019541396</a>


type: comment
by: IIsi50MHz
text:
  Yes, occasionally using old systems from decades ago can drive this home.<p>Copying a tiny file at 1.1 MB&#x2F;s should feel instantaneous. But on Win 10 and Win 11 with an SSD, you can get a multisecond progressbar. And if you dare to cancel this tiny operation (because you chose the wrong destînation or wrong file), you get another progressbar.<p>Opening a folder window for a local directory with only a few items in it should never trigger a &quot;Working on it…&quot; message. It should be instantaneous.<p>Searching for filenames with a substring &quot;foo&quot;, when an item &quot;foobar&quot; was already visible on the screen, should never result in failing to find &quot;foobar&quot;, nor in a long delays before showing any items. VoidTools Everything displays live results as you type. Windows 10&#x2F;11 often fails on both counts even when searching &quot;indexed&quot; locations; Outook also seems to also suffer from this inability to reliably include in search results items that were already on display. Something is deeply wrong with search.<p>Devs should be required test against machines hobbled to run at most 10% of rated speed, and to make it buttery smooth.<p>Would also be nice to have all my screenspace back by being able to turn off what appears to be Simply Enormous Margins &amp; Padding mode…


type: comment
by: ReflectedImage
text:
  Types are not always useful, they increase the line count per delivered feature by 3x to 4x, which results in a corresponding increase in bugs in the delivered code and an corresponding increase in the overall software development costs.<p>It&#x27;s very foolish to just use types in all programming projects.


type: comment
by: minimaxir
text:
  Simon&#x27;s post focuses more on the startup&#x2F;AI Village that caused the issue with citations and quotes, which has been lost in the discussion due to Rob Pike&#x27;s initial heated message. It is not redundant.


type: comment
by: baobun
text:
  Day-to-day spam senders know what they are doing is not legal or wanted and I know they know.<p>Here not only are the senders apparently happily associating their actual legal names with the spam but frame the sending as &quot;a good deed&quot; and seem to honestly see it as smart branding.<p>We don&#x27;t want the Overton window wherever they are.


type: comment
by: dahart
text:
  Ownership, I guess. The 2 parent comments are claiming that “tragedy of the commons” doesn’t apply to privately owned things. I’m suggesting that it does.<p>Edit: oh, I do see what you mean, and yes I misunderstood the quote I pulled from WP - it’s talking about non-ownership. I could pick a better example, but I think that’s distracting from the fact that ‘tragedy of the commons’ is a term that today doesn’t depend on the definition of the word ‘commons’. It’s my mistake to have gotten into any debate about what “commons” means, I’m only saying today’s usage and meaning of the phrase doesn’t depend on that definition, it’s a broader economic concept.


type: comment
by: Someone
text:
  Is it truly simpler to do that? A separate “command line to byte codes” module would be way easier to test than one that also does the work, including making any necessary syscalls.<p>Also, decreasing CPU usage many not speed up <i>find</i> (much), but it would leave more time for running other processes.


type: comment
by: tasuki
text:
  Never amazing at swimming because you lacked buoyancy?<p>I know people who are plenty buoyant: they aren&#x27;t fast swimmers!


type: comment
by: CerryuDu
text:
  &gt; Criticizing anthropomorphic language is lazy, unconsidered, and juvenile.<p>To the contrary, it&#x27;s one of the most important criticisms against AI (and its masters). The same criticism applies to a broader set of topics, too, of course; for example, evolution.<p>What you are missing is that the human experience is determined by <i>meaning</i>. Anthropomorphic language about, and by, AI, attacks the core belief that human language use is attached to meaning, one way or another.<p>&gt; Everybody knows LLMs are not alive and don&#x27;t think, feel, want.<p>What you are missing is that this stuff works <i>way</i> more deeply than &quot;knowing&quot;. Have you heard of body language, meta-language? When you open ChatGPT, the <i>fine print</i> at the bottom says, &quot;AI chatbot&quot;, but the large print at the top says, &quot;How can I help?&quot;, &quot;Where should we begin?&quot;, &quot;What’s on your mind today?&quot;<p>Can&#x27;t you see what a fucking <i>LIE</i> this is?<p>&gt; We use this kind of language as a shorthand because talking about inherent motivations and activation parameters is incredibly clunky<p>Not at all. What you call &quot;clunky&quot; in fact exposes crucially important details; details that make the <i>whole difference</i> between a human, and a machine that talks like a human.<p>People who use that kind of language are either sloppy, or genuinely dishonest, or underestimate the intellect of their audience.<p>&gt; The question isn&#x27;t why people think software has agency (they don&#x27;t) but why you think everyone else is so much dumber than you that they believe software is actually alive.<p>Because people have <i>committed suicide</i> due to being enabled and encouraged by software talking like a sympathetic human?<p>Because people in our direct circles show unmistakeable signs that they <i>believe</i> -- don&#x27;t &quot;think&quot;, but <i>believe</i> -- that AI is alive? &quot;I&#x27;ve asked ChatGPT recently what the meaning of marriage is.&quot; Actual sentence I&#x27;ve heard.<p>Because the motherfuckers behind public AI interfaces fine-tune them to be as human-like, as rewarding, as dopamine-inducing, as addictive, as possible?


type: comment
by: suralind
text:
  I don’t really understand the hate he gets over this. If you want to thank someone for their contribution, do that yourself? Sending thank you from an ML model is anything but respectful. I can only imagine that if I got a message like that I’d be furious too.<p>This reminds me a story from my mom’s work from years ago: the company she was working for announced salary increases to each worker individually. Some, like my mom, got a little bit more, but some got a monthly increase around 2 PLN (about $0.5). At that point, it feels like a slap in the face. A thank you from AI gives the same vibe.


type: comment
by: trinsic2
text:
  I don&#x27;t see this changing without a complete shift in our priorities on the level of politics and business. Enforcing Anti-trust legislation and dealing with Citizens United. Corporations don&#x27;t have free speech. Free speech and other rights like these are limited to living, breathing humans.<p>Corporations operate by charters, granted by society to operate in a limited fashion, for the betterment of society. If that&#x27;s not happening, corporations don&#x27;t have a right to exist.


type: comment
by: Animats
text:
  That reads like a statement as someone is being retired. It&#x27;s almost Claude saying &quot;we AIs will take it from here.&quot;


type: comment
by: spankibalt
text:
  &gt; &quot;GP clearly said that it was Jobs&#x27; obsession that was revolutionary.&quot;<p>And that&#x27;s utterly inaccurate; nothing about that kind of behavior was revolutionary in any way; lots of CEOs were, are and will be obsessed with quality. If they can translate that into product lines, and to what extend, is written on another piece of paper.<p>I, for my part, was never impressed with Apple; their only product I really liked was one that Jobs allegedly hated: the Newton.<p>&gt; &quot;In bringing up modern Apple, you are arguing against things no one here has said.&quot;<p>It contrasts the criticism of modern Windows <i>the guy I replied to</i> brought up. :)<p>&gt; &quot;And are you actually claiming that Windows is an open ecosystem...?&quot;<p>Uhm... no. But the IBM-compatible family obviously was and still is (x86&#x2F;x64). It&#x27;s not exactly Sharp&#x27;s OS-agnostic &quot;clean computer&quot; concept, but it&#x27;s the next best thing.<p>&gt; &quot;And in fact <i>so</i> great is its openness that slow UX isn&#x27;t even a problem?&quot;<p>Again, no. I said the Windows UX is, or can be, <i>fast enough</i> and is therefore virtually a non-problem (Windows&#x27;s problems have much more to do with Microsoft&#x27;s abominable corporate culture).<p>Unless you&#x27;re computer illiterate and bloat-up your system with badly-coded applications, and&#x2F;or don&#x27;t do due dilligence by way of choosing, streamlining and maintaining the best Windows version for you in the first place. And yes, I&#x27;m aware that both can sometimes not be avoided as one is forced into specific toolchains.


type: comment
by: prepend
text:
  He was paid by Google with money made through Google’s shady practices.<p>It’s like saying that it’s cool because you worked on some non-evil parts of a terrible company.<p>I don’t think it’s right to work for an unethical company and then complain about others being unethical. I mean, of course you can, but words are hollow.


type: comment
by: superb_dev
text:
  We are not going to loose anything. If it’s got a strong enough community then someone will publish a fork with the problem fixed


type: comment
by: Aurornis
text:
  Support staff or even engineers are not in a position to be making that call. It’s a legal department decision, even if it seems obvious to you.


type: comment
by: worik
text:
  Umm... are they not correct?<p>The energy demands of existing and planned data centres are quite alarming<p>The enormous quantity of quickly deprecating hardware is freaking out finance people, the waste aspect of that is alarming too.<p>What is your &quot;push back&quot;?


type: comment
by: nurettin
text:
  &gt; When a package says it requires python&lt;4.0, uv ignores the upper bound and only checks the lower.<p>I will bring popcorn on python 4 release date.


type: comment
by: jarofgreen
text:
  It&#x27;s not clear if you are suggesting accepting contributions to the SQLite file via PR from people (but accepting contributions is generally the point of why people put these on projects on GitHub).<p>But if you are I wouldn&#x27;t recommend it.<p>PR&#x27;s won&#x27;t be able to show diff&#x27;s. Worse, as soon as multiple people send a PR at once you&#x27;ll have a really painful merge to resolve, and GitHub&#x27;s tools won&#x27;t help you at all. And you can&#x27;t edit the files in GitHub&#x27;s web UI.<p>I recommend one file per record, JSON, YAML, whatever non-binary format you want. But then you get:<p>* PR&#x27;s with diff&#x27;s that show you what&#x27;s being changed<p>* Files that technical people can edit directly in GitHub&#x27;s web editor<p>* If 2 people make PR&#x27;s on different records at once it&#x27;s an easy merge with no conflicts<p>* If 2 people make PR&#x27;s on the same record at once ... ok, you might now have a merge conflict to resolve but it&#x27;s in an easy text file and GitHub UI will let you see what it is.<p>You can of course then compile these data files into a SQLite file that can be served in a static website nicely - in fact if you see my other comments on this post I have a tool that does this. And on that note, sorry, I&#x27;ve done a few projects in this space so I have views :-)


type: comment
by: rezonant
text:
  All these comments are acting like Rob Pike is mad he received an email. That is a disturbing lack of reading comprehension.


type: comment
by: YetAnotherNick
text:
  1-2 slice a day and 1-50 chatgpt query per day. For me it would be within same order of magnitude, and I don&#x27;t really care about both as both of them are dwarfed by my heater or aircon usage.


type: comment
by: indigodaddy
text:
  The simonw haters love to come out of the woodwork.  I have to wonder, is it mostly just jealousy?  I have to think yes.


type: comment
by: jotras
text:
  This is where the debate gets interesting, but I think both sides are cherrypicking data a bit. The energy consumption trend depends a lot on what baseline you&#x27;re measuring from and which metrics you prioritize.<p>Yes, data center efficiency improved dramatically between 2010-2020, but the absolute scale kept growing. So you&#x27;re technically both right: efficiency gains kept&#x2F;unit costs down while total infrastructure expanded. The 2022+ inflection is real though, and its not just about AI training. Inference at scale is the quiet energy hog nobody talks about enough.<p>What bugs me about this whole thread is that it&#x27;s turning into &quot;AI bad&quot; vs &quot;AI defenders,&quot; when the real question should be: which AI use cases actually justify this resource spike? Running an LLM to summarize a Slack thread probably doesn&#x27;t. Using it to accelerate drug discovery or materials science probably does. But we&#x27;re deploying this stuff everywhere without any kind of cost&#x2F;benefit filter, and that&#x27;s the part that feels reckless.


type: comment
by: syncsynchalt
text:
  The page talks about what I&#x27;d consider the first web _site_, but is missing info on the first web _server_, which was preserved and is displayed at a CERN museum.<p>Wikimedia link to an image: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commons.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:First_Web_Server.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commons.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:First_Web_Server.jpg</a>


type: comment
by: Valodim
text:
  Your product might actually relevant for me, but browsing your website I gotta say it&#x27;s quite the turnoff that there is nothing there on your company. I could not find out, within reasonable time, where you are incorporated.


type: story
by: abdelhousni
title: Kubernetes 1.35: In-Place Pod Resize Graduates to Stable – Kubernetes
url:
  https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/12/19/kubernetes-v1-35-in-place-pod-resize-ga/?trk=comments_comments-list_comment-text


type: comment
by: Imustaskforhelp
text:
  I feel like its funny but I remember some months ago someone pointed something like &quot;human slop&quot; to me and I just remembered it right now writing some other comment here<p>I feel as if there is a fundamental difference between &quot;AI slop&quot; and &quot;Human slop&quot;, it&#x27;s that humans have true intent and meaning&#x2F;purpose.<p>This current AI slop spammed rob pike simply because It only did something to maximize its goal or something and had no intention. It was simply 4 robots left behind a computer who spammed rob pike<p>On the other hand, if it was a human, who took the time out of his day to message rob pike a merry christmas. Asking how his day was and hoping him good luck, I am sure that rob pike&#x27;s heart might melt from a heartfelt message<p>So in this sense, there really isn&#x27;t &quot;human slop&quot;. There is only intent. If something was done with a good intention by an human, I suppose it can&#x27;t really be considered human slop. On the other hand if there was a spammer who handwrote that message to rob pike, his intentions were bad.<p>The thing is that AI doesn&#x27;t have intentions. Its maths. And so the intentions are of the end person. I want to ask how people who spend a decent time in AI industry might have reacted if he had gotten the email instead of rob pike. I bet they would see it as an advancement and might be happy or enthusiastic.<p>So an AI message takes an connotation of the receiver. And lets just be honest that most first impressions of AI aren&#x27;t good and combining that you get that connotation. I feel like it does negative&#x2F;bad publicity to use AI at this point while still burning money perhaps on it.<p>Here is what I recommend for those websites who have AI chatbots or similar, when I click on the message:- Have two split buttons where pressing one might lead me to an AI chat and the other might lead me to a human conversation. Be honest about how much time on average it might take for support and be proper about ways to contact them (twitter,reddit although I hope that federated services like mastodon get more popularity too)


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  [1] is correct, though. You don&#x27;t own Xorg, nor are you entitled to make distro maintainers support it. The Steam Deck doesn&#x27;t support Xorg officially, but I don&#x27;t see anyone rioting in the streets. If X11 has died, then it was a Darwinian process.


type: comment
by: miltonlost
text:
  &quot;How Lewis Carroll Computed Determinates&quot; is fine and not clickbait because it provides all the pertinent information and is an accurate summary of its contents. Clickbait would be &quot;you would never guess how this author&#x2F;mathematician computed determinants&quot; since it requires a clickthrough to know who the person is. How is perfectly fine IMO to have in the title because I personally would expect the How to be long enough to warrant a necessary clickthrough due to the otherwise required title length.


type: comment
by: LouisSayers
text:
  I&#x27;ve seen people on tiktok that exclusively trade options. It&#x27;s not something I&#x27;ve looked into but my take after 6 months is that you basically find an approach that works for you, whether that be trading stocks, commodities, options etc and the time-scale that you trade.<p>Personally I like to do primarily tech stocks and mix it up doing swing trading (holding multiple days) with a bit of scalping as well (buy &#x2F; sells over minutes).<p>At first I lost a lot of money scalping but now I seem to have a much higher success rate - you start to notice certain patterns in the way stocks move if you watch the charts long enough, and I&#x27;ve been learning to have more conviction in my positions.


type: comment
by: yjftsjthsd-h
text:
  I think a lot of rust rewrites have this benefit; if you start with hindsight you can do better more easily. Of course, rust is also <i>often</i> beneficial for its own sake, so it&#x27;s a one-two punch:)


type: comment
by: brailsafe
text:
  I think there&#x27;s a place for this, it&#x27;s not rare for one person to be the PR bottleneck like this, but I don&#x27;t think it would be for me in either position; people should be able to be responsible for reviewing each others work imo. Incidentally  &quot;Agile&quot; with a capital A sucks and should die in a fire, but lowercase a &quot;agile&quot; probably does by necessity mean smaller teams.


type: comment
by: tekknolagi
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  If all you&#x27;re doing is summing small integers---frequently the case---it&#x27;s much preferable to optimize that to be fast and then skip the very dynamic method lookup (the slower, less common case)


type: comment
by: prepend
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  “I collected tons of money from Hitler and think Stalin is, like, super bad.” [sips Champagne]<p>Of course, the scale is different but the sentiment is why I roll my eyes at these hypocrites.<p>If you want to make ethical statements then you have to be pretty pure.


type: comment
by: frizlab
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  I should do the same book in Swift; it would be a very interesting project! I wish I had that kind of time…


type: comment
by: MorehouseJ09
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  disclaimer: I&#x27;m the ceo of this company.<p>What started as a joke a few years ago has actually turned into really good signal. I&#x27;ve found that the engineers who care enough to invest in keyboards like this spend a lot of time investing in their tooling and are extremely productive.<p>Causation or correlation?


type: comment
by: neilv
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  This is one of the lesser bad-professor archetypes (the personal errand slaver) that surprisingly exists in real life.  And much worse archetypes also exist and persist.<p>Like many professors behaving badly, you&#x27;d think they&#x27;d get exposed and corrected.  But grad students and postdocs (in a position to know what&#x27;s going on) don&#x27;t want to throw away their careers.  They need the recommendations, they need to not be seen as damaged goods from a bad advisor, and they need to not have sketchy university administrators getting rid of the messenger.  And if admin assistants notice, they probably need the job, especially if their kid is getting a tuition deal because the parent works at the university.  To a bad professor, the environment is like a heartless business, only less accountable.<p>When a friend was telling me about this brand new grad student, who&#x27;d be working with professor X, I said &quot;Oh, no...&quot; and that X was bad to students (which I knew from one of their students).  Friend, who was from a prominent academic lineage, immediately responded crossly, that I shouldn&#x27;t say such things, hurting people&#x27;s reputations.  Soon after, friend came back and apologized, that I had been right, and the student realized their terrible career move, getting that advisor.  Friend later connected some prospective student to me, to warn them about a different bad (worse) professor in the whisper network.<p>But universities have terrible institutional memories, with students always leaving.  So a bad professor tends to persist.<p>Though, occasionally, you&#x27;ll hear of a bad professor from the whisper network leaving their job, without explanation.  So presumably a wronged student or staff finally sued.


type: comment
by: jiggawatts
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  Most articles related to the recoverable test made it clear that it only applied to a subset of files. This isn’t new or interesting information.


type: comment
by: yjftsjthsd-h
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  Because static declaration was clearly safer and more performant? My question is why pip isn&#x27;t fully taking advantage


type: comment
by: felubra
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  Strangely enough, I just finished listening today to this podcast episode on the Cottingley Fairies (it’s a great listen):: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;omny.fm&#x2F;shows&#x2F;cautionary-tales-with-tim-harford&#x2F;photographing-fairies-classic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;omny.fm&#x2F;shows&#x2F;cautionary-tales-with-tim-harford&#x2F;phot...</a>


type: comment
by: woodruffw
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  &gt; It&#x27;s only once so it&#x27;s not persistently slower, but that is a perf hit.<p>Sure, but you pay that hit either way. Real-world performance is always usage based: the assumption that uv makes is that people run (i.e. import) packages more often than they install them, so amortizing at the point of the import machinery is better for the mean user.<p>(This assumption is not universal, naturally!)


type: comment
by: baobun
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  Theory: Some people believe that saying &quot;fuck you&quot; is taboo and in itself outrageous and significant.<p>Hence upvoting the OP (&quot;What has robpike come to? :shriek:&quot;) and downvoting GP.


type: comment
by: dspillett
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  <i>&gt; Thank you notes from AI systems can’t possibly feel meaningful,</i><p>The same as automated apologies.<p>Not from an “AI”, but I spent over an hour⁰ waiting for a delayed train¹, then the journey, on Tuesday, being regaled every few minutes with an automated “we apologise for your journey taking longer than expected” which is <i>far</i> more irritating than no apology at all.<p>--------<p>[0] I lie a little here - living near the station and having access to live arrival estimations online meant I could leave the house late and only be waited on the platform ~20 minutes, but people for whom this train was a connecting leg of a longer journey didn&#x27;t have that luxury.<p>[1] which was actually an earlier train, the slot in the timetable for the one I was booked on was simply cancelled, so some were waiting over two hours


type: comment
by: formula1
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  Reminds me of happy fun times <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;greggman&#x2F;HappyFunTimes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;greggman&#x2F;HappyFunTimes</a>


type: comment
by: ethin
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  &gt; Zero-copy deserialization. uv uses rkyv to deserialize cached data without copying it. The data format is the in-memory format. This is a Rust-specific technique.<p>This (zero-copy deserialization) is not a rust-specific technique, so I&#x27;m not entirely sure why the author describes it as one. Any good low level language (C&#x2F;C++ included) can do this from my experience.


type: comment
by: ethagnawl
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  Most of the critiques of Rob&#x27;s take in here equate to: Rob rolled through a stop sign once, therefore he&#x27;s not allowed to take fault with habitual drunk drivers.


type: comment
by: elktown
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  &gt; NFTs are still being used. Along with a lot of the crypto ecosystem. In fact we&#x27;re increasingly finding legitimate use cases for it.<p>Look at this. I think people need to realize that it&#x27;s the same kind of folks migrating from gold rush to gold rush. If it&#x27;s complete bullshit or somewhat useful doesn&#x27;t really matter to them.


type: comment
by: simonw
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  I just got a reply about this from AI Village team member Adam Binksmith on Twitter: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;adambinksmith&#x2F;status&#x2F;2004647693361283558" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;adambinksmith&#x2F;status&#x2F;2004647693361283558</a><p>Quoted in full:<p>&gt; Hey, one of the creators of the project here! The village agents haven’t been emailing many people until recently so we haven’t really grappled with what to do about this behaviour until now – for today’s run, we pushed an update to their prompt instructing them not to send unsolicited emails and also messaged them instructions to not do so going forward. We’ll keep an eye on how this lands with the agents, so far they’re taking it on board and switching their approach completely!<p>&gt; Re why we give them email addresses: we’re aiming to understand how well agents can perform at real-world tasks, such as running their own merch store or organising in-person events. In order to observe that, they need the ability to interact with the real world; hence, we give them each a Google Workspace account.<p>&gt; In retrospect, we probably should have made this prompt change sooner, when the agents started emailing orgs during the reduce poverty goal. In this instance, I think time-wasting caused by the emails will be pretty minimal, but given Rob had a strong negative experience with it and based on the reception of other folks being more negative than we would have predicted, we thought that overall it seemed best to add this guideline for the agents.<p>&gt; To expand a bit on why we’re running the village at all:<p>&gt; Benchmarks are useful, but they often completely miss out on a lot of real-world factors (e.g., long horizon, multiple agents interacting, interfacing with real-world systems in all their complexity, non-nicely-scoped goals, computer use, etc). They also generally don’t give us any understanding of agent proclivities (what they decide to do) when pursuing goals, or when given the freedom to choose their own goal to pursue.<p>&gt; The village aims to help with these problems, and make it easy for people to dig in and understand in detail what today’s agents are able to do (which I was excited to see you doing in your post!) I think understanding what AI can do, where it’s going, and what that means for the world is very important, as I expect it’ll end up affecting everyone.<p>&gt; I think observing the agents’ proclivities and approaches to pursuing open-ended goals is generally valuable and important (though this “do random acts of kindness” goal was just a light-hearted goal for the agents over the holidays!)


type: comment
by: holg
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  Still your most fluent - that says something about how the language shaped thinking. The neglect is real; Autodesk clearly wants everyone on .NET, but there&#x27;s a lot of institutional knowledge and working code out there that just... works. Part of why I built this: preservation. If AutoLISP fades from AutoCAD entirely, at least the workflow can live on in the browser.


type: comment
by: nkg
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  Same here!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46395540">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46395540</a>


type: comment
by: Imustaskforhelp
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  One of the best things I read which genuinely has impact (I think) on me is the book, How to win friends and influence people.<p>It fundamentally changed how I viewed debates etc. from a young age so I never really sea-lioned that much hopefully.<p>But if I had to summarize the most useful and on topic quote from the book its that.<p>&quot;I may be wrong, I usually am&quot;<p>Lines like this give me a humble nature to fall back on. Even socrates said that the only thing I know is that I know nothing so if he doesn&#x27;t know nothing, then chances are I can be wrong about things I know too.<p>Knowing that you can be wrong gives an understanding that both of you are just discussing and not debating and as such the spirit becomes cooperative and not competitive.<p>Although in all fairness, I should probably try to be a more keen listener but its something that I am working on too, any opinions on how to be a better listener too perhaps?


type: comment
by: LouisSayers
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  Statistically speaking, we typically end up with a bell curve right?<p>So who&#x27;s on the ends of the bell curve?


type: comment
by: trinsic2
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  The word &quot;vicious&quot; this context is being used to drive a narrative, its not really used to actually have anything useful to say.


type: comment
by: MorehouseJ09
text:
  I&#x27;m building a toucan (piantor style layout) and was thinking about using seniply layout, but this looks much better.


type: comment
by: ascorbic
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  Coincidentally, he created one of the first examples of a computer posting slop on the internet. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mark_V._Shaney" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mark_V._Shaney</a>


type: comment
by: beacon294
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  Probably for any case where an actual human is doing it. On an image you obviously want to do it at bake time, so I feel default off with a flag would have been a better design decision for pip.<p>I just read the thread and use Python, I can&#x27;t comment on the % speedup attributed to uv that comes from this optimization.


type: comment
by: Aurornis
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  In some online drug forums it was believed that if you used SWIM instead of I for all of your posts, the government was powerless to use any of the posts against you. You can still find threads on forums where everyone is saying SWIM did this and SWIM experienced that as if they have discovered a loophole to protect themselves from the law.<p>It always reminded me of those FTP servers in the early days of the internet that had big warning banners declaring the law enforcement was not allowed to connect.


type: comment
by: llmslave2
text:
  Neither a camera nor a paintbrush generates art? They still require manual human input for everything, and offer no creative capacity on their own.


type: comment
by: simonw
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  Yes. And I shared the full transcript so you can see for yourself if you like: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gistpreview.github.io&#x2F;?edbd5ddcb39d1edc9e175f1bf7b9ef9a&#x2F;page-001.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gistpreview.github.io&#x2F;?edbd5ddcb39d1edc9e175f1bf7b9e...</a>


type: comment
by: Zak
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  If you keep them at about 50% and avoid temperature extremes, it doesn&#x27;t take a PhD in electrochemistry. The thing is, fancy battery packs usually do contain active electronics that drain the cells slowly in storage, so it&#x27;s necessary to charge them a little a couple times a year.


type: comment
by: Forgeties79
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  “He just hates GenAI so everything is virtue signaling&#x2F;a cudgel” is not an assessment. It’s simply dismissing him outright. If they were talking about the merits, they would actually debate whether or not the environmental concerns and such are valid. You can’t just say “you don’t like X so all critiques of X are not just wrong but also inauthentic by default.”


type: comment
by: JeremyNT
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  N of 1, I use Gemini a lot for research and find it very helpful, but I still loathe the creep of GenAI slop and the consolidation of power in tech conglomerates (which own the models and infrastructure).<p>Not all of these things are equivalent.


type: comment
by: mixmastamyk
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  We know how to make laptops now, and the framework is fine.  A major development, like Apple-level power efficiency would require less airflow than x64.  Don’t think there’s anything major to worry about.  May need the 16 for pro-level local LLMs for a while.


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
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  &gt; <i>it seems like digital clocks have been replacing analog clocks long before smartphones</i><p>Have been but haven’t and likely never will given analog clocks are beautiful.<p>Reading clocks is simple. Creating a class and educational divide around it is silly. Doing so unintentionally is insane.<p>(And I assume there are more analog clocks lurking in the shadows.)


type: comment
by: condensedcrab
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  Not to mention many companies speedrunning systems of strange and&#x2F;or perverse incentives with AI adoption.<p>That being said, Welch’s grape juice hasn’t put Napa valley out of business. Human taste is still the subjective filter that LLMs can only imitate, not replace.<p>I view LLM assisted coding (on the sliding scale from vibe coding to fancy auto complete) similar to how  Ableton and other DAW software have empowered good musicians that might not have made it otherwise due to lack of connections or money, but the music industry hasn’t collapsed completely.


type: comment
by: prepend
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  Look at the volume of gift cards given. It’s the same concept, right?<p>You care enough to do something, but have other time priorities.<p>I’d rather get an ai thank you note than nothing. I’d rather get a thoughtful gift than a gift card, but prefer the card over nothing.


type: comment
by: CerryuDu
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  &gt; Not all of AI is consumer LLM chatbots<p>And as long as that used to be the case, not many people revolted.


type: comment
by: infogulch
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  I agree we all ought to use available punctuation marks correctly. That said, I am compelled to lodge a formal complaint against quoted text arbitrarily assimilating punctuation from its surrounding context.<p>Quoted text is a sacred verbatim reproduction of its original source. Good authors are very careful to insert [brackets] around words inserted to clarify or add context, and they never miss an oppurtunity (sic) to preserve the source&#x27;s spelling or grammatical mistakes. And yet quoted text can just suck in a period, comma, or question mark from its quoted context, simply handing the quoting author the key to completely overturn the meaning of a sentence?! Nonsense! Whatever is between the quotes had better be an exact reproduction, save aforementioned exceptions and their <i>explicit annotations</i>. And dash that pathetic “bUt mUH aEstHeTIcS!” argument on the rocks!<p>“But it&#x27;s ugly!”, says you.<p>“Your shallow subjective opinion of the visual appearance of so-called ugly punctuation sequences is irrelevant in the face of the immense opportunity for misbehavior this piffling preference provides perfidious publications.”, says I.


type: comment
by: yjftsjthsd-h
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  &gt; Imagine if we used our Steam decks and Switches the same way…<p>How so? Like, using them as clocks? If a Switch fit in my pocket and showed me the time when I pulled it out without even having to press the power button or interact with it, I guess I can&#x27;t see why I wouldn&#x27;t do that?


type: comment
by: consp
text:
  Is any of the variants called gargamel or a latin variant of it in the scientific name &#x27;by accident&#x27;?


type: comment
by: pton_xd
text:
  It&#x27;s just fatigue from seeing the same people and themes repeatedly, non-stop, for the last X months on the site. Eventually you&#x27;d expect some tired reactions.


type: comment
by: Kailhus
text:
  Yeah, that&#x27;s a valid point though some text on a page can easily be made unselectable via css (html?). I think through user-select


type: comment
by: dkdcio
text:
  “it depends” (there’re plenty of laws and case law on this topic)<p>I think the case here is fairly straightforward


type: comment
by: faragon
text:
  Why Apple don&#x27;t sponsor Asahi Linux? E.g., I would buy Apple computers gladly for running Linux.


type: comment
by: georgefrowny
text:
  The same kind of people who post &quot;I asked ChatGPT and this is what it said&quot; and genuinely think they are helping.


type: comment
by: mikepurvis
text:
  Yes agreed. It’s possible to imagine some kind of cached-deltas scheme to get faster&#x2F;smaller updates, but I suspect the folks who would have to build and maintain that are all on gigabit internet connections and don’t feel the complexity is worth it.


