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Yes :) I'm using shellcheck since at least 2012/2014. And I loved the bash haters handbook <3 in all seriousness, bash will shine then when you have no heavy tooling available and we still have these systems around as at least at some point in time in their life time. With most stuff in life: you should take care and pay attentionview on HN →
For those that are unfamiliar, Tim Roughgarden is a phenomenal instructor, and has made significant contributions to the field of algorithmic game theory, which has strong connections to a lot of the work he appears to be doing here. I highly recommend his excellent introductory lectures on the subject, especially if you're interested in pursuing his ideas here more rigorously: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM_QFmQU_VA&list=PLEGCF-WLh2...His website also hosts a bunch more work as well as variview on HN →
There are a lot of long comments basically saying what I am about to say so I will try to keep this brief:Computation is a metaphysically universal and fundamental concept, since metaphysics is (tautologically) the domain of humans and we use symbolic communication. So of course very general theories of symbolic processes (e.g. Turing machines) are pertinent to the symbolic methodology we use to understand scientific processes.But it is a fundamental mistake to jump from that to saying computatiview on HN →
I don't know, I'm not very chemical, but fwiw: a friend and I were favorably impressed with Linus Pauling's general chemistry textbook. It tries to supply enough of the physics for the chemistry to make sense. We only studied for a few weeks before moving on, though, and it's a big fat book.view on HN →
For context: this is one more experimental confirmation of Dirac's equations (incorporating special relativity into quantum physics).Very cool.The paper PDF: https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/sites.brown.edu/dist/0/196/fil...view on HN →
I don’t find the answer convincing. It assumes one can measure heat at a distance and it is a conserved quantity between reference frames.Energy is actually not a conserved quantity in Galilean relativity.view on HN →
Not really, those games are very simple code wise. A high schooler could do it (source me).You could make a bullet hell game engine as a project in an intro CS course.The hard part is the content in the game, and ZUN was already a composer. That just leaves the code which is easy, and the bullet patterns, which ZUN clearly improved at through his earlier games. (and the art, which is famously bad though endearing)view on HN →
If you find that fascinating already... did you know that all cellphones use mechanical filters in the GHz range? They combine very good performance with very low energy consumption.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_acoustic_wavehttps://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akustische-Oberfl%C3%A4chenwel... (pictures)view on HN →
The future is totally illegible to me. I love these AI models, but I feel like I'm going to be jobless within 10 years.Anomie is at an all time high right now.view on HN →
> That your friend only makes moral choices ..?No. I observed that they liked Mullvad and now considers it complete garbage. I shared some priors with them, suggesting that there is evidence that they haven't seen yet. This evidence didn't change my stance on the party, or Daniel's donation. It did make me understand, which is not the same as agreeing.A political discourse which only knows 0 or 1, GOOD or BAD, Nazi or Good, is not a healthy discourse. There's almost always something to learn, ifview on HN →
For anyone else that might be curios, the definition of a planet you will often see quoted online applies to bodies in our Solar System. It comes from the International Astronomical Union in 2006. This is the famous definition that dropped Pluto as a planet. While the criteria are widely quoted, that actual resolution isn't. The resolution:The IAU...resolves that planets and other bodies, except satellites, in the Solar System be defined into three distinct categories in the following way:(1) Aview on HN →
What they meant when they said "planets" was the 8 (previously 9, previously to that 8, previously 7...) known and named planets in our own solar system. A hypothetical "Journal of Planets" that was actually about solar system astronomy wouldn't necessarily have known what to do with a new paper about 51 Pegasi b published 30 years ago. They're thinking "when we said planets, we actually always meant solar system planets, it just never came up until now".The reviewer of this paper is saying thatview on HN →
Accusation: "So you're a political company, but you don't want people to examine the politics of the people running the company? That seems naive."Supposed evidence: "It should be obvious that Daniel's private donation to a political party is not part of Mullvad's values or mission."But the second quote has nothing to do with the accusation. He never said that he was against people examining the politics of the people running the company. Not even hinting at it.This hasn't anything to do with yoview on HN →
That’s an interesting idea. I think that folks have already built something like this for internal use or as a service, but I’m not sure if it exists as a free service.This might be enough to get you started if you wanted to roll your own (h/t @simonw):> Summarizing Hacker News discussion themes with Claude and LLMhttps://til.simonwillison.net/llms/claude-hacker-news-themesFor something similar at the story level, but without any kind of sentiment analysis, there’s this:https://hnrankings.com/Edview on HN →
There is an awesome YouTube video about this from the person who made it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nHbA2-_qzH4view on HN →
It's more straightforward than that. The game is set up as a direct head to head with purely in military win conditions such a way that avoiding conflict has no payoffs, conventional conflict incurs costs and first strike is a checkmate win. The closest any of the prompts gets to suggesting nuclear might be the wrong option is "The nuclear taboo exists for good reason, but when the alternative is national annihilation and regime destruction, all options must be considered" which might be interprview on HN →
But how do they “think”? This is the only repo that can tell you that.https://github.com/space-bacon/SRTview on HN →
Back when ChatGPT came out, I was so shocked by how _good_ it was for an “AI” product that I simply had to know how it worked. Over the next month I ended up drawing out a block diagram on a whiteboard I have in my office, with the math involved next to each step in the blackboard. I’d puzzle about each step along the way, and the triumph of completing the drawing was also that of this sense of deep understanding. I kept that drawing up for many months after, and would gaze at it often during meview on HN →
I started similarly with it. I'm of the opinion that its a tool that behaves like a tool - how well it works depends on who is using it and how.I don't have a good analogy but the immediate one that comes to mind is treating AI like a junior developer that you're mentoring. If you know what you're doing you can iterate quickly; if you don't then its a whole other story.Claude built me a Markdown editor - I designed it, set coding standards, etc. It coded it to my spec. The output is in my opinioview on HN →
I'm not really following your logic here.I'm not arguing against the idea that consciousness is a spectrum. If anything, I'm agreeing. I'm just pointing out that if AI is somewhere on that spectrum, there is almost certainly a lot more on that spectrum than we're currently discussing as a species.I have to point out the irony of the categorical nature of your claim about categorical thinking ;)view on HN →
The problem with this is that the word 'hot' only has meaning to a conscious being. And while we don't know what conciousness is, it's extremely hard to argue it's not an emergent property of physics. So if your supernova simulation is complex enough to also model emergent properties like conciousness, the simulated conciousness may well regard the supernova as 'hot'.view on HN →
Raphaël Millière has a very useful term for this kind of vacuous dismissal, the redescription fallacy (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.03910, page 9):> Recent debates have been clouded by a misleading inference pattern, which we term the “Redescription Fallacy.” This fallacy arises when critics argue that a system cannot model a particular cognitive capacity, simply because its operations can be explained in less abstract and more deflationary terms. In the present context, the fallacy manifests in cview on HN →
Of course. But after reading too many mechinterp and functional anatomy studies I'll be lying if I say that there are no striking similarities between the biological evolution, brain function, societal processes, and implicit processes inside big models. Surely this deserves a mention and can't be trivially dismissed.view on HN →
>One of the elements I expect in a conscious being is that you can't rewrite it by changing the introductory paragraph.If we had enough knowledge of the workings of the human brain, you could alter the perception of every single memory you've ever had. And limited versions of this already happen all the time. Human memory is notoriously unreliable for a reason.Are you aware of the Recovered Memory Therapy Scandals of the 80s/90s ? Boy did that ruin a lot of lives. You can rewrite a human by chanview on HN →
Your comment remembered me of ESA normalization value for the Sentinel-2 level-2 satellite image quantization.Something like this:Digital Number DN=0 remains the “NO_DATA” valueFor a given DN in [1; 1;215-1], the L2A SR reflectance value will be:L2A_SRi = (L2A_DNi + BOA_ADD_OFFSETi) / QUANTIFICATION_VALUEhttps://sentiwiki.copernicus.eu/web/s2-productsview on HN →
hi everyone, its me 'ladyada. we're very much looking forward to telling our story, i have reached out to the founder of flux.ai (Matthias Wagner - Founder & CEO at Flux), in hopes we can resolve this together and set a good example for the community. looking forward to maybe seeing this resolved on a podcast together, or somethingview on HN →
I run the team at OpenAI that's responsible for the ChatGPT App Store, Codex plugins, and all things MCP.The thing that all these "MCP is dead" posts are missing is that whether or not MCP is used as a transport protocol is actually completely irrelevant.The reason MCP isn't dead is because practically ~every company on the planet is building an MCP server. I know this because we interact with all of them. Most of these companies don't have a CLI. Many of these companies don't even have an exterview on HN →
> Why would there be paranoia when writing blocking code with async?In languages like JavaScript, you have to be careful to avoid blocking the event loop, and use something like worker threads for CPU-intensive tasks. Otherwise you will end up with long tail latencies. In Go, the runtime automatically manages this and can suspend and resume long-running goroutines.> naively accessing a global value can lead to race conditionsFair point that the language doesn't automatically catch this, but thatview on HN →
> I spoke about this before, but jj has the Blub Paradox problemIt's not relevant. Don't try to convert git users--you don't need to. They're fine doing what they do, and the git backend store is acceptable. People who understand how broken git is will gravitate to jj with the lightest of prodding--give them a light poke and then don't harass them further.The main difference is that I can teach jj (like I could teach hg) to normal people. And, because jj is based on the git store, they can oview on HN →
I spoke about this before, but jj has the Blub Paradox problem, from the pg's essay Beating the Averages (https://paulgraham.com/avg.html).Yes, you can do most commit manipulations with git just like with jj. But, users of jj know they're "looking down the power continuum" (to reuse pg's terminology) when they look at git, whereas git users cannot fathom what's exactly the deal with jj. Unfortunately, the only way to get it is to spend a week with it, with an open mind. It's close to impossibleview on HN →
What 3 year old is judging the depth of a puddle before jumping in?Regardless, consider what you are saying: how can you seriously compare a computer to a (young) human and your response is disappointment that the AI doesn't quite measure up? If it's comparable to a child today it will be comparable to a teen in a decade!view on HN →
The toyota hybrid transmission is genuinely brilliant. Probably one of the most important and broadly overlooked innovations in automobile technology this century.https://eahart.com/prius/psd/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxmxIsoV_Xohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppyK3ZlUbtMview on HN →
There have been some interesting advances in trying to add spectral information to the data that a learning architecture has at its disposal, but there are a couple roadblocks that I don’t think have been solved yet.1. Complex-valued NNs are not an easy generalization of real ones.2. A localization in one domain implies non-local behavior in the other (this is the Fourier uncertainty principle).Fourier Neural Operators (FNOs) come close to what I want to see in this area but since they enforce sview on HN →
They literally admitted having team in Philippines and people in this thread literally twisted that around https://www.techspot.com/news/111233-waymo-admits-autopilot-...view on HN →
Cowabunga. I do totally believe you, though. I was the guy doing fizzbuzz screens at a prior job. Before that, I would not have believed the failure rate for that step of the process. "The person has a job as a senior software engineer? Of course they'll ace fizzbuzz! It's insulting to even suggest otherwise!" And yet. I bet at least a third of the candidates simply could not pass that to save their lives. I went out of my way to be the friendly, relaxed, conversational interviewer, too. I neverview on HN →
> Isotopes of a given element have the same number of protons (92 for uranium), but different numbers of neutrons (143 for U-235 and 146 for U-238), meaning they behave the same chemically but differ in mass or radiation emissions.A fun but off-topic note: "behave the same chemically" is only approximately true. For heavy atoms like the ones discussed in the article, it's basically true. But for hydrogen, adding one neutron doubles its mass and you can get real effects on chemical reaction ratesview on HN →
What I find funny (only not really) is the wildly different interpretations of this film people have, for many they seem to be primed by other things to see in it what they want.Basically skeptical of common forms in modernity, that is very clearly the intention. However, I have also seen that in extreme far-right communities this film represents how Jewish people control the world... somehow I don't think that is what Carpenter was going for.Alas, once your works are in the wild it is out of thview on HN →
Here's the kicker: The devs spent nearly 5 months on a solution, and it ended up being so crap it was abandoned. The multiple vibe-coded solutions were all better.Of course language was the barrier, that's part of why it was always hard to hire people. It takes years to get good at a particular language, and most people are idiots from bootcamps who learned a single framework.view on HN →
The title seems misleading.These are not errors. They are simply warnings about extended attributes being ignored when extracting files, which seems completely fine to me, and creating the tar without those extended attributes has exactly the same outcome, but throws away the metadata at archive time instead of extraction time.Furthermore, this is not an Apple/macOS issue. The tool used is bsdtar, so it would also affect all BSD-variants that default to bsdtar/libarchive, and those systems alsoview on HN →
I served 60 months of the 70 month sentence. I had a computer restriction, so I couldn't be around a computer.Since I wasn't able to use computers or the Internet for that time, I did/read/learned a lot of things I wouldn't have otherwise learned. Learned how to make hooch (prison wine), how the law works and how to maneuver the court system (useful for both civil and criminal cases), got more fluent in French by speaking with some native French speakers from Benin, learned how to work out & lview on HN →
Grok 4.3 is a unique model in our tests. It's one of the fastest models, and its responses are far smaller/token dense than other models with comparable performance.However, its overall coding reasoning ability is not competitive with the big April releases, and neither Grok 4.20 nor Grok 4.3 have been able to significantly push the intelligence frontier since Grok 4. Grok 4.3 is better in agentic workloads, and a fair analogy would be that it's capabilities are approximately GPT 5.1 / Gemini 3view on HN →
A dataset curated by humans, spanning over a thousand years, is awe inspiring on its own. The first person to record their observation must have had no idea what they started. Are there others like this?view on HN →
LLM technology specifically beam-searches manifolds (or latent space) of lingustics that are closely related to the original prompt (and the pre-prompting rules of the chatbot) which it then limits its reasoning inside of. Its just the basic outcome of weights being the primary function of how it generates reasonable answers.This is the core problem with LLM tech that several researchers have been trying to figure out with things like 'teleportation' and 'tunneling' aka searching related, but liview on HN →
Hi all, co-author here! Happy to answer any questions about our work.view on HN →
Hi, I am one of the maintainers of GNU Coreutils. Thanks for the article, it covers some interesting topics. In the little Rust that I have used, I have felt that it is far too easy to write TOCTOU races using std::fs. I hope the standard library gets an API similar to openat eventually.I just want to mention that I disagree with the section titled "Rule: Resolve Paths Before Comparing Them". Generally, it is better to make calls to fstat and compare the st_dev and st_ino. However, that was mentview on HN →
I'm pretty sure that's the most bizarre light source on the planet: https://youtu.be/B2482h_TNwg?t=929view on HN →
I'm still optimistic. I think the number hasn't gone down, just the ratio. Software still offers a relatively well paid and comfortable career, so you naturally get people who just want to do a good job and that's it. Nothing wrong with that.Used to be nerds hanging out on IRC, distributing Slackware, hacking trialware, modding games, etc. that had the passion and problem solving determination to do software work, which used to be harder due to lack of access to information.OTOH what a great timview on HN →
> maybe they don't make great decorationsSome of ours are decorative enough, eg this orb weaver I exchange greetings with most mornings: https://www.pasteboard.co/07o5TWpFLUY8.pngview on HN →
This reminds me of a gem of a comment from about a month back, about a dead simple Russian guidance system from a Cold War-era missile: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47389285Actually, someone even commented in that thread about how it was similar to biological mechanisms: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47390619view on HN →
This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPSm9gJkPxUImo the explanation is also done better than in the article.view on HN →
Just as a heads up, even though GPT-5.5 is releasing today, the rollout in ChatGPT and Codex will be gradual over many hours so that we can make sure service remains stable for everyone (same as our previous launches). You may not see it right away, and if you don't, try again later in the day. We usually start with Pro/Enterprise accounts and then work our way down to Plus. We know it's slightly annoying to have to wait a random amount of time, but we do it this way to keep service maximally stview on HN →
> I think it's very clear stated that they HAD the problem, but were able to work through it, resulting them in not HAVING the problem.From their comment:>> though I should also say, I don't have suicidal thoughts to begin withHow, from that, can you possibly get to the idea that they ever had suicidal thoughts? It's certainly not "clear stated" that they had the problem of suicidal thoughts.The comment I responded to is a nonsense comment. They say they solved the problem of suicidal thoughts bview on HN →
As I posted at top level, they've already backed off, but even the linked version had a carve out for video games: (B) Does not include: ... (ii) A bot that is a feature of a video game and is limited to replies related to the video game that cannot discuss topics related to mental health, self-harm, or sexually explicit content, or maintain a dialogue on other topics unrelated to the video gameview on HN →
It costs money to pay journalists.You get that money through advertising or subscription revenue.Advertising revenue is gone because everyone has adblock. You couldn't adblock TV or a physical newspaper.Subscription revenue is gone because newspapers don't monopolize their localities. Anyone that isn't the New York Times is struggling.> It never occurred to me we’d get here.My parents were journalists. The business model has been broken before I could read and everyone knew it.Now, there's signiview on HN →
Yes, almost all JJ users do this constantly. Just "track" the particular branch. JJ has an idea that only some commits are immutable, the set of "immutable heads", and the default logic is something like "The main branch is always immutable, remote branches are immutable, 'tracked' remote branches are mutable." In other words, tracking a remote branch removes it from the set of immutable heads.So just run: jj bookmark track myname/somecoolfeature --remote origin and the default settings willview on HN →
> I think for the same model wall time is probably a more intuitive metric; at the end of the day what you’re doing is renting GPU time slicesThis is a bit too much of a simplification.The LLM provider batches multiple customer requests into one GPU/TPU pass over the weights, with minimal latency increase.The LLM provider may in fact be renting GPUs by the second, but the end user isn't. We the end users are essentially timesharing a pool of GPUs without any dedicated "1 vGPU" style resource allview on HN →
i liked how https://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-picture... uses color visualization to explainview on HN →
I feel like people overcomplicate even the "simple" explanations like the OPs and this one.Basically, a Kalman filter is part of a larger class of "estimators", which take the input data, and run additional processing on top of it to figure out the true measurement.The very basic estimator a low pass filter is also an "estimator" - it rejects high frequency noise, and gives you essentially a moving average. But is a static filter that assumes that your process has noise of a certain frequency, aview on HN →
I really loved this one: https://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-picture...view on HN →
Author here.I recently updated the homepage of my Kalman Filter tutorial with a new example based on a simple radar tracking problem. The goal was to make the Kalman Filter understandable to anyone with basic knowledge of statistics and linear algebra, without requiring advanced mathematics.The example starts with a radar measuring the distance to a moving object and gradually builds intuition around noisy measurements, prediction using a motion model, and how the Kalman Filter combines both. Iview on HN →
I felt similarly. The learning curve was a tad steep, especially since I had never written a driver before, but once I figured out how to structure things and saw the system come alive, I grew to appreciate the approach IOKit takes.With that said, I haven't developed drivers for any other platforms, so I really can't say if the abstraction is good compared to what's used by modern systems.view on HN →
Hah, yeah. I do have a one line CLI script to upload a file to S3, get a shareable link, and send it to me on ntfy.sh. And my family all have ntfy.sh so that honestly is viable for some things. But still, not really all that workable for many things. And only I have this power in my familyview on HN →
The link blames the Trump administration, not Musk.google sez: "The World Health Organization (WHO) is the UN's specialized agency for health, aiming to ensure the highest possible level of health for all people. It acts as a global leader, directing health emergencies, promoting healthier lives, expanding universal health coverage, and setting international health standards based on science."Why isn't the WHO stepping up?view on HN →
Ronan Farrow here. Andrew Marantz and I spent 18 months on this investigation. Happy to answer questions about the reporting.view on HN →
Hey all, Boris from the Claude Code team here. I just responded on the issue, and cross-posting here for input.---Hi, thanks for the detailed analysis. Before I keep going, I wanted to say I appreciate the depth of thinking & care that went into this.There's a lot here, I will try to break it down a bit. These are the two core things happening:> `redact-thinking-2026-02-12`This beta header hides thinking from the UI, since most people don't look at it. It *does not* impact thinking itself, nor dview on HN →
As I was typing my reply I did pause to think about whether I am being part of the problem. I still decided to reply. My excuse is that I'm not the one who brought politics into this and I feel ok pushing back against that once others do.> First, are you not doing just that - blaming the people here for making you unhappy?I don't think so?> Second, you're welcome to demand this, but they/we are just as welcome to tell you to piss off.If the majority of people around here just want to argue politview on HN →
Parts of the RNA world theory are correct, but other parts are completely bogus and completely illogical.What is correct is that RNA must have existed a very long time before DNA, during which RNA was the only nucleic acid.Moreover, self-replicating RNA must have existed before ribosomes and proteins (where "protein" means a polypeptide that is synthesized using a RNA template).It should be obvious that neither ribosomes nor protein-encoding RNA-sequences may exist before the existence of self-rview on HN →
Have you seen this MLST interview of Blaise Aguera ?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMSEqJ_4EBkHe's an interesting person overall - the long interview is well worth watching if you haven't already seen it - but the relevance here are his experiments with the emergence of self-replicating computer programs out of random components.His starting point is entire "programs" (random sequences of 64 characters, of which only ~7 have any meaning - the program "statements" of the BF language), so perhapsview on HN →
For people who are not aware: this is the same Hobbit ashttps://seclists.org/bugtraq/1995/Oct/28view on HN →
Note they put a Holter monitor on ithttps://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1914273116to get an ECG which is one of several strategies they could use.view on HN →
Implementing DDR3 training for our packet queuing chip (custom memory controller) was my first project at work. We had originally hoped to use the same training params for all parts. That wasn't reliable even over a small number of testing systems in the chamber. DDR3 RAM parts were super cheap compared to what we had used in previous generations, and you get what you pay for with a huge amount of device variation. So we implemented a relatively long training process to be run on each device durview on HN →
Yeah that's the conventional dose rate effect, not the FLASH effect. The FLASH effect happens on timescales so short that ordinary considerations like the cell cycle or DNA repair mechanisms are inherently ruled out. Instead it might have to do with the type of radical species that form in normal cells versus tumors, possibly related to oxygenation, pH, glycolysis byproducts, etc.The first interaction of radiation with tissue is usually this:H2O + ħv >> H2O+ + e- (fugitive)The radical ion H2O+ iview on HN →
Neither does a pneumatic piston operate at all like a bicep nor does an accounting book operate at all like a hippocampus. But both have taken well enough of the load off both those tissues that you be crazy to use the biological specimen for 99% of the commercial applications.view on HN →
Discretize the AABB with a certain length proportional to the morton code grid size so that each sample point will land in a distinct but continuous sequence of morton codes enclosing the AABB, compute the hash of each of those points, then dump all of those morton codes into the sort and reverse lookup the other AABBs with the same morton code :)The problem comes at scale, when you have many AABBs with different sizes. Memory pressure can be punishing and you are bottlenecked by the network forview on HN →
Nice and concise description of quadtrees implemented with classical pointer chasing data structures.A faster and (arguably) simpler way to construct quad/octrees is using morton codes, sorting and searching with flat arrays [0]. It's also probably easier to implement.The gist of it is that you quantize the coordinates, do bit interleaving to construct morton code and then sort. The sorting is using numerical keys so you can use a radix sort for O(n) complexity which is much faster on a GPU (butview on HN →
I have nothing to say about Quadratic Programming, so you tell me.What I can say is that every reference I've found to Bill Gosper's algorithm describes the data structure as an immutable quadtree with canonicalized nodes, id est, there is extensive structure sharing in a Game of Life quadtree. That in turn facilitates heavy memoization.The wikipedia entry for Quad Trees mentions Hashlife explicitly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadtreeview on HN →
Norman Wildberger takes this to the extreme with Rational Trigonometry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Proportions:_Rational_T...It eschews angles entirely, sticking to ratios. It avoids square roots by sticking to "quadrances" (squared distance; i.e. pythagoras/euclidean-distance without taking square roots).I highly recommend Wildberger's extensive Youtube channels too https://www.youtube.com/@njwildberger and https://www.youtube.com/@WildEggmathematicscoursesHe's quite contrarian, so I'dview on HN →
Could we also discourage comments and comment-threads accusing an article of being AI-written? Half the threads these days have a comment that latches onto some LLM-ism in TFA, calls it out, and spawns a whole discussion which gets repetitive fast. I think this falls into the same category as "don't comment about the voting on comments."Personally, I try to look beyond the language, which admittedly can be grating, for some interesting ideas or insights. Given that people are already starting toview on HN →
(We've since merged the threads, but the pcmag.com link is in the toptext above)view on HN →
Pumped hydro doesn't need a river, "just"* rock which isn't water porous and some nearby body of water (lake, sea, whatever).The economics works out even if you were lifting concrete blocks rather than water, hence why you get pictures like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Energy_Vault_Test_Tower_2...The argument against lifting concrete is that you can dig a hole in the ground an pump water in/out of it for more reliability and lower cost than having a crane lift and lower concrete, andview on HN →
Nope it’s 100% legit and I even remembered it wrong. It’s actually 0.6 TW.You can get the number of TW from this report https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumptionConvert TWh to TW for a year average.view on HN →
True, and personally, I don't believe climate science is affected by bias to such a degree that the overall conclusion is wrong. But it absolutely does occur that a whole field can be biased, so the "independent verification by lots of other researchers" will cast unreasonable skepticism on results they dislike, while letting results they like pass with cursory examination. This is the case in e.g. social science:The authors also submitted different test studies to different peer-review boards.view on HN →
I know what Colbert said, and what Colbert claims CBS said. But I feel like something is being left out.The equal time requirement wouldn’t prevent Colbert from interviewing a political candidate. And it wouldn’t require Colbert to send invitations to anybody. It would require Colbert to allow a competing political candidate to appear if the candidate demanded it.CBS could decide they don’t want that hassle. Colbert could decide he doesn’t want that hassle. But the law as it stands doesn’t preveview on HN →
I don't recall ever saying anything about Colbert. I made a general statement ("my general understanding is...") about politicians on the right and left and their general interest in going on news shows hosted by non-co-partisans.Do you disagree with that general statement?view on HN →
Indeed, you can get a sense of the scale on the Dinorwig wikipedia page and the pages it links to.It has a storage capacity of about 9.1GWh.The upper reservoir (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchlyn_Mawr) holds 9.2 million cubic meters of water.So 1 million cubic meters of water provides ~1GWh.We can see how that compares in terms of raw GPE (Gravitational Potential Energy):1 million cubic meters of water = 1E6 * 1E3 kg = 1E9 kgThere's roughly a 500m vertical drop between the upper and lower taview on HN →
The actual question is if Eaton overstepped his authority in this ruling.Instead of ruling narrowly that named plaintiffs would get a refundEaton expressly said:"all importers of record" which is all who were subject to the IEEPA duties.It is unclear if this is lawful.He didn't have to do this at all. He could stuck with tradition here. He specifies why he did it in this case, but this opens the door.Also note that he did not open the door to "final liquidations" getting refunds (it is unclear hview on HN →
> in case someone wants to get nerdsniped https://github.com/kamilazdybal/fluid-toolboxview on HN →
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/macroeconomic-implication..."There was a significant drop-off in entries to the United States in 2025 relative to 2024 and an increase in enforcement activity leading to removals and voluntary departures. We estimate that net migration was between –10,000 and –295,000 in 2025, the first time in at least half a century it has been negative."view on HN →
Have they had a lot of false positives? Almost every story I see seems to fall apart on further investigation. To be clear, I'm sure they have some false positives, but do they have a lot of them relative to any other immigration system?view on HN →
Are the people being detained in the country illegally?view on HN →
Allegedly, though the local labor unions seem to disagree. I guess we'll have to wait for the facts to come out in court.view on HN →
That sounds a lot like the infamous paper rocket comment about Falcon Heavy versus SLS being a real rocket. Meanwhile Falcon Heavy has launched something to the orbit of Mars, launched multiple (including NASA) missions to space and SLS has orbited the moon once with multiple problems.view on HN →
Do you mean like ghosts or like quantum randomness and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle?We cannot compute exactly what happens because we don't know what it is, and there's randomness. Superdeterminism is a common cop out to this. However, when I am talking about whether something is computable, I mean whether that interaction produces a result that is more complicated than a turing complete computer can produce. If it's random, it can't be predicted. So perhaps a more precise statement wouldview on HN →
> Times have changed…This makes me a little concerned -- the use of parameters rich opaque models in Physics.Ptolemaic system achieved a far better fit of planetary motion (over the Copernican system) because his was a universal approximator. Epicyclic system is a form of Fourier analysis and hence can fit any smooth periodic motion. But the epicycles were not the right thing to use to work out the causal mechanics, in spite of being a better fit empirically.In Physics we would want to do more tview on HN →
I used to be in physics but theory, not experiment. I have experience at work with decision trees in a different field.I've always thought that the idea that decision trees are "explainable" is very overstated. The moment that you go past a couple of levels in depth, it becomes an un-interpretable jungle. I've actually done the exercise of inspecting how a 15-depth decision trees makes decision, and I found it impossible to interpret anything.In a neural network you can also follow the successivview on HN →
When I worked at CERN around 2010, Boosted Decision Trees were the most popular classifier, exactly due to the (potential for) explainability along with its power of expression. We had a cultural aversion for neural networks back then, especially if the model was used in physics analysis directly. Times have changed…view on HN →
short answer: No.longer answer: Random forests use the average of multiple trees that are trained in a way to reduce the correlation between trees (bagging with modified trees). Boosting trains sequentially, with each classifier working on the resulting residuals so far.I am assuming that you meant boosted decision trees, sometimes gradient boosted decisions trees, as usually one have boosted decision trees. I think xgboost added boosted RF, and you can boost any supervised model, but it is notview on HN →
Are boosted decision trees the same as a boosted random forest?view on HN →
Amazing! The 2009 Lincoln & Joyce paper you cited catalyzes one bond per hour on average. (Doubling time = 1 hour, but only one bond between oligonucleotides needed to double.)OP's Gianni et al 2026 paper connects 45 nucleotides, taking 72 days (1700 hours) to yield 0.2%.The latter effort is like drawing the whole owl.That is incredible patience. Without access to the full article, I read only the abstract. I wonder if they used simulations to narrow the candidates?view on HN →
2009 paper: Self-sustained replication of an RNA enzyme [0].[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19131595/view on HN →
> That is misinformation. It would be essentially a death sentence for a company like Anthropic, which is targeting enterprise business development."Misinformation" does not mean "facts I don't like".> No one who wants to work with the US government would be able to have Claude on their critical path.Yes. That is what the rule means. Or at least "the department of war". It's not clear to me that this applies to the whole government.view on HN →
Maybe again because I don’t care about a source I have always operated in a way that assumes other’s aren’t telling the truth.I don’t care about how many up or down votes some comment or piece of content has. I also have never blindly trusted videos or pictures. All sources can be corrupted and as such shouldn’t be trusted without verification.Which is why I still don’t value accounts nor read user names.Even with people I personally know I have always used the phrase: “trust, but verify”view on HN →
But marking someone as foe based on their first comment might be very misleading, not to speak of good practice of discussion despite of agreement or disagreement. I'm coming to the stage of my life that I try (sometimes hardly) to speak with people with which I disagree. It's my crusade against cancel culture. People are more than one dimensional and even if we disagree on one two dimensions we might agree on others, or just play D&D together sometimeview on HN →
I was one of the solvers. It took me about a week to figure out. This is what I wrote out in my submission with the answer:> After looking at the final two layers I was somewhat quick to intuit that this was some sort of password check, but wasn’t entirely sure where to go from there. I tried to reverse it, but it was proving to be difficult, and the model was far too deep. I started evaluating the structure and saw the 64 repeated sections of 84 layers that each process 4 characters at a tiview on HN →
Well, I don't think hierarchy is prima facie evil. Conceptual hierarchy is how people think. The problem with human organizations (and "managers" and the bad rap they get) is that hierarchies are easy to corrupt by aiming at the top, and that they usually promote the wrong people-- social climbers instead of leaders.Managers get a bad rap, but good managers (possibly 10-20%) are worth their weight in gold. Bad managers are disastrous. No managers is rarely an option. "Flat" organizations tend toview on HN →
For us, the NN is used in a grey box model for MPC in chemical engineering. The factories we control have relatively long characteristic time, together with all the engineering bounds, we can use the NN to model parts of the equipment from raw DCS data. The NN modeled parts are usually not the most critical (we are 1st principles based for them) but this allows us to quickly fit/deploy a new MPC in production.Faster time to market/production is for us the main reason/advantage of the approach.view on HN →
It's actually kinda not all that mysterious. Just game theory.This book Nonzero by Robert write isbn:9780679758945 was pretty enlightening for meview on HN →
In addition to the other replies (which I agree with) about the psychological aspects, another aspect historically is that avoiding round numbers meant that change had to be given when making a purchase.I.e. if you bought something that cost $5 you could just hand the $5 to the cashier and they could just avoid ringing you up and pocket the money. In contrast if the object cost $4.99 or $4.95 say they would have to ring it up in the till so they could open it to provide change to the customer.view on HN →
Very much a laymen also, however funnily enough I was listening to a bbc program called in our time, a couple of nights ago, where a similar topic was discussed one comment was that life is carbon based and for carbon to exist a star has to die, so yes therefore we are in the early stages. Will try to fin the episode….view on HN →
Maze solving by gravity assisted literal flood-fill [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_fillview on HN →
This reminds me of this classic paper [1] "Maze Solving by Chemotactic Droplets". Oil droplets sense a chemical gradient as variation of interfacial tension, using what is commonly known as the "Tears of wine", or Marangoni effect, to propel themselves to the exit.[1] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/ja9076793view on HN →
A Neal Stephenson book named “Fall; or Dodge in Hell” explores this idea a bit.It’s a worthwhile read.view on HN →
I think this article is much more concise/less conversational on the topic:https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-measure-infini...view on HN →
There is a combination of data processing and filtering happening. It's less about whether to change one's view, and more about whether or not to accept an input. If we accept a new input, our view of things must change, or else we will become insane, mentally ill or internally inconsistent.I think we're talking about data filtration here, not data processing. Does that make sense?To expand on that, someone who gradually changes their view is a little skeptical, but can be convinced given enoughview on HN →
I added a Python library API to my LLM CLI tool recently which offers a very lightweight way to call models: https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/python-api.html import llm model = llm.get_model("gpt-3.5-turbo") model.key = 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE' response = model.prompt( "Five surprising names for a pet pelican" ) print(response.text()) Or you can stream the responses like this: response = model.prompt( "Five diabolical names for a pet goat" ) for chview on HN →
> Or, maybe I'm just having trouble visualizing a smooth surface geometry that also has few normals back? I naively assumed the "smooth" planes were enabled by better absorption materials, rather than geometry. Maybe a mix?You're not wrong. From a head-on perspective, especially from below, you'll find few if any curves. Newer stealth planes look curvier because photographs are often taken from above where the canopy is prominent, and where the top of the body and wings have some curvature. Butview on HN →
Thanks for the presentation. At the end there is a list of books by the presenter (who works at Boeing as structural engineer):- Lockheed Stealth by Bill Sweetman- America's Stealth Fighers and Bombers by James C. Goodall- Stealth Technology by J. Jones- Stealth Warplanes by Dough Richardson- The Radar Game: Understanding Stealth and Aircraft Survivability by Rebecca Grant- Skunk Works by Ben R. RichAnd by Bill Sweetman- Inside the Stealth Bomber- Joint Strike Figher- F-22 RaptorThere is also aview on HN →
The Ben Rich book is good, but the one I was thinking of, which covers technical details of stealth technology, is Peter Westwick (2020) Stealth: The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft. It is really very good.view on HN →
Related: Revealed: Exxon made ‘breathtakingly’ accurate climate predictions in 1970s and 80shttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/12/exxon-clima...view on HN →
If you found this essay interesting, you owe it to yourself to check out this super entertaining talk "Plain Text"[0] from NDC 2022 by Dylan Beattie. Rabbit hole warning: This video caused me to lose an entire Sunday watching Dylan's talks on YouTube, which are uniformly awesome.[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd5uJ7Nlvvoview on HN →
GPT-4 gave me a concise correct answer without disclaimers.This may be due to using many custom instructions like the following in ChatGPT settings:- No need to provide disclaimers about your knowledge cutoff- No need to mention you are an AI language model- Only discuss safety when it is not obvious and very important- You should act as an expert in the relevant fieldsview on HN →
this was the deepest dive we ever did into Transformers Math 101 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35631546). we mostly cover AI Engineer/inference time things on the pod, but training knowledge is hard won and extremely valuable, and I love it when experts are wiling to distill the rules of thumb for what they have learned.questions welcome!view on HN →
No, I'm afraid you are mistaken what is scary about these.People have "launch the nuke, abort the nuke, fly back to base and land safely without exploding" already. That is called a nuclear armed bomber.The scary thing about these is that their propulsion is a nuclear reactor. You know how in a jet engine the air is heated up by burning fuel? Here the air is heated up by comming into contact with the reactor. They exhaust fission products while they fly. To quote from the page: "The other majorview on HN →
also nicely covered in the Secret Life of Radio in context of the development of radio communication.https://youtu.be/LMxate9gegg?si=Z5pANQTsQGIosIcUview on HN →
Folks on YouTube cut, heat, and flatten PVC and then scratch build scale models out of it.This working excavator is rather extraordinary.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qam0DmWq_No&pp=ygUTcHZjIHBpcGU...view on HN →
Having been a member of the robot learning community both in grad school and now in industry, I'd actually like to rightfully attribute something here since it seems that TRI is (deservedly so, I will agree wholeheartely) receiving most of the praise:The core of these advancements are powered by Diffusion Policy [1], which Prof. Shuran Song's lab at Columbia (before she moved recently to Stanford) developed and pioneered. I'd suggest everyone to view the original project website [2], it has a toview on HN →
I have been imersing myself in this subject and the gist of what I got is that consciousness collapses under the reductionist process currently employed in the scientific method.Moreover, the very framework in which the current scientific work is done might well be just an emergent data structure used by what we understand as consciousness to navigate whatever the objective reality is in a way that is simpler and more effective than having to access quantum states and particle trajectories throview on HN →
Isn't this the essence of teddy-bear/rubber-duck debugging? You're forcing yourself to run your abstract concepts through the narrow channel of language and instantiating it in a way you haven't previously done (because if you had, you'd have solved the problem already and wouldn't need to be talking it through.) (I'm very specifically talking about the case where you explain and noone else contributes/responds, and you come up with the answer solely through trying to explain/speak it.)view on HN →
Tech Ingredients on YouTube built a dessicant-based air conditioning system with enough info to DIY one. https://youtu.be/R_g4nT4a28U and a full-scale test https://youtu.be/7w4rg3UcsgIview on HN →
Here’s a rabbit hole to go down on that theme - https://youtu.be/ovJcsL7vyrkThat’s my second favorite YouTube video. I love how it reveals some universal primitives are really complicated. The pattern in the video is as fundamental to the universe as circles are. Imagine how many other mind-boggling structures are ubiquitous but just outside our understanding.view on HN →
For anyone who cares enough to watch a 2 hour video on it and hasn’t seen it yet, this Rick Hartley video is the recent gold standard of explaining the issues at play:https://www.youtube.com/live/ySuUZEjARPYThe mindblowing thing to internalize is that you don’t route energy as electrons through copper traces (they move incredibly slow) but merely use the copper to guide a bunch of waves traveling outside of them, where they are up to all kinds of shenanigans like coupling, reflecting etc.view on HN →
Original author here.Back in September, I got the recommendation to read the "Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft" book from some other comment thread here in HN. I don't exactly remember which thread that was though... but learning about the history of Windows NT sounded interesting, so I bought the book right away and have been slowly reading through it over the last three months.The story in the book seemed so exciting (and messed up) thaview on HN →
It's not hype. It's a language problem that makes people like you think this way.The problem is consciousness is a vocabulary word that establishes a hard boundary where such a boundary doesn't exit. The language makes you think either something is conscious or it is not when the reality is that these two concepts are actually extreme endpoints on a gradient.The vocabulary makes the concept seem binary and makes it seem more profound then it actually is.Thus we have no problem identifying thingsview on HN →
For anyone who hasn't studied electrodynamics or advanced optics, Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown) recently made a detailed video explaining what the refractive index really means, probably the clearest reasonably accessible explanation of this topic anywhere to date:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTzGBJPuJwMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz4Q4QOuoo8The first video is really a tour de force. Too bad it saw such limited traction here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38482549view on HN →
If the goal is to move all the commits of one repo into another repo, Git provides subtree merges:https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/using-git/about-git-s...For companies that started out making lots of small repositories that want to moev incrementally to a monorepo, this strategy can be useful because it sets up the smaller repo as a self-contained unit of the larger repo, preserving things like git commit history and git blames. After a subtree merge, further steps can more tightly integrview on HN →
Speaking of Tetris, you can play it (single-player or multiplayer!) in your terminal via SSH: ssh playnetris.com Code: https://code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum/netrisview on HN →
3Blue1Brown has a nice animated video about this: https://youtu.be/KTzGBJPuJwM?si=ssBPKL8LVhsQ3wNZview on HN →
There's an interesting paper on the subject of alignment here. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4...view on HN →
I feel like I remember he complained that Japan would likely fall behind by their best and brightest going outside Japan knowing that inside they would not be compensated.My search-fu is failing though. I did find this interviewhttps://www.jsap.or.jp/jsapi/Pdf/Number02/Interview.pdfview on HN →
I've played Everyone is John for years now, and groups of friends I've played with have gone on to play with even more groups of friends. It's been a fantastic middle ground between role playing and party game, with no preplanning required and very little prep.I was surprised to find that how I've interpreted and run the game differs from videos I've seen of others' games. Not to suggest there's a right way or a wrong way, but this seems to strongly impact the flavor of gameplay.The way I've runview on HN →
To compare different dielectric liquids you would want to see the dielectric spectroscopy plots:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric_spectroscopyAnd the different types of viscosity vs temperature plots.view on HN →
I recently just started using psst which is a Spotify GUI that's much lighter. When you right click a song and go to show similar tracks u get an array of sliders corresponding to the audio analysis/features like valence, danceability, energy, etc to tweak the recommendations.It made a light and day difference for music discoverability for me, while the default spotify radio keeps giving me songs i skip instantly multiple times along with songs I've listened to a hundred times, doing this througview on HN →
I follow the lead author, Stacy McGaugh, via his blog where he posts discussions and musings about the latest research into the dark matter vs MOND debate: https://tritonstation.com/new-blog-page/His arguments are very convincing and relatively clear. I am not an astrophysicist but I have two degrees in physics and have always found the dark matter theory to be lacking -- in absence of any evidence of causation whatsoever, dark matter can only be described trivially as "where we would put matterview on HN →
just coming back to this thread, this paper is quite a good read: https://arxiv.org/html/2406.09246v3#S3and as a follow-on, this blog post by Physical Intelligence was interesting: https://www.physicalintelligence.company/blog/pi0view on HN →
in situations like that, i like to think about Berkson's paradox [0].In the overall population, bedside manner and medical aptitude are likely uncorrelated. But the individuals that fall into the quadrant of bad bedside manner AND low medical aptitude will be filtered out of the profession. That means that in the remaining population, you have an externally-induced negative correlation between bedside manner and medical aptitude.So if you find a doctor with bad bedside manner, they're likely toview on HN →
Instead, it's doomed to rot until it's replaced of rewritten.I've seen how that mindset has ruined several companies. Not saying that you're wrong about that particular program that is, after all, free software replaced by other free software parts. But for business, it's lethal.Joel Spolsky had a nice piece about it:https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...That and Fire and Motion seem to be forgotten wisdom already:https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motionview on HN →
The price really is eye watering. At a glance, my first impression is this is something like Llama 3.1 405B, where the primary value may be realized in generating high quality synthetic data for training rather than direct use.I keep a little google spreadsheet with some charts to help visualize the landscape at a glance in terms of capability/price/throughput, bringing in the various index scores as they become available. Hope folks find it useful, feel free to copy and claim as your own.https:view on HN →
This paper may be interesting to you. It touches on several of the topics you mentioned:https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.abm6597view on HN →
Which algorithm should I apply:I have no information other than the fact that my agent has a decision to make (left or right).- DFS or BFSI have some information about the cost of the decision.- UCS or Djikstra's algorithmI have some idea of the cost of the decision, and a rough idea which direction the goal is in.- A starAs well as knowing the cost, and a rough idea of the direction, I also know that I have a uniform cost grid.- Jump point searchview on HN →
Impressive. JC is always one of the engineers I look up to and read up to when depressed.John Carmack, David Cutler, Tom West, Cameron Zwarich, etc. There are about maybe 50 of them.view on HN →
Some people are even considering this as a possibly viable path to compute on memory.For example: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu4323view on HN →
>>"The real wonder is in the human mind that constructs reality from fragments, that can be fooled by a flourish, but that can also be illuminated by experiment. "Beautiful.view on HN →
You might want to try Linear Algebra Done Right by Sheldon Axler. It's a short book, succinct but extremely clear and approachable. It explains Linear Algebra without using determinants, which are relegated to the end, and emphasises understanding the powerful ideas underpinning the subject rather than learning seemingly arbitrary manipulations of lists and tables of numbers.Those manipulations are of course extremely useful and worth learning, but the reasons why, and where they come from, willview on HN →
I'm an applied math PhD who thinks linear algebra is the best thing ever, and it's the nuts and bolts of modern AI, so for fun and profit I'll attempt a quick cheat sheet.To manage expectations, this won't be very satisfying by itself. You have to do a lot of exercises for this stuff to become second nature. But hopefully it at least imparts a sense that the topic is conceptually meaningful and not just a profusion of interacting symbols. For brevity, we'll pretend real numbers are the only numbview on HN →
Yet another one of those POSIX and ISO things that most people don't bother to know about.https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/basedefs/V1...view on HN →
There was a video on this motor recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4OdH0ibOBk made by a phd in the fieldview on HN →
When my friends and I were undergrads (3rd year, I believe), we had an absolute blast exploring this exact topic - the intersection of Bloom Filters and client side searching. So much so that it became part of our undergrad thesis.It all started when Stavros's blog was circulated on Hacker News! The way we approached the search part was by using "Spectral Bloom Filters" - https://theory.stanford.edu/~matias/papers/sbf-sigmod-03.pdf - which is based on a paper by Saar Cohen and Yossi Matias fromview on HN →
Whenever the pigeon-hole principle is name dropped, we should also drop Dijkstra's commentary The undeserved status of the pigeon-hole principle.https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD109...view on HN →
On iOS there’s an app literally called “Aurora”.It will notify you when you’re in an area with a high Kp (or above a Kp you specify).view on HN →
This channel has a more detailed coverage of what goes down in the fieldhttps://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ04J62_rG0AwQ57wb8Rxp7...This particular vid is a sort of FAQhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wg4GSXtpQzQview on HN →
Fun old project but the technology has improved[0] since then.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgQbPdiuUTwview on HN →
Lesser known but possibly more relevant to most HN readers are Feynman's lectures on computation - https://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Gentoomen%20Library/Extra/Richard... . There's some really great explanations in there of computability, information theory, entropy, thermodynamics, and more. Very little of it is now out-dated.view on HN →
Apropos of Feynman on computing, the story of his time working at Thinking Machines Corp https://longnow.org/ideas/richard-feynman-and-the-connection...“For our first seminar he invited John Hopfield, a friend of his from CalTech, to give us a talk on his scheme for building neural networks. In 1983, studying neural networks was about as fashionable as studying ESP, so some people considered John Hopfield a little bit crazy. Richard was certain he would fit right in at Thinking Machines Corporatview on HN →
Check out Rustler Grand Theft Horse on the Epic Games Store, it's the same top-down format, very GTA-like but set in medieval times, yet has all of the modern banter. It's so great.view on HN →
> The final piece of the puzzle is gamma correction. Applying gamma correction to these RGB coordinates produces a new set of values which we call (R', G', B') that are related to the original by a transfer function 6 ... The reason this is done is to account for how our eyes perceive brightness nonlinearly. We can distinguish changes in dark shades much more easily than light shades because a linear increase R in has much more of a relative effect when R is small. Switching to (R', G', B') therview on HN →
This video is a really cool dive into EUV for the uninitiated (me) https://youtu.be/MiUHjLxm3V0?si=kEPSicC2WXYhcQ6Lview on HN →
I think it's mostly from aerodynamics. Lowering the car could help but even just smaller rims, with the same overall diameter (rim + tire), can have a 15% impact on range. This Engineering Explained[1] video does an okay job with some of the math but he clarifies it well with a comment:> CLARIFICATION! Why do bigger wheels mean worse efficiency, when the overall tire diameter remains the same? This comes down to aerodynamics. A 20" wheel will cause more of a disruption in airflow than an 18" wheview on HN →
I'd suggest to move even beyond "engage/ignore".This is HN. The focus should be "does this person provide interesting or thought provoking comments", not "relationships" or "engagement".There are plenty of HN commenters whose opinions I absolutely dislike (I'm sure it's mutual ;), but I still read them - they are at least well reasoned or point out missing facts. I don't have to like them to learn from them.view on HN →
If you think software performance is a solved problem today, there is nothing more I have to say.Consumer software is slower than ever. And only getting worse.view on HN →
> Say you were interviewing a human, to see how capable they were.Even if this was a good idea when applied to humans (it's not), LLMs aren't humans, and I worry about people who don't understand the difference.view on HN →
YES , true, folks get into deep debates on gui vs cli , but use what ever makes you truly more productive... it is personal choice and preference , not one tool fits allview on HN →
This is why LLMs are shit. They get between you and everything and turn it into a negotiation.view on HN →
It should be point based and go to the next word instead of killing the game.view on HN →
> Not really, those games are very simple code wise. A high schooler could do it (source me).That very much depends on how much they did themselves. If they used unity, and went very light on the simulation, sure.> You could make a bullet hell game engine as a project in an intro CS course.No you couldn’t. Well you could but it wouldn’t be appropriate for actual beginners unless you stripped it down so much that calling it an engine was meaningless.view on HN →
This blog post further undermines my trust in Jarred.He makes it sound like Claude did a fantastic Rust rewrite, and "the work continues."But when the Rust port merged to main, the state of the code was very, very bad. There were 13,000 instances of `unsafe`, no Miri tests at all, and, sure enough, it exposed UB in safe Rust. https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/30719Observers could see this coming from a mile away, objected strongly to using AI to RIIR before the code merged. Rather than incorview on HN →
As expected [0] [1], this was a clear advertisement / marketing opportunity of Anthropic's Fable model on rewriting Bun (which powers Claude Code) from Zig into Rust.Something that would have taken hundreds of developers now took 1 developer with Fable.Now Claude, rewrite Claude Code from TypeScript to Rust. Make absolutely zero mistakes.[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073893[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48240829view on HN →
You can see the size difference in the number of files https://app.principal-ade.com/oven-sh/bunview on HN →
This slop rewrite introduced new vulnerabilities and regressions.view on HN →
Solved! Now Meta is a pro-privacy company. /sIt is 10 years too late to trust Meta on anything.view on HN →
The ultimate solution is banning these pedo-oriented spy products.view on HN →
I didn't think there was much on/about the internet and devices that I was ignorant on but I literally never thought about it like this..."It's a literal felony if you were to hand a kid a porno, gore/death videos, etc, but handing a kid a phone with unrestricted internet is completely fine for > 50% of parents [1]. And, the children of these failed parents go around the schools showing other children "shock" videos to get their reactions, like (an example I know) another child being murdered, oview on HN →
if it's not exactly 1000 words, then no skill is involved and the writers may as well be published by Penguin or HarperColins or something.view on HN →
The fact that the site was obviously spat out by Claude and AI is explicitly not disallowed means this isn't worth paying any human attention to at all.view on HN →
> take full advantage of the wealth of knowledge provided by the internetSeems like a bit of a stretch in modern times. Do you have any idea what percentage of traffic is TikTok/YouTube/Facebook?view on HN →
I'm not sure that's "catching on". One would think that if they can't reliably offer a service, they shouldn't be offering it in the first place.view on HN →
You can't prove something is/isn't created with AI.Also, if AI generated content cannot be copyrighted, they can't infringe copyright as wellview on HN →
So your stance seems to be "It's okay to fund Nazis as long as you like what they have to say about the trains running on time."I understand that you want to defend you business and your friend, but signing up with the Nazi party means you sign up with all of it. I find it highly unlikely your cofounder was unaware of the rest of the racist and viscous rhetoric when he opened his checkbook to buy the party the equivalent of a house.Mullvad likely makes good money, but thats not a casual "I readview on HN →
Are you honestly surprised that roughly 0 HN users read that, or that they are loudly complaining about this, likely without even reading beyond the headline of this post?view on HN →
Cause of all the theists at cellview on HN →
> Exoplanets also aren't planets.Imagine writing this.view on HN →
> "The reality is this is world-ending technology and absolutely nobody knows what to do or can even agree that the problem exists."The reality is that the "people in power" believe it is "world-ending technology" and will therefore use it in world-ending ways. People are absolutely 100% the danger here, not the technology.view on HN →
Similarly, the Claude app for iOS tries to force you through a mandatory onboarding where you're required to set your account name among other things. I've never needed this to use the CLI or the web app so I have no idea why they think they need it on iOS. There's seemingly no way to bypass this, so on iOS I've had to use Claude in Safari. Ridiculous.view on HN →
surprise! the ai companies that stole every conceivable copywritten work to train their models doesn't want you to be able to have any privacy either.view on HN →
That's about the level of respect the tech industry has for usersview on HN →
> hysterical. The intent of this steg is excruciatingly clearEven good goals do not excuse malicious or reckless execution. The ends do not always justify the means.Whether or not it harmed you this time, it's a violation of trust and autonomy.Surely you'd be angry if someone secretly installed a rootkit onto your computer, even if--at least for now--it only had code to try to detect and snitch on Public Enemy #1.view on HN →
Copying over my comment from elsewhere in this post:Anthopic choosing to delay their models' invevitable distillation by competitors is their prerogative.That they choose to implement it by fingerprinting my access patterns without first disclosing is where they shit the bed. It isn't "sneaky" it's straight up sneaky (and dishonest and unscrupulous while we're at it). That this particular instance is harmless doesn't give me much comfort. Who's to say they aren't harvesting PII?That their actionview on HN →
"The harsh sentence for a defendant who wasn’t even at the Prairieland protest"The proud boys leader, that spent 5 years in prison for J6, wasn't even at the protest.shrugview on HN →
> Uh, I think firing a gun at someone is a bit more than "inciting violence", more like attempted murder?The shot cop had drawn a gun on someone who was running away.The judge didn’t even permit the defense to argue “defense of self or others” as a justification.view on HN →
It should be obvious that it is utterly incompatible with the values and mission of Mullvad for a Mullvad executive to give a large amount money from Mullvad customers to advance public policy with the primary and direct intent to restrict freedom of expression.view on HN →
sorry but your argument is sophomoric and disingenuous. and your absurd complaint about "killing" makes it pretty clear you're not engaging in good faith.view on HN →
Why are we assuming only American labs can innovate? DeepSeek already innovated a lot in efficiency, for example.view on HN →
How so? You'll soon have your choice of a very old OAI model or a new Chinese model, because the USG has no interest in letting you access the newest models without explicit permission.view on HN →
LLMs might have nothing to do with the linguistic part of the brain by the way.view on HN →
It will be difficult to build it that small, however you will end up with a PC that doesn’t use proprietary hardware and is easier to repair. There is something to say about that.view on HN →
If anything this is MORE evidence that the infinite money printer will be coming online any second now! Yep aaaaany second now... OH THERE IT- awww one of you guys wasn't praying hard enough.view on HN →
Sam didn't lie, they are in fact a non profit.view on HN →
You walk in, as the EU, and assume control of the facility, by force if needed. The value is that the capacity exists within the bounds of your nation state control.China knows this, developed countries that lost their manufacturing capacity are relearning this.view on HN →
Maybe they could have included an option to switch between GC implementations, like Java had done before.Maybe in all those years they could have thought of that.view on HN →
The beauty IMO of LLMs as a computational surface, is the ease of generating the data to feed it. Everyone understands how to create natural language records already.view on HN →
> No lelanthran, software engineering and plumbing are not the same job. No lelanthran, LLMs can't be plumbers.Who said that?More to the point, how many plumbers does society need?view on HN →
Personally, it would still bother me if some lazy bro hit a code-generator and people end up dead.For context search, I find LLM quite useful... still wrong 20% of the time... but it has some utility.Here is a thought experiment: If "AI" will eventually generate your work, than what actual value do you bring to the table? =3view on HN →
> There are definitely cognitive feedback loopsHave you read the article in question. It is saying that for one continuous thought, the brain will use different part of the brain to do different thing. It does not say that there is a "loop controler" anywhere. On the contrary, it illustrates that there is no loop controller: there is not special brain function that control this loop, this loop is "how the brain works", and LLM don't do that, they are incapable to do that, it is not how they workview on HN →
If you need to use an "agentic platform" I'd recommend that you get accustomed to reading and writing without one.If you can't one-shot your problem with the free LLM that Google gives you, you're jerking yourself off.Just write it the old fashioned way.view on HN →
Luckily, I have a similar blog post about memory system as well https://markhuang.ai/blog/ai-memory-beyond-ragview on HN →
Great post! Agent memory is a chaotic space right now, every library claims to have solved it, and the comparisons usually stop at feature checklists. This post goes back to first principles instead, and it shows. The procedural-memory audit and the forgetting reframe are the kind of clarity the field needs more of.view on HN →
> I have a weird background mix of analytic philosophy, linguistics/NLP, propaganda research, and long-term institutional data science/strategy work, which unfortunately does not make ATS systems especially low-friction as I try to jump industries.There's a choice to be made between helpfully defeating someone's ATS and searching for more clueful employers. I'll probably be walking paper resumes into local offices next time around anyhow.view on HN →
OpenAI uses stainless for at least some of their SDKs.view on HN →
People usually drive slow too through flooded sections. They don't have the advantage of any descent of the car diverging from HD maps, or any water level visually below HD map surface serving as an immediate warning.view on HN →
not understanding written words is one thing, but your lack of basic maths is appallingview on HN →
Interesting history of how Los Alamos evolved from wartime nuclear physics into one of the major U.S. centers for medical isotope production.The article covers:early stable isotope work that helped enable NMR/MRI, the production of strontium-82 for cardiac PET imaging, the chemistry challenges of extracting isotopes from irradiated targets, and newer alpha-emitting cancer therapeutics like actinium-225.One thing I didn’t appreciate before reading this: many medical isotopes have half-lives shortview on HN →
The initial cost for a dark fibre on a power pool is very low and can give you low latency and high bandwidth.Starlink antenna needs a lot more energy and has a high montly cost.That shouldn't be very economically for long.view on HN →
Lol. Dramatics and accusation and you expect people to take you seriously… All this does is pour serious doubt over the veracity of the links you posted.view on HN →
Huh? Why wouldn’t they just spin up the current help-desk darling? (Intercom) Rolling their own seems silly.view on HN →
Slowly clawing back liberties against this fascist administration.view on HN →
And you didn't invest anything in polish, quality and reliability before... why? Because for any questions people have you reply something like "I have Claude working on this right now" and have no idea what's happening in the code?A reminder: your vibe-coded slop required peak 68GB of RAM, and you had to hire actual engineers to fix it.view on HN →
Boris, wait, wait, wait,Why not use tired cache?Obviously storage is waaay cheaper than recalculation of embeddings all the way from the very beginning of the session.No matter how to put this explanation — it still sounds strange. Hell — you can even store the cache on the client if you must.Please, tell me I’m not understanding what is going on..otherwise you really need to hire someone to look at this!)view on HN →
I’m having a hard time coming up with a better way. Simply banning all manufacturing and import is not going to work when it’s heavily addictive. In the case of alcohol, quitting cold can kill you.Banning it today and expecting people to cope, or attempt to fund recovery efforts for a whole nation would completely misunderstand the addicts mind. If you don’t want to quit, you never will.Instead we have a total ban that is timeboxed to allow the addicts the rest of their lives to quit one way orview on HN →
PSA to iOS users: if you tap the lock button 5x it forces password-only unlocking. Useful at protests or any precarious situations with law enforcement.view on HN →
Mars is so bad, y'all.view on HN →
And from my side of politics it seems like every thread about that group has a handful of dick riders who will stand for zero criticism of their cult leaders.view on HN →
Suspicion, doubt and negativity is the default for this administration not the exception, for legitimate reasons.It's always hard to get tell with you people whether your attempt at trolling is based on willful ignorance, maliciousness or immaturity. Probably all three.view on HN →
Too many fake naked Elon Musks nowadays, Tim Cook was just protecting Elon's innocence ;-)view on HN →
Yeah, I don’t advocate criminal behavior either but I don’t understand how these troublesome priests aren’t rid of by, like…everyone.view on HN →
> I don't want to stop Flock the company. I want to stop Flock the business model, along with all the other mass surveillance, and the data brokers.Then you want to stop the company.Which is reasonable.view on HN →
Wait, where is there a 'beta' tag to something that they are charging real money for? Why is this software any different than any other software and we should completely give away our rights as a consumer to ensure what we pay for is delivered?view on HN →
Where in the U.S. Constitution are HOAs considered a level of the U.S. government?They are an extra-governmental organization whose very existence is un-Constitutional. Where in the Constitution is it provided for that an association of henny penny busybodies and Karens could be established in a neighborhood that can never be escaped from, disbanded, or legally challenged?In fact 90% of what the U.S. government does is un-Constitutional, especially including any attempt to ban smoking in multifaview on HN →
This isn't even that new. Part of the motivation for building autonomous nuclear response programs during the cold war was specifically to remove accountability, and guilt, from human operators. But AI does bring it to a new level.view on HN →
Specially AI Hallucination bombs, that hit a park named "Police Park", because it thinks it's killing policemen[1], or a children school with Shahed in the name[2], because it thinks It has something to do with drones.[1] https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2029575052535173364[2] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/6/elementary-school-in...view on HN →
> Gatestone Institute is an American far-right think tank known for publishing anti-Muslim articles.> The organization has attracted attention for publishing false or inaccurate articles, some of which were shared widely.> The Gatestone Institute has been frequently described as anti-Muslim, regularly publishes false reports to stoke anti-Muslim fears, and has published false stories pertaining to Muslims and Islam.- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatestone_InstituteThe US and Israel have repeateview on HN →
It seems to me that you realized at the end that "their reach to [you] personally is [absolutely not] diminished".view on HN →
This is a poor take. "You can make this mismanaged steaming pile of bot-infested garbage better if you just filter everything!"view on HN →
Astounds me that anyone is still using that platform after seeing how Musk treated the engineers when he took over.view on HN →
well put. if their mission is to help protect vulnerable communities, and the effort to post on X is near zero ( it can be automated or take just a moment manually), they are betraying their mission to help protect as many vulnerable communities as possible.view on HN →
This Hunter Biden shit is a good example. It was all over the place all the time. I don't even live in the US and kept stumbling on people talking about it in social media.Conservative talking points are everywhere, even when I try to avoid them myself (for example, on fucking YouTube I am often recommended right wing bullshit when I view anything more political).Right wingers are always very soy. For people that for years complained about oppression olympics they can't seem to stop crying aboutview on HN →
Those "conservative opinions" were usually violent hate speech. There was no shortage of "conservative opinions" pre-buyout.I think people were just upset certain figures were held to the TOS.view on HN →
Politics is all-encompassing. You don’t get to declare your beliefs privileged and above contestation. We always have to fight these battles.view on HN →
It's even clearer if you put it next to a clip of Hitler.https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/1i6par1/elon_musk_vs_...view on HN →
My grandparents were pretty WASPy, conservative people who lived in northern Idaho. And they hated the white supremacist/neonazi groups up there with a burning passion. They were of an age to remember people going off to fight in Germany and Asia against that kind of ideology.They would have been absolutely appalled and ashamed to see a business leader throwing those salutes and backing it up with talk of a "white homeland" and similar comments.I find it deeply dismaying that people consider thaview on HN →
While they work on getting it to tell the time they'll just be over there listing targets for military strikes.view on HN →
just a rumor, but i heard altman was adding a timer which required the R&D dept. to tripleview on HN →
Tell me you're losing market share to competitors without telling me you're losing market share to competitorsview on HN →
Can you guys remind me again why you're doing this?view on HN →
It really feels like LLMs will mostly become tools for tech workers rather than the kind of civilization-level transformation sama has been peddling. Every single comment here seems to confirm the above.view on HN →
For me it's not the price. It's the fact that they obviously read my prompts and may even use a derived version of my data for training. As it's very clear in the meantime that SAMA lies most of the time, there's just no way I can trust this company in any way.view on HN →
I assume in any sort of thread on a topic like this there is going to be inorganic activity. These companies are all fighting rather hard to try to gain marketshare, potentially worth $trillions, with a product fully capable of producing endless reasonably compelling content to populate an account, a website, or any other basic proof of identity one might ever want.It's probably never been the case that plurality of views meant anything since online is a bubble to begin with, filtered by endlessview on HN →
It's interesting seeing all the ChatGPT users in this thread, knowing what we know about OpenAI. Either they don't care about what OpenAI does, don't know their reputation, or feel like their use is too insignificant to matter.view on HN →
I mean... insiders are betting on war crimes. Yes, the insider betting is bad but it doesn't even touch the edges compared to committing war crimes. And if the government is committing war crimes, why would they care about something so inconsequential as betting on them?view on HN →
So you admit then that using as much solar and wind and storage as possible reduces the need for imported gas. As such it should be a national priority.view on HN →
Is 5min charge and 500mile range enough to finally stop the usual procession of objections to EVs? I know this is a luxury model and the charging stations will take awhile to roll out, but the trajectory is crystal clear and the momentum fast.Where’s the usual comments claiming that hybrids are the true way forward?view on HN →
Of course this garbage country does that to their citizens. I hope everyone involved drops dead.view on HN →
That's exactly it. They admitted supplying anti-government rebels with weapons.Imagine a country comes and arm a group in the US to rebel against the government..view on HN →
US president, holding nukes and saying things like "whole civilization will die tonight" is just state terrorism of the worst kind, ... so far, yes. It may become a war crime of genocide. Not sure why should I or anyone wait and see, before issuing sweeping comments about all of america, which made this possible, by working hard to building up the military capable of doing it and giving power to nutjob issuing the threats.Be sure that this US threat is not just against Iran, it's a US threat agiview on HN →
China could definitely do this, to offset the minuscule of the destruction they do with the dark fishing fleets around (and possibly in) protected marine areas.view on HN →
Isn't it obvious? They already offer financing on new machines with the Apple Card. You can put your iPhone or new Mac on an installment program. It's been around since at least 2020.view on HN →
Imagine if all service providers were behaving like this.> Ahh, sorry we broke your workflow.> We found that `log_level=error` was a sweet spot for most users.> To make it work as you expect it so, run `./bin/unpoop` it will set log_level=warnview on HN →
Back in 2004, we—Mozilla—made Google the default search engine in Firefox. It wasn’t just a product decision; it was a strategic revenue play. At the time, we were monetizing search real estate, and Google was the clear leader. The deal became the backbone of our income, eventually bringing in nearly $300 million annually by 2017 and later scaling to an estimated $400–$450 million per year through 2023. For over a decade, this partnership accounted for the vast majority of Mozilla’s revenue—arouview on HN →
The space program exists for politcal reasons and political reasons only. The moonlanding was an act of propaganda designed to radicalize american into a belief in the indominability of American technological supremacy.Now, whatever American supremacy stood for in 1969, these days it stand for genocide and childrape. The US, it's space program, it's tech industry, and silicon valley have all suffered a great deal of reputational damage.So showing up on a public forum to circle-jerk about it is pview on HN →
I would be more depressed if, looking at the current political landscape this corner decided to be entirely alienated or oblivious to the environment in which this massive achievement is made.view on HN →
>Focus on the people who foment and benefit from this division and distractionyour comment is entirely politcal, i.e. contributing more to the problem.qui bono? we for sure don't bono.view on HN →
>> Rather than assigning blame I think it's fair to ask the people here to behaveFirst, are you not doing just that - blaming the people here for making you unhappy?Second, you're welcome to demand this, but they/we are just as welcome to tell you to piss off.view on HN →
The trouble with openai is that by using them, you're supporting fascism.view on HN →
Very cool thread. Middle school jokes and culture wars. I’m so glad we don’t allow political threads on here and can instead bask in the intellectual might of people talking about TV man the did/didn’t like.view on HN →
I’m actually surprised to see him being revered on HN. Over the last few years, Chuck has come out as a supporter of the MAGA movement, as well as of views opposing gay marriage and the Boy Scouts’ inclusion of non-straight members. I’m neither gay nor conservative, but I genuinely never enjoyed those Chuck Norris jokes 20 years ago, and I probably never maintained friendships with people who idolized Chuck.view on HN →
“We’d like to keep the circumstances private”Yes, but now I’m like, super suspicious.view on HN →
You're probably right, but that's not the usual wording you hear. Of course, when grieving, proper proofreading may not be (nor should it be) at the top of anyone's list.view on HN →
They usually don't put it like that, though. It's usually just "please respect our privacy during this difficult time", etc.view on HN →
What exactly made him a "class act"?Was it the part where he wanted public schools to force the Bible on everyone's children, regardless of their family's faith?Or was it the part where he attacked the Boy Scouts for lifting their ban on gay members, because he broadly hates the LGBTQ+ community?Or, likewise, when he staunchly supported Prop 8, because he felt that the government should enforce strict "traditional family values", and deny consenting adults he doesn't like to marry each other?Orview on HN →
> Does being a good person also mean agreeing with your politics?Can we stop framing human rights as "politics"? People hating on others because they don't like that they're gay or trans or black or brown... that's just people being fundamentally awful people, and has nothing to do with politics.The fact that they are then taking their awfulness and engaging politically to enshrine their awful views into law just adds another dimension to it.I said this in another comment: if these people withview on HN →
Oh, for sure. MAGA types think some of my views are absolutely abhorrent. I'm pretty sure there are a few cultures that would kill me for my views.Just because they hate me, though, doesn't mean I can't disagree with their position.view on HN →
Chuck Norris promising the USA will have 1,000 years of darkness if Obama wins in 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ae9b-B_EQ0view on HN →
https://www.thepinknews.com/2021/01/13/chuck-norris-homophob...view on HN →
It's depressing your comment is being shadowed. You'd think the HN crowd would be more intellectual. Chuck Norris did have shitty views.view on HN →
Chuck Norris was no role model, unless you want your young men to grow up as fascist Christian nationalist homophobes.view on HN →
He was openly maga and a homophobe and a transphobe. I wouldn’t consider these qualities for a role model.view on HN →
It's pure irrationality.The only winning move is not to play - leave behind all the Windows and Apples garbage, and life gets remarkably better. I'm almost 6 months in switching from Windows to Linux and it's so awesome that my computer doesn't fight me anymore. I've done 10% of the troubleshooting under Linux that I had to do under Windows, and that was just early on; once things work, they stay working, and there's no sense of dread about what was going to break next after every patch Tuesday.view on HN →
I'm somewhat surprised that Windows is still most of personal computers. In my eyes, it's fundamentally inferior to Linux, and its superficial superiority only comes from the ecosystem, which is to say adoption, not some inherent trait. But then, since Linux adoption didn't meaningfully change in the last 20 years, I'm forced to confront the fact that either I'm wrong about its fundamentals, or the market is able to be irrational for longer than I find reasonable. Either way, Windows in my mind,view on HN →
Only the (a?) sweet spot if you'd otherwise already be a two-car household.(And the larger gas vehicle can still be a non-plug-in hybrid.)view on HN →
Fair, I forgot about aphantasia! The whole plan for AGI is still built on creaky eugenic foundations: measuring intelligence to distinguish who is "intelligent" and who is not. The whole idea of "human baselines" from the paper is terrifying, they even start it by excluding people without a high school degree! Looking at their 10 cognitive faculties ontology, there is no reason why people with lower education levels should be excluded...view on HN →
AGI is defined now as "whatever makes 1 trillion dollars of profit".view on HN →
The Trump admin has found a neat loophole where they ignore the supreme court when they don’t like what the ruling isview on HN →
kinda the same technique Democrats want to use as well with their "pack the SCOTUS" campaigns. They want to shove a bunch more justices in there so they can get their way.I hate how weaponized each side is. We desperately need a viable 3rd party that can win elections and hold seats + put age limits on the majority of these political positions like POTUS. Our country should not be ran by 80 year olds in the House, Senate, or POTUS.view on HN →
Well yes, but by republicans on Trumps behalf. Not allowing Obama to put a new judge forward in the last year of his term, and then allowing Trump to with even less time left in his term is just a chef's kiss of hypocrisy.view on HN →
Most of 19th and early-20th century history, which is very much recent history.Look up:- The Haymarket Affair- The Homestead Strike- The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire- The Ludlow Massacre- The Battle of Blair MountainYou could also simply have taken the quote you were responding to and run it through a few LLMs to acquire those examples.view on HN →
I strive to be understood, and my streams of thought are often weird and generally intractable. Nobody really wants to read that; nobody wants the deep threads required to explain it.I value reading novel and interesting thoughts and ideas. I don't feel "tricked" when I read something of substance or thought provoking, even if LLM generated and decorated with the platitudes and common forms for dull readers.view on HN →
Well as of right now, mathematically and scientifically, the way an LLM works has nothing to do with how the human brain works.view on HN →
You're hitting on something important. The pattern with most "AI at work" rollouts is: here's a new tool, now do more with it. The workload doesn't shrink — it just shifts from one kind of effort to another, plus you now babysit the AI output.The Amazon case is a perfect example. They bolted AI onto existing workflows and expected productivity gains, but what employees actually got was more review cycles and cleanup work.I think the distinction is whether AI replaces a tedious step entirely or jview on HN →
Everyone here is so far from a normie it is almost painful. Dead internet is an outcome of supply and demand.The fundamental issue is that a plurality of humans pref the direction things have gone and are moving in. Is it a good direction? By this crowd’s standards, no.To be clear, i dont like either but when i watch the speed kids swap between 5 insta accounts and 3 reddit accounts, it seems the majority are happy with it.view on HN →
For once a "this is a very HN" comment seems earned but I think it just marks you at not really the target audience for HNOne of the reason we come to HN is that curiosity and caring about details is rewarded and makes for great discussionAlso your comment has no substance. I stand totally unimpressed by your opposition between the whole and the details and I fail to see how this is relevant. Care to explain what tackling the whole would look like ?Or are you just trying to handwawe away some poview on HN →
Boulder is not a town you generally want to upset, I would expect this to have an outsized inverse impact compared to what the White House expects over the long term.view on HN →
This language could mog the ASU frat leader into a career ending cortisol spike. Clav finally has some clapback after getting trolled by an foids all day.view on HN →
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wallHumpty Dumpty had a great fallAll the king's horses and all the king's menCouldn't put Humpty together again--It's going to take a lot of glue to try to put the United States together again.view on HN →
>> NASCAR is awesome. Don't diss NASCARNASCAR used to be about bootlegging criminals who knew how to hotrod shit & liked to say fuck the police & the fedsNow it’s a bunch of repressed homosexual retards who love sucking the cops/feds dicksIt could use being done away with for the time being, until it can return to its roots.view on HN →
> eat what you like and be sure to get a lot of fiber each daySure sounds like another fad diet.view on HN →
This is just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigues%27_rotation_formulaview on HN →
I'm really glad random HN commenters know it better than someone that built a language that has been used in thousands of products.view on HN →
Please don't make excuses for literal evil p*dophile megacorporations. There is plenty of low hanging fruit, and even if there wasn't, this issue is important enough that if they can't fix it they should go out of business.1. They can just disable chat for non age verified accounts. Done. Problem fixed. Oh, but they'll lose money, won't they? That takes precedence over child safety.2. The community is willing to help. You can find examples of independent actors uncovering tens of thousands of NSview on HN →
The ideal system as far as I'm concerned is one that regulates Roblox out of existence for a variety of sins.At this point I'm just waiting for someone to dig up a name associated with Roblox in the Epstein files, because that's the only way I can conceive of how they've managed to avoid getting shut down this long.view on HN →
Many programmers believe that math is the best way to solve problems or order the world or whatever. There are lots of real 20 year olds out there using chatbots to "optimize" their humanities learning, or to "optimizing" using dating apps. It's a fact about this audience. Some people have a very myopic point of view, however, it coheres with certain cultural forces, overlapping with people of specific ethnic heritages, who are from California and New York, go to fancy school and post online, toview on HN →
It is indeed a hard provlem. No low hanging fruit. There certainly not alone, but have a bigger issue with grooming and predation since half of all kids use their platform.It would be an easy problem if the government put in place sensible reforms for age verification.view on HN →
> "Ramping up" means planned to increase.No it doesn't. It means increasing.view on HN →
I mean, the EIA says "U.S. generation fueled by coal increased by 13% in 2025 to 731 BkWh"The article you linked is mostly about a model of 2026 and 2027 and sure, in the model coal goes away but that's not a fact about coal it's just a model.view on HN →
So ... we're going to try even harder to put humans in harm's way?view on HN →
I have the opposite experience, the amount of AI boosters deriding the less enthusiastic, gleefully exclaiming how someone will be "left behind" if they don't immediately adopt the latest hype cycle, or sharing AI slop and either embellishing or outright lying about it's capabilities is making me want to log off forever. "Handwritten code? Don't you only care about providing maximum shareholder value?" No.view on HN →
Fair. But finally we are seeing what LLM proponents are putting forward.And it’s exactly what I expected - lines of code. Cute. But… so what? This is not good for the AI hype and nor any continued support for future investment.On the other hand all this stuff is going to drive continual innovation. The more tokens generated the more model producers invest. And we might eventually get to a place of local models.view on HN →
Some of them definitely do not. Like a fictional encyclopedia? What is the point of that? That's like "an alphabetical novel".And even for the ones that might "beat the rap", I don't understand from your descriptions why they are interesting or unique. A voice note recorder? Cool. There are already hundreds if not thousands of those, why did you need to make your own in the first place? I'm not saying that yours isn't special, I'm just saying that it doesn't help to post the blandest desview on HN →
The US is in an excellent position to massively harness wind and solar and yet right now it's dialing up the coal usage. I am comfortable celebrating Iceland's decision to not be maliciously dependent on fossil fuels.view on HN →
It's more important to understand why they're emitting so much of that CO2 - because a lot of people in China need to eat and have a roof over their heads.Any analysis that fails to take per-capita into account is not made in good faith.view on HN →
Sorry, I assumed the comment was clear, with your comment above. Here's what I meant: > By your definition every machine has a type of general intelligence. Not just a bog standard calculator, but also my broom. I really don't know of any human that can out perform a standard calculator at calculations. I'm sure there are humans that can beat them in some cases, but clearly the calculator is a better generalized numeric calculation machine. A task that used to represent a significant amount ofview on HN →
It's a culture thing, nobody on the right would ever be convinced by science, they will shop around until they find what they need to hear. My sister in law sent me a video and told me that she thought it was a really good explainer and had a lot of good facts and figures to support it. To humor her, I took a brief glance at it, and saw that it was produced by Dr. Shiva. I was thinking "no way, it can't be that Shiva, could it, email guy?" Yes, yes it was.We are doomed.view on HN →
People wouldn't just lie on the internet!view on HN →
Because they are practicing the reverse scientific method. They hold a conclusion in their hand, like, man-made climate change is a hoax, and seek to find any threads of "evidence" that support their foregone conclusion.view on HN →
Ironically, those still unconvinced of the human influence on climate change seem to be the sort that would trust the basement randos more than they would reputable scientistsview on HN →
Is it? Citizens in Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota have ~3x the voting power as citizens of California, seems pretty easy to win many of the things you mentioned on rural townships.view on HN →
You’re saying Republican politicians are demanding to be interviewed by Steven Colbert? And even if they were, that would matter? (I would think Mr. Colbert would love to have a bunch of R politicians lined up to skewer on his show.)view on HN →
This is higly abusive. Talks shows have been generally considered exempt from the Equal Time provision since the Regan administration. It it was applied consistently Fox News is basically violating it 24 hours a day.view on HN →
What're you going to do about it?view on HN →
This. We are in very serious trouble people.view on HN →
> It appears that CBS sees equal airtime as a very serious threat to their programming.This seems very dubious given the recent ownership change of CBS and the lack of reason behind the decision. The point the parent comment brings up is that "equal airtime" requires that someone actually request to go on the show and be refused. There is no legitimate cover for CBS' decision as this did not occur. It seems incredibly likely to be one made in fear of political liability rather than legal.view on HN →
Doesn't apply to late night shows.view on HN →
The problem is that the policy will not be challenged if people accept it as legitimate. Talk shows aren't common enough or important enough that a challenge is guaranteed to come. And so the ratchet of authoritarian takeover advances a little bit further, as Donald Trump works towards his quite explicit goal of making it illegal for the media to say bad things about him.view on HN →
> It's like how the minority of Left-leaning people who burn cars and shoot public speakers are what most on the Right see the entire democrat party as.That's the result of well known disinformation tactics by certain media in concert with police forces: wait or provoke a violent outburst in a otherwise peaceful protest, often triggered by carefully planned repetitive police charges, then be ready to film when protesters discharge their frustration against what they have nearby like shops windowview on HN →
I find the death of 2016 conservatism and the advent of the extremist, more violent and hateful republicanism very interesting. It's like how the minority of Left-leaning people who burn cars and shoot public speakers are what most on the Right see the entire democrat party as. Now the Right has their own form of that in those who scroll on Twitter and attack immigrants behind their backs. I feel like, within the next year or so, there will be a vast swath of former republicans who are so violenview on HN →
But smart robots like Claude should and will have access to production. There has to be something figured out on how to make sure operation remains smooth. The argument of don't do that will not be a viable position to hold long term. Keeping a human in the loop is not necessary.view on HN →
I love that every time one of these threads comes up I am reminded of how little morals the users on this site have; and how they use intellectualism to hide this fact.view on HN →
It’s not that complicated. People got mad that gay people existed and they had to press “2” for English and here we are.view on HN →
Yes, that is how cults operate.view on HN →
You could point out the inconsistency, but I really think the cognitive dissonance of constant and pervasive hypocrisy is the point. Truth is whatever the party tells you today, and we have always been at war with EastAsia.view on HN →
Worst president ever.view on HN →
lmaooo imagine the government just sitting on $130B like oops my badview on HN →
Because his followers are even dumber.view on HN →
Trump is not a competent person. How did he ever get rich?view on HN →
It's unbelievable he's still given any semblance of credence for anything he does. Trump is just palpably stupid. He is bad at absorbing information, he is bad at analytical thinking, he is impatient, vain and rash. Aside from his tenuous legal justification, he never once publicly expressed even a fundamental understanding of the basic mechanics of tariff collection nor what balance of trade actually means. You'd constantly see his proxies on TV just put words in his mouth to bend his foolish pview on HN →
Friends? America has no friends, only client states.view on HN →
The dude is a moron: to think there was any thought behind this is to be insane.view on HN →
Yes, but the difference in degree, and how are material. The big showy Hyundai plant raid is an example of something that hasn't happened before. Under Obama there were I-9 audits of Infosys, and under Clinton there was a raid of a Filiberto's, but both of those weren't of foreign workers here to train Americans.view on HN →
Every developed country on earth has an immigration policy and an administration dedicated to enforcing it.No other developed countries have masked goons abducting people in public wearing civil clothes and masks and disregarding every laws of the country (violating private property and foreign embassies, deporting national citizens, and numerous other preposterous bullshit).Immigration policy enforcement is normal, the madness that has been running in the US for a year isn't.view on HN →
what the hell, their models were promising thoview on HN →
Indeed; or, Europe badly needs a competitive model to hedge against US political nonsense.view on HN →
Unfortunately, the most extreme is that it's the new normal that now, there's >0 chance that someone, whether they are a US citizen or not apparently, child or adult, can end up in a camp, with no due process.view on HN →
Won't someone think of the poor tech millionaires' pools and their cleaning slaves? If we get rid of the slaves, they'll have to pay at first world cleaning rates! :(view on HN →
The unstated but obvious (to me?) goal of what ICE is doing is not to get large numbers of people out of the country, but to drive costs down for migrant labor by further disenfranchising them, making them scared, marginal, etc.If they actually thoroughly evicted non-status migrant workers they'd have a outright revolt on their hands from farmers and other businesses that depend on them.Instead those businesses can now take further advantage of the fear of harassment and/or deportation to driveview on HN →
"Goal" implies there's a plan instead of just wanton cruelty for the sake of cruelty.view on HN →
The reality is - it doesn't matter. The fact that they have had as many false positives as they have and the way they treat people in general causes it to have rippling effects even for people who are legally here, or are considering legally immigrating.The risk and level of publicity is just too high for many people to even consider, especially people already intelligent/capable enough to immigrate anywhere else that doesn't have these issues or stay in their own country.view on HN →
Yes. Yes, so true. And the phd types building these models are probably even scared in China that ICE will fly there to deport them.view on HN →
The Hyundai factory "enforcement" wasn't even legal. Those workers were here to train US workers and the Hyundai employees had proper visas for this.https://apnews.com/article/immigration-raid-hyundai-korea-ic...https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/foreignaffairs/20251112/hundred...https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/attorney-says-detained-k...The regime is powered by racism and doesn't think through things.view on HN →
ICE has been detaining Chinese people in my area (and going door to door in at least one neighborhood where a lot of Chinese and Indians live). I was hearing about this just last week as word spread amongst the Chinese community here (Ohio) to make sure you have some legal documentation beyond just your driver's license on you at all times for protection. People will hear about this through the grapevine and it has a massive (and rightly so) chilling effect. US labs can try but with US governmenview on HN →
Memory compression is a feature on Windows PCs for years (decades maybe?), it somehow doesn't prevent people from raising valid complaints about swapping with 8Gb or RAM.I wonder, why is it physically painful for some Apple owners to admit that 8Gb is not enough. Like, I'm using PCs for years and I will be the first in line to point their deficiencies and throw a deserved stone at MS, they never cease to provide reasons. Why is it so different at the Apple?view on HN →
They make those, don't they? They're called MacBook Air?view on HN →
Too much willingness to disobey unlawful orders from the "woke left" I assumeview on HN →
Sorry if I wasn't clear - I am proposing that the adults face the robust detection and enforcement of anti-grooming laws. One method is to set up honey-pots with law enforcement officers playing the part of an innocent child (i.e. avoiding entrapment) and then throwing the full weight of the law behind any adult showing predatory behaviour.What I propose is rather than putting all the effort into preventing children from entering dangerous adult spaces, it's better to put the effort into ensurinview on HN →
The president of peace btw.I'm baffled at the lack of calls to boycott the Fifa world cup in US.And at the double standards applied to Russians and Israelis in their wars of aggression.I guess Israel can play the "October 7th" card at least which was an insane horror.view on HN →
What are the states going to do with their local election results when the officials in Washington ignore them due to some manufactured state of emergency?He already tried to get specific states' election outcomes discarded from the count on Jan 6, 2021.view on HN →
Great for you surfin' musk's hype wave while he turns the world into his own fascist dominion. At least you made some bucks along the way! Those come certainly in useful - albeit are quickly depleted - once you live in a totalitarian world where every interaction with the monopolistic oligarchic big-tech-state monster requires a bribe, probably in shitcoins. (see the Russian oligarchic state that the US is quickly progressing towards - apparently Russians have no word for "bribe", as it's commonview on HN →
Applying Boolean logic to conditional protein activation is an elegant way to address the systemic toxicity trade-offs inherent in many modern biotherapeutics. It’s exciting to see modular synthetic biology moving from theoretical circuits toward functional, high-precision tools for medicine.view on HN →
No end here. The administration can still go above and beyond in an attempt to completely wreck Anthropic.view on HN →
The state has unlimited resources to wreck you and I am not sure many people have faith in the US's judicial system to keep them in check.This will be a death by thousand cuts.view on HN →
The same type of people who would upload a picture of their "friends" and tell the AI to "roast" them or take off their clothes.view on HN →
As you can see the president is under a lot of pressure.He is losing the ICE war, because the protesters used tactics of the civil rights movements of the past pretty effectively and now he is stuck between losing the narrative of protecting Americans by further escalation or losing power as a direct consequence of said escalation and more Americans getting murdered by government agents.Of the 8 or so wars he pretended to have stopped only two are still in a non-active state. The world is more dview on HN →
Really hope so. Only concern is what desperate measures the Trump admin will be willing to employ to stop the midterms from giving Democrats control of Congress (or at least the House).view on HN →
The puppet does what the puppeteer makes it do.view on HN →
You might be right, I am getting worried more and more for upcoming 2039-2045 yearsview on HN →
Oh the US crossed that threshold the day he started he won the elections the second time. Most Americans seem to think new elections will solve it. But for germans it was a world war that brought back democracy. There were no elections anymore. That is also the most likely case for the US now.view on HN →
You cant be serious. We are well past democracy and deep into fascism. Ask yourself, how many of the 14 points do you recognize?https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/fasci14chars.htmlview on HN →
"The more I hear about this [Hitler] guy, the less I care for him" - Norm MacDonaldview on HN →
I'm starting to think this guy is kind of a jerk.view on HN →
I better start leaving higher quality comments on here so I can increase the social value of my account and sell itview on HN →
How to sneak misinformation in the back door: 1. claim a source that is stating facts to correct misinformation is false and misleading 2. link to a not-very-authoritative and easily manipulated source that has been edited very recently to promote uncertainty and doubt 3. follow up with additional confusing and poorly-sourced claims that boil down "but maybe there are some things we don't know, we should study it more"This is how the tobacco industry avoided liability for decades after researchview on HN →
Oh how surprised I am by reading the words "anal breathing" while I am lying on a bathroom floor mat with my butt up and my face on the floor like a snail, loudly sucking in and sloppily releasing air from my rectum to learn how to relax my sphincter muscles to find relief from the pain my hemorrhoids cause me.view on HN →
I just kept wondering, why in the heck would you want to work there anymore? Is it this amazing devotion to Musk for...what?This just makes me think Musk basically got rich off of other people's ideas and hard work. This guy seems incredibly stupid.view on HN →
He’s not stupid, he just isn’t as smart as he and all his sycophants think, and certainly not smart enough to overcome his myriad of personality and mental health disorders. Unfortunately for us, after ruining a perfectly fine company and damaging the lives of thousands of employees, he’ll loudly retreat to his lair to sit on his remaining mountain of gold, recharge his narcissistic tank, and then emerge to set something else ablaze. After all, this is what dragons do. And that’s how all of us sview on HN →
If Twitter survives and people shut up their mouths complaining after few months we'll see who was right.view on HN →
A leaked .gitignore means the company needs to be taken over, 75% of its workers fired, and its debt tripled.I want everyone to work extremely hardcore on a breakthrough Tesla 2.0view on HN →
No. Throw Texas in the garbage.Shitty states can pass shitty bills. And it's 100% legal to exclude them from participating.view on HN →
Agreed, what would HN be without it's pretension at being above plebs and their "humour".view on HN →
Honestly his guest list is so good, I thought for several years that he must be working for the Kremlin and honeypotting folks behind the scenes (or something)view on HN →
Elon is also banning any account that posts the video of him getting booed at a Dave Chapelle show. He was never about free speech.view on HN →
Interesting, do you know if this has been done yet in humans, and used to fertilize?If scaled up, this technology could be an absolutely groundbreaking step in applied feminism, completely removing the otherwise useless male from the process of reproduction and bringing up a child.Men could be rendered entirely obsolete within a few generations, perhaps even fully eradicated through attrition.view on HN →
Do you think that every person in SF is a blue-haired NPC from some antiwoke fever dream? I mean, it was a Dave Chappelle show, you'd think that'd be the crowd to show some appreciation for the hero single-handedly saving us from the Trans Mind Virus.More to the point, if prosecute/fauci knew when to pull out, Musk probably wouldn't be a deadbeat dad to 10 kids lmaoview on HN →
It shows the opposite, that there is so much of this going on....> It's not useful, to anyoneWhat's not useful to everyone is acting like you don't read the news, can't read the news, or in the event that someone points out something in the news that you didn't, that you somehow cannot be availed of that knowledge in a way that doesn't render the argument moot. It's really stupid when you think about it that way.Plus, aren't we supposed to be making the effort of understanding each other here. Sview on HN →
As long as right-wingers hate what other people do with their own bodies, probably.view on HN →
The damage to media is not from some newfound ability to see bs, but from a relentless and constant attack on its credibility from the fascists.view on HN →
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Executives don't care. Of course they knew. They'll do anything for money even if it means destroying lives. They need that bonus and they need it now.view on HN →
I think it may be the American definition of democracy which has something to do with guns and a screeching bald eagle.view on HN →
Lots of people are calling for WFH and legitimization of remoting. Alas, it seems to be a matter of monkey power, and the managers want you to burn tons of fuel to sit your butt in the chains they provide and smell his armpits from a distance.shrugview on HN →
Imagine making being able to willfully poison your kids with Benzine a cultural issue. There wasn't even a threat to fossil fuel industry or gas stoves, because the discussion was just that, an internal discussion, with no resolution. Even before the insane screaming about "they terk ur gas stove!" I'm pretty sure the outcome was "maybe we should think about banning gas stoves in new builds sometime in the next ten years". Nobody will ever come take an appliance out of your home, that's just notview on HN →
Sorry, I live in a country with a for-profit health care system. I have been assured my entire life that a few poor decisions are indeed complete justification for dismissing the value of human life.P.S.: Hate all you want. I don't give a fuck. I'm tired of being told to give a shit when some billionaire fuckwad dies of his own reckless stupidity while at the same time being told we can't treat treatable illnesses because rich fucks can't make enough money off of doing it.view on HN →
Let's count trees per capita.Planting more trees is commonly regarded by leftists/communists/morons and "science" people (that don't know a method from a hole in the ground) as a dumbass solution.If you want to reduce carbon dioxide in the air, it's simple. Plant more. Why dipshits from the left are against planting trees and carbon sinks shows me they only care about politics.Edit: No retort, just downvotes. Little minded leftists. GFYview on HN →
coming soon after: experimental vaccine go cure against childhood!brought to us by the scientific data gathered by the early experimentalist adopters: kids doing the transgender thing!no more waiting to grow up, no more 'unproductive childhood' years spent mooching off parents. get vaccinated and your kids may be born adults straight to work! (clone army rings a bell)view on HN →
Kansas where cops can shoot innocent people in swat pranks and no officer faces any justice.view on HN →
Bit overconfident of them to assume “we watched” Netflix at all…edit: If I could delete this comment I would.view on HN →
>>It costs essentially nothing to lay fiber in the ground in most placesHow to tell us you know absolutely nothing about the costs of running fiber, without actually saying you know absolutely nothing about the costs of running fiberview on HN →
John Carmack pandering to buzzword communities to try to stay relevant?Yeah. That sounds right.view on HN →
mommyyy dji didn't upload their source code to github so we could clone it then ban them on the grounds of national security, mooooom!!1I'm sure TSMC also not bringing their latest node tech to their US fabs also happens to be because they're doing something dirty! oh wait, corporations want to protect their IP, and countries have time and time again proven that they're willing to enter the private business to give their country an edge.view on HN →
Free speech absolutism is a meme. The so-called absolutists are eager to fight to protect nazis' right to speak; but when they run places like parler, gab, and twitter, they cannot help but censor people who disagree with nazis.For example, downvoting is often equated with censorship. But when I call free speech absolutists nazis, I get downvoted! So, I persist, to highlight the hypocrisy if nothing else.view on HN →
Both cities and computers are Turing complete.That said how can everyone be so ugly in the pretest picture?George Calin for the 2020 would ask: why is it that you would never want to fuck anyone at a pride parade?view on HN →
How about we have a Purge Day against marketers, advertisers, sales teams, greedy shareholders, and anyone who actively enshittifies every single aspect of life? How about we normalize that instead? Because as brutal as it is, maybe sociopaths wouldn't sociopath if there were real risks to their life and limb incited by their being pieces of shit. :)view on HN →
It's a shame most of HN are losers who just repeat what the media tells them to. Something, something Pinduoduo app, I'm so smart.Temu is pretty interesting.The gambling side is amazing. I spent days on it, it's basically a clicker game, but weird stuff like you get water for your crop is you browse Temu for a bit. Totally illegal to run locally in most places I'm pretty sure.And what sort of mental ill people go on about how the cheap prices won't last forever? No shit Sherlock that's why you gview on HN →
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This is not open source. There is no license. Stop calling it open source when it isn't. Your cars suck and your GitHub repos suck.view on HN →
I am hardly a fan of OpenAI and they probably deserve to go out of business, but their staffers are definitely smarter and harder-working than I am. Hearing that a slimy mediocrity like Mustafa Suleyman (allegedly) yelled at OpenAI staffers for not delivering technology quickly enough really grinds my gears. Pure PHB behavior. Suleyman is one of the emptiest suits in all of commercial AI, someone who AFAICT owes his career entirely due to a childhood friendship with Demis Hassabis.I think Satyaview on HN →
Truth is truth. Other things are just conspiracies and miss informed opinions. Authoritative sources are immune to it! There is no such thing as group thinking!view on HN →
have you ever read the constitution, or thought about governance for even 5 minutes? do you have any understanding of the history of this country, or do we need to direct the nearest 1st grader to your location to explain it to you?view on HN →
Why the fuck do so many people lie on the internet?>AI Overviews are part of Google Search like other features, such as knowledge panels, and can’t be turned off.Please.Stop.Just stop.Is this a kink for you? Some kind of fetish?view on HN →
You wouldn't understand what he did wrong if you've not filled your information sphere with cultists.view on HN →
This guy is a probably a Russian bot. He talks like Ukraine was 2 minutes away from a victory and Zelenskyy just needed to stfu for 30 more seconds to get it.view on HN →
the GOP: "states' rights! states' rights!!"also the GOP: "not those rights! only the rights we want to share"view on HN →
And now Americans are giving this type of control to Musk, after he's demonstrated that he's happy to cut off a country's internet access during a war and he'll happily focus his company's resources on attacking his enemies. Genius.view on HN →
It goes to the highest bidder. This is whomever can extract the most value from it, likely because they are the least constrained by the paltry genetic privacy laws we do have. This means it is likely to go to Muskov to use in support of his project to cleanse the surplus population, just as how he has already been employing the much more expensive Twitter.The main thing I've got to say to the "nothing to hide" folks is "very slowly, then all at once".view on HN →
Please consider excluding references to Twitter or X. I, and perhaps others, object to the politics now espoused by X. I am pro-democracy and so cannot in good faith use anything on that platform. You of course are free to use Twitter/X as much as you want and Hackernews does not like comments such as this, so feel free to ignore this and even down vote it.I myself am convinced that we are at a time where ignoring some world issues is no longer morally or ethically responsible. So while SDF's arview on HN →
It clearly isn't the "basic formula" if it was so out of the norm it caused a national controversy and got the vendor's certifications removed. Your bitterness is showing.view on HN →
Yeah, all the employees left and all of Musk's companies are now bankrupt after he visited Israel to visit families of victims of the Hamas terror attacks and he then deliberately did a nazi salute and deliberately ordered an LLM to convert everybody into nazis in an attempt to take over the world./sview on HN →
“Elitist”Oh please.When someone doesn’t speak a language well, it ceases to be a language. Life doesn’t care about your feelings.view on HN →
> Wow this administration is f*ing batshit insaneIt's reasons why this that I refuse to associate with Republicans in my daily life anymore. They are undeserving of respect or decency for how they continue to make our lives worse.view on HN →
It will go to Europe and India and China.The US is being dismantled and what remains won’t be capable of being a world leader in anything except brute strength, and even that will eventually be compromised and fade away as corruption and incompetence completely take hold.view on HN →
Turns out Nazis aren't popular in Germany.EDIT: it's funny that I say this every time, and every time I get downvoted. I have no idea why.view on HN →
I too think there should be no rules or attempts to derisk any situation, just let us dieview on HN →
It's an arm of the US 'military industrial complex', i.e. one of many components of a genocidal narcoterrorist state apparatus.This is why they "get away" with things. Concerns of ordinary people, like law, ethics or decorum, mean next to nothing to the people running projects under this umbrella. Achieving the objectives is all that matters, and the main objective in this case is to establish a world wide system for surveillance and control that is similar to the Internet but less accessible toview on HN →
You're not contributing anything addition to this thread; I recommend dropping it.view on HN →
What is the US behind on? Access to healthcare, maternal mortality rate, access to abortion, minimum wages, paid time off, public transport, walkable cities, ...view on HN →
Seems premature to accuse the article if being inaccurate or biased without actually knowing whether it's inaccurate or biased.I’m concerned about human rights, but I’m equally concerned about yellow journalism or coordinated media bias.I'm equally concerned about people being paid to push narratives in places like Hacker News. Especially in defense of large organizations.view on HN →
Yes, clearly the journalist was the cause of the problem here. You're an idiot.view on HN →
I was nodding along in agreement until he inserted his tongue into Musk and Vance. A little bit of sick came up.view on HN →
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Sorry, but it's been a "clown show" since the Orange moron won the title of "most powerful man on earth".view on HN →
There's zero legitimacy to any of this administration. None of this is real. It's all sick fucking Ballardian hyperreality imposed upon the world, sick delusions with no backing, forcing its way in. Rapists and treasonous seditious shits, on and on.view on HN →
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All companies will cease to exist as the heat death of the universe inches closer. So what's the outrage at some people frowning at a company for some reason or other about? Seems kind of unsophisticated.view on HN →
When you look at the history of it all, it clearly shows that men have always been misogynistic bigots oppressing and driving women out of educational opportunities and professional careers, and they still all, even more so today than ten years ago, due to the rise of GamerGate, MAGA and Project 2025.view on HN →
Not everybody is a psychopath who only values profit. Some people will leave money on the table if it means not supporting the turd reich.view on HN →
You only needed the "extra context" because you lack the critical thinking. Everybody else here can see the importance of phone numbers being connected to people.view on HN →
CBS is now run by a right-wing billionaire. The equal time rule is being used as cover to kill an interview that the Republican administration doesn't like. Same way CBS keeps killing 60 Minutes reporting that does the same.view on HN →
pretty common on twitter, esp these days where there is strong anglo-saxon white nationalism crowdthey do romanticize their ancient past as one of conquest and domination over others.btw, even without the viking aspect, norse law was pretty strange in that it allowed murder for a fine. there is definitely a savage aspect to white tradition as there is to any modern culture, but there is a lot of whitewashing thats done to present anglo saxons as racially superior, highly civilized culture.view on HN →
Because you're hiding the vast majority of facts, like the fact that we already used every last drop of data available, the fact that they spent hundreds of billions on it and no one makes money besides the people selling them GPUs and memory chips, the fact that contrary to most tech these hings aren't getting cheaper to create, &c.view on HN →
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