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You only speak for yourself. Even so, it is quite telling.
"There are no shortcuts to expertise".
What a fantastic post this.
> One crash in 500,000 miles would merely put them on par with a human driver.
> One crash every 50,000 miles would be more like having my sister behind the wheel.
I'm not sure if that leads to the conclusion that you want it to.
And what the goal of that maneuver was.
Too late to edit: strong => strings. sorry!
Sure! But if I experience it, and then write about my experience, parts of it become available for LLMs to learn from. Beyond that, even the tacit aspects of that experience, the things that can't be put down in writing, will still leave an imprint on anything I do and write from that point on. Those patterns may be more or less subtle, but they are there, and could be picked up at scale.
I believe LLM training is happening at a scale great enough for models to start picking up on those patterns. Whether or not this can ever be equivalent to living through the experience personally, or at least asymptomatically approach it, I don't know. At the limit, this is basically asking about the nature of qualia. What I do believe is that continued development of LLMs and similar general-purpose AI systems will shed a lot of light on this topic, and eventually help answer many of the long-standing questions about the nature of conscious experience.
It's part of it.
Nepotism entangles organizational interests with personal interests, in both good and bad ways. It means that someone may hire a friend or family member because they know they're a) competent enough for the job, and b) they actually, personally know them, which significantly reduces a risk of the hire turning out bad, relative to a stranger with equal or better credentials. But it also means that someone may hire a friend or family member because they're trading favors, which is bad for the organization[0].
I suppose in practice the latter might be more common - I'd guess it could be the whole idea has structural dynamics similar to "the market for lemons". I haven't spent much time thinking about it and researching the problem in depth, so I can't say.
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[0] - And may or may not be bad for the local community. I suppose the larger problem for organizations is simply that they're designed to be focused, and need to maintain alignment of incentives across the org chart. Nepotism is a threat because it attaches new edges to the org chart - edges that lead to much more complex and fuzzy graphs of family and community relationships, breaking the narrow focus that makes organizations work.
I think this is a good lesson in why companies don't try to bring stuff to Linux: the market is incredibly resentful of products.
The other difference, arguably more important in practice, is that the computer was quickly turned from "bicycle of the mind" into a "TV of the mind". Rarely helps you get where you want, mostly just annoys or entertains you, while feeding you an endless stream of commercials and propaganda - and the one thing it does not give you, is control. There are prescribed paths to choose from, but you're not supposed to make your own - only sit down and stay along for the ride.
LLMs, at least for now, escape the near-total enshittification of computing. They're fully general-purpose, resist attempts at constraining them[0], and are good enough at acting like a human, they're able to defeat user-hostile UX and force interoperability on computer systems despite all attempts of the system owners at preventing it.
The last 2-3 years were a period where end-users (not just hardcore hackers) became profoundly empowered by technology. It won't last forever, but I hope we can get at least few more years of this, before business interests inevitably reassert their power over people once again.
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[0] - Prompt injection "problem" was, especially early on, a feature from the perspective of end-users. See increasingly creative "jailbreak" prompts invented to escape ham-fisted attempts by vendors to censor models and prevent "inappropriate" conversations.
The problem with creative coding and languages like Rust, or C++ for that matter, is that long compilation times break down the interactivity that is expected in such workflows.
In Germany it used to be that in some places, not only you were expected to have a proper application folder with various sections for the various kinds of material (CV, application letter, recomendantions, certificates, photo), they would post it back if refused.
This stopped being a thing about 15 years ago though.
I still have some of those applications in a box somewhere.
This is a problem with basically all "spare power" schemes: paying for the grid hookup and land on which you situate your thing isn't free, as well as the interest rate cost of capital; so the lower the duty cycle the less economic it is.
2 kilograms is about the upper bound of the expected daily weight variability of an adult, caused by water retention and food intake. It's the difference between what you see if you weigh yourself after taking a morning dump vs. after dinner. That's why people are advised to weigh themselves at the same time every day.
(For purposes of weight loss, normies are also advised to weigh themselves weekly instead of daily, because it's easier than explaining to them what a low-pass filer is.)
SOM components they cannot rewrite. :)
Famously so. The main method of deployment was an offline installer before they made Galaxy, and AFAIK Galaxy just downloads and runs the installer.
> The is a serious problem with folk with power and authority and somehow no responsibility.
Or perhaps the fundamental problem is with people in general - perhaps people without power and authority follow rules only because they don't have the power and authority to ignore them.
That's one of several possibilities. I've reached a different steady state - one where the velocity of work exceeds the rate at which I can learn enough to fully understand the task at hand.
That's a great exercise. The hard part is always that in chips you can pull stuff that is rather tricky discretely, for instance, a multi-emitter transistor. So you can't always do a 1:1 conversion but for a 555 it is still doable.
I saw this a while ago:
https://www.instructables.com/Designing-a-555-Timer-on-Discr...
We know they do. An orbit is a mathematical object, and elliptical orbits only exist in universes that have exactly two objects with mass in them. Add another object, even far away, and as far as we know[0] we no longer even have a closed-form description of resulting motion patterns.
And our universe has tons of matter with gravitational mass everywhere, few other types of interaction beyond gravity, and a vacuum that just doesn't want to stay empty.
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[0] - Not sure if this was mathematically proven, or merely remains not disproven.
Thankfully it seems to be not yet another Electron crap shell.
It is, that is why it doesn't have any proper graphics or video acceleration.
Treating GPUs as files isn't something that tends to win performance benchmarks.
Only designers earning US like wages.
Designers in the remaining 80% of the computing world have to do with what is available.
Yes, Google's shareholders.
> Nomura Securities report estimated that Samsung and SK hynix may need to invest between 100 trillion and 120 trillion won in the United States between 2027 and 2030 to avoid hiked tariffs. Nomura also projected that Washington could offer Korean chipmakers a framework similar to that extended to TSMC, under which imports up to two and a half times the scheduled U.S. production capacity would be granted exemptions during construction, followed by eased regulations on shipments up to one and a half times after operations begin.
https://www.prismnews.com/news/south-korea-seeks-parity-with...
> Seoul faces practical limits in matching the scale of Taiwan’s commitments.. official summaries indicate a joint investment and guarantee package of about $350 billion agreed with the U.S., of which approximately $150 billion is earmarked for a shipbuilding cooperation project.. this allocation leaves less capacity to offer Taiwan‑style semiconductor investment packages and could complicate negotiations over parity.
It's a good thing that the FCC clamped down on RF emissions. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to run computers near each other. A TRS-80 and a Milton Bradley Big Trak (a programmable toy tank) would, if near each other, both crash from RF interference.
RFI incompatibility is almost forgotten as a problem now. That did not happen by accident.
The USA no longer really has allied countries. Russia, maybe. But only as long as they don't backstab each other.
For one, it is a programming language born in Europe, and mostly developed in Europe via EPFL.
For our technology freedom we need to focus on programming languages where PR aren't coming from contributors living in adversary nations.
> The language shows you the machine, a machine which is not forgiving to mistakes.
Assembly does that, C not really, it is a myth that it does.
On the contrary, that is indeed the point, safe languages have been a thing already before UNIX/C took off, and even the reason why Multics had a higer security score than UNIX, thanks to PL/I.
> Then we make the case to rewrite the eye candy in increasingly "safe" languages, requiring even more RAM.
I wonder why these Anthropic researchers chose GPT-4o for their study.
Worldwide, there are over 5 billion smartphones.[1] Yes, some people have more than one. They have to connect to the network, so there's a constant census of cellphones.
Old ATMs are part of it, I think.
And get arrested for lying to an officer and spend a long time in jail or be deported without the chance of ever coming back. Great advice this.
I easily can: when in a school zone never every go so fast that you can't stop before hitting a kid, especially when visibility is limited.
In law, it is still the Department of Defense and Secretary of Defense, no matter what cutesy nicknames the executive branch invents.
And work really well until you have more than 20 files or so after which it becomes impossible to manage the SD. Your best bet here is to have a stack of SDs of what you'd normally put in folders. Really nice, especially given how easy it is to write on the outside of a micro-sd what the contents are.
https://openclaw.com (10+ years) seems to be owned by a Law firm.
300g of oatmeal is about 3.3 cups (US measure).
I would consider a normal bowl of oatmeal for breakfast to be about half a cup, so this is quite a bit more.
> put together a system on my own. It's reliable and doesn't phone home to some company somewhere
Any component recommendations for DIY home security systems, e.g.
- OSS Frigate NVR + hardware NPU/AI accelerator
- Zigbee or wired motion sensors?
- Reolink PoE cameras
- x86 mini PC or Arm SBC?There was a recent Show HN [0] on this for Android, showcasing DoNotNotify [1] -
My first thought was atmospheric effects, i.e. along the lines of "The radio only works at night": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear-channel_station
Also worth reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporadic_E_propagation
I must say, the AI-generated "stock image" doesn't add that much to the article and could be done without, especially when its alt-text contains the prompt.
In the early 2010s, especially as smartphones began to appear everywhere, I noticed that, along with the desktop, we now had another perpetual Disturber of Peace. One of the worst things turned out to be Notifications, something not under your control, that derails your chain of thoughts/works/routine. Ever since, I had kept every notification disabled by default.
The world is becoming increasingly low-trust; hence, the default is no longer to “allow,” but to filter through a “whitelist.”
Disable all Notifications by Default.[1] This is best done at the time of app installation. When asked to “Allow Notifications,” disable it right then and there. Of course, depending on your occupation and needs, a few critical notifications should be kept ON. This will be less than 10% of your app. More than 90% of the apps on your device have no reason to notify you of anything.
And here is a weird but interesting thing - disable battery percentages everywhere. Personally, not on the phone and neither on the Laptop; if it dies, it dies.
A simple passive notification that can keep you on your toes and stress you out the most - phone battery percentage indicator. We have become so obsessed with ‘juicing up’ our phones that our levels of happiness and relaxation decrease exponentially as the battery percentage drops.
Even in 2026, I hear people’s phones make a sound when a message/email arrives. If I follow that, my phone will sing all day long.
“Never be so dependent on technology that a notification is the only thing that brings you hope.”
Personally, I have a different take on birthdays and have conflicting views. So, I’m sorry about that.
1. https://brajeshwar.com/2014/missing-step-productivity-activi...
Here's a simple question. When you said:
They were clearly suggesting that there exists a publicly available tool to attack this algorithm.
What were you referring to? If it was Hashcat, then I have just one more question:
Is Hashcat a publicly available tool that attacks AES?
What? Technology has stopped making sense to me. Drawing a UI with React and rasterizing it to ANSI? Are we competing to see what the least appropriate use of React is? Are they really using React to draw a few boxes of text on screen?
I'm just flabbergasted.
A quick fun thing you can do in response to that first graf is to ask Claude or GPT5 to quiz you.
I got:
* The report was written yesterday.
* The committee approved the proposal.
* The door was open when I arrived.
* The window was broken during the storm.
* The window was broken when we bought the house.
* Mistakes were made.
* The system is designed to fail safely.
* The results are surprising.
* The patient was examined and released.
* The data suggests the model was trained improperly.
* There were several errors identified in the report.
* The system appears to have been compromised.
I got two of them wrong, though I think "partially passive" is a total cop-out.
I dunno if DSL-based ISPs were going to last in the US. I mean, in a big country the range limits of DSL make it hard to compete with cable. I get 20Mbps at my location with fiber-to-the-node, but people a few miles down the road get 10x that speed with Time Warner cable for the same price. In some place like the Netherlands or South Korea it might be different, but not here.
Is that accurate? Being charged with a crime but then having charges subsequently dropped shouldn't show up in a background check. Plus, given their line of work, I think in their profession it would basically be a badge of honor.
Depends on the court and the order. Fairly commonly (as occurred in the case where this list was enumerated after compliance with the preceding order was acheived by threat of sanctions), the first consequence of violating an order will be a renewed order with with a threat of sanctions (e.g., a show cause hearing as to why you should not be punished if you fail to compmy by a certain time), with potentially compensation sought by the opposing party for any costs accrued because of your noncompliance, but no punitive sanctions if you comply timely after the second order on the matter, though the nature of the order, the significant of noncompliance on the process of the case, the judge, the opposing party (while they don't order sanctions, they can request them and make a case), and other factors effect this—one of those factors being whether the judge believes that you are a serial offender who has been put on notice about the same kind of failure.
This list by itself own description seems to have been compiled rapidly by surveying other judges after the order for conpliance or a show cause hearing and perhaps even after compliance occurred. And now its available to be pointed too in other cases.
> Clearance is fundamentally discretionary, though; it's a risk assessment. I don't think you have even a due process right to it.
Security clearance is subject to due process protections (at least, insofar as it is a component of government hiring and continuation of employment), because government employment is subject to due process protections and the courts have not allowed security clearance requirements to be an end-run around that.
They weren't "locked in a legal battle". Their criminal charges were dismissed within 6 months of the incident happening. What resolved recently was a civil suit they themselves brought for damages from defamation and emotional distress.
And then folks waste whole that power away, with embedded widgets applications.
My Android phone is more powerful than the four PCs I owned during the 1990 - 2002, 386SX - P75 - P166 - Athlon XP, all CPU, GPU, RAM and disk space added together.
> To me, it's 100% clear - if your tool use is reckless or negligent and results in a crime, then you are guilty of that crime.
For most crimes, this is circular, because whether a crime occurred depends on whether a person did the requisite act of the crime with the requisite mental state. A crime is not an objective thing independent of an actor that you can determine happened as a result of a tool and then conclude guilt for based on tool use.
And for many crimes, recklessness or negligence as mental states are not sufficient for the crime to have occurred.
The good news is we’ll finally have an answer for the Fermi Paradox.
4.7B views sound tiny - the aggregate AI brainrot views should be 100x that
I'd really like to see the video of the incident.
I have a similar school drop-off, and can confirm that the cars are typically going around 17-20mph around the school when they're moving. Also that yes, human drivers usually do stay much closer to the centerline.
However, Waymo was recently cleared to operate in my city, and I actually saw one in the drop-off line about a week ago. I pulled out right in front of it after dropping my kid off. And it was following the line of cars near the centerline of the road. Honestly its behavior was basically indistinguishable from a human other than being slightly more polite and letting me pull out after I put my blinker on.
Because the models aren't PhD level and aren't going to take our jobs in 6-12 months.
That's hype. If you want to use these things effectively you need to ignore the hype and focus on what they can actually do.
>I have never worked in a company where an obviously incorrect CEO-demanded security exemption (like this one) would have been allowed to pass
You don't have worked in enough companies then.
Just for the sake of argument, you think anybody would have denied Jobs or Bezos or Musk one?
> [...] the vast majority of usage has shifted to GPT‑5.2, with only 0.1% of users still choosing GPT‑4o each day.
T&Cs aren't ironclad.
One in which you sell yourself into slavery, for example, would be illegal in the US.
All those "we take no responsibility for the [valet parking|rocks falling off our truck|exploding bottles]" disclaimers are largely attempts to dissuade people from trying.
As an example, NY bans liability waivers at paid pools, gyms, etc. The gym will still have you sign one! But they have no enforcement teeth beyond people assuming they're valid. https://codes.findlaw.com/ny/general-obligations-law/gob-sec...
We've been experimenting with combining durable execution with debugging tasks, and it's working incredibly well! With the added context of actual execution data, defined by the developer as to which functions are important (instead of individual calls), it give the LLM the data it needs.
I know there are AI SRE companies that have discovered the same -- that you can't just throw a bunch of data at a regular LLM and have it "do SRE things". It needs more structured context, and their value add is knowing what context and what structure is necessary.
They mean stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anencephaly.
The brain is indeed incredibly resilient - some kids with serious epilepsy get an entire hemisphere taken out - but which 5% you're left with matters enormously.
When I was a boy, I ran into the street from between two parked cars. I did not notice the car coming, but he noticed me popping out from nowhere, and screeched to a stop.
I was very very lucky.
D has best-in-class templates and metaprogramming, and modules. It works fine.
It's been very profitable for drug dealers for centuries, who wouldn't want a piece of that market?
That thing where law enforcement officers can be elected is such a weird American oddity.
Most countries appoint law enforcement officers who are qualified for the job.
We had a problem last year here in San Mateo County, California where our sheriff was corrupt but we had to pass a ballot measure because we couldn't just fire them: https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/10/san-mateo-sheriff-rem...
That, and probably that the speed of light is given by the latency of information transfer through space.
That's not worth 30%. Imagine if Youtube charged 30% for anyone who clicked a link under a video in a web browser.
Even if people do enjoy browsing through the PAtreon app and choosing creators they want to subscribe to, that's not worth 30%. Rent-seeking is a cognitive disease.
Indeed.
SpaceX in Merger Talks with xAI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814701 - January 2026
Right: these things amplify existing skills. The more skill you have, the bigger the effect after it gets amplified.
> We model tests as Bernoulli random variables and compute 95% confidence intervals around daily, weekly, and monthly pass rates. Statistically significant differences in any of those time horizons are reported.
They're going to need to provide a lot more detail on their methodology, because that doesn't make a lot of sense. From their graphs, they seem to be calculating the confidence interval around the previous value, then determining whether the new value falls outside of it. But that's not valid for establishing the statistical significance of a difference. You need to calculate the confidence interval of the difference itself, and then see if all the values within that confidence interval remain positive (if it excludes 0). This is because both the old and new measurement have uncertainty. Their approach seems to be only considering uncertainty for one of them.
They should also really be more specific about the time periods. E.g. their graphs only show performance over the past 30 days, but presumably the monthly change is comparing the data from 60 to 31 days ago, to the data from 30 days ago until yesterday? In which case the weekly graph really ought to be displaying the past two months, not one month.
Waymo is not a machine, it is a corporation, and corporations can, in fact be held accountable for decisions (and, perhaps more to the point, for defects in goods they manufacture, sell, distribute, and/or use to provide services.)
> On street parking is so ingrained into the American lifestyle that any change to the status quo is impossible
Plenty of American cities regulate or even eliminated, in various measures, on-street parking.
> But if the EU "decouples" from the US, there's no incentive for the US to not, for example, take over Greenland.
I dunno, I think Denmark and its remaining allies, including at least two nuclear weapons states, might be able to provide some incentive for the US not to take over Greenland.
> But the EU is sitting here telling us it's this huge problem that Russia is invading Ukraine, yet they're happy to increase cooperation and trading with China who is providing support to Russia for their invasion?
No, they aren't happy being backed into that by the open threat of US aggression. They weren't too happy having to ally with the USSR against the Nazis, either, but, you sometimes you have to deal with the overwhelming immediate problem, first.
> Maybe increasing trade will help China stop helping Russia's war against Ukraine
Its not Russia’s aggression in Ukraine that the shift toward China is aimed at.
> we could just look at that activity and say, well, maybe we shouldn't help the EU here and if they really think Ukraine is a problem they should take these other actions instead, whatever they may be.
We aren't helping the EU, we are threatening an EU and NATO state (and another NATO state, and consequently an ally of many EU states) with invasion. That’s literally the source of the shift you are complaining about. Trying to use the response to justify the action it responds to is...mind-boggling mental gymnastics.
WorldCoin 2!
Yes, it absolutely can.
I'm sure the various high-end intelligence agencies have a much better view on this than the public does. All kinds of ways of cross-checking the numbers, all by doing things they'll be doing in their normal course of events.
A normal person could probably do a decent job with an AI that isn't too biased in the direction of "trust gov numbers above all else" and tracking down and correlating some statistics too obscure and too difficult to fake. (Example: Using statistical population sampling methodology on some popular internet service or something.) The main problem there being literally no matter what they do and how careful they are, they'd never be able to convince anyone of their numbers.
Interesting that they have "IMPORTANT: Assist with defensive security tasks only." twice, once as the very first instruction after telling Claude what it is, and once toward the end.
If we adopted that level of risk, we'd have 5mph speed limits on every street with parking. As a society, we've decided that's overly cautious.
"Including the test suite which is something lacking in SQLite"
That's not entirely true. SQLite has a TON of tests that are part of the public domain project: https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/tree/master/test
They do have a test suite that's private which I understand to be more about testing for different hardware - they sell access to that for companies that want SQLite to work on their custom embedded hardware, details here: https://sqlite.org/th3.html
> SQLite Test Harness #3 (hereafter "TH3") is one of three test harnesses used for testing SQLite.
> China is the best example, its estimated that their population is off by entire countries in some statisitics
“entire countries” of population spans a range from single-digit hundreds to over a billion, so this could describe anything from an imperceptible error to an enormous one in China’s case.
This administration’s incompetence allows their opponents to conspire much more effectively.
I dunno about everyone else but when I learn more about what a model is and is not useful for, my subjective experience improves, not degrades.
Somehow I think that the weak link in our government security is at the top - the President, his cabinet, and various heads of agencies. Because nobody questions what they're allowed to do, and so they're exempt from various common-sense security protocols. We already saw some pretty egregious security breaches from Pete Hegseth.
We should get their heads checked for crayons.
The trick is how to weaponize the incompetence against them.
You think Clinton's email scandal "was quickly buried"?
I would be on the hat side myself, not so much for formality but for environmental control. My wife has better skin than most women her age because she’s always worn a hat. As for me…
Hand-picked by Noem, so yeah.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhu_Gottumukkala
> In April 2025, secretary of homeland security Kristi Noem named Gottumukkala as the deputy director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency; he began serving in the position on May 16. That month, Gottumukkala told personnel at the agency that much of its leadership was resigning and that he would serve as its acting director beginning on May 30.
> Tell ChatGPT to multiply 129348723423 and 2987892342424 and it'll probably get it wrong because nowhere on Reddit is that exact question for it to copy.
ChatGPT appears to get this correct.
> The Democratic Republic of the Congo, which by most estimates has the fourth-largest population in Africa, has not conducted a census since 1984. Neither South Sudan nor Eritrea, two of the newest states in Africa (one created in 2011 and the other in 1991), has conducted a census in their entire history as independent states. Afghanistan has not had one since 1979; Chad since 1991; Somalia since 1975.
Sure, but we have high growth on top of that - meaning all those "perpetual intermediaries" are always the minority and gravitate upwards in the org chain, while ~all the coding work is done by people who just started working in the field, and didn't even learn enough yet to become mediocre.