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It is kind of funny. It also puts the lie to their 'respect for religion'. I can see Trump declaring himself to be pope next.
By the nature of the LLM architecture I think if you "colored" the input via tokens the model would about 85% "unlearn" the coloring anyhow. Which is to say, it's going to figure out that "test" in the two different colors is the same thing. It kind of has to, after all, you don't want to be talking about a "test" in your prompt and it be completely unable to connect that to the concept of "test" in its own replies. The coloring would end up as just another language in an already multi-language model. It might slightly help but I doubt it would be a solution to the problem. And possibly at an unacceptable loss of capability as it would burn some of its capacity on that "unlearning".
It's not, though. There simply wasn't enough malware to worry about. Why would I run a firewall when I was unlikely to ever encounter a malicious program?
Previously (2023 & 2024): https://hn.algolia.com/?query=The%20HTML%20review%20is%20an%...
I'm not sure how I feel about this, but I liked the writing:
> You are difficult to work with in the ways all serious people are difficult to work with. This is not a diagnosis. It is a compliment.
> Switzerland is the best paying country in Europe (discounting London).
How does that look when you correct for costs of living, because I imagine that would put London at the bottom of the list, as one of those places where senior-level tech salary is not enough to afford living in the city itself (and I don't mean the City of London, but the rest of it too).
What I like most about the Fifth Element is that they didn't milk it through a bunch of sequels.
Never get between a journalist and their scoop.
I've been saying this for a while, the issue is that what you're asking for is not possible, period. Prompt injection isn't like SQL injection, it's like social engineering - you can't eliminate it without also destroying the very capabilities you're using a general-purpose system for in the first place, whether that's an LLM or a human. It's not a bug, it's the feature.
That soon is like a decade in the making.
And with many folks going into alternatives like Godot, it means C# ends up losing the mindshare it got.
Yes, you can use C# with Godot, but most folks end up with GDScript, or GDextension.
America has lost the entire world. Everyone has realized that they can't depend on the US as much as they did and are looking to distance themselves.
It's too bad, because the unity that we had before Trump was great for peace, but now the rule of the strong is plunging the world back into wars and uncertainty.
Because physics is knowable, and I don't think an unknowable thing can be created from a knowable thing.
> Poverty is relative. If you have a small apartment in a city of McMansions, you're poor, but if you have a goat in a village of no goats, you're rich.
That worked before globalization. Nowadays, having a small apartment in a city of McMansions means you're upper middle class. Poor people in the west have no apartments and no goats.
What's not to love? A small and beautiful PowerPC Unix workstation, something IBM hasn't done in a long, long time. How far does MacPorts go with a PPC?
Yes, provided you are running vim on macOS, and calling into the xcode command line tooling.
> Transparency needs no further analysis of second order effects.
Everything needs analysis of second order effects. Otherwise you wreck lives without even realizing that's what you're doing. It's the negligence of a drunk driver.
On the other hand, this also applies to Bitcoin. Satoshi, if he is real and alive and in control of his wallet, is a billionaire. Billionaires need to be kept under careful watch unless they, too, wreck lives without realizing.
Some interesting stuff you will get out of Dr. Dobbs articles, as someone that was an avid reader.
- The Small C compiler set of articles, where you will get the sense not even K&R C was used outside UNIX for quite some time, only a common subset.
- The toolbox articles creating a Turbo Vision like framework in Object Pascal
- The evolution of Python and related adoption
- Strange programing languages like Actor, C@+ (try to search this one nowadays), Sather, BETA
- The fashionable compiler benchmarks that used to be quite common back in the day
- The evolution of C and C++ at ISO, while their standards were being started
- A more heterogenous way of software development, when it wasn't only UNIX clones and Windows.
In Rust's case, union types should only be used for FFI with a C ABI.
As for C, it is a sharp blade on its own.
Computers, TVs, video games, and smartphones have solved that problem. There are now more things to do alone in a room than ever before.
It didn't help.
Just wait a generation or two.
It doesn't even look like particularly optimised Asm (could immediately spot a few savings, despite how horrible GAS syntax is to read...), but is definitely not "compiler slop"[1] either, which shows just how inefficient the majority of programs actually are. Of course even the ELF header takes up a significant amount of space, but this reminds me of how PC magazines would print short listings of utilities like this, often a few dozen up to a few hundred bytes at most --- in DOS .COM format, which is headerless and thus pure machine instructions.
[1] In the late 80s and early 90s, the battle between those writing handwritten Asm and those using compiled HLLs has many similarities to AI-generated vs non-AI code today.
Reminds me of the old saying "don't interrupt the one doing it, to tell him it can't be done."
When someone who programs mostly in Rust responds to someone who programs mostly in Go I would like an animated bouncing icon that says "fight! fight! fight!" and when I press it it should leave a comment that instigates a fight, like "Serde is not really all that good".
Being a mediocre writer, I don't know what it means to write like you talk, but I know I've noticed a strong correlation between how ornate one's language is and how little one knows what they're talking about. The people who know the most use the simplest words, and if someone uses complicated language, they're either trying to deceive or to hide the weaknesses of their argument.
This only goes for specific cases, of course. E.g. it probably applies more to business language than to novels.
Chances are you might find a compatible replacement from China on Ali and the other usual sites for a fraction of the price.
Yeah, I found this was definitely a case of "the book was much better than the movie", especially odd since most of the dialog was word-for-word, yet they skipped over the small parts that gave the story its lesson and relatability. Like the whole "officially or unofficially" part is one of my favorite parts of the original story, as it makes it seem like these intergalactic beings have to deal with the same concerns as Bob in corporate HR.
I think it highlights why the original text was uniquely brilliant and why it makes it reliably makes it to the top of HN every year or so.
Cashing in on a high-trust society?
It just doesn't work that way.
To some extent you can append some knowledge to a model with low-rank adaptation and other techniques but if you want to train a model which is substantially better than your old model you need to train a new model which is much bigger and/or more efficient than your old model and it learns a whole new representation.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophic_interference for one problem.
There is no such line. The actual line is whether someone is newsworthy; the safeguard you have against journalism abusing random people (which it has done, often, over the last 150 years) is that journalists ordinarily don't write intrusive stories about random people.
(There are some other safeguards, but they're highly situational.)
The conflict between journalism and "doxxing" is a Redditism that people are frantically trying to import into real life. Maybe Reddit norms will upend the longstanding norms (and purpose) of journalism! But nobody should kid themselves that the norms have always been compatible.
Guess this doesn't count as a hobby since I switched careers, but I left software recently to attend violin making school. I'm happier than I've been in a long time.
I'd encourage all "mental work" folks to engage with something physical in the 3D realm (art, cooking, gardening, etc.). I really believe humans have a special affinity for creating refined objects, and I don't think software "scratches that itch".
Totally agree. One thing I really like about HN is it reminds you that nobody's individual experience is indicative of the industry at large.
The parent comment stated "Most codebases I encounter just have "changed stuff" or "hope this works now"." I worked at 6 tech companies in my career and a slew of contracting gigs, and I literally never encountered the problem of commit messages being uninformative. Most of the companies developed strict rules for commit comments like always including an issue number (with occasional [NO-ISSUE] tags allowed for minor changes) or something like Conventional Commits, https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/ .
Pelicans: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/8/muse-spark/
I also had a poke around with the tools exposed on https://meta.ai/ - they're pretty cool, there's a Code Interpreter Python container thing now and they also have an image analysis tool called "container.visual_grounding" which is a lot of fun.
Through acoustic testing, the research team identified a narrow frequency band – a “safety gap” – capable of penetrating ANC headphone filters. This range lies between 750 and 780 Hz.
Building an entire product around EQ crossover frequencies (which are not standardized or regulated in any way) seems a bit risky to me. Those are things that could change at any time, as could the shapes of the EQ curves themselves. there are fads in engineering design like anything else and in this wholly digital era they tend to cycle and proliferate faster because increased performance (or at least hte temporary consumer perception of such ) is only a software update away. People are extraordinarily susceptible to placebo effects in the audio realm (probably because most people prioritize their visual sense), so just moving EQ crossovers around or making them dynamically adjustable is an easy path to consumer buzz. You see this all the time with pro audio plugins.
> They agreed to base negotiations on Iran's 10-point proposal
What is your source for this? My understanding is terms were privately negotiated between unnamed representative of America and Iran.
Well I just learned all my hobbies are boring, so bah.
Is the number of Flock Safety cameras in America going up or down?
Kinda off topic but I wonder why they picked this name, knowing of Nvidia's Spark. They're different products, obviously, but the potential for confusion is real as both brands are competing for mindshare in the AI space. I opened this story expecting to read they'd deployed on a cluster made of Spark machines or somesuch.
We've been trying to get a Claude Code subscription for my company, the pricing page says $25 but they actually charge £25, 34% higher. I've been trying to talk to them for months, their support people don't even read what I'm saying and insist that it's somehow because of proration.
I'm fairly sure their billing backend is vibe-coded and their support is worse than Google's.
Yes. I once wanted C unions limited to fully mapped type conversions, where any bit pattern in either type is a valid bit pattern in the other. Then you can map two "char" to "int". Even "float". But pointer types must match exactly.
If you want disjoint types, something like Pascal's discriminated variants or Rust's enums is the way to go. It's embarrassing that C never had this.
Many bad design decision in C come from the fact that originally, separate compilation was really dumb, so the compiler would fit in small machines.
I'm not really very up to speed on this, can someone explain how the strait is actually closed? Are the Iranians threatening to sink any ships that pass by, or what? How come any ships don't turn their transponders off and try to make a run for it?
My dorm room was next door to Hal Finney. He was a freakin genius at every intellectual endeavor he bothered to try. My fellow students and I were in awe of him.
But you had to get to know him to realize what he was. To most people, he was just a regular guy, easy going, friendly, always willing to help.
He was also a libertarian, and the concept of bitcoin must have been very appealing to him.
And inventing "Satoshi" as the front man is just the prankish thing he'd do, as he had quite a sense of humor.
I regret not getting to know him better, though I don't think he found me very interesting.
My money's on Hal.
Changing the title was a good call.
The article has a good take on the "lie" problem. We know about the hallucination problem, which remains serious. The "lie" problem mentioned is that if you ask an LLM why it said or did something, it has no information of how it got a result. So it processes the "why" as a new query, and produces a plausible explanation. Since that explanation is created without reference to the internals of how the previous query was processed, it may be totally wrong. That seems to be the type of "lie" the author is worried about in this essay.
(Yes, humans do that too.)
>what is the point of links/edges when the llm can figure out the relations by itself
Making it work less, faster, and saving tokens. Duh!
Mythos is a news article. This is an actual model you can use.
We have a EU dev we tried to have submit a GDPR request for human review on something on Facebook.
There’s no apparent mechanism to do so. Support was clueless. The privacy email address responded weeks later with “not out department”.
Things which are relatively standard tend to get good generic support: Ethernet devices will generally be USB/CDC/ECM or RNDIS, for example. That may Just Work (tm) if it has the right descriptors.
The userland approach is much more useful for weird or custom devices. In particular, on Windows you can do one of these user space "drivers" without having to bother with driver signing, and if you use libusb it will be portable too.
(I maintain a small USB DFU based tool for work)
Stripe's pretty good at using other signals to block this sort of thing.
I thought Madoka looks more like
https://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=mahou_...
It was a little scary though to click on a link and get a sh file.
For my own web-based RSS reader I made no effort to open stories in an <iframe> or anything like that but I just show the text in the RSS feed and if I want to see the article I click on a link an it opens a new browser tab.
I've been arguing with people since 1994 that staying within the bounds of the web gave you more freedom then it takes away. My RSS reader works w/ my iPad and my VR headset.
For a while I have been thinking people haven't demanded more transclusion capability from the WWW, like you ought to be able to merge the DOM from a web site into another page. I did two projects in the 2010s, one to see what was possible in terms of transclusion of pure-HTML pages and another "de-enshittification" project which would re-render JS-based pages as the DOM level the way Google's web crawler (or maybe archive.is) but a week's spike prototype on that one convinced me that it made latency, arguably the core problem of enshittification, much much worse. On the other hand for an RSS reader you could do the work up front.
> So why would they look like meat to "blend in", a priori, if one of them doesn't even fathom the idea?
I'd imagine British spies in WWII sometimes wore swastikas to blend in?
They infiltrating to investigate. It needn't be an endorsement of the practice.
Right. From the article:
Through acoustic testing, the research team identified a narrow frequency band – a “safety gap” – capable of penetrating ANC headphone filters. This range lies between 750 and 780 Hz.
Is there a standard specifying this "safety band"? Is whatever Apple does for AirPods a de-facto standard?
I am just blown away with how much you can do with the ESP32! I used to be an AVR8 fanbois but being able to make music synthesizers, display controllers and things like that is so much fun!
Unless you're aware that such powerful commands are something you need once in a blue moon, and then you're grateful that the tool is flexible enough to allow them in the first place.
Git may be sharp and unwieldy, but it's also one of the decreasing amount of tools we still use - the trend of turning tools into toys consumed the regular user market and is eating into tech software as well.
Not one comment praising the existence of this site. Remarkable.
It would not surprise me if these actions are coming at the requests of governments. Strong encryption is one of the few things that challenges their monopoly on information; they have a very strong incentive to apply political pressure to the maintainers of these projects to, well, stop maintaining the projects. We've seen this in overt actions that the EU takes; in more covert actions that the U.S. government is suspected of taking; and in the news headlines about third-world dictatorships that just shut off the Internet. Tech companies are perhaps the most convenient leverage point for these actions.
More regulation won't help here, because the regulation-maker is itself the hostile party.
What would help is full control over the supply chain. Hardware that you own, free and open-source operating systems where no single person is the bottleneck to distribution, and free software that again has no single person who is a failure point and no way to control its distribution.
The lights that are used in experiments where you perturb people's circadian rhythm a. la The Geometry of Biological Time
https://lab.rockefeller.edu/cohenje/assets/file/098CohenBook... (review)
are really bright, as our the lights used for treating SAD. I always thought the fear over screens was the kind of bogus thing people wanted to believe in.
I don't blame you for this initial reaction, which would have been mine too had I not known who the author was. I don't mean that I automatically trust anything published by the reporter who busted Theranos (and won two Pulitzers for other major investigations). But I do mean that if John Carreyrou and his editors decided to publish something this long, that means they (and they're lawyers) are willing to die on this hill, no matter how meandering the first paragraphs of his 1st-person narrative.
Since the story doesn't end with: "And then Adam Back bowed his head and said, 'You have found me, Satoshi'", I'm guessing they preferred to go for the softer "how we did this story" first-person narrative. There is no explicit smoking gun, like an official document or eyewitness who asserts Satoshi's identity. But the circumstantial and technical evidence is quite thorough, to the point where the most likeliest conclusions are:
1. Adam Back is Satoshi
2. Satoshi is someone who is either a close friend or frenemy of Back, and deliberately chose to leave a obfuscated trail that correlates with Back's persona and personal timeline.
I make holiday light shows with an open source program called XLights[0]. I'm sure you've seen the videos[1] of what people[2] can do. Usually the top comment is "man that is cool but I wouldn't want to be their neighbor!" followed by "my neighbors love my light shows".
Creating the sequences is time consuming, and lot of people end up buying them or sharing them, but those are rarely as good as the ones you make for yourself.
Some folks have dabbled with using AI to create the sequences. I think the biggest issues are lack of training data and it's a very visual art, so there needs to be a better feedback between the text representation and the visual manifestation.
So if you're into using AI to make physical world things better, that would be a good place to look!
And the guy next to him is just staring at his phone, probably thinking, "I'm not even gonna ask".
Although if it were me I'd probably annoy the heck out of him asking why he had a Wii on the airplane!
How niche is retrocomputing?
I absolutely love my ancient machines, and I use them to explore period applications, much more than games.
I also love to restore and preserve them. There’s something magical about a Sun workstation Solaris 2 a Frog Design Trinitron monitor. or a Microvax running VMS and DECWindows. Or a multi-user Altair Z80. I think it’s sad a lot of software was lost and some platforms were denied the documentation that’d enable their preservation (looking at you, IBM - document the AS/400 and release old OS to hobbyists).
As you know, I deeply respect you. Not trying to argue here, just provide my own perspective:
> Why would a writer put an article online if ChatGPT will slurp it up and regurgitate it back to users without anyone ever even finding the original article?
I write things for two main reasons: I feel like I have to. I need to create things. On some level, I would write stuff down even if nobody reads it (and I do do that already, with private things.) But secondly, to get my ideas out there and try to change the world. To improve our collective understanding of things.
A lot of people read things, it changes their life, and their life is better. They may not even remember where they read these things. They don't produce citations all of the time. That's totally fine, and normal. I don't see LLMs as being any different. If I write an article about making code better, and ChatGPT trains on it, and someone, somewhere, needs help, and ChatGPT helps them? Win, as far as I'm concerned. Even if I never know that it's happened. I already do not hear from every single person who reads my writing.
I don't mean that thinks that everyone has to share my perspective. It's just my own.
I've been doing photography for a long time but over the last few years had phases where I got bored of it and tried something new.
I had a long time when I was bored and carried the camera in my pack but never took any pictures, then one day I looked out at the sports center out my window and decided to start shooting sports.
Posting photos to socials I found flower photographs were popular so I take a lot of them and find ways to not get bored. (Maybe I will start focus stacking one of these days)
Since the beginning of the year I have been "going out" as a character who is a bit like a Disney cast member who gets photos like
https://mastodon.social/@UP8/116326541009492328
from people who recognize my character. Like the Disney cast member it works better when people have seen the movie so i hand out these tokens
https://mastodon.social/@UP8/116086491667959840
which spread virally around a university campus, particularly among Chinese students who recognize the huli jing and all the time I have experiences "that could only happen in a manga" when, for instance, somebody who's heard the rumors is waiting at the bus stop for me. Laugh but all my marketing KPIs have an extra zero on the right!
My point is none of that's new info.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9K38_Igla
> The 9K310 Igla-1 system and its 9M313 missile were accepted into service in the Soviet Army on 11 March 1981. The main differences from the Strela-3 included an optional Identification Friend or Foe system to prevent firing on friendly aircraft, an automatic lead and super elevation to simplify shooting and reduce minimum firing range, a slightly larger rocket, reduced drag and better guidance system extend maximum range and improve performance against fast and maneuverable targets, an improved lethality on target achieved by a combination of delayed impact fuzing, terminal maneuver to hit the fuselage rather than jet nozzle, an additional charge to set off the remaining rocket fuel (if any) on impact, an improved resistance to infrared countermeasures (both decoy flares and ALQ-144 series jamming emitters), and slightly improved seeker sensitivity.
> The seeker has two detectors – a cooled MWIR InSb detector for detection of the target and uncooled PbS SWIR detector for detection of IR decoys (flares). The built-in logic determines whether the detected object is a target or a decoy. The latest version (Igla-S) is reported to have additional detectors around the main seeker to provide further resistance against pulsed IRCM devices commonly used on helicopters.
> Since 2014 the Igla is being replaced in Russian service by the new 9K333 Verba (Willow) MANPADS.[4] The Verba's primary feature is its multispectral optical seeker, using three sensors as opposed to the Igla-S' two. Cross-checking sensors against one another better discriminates between relevant targets and decoys, and decreases the chance of disruption from countermeasures, including lasers that attempt to blind missiles.
No one's likely to have been surprised by this capability. It's 80s tech.
Hm yeah, I don't know about drivers' sentences, true.
I don't know man, "Wiindows" was right there and they chose "entii"? I weep for the missed opportunity more than anything.
Maybe it was a legal worry.
I mean, the ACLU is allowed to say they don't interpret the Second the individualist way you do. That's their First Amendment right, yes?
The Second is probably the amendment least in need of defending by the ACLU. It's well covered, and pretty much a third rail of American politics.
Not only is this an insanely cool project, the writeup is great. I was hooked the whole way through. I particularly love this part:
> At this point, the system was trying to find a framebuffer driver so that the Mac OS X GUI could be shown. As indicated in the logs, WindowServer was not happy - to fix this, I’d need to write my own framebuffer driver.
I'm surprised by how well abstracted MacOS is (was). The I/O Kit abstraction layers seemed to actually do what they said. A little kudos to the NeXT developers for that.
I think there are two types of discussions, when it comes to LLMs: Some people talk about whether LLMs are "human" and some people talk about whether LLMs are "useful" (ie they perform specific cognitive tasks at least as well as humans).
Both of those aspects are called "intelligence", and thus these two groups cannot understand each other.
本当に? [1]
My take on it is that you should have a budget for thinking about AI tools and that budget should not be very much, not more than 10-20% of your time.
I mean, tools are going to evolve, I learned that Gemini can correctly answer programming questions that Copilot can't, so I changed my habits. But I do not go looking for new tools every day, I do not ask who I should be following on X to charge up my FOMO, etc.
There is a lot of talk about why some people get good results with AI coding and others don't. I think it comes down to
(1) Software development knowledge
(2) Subject matter knowledge
(3) A.I. programming knowledge
in that order That is "knowing how to prompt" is mainly about (1) and (2) and less about (3). I might even be wrong about the order of (1) and (2) but the gap between those and (3) is huge.
Let's say you want to write an application to help people do easy tax returns.
It helps to be an accountant or other tax expert because you have (2). I could get away with it because part of my (1) skills is checking out a backpack full of books at the library and learning enough about a subject to impersonate the subject matter expert. Somebody good at (3) could certainly get Claude Code to make something that looks like it could fill our your tax return for you but it won't really work.
[1] Really?
Huh? Every email marketing system I've built has bounce management built in. I mean if you don't you get turned off by your deliverability provider.
This shopping center was built on a landfill
https://www.wskg.org/regional-news/2025-08-08/binghamton-off...
when I first saw it in the 1990s it was kinda on the outs, like K-Mart was already failing (as a business) and the parking lot was visibly wavy because of subsidence. Funny the New York Pizzeria mentioned in that article is run by my relatives.
One of the reasons I'm comfortable using them as coding agents is that I can and do review every line of code they generate, and those lines of code form a gate. No LLM-bullshit can get through that gate, except in the form of lines of code, that I can examine, and even if I do let some bullshit through accidentally, the bullshit is stateless and can be extracted later if necessary just like any other line of code. Or, to put it another way, the context window doesn't come with the code, forming this huge blob of context to be carried along... the code is just the code.
That exposes me to when the models are objectively wrong and helps keep me grounded with their utility in spaces I can check them less well. One of the most important things you can put in your prompt is a request for sources, followed by you actually checking them out.
And one of the things the coding agents teach me is that you need to keep the AIs on a tight leash. What is their equivalent in other domains of them "fixing" the test to pass instead of fixing the code to pass the test? In the programming space I can run "git diff *_test.go" to ensure they didn't hack the tests when I didn't expect it. It keeps me wondering what the equivalent of that is in my non-programming questions. I have unit testing suites to verify my LLM output against. What's the equivalent in other domains? Probably some other isolated domains here and there do have some equivalents. But in general there isn't one. Things like "completely forged graphs" are completely expected but it's hard to catch this when you lack the tools or the understanding to chase down "where did this graph actually come from?".
The success with programming can't be translated naively into domains that lack the tooling programmers built up over the years, and based on how many times the AIs bang into the guardrails the tools provide I would definitely suggest large amounts of skepticism in those domains that lack those guardrails.
Myself I see legibility as the most important variable for manifesting myself-as-a-fox. In my photography work I sure love it when people recognize me in 200ms because I get results like
https://mastodon.social/@UP8/116326541009492328
Legibility helps you share reality with other people, it lets you shape reality. It enables nonconformity as much as it enables conformity. What's wrong with that?
It looks like you got ChatGPT to write shorter sentences than usual but it this article has the structural signs of something it wrote -- it circles around and repeats itself way too much.
As for time sensitivity I'm going to say the sense of urgency is a bug and not a feature. I think sending people urgent methods about the security of their account is fundamentally bad because it trains people to apply system I thinking to security -- i mean phishing messages are often about some urgent thing having to do with security. If one could say WE ARE NEVER GOING TO SEND YOU MESSAGES ABOUT THE SECURITY OF YOUR ACCOUNT and users believed it I think those users would be more secure.
In that frame, a 45 sec timeout for an OTP is too short and that timeout should be increased even if it means increasing the entropy.
The case for speed is just... speed is good, full stop. If a response of any kind is delayed for 45 sec the user is going to think that it might never be coming and will be likely to retry, give up, kill -9, reboot the device, etc... Whatever it is.
Yeah, "diabolical" overstates it. It isn't a wicked problem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem
Kinda funny but I am a fan of green LED light to supplement natural light on hot summer days. I can feel the radiant heat from LED lights on my bare skin and since the human eye is most sensitive to green light I feel the most comfortable with my LED strip set to (0,255,0)
I've been trying that prompt agains other leading models and honestly GLM-5.1's is by far the best.
See Chesterson's Fence. There are plenty of things that are wrong with the status quo but also plenty of things that are right. People can always imagine things getting worse. I can be worried about social and economic inequality but also not want to live in Lenin's Russia or Mao's China.
I see it is part of the general problem of the culture industry.
Back in the 1980s the average young "science fiction fan" had never read Heinlein or Asimov or Niven or LeGunn or Anderson or Smith or Robinson or Pohl. Instead of reading 20 books by 20 different authors, they read Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy 20 times.
In the 2000s it was the same with fantasy and Harry Potter. Zillions and zillions of fantasy books but everybody just had to read the same one over and over.
And of course these folks are always negative and not positive, they aren't going to talk about what you should move on to, or even that you should read something like The Terraformers which (1) is pretty good no matter how you slice it and (2) represents an NB point of view.
Contrast that to a healthy culture in Japan where 4-panel comics that have come up in the last four years have had visual adaptations, I'd have no trouble naming 20 fantasy titles that have had visual adaptations, etc.
One thing everybody agrees in the US is that is all about gatekeeping, gatekeeping, gatekeeping, and more gatekeeping. Thing is you can't gatekeep your way to a successful culture industry, like you have to let creative people produce something.
I know it's not what people want to hear but my response to a lot of the comments here is just a general, I agree, it's time to stop using Windows.
They won't let you secure your drive the way you want. They won't let you secure your network the way you want (per the top-level comment about Wireguard). In so doing they are demonstrating not just that they can stop you from running these particular programs but that they are very likely going to exert this control on the entire product category going forward, and I see little reason to believe they will stop there. These are not minor issues; these are fundamental to the safety, security, and functionality of your machine. This indicates that Microsoft will continue to compromise the safety, security, and functionality of your machine going forward to their benefit as they see fit. This is intolerable for many, many use cases.
I think it is becoming clear that Microsoft no longer considers Windows users to be their customers any more. Despite the fact that people do in fact pay for Windows, Microsoft has shifted from largely supporting their customers to out-and-out exploiting their customers. (Granted a certain amount of exploitation has been around for a long time, but things like the best backwards compatibility in the industry showed their support, as well.)
I suspect this is the result of a lot of internal changes (not one big one) but I also see no particular reason at the moment to expect this to change. To my eyes both the first and second derivative is heading in the direction of more exploitation. More treating users like a cattle field and less like customers. When new features or work is being proposed at Microsoft, it is clear that it is being analyzed entirely in terms of how it can benefit Microsoft and users are not at the table.
No amount of wishing this wasn't so is going to change anything. No amount of complaining about how hard it is to get off of Windows is going to change anything; indeed at this point you're just signalling to Microsoft that they are correct and they can treat you this way and there's nothing you will do about it for a long time.
I dunno how long it really takes. They didn't have free credit scores in the first decade I was paying off my credit card.
Time does help though, my score is "excellent" but my mother-in-law's score is even more excellent.
I will say that my parents taught me "take care of your bank account and your credit rating will follow" but for a decade after the 2008 financial crisis I have been so sick of all the spam online, masquerading as financial advice, that seems to think personal finance starts with: (1) avoid identity theft [1], and (2) use (many) "one weird tricks" to improve your credit score. I'm sure (a) somebody profits from this advice and (b) it is not the recipient!
[1] usually less consequential than the personal finance mafia would say, it's not like you are responsible for other people's fraud in the long term but if you are cleaning up a mess right when you are closing on a mortgage it can be costly... maybe I am hearing less of this talk these days because hardly anyone can get a mortgage anymore!
This is my favorite HN comment of them all.
OK then, what is the opposite of this, the adhoc union?
You're not actually allowed to avoid this by having multiple accounts, that falls under "ban evasion".
But yes, there's a lot of critical single maintainer projects.
That is not merely psychological unless you're very early in your career and life, with no dependents, etc.
I regret not learning about this before, but apparently "sidereal" is from Latin, and not what I always assumed, i.e. "side real" as in "kinda not quite real, wtf?!" day.
That actually deserves a competition of its own. Just what can you accomplish with a 256 bytes prompt? Or maybe 32 bytes, to compensate for expressiveness of natural language.
Yeah, why trust your actual experience over numbers? Nothing surer than synthetic benchmarks
>I also want Claude to work reliably but very few (no?) companies have ever seen this level of rapid growth.
You do understand however that aside from the growth/maturity path, this is also a path to enshittification and skinning their users, which might come even faster to LMMs than say Google , because the latter managed to have hundres of billions in investments in record time to recoup and IPOs on sight.
Or could sell it on eBay for an amount of money that's nontrivial from POV of a gig economy worker.
Those resins are absolutely fantastic but do read the MSDS and be very careful, it doesn't take much to get yourself in the emergency ward with that stuff. Another risk to be acutely aware of is that these reactions usually are exothermic and can go runaway faster than you can blink of the conditions are right.
Future Crew's "Second Reality" was my introduction to demos, back in the 486 PC days.
> then SLS would represent a ~17 year long program that cost at least 41 billion dollars that netted 5 mission launches
SLS will never be worth it. But I'd discount from that price tag the continuity benefits of keeping the Shuttle folks around, and aerospace engineers employed, across the chasm years of the 2010s.
> Do you have an example use case?
The one that comes to mind is HPC, where you avoid over allocation of the physical cores. If the process has the whole node for itself for a brief period, inefficient memory access might have a bigger impact than memory starvation.
IBM also has their RAID-like memory for mainframes that might be able to do something similar. This feels like software implemented RAID-1.
You couldn't be more wrong about that.
I remember when Paris Hilton was shilling NFTs.