jamincan

Humans aren't infallible and make mistakes in reasoning as well. What is fundamentally different about the mistakes we make versus the mistakes that Claude or Gemini make? Haven't LLM's even been shown to make the same posthoc rationalizations of mistakes that we as humans do all the time?

At the peak period of DOGE activity when it was the biggest political news story, I never once saw stories about it on the front page here. Someone relying on HN as their primary news aggregator would be entirely clueless to what was going on in Washington. I actually tried searching for them at last, because it seemed implausible to me that nothing was being posted and gaining traction and it was only then that I realized that there were tonnes of stories, but they were being flagged and buried.

I don't necessarily know that it's moderator malfeascence so much as people abusing HN tools to bury stories that they don't like, but I do think that there should be some consideration about how those tools are being abused and how that abuse can be effectively countered.

I get the impression that an effort is being made to correct the situation, but I've given up on the front page and only visit /active now, so I might be completely wrong.

Is it possible that Trump is just a stupid person? That he genuinely believes the tariffs will be good, that he's being influenced by stupid people (Navarro) that believe this, and that the reaction of bond markets that didn't follow his overly simplistic model made him hit the brakes?

@dang Surely this is mistakenly flagged? This is interesting and hardly seems controversial or inflammatory.

It was in the news in the past week that the shingles vaccine may reduce dementia risk by 20%. The results also point to it being a causative effect rather than simply correlative, which, if true, is huge.

https://www.business-standard.com/health/shingles-vaccine-ma...

Even though other manufacturers may not be reporting these numbers, Level 2 ADAS systems are pretty common as far as I can tell. Wouldn't any vehicle with adaptive cruise control and lane-keep assist be considered Level 2 ADAS?

I do this all the time with no problem at all. I drive a 2023 VW Taos, for what that is worth.

The first man on the moon, the breakup of the Soviet Union, September 11 - these were all things that people predicted would be monumental world-changing events at that point in history, and also proved to be after the fact. Maybe history will prove us wrong, but this feels like one of those moments to me.

Should we also then be flagging posts about Rust due to the low-effort drive-by comments sniping at the language and Rust community?

Why do you think Tesla stock prices doubled after Trump's election? Obviously Tesla is more than just Elon, but it is pretty clear that a huge portion of its market cap can be attributed to Musk and hype that he generates.

It was because one of the many social media influencers they paid to promote a March Madness contest also happened to be trans.

In general, I find Rust very readable. The areas I do find I struggle are generics and lifetimes, and I don't think it's a feature of Rust syntax that makes me struggle and is instead the fact that people tend to use non-descriptive names for lifetimes or generics. It's hard to pick apart a trait that has four generics name T, U, V, and W, or lifetimes 'a, 'b, and 'c.

Usually people will try to make it the first letter of something meaningful, but it is still much harder to parse.

My own preference is to use more descriptive names except in trivial cases. Having the lifetime mirror a struct member name or a parameter name is really helpful for understanding them, in my opinion.

Mine is the "grab your steering wheel" alert when the lane-keep assist does too good of a job staying in the lane and it doesn't receive any steering input from me for too long of a period.

I do have to say that after test-driving a number of different vehicles before buying my Taos last summer, that I appreciate that VW continues to use real buttons for most inputs - although I do understand a number of their other vehicles use capacitive touch buttons.

All of these are valid, but would this not equally apply to a linux dev stamping their feet and obstructing other people's work because they don't like rust?

Everything related to what's going on in Washington seems to have been buried and flagged.

Aren't a lot of video game streamers basically alt-right rage streamers now too?

Truly?

They actually have quite a few examples in the axum repo and linked from their docs. Something a bit more use-friendly and approachable like Bevy's website would be beneficial, though.

How is competition better? We have Bell, Rogers, and Telus and then Quebecor which is regional and much smaller but at least within an order of magnitude of the other telcos in size. Shaw was bought out by Rogers, so it seems strictly worse than it used to be.

We've run into an issue with the new versions of notepad saving your edits to a temp file in the background so that you can continue where you left off without losing changes if you close notepad before saving.

The problem is that this can make it ambiguous whether edits have been saved to the file or not and even someone reopening the file to verify that they remembered to save the information will be fooled into thinking its there.

I've not been as immersed in the presidential race, but hasn't he explicitly said he wants to be a dictator, this is the last vote you will need, we should stop so and so from voting and so on? Like, right out of his mouth? How is that not an undemocratic platform?

The odd thing is that Civet includes both do expressions and everything is an expression. I'd be happy with either, but both seems like a bad idea.

The Navajo Power Plant near Page, AZ closed a few years ago largely due to economic reasons.

> These arguments get said a lot and they are all fine in theory, but in practice, all code over a certain size has a tremendous number of latent bugs, even Rust code.

Are you claiming this from direct experience, or do you have some data to back it up? Apparently the rollback rate for Rust code in Android is less than half that of C++. [1]

1. https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/eliminating-memory-s...

And the origin of that plural form comes from Latin.

I think meaningless abstractions are fine to a point, but when you have a less trivial example, it can make it harder to keep track of the relationship of different things. For example, you might see something like

  trait Foo {
      fn frobulate()
  }
  
  struct Bar;
  struct Baz;
  
  impl Foo for Bar {
      fn frobulate() {
          // TODO   
      }
  }

  fn qux<T: Foo>(...)

It's ends up being too abstract. A more concrete example would help clarify the relationship of the different elements.

My understanding is that period instruments from the Baroque go out of tune very easily. When I've seen the Messiah performed with Baroque-style orchestra, I recall them retuning a number of times during the performance.

I know that Foo and Frobulator and so on have history in code examples, but I personally find examples with them require more careful reading than examples built on real concepts.

At least one podcast I listen to (If Books Could Kill) seems to place The Atlantic in the "reactionary center" or at least sympathetic to it. I don't fully grok the term, but it mainly seems to include people who sit near the center political, generally view themselves as progressives, but feel that things have gone too far and therefore push against the supposed excesses of the left.

In all honesty, I don't see that sort of thing posted except maybe the overly naive excited "omg I love rust" post in /r/rust from someone just learning it which no one should be taking as credible.

I do, however, see people trot out the oft-repeated "rust evangelists want to rewrite everything in rust" or "rust people say programming C++ is a crime against humanity", but it seems to me that's the only place I see this argument. In other words, it's a simple strawman.