nateb2022

As someone very critical of mindlessly vibecoded software, I've worked with James (@prologic) years ago and very much respect his craft. AI assisted or not, I wouldn't describe him as a vibecoder. He's a great engineer.

Wang had been removed from his position as Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Trans on Intelligent Vehicles (https://ieee-itss.org/about/officers/past) prior to this; and IEEE has investigated multiple T-IV articles involving Wang:

  - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10486832
  - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10490245
  - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10499903
  - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10356797

So those retractions (seem to be peer review related) combined with the removal from the position of Editor-in-Chief, suggest something along the lines of editorial interference/manipulation of peer review.

> then we'd miss out on future efficiency improvements and savings.

Which I'm hoping will find its way back to our wallets but which I doubt will happen

Alberto (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/81639#issuecomment-58553...) found only a 75kB difference between the 'bloat' and your proposed patch in a stripped binary; and Roland (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/81639#issuecomment-58402...) contended:

> the symbols in your tester2 program account for ~67kb out of a 2.3mb binary

OP did find a "600k difference" in an unstripped comparison but if binary size was critical enough that 600k was a big deal, I'd assume users would be stripping the binaries outright or using a different language (tinygo perhaps) if a <100kb diff was on their list of concerns.

I think a lot of the focus on AI output poisoning future models' training has left their effects on our reasoning/ vocubulary neglected, which is why I brought it up.

How we define words, what connotations they evince and the qualities they exude, simultaneously limits and enables thought.

You're restating their point. Normies' output will still be bad compared to the output that good engineers would produce, with or without AI. You wouldn't want to use poorly built software regardless of origin.

HN data is accessible through the Firebase API: https://github.com/hackernews/api

You don't need to as much as parse HTML to read it. Building a client by hand in C even should be pretty painless as long as you don't write your JSON parser yourself.

charm makes some awesome libraries for building/serving CLIs over SSH: https://github.com/charmbracelet/wish

As an aside, 'meaningful' is an obtuse adjective to use there; and it's typical of text generated by Claude.[0] I seem to see it a lot more frequently than pre-AI (~2022). Maybe my next project will be statistically analyzing word frequencies in HN comments pre-AI and post-AI.

[0]: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7031138

Maybe next you can build something to prove a human created a HN submission

A bubble, like the housing bubble, involved people overpaying for things whose value became disconnected from reality. With AI, I'm aware of 0 people paying for an AI subscription against their will. Some people gravitate to cheaper models, some have no qualms paying SOTA prices. But regardless, I don't believe people in either camp would claim they're overpaying for something whose value has become disconnected from reality. On the contrary, the price of intelligence is rapidly decreasing.

I found these from 2024:

  - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.17199 
  - https://academic.oup.com/imrn/article/2024/16/11865/7704606

and re the Liouville function: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liouville_function

Conversely, Acer CEO could be downplaying 2030 shortage fears to protect investor confidence. Price discovery.

> Bespoke software can be orders of magnitude less complex.

Not in government. For payroll/HR, we're talking about hundreds of pages of legislative mandates, union bargaining rules, Title 5 statutory compliance, and FISMA/NIST regs. Just customizing something like PeopleSoft to fit is a large task in itself, let alone trying to implement bespoke software using an engineering pool that isn't even large enough to modernize the software it currently owns.

Bespoke sounds nice and works well in startups but that's not the context we're discussing. Check out Phoenix Pay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_pay_system and understand the US is even more complex.

I think enterprise software in this vein used to have a quasi-monopoly due to the sheer work required to build software of its size (not enough engineers exist in the government to do so), and the difficulty for competitors to enter regulated markets and so pretty much 1-2 options to choose from.

AI now makes it possible to build this kind of software in-house, offering a 2nd choice, though it'll only be as good as the standards of the teams using it. Only time can tell.

There's incompetence in every major company including Oracle. PeopleSoft isn't known for being the most modern or secure thing out there. Less reliance on 3rd party software like this will be a good thing going forward.

> Maintained by the Sovereign Systems & Security Architecture Team.

Hmmm... must be some "team" with this user (https://github.com/mc493) contributing only this repository in all of three years. Complete slop.

I see no proof of care with the first commit 9 hours ago, and every commit by this "security architecture team" unsigned except for the AI output paste commits to README made thru the web editor.

Linux on ChromeOS is basically as capable as WSL now: https://chromeos.dev/en/linux

Although I would definitely prefer macOS or Windows + WSL (since I play a decent bit of games), ChromeOS is a lot more pleasant experience now than in the past.

https://googlebook.google/ has more info with no paywall

I think this part of their comment:

> The claims seem a bit overstated though, since the metrics mentioned are cherrypicking refusal count and KL divergence, both of which make the outcome seem the most dramatic.

is right out of an LLM. It's the kind of language I'd expect out of a thinking trace also mentioning "boundaries" and "oracles" and "contracts."

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45945587 (10 months ago, 387 comments)

ANL offered the following guidance in 2015:

  - Limit engine start cycles to approximately 10 total cycles per day, on average. Occasionally cycling the starter system more than this will not cause damage unless it becomes a long-term trend.
  - Assuming seven additional cycles per day are not exceeded (assumed ten total cycles per day), any shutdown with a duration in excess of one minute will result in overall cost savings.
  - Limit electric accessory use during shutdowns, particularly during longer shutdown periods.
  - Drive more than five miles between start cycles to ensure the battery is fully charged.

(https://publications.anl.gov/anlpubs/2015/05/115925.pdf)

Nüshu isn't a programming language.

See 3 sentences into the Abstract:

> Nüshu, a rare script historically used by Yao women in China for self-expression within a patriarchal society

Tangential; but why does this site request permission to communicate with devices on my local network?

Love the idea but I can't help but think of this as RCE as a feature haha

> For comparison, DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731, a 284B model, costs around $0.1/Mtok for output from the cheapest providers on OpenRouter. I am not sure how much of this difference comes from the efficiency of running models at scale, pricing strategy, or popularity.

Due in large part to DeepSeek's MoE architecture. Generating 1 token through DS4's 13B active params requires roughly half the FLOPs to generate a token through the dense Qwen 27B.

I would love to see some "pro" features hit the Pro or Pro Max. Something I've wanted for a while is the ability to have more than 2 active eSIMs; I think a dual modem would be really cool, maybe with some features targeting users in poor cell coverage/ spotty service areas.

Or feature Thunderbolt rather than normie USB-C so you can record 4/8K ProRes to an SSD, and power a multi monitor setup with your iPhone Pro. macOS would be sick. Or (waterproof) exposed PCIE lanes so 3rd parties can integrate an ecosystem of backpacks like how Pi Hats work.

> HN spread total disinformation and propaganda about it to us, blaming governments who actually banned it

Source?

cf. https://github.com/TellinaTool/nl2bash

paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08979

Interesting, it blocks 3 out of my 4 domains. One of the blocked ones is over a year old.

2 (1 blocked, 1 not) use Cloudflare for DNS. The other 2 use porkbun.