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Then these papers with these instructions get included in the training corpus for the next frontier models and those models learn to put these kinds of instructions into what they generate and …?

This seems a pretty big claim! What truths do people believe that are wrong, and what do you believe the truth to be? And why would they protect a generation and from what and why? And will they not protect the generation who are coming up now, still learning the false truth because the real truth hasn’t been revealed yet?

Lovely!

Is there a sort order? Would be so nice to understand the threads of evolutions and revolution in the progression. A bit of a family tree and influence layout? It would also be nice to have a scaled view so you can sense the difference in sizes over time.

I also just brought the cheapest oldest b&w model kobo reader still on sale and put epubs on it. Haven’t even updated the OS. Just works. Sweet.

Krill baby krill?

The current administration is openly extractive without the fig leaves of old.

I don’t think we can look forward to nature - whether it’s national parks or marine parks or just being a non polluting neighbor - getting any priority or protection from now onwards.

Does this apply to the 17 and 1800s too? Or was there an inflexion point when consumption plateaued and technology is about carving it up not increasing it? And how does it apply to other counties?

My hunch is that this is a recent half century thing for the US and other countries are still earlier in the curve with lots of room to grow still

Typically man-optional.

Best source on all this stuff is a classic proper OSINT blogger (who does awesome pics too): https://www.hisutton.com/

Russia has been mass producing its own copies or the drones - the Russian version is called Geran 2 - for several years now. They use a lot of western and sanctioned components and they assemble them in big factories eg Kupol plant in the Russian city of Izhevsk

But would it have got them to stop the war? Seems unlikely.

And regretful inventor of the null reference!

His “billion dollar mistake”:

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Bill...

It’s a thought experiment. I am not saying I believe it will happen.

But right now there are lots of domains where current lauded success is in treating something objective - like code - as tokens for an llm.

We could instead explore using transformers to translate human languages to a symbology that can be reasoned about and applied eg to code.

It’s the talk of conferences. But whether it works better than we have today, or whether it aligns with the incentives or the big players, is another matter

The current way of doing AI cannot be trusted.

that doesn’t mean the future won’t herald a way of using what a transformer is good at - interfacing with humans - to translate to and interact with something that can be a lot more sound and objective.

Review is usually delegated to an AI too

Sorry I can think of so many counter examples. I also detect a lot of “well it hallucinates about subject X (that the person knows well, so can spot the hallucination)” but continue to trust it on subjects Y and Z (which the person knows less well so can’t spot the hallucinations).

YMMV.

It’s not. LLMs are just averaging their internet snapshot, after all.

But people want an AI that is objective and right. HN is where people who know the distinction hang out, but it’s not what the layperson things they are getting when they use this miraculous super hyped tool that everybody is raving about?

Discussion yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275035

I’m confused: I thought the original question was about doing a search for nearest neighbours. You don’t need to store the results of each comparison, just track the closest found so far?

Thank you thank you you give me hope :)

But how do you see the current thinking level and how do you change it? I’ve been clicking around and searching and adding “effortLevel”:”high” to .claude/settings.json but no idea if this actually has any effect etc.

So I’ve got a lot warmer to believing that AI can be a better programmer than most programmers these days. That is a low bar :). The current approach to AI can definitely change how effective a programmer is: but then it is up to the market to decide if we need so many programmers. The talk about how each company is going to keep all the existing programmers and just expect productivity multipliers is just what execs are currently telling programmers; that might change when the same is execs are talking to shareholders etc.

But does this extrapolate to the current way of doing AI being in normal life in a good way that ends up being popular? The way Microsoft etc is trying to put AI in everything is kinda saying no it isn’t actually what users want.

I’d like voice control in my PC or phone. That’s a use for these NPUs. But I imagine it is like AR- what we all want until it arrives and it’s meh.

And they have a moat - they can control the quantity and quality of hardware flowing to their competitions?

Yeah that happened to me with Claude code opus 4.6 1M for the first time today. I had to check the model hadn’t changed. It was weird. I was imagining that maybe anthropic have a way of deciding how much resource a user actually gets and they had downgraded me suddenly or something.

The talk about declaring anthropic a supply chain security risk (which doesn’t just remove it from DoW but also all the contractors and suppliers that supply DoW) was also accompanied by a completely different threat: to declare it national security need to take over then company.

Prediction: in time, OpenAI will be declared such to privatise profits but socialise losses

Autonomous just means this narrative is what you’d see if you looked at the logs of the drone talking to itself in it’s head…?

OpenAI step in to work with defence department on stuff so questionable that another company took a public stance to distance itself from?

Myself, I’ve always “followed the money” when the current administration has taken public positions on things from media company mergers to data centres etc. So a bit of me wonders how much of the “anthropic is a threat to national security” is genuine and how much is about getting another company into lucrative defence contracts instead?

Trump family has major investments in data centers etc and is heavy benefiting from OpenAI footprint but they recently declined an investment opportunity in anthropic citing it’s political leanings

Anthropic must be in some way better in that they do have some red lines and do truly stand on them (and if they didn’t, like every other company doesn’t seem to, we’d never have even known)?

Often embezzlement cases include crazy expenses.

Just put in my mind by the grift and corruption posts that are currently trending on HN front page right now.

They could peacefully protest

Sightseers see sights at sites? So perhaps not sic in this case?

In this case it is the terrain. The sound is funnelled somehow. In the planning process the owner has to commission a study that reports if the terrain shape is ok and compute the noise on nearby houses etc. Apparently you can get what you pay for. In the appeal a more independent study pulled the original study apart.

I’m also a duckdb convert. All my notebooks have moved from Pandas and polars to Duckdb. It is faster to write and faster to read (after you return to a notebook after time away) and often faster to run. Certainly not slower to run.

My current habit is to suck down big datasets to parquet shards and then just query them with a wildcard in duckdb. I move to bigquery when doing true “big data” but a few GB of extract from BQ to a notebook VM disk and duckdb is super ergonomic and performant most of the time.

It’s the sql that I like. Being a veteran of when the world went mad for nosql it is just so nice to experience the revenge of sql.