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yeahwhatever10··on Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent
I assume they are referring to systems like TPG in Geneva. Basically you buy a pass and when you get on an off a bus or street car there is no checking of payment it is just assumed everyone is "honoring" the agreement to pay. Every once and a while transit cops will board and check that everyone has a pass/has paid somehow and if you get caught not paying it can affect your ability to rent housing etc.
yeahwhatever10··on U.S. banks may soon collect citizenship data from customers
Like most things on HN it's only ever a moral panic when the U.S. (or U.K.) does it.
yeahwhatever10··on Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent
The debt subsidies are over, time to pay the piper.
yeahwhatever10··on The American Healthcare Conundrum
So same as realtors and most other brokers.
yeahwhatever10··on Those who can, teach history
I really enjoy Age of Napoleon as well, it’s my only Patreon sub at the moment.
yeahwhatever10··on Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native
Europe almost had in once ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirecard
yeahwhatever10··on Accounting for Computer Scientists (2011)
Thanks, this was a good explanation.
yeahwhatever10··on Python is not a great language for data science
A little late for this
yeahwhatever10··on How to Enter a City Like a King
I assume he’s talking about Jesus.
yeahwhatever10··on A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
Why do you need the gibberish text?
yeahwhatever10··on Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations
Is it confusion, or job security?
yeahwhatever10··on Tao on “blue team” vs. “red team” LLMs
How is the LLM in AlphaEvolve red team? All the LLM does is generate new code when prompted with examples. It doesn’t evaluate the code.
yeahwhatever10··on All Good Editors Are Pirates: In Memory of Lewis H. Lapham
A contradictory quote for publishers and editors in the AI era.
yeahwhatever10··on Dull Men’s Club
https://youtu.be/eDr6_cMtfdA
yeahwhatever10··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
I use it as a SO stand in as well.

What I like about Chatbots vs SO is the ability to keep a running conversation instead of 3+ tabs and tuning the specificity toward my problem.

I've also noticed that if I look up my same question on SO I often find the source code the LLM copied. My fear is that if chatbots kill SO where will the LLM's copied code come from in the future?

yeahwhatever10··on OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive
Agreed. This doesn't look like 4D chess, this stinks of desperation.
yeahwhatever10··on Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Python
How are you simulating the designs for the FPGA? Are you paying for ModelSim?
yeahwhatever10··on Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after
This is the forum that fell the hardest for the superconductor hoax a few years ago. HN has no superiority leg to stand on.
yeahwhatever10··on Ironwood: The first Google TPU for the age of inference
Specialization. Ie specialized for inference.
yeahwhatever10··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
There is this group-think on HN today that services are intentionally left out as part of the US trade balance. That confusion likely comes from tax and corporate structures. Ie all those profits are locked into sub-corps, so Apple-Cayman Islands or Google-Ireland (corporate tax havens) which is why they don't show up on the balance sheet as "trade" into the US (typically those sub-corps buy financial assets with those profits). Read the first chapters of Trade Wars are Class Wars for more depth.
yeahwhatever10··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
You are right about olive oil. So why did he do it? The trade imbalance with Tunisia. Why is there are trade imbalance with Tunisia? US consumers have money to buy products from Tunisia, Tunisian consumers don't have the ability to afford products from the US. Why can't Tunisian's afford US products? This is the central question for every country in the trade war and it has myriad factors, but two of the biggest are: A higher cost US dollar, suppression of wages in countries like Tunisia (and Germany, and China, etc).
yeahwhatever10··on Canada considering charging for road access from USA to Alaska
You should read a book https://www.amazon.com/Trade-Wars-Are-Class-International/dp...
yeahwhatever10··on The FAA’s Hiring Scandal
Are people still using Agile?
yeahwhatever10··on Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything
Do you get meaningful insights with current RAG solutions?
yeahwhatever10··on We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky
What they meant to say was the "right" kind of political.
yeahwhatever10··on So you want to build your own data center
Can you be more specific?
yeahwhatever10··on Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?
I think you are seeing through the trend that many people disagree with you.
yeahwhatever10··on Phi 4 available on Ollama
How can a model "grow with you"? Do current models do this other than adding the full conversation to the context window?
yeahwhatever10··on Translating 10M lines of Java to Kotlin
This is an application where LLMs should be the obvious choice, it is Machine translation the thing they are supposed to excel at. Why not use them? Likely a lack of data. You would need lots of Kotlin data (I’m sure lots of Java data exists), and the data would need to overlap so the LLM could understand the mapping.
yeahwhatever10··on Open source inference time compute example from HuggingFace
So I can get LLM results from an SLM if I run it long enough?
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