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Re:Learn Programming with OCaml on Sunday September 06, 2026 @02:44AM (#49583925)
“Low quality entertainment” is a very elitist thing to say. Most don’t have time or luxury of even being introduced ( via an east coast liberal arts college ) to read Tolstoy or appreciate the finer motions of Tchaikovsky. Instead the Druski memes will do just fine, mixed in with the AI slop. Or maybe they’re physically or physiologically incapable of enjoying the outdoors or sport. Point is, my gen played strategy games and first person shooters and listened to Eminem, this one marls TikToks until their thumbs have RSI.

As for OCAML vs not, I think the vast majority of even intellectual and studious people would be better served trying to AI max and build some kind of agent serving businesses than trying to get a job at, uhh, Jane Street. 1% of the best engineers in the world get to work in that language, so yeah the parent makes a valid point

Re:Guess which of these LLM outputs is watermarked on Sunday August 23, 2026 @10:37AM (#49409191)
Did 3 then just assumed the longest text was the correct one. Too much reading
Re:The Sigmoids Won't Save You on Saturday May 16, 2026 @01:49PM (#48162290)
Not to argue your broader point, but how, exactly would predicting this, in a macro sense, make you the “richest person on the planet”? A very uninformed person could tell you that “Cerebras will be the next NVIDIA”, put their life savings into it and in 10 years have 100 million. Thats not going to make them anywhere close to the richest person on the planet. Unless you can do it on a micro sense, merely having the ability to “predict” the way the wind is blowing is meaningless.
Obviously an M1 chip is “smarter” in terms of raw accuracy for eg matrix computations than any equivalent wetware despite being much? smaller. Performance per watt at least at that task has to be an ocean of a difference.
Re:Microgpt on Saturday February 28, 2026 @11:49PM (#47203824)
A 16 year old has been training for almost 16 years to drive a car. I would argue the opposite: Waymo’s / Specific AIs need far less data than humans. Humans can generalize their training, but they definitely need a LOT of training!
Do you only support USDC?
Re:List Animals Until Failure on Sunday February 01, 2026 @12:53AM (#46843979)
79. I feel like i should have done better but got stuck in a local minima of "farm animals, which obvious farm animals haven't I said??", then tried thinking of names of fish which worked until it didn't.
The “hard enough” tasks are all behind IP walls. If it’s a “hard enough” that generally means it’s a commercial problem likely involving disparate workflows and requiring a real human who probably isn’t a) inclined and/or b) permitted, to publish the task. The incentives are aligned to capture all value from solving that task as long as possible and only then publish.
Re:Dead Internet Theory on Sunday January 18, 2026 @09:06PM (#46674285)
I've also used em-dashes since before chatgpt but not on HN -- because a double dash is easier to type. However in my notes app they're everywhere, because Mac autoconverts double dashes to em-dashes.
Re:High-Level Is the Goal on Friday January 16, 2026 @10:38PM (#46654996)
While directionally correct, the article spends a lot of time glorifying jquery and not enough on what a horrible, no good, unoptimized mess of a framework jquery was, and by extension what kinds of websites were built back then. I remember those times well. The reason to use React isn't because it was new, far from it. It was because it won vs. Ember, Angular, et. al. in 2014-2015? as the best abstraction because it was easiest to reason about. It still wasn't great. In fact, still isn't great. But it's the best blend of many leaky abstractions we use to code against the browser apis.

The New Generation Won't Type for You

As a very old millennial back in town for the Holidays, I recently watched my 8,9 and 10 year old nephews/nieces use TikTok in between saying "six seven" or "six seven four one". Every search was done using a voice command. They didn't type one time. Even for very very simple searches, they still chose to voice them, even when they could get much more precise by typing. If they didn't get the...

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Re:Why Speed Matters on Saturday December 06, 2025 @01:09PM (#46175284)
Go back far enough and everything was stolen from someone
Re:I can build enterprise software but I can't charge for it on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @09:07PM (#45895605)
ChatGPT does not offer a clear indication that it is blatantly illegal, though the amount of legal risk is high enough that it might as well be.
Electricians in data-center states are eating; elsewhere they are scraping by due to macro-economics.
Re:Show HN: Geofenced chat communities anyone can create on Sunday November 09, 2025 @02:33AM (#45863661)
On chrome iOS I’m physically unable to press the three checkboxes on the terms which means I can’t try your app. They appear to be overlapped by the terms themselves and thus never received click events.
Whenever some group is said to have made/fined 1M out of their likely billions in revenue, someone will chime and say “that’s nothing”. But From a “department P&L perspective” yes, it is a lot of money!

Think about the crime families as making e.g. 50% money from construction corruption, 40% from drug sales, 5% from extortion… someone has to run the other smaller departments and that is a lot of money for that “Dept Head”. Also from the FBIs perspective they want to unravel conspiracies, often by yanking on one piece of yarn like this one.

Could this be used to train a text -> audio model? I'm thinking of an architecture that uses RVQ. Would RVQ still be necessary?
Are they trying to imply that high fat diets in humans similarly affect brain autophagy? That seems like quite the causal stretch given the vastly more complex metabolic architecture of humans.
What if the car is stolen?
Re:Claude Sonnet 4.5 on Monday September 29, 2025 @01:13PM (#45416236)
Opposite for me…5-codex high ran out of tokens extremely quickly and didn’t adhere as well to the agents.md as Claude did to the Claude.md, perhaps because it insists on writing extremely complicated bash scripts or whole python programs to execute what should be simple commands.
Re:UK Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards on Sunday September 28, 2025 @09:45PM (#45409685)
Can you come be president of the USA instead / too?
Re:Find SF parking cops on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @05:33PM (#45353038)
Market rate is $4.10 per hour during peak hours. But it falls off precipitously per hour and ceases to be enforced around 6pm. For overstays those little white golf cart trucks have cameras that check license plates for permits. I recently got a parking permit for $200 or so after paying like $500 in tickets for various infractions including “Parking on Grades, wheels straight”. So I very much want anyone overstaying a 2hr parking spot to get tickets and or towed to make room. And I can speak from experience having just recently being towed, that the parking downtown is ruthlessly enforced. It will cost you about $700 if you’re towed.
Re:I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster on Friday September 19, 2025 @01:28PM (#45304220)
And lest we forget! Forgetting to turn it off!
"Would putting this operation to a democratic vote ever result in approval?"

As a civilian, I understand the intention. But, unless all are warriors of equal rank, I don't want the public voting on how the military will be run minute-by-minute, nor do I think it's helpful for the public ( i.e. our adversaries in a very real sense ) to have access to information of classified operations. That sounds like a recipe for an authoritarian / tyrannical government to absolutely steamroll us...which would negate the advantages of a democracy in the first place.

Re:Saquon Is Playing for Equity on Thursday September 04, 2025 @08:29PM (#45133783)
What point are you arguing here? That it’s more difficult to be a doctor than an NFL player? That is highly subjective depending on what one finds “difficult”. For instance my dentist in SF and even primary care or dermatologists don’t have very stressful jobs and although they had many years of schooling, they didn’t have to subject their bodies to the intense and unrelenting physical rigor of first HS football, THEN college football and then the NFL. I would say for low level or intense stress maybe surgeons, oncologists, anesthesiologists or cardiologists have more stress day to day but that’s just my subjective opinion as well, as to them it may be as easy as flying a kite.

So what do you consider difficult? Having a linebacker smash into you at a full sprint over and over in practice and then not choking in a real game? Or studying relentlessly, writing grants, doing essentially free work as a resident for years while being on call. They are just stressful in different ways, but again, different humans have more fitness for one or the other.

Re:Anthropic raises $13B Series F at $183B post-money valuation on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @01:30PM (#45106292)
He'll get a pardon next election cycle.
If we are truly trying to "replace human at work" as the definition of an AGI, then shouldn't the engineering goal be to componentize the human body? If we could component-by-component replace any organ with synthetic ones ( and this is already possible to some degree e.g. hearing aids, neuralinks, pacemakers, artificial hearts ) then not only could we build compute out in such a way but we could also pull humanity forward and transcend these fallible and imminently mortal structures we inhabit. Now, should we from a moral perspective is a completely different question, one I don't have an answer to.
Re:Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City on Friday August 22, 2025 @03:46PM (#44988987)
I'm sure "timing of yellow" is only a few parameters in its network at this point. And it's continuously training, it can probably one-shot the timing changes ( one taxi ride through maybe 3 lights ).
Re:Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City on Friday August 22, 2025 @02:16PM (#44987805)
Reinforcement learning is a helluva drug. I'm sure by now Waymos can time yellows in SF to within a nanosecond, whereas humans will only ever drive through so many yellows will never get that much training data.

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