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hbs18 commented on The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks steerlabs.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/steer_dev

jqpabc123 · 13 days ago

We are trying to fix probability with more probability. That is a losing game.

Thanks for pointing out the elephant in the room with LLMs.

The basic design is non-deterministic. Trying to extract "facts" or "truth" or "accuracy" is an exercise in futility.

hbs18 · 10 days ago

> The basic design is non-deterministic

Is it? I thought an LLM was deterministic provided you run the exact same query on exact same hardware at a temperature of 0.

hbs18 commented on John Giannandrea to retire from Apple apple.com/newsroom/2025/1... · Posted by u/robbiet480

jasonkester · 16 days ago

It was never a good idea for a product.

I'm not ever going to talk to my phone. Certainly not for the slim list of things that doing so would make more efficient than just looking at it and poking the button I need.

And there's no way I'm going to enable a battery draining 24/7 surveillance microphone on my phone on the off chance I ever do come up with a reason to give it a voice command.

But Apple really wants me using it. So much that my wife's car won't enable CarPlay unless turn Siri on. Like, there's no way to get it to put a Google map on the car's screen unless I turn this unrelated other thing on. They're happy to burn all our goodwill and convince us to buy Android phones next time (which work fine in a car without their surveillance microphone turned on).

Until then, I bought a $5 phone stand for the dashboard.

hbs18 · 16 days ago

> I'm not ever going to talk to my phone

Maybe you won't, but there's still value in being able to use it hands free. "Hey Siri, call (name) on speaker" is something I regularly ask it to do while I'm driving.

hbs18 commented on Implications of AI to schools twitter.com/karpathy/stat... · Posted by u/bilsbie

andrepd · 23 days ago

That's an absolutely dreadful exam. Would you mind explaining the point you wanted to make with it?

hbs18 · 23 days ago

It's a product of its time, but what exactly do you think makes it bad?

hbs18 commented on Quantification of fibrinaloid clots in plasma from pediatric Long COVID patients researchsquare.com/articl... · Posted by u/thenerdhead

withinboredom · 2 months ago

I never needed an antibiotic to live from these wounds. I’ve needed them from other things (almost died from strep) but not wounds.

hbs18 · 2 months ago

You live in a very different world compared to one before antibiotics.

hbs18 commented on CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code? quesma.com/blog/introduci... · Posted by u/jakozaur

magicalist · 3 months ago

I mean this in the nicest possible way because you were just messing around on a fun thing, but...

I feel like there's a real metaphor here. 86+ people did work over two decades to maintain a cross-platform codebase and that "definitely deserves to be commended", but what "definitely felt magical" was Claude bumbling through header tweaks from compilation errors until the project compiled. And in the end what has AI wrought? A viral video but not anything to give back to the original project. Really there are multiple layers here :)

hbs18 · 3 months ago

To be fair, the topic is AI, so of course that's what he's focusing on

hbs18 commented on I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers morrick.me/archives/10137... · Posted by u/mgrayson

thiht · 3 months ago

What would it have to do with politics?

hbs18 · 3 months ago

It's about the Hacker News party, it's orange on voting results maps.

hbs18 commented on ChatControl update: blocking minority held but Denmark is moving forward anyway disobey.net/@yawnbox/1152... · Posted by u/nickslaughter02

rjdj377dhabsn · 3 months ago

> You’d have to X-ray each container to know what was in it in the first place. Prohibitively expensive and would hurt exporters.

I'm fine with increased costs if it means saving our privacy in communication.

And you wouldn't need to scan every container, some sampling % would be sufficient.

hbs18 · 3 months ago

> some sampling % would be sufficient

From what I understand, this what happens currently and allows stolen cars to pass through

hbs18 commented on Apple iPhone Air [video] youtube.com/watch?v=M0au9... · Posted by u/HelloUsername

hbs18 · 3 months ago

While the video playback battery life claim makes it out to be on par with the 16 Pro, them presenting the companion battery pack along with the phone really makes you wonder.

hbs18 commented on Volkswagen to make EVs more affordable, starting with the ID.Polo and a new SUV electrek.co/2025/09/03/me... · Posted by u/breve

Hamuko · 3 months ago

Terrible naming and EVs go hand in hand.

Tesla's S3XY is quite bad in that it's a shit joke and there's just a random number instead of a letter because you couldn't make it the Model E. And Cybertruck just completely breaks the form further.

Audi decided to name their cars "t-urd". They also blew their load early, since the first EV they made was just called the "Audi t-urd", and then they had to rename it to the "Audi Q8 t-urd" when they realised that they were going to make more than one EV model.

Mercedes-Benz decided that the electric version of the S-Class should be the EQS, the electric version of the E-Class should be the EQE, the electric versions of the GLS and GLE should be called the EQS SUV and EQE SUV, and that the electric version of the G-Class should be called the "Mercedes-Benz G580 with EQ Technology". Oh, and the electric CLA is just called the CLA.

BMW's lineup is pretty inoffensive in that it's quite logical, as the electric equivalent of the 4 Series is the i4, the electric equivalent of the 5 Series is the i5, and so on. Except that the electric equivalent of the BMW X5 is the BMW iX when the electric equivalent of the BMW X1 is the BMW iX1. Oh, and the BMW i8 isn't even an electric car – it's a hybrid.

BYD's electric cars also make no sense. Why does the same car maker have names like the "BYD Dolphin" and "BYD Seal" next to a car named "BYD Sealion 7" and "BYD Atto 3"? What determines whether or not a BYD model has a number in the name or not? And why is the fully electric one called the "BYD Seal" but the hybrid one is called the "BYD Seal 6 DM-i"?

Rivian's makes sense so far, since they have the biggest R1, the more medium R2 and the compact R3. But going by this logic, the R4 should be an even smaller car than the R3. Either that, or the numbering has no bearing on where in the lineup the car actually falls, just what was released first.

Polestar has that same exact problem that Rivian might have in the future: the Polestar 2 is smaller than the Polestar 3 and the Polestar 3 is bigger than the Polestar 4, and the Polestar 4 is smaller than the Polestar 5. And the Polestar 6 is probably going to be more upmarket than any other Polestar, except the Polestar 1, which isn't an EV. Basically, the number says nothing about the car except when it was first released.

The Toyota bZ4X, which stands for "beyond Zero" (as in emissions) 4 (from the similarly sized RAV4) "crossover", is also just a downright awful name. Same for the Honda E:NY1. I don't know what inspired these two to make such awful and complex names for their EVs.

And finally: the Porsche Taycan Turbo doesn't actually have a turbo. The "turbo" in the name just means "better" in the style of "TurboGrafx-16".

Yes, I could rant about car names all day long. Don't even ask me about how Ferrari names their cars.

hbs18 · 3 months ago

> Porsche Taycan Turbo doesn't actually have a turbo

For Porsche cars "turbo" meant "more powerful" for like 10 years by now, predating the Taycan. They sell the 911 Carrera and the 911 Turbo, yet both cars have a turbocharged engine.