18-25? Yikes, I've had my account here for just over 18 years...
Readit Newstjr commented on Out of curiosity: what kind of people use this "forum" (I mean Hacker News)? · Posted by u/adinhitlore
tjr commented on GNU Artanis – A fast web application framework for Scheme artanis.dev/index.html... · Posted by u/smartmic
the page also says
“ GNU Artanis was Certificated as Awesome Project at 2013 Lisp in summer projects “
so i guess this is not news?
It looks like the latest 1.3.0 release just happened a few days ago, but that isn't clear from (or even stated on) the linked web page.
Best taken with a grain of salt as this study was funded by the National Cattlemen's Beef Association.
That certainly raises questions.
I am bemused / irked / saddened by the state of nutritional science research. I am convinced that the classic "food pyramid" that was pushed for years was a bad idea, but now guidance on what to eat seems to have split into various warring factions.
Some say that we should severely limit or even avoid meat. Their words look correct on the surface, but I notice their science seems based on "meat" pretty generically. There doesn't seem to be any accounting for eating high end grass fed beef from an organic market vs. low-end beef from a gas station. Does it really make no difference?
Another faction recommends eating meat freely, with no distinction as to type or quality. Another insists on the highest grade meat but then also discourages dairy. Another recommends high quality meat and no vegetables.
I would think that it would be, by now, more straightforward to determine what really makes most sense to eat. I guess (nearly?) everyone seems to agree that adequate water is good and too much sugar isn't.
tjr commented on What makes Claude Code so damn good minusx.ai/blog/decoding-c... · Posted by u/samuelstros
It shocks me when people say that LLMs don't make them more productive, because my experience has been the complete opposite, especially with Claude Code.
Either I'm worse than then at programming, to the point that I find an LLM useful and they don't, or they don't know how to use LLMs for coding.
What do you work on, and what do LLMs do that helps?
(Not disagreeing, but most of these comments -- on both sides -- are pretty vague.)
tjr commented on Vibe coding creates a bus factor of zero mindflash.org/coding/ai/a... · Posted by u/AntwaneB
Most of these cases don't require "review". It either works or it doesn't.
If you have an LLM transform a big pile of structs, you plug them into your program and it will either compile or it won't.
All programmers write countless one-off throwaway scripts. I can't tell you how many times I've written scripts to generate boring boilerplate code.
How many hours do you spend reviewing such tools and their output? I'll bet anything it's just about zero.
Working in aerospace, code generation tools are indeed reviewed pretty thoroughly.
You might like working in aerospace.
> Why do critics of LLM intelligence need to provide a definition when people who believe LLMs are intelligent only take it on faith, not having such a definition of their own?
Because advocates of LLMs don't use their alleged intelligence as a defense; but opponents of LLMs do use their alleged non-intelligence as an attack.
Really, whether or not the machine is "intelligent", by whatever definition, shouldn't matter. What matters is whether it is a useful tool.
This seems reasonable. Much AI research has historically been about building computer systems to do things that otherwise require human intelligence to do. The question of "is the computer actually intelligent" has been more philosophical than practical, and many such practically useful computer systems have been developed, even before LLMs.
On the other hand, one early researcher said something to the effect of, Researchers in physics look at the universe and wonder how it all works. Researchers in biology look at living organisms and wonder how they can be alive. Researchers in artificial intelligence wonder how software can be made to wonder such things.
I feel like we are still way off from having a working solution there.
I don't wish to join you in framing intelligence as a step function.
I think winning a Go or a chess competition does demonstrate intelligence. And winning a math competition does even more so.
I do not think a trivia competition like Jeopardy demonstrates intelligence much at all, however. Specifically because it reads like it's not about intelligence, but about knowledge: it tests for association and recall, not for performing complex logical transformations.
This isn't to say I consider these completely independent. Most smart people are both knowledgeable and intelligent. It's just that they are distinct dimensions in my opinion.
You wouldn't say something tastes bad because its texture feels weird in your mouth, would you?
I might even think that a symbolic chess program is in some sense more intelligent than a modern LLM. It has a concrete model of the world it operates in along with representation what it can, cannot, and is trying to, do. When LLMs get the right answer, it seems more like... highly-optimized chance, rather than coming from any sort of factual knowledge.
tjr commented on Are you willing to pay $100k a year per developer on AI? theregister.com/2025/08/1... · Posted by u/rntn
It will only get cheaper if the models can run locally. Anything that is a subscription service will always get more expensive over time.
Local and preferable Free. It seems odd that the majority of the software development world is gleefully becoming dependent upon proprietary tools running on someone else's machine.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...