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I was in SF a few weekend ago and rode both Waymo and normal Lyft style taxi cars. the Waymo was a better experience in every single way. One of the Lyfts i was in drove on the shoulder for a while like it was a lane. The Waymos were just smooth consistent driving. No aggressive

I am once again shilling the idea that someone should find a way to glue Prolog and LLMs together for better reasoning agents.https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=43948657Thesis:1. LLMs are bad at counting the number of r's in strawberry.2. LLMs are good at writing code that c

This screams just as genuine as Google saying anything about Privacy.Both companies are clearly wrong here. There is a small part of me that kinda wants openai to loose this, just so maybe it will be a wake up call to people putting in way too personal of information into these s

The current title (“Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article”) isn’t correct, it wasn’t the prompt that was printed, but trailing chatbot fluff:> If you want, I can also create an even snappier “front-page style” version with punchy one-line stats and a bo

Even when the so called "ad-pocalypse" happened, this wasn't as big of an issue as it is today.What's going on with Google being extra stingy seems to correlate well with the AI boom (curse). I suspect there are companies running ruthless bots scraping TBs of videos from YouTube.

Transmeta made a technology bet that dynamic compilation could beat OOO super scalar CPUs in SPEC.It was wrong, but it was controversial among experts at the time.I’m glad that they tried it even though it turned out to be wrong. Many of the lessons learned are documented in syst

This was submitted with a title that doesn’t match the page and is not even accurste (Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up) is not correct. This donation page is not for the public NTP pool. It’s for the NTP Project organization and their web page.All of the angry comme

Most of the folks on this topic are focused on Meta and Yann’s departure. But, I’m seeing something different.This is the weirdest technology market that I’ve seen. Researchers are getting rewarded with VC money to try what remains a science experiment. That used to be a bad word

As a hobbyist, shaders is up there as one of the most fun types of programming.. Low-level / relatively simple language, often tied to a satisfying visual result. Once it clicks, it's a cool paradigm to be working in, e.g. "I am coding from the perspective of a single pixel". The

Subscriptions make companies lazy and it degrades the product. I'm looking at you: Foundry, Adobe, Maxon, heated seats on BMWs ...They rest on their laurels, enjoy the increased cash flow, say it allows them to work on regular updates. But this goes from being useful bug fixes, t