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I am utterly fascinated by the amount of comments here from engineers that clearly have zero experience with mathematics making utter fool of themselves by claiming to know better than mathematicians what their jargon is/means, how publishing works/should work, etc…

I try not to go down the route of “hn was better before!” but… jeez, do better, people. What happened to this community, there used to be some effort to not be bottom-barrel like this.

Ok but why are you comparing different Claude sessions then? Of course they’re different, they have different experiences. Just because they have the same “name” doesn’t make them the same persona.

Compare a single session. It’ll be extremely consistent.

Unmistakably so.

Your coworkers are if anything less reliably deterministic than an AI. And the human version of a prompt injection is called social engineering and it’s far more of an issue than actual prompt injection and has been for an extremely long time.

It may have been when you noticed it but it wasn’t the spark.

If there was an actual spark, it was the 2016 election as this was the first time when all the disinformation, professional troll farms and Russian influence truly came into play on a world changing scale.

But there was splintering of online communities and the death of nuance for years prior as well. Twitter contributed a lot by giving voices to everyone, and promoting those who’d shout the loudest. Facebook and its nasty algorithm also greatly contributed to all this (thanks, everyone who worked there, for the world we have now… hope you’re proud and putting all that ad-sponsored salary to good use).

Culture war was brewing long before, it just got amplified more and more.

I want a pair of earphones that are as comfortable as the AirPods Pro but have a very solid mic quality.

Whenever I have a call on my AirPods I feel terrible for whoever’s on the other end of my call because the quality is so bad, even when they’re connected to an iPhone. I originally thought I had hardware issues until I heard from others that all AirPods Pro are like this.

I dunno, can someone tell me what I’m missing here?

Not unless you are anthropic/openai, or run your own models.

Ah yes. It's always the ones you most expect who come up with these retorts.

Your HN comment is not useful. If you think it is, then you're suffering from HN psychosis.

I know this is a popular position and it makes sense at face value when you think of LLMs as autocomplete systems. But it’s genuinely wrong.

Relevant reading is most notably anthropic’s research on the J-space. LLMs will plan ahead of time helped with CoT, get to a plan and “store” it in j-space, and execute on that plan which means they can in fact “backtrack” and give you reasoning on why they did something, because it IS part of their state.

Given that gp says “my” Estonian card, you can assume it’s because they have one and don’t have one of your country of choice.

HN is not one of the most pro AI spaces. It may be a bit more pro ai than highly secluded communities but the other day I had people responding to me that it’s cooler to be an alcoholic than to use AI.

There is a wide reaching anti AI/AI-denialist sentiment here that is extremely pronounced in some threads, it gets very stupid very quickly. And what I’m referring to is the habit of some users here to always move the goalposts on AGI.

The infrastructure you just described is absolutely buildable today if you’re willing to burn tokens.

If we manage to get to AGI and it looks, works and behaves like a human brain... I mean, cool, but that's a very useless AGI compared to the incredible stuff we have access to today.

The HN crowd I'm sure will still be unhappy calling it AGI because "it's not AGI unless its speech comes from the cerebral cortex region of the brain, otherwise it's just sparkling emoji" or something.

I was sharing the EIC backed ones, but it's fair that in a datacenter it's more likely to be Axelera (or vsora/semidynamics if you start digging into earlier-stage competitors). Nvidia is the only American company selling AI chips to datacenters at scale but they're a huge supply chain risk so it's most DCs don't do single-supplier either way.

Or, it's a signal that you're not giving your data/money to an untrusted ally.

Do you even understand just how much Europe distrusts the US with its current administration at this point? Nobody wants to deal with US companies if they can.

Except that no, it doesn't churn "clones"; MVC is quite a serious company and working on far more interesting stuff than whatever shit the SaaS or ads company you're statistically likely working at is.

EIC churns out DeepTech, invests 2.5M nondilutive with funding horizons of 10+ years and larger equity-based programmes too. Multiverse is a quantum computing company working on energy-efficient AI algorithms. The EIC is the reason companies such as ICEYE (https://www.iceye.com/) can exist. The chips running all that inference going in those US datacenters being built? 99% certainly european chips, almost certainly EIC-funded. (Eg. Hailo, Axelera, ..)

You haven't heard about the EIC because they don't care about marketing to americans; their target market is European companies, not you. But sorry to say, the talent is in Europe; the only reason you've been getting that talent in the US is a better business ecosystem, and your current administration has been utterly destroying this while our leaders have been actually fixing our issues. So keep shitting on Europe from the top of that crumbling hill, we'll see you when you emigrate.

This isn’t how it works. You don’t just get eu funding because you say “yay go EU we’re European”.

Just because you haven’t heard of them and they’re not American doesn’t mean they’re hot air.

I got the privilege to meet their CEO in Paris as they were announcing their partnership with Axelera and we exchanged some stories. They are full of very smart people, and they got accepted in the EIC Accelerator which, while you may not have heard of it, is one of the most rigorous and difficult programs to get into as a startup (far more difficult than YC which nowadays accepts any vague AI trash and always shoots wide).

Unfortunately, anti-AI sentiment on HN is for some people so ridiculously pronounced, that you can get them to say the most insane stuff. I had a couple of people the other day responding to a sarcastic comment, agreeing that being an alcoholic is cooler than using AI.

Sad state of affairs. You cannot reason with these people.

I guess alcoholism is cooler than using AI to do things nowadays, is that your stance?

Scratching my head a little bit here, I'm not sure how this differs from NextJS (or Vite) with a layer of drizzle & better-auth.

Not that that layer isn't important. We ended up building something like this at Ingram, nextkit: https://github.com/ingram-technologies/nextkit - but we distribute it as a set of micro libraries that work well together rather than a unified framework. (Auth is nk-auth, built on top of betterauth, and sql is nk-db, built on top of drizzle)

You got to pretty much the same conclusions we did though regarding the "why".

The thing is I don’t see you asking that same question to the other Americans in the comment section here making stupid claims, with clearly zero clue on how the EU actually functions.

So my question is: why? Why does this comment in particular deserves your attention as a “source your claims” flag, but the other one below about the eu commission being a dictatorship does not?

“So people sending requests to my web server is fine, but when I send ten thousand requests per second to other people’s web servers suddenly they call it a DDoS! Very unfair.”

Germany isn’t exactly great at startups, it’s one of the worst countries in europe to create and scale one. Helsing is doing great in spite of that ecosystem, and thanks to good timing and current geopolitics.

That itself does not reflect on all of EU. Since the UK left, Germany has probably been the worst “special child” of the lot to be honest; their notaries and trade unions are the primary challengers to EU Inc for the most ridiculous reasons for example.

But the talent is here.

SAP isn’t a company to be crazy proud of, but it doesn’t make it not a success nor does it mean “EU is fucked”.

May I remind you that in the US, Facebook is in that same list of top successes? Have you ever heard the phrase “the top minds of this generation of Americans are all working on ads”?

Also, if huggingface is “technically” American, then fuck me, Stripe is technically European. Hell, their CEO is insanely pro europe, pro EU, and a big enabler of projects like EU Inc and lately, the Rhine Group.

I don’t think it’s necessarily the “I can also make a robot do that”. Things are useful regardless of who made them.

It’s the lack of care that comes with the obvious tell that a comment such as the one above, is not genuine. Are you really “happy to be told a cell is wrong”? Did those things you say surprised you actually surprise you? Of course not; these are Claude patterns and they’re there because Claude has been taught to speak like this.

So what is the point of the comment? Instead of a dozen paragraphs it could just be a brief summary and motivation. Instead it’s a copy paste of the pointless output of “Write a HN comment about this”.

It does reflect badly on the project because if any care at all was involved in it (beyond a “I have a vague idea please make the thing” prompt), more care would have gone into the comment that goes with it…

Sure. https://gist.github.com/jleclanche/af4a985135b84046e218e07f8...

It's meant to remove LLMisms from select text. It uses a review pass so it's not exactly fast enough to just include for everything; I use it for filing issues, PRs etc.

If you want, I can share my Claude /deslop skill. Maybe that is the useful outcome.

“The resource curse” is what you’re looking for. There’s a lot of counter examples - Norway is the odd one out.