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On the topic of older (Claude) models being better... anyone knows anything close to 3.5 (or 3.6) era Sonnet? It was by far the best LLM I had ever asked my doubts too. It actually explained in a human way, not like some AI I need to re read thrice to understand.

(I've used modern Gemini 3.1 pro & claude too. Modern ChatGPT is just as useless, I've never heard a human speak in points. The human brain never encounters that irl.)

Good if you're sure of it.

Fwiw, I didn't mention it because of your writing style at all, I wrote it because you literally said

> Couldn't sit still.

Also, for anyone curious, drug use and being in prison is much more common amongst adhd folk than the general population. A staggering 25% (approximately) of prison population is ADHD [1], far higher than the general population.

1 - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4301200/

And to whoever downvoted me, I've successfully "diagnosed" (read - identified) multiple friends already. NDs often have decent ND-radars.

So... going by the story, I guess you never did go to the doctor to get diagnosed for adhd?

(Yeah, armchair doctor and all that. But doesn't make it wrong or at least worth a look.)

This is more like "just increase friction". For some people it's more than enough, for others it's barely anything. Personally speaking, I've found that just the act of removing the reddit app from my home screen makes it fairly less likely to be opened, as now I need to open my app drawer.

Thanks! I hesitated for a moment when typing but went ahead with (apparently the wrong) spelling.

Welp, looks like I got wooshed

One pro of the LCDs is that I'm moderately sure they don't flicker (PWM) as (bad) as the OLED ones would.

Source: 99% of oleds cause terrible eye strain. Flicker affects people even when they don't realise it (studied for office workers during the CFL era iirc.)

I think there's a lot of proprietary stuff, from Google Play Services to Pixel specific features. A very significant stack of "modern" software layers are proprietary, even on Android.

For better or worse, "person from 1st world country does what they think helps, based on their worldview - but never asks 3rd world recipient" is unfortunately a very common troupe.

(I'm from a 3rd world country and have seen it over and over again.)

IMO this deserves a black banner/bar. I genuinely had no idea a single guy was behind MATLAB (or that it was so old). His contribution has been significant, to say the least.

Perhaps an uncommon/unpopular opinion but with the AI like writing style... I unfortunately seriously doubt multiple aspects of this product on multiple grounds.

If someone said "I asked ChatGPT to make a safe Flipper One and pasted it", I'd believe it. Some stuff here... just doesn't make much sense.

Diagnosed, sorry for the confusion

Given how many kids are told to just "shut up and eat it" - and/or didn't have extreme pickiness but got DX'ed perhaps as an adult - I'd say there's a ton of research required to even suggest this as a plausible cause (even for a limited number of cases). It might make things worse, but I highly doubt it's causative.

Presumably you could do it just fine without paying if you didn't want the $1000 necessarily. Reasonably they'd still give you the $1000 even if you said "I don't want the money but you guys have a problem", and they later figure out you're not a bot and you're actually right.

Honestly I think this is a great idea. My only suggestion is instead of being very nominal, it should be "reasonable" (so $10 and not $1).

It's even possible to directly link this to maintainers/employees - if you can review 10 such AI/real things per hour (likely more if it's AI slop that's easy to detect), you're generating another revenue stream. Now, I have no idea if these guys are based in SF Bay or a 3rd world country with low COL but as an "add on", $100 an hour isn't too shabby (and can be on the "low end" if one's good at spotting AI crap.)

Side note, isn't it possible to have some way to verify if the "vulns" are actual vulns or not? ...Heck why not throw an LLM at it, powered by a single $10 submission fee?

Hopefully the ear plugs are good enough to not hear the "badum tiss" too :)

I am too sleepy to understand this comment :(

Do stochastic parrots dream of the number of 'e's in "electric sheep"?

Damn, did I say something wrong or unpopular to get a downvote?

Technically if you can copy paste the qr code into any qr reader website and manually do it, I think it's possible? Assuming it doesn't change the code very rapidly every few seconds.

The thing is, if LLMs are stochastic parrots predicting the next word (aka, a partially decent auto complete), there's no reason it can't complete <specific question it can't answer> as "I don't know" - as that's a perfectly valid sentence too.

That's why I'm still cautiously optimistic about LLMs somewhere being good enough. I don't know if or when someone will manage to do it, but I'm hopeful.

Yeah I broadly agree with you. I've tried by explicitly adding a prompt to "ask questions and clarify", and even fairly decent models like Gemini pro (2.5 or 3) tend to make question for the sake of it.

Which reminds me that that's another big issue with LLMs - they'll blindly do whatever you ask them to, without pushback. (Again, I miss 3.5/3.6 era Sonnet which actually had half a spine. Fuck anthropic for blindly chasing coding benchmarks at the cost of everything else.)

I've engaged in several "CMVs" (or "tell me why X is bad") with LLMs, and very often it's clear it's just saying stuff to say it, giving very terrible points on unjustifiable positions that collapse the moment I counter argue even slightly rationally.

> If they miss a word they never do unintelligible, they just start playing madlibs based on the rest of the sentence.

Imo this is the single biggest flaw of LLMs. They're great at a lot of things, but knowing when they're wrong (or don't have enough information to actually work on) is a critical flaw.

IMO there's nothing structural about why they shouldn't be able to spot this and correct themselves - I suspect it's a training issue. But presumably bots that infer context/fill in the dots rank better on what people like... at the cost of accuracy.

Sorry, but seeing your comment being called dead by HN was... amusing.

(I personally think it's okay to be amused, even if it's thanks to dead people. I don't think any mother would really mind too much.)

Or you're in any timezone significantly ahead of the US (so like over 40% of the world's population). It's already 11.35pm here in India, and most moms (and reasonable adults) are already asleep. China/SE Asia/Jp etc are even further ahead.

Better luck next year... I guess?

To clarify the title: The study did find slightly higher rates of men leaving, but it was much lower than the initial results (which mistook people leaving the study as people divorcing).

My best guess is people think it's AI written? I mean, I kinda get such vibes from it, but it (IMO) could also be human written.

> I'd say of the class of workers most poised to start their own businesses, I'd say you guys are the best placed.

I think your premise is significantly correct; things like launch HN (and even YC startups) are heavily software biased. I suspect you'll find about a hundred product hunt products for every physical kickstarter/indiegogo.

> It doesn't help that gmail, which is the only serious direct competition to outlook, straight up doesn't do "folders" and instead goes with markers.

While true, unless I'm mistaken, markers (I assume you're referring to tags) can be nested to provide a pseudo-folder hierarchy, and with proper filters you can remove the "inbox" tag and have the mail only show up under the specific tag.

TBH I don't fully mind it, it lets you classify an email in multiple ways (eg "See Later" as well as "Work related").

I'd imagine it's access to capital and resources. I suspect many engineers/professionals (especially in eg consulting or manufacturing) would start their own business if they have the financial stability to do so.

A lot of market forces tend to "naturally" create monopolies/oligopolies. For eg if you're the biggest steel plant you can operate efficiently and keep moderate margins, beating any plants not as big (economies of scale). An independent guy (or even the entire team) can't just open a new steel plant shop down the road, even if the current one sucks.