<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: pickledish</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pickledish</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:56:05 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=pickledish" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pickledish in "The happiest I've ever been"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ah -- IME people usually start a sentence with "in the nicest possible way" when they're couching something mean is all. Often it's even sarcastic, and the meanness isn't even meant to be couched, so I wasn't sure how to read it</p>
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<p>Agreed! I'm not sure why the GP comment has a somewhat negative attitude about it, I think it's great for people to realize this and talk about it, every year a whole new year's worth of young adults turn up not knowing it! Insert XKCD lucky 10,000 comic here</p>
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<p>They're talking about this I'm pretty sure!<p><a href="https://www.telotrucks.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.telotrucks.com/</a></p>
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<p>Hah yeah, I'd never really thought about it, but newspaper headlines must be a late-game boss for non-native speakers, they are super convoluted</p>
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<p>Sadly I don't think it works this way, at least IIUC -- the state can't withhold taxes from the federal government, because those taxes (from biweekly paychecks anyway) don't go through the states -- they go directly to the federal government. Some states are trying to pass laws to still make headway in this area, for reasons like you suggest, for example NY:<p><a href="https://www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2025/10/state-lawmakers-call-withholding-state-employees-federal-taxes/408790/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2025/10/state-lawmaker...</a><p>(it's a really interesting situation since I think I read somewhere that the reason federal income taxes are directly remitted to the federal government today, is specifically to disallow this kind of state retaliation)</p>
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<p>Aside from the rest of the (interesting!) nuanced discussion going on the comments here -- I really like his idea towards the bottom of combining the colors for numbers and strings into one.<p>They're both constants, so yeah, they should be!</p>
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<p>Agreed!<p>And, maybe I'm missing something, but to me it seems obvious that flat top part of the S curve is going to be somewhere below human ability... because, as you say, of the training data. How on earth could we train an LLM to be smarter than us, when 100% of the material we use to teach it how to think, is human-style thinking?<p>Maybe if we do a good job, only a little bit below human ability -- and what an accomplishment that would still be!<p>But still -- that's a far cry from the ideas espoused in articles like this, where AI is just one or two years away from overtaking us.</p>
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<p>Yeah agreed!<p>As you suggest, I've had a moderately successful time trying to get AI to write its own Sublime Text plugins so our favorite editor doesn't get left behind, so might be cool to try with this too?<p><a href="https://github.com/pickledish/llm-completion" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/pickledish/llm-completion</a></p>
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<p>If you haven't seen it, this "Linux Touchpad like Macbook" project is related, the last/best effort I've seen in this direction. Here's a random update from a few years ago:<p><a href="https://www.gitclear.com/blog/linux_touchpad_update_december_2021" rel="nofollow">https://www.gitclear.com/blog/linux_touchpad_update_december...</a></p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.willett.io/posts/vibe/">https://www.willett.io/posts/vibe/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45008216">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45008216</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
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<p>Thank you for writing this and sharing it here!<p>I know there are a lot of conversations going on about the dangerous elements of LLMs, but it’s nice to read a story like this alongside them — it’s a reminder of the remarkable potential of this new technology.<p>Could you have found out somehow else about the severity of the problem? Maybe, sure! But the fact that you had this LLM to ask, and it so easily understood whatever info you gave it, asked clarifying follow-up questions, and gave you info/directions in the way you needed to hear them — it’s such a new way of interacting with computers, almost like an API but made for humans to use, and cases like this is where that value shines most clearly IMO.</p>
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<p>This whole site makes me happy. Thanks for sharing it :)</p>
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<p>(sadly, I also tried this, but this snapshot seems to also include the paywall)</p>
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<p>I'd like to read this, but it seems to be behind a paywall?<p>(There is a reasonable amount of the article before the paywall, and since the other comments here don't mention it, I am wondering whether they just thought the article was very short and then ended abruptly, lol)</p>
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<p>(regardless of the merit of your criticism, this comment was at least very funny to me, so thank you for that)</p>
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<p>Jesus. Sorry to hear it dude, FWIW I’d love to have someone like that on my team. Hope your current place is better!</p>
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<p>Wow, they look great, the upscaling seems to have gone really well!</p>
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<p>This looks pretty cool, and is definitely useful! Do you have any examples of what the printed out cards look like? Perhaps in comparison to real cards</p>
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<p>Another potential avenue for problems like this, which I'm a fan of, is taking advantage of k8s's static CPU policy:<p><a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/cpu-management-policies/" rel="nofollow">https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/cpu-mana...</a><p>Using this (plus guaranteed QoS), you end up with containers which can only even "see" a subset of cores of the whole node (and they get those cores all to themselves), which is great for reducing noisy neighbors when big machines are running many different services.</p>
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<p>(this clarified the situation for me, thank you)</p>
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