<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: throwaway4aday</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=throwaway4aday</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:09:28 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=throwaway4aday" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throwaway4aday in "Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why not just write a script that does this but with all of the model providers and requests multiple completions from each? Why have a whole ass editor open just for code review?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 09:53:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43961267</link><dc:creator>throwaway4aday</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43961267</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43961267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throwaway4aday in "Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you need to be more specific about which "chatgpt reasoning model" you used. Even the free version of chatgpt has reasoning/thinking now but there are also o1-mini, o1, o1-pro, o3-mini, o3, and o4-mini and they all have very different capabilities.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2025 11:31:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43811145</link><dc:creator>throwaway4aday</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43811145</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43811145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throwaway4aday in "LLMs can see and hear without any training"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They only did that for image generation. The more interesting part is that an LLM can approach or find the correct caption for an image, video or audio during test time with no training using only the score as a guide. It's essentially working blind almost like the game Marco Polo where the scorer is saying "warmer" or "colder" while the LLM is finding its way towards the goal. This is an example of emergent capabilities since there are no examples of this in the training data.</p>
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<p>Are you contending that every human derives their reasoning from first principals rather than being taught rules in a natural language?</p>
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<p>Doing better than Firefox</p>
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<p>It seems that you didn't understand the main point of the exposition. I'll summarize the ops comment a bit further.<p>Points 1 and 2 only explain how they are able to erroneously justify their absurd beliefs, they don't explain why they hold those beliefs.<p>Points 3 through 5 are the heart of the matter; egotistical and charismatic (to some types of people) leaders, open minded, freethinking and somewhat weird or marginalized people searching for meaning plus a way for them all to congregate around some shared interests.<p>TLDR: perfect conditions for one or more cults to form.</p>
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<p>That's essentially what R1 Zero is showing:<p>> Notably, it is the first open research to validate that reasoning capabilities of LLMs can be incentivized purely through RL, without the need for SFT.</p>
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<p>Worked great for Vancouver /s</p>
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<p>This is a quick "fix" that has a lot of unintended consequences. I've seen it first hand and the only people it benefits are those who are already wealthy. Everyone else gets a lot poorer as their cost of living skyrockets. Homelessness explodes as rents and housing costs increase dramatically, people who were living a humble but decent life before are pushed into poverty, crime both non-violent and violent increases and so does drug use. As far as I can tell the only people that actually benefit from this scheme are landlords and housing developers who slow walk their projects so that they can charge the maximum price per unit. Compared to the previous fairly stable state (which you call stagnation) the locals are much worse off. It also tends to ruin the character of places that were previously seen as a vacation destination for a unique experience, all of that just gets paved over and turned into a bland tourist trap barely different from any other place. Count yourself lucky if you live somewhere that has been passed over by this horrid money making scheme.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 01:31:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42692313</link><dc:creator>throwaway4aday</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42692313</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42692313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throwaway4aday in "Ask HN: Am I the only one here who can't stand HN's AI obsession?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not sure if you've read many comments on here but there seem to be more people railing against generative AI than there are those sharing useful and interesting stories or critiques. It's one of the reasons I've been spending less time here, I used to be able to rely on HN for interesting perspectives on both cutting edge and historical tech related topics, often seeing insights from people sharing practical knowledge that was hard to find elsewhere. For the past year or two it's taken a hard turn towards a very spiteful and shallow gripe fest that feels like the same thing that happened to Reddit years ago when it took off in popularity. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me why people are coming here to complain about technology and it just adds a bunch of noise that you need to sift through if you are interested in the tech being discussed. Feels more like people fishing for upvotes by sharing their "hot take" which inevitably a cookie cutter opinion that you see all over social media without any original thought behind it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2025 13:09:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42683042</link><dc:creator>throwaway4aday</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42683042</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42683042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throwaway4aday in "How I program with LLMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Step 1: <a href="https://claude.ai" rel="nofollow">https://claude.ai</a><p>Step 2: Write out your description of the thing you want to the best of your ability but phrase it as "I would like X, could you please help me better define X by asking me a series of clarifying questions and probing areas of uncertainty."<p>Step 3: Once both Claude and you are satisfied that X is defined, say "Please go ahead and implement X."<p>Step 4a: If feature Y is incorrect, go to Step 2 and repeat the process for Y<p>Step 4b: If there is a bug, describe what happened and ask Claude to fix it.<p>That's the basics of it, should work most of the time.</p>
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<p>Not so sure about those examples and pairing with the idea of quick and dirty work.</p>
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<p>Your point is on the verge of nullification with the rapid improvement and adoption of autonomous drones don't you think?</p>
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<p>I don't think motor skills are a good object to use in an argument about verbal vs non-verbal thinking. We have large regions of our brains primarily dedicated to motor skills and you can't argue that humans are any more talented or capable at controlling our bodies than other animals, we're actually rather poor performers in this area. You're right to say that you aren't conscious of the very highly trained movements you are making because they likely have only a tenuous connection with any part of your brain that we would recognize as possessing consciousness or thought, they are mostly learned reflexes and responses to internal and external stimuli at this point like a professional baseball player who can automatically catch a ball flying at him before he's even aware of it.</p>
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<p>Yes! that too.</p>
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<p>The tower is also how they plan to perform maintenance and re-staging for another launch. The tower can place it back on the launch structure or lower it down to the ground if it needs to be transported back to an enclosure for extensive repairs but a lot of work is just done with it at the tower. I imagine the goal is to eventually get to an automated system that catches the booster, inspects it for damage, clears it for relaunch, positions it on the launch structure, grabs another Sharship second stage and stacks it and then refuels the whole system and launches as soon as possible.<p>Plus it's really big <a href="https://images-bonnier.imgix.net/files/ill/production/Starship-samling-Texas.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://images-bonnier.imgix.net/files/ill/production/Starsh...</a></p>
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<p>true but don't forget this is test flight #5</p>
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<p>not sure how anyone can miss the "throwing away the airplane" part as being the cost driver.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Oct 2024 14:35:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41828383</link><dc:creator>throwaway4aday</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41828383</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41828383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throwaway4aday in "Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>With a payload volume of 8m diameter by 22m height you could fit a James Webb size telescope inside with minimal folding. The sunshield (21.2 m by 14.2m) would only need to fold along one axis and the mirror (6.6 m) could be monolithic instead of having to fold, probably only requiring the mounting points for the primary and secondary to be hinged. This shouldn't be discounted because it makes telescope design much simpler and less expensive.<p>It also allows for launching individual space station modules that have almost the same volume as the entire ISS in one launch.<p>Their plans for refuelling on orbit with tanker versions of the starship open up the entire solar system to unmanned missions with much shorter timelines and much higher payload size and weight.<p>The fact the entire system is re-usable will make it both cheaper and faster to use than any other launch system.<p>All of this combined mean that it won't just be countries and space programs bidding for space on launches, it puts space within reach of many corporations and some private individuals. This isn't conjecture, it's already happening with the Falcon 9. Starship will make it even more accessible.</p>
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<p>You're pretty good at writing clickbait headlines yourself. Those huge checks are a DoD contract for unblockable internet coms not some handout and for $20 million a month it sounds like Elon is giving them a deal, at least compared to what Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman get every year. They don't just suck the teat, they eat half of it.</p>
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