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I get gummies at 2000000000 IU and that's not even the final form of my vitamin

Also what's an IU. Apparently it's meant to normalize impact across vitamin D species of which there are multiple. Part of me can see the reasoning but it runs contrary to how much of medicine/pharma operates, generally in such form as either mg per time interval or mg/kg per time interval. It would be like taking the whole armada of blood pressure drugs and dictating their doses in mmHg instead of milligrams. If only things were so simple!


Actually it's the classic "inductive reasoning has to meet a set of strict criteria to be sound." Criteria which this does not meet. Extrapolation from a sample size of one? In a context without any LLM involvement? That's not sound, the conclusion does not follow. The point being, why bother making a statistical generalization? Rust's safety is formally known, deduction over concrete postulates was appropriate.

> it would be very surprising if the situation were completely reversed for LLMs

Lifetimes must be well-defined in safe Rust, which requires a deep degree of formal reasoning. The kind of complex problem analysis where it is known that LLMs produce worse results in than humans. Specifically in the context of security vulnerabilities, LLMs produce marginally less but significantly more severe issues in memory safe languages[1]. Still though, we might say LLMs will produce safer code with safe Rust, on the basis that 100,000 vibe coded lines will probably never compile.

[1] - https://arxiv.org/html/2501.16857v1


The less context switching LLMs of current day need to do the better they seem to perform. If I’m writing C code using an agent but my spec needs complex SQL to be retried then it’s better to give access to the spec database through MCP to prevent the LLM from going haywire

EV human-driven shuttles can do the same. Why do we need a robot for that?

To be honest, in the official papers they did not use it for either CMS or ATLAS.

Eh I’ll take my 78, someone else can have the rest.

That's fair; my claims are kept simplistic for purposes of space and time. However, I'm talking about new projects, not rewriting legacy code.

Agree, but that's just the term for any LLM-assisted development now.

Even the Gemini 3 announcement page had some bit like "best model for vibe coding".


I made my Dad buy me a 387 math coprocessor when I was in college because I was taking math and physics courses but I bet none of the software I used ever even accessed that chip. It was more about the empty socket on the mobo looking out of place.

That's not credit at all. If your strongest defense of AVP is "at least they're not Meta" then you've stopped making grounded observations and gone straight to ad-hominem.

I'd also go as far as to say that Apple knew they could have made the Vision Pro better. It should be running a real computer operating system like the headset Valve is making, and Apple knows that. The arbitrary insistence on iPad-tier software in a $3,500 headset guaranteed it was unlovable and dead-on-arrival.


EV shuttles will come in lots of capacities. Vans, buses. But you won't need to worry about schedules or preset routes because it's all dynamic.

Wherever there would be the most congestion is precisely where the app will give you the biggest discount to switch from your private vehicle into a bus, then switch back into another private vehicle for the last 5 minutes of your trip.


Backwards compatibility. If you host a lot of compressed video content, you probably didn't store the uncompressed versions so any new encoding is a loss of fidelity. Even if you were willing to take that gamble, you have to wait until all your users are on a modern enough browser to use the new codec. Frankly, the winner that takes all is H.264 because it's already everywhere.

Thanks. Would love to see a tech blog post once you get Vitess implemented.

> It has been implemented so that age verification is a token only, a yes/no authorisation.

This is misinformation. The legislation does not specify a single particular implementation for age-based verification and there's absolutely no single "age verification service" that platforms are legislated to use. Instead they're required to verify users' ages based on several recommended methods, including age inference. https://digitalrightswatch.org.au/2025/12/03/what-you-need-t...

Further, the Communications Minister herself regarding whether she's concerned about people bypassing authentication-based age verification checks: "If you’re an adult - you probably won’t need to do anything extra to prove your age, because like I said before, these platforms have plenty of data to infer your age." https://minister.infrastructure.gov.au/wells/speech/address-...


They met tonight! This is so insane!

This change sounds like that "waste, fraud, and abuse" stuff.

If you add up all the government memos, forms, letters, contracts, publications, everything printed globally…

“wow. many serif. so pointy. much ink. such waste!” — Kabosu, probably


It's an interesting sidebar discussion what are cultural norms on social interaction vs using someone like a free therapist. I guess consent to whatever topic, equal airtime, not saying inappropriate things, not slowing down their work.

> ($AI) suggests

Same logic still applies. If I gave a shit what it "thought" or suggests, I'd prompt the $AI in question, not HN users.

That said, I'm not against a monthly (or whatever regular periodic interval that the community agrees on) thread that discusses the subject, akin to "megathreads" on reddit. Like interesting prompts, or interesting results or cataloguing changes over time etc etc.

It's one of those things that can be useful to discuss in aggregate, but separated out into individual posts just feels like low effort spam to farm upvotes/karma on the back of the flavor of the month. Much in the same way that there's definitely value in the "Who's Hiring/Trying to get hired" monthly threads, but that value/interest drops precipitously if each comment/thread within them were each their own individual submission.


WFH anyone?


The title sounded worse than it is.

Out of curiosity, do the LLMs all use memory safe languages?

For that reason, my default docked setup uses a Magic Trackpad 2 alongside my keyboard so I can have the best of both worlds. I know it’s excessive, though, and not for everyone.

When and why is the Fed expected to do QE?

not a thing (yet?) I know, but image if there were smart hands jobs for those satellites.

Maybe to you, I enjoy the fact that

> I don't knock it out of my head by having the wire catching on something > Dealing with the cable and having to pack it back up when I'm done > It auto connects to both my phone and laptop 99% of the time > It easily swap between the 2 as I change the focus

Now they aren't perfect, charging can be a bit fiddly over time but they certainly are nicer than the normal headphones. Maybe you just aren't the target audience but clearly they are popular enough for most people.


I wouldn't be surprised to see zig in the kernel at some point

Let’s Encrypt does operate CT logs. I wrote a blog post about our current-generation logs at https://letsencrypt.org/2024/03/14/introducing-sunlight

I still think you're off the mark. Again, most existing Rust developers are not "blank slate Rust developers". That they do not rush out to rewrite all of their past projects in C++ may be more about sunk costs, and wanting to solve new problems with from-scratch development.

And best of all, it's not a google product, so it can be trusted.

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