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It wasn't controversial because there was about 200 years of prior art from sailing ships.

(Before the wheel, ships were steered with tillers - which early cars also tried, interface-wise.)

I believe the disconnect here is you're describing how some wanted it to work vs. how it played out in the real world. In practice, it became an unrewarding place to contribute high quality original content to.

I didn't know that part about the bluetooth polling rate. That's clever.

"Internet 'may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it'" - Daily Mail, December 2000

I recall seeing similar sentiment in other publications throughout the late 90s.

https://www.reddit.com/r/retrocomputing/comments/1m6i4ui/art...

(Apologies that this was the best image host I could find for it)

We know how it works. That's why we all eventually gave up on helping people there (years before I knew what an LLM was.)

Oi, you got a loicense for that f-stop slop?

It might! In my prompt, I'm supposing you have some priors here about what's possible. Try saying something like "materially faster". But you need to also make sure it knows how to measure that endpoint's performance on its own, otherwise I wouldn't expect this to work well at all.

It's just a way of defining what "done" means, and passing off evaluation of whether "it's done" is true to a separate context and/or model. If false, it prompts the original context accordingly.

  /goal open a draft PR that makes <endpoint> ~200ms faster while still passing tests, and adhering to nearby style+pattern

If you want to be able to use it like that, you need to find a way to encode (most of) your concerns into something that can be programmatically verified.

In the US today, about 15% of adults have tried GLP-1s, with 7% currently taking them, according to research based on Bain’s proprietary GLP-1 adoption model.

Is the 12% from another source?

I didn't realize that re-timestamped comments. That's a pretty unexpected behavior, if true. I wouldn't like if that happened to a comment I left - a lot can happen in a week.

The concern usually only comes when you fall on the "outside" of the prevailing opinion within the group of people voting on comments.

edit: my response isn't about lobste.rs. I don't have an account there.

They're also shuttering their (US) community site in 30 days.

  Q: When will the communityus.oneplus.com close?
  A: The communityus.oneplus.com will close on 11:59PM ET,August 16, 2026.

This isn't just measuring the speed of tokens that are written to a file (code). Your human partner is thinking a lot faster than 5 tok/s.

Then on execute it could even redraw the terminal to pretend you pasted X all along.

Diabolical idea. Anyone know if there's been anything in the wild that did this?

I would expect that it does, as well as some of the other directives I've seen in this thread ("never repeat the question").

It's one thing to tell it to do that in outputs, but I wouldn't at all be surprised to find that this affects performance (quality).

I have, but it's definitely very rare. And might have been manual intervention as described above.

I agree with that, the ones I see flagged are frequently espousing viewpoints I disagree with. But they should be debated then, and flagging them denies everyone that opportunity.

lol, fair. It wasn't a great example. Have a good night.

In the meantime, here's one I saw recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48660796

I always vouch them but have never bothered to email. I figure the mods are seeing the same HN I am. But maybe I spend too much time here some evenings..

But yes, it's the "going against the zeitgeist" ones I have in mind. It feels very damaging to the community.

Happy to find and email you some when I'm at my desk.

(I'm well aware of the genAI policy, and very supportive of it.)

The anti-AI crowd on Steam only really seems to care about it being used for art, from what I've seen in reviews.

I believe we're in a fairly limited window of time right now where that's even detectable via tools like Pangram. For small models it'll, maybe not the case. But for anything worth paying for.

It's just a collection of comments pushing back on LLM-generated prose. 'dang sends it in replies to emails that ask him why their comments were flagged when that's the reason. He's offering examples of the broad community sentiment on the matter, to the commenter who was flagged.

(Apologies if you've commented on the following already, but I've not seen it.)

The most concerning growing trend I see is comments that don't violate any guidelines, but are flagged to dead.

I'm not talking about posters that are shadowbanned, but about comments that engaged thoughtfully on a topic but the rest of the thread disagreed emphatically with.

I also don't even mean controversial takes on hot-button issues like vaccines.

Just plain old bucking the trend in a thread about AI, transit, housing, layoffs, etc.

I've been browsing with showdead on for as long as I can remember, and I'm seeing this accelerate. Comments from folks both you and I respect as high quality contributors here.

I don't know what the solution is, but it discourages me (and I'm sure others) from having the kind of thought-provoking dialog I've gotten used to reading here for the last 15 years.

Only the fixed portion is. So about $20 of my $400-800 monthly electric bill is income-based.

Indeed. That's why I think it depends on the individual's workflow where it should live.

Ah that makes sense, wasn't trying to be pedantic. Thanks for clarifying.

A smarter approach (progressive disclosure) for tools has been implemented by (I presume all) the harnesses over recent months, but you're 100% right in any case.

I enable tools specific to each project only in that project, and have very very few in my global config. Like <5k tokens worth.