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by fragmede | 2025-04-03 23:09:20+00:00
like an Eventbrite or a shopmonkey. but yeah, you don't think you could? Salesforce is a whole morass. not every customer uses every corner of it, and Salesforce will nickel and dime you with their consultants and add ons and plugins. if you can be more specific as to which bit of Salesforce you want to provide to a client we can go deep.
by noodletheworld | 2025-04-03 23:09:24+00:00
> Once again, the AI agent implemented this entire feature without requiring me to write any code manually.

> For controllers, I might include a small amount of essential details like the route name: [code]

Commit history: https://github.com/dx-tooling/platform-problem-monitoring-co...

Look, I honestly think this is a fair article and some good examples, but what is with this inane “I didn’t write any of it myself” claim that is clearly false that every one of these articles keeps bringing up?

What’s wrong with the fact you did write some code as part of it? You clearly did.

So weird.
by srveale | 2025-04-03 23:10:16+00:00
I think the tricky bit is that AI companies make money off the collected works of artists, regardless of user behaviour. Suppose I pay for an image generator because I like making funny pictures in Ghibli style, then the AI company makes money because of Ghibli's work. Is that ethical? I can see how an artist would get upset about it.

On the other hand, suppose I also like playing guitar covers of songs. Does that mean artists should get upset at the guitar company? Does it matter if I do it at home or at a paid gig? If I record it, do I have to give credit to the original creator? What if I write a song with a similar style to an existing song? These are all questions that have (mostly) well defined laws and ethical norms, which usually lean towards what you said - the tool isn't responsible.

Maybe not a perfect analogy. It takes more skill to play guitar than to type "Funny meme Ghibli style pls". Me playing a cover doesn't reduce demand for actual bands. And guitar companies aren't trying to... take over the world?

At the end of the day, the cat is out of the bag, generative AI is here to stay, and I think I agree that we're better off regulating use rather than prohibition. But considering the broader societal impacts, I think AI is more complicated of a "tool" than other kinds of tools for making art.
by dahart | 2025-04-03 23:10:23+00:00
Again, the terms of the purchase are explicitly laid out. Maybe go read them? It’s not a marketing stunt, not false advertising, and it is a real ticket. It’s a financial contribution to the project, same as any donation. You can rationalize your speculation and assumptions but the terms of the deal aren’t confusing anyone buying these tickets. Donations with merch attached to them as ‘thank yous’ are absolutely standard practice, and there’s nothing wrong with it. Regardless, I guarantee nobody who buys one will be alive to redeem the ticket. Your best choice, if you were hoping to be there, or if you don’t want to contribute is to not purchase a Final Ticket. Aside from that, there’s really no call for muckraking. Zero people will be duped, they are extremely clear with their intent.
by ModernMech | 2025-04-03 23:10:32+00:00
At the end of the day we either live in a world where laws, process, and provable facts prevail - democracy; or we live in a world where conjecture, conspiracy, and opinions and ad hoc decision making rule the day - anarchy.

I prefer to live in democracy, where we follow a process to redress grievances. In 2020, President Trump's claims were given great deference. He was given the opportunity to prove them in court. He was heard by state legislatures and governors. The vice president weighed his claims. The Congress did as well. Even after the election states like Arizona handed over their voting machines to groups like the "Cyber Ninjas" who attempted to prove claims that ballots were tampered with in that state.

Nobody found the evidence Trump claimed.

Because it doesn't exist, it never did.

Because the alleged fraud did not happen.

What happened was a man lost a close but fair election. That's what the facts show, despite any threads you feel are "seemingly plausible", it was the most audited election in history. Eventually if you can't put up, you really have to shut up. It's that simple when it comes to a) living in a democracy and b) being an adult. Sometimes you don't get your way, and the response to that cannot be to burn down the entire system.

That's what I mean when I said that this impacted everyone - when childish temper tantrums like Jan 6 are allowed to stand, when the people who acted that way are pardoned and the person who instigated that event is reelected.... well that to me means we are trending away from democracy and toward a different way of dealing with reality.
by conductr | 2025-04-03 23:11:42+00:00
Yeah, I see that perspective bu I guess my thought process is “what’s the point, if everyone else can now do the same”

I had long ago culled many of those ideas based on my ability to execute the marketing plan or the “do I really even want to run that kind of business?” test. I already knew I could build whatever I wanted to exist so My days of pumping out side projects ended long ago and I became more selective with my time.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-04-03 23:12:04+00:00
I frequently see this characterization and can't agree with it. If I say "well I suppose you'd at least need to do A to qualify" and then later say "huh I guess A wasn't sufficient, looks like you'll also need B" that is not shifting the goalposts.

At worst it's an incomplete and ad hoc specification.

More realistically it was never more than an educated guess to begin with, about something that didn't exist at the time, still doesn't appear to exist, is highly subjective, lacks a single broadly accepted rigorous definition to this very day, and ultimately boils down to "I'll know it when I see it".

I'll know it when I see it, and I still haven't seen it. QED
by Rohansi | 2025-04-03 23:12:09+00:00
It's a decent way to handle permission but it's never "like an app" with iOS. Web push is missing basic features on iOS, such as notification sound/vibration. Many will say that's a good thing but there is no restriction for actual apps. I would love to rewrite a React Native app I work on as a PWA but silent notifications are totally useless for it.
by brokencode | 2025-04-03 23:12:14+00:00
Great idea, I’m sure that would have helped. Maybe they also could have had Anthony Fauci personally reply to antivax conspiracy theories on Twitter. That would have won hearts and minds.

You think Trump is “friendly” and of course he is. He is the primary beneficiary and spreader of lies about the 2020 election, so why wouldn’t he also be the best arbiter of truth on the subject?
by Domenic_S | 2025-04-03 23:12:23+00:00
“Should be” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there - I have heard reasonable arguments either way - but it misses the point: whether the personal tax rate was all-time high or an all-time low, personal tax revenue stays roughly the same historically. In other words it’s a trap - raising the rate might make you feel better, but if history is any indicator it won’t change anything for everyday citizens.
by creddit | 2025-04-03 23:12:31+00:00
> Because that would be a simple solution to all societies ills

No it wouldn't and I don't lament its absence as such.

> and it's obvious the world does not work this way.

Agreed which is my lamentation.

> And unless you're suggest banning all anonymous communication under an alias you quickly see ideas like this don't work.

I'm very clearly not, but even given the case that all communication around this moves to anonymous is itself fine. The impact of people understanding that they would be pariahs for developing such tools is itself a good deterrent. That social deterrents do not work with perfect 100% efficacy is not an argument against their usage.
by pixl97 | 2025-04-03 23:13:22+00:00
The particular problem with class 1 ( want independence from a distant government ) is to gain enough political power to effect change is they necessarily incorporate class 2 ( want to reintroduce slavery ), this necessitates the use of POSIWID

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...

Unfortunately I don't think the group of 'just want to secede' is "much larger" than those willing to commit civil rights violations after years of practical experience living in the south. The people saying it in the context of the blue states doing it mostly realize it won't work, and the amount of civil rights violations either way skyrocket in the process.
by op00to | 2025-04-03 23:13:45+00:00
You’re leaning hard on a No True Scotsman argument here. “With serious vendors, you’re not” is doing a lot of hand-waving to ignore how inconsistent support actually is across the industry. Just because you had a good on-site experience doesn’t mean it’s universally better.

In my case, I had a ThinkPad X1 Carbon with a new, whiz-bang 4k screen that needed warranty service due to a faulty panel. Lenovo sent out a Unisys contractor who botched the repair—cracked the screen bezel, and somehow left the machine unable to boot. Lenovo sent the same guy back, and each visit made things worse. This happened multiple times, and the machine had to be fully replaced more than once because the repairs kept introducing new problems. This same tech also dropped a Lenovo server during a fan swap at a different site. So yeah, I’ve experienced “real” onsite business service, and it was an absolute mess more often than not.

Every vendor has issues. That’s not the point. The difference is that Apple actually rolls out repair programs and has the infrastructure to fix things in a relatively consistent way. You can take a broken machine to a store, talk to someone who can usually solve your problem, and almost always walk out with a solution. Pretending other vendors are more accountable just doesn’t match reality. They’re not immune to problems. They’re just a lot better at quietly ignoring them.
by dekhn | 2025-04-03 23:13:59+00:00
I consider UC's statement of diversity (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/us/ucla-dei-statement.htm... and then 6 months later https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/diversity-statements-u...) to be a form of ideology over truth seeking: """Candidates who did not “look outstanding” on diversity, the vice provost at U.C. Davis instructed search committees, could not advance, no matter the quality of their academic research. Credentials and experience would be examined in a later round."""
by DrNosferatu | 2025-04-03 23:14:17+00:00
Instead of throwing around historically illiterate analogies, let's talk about the real issues:

What are the actual inflationary risks right now given the state of the economy? What are the costs of not spending (i.e., austerity)?

Because history also shows – very clearly – that austerity imposed due to debt panic in countries that could have afforded to spend is often way more damaging than the debt itself.
by rcxdude | 2025-04-03 23:15:45+00:00
Also, have tools to record and replay games, and knowlegable moderators who can identify signs of cheating and ban offenders. This will count for a lot, even if someone can cheat well enough to appear highly skilled naturally (which almost always requires at least moderate skill at a game), it won't be quite so rage-inducing. This doesn't scale very well, though.
by Henchman21 | 2025-04-03 23:15:55+00:00
Just yesterday I personally witnessed pallets of Sun/Oracle equipment being unloaded. I’ll admit, it made me nostalgic!

They’re still out there. Maybe not visible to normal folks, but I know for a fact until very recently the Chicago Mercantile Exchange used their hardware in great quantities— maybe even as the underlying hardware for their matching engines, though I admit this is conjecture on my part. They don’t exactly let exchange customers in those rooms!

I miss their 10k & 15k chassis. Solid kit for their day.
by MattGrommes | 2025-04-03 23:16:01+00:00
Corporations would love for everybody to believe they own and control every single instance of any audio or visual output they create but that's just not true. This idea that they own the very idea of 'boy wizard who goes to school' is insane and plays right into this flawed and pernicious idea. Copyright is important but does/should not extend to every time I want to print out a picture of a boy wizard for my kid. We live in a culture, not an IP regime.
by pclmulqdq | 2025-04-03 23:16:32+00:00
What you are describing is exactly the principal-agent problem, and it is a real problem at startups when a founder is truly motivated by something that the investors don't care about. You can run a company with different motivations than your investors, but only so long as you return the goods they want. If they see you not returning the goods and not caring about that fact, they will try to replace you. They will try to do that a lot faster if you demonstrate that you don't care about giving them a return than if you show that you do care.

Conversely, investors can be mission-driven or otherwise aligned with you on something other than "maximize my return," but those investors rarely give you the best price.
by 42772827 | 2025-04-03 23:16:34+00:00
Spot on. “The market” is presented like it’s some state of nature, some law of the universe like physics. It’s been said Slavoj Žižek, Mark Fisher, and Fredric Jameson, but it appears Jameson was likely the first:

“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.”
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-04-03 23:17:42+00:00
Yes for the most part.

The fact that current 'conservatives' kicked out pretty much all the historical conservatives I know as being not actual conservative/rinos tell us that this isn't about 'conservative' speech but something much, much different that is being labeled as 'conservative' speech when it is not.

I was a (hippie) libertarian at one point. Today the party of 'merit' has as their figure head... a nepo baby. They can't even be bothered to pretend to be 'conservative' or 'libertarian' anymore.

I don't shop where Confederate flags are sold. Requiring stores I shop at not to celebrate/promote racist anti-american losers by selling Confederate flags isn't me deplatforming anyone (BTW Amazon? Lots of Confederate flags FYI) it's me having standards for how I use my time/attention/money.
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by ndiddy | 2025-04-03 23:18:14+00:00
It was distributed on paper tape. You needed a teletype with a paper tape reader to run it. Basically you would manually enter a bootloader using the switches on the Altair's front panel, and the bootloader would read BASIC off the tape and into RAM. If the checksum passed, it would then jump into BASIC. Here's a video of the process if you're interested: https://youtu.be/TxU_3dEJ2nM?t=1013
by WhyOhWhyQ | 2025-04-03 23:18:24+00:00
We're about to witness a fundamental shift in the human experience. Some time in the near future there will not be a single act of creation you can do that isn't trivial compared to the result of typing "make cool thing please now" into the computer. And your position is to add to the problem because with your policy anything I create should get chucked into the LLM grinder by any and everybody. How do I get my human body to commit to doing hard things with that prospect at hand? This is the end of happiness.
by rglover | 2025-04-03 23:19:04+00:00
Yep. Last night I was asking ChatGPT (4o) to help me generate a simple HTML canvas that users could draw on. Multiple times, it spoke confidently of its not even kind of working solution (copying the text from the chat below):

- "Final FIXED & WORKING drawing.html" (it wasn't working at all)

- "Full, Clean, Working Version (save as drawing.html)" (not working at all)

- "Tested and works perfectly with: Chrome / Safari / Firefox" (not working at all)

- "Working Drawing Canvas (Vanilla HTML/JS — Save this as index.html)" (not working at all)

- "It Just Works™" (not working at all)

The last one was so obnoxious I moved over to Claude (3.5 Sonnet) and it knocked it out in 3-5 prompts.
by rufus_foreman | 2025-04-03 23:19:10+00:00
>> Four minutes for roughing

I've never seen a double minor for roughing. 2 minute minor or 5 minute major.

4 minute double minor is typically when someone is high sticked and they're bleeding because of it.

So yeah, give a co-worker a hand to the face and if the manager catches it you're sitting out of the sprint planning meeting for either 2 or 5 minutes depending.
by schlauerfox | 2025-04-03 23:19:19+00:00
"he’d forgotten to write the bootstrap loader" He didn't load the whole program from the switches on the face, just the bootstrap that would let them feed the paper tape through the teletype/paper tape reader that was common at the time. It would take a very very long time to load the whole program by hand. See this video of a demo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxU_3dEJ2nM
by drops | 2025-04-03 23:20:11+00:00
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.” - Brian Eno, 1996
by colesantiago | 2025-04-03 23:20:18+00:00
Hot take: I don't see a problem with this and in fact we will see in a few years that senior engineers will be needed less in the future.

I have a business which is turning in millions in ARR at the moment (made in the pandemic) it's a pest control business and we have got a small team with only 1 experienced senior engineer, we used to have 5 but with AI we reduced it to one which we are still paying well.

Even with maintenance, we plan ahead for this with an LLM and make changes accordingly.

I think we will see more organizations opting for smaller teams and reducing engineer count since now the code generated is to the point that it works, it speeds up development and that it is "good enough".
by Asooka | 2025-04-03 23:20:57+00:00
I like it. It disambiguates when you're referring to a member of an object -- myobj.member vs referring to a global object by its full name -- module::function. I guess you could say the IDE can colour the two differently, but after spending a lot of time working with various code review tools of varying quality, I have come to really appreciate having the program text be as explicit as possible. If you find it so disagreeable, can't you configure your IDE to visually replace that syntax with a single dot and also automatically convert a single dot to two colons when typing a namespace?
by fragmede | 2025-04-03 23:21:24+00:00
What I want is irrelevant. She's now able to rest on her laurels thanks to copyright. She's earned it. I very much enjoyed the books! Under our current culture and level of technology, that's the dream.

But why shouldn't everyone get to live like that? we have the technology to feed all the people, it's just a distribution and organization problem. "just". Money, and capitalism is how we've organized things and it's worked great for a lot of people but it's also left a lot of people behind.

We keep making adjustments to the system but we don't have to be trapped in the system. we can take a step back and look at things and say, hang on a minute, if the goal in life is to feed and clothe everybody, we've either succeeded beyond our wildest dreams, or utterly failed.
by palata | 2025-04-03 23:21:46+00:00
> the reason being the EU actively regulating against businesses trying to innovate

Oh come on, can we stop with that? Not having regulations results in quasi-monopolies and oligarchs. Preaching against regulation is only worth it if you are Google, Amazon & Co. Regulations don't prevent fairly big companies from existing.

Maybe the lack of regulations in the US pushes EU companies to move there. But right now maybe non-Americans will start looking for non-US alternatives, and that's good.
by khimaros | 2025-04-03 23:22:13+00:00
FWIW, i created a PDF of the "race" ending and fed it to Gemini 2.5 Pro, prompting about the plausibility of the described outcome. here's the full output including the thinking section: https://rentry.org/v8qtqvuu -- tl;dr, Gemini thinks the proposed timeline is unlikely. but maybe we're already being deceived ;)
by Levitating | 2025-04-03 23:22:42+00:00
> While I have a laptop running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed that failed to start after the third update

Very possible, Tumbleweed has had some embarrassing failures.

But when it comes to rolling release on servers I'd still prefer OpenSUSE.

OpenSUSE has whole distributions (MicroOS & Aeon) dedicated to performing automatic updates. ArchLinux is not really made with automatic updates in mind.

Big part of that is possible because OpenSUSE releases Tumbleweed in "snapshots". This means that updated packages are basically staged and tested together before release. This happens a few times a week. If you then experience a failure you can always use an older tumbleweed snapshot. In theory that should provide more stability, but there has recently been a lot of instability especially with SELinux being enabled by default.
by duckling23 | 2025-04-03 23:22:59+00:00
It's a hobby project I decided to share. I won’t deny it’s problematic. I understand both sides of the argument, but if I was going to make it for fun anyway, why not publish it?

Posting it publicly on GitHub is the main reason I got invited to job interviews this spring. I'm a third-year student with no prior IT experience, and now I have a great summer job lined up.

And for the record—I enjoy playing legit. I don’t cheat.
by ggm | 2025-04-03 23:23:06+00:00
So let's be clear: it's implicitly incest, right? One denial in this article aside, he appears to have encouraged if not caused his younger sisters eroticism as a pre teen, took her away to share a room in the hotel his parents honeymooned in, changed his art after entering a relationship. Nobody knows who the child's father is, fair enough. His pre marriage art was unquestionably "edgy"

Amazing paintings. Also, amazingly disturbing. I cannot conceive of having one on the wall.