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by throwaway75 | 2025-06-03 10:44:53+00:00
What is the general take on the ethics of using AI as a much more powerful search engine? For example, "Find all occurences in the text where Odysseus' will is overridden by the Gods." The question is not something that would be directly set by an instructor, but might be required to substantiate an interpretation that a student is aiming for.

Finding something like this is difficult and requires reading the text closely. But with AI, you could get away by reading around the passages returned by AI.
by rcxdude | 2025-06-03 10:45:43+00:00
I stated it because it's entirely possible they didn't actually understand this, and that pronouns were entirely "some trans thing". Words do have meanings and it causes problems when they're used imprecisely like this. You can see other reactions that show less helpful responses to this confusion, because to many people the statement does just sound ridiculous. The intended meaning is a lot more understandable, and I'm quite sympathetic to it. My message is not meant be some dunk or preach about moral superiority, just an explaination for why they're getting the reaction that they are (which could, on reflection, be less blunt, sorry)
by prepend | 2025-06-03 10:46:31+00:00
> I spent around $400 on o3 last month because I was banging my head against a wall with some really tricky code. When I hit truly difficult problems, throwing o3 at them for a few hours beats getting stuck in debugging rabbit holes for days.

I wish I could get some examples of this. I remember asking seniors for help on problems and they could help in minutes what would take me hours. And, likewise, I’ve had people ask me for a minute of help to stop them being blocked for days.

It surprised me that people would block for days and I wonder what that looked like. Do they just stare at the screen, walk around, play candy crush?

I’m trying to figure out if the author is a junior, average, or senior programmer and what they get stuck on would be something that a good programmer learns how to debug around. So you can finally get a good ROI on being a good programmer by comparing the time to what an AI would cost.
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by edai- | 2025-06-03 10:47:31+00:00
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by nickslaughter02 | 2025-06-03 10:48:01+00:00
Also: "Going Dark expert group – EU's surveillance forge" https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/going-dark-expert-gro...

> The EU Commission is hiding the participants of the #EUGoingDark group meetings. I have requested lists of participants several times, but so far have only received completely redacted documents. (My Toot on Mastodon.) All that is known is that police forces and secret services are represented. Despite the highly sensitive topics in terms of data protection and fundamental rights, the EU Data Protection Supervisor only has the status of an observer. NGOs are not allowed to take part in the group’s meetings. While fundamental rights are muted, the #EUGoingDark group is planning to influence the EU Parliament with targeted surveillance PR.
by hmcq6 | 2025-06-03 10:48:08+00:00
Most of the vector art I see is minimalism. I can’t see this as anything but an argument that minimalism “stifles creativity”

> vector art pigeonholes art into something that can be used for machine learning

Look around, AI companies are doing just fine with raster art.

The only thing we agree on is that this will hurt workers
by skinkestek | 2025-06-03 10:48:12+00:00
> Such as the recent article by the resident of Sri Lanka during it's civil war.

So because a post was wrongly flagged (I haven't checked but I take your word for it) we should also flag other posts that the community wants?

Or maybe we should stop using flags as downvotes? Flags are for disinformation, off topic and low quality links, that kind of things, not for "things I personally don't find interesting".
by prepend | 2025-06-03 10:48:30+00:00
It sort of seems like the author is billing for the time saved and having a coffee or something. Seems a bit off.

Paying programmers by the hour always seemed weird for me because of the productivity spikes. I prefer paying by the job or just buying a weekly block that assumes someone works full time on my project.

I would be annoyed with a consultant who billed me for 4 hours when it was 30 minutes of work and an estimated savings from using AI.
by SuperV1234 | 2025-06-03 10:48:33+00:00
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by rotis | 2025-06-03 10:49:33+00:00
The author defends mediocore code, yet wrote this piece:

https://fly.io/blog/vscode-ssh-wtf/

Where he dunks on how SSH access works in VSCode. I don't know. The code and architecture behind this feature may well be bananas, but gets the work done. Sounds like a clear case of mediocority. I wonder how does he reconcile those two articles together.

For me this is more of a clickbait. Both of the articles. With that in mind, if I am nuts for being sceptical of LLMs, I think it is fair to call the author a clickbaiter.
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by ivape | 2025-06-03 10:50:30+00:00
“Cannot be done with chat gpt”

Is a military base the only place “no devices” can be enforced or something? How deep is this addiction? I’m scared to ask what the academic version of fizz-buzz would be at the end of a 4 year degree, “hey write one paragraph describing a simple paradox, an example of irony, or an example of a metaphor”.
by SuperV1234 | 2025-06-03 10:50:53+00:00
This is just not true. There's nothing that makes C++ inherently slow to compile.

PImpl doesn't need to have a performance hit as you can implement it with a local fixed-sized buffer that's not heap-allocated.

You can also design your C++ codebase exactly as you would in C, so there's literally no reason why you'll need to recompile more in one language compared to the other.
by tgv | 2025-06-03 10:51:50+00:00
> are there still good reasons for using it in a new project in 2025?

I've written this before: if your data looks like trees, with some loose coupling between them, it's a good choice. And most data does look like trees.

It does place some extra duties on the backend. E.g., mongodb doesn't propagate ("cascade") deletes (this also happens to be a feature I dislike: not so long ago, a delete of an insignificant record triggered an avalanche of deletes in a postgresql database, and restoring that took quite a bit of time.)
by bondarchuk | 2025-06-03 10:51:53+00:00
> #EUGoingDark is our label for an EU working group set up by the EU Commission in June 2023.

Oh, at least he discloses upfront that "going dark" is an unofficial slogan from the opposition. Not sure if that's necessary, "High Level Group on Access to Data for Effective Law Enforcement" sounds sinister enough already.
by terhechte | 2025-06-03 10:51:59+00:00
I sat down at a Piano yesterday and tried to play a beautiful song even though I never really used a piano before. Sounded horrible, must be the pianos fault.

One reason to use LLMs is to understand when and how to use them properly. They're like an instrument you have to learn. Once you do that, they're like a bicycle for your mind.
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by HPsquared | 2025-06-03 10:52:26+00:00
It's more natural for your palms to be basically facing each other. That's how they are when you're just standing up. Also think of steering wheel, joystick on e.g. a crane, or control yokes on aircraft where people have to hold it for hours at a time and possibly apply force. Neutral grip is also a thing in resistance training, for instance neutral grip pull-ups are easier on the joints. It stands to reason the sideways mouse, and some kind of keyboard that allows the hands to lie in a more natural position, would be less stressful on the various small parts. You don't want to be constantly moving things far away from their natural position!
by hugs | 2025-06-03 10:52:41+00:00
For electronics, all you really need to get started is an Arduino, 3 hobby servos, and a breadboard and wires. The first robot I sold was basically just that. And the physical parts were Lego-Technic compatible laser-cut (later 3D printed) beams. (https://bitbeam.org/, https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:11747)

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by motohagiography | 2025-06-03 10:53:08+00:00
having seen this issue through the crypto wars and pgp, the patriot act, the FISA scandals, bullrun's various crypto backdoors and rng sabotage, the tls 1.3 foward secrecy controversies, twitter files, then vax passports and digital identity- these people just never go away, and there's always a new generation to replace them. it seems established now that people in tech need to be vigilant because that game is never not on.
by terhechte | 2025-06-03 10:53:47+00:00
No they're not. I prefer closed source LLMs because I'm not interested in having a small hardware park, but DeepSeek 0528 or Qwen 3 235 are really good models. Not as good as Claude 4, but absolutely good enough for a lot of development use cases. You just have to spend money on the right hardware.
by dotancohen | 2025-06-03 10:54:00+00:00
Or, as has typically been the case in IT, the pie will get bigger.

Maybe I'll program my oven to cook the pizza at a slightly lower temperature, but crisp the living carbon out of it for the final 90 seconds. Just like I'm doing manually now, but less prone to errors because I ignored the pizza while browsing HN and can smell it bur.......

My pizza!
by mapt | 2025-06-03 10:54:02+00:00
One of the skills that students are typically terrible at is convincingly recreating the flow of a conversation that is written down. Shakespeare, spoken in meter-less monotone with none of the prosody that indicates actual speech by a human being communicating something; Prosody you can often decode even in a language you have no knowledge of. If they manage to fake it convincingly for an hour-long podcast, they have taught themselves acting on a level that is commercially useful and honestly understand much of what is being said.

If they are just working from AI notes and improvising the conversation, arguably they are simply doing the work.

What I don't know is whether an instructor would be allowed to earnestly grade an hour-long podcast subjectively.
by protocolture | 2025-06-03 10:54:44+00:00
> The engine is made

Vastly underselling the effort that goes into engine development.

Heck, vastly underselling the relationship between coders and level/game designers.

Not everything is always achievable in script. There's usually an ongoing conversation, level designers requesting new features.

Not to mention most of these pipelines are unique and sometimes proprietary.

Look at Star Citizen. Every man and his dog was screaming at them, that they couldn't deliver space game positioning precision with 32 bit floating point. They spent serious bank redeveloping crytek to take 64 bit floating point, trashed that and moved to Unreal.

We aren't in some kind of Post-Coding world when it comes to game development.

And really, I don't see prompts taking a scripting position in regular software development either. Scripts aren't compiled but they are a heck of a lot more deterministic.

>People that know how to design innovative and practical prompt solutions are going to be quite valuable.

Yeah the remaining fact in your hot take isnt that hot at all.
by pveierland | 2025-06-03 10:54:49+00:00
As a data point, the largest political parties in Norway (Arbeiderpartiet / Høyre), are now both seeking to introduce age limits backed by national BankID login systems to access social media, which would be a massive invasion in the right to privacy online.

The same parties voted in 2011 to introduce mass data storage, where all international internet traffic can be stored and kept for 6 months by the state.

I see no reason to believe that either party would protect the right to private communication or internet use.
by mopsi | 2025-06-03 10:55:13+00:00
Russian trolls have blown that single call out of proportion. We, too, can have a phone call and discuss who we'd prefer the next Chinese leader to be; it doesn't mean we actually have much influence over that. We can even discuss right here on HN who we'd like to see as the next American president, and it would not be factually wrong to characterize the discussion as "people on the most popular Silicon Valley forum frequented by tech billionaires picking the next president." But it wouldn't be entirely truthful either, would it?
by zevon | 2025-06-03 10:55:38+00:00
Are they doing that in this case? The DMA is not targeted at Apple specifically. The clarifications linked by Gruber are - and I would assume that there are similar clarifications for other companies' products as well (especially if those other companies raised as much stink in the press as Apple does).

I also assume Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo would also face more targeted regulatory attention if their consoles were as ubiquitous and utility-like as smartphones are (MS certaintly has for Windows). I would even assume that a company could accelerate this process by being as persistent and public as Epic is in regards to Apple.
by hoseyor | 2025-06-03 10:56:20+00:00
I think this is a partial solution, but I have to point out that relegating that function of translator and tester to a “fresh grad”. That is ideally the exact role of a Product Manager today, the very go-between and translator with vision that can manage customer/client expectations while also adequately communicate technical concepts and both communicate initial tex task breakdowns and also run interference for devs, i.e., dish out conditional nos.

This function is both extremely critical as well as it is also not valued in my opinion. The business/client side thinks that’s what devs are for, and devs think they’re just more management until they’ve learned that (please excuse the sport metaphor since it’s not something I do, but it seems fitting) Product Managers can be the defensive line as well as the quarterback for the running backs converting, the coach’s strategy into wins and a cheering crowds instead of boos and disappointments all around.
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by theshrike79 | 2025-06-03 10:56:25+00:00
It's because you get to the No True Scotsman -thing pretty fast.

If I use LLMs to code, say a Telegram bot that summarise the family calendars and current weather to a channel - someone will come in saying "but LLMs are shit because they can't handle this very esoteric hardware assembler I use EVERY DAY!!1"
by perihelions | 2025-06-03 10:57:08+00:00
It's surreal, and dismaying, to contrast this surveillance push with recent Western reporting about North Korea digital surveillance[0,1]. Dismaying, because it shows (IMO) how our societal dialogues are helplessly stuck in a rut of doublethink—using one set of language to describe what the DPRK is doing, and entirely different language for the things the EU bureaucracy is doing, though they're the same things.

There's no daylight between North Korea's "dystopian reality" [sic] of capturing random screenshots of user devices, and the EU's mandatory data retention concept.

[0] https://www.techspot.com/news/108156-north-korean-smartphone... ("In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance")

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cewd82p09l0o ("Inside a phone smuggled out of North Korea")
by dleeftink | 2025-06-03 10:57:26+00:00
Among others, Howard Rheingold has been active in this space. For those interested, check out the Peeragogy Handbook and the post that sparked the idea[0].

> The more I give my teacher-power to students and encourage them to take more responsibility for their own learning, the more they show me how to redesign my ways of teaching

[0]: https://clalliance.org/blog/toward-peeragogy/
by vidarh | 2025-06-03 10:57:41+00:00
That seems like a reasonable assessement.

I personally find it astounding that people still talk about MAD when even Reagan was scared into accepting it was flawed. You can see the big change in his foreign policy position before and after - from confrontation to negotiation. As much as I loathe most of Reagan's political views, in retrospect he's been proven a lot more astute at least in this specific area of foreign policy than basically everyone who still pushes MAD.

E.g.:

> "But the more experience I had with Soviet leaders and other heads of state who knew them, the more I began to realize that many Soviet officials feared us not only as adversaries but as potential aggressors who might hurl nuclear weapons at them in a first strike"

If you think the other side is crazy enough to consider a first strike, MAD goes out the door and it becomes rational to consider preempting them if you think you have any chance at all to reduce the damage. And the greater damage potential the other side has, the more imperative this becomes.

MAD has for very long struck me as a rationalisation of an emotional desire to have the more destructive weapon, rather than a rational argument for this reason - there are so many scenarios where it increases risk rather than reduces it.

You then have a choice to make, and to Reagans credit he chose to try to pull things back from the brink, recognising it was more dangerous to try to one-up the Soviet Union than to talk to them.

Though it seems to me it's likely far more rational in general to posture even less, and intentionally back down to a point where you have enough to make an attack on yourself cost sufficiently more than it is worth to still deter, but little enough that preempting you isn't a matter of preventing total destruction. As a bonus the less aggressive posturing would seem less likely to make the other side think you're preparing to strike first.