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by Cthulhu_ | 2025-07-08 12:59:27+00:00
Yeah I don't understand why these are posted on here, it's not like people will stop what they're doing and listen to a half hour podcast or however long it is before replying. And you can see it in the comments, it's a lot of knee-jerk responses to the headline and links to related content.

For accessibility and personal preferences reasons, I wouldn't object to a HN policy change where podcasts are only allowed if they're accompanied by a readable transcript. Personally I still wouldn't read it because I don't like reading transcripts of podcasts that could be articles.
by fvgvkujdfbllo | 2025-07-08 12:59:31+00:00
I have been in the industry for a long time. I used to believe this too.

In smaller companies where your work is very visible, your work will matter more. But I have seen plenty of examples where nepotism or favoritism got less qualified people in key roles while highly productive developers got stuck as low level ICs. Some developers don’t play career games and they want to stay ICs which is understandable. But I have never seen the best developer being promoted to key roles without them focusing on office politics, boosting about their work, and starting pet projects to help with promotion packet.

Industry needs to give an illusion of meritocracy in order to extract maximum productivity from fresh recruits. Otherwise, everyone would spent their playing politics game and no work will ever be done.
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by zhangxingmao | 2025-07-08 12:59:50+00:00
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by yodsanklai | 2025-07-08 12:59:50+00:00
I feel the exact same way (using the tools they force on us at work).

I've became very lazy. Most tasks, I explain to the LLM, and go browse the web while it computes. More often than not, it fails, and I re-iterate my prompt several times. Eventually, I need to review the changes before submitting it for review, which isn't very fun.

Overall, I feel I'm losing my skills and the competitive advantage I had at my role (I'm a decent coder, but don't care too much about product discussions). The way I'm using the tool right now, I'm pretty sure I'm not more productive.

We'll see how it goes. It's still a pretty new tech and I think I should learn when not to use it and try to have good hygiene with it.
by jerf | 2025-07-08 12:59:59+00:00
Yes, the book got this and did a much better job with it. I'm not even necessarily upset with the first movie dropping that as part of the adaptation per se. Crap like that happens in the real world all the time, and even if the movie didn't call it out very well it still at least fits the characters. HN knows all about SV startups trying to move into this or that space thinking they're the smart young hotshots who are going to revolutionize some space with technology only to get ROFLstomped by the reality in the field and the people who have been doing it for decades and could have told them for free why what they were trying to do isn't going to work if they'd bothered to do the slightest research first.

However, the repeated errors are just silly.

Most particularly the repeated error of not bringing big enough guns [1]. Guns big enough to bother a T-Rex are certainly inconvenient, but they're readily available to anyone who already breaking international laws about not visiting these islands in the first place. Of course simply bringing big enough guns doesn't guarantee a solution to all the problems and it would not be hard to still tell stories about people getting eaten, but without that as a foundation the characters just read as suicidally-stupid bozos to me from the get-go. (Where's that alleged infatuation Hollywood has with guns?)

But the second park really has no reason in my eyes to have collapsed the way it did either. It wasn't really that well designed and they still had to contrive some really, really stupid stuff to get it to fail, like crashing a helicopter into the pteradactyl pen.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pf6E8yjMAI
by Winsaucerer | 2025-07-08 13:00:29+00:00
Is AI genuinely that good for you all? I can't leave it to its own devices, I have to review everything because (from experience) I don't trust it. I think it's an amazing technological advancement, perhaps will go down as one of the top 10 in the history of our species. But I can't just "fire and forget".

And that's not just because its output is often not the best, but also because by doing it myself it causes me to think deeply about the problem, come up with a better solution that considers edge cases. Furthermore, it gives me knowledge in my head about that project that helps me for the next change.

I see comments here where people seem to have eliminated almost all of their dev work, and it makes me wonder what I'm doing wrong.
by megaloblasto | 2025-07-08 13:00:43+00:00
I've always found it a bit strange that people enjoy the act of coding so much that LLMs make then sad. For me it's always been about what I can make, not the actual typing of code into the editor. With LLMs I can make better stuff, faster, and it's really exciting. It used to be that if I needed to use a new library for one little task, it would be hours or days of reading the manual and playing around. Now it's minutes and I can understand how the API works, and write good, robust code that solves my problem.

Maybe it's more of a problem with your job and the tasks you're assigned?
by sneak | 2025-07-08 13:00:49+00:00
That’s correct - because then we’d have 100 years of movies embedded in our collective cultural shared experiences that are 25 or 30fps.

The point is the cultural significance, not the specific framerate. The chosen framerate is now significant because of the body of work that has been done in that format, and the inextricable experience of that framerate with that body of work.

It is anything but arbitrary! It’s a very real thing. The tyranny of the installed base is a well-documented phenomenon. In this case the installed base is the fond memories of a few billion people. Pretending that they are all irrational for not wanting higher framerates is plainly objectively incorrect, as a point of fact.
by bArray | 2025-07-08 13:01:15+00:00
> The current submission can power up the GPU and probe the device on an RK3588 system-on-chip. This lets us read a few sections of ROM in the GPU, which in turn lets us provide this information to userspace by means of a DRM_IOCTL_PANTHOR_DEV_QUERY call.

I think ARM-based chips and embedded GPUs continue to be problematic. Powering up a GPU is not the issue, it's accessing the silicon that does specialised accelerated functionality without getting tied into some crazy legal stuff with the documentation required to do so. Reverse engineering your way to a working GPU driver is quite an effort.

I think I first came across this issue in the PineTab [1]. I was trying to do some kind of streaming from the device but it was ultra slow. After some search I found that Sunxi [2] was the only real serious effort at the time, and that it was sporting a Mali400 [3] [4]. ARM were not particularly friendly in open sourcing GPU code for the kernel and it was largely a reverse engineering effort that got anything working at all [5].

All this to say, I would rather support some kind of open-source GPU effort [6], especially if it could be boiled down to a small SoC or module. I saw this crazy 160 core RISC-V M.2 cluster performing ray tracing, and it really seems like we could get there [7].

[1] https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PineTab

[2] https://linux-sunxi.org/Allwinner_SoC_Family

[3] https://linux-sunxi.org/A64

[4] https://linux-sunxi.org/Mali

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_graphics_...

[6] https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/new-open-sou...

[7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRfbQJ6FdF0
by beAbU | 2025-07-08 13:01:16+00:00
MobileSheets(1) gets an endorsement from me, if that counts for something.

It's imo the best app for managing sheet music for performances. I sing in 4 choirs, and its a godsend so that I don't need to juggle a bunch of binders.

Is it the nicest looking? No. Does it have some jank? Sure. Could the UX be improved? Definitely. But it works where it matters, it's a one off payment and the dev is actually responsive for support queries.

https://zubersoft.com/mobilesheets/
by aredox | 2025-07-08 13:01:16+00:00
>I have yet to read any compelling argument or point of view why the last seasons were terrible.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/observations/the-rea...

https://archive.ph/KLoAq

https://archive.ph/g2mZJ

The worst, I think, is how they treated the secondary characters like Grey Worm and Missandei. Or Jon Snow calmly taking his boat to exile in the middle of Unsullied and Dothraki - he just killed their Queen and Liberation figure.

https://www.cbr.com/game-of-thrones-failed-unsullied-explain...
by sampleuser58 | 2025-07-08 13:01:26+00:00
You should take a break, it's normal to go through down periods. Work coding is also generally dissatisfactory compared to personal fun coding.

Personally I have found that the sky is now the limit thanks to AI assistants! I was never the best coder out there, probably a median level programmer, but now I can code anything I imagine and it's tons of fun.

Find some creative projects you want to work on and code them up!
by grues-dinner | 2025-07-08 13:02:05+00:00
These days, with high-power cutting tools also for cooling. If you have a 50 HP saw, that energy has to go somewhere, and it doesn't all go into the dust and get carried away. If carbide blades get too hot, the solder melts and the brazed inserts fall out, and for steel, carbide and diamonds, the hotter they get the softer they get and and the faster the tool wears.

And other than the cost of the tools, there is one thing harder to drill than a rock, and that's a rock with the previous drill bit's carbide insert stuck at the bottom of the hole!
by CyanLite2 | 2025-07-08 13:02:50+00:00
It's a tale of bureaucracy.

The tech community simply wants DOM access for web apps, but the committee is focused on trying to effectively rewrite the JVM in Rust because Rust seems trendy these days.

So the web features languish while the committee still can't agree on how to send strings between two functions on Linux. And the committee moves at a slower pace than the federal government.
by 542354234235 | 2025-07-08 13:03:05+00:00
See, I think he is wrong about the rest of the movie. First, that scene is incredibly done. We have been talking about dinosaurs, explaining what how the park works, how he made them, etc. but we haven’t seen anything yet. Then we stop the Jeeps, but we don’t show the dinos yet. What we show is Neill and Dern’s faces. We see how absolutely awestruck they are and only then, once we have been primed to understand how truly amazing and unique what we are about to see is, do they show us the dinosaurs.

But he does this throughout the movie. The tyrannosaurus builds the same way. The “where’s the goat?”, the quick closeup of her swallowing it, the closeup of the claw on the now dead fencing, the slapping of the cables, then and only then, does she walk out into the open. The velociraptors are teased in the very first scene so you know how deadly they are but you don’t see them. You see what they do the rigging of the cow harness and learn how smart and ruthless they are. You see the ripped open cage and learn that Nedry specifically programmed their cage to not lose power because of what he knew about their danger, but now they are out after the reset. So when you finally see them, you are primed to be terrified of what they are and what they can do.

The whole movie is a masterclass, and it is insane to me that he reduced it to a “creature feature”.
by seec | 2025-07-08 13:03:10+00:00
This is a ridiculous point of view. Those things are not mutually exclusive; you do not need to have complete proprietary lockdown to have a properly built quality battery.

Humans will lie and cheat for profit but at the same time humans also build locked batteries. It's just that nowadays we take away responsibility of people and their choices and we don't want to deal with the fact that when someone is buying a shitty poorly built copy, they are the ones at fault because of their greed.

You could very much have an open market (and should) it's just that people would rather believe there is nothing wrong when they buy something that is suspiciously cheaper than it should be.

Greedy corporations are at the origin of the problem precisely because they try to extract too much for their stuff, selling it at what is an unreasonable price.

You cannot at the same time blame people for their poor choices out of greed and at the same time re-enforce the same behavior in corporations, that's nuts.
by jon-wood | 2025-07-08 13:03:13+00:00
Have you considered not doing that? It's not obligatory to have an LLM shit out unreviewed code for you, you're making a choice to do that, and you can make a choice not to.

Review the code. Hell, maybe even write some code yourself.

What you're describing is how I feel whenever I use an LLM for anything more than the most basic of tasks. I've gone from being a senior level software developer to managing a barely competent junior developer who's only redeeming skill is the ability to type really, really quickly. I quit the management track some time ago because I hated doing all my software development via the medium of design documents which would then be badly implemented by people who didn't care, there's no way you're going to get me to volunteer for that.
by lou1306 | 2025-07-08 13:03:20+00:00
Personally I don't mind Wallabag's, well, barebones interface, and having recently jailbroken my Kindle I think its integration with KOReader is its real killer app. I've found the EPUB conversion works really well (modulo some timeout issues on _very_ heavy pages) and it automatically marks articles as read when you sync with the server.
by kgwxd | 2025-07-08 13:03:46+00:00
> AI

Next.

HN is already fast. Simplicity is it's selling point. Anything put on top of that can only make it worse, most of all "AI".

I wouldn't shit on it if it were a hobby project, but spouting "cross-platform" when it's not, and coming right at me with "currently free to use". Gross, no thanks. There's already too many people charging money to make everything decent, incredibly worse.
by Reubachi | 2025-07-08 13:04:10+00:00
RE: "ice final form"

It's an intersting time to live, we are indeed seeing the peak of ICE, though I think there are lots of room for improvement in EGR, compression, more efficient catalytic process.

"smaller market" ICE manufacturers IE isuzu, mazda, hino etc. are sort of working towards this, as opposed to jumping on EV train.

Theoretically, it's completely reasonable for a high compression inlne 3 cylinder with aero wheels/tires to get 60-70 MPG. (With proper EGR, turbo application, CVT)
by lucasoshiro | 2025-07-08 13:04:17+00:00
> Do men/man and bitch/beach sound the same to you?

Not exactly the same, but I differentiate them more based on the context than in the pronunciation.

Giving an example for Portuguese that has about the same difference: "roupa de lá" (clothes from there) and "roupa de lã" (wool clothes). If you write them in Google Translate or similar you'll see the difference, which is very subtle for non-Portuguese speakers but sounds completely different to us.
by vildoran | 2025-07-08 13:05:30+00:00
KBtin is the one I use, partially for its TLS support (though most MUDs don't offer that). If you use it for T2T, you can connect using '#sslses t2t t2tmud.org 444'

You can also just SSH in (ssh towers@t2tmud.org), though honestly that isn't the best experience...
by carlosjobim | 2025-07-08 13:05:40+00:00
I guarantee that most businesses have nothing against stocking or offering items that people come in and ask them for - but it has to be possible also. If you're asking for a Polish sausage in a hardware store because your neighbour sent you, then they probably don't have the licenses to sell food items, and probably their profit margin is higher selling hardware than selling sausages so they have no reason to start offering them.

There's usually a good reason why a business might not offer something that people think they should offer. Usually it is that they can't be profitable enough at a price point which customers will accept.
by MRtecno98 | 2025-07-08 13:06:22+00:00
A human leg isn't designed to be repaired from the outside, it doesn't need replacement parts, it doesn't need external maintenance. It's designed around the maintenance and repair procedures of the human body which are able to fix it in situ and produce new parts on the fly. That allows it to have more freedom of design than a mechanical part that needs to be made from standardized parts in order to be serviced and manufactured.

The limitation is not cognitive, it's a matter of efficiency. We could, if we wanted to, make a lamp with all custom parts with the maximum efficiency possible in the design, but those efficiency gains would be at the cost of extremely difficult manufacturing. It's a tradeoff that the human body can make because it needs to produce only one (or two) legs, while us humans mass manufacture the stuff we make.
by axiologist | 2025-07-08 13:07:22+00:00
»"Problems Have No Sex" is far better than many other feminist books I've read simply because of its lack of academic pretentiousness. Other than the occasional Latin phrase, the book is written in plain English - designed to be read and understood as widely as possible. As an engineer, Dame Haslett has an engineer's approach to problem solving - identify the issue, determine the cause, suggest solutions, investigate what works and what doesn't, repeat until fixed.«
by akrymski | 2025-07-08 13:07:24+00:00
You don't really need to. In IOU systems you extend credit to someone you know, based on ones reputation or credit score. How back in the day your local milk man would just keep a tab of what you owe.

In a way everyone has something to barter: you owe the milk man, your employer owes you. Identities form a web of trust in the physical world.
by Spooky23 | 2025-07-08 13:08:31+00:00
There’s low correlation between success and ability once you hit a baseline.

There’s an element of chance, and stuff like leetcode is just a veneer of science over a vibe based process, which conveniently scopes out management culpability. Personally, I think it’s hilarious that Silicon Valley types have essentially enshrined civil service exams for hiring.
by sillyfluke | 2025-07-08 13:08:53+00:00
>To angst about the first but not the second is the illogical bit to me.

Where are you getting this from, this idea that the ones that are angsting about the first, are not angsting about the second?

pg just recently tweeted about the ludicrousness of the 83 year-old historian (?) getting arrested for holding up a sign in support of Palestian Action, now effectively deemed a terrorist organization in the UK as I understand it.

This post is about the BBC, so the comments are about this specific news about the BBC. The BBC is constrained but not as much as the UK government obviously. It even tries to report objectively on scandals inside the BBC, to what extent it succeeds is always up for debate, as it is in this case debated here.
by madcaptenor | 2025-07-08 13:08:55+00:00
Another game: when is public transport slower than walking?

According to Google Maps it's not in this case - I'm getting a walking time of 14:37 (!), where the "walk" includes a ferry from Weehawken to Manhattan and the Staten Island Ferry. However Google Maps doesn't seem to know you can walk across the Goethals bridge.
by vildoran | 2025-07-08 13:09:12+00:00
It's been a really interesting exercise trying to develop content that's more modern, but for this sort of environment. Lately I've been working on procedurally-generated dungeons (for the sake of replayability) and seeing where we can integrate LLMs into our creative process. In some ways LLMs are great, but it's always pretty obvious a description for something was written by an LLM. If nothing else, it's a nice starting point for that sort of work.
by Bender | 2025-07-08 13:09:52+00:00
When have you stood up for something unpopular?

I do it all the time. That's why I had to disable my view of karma using uBlock rules otherwise it was like watching a stock market ticker.

uBlock preferences -> My Filters

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by megaloblasto | 2025-07-08 13:11:01+00:00
That's fair. I was actually a professional carpenter for a bit too, and you're right, I love touching the wood, sanding it, admiring it, etc. etc. More so then I've ever liked inputting code into an editor.

I do, however, use electric planers, table saws and miter saws, because I want to produce the product fast and efficiently, because the end product still is the goal.

Your point is well taken however.
by aredox | 2025-07-08 13:11:02+00:00
With this kind of argument, nothing ever happens!

>Sickness levels in people working for the NHS is pretty specific and is very likely not to generalise.

"The canary in the coalmine just fainted, but this is pretty specific to canaries and very likely not to generalise to us human coal miners."

Your fundamental mistake is that you think "correlation does not imply causation" when the correct sentence is "correlation does not prove causation" - but it does certainly imply it. That is the job of statistics and experiments to prove it beyond doubt, but it always starts with a correlation that the researchers then dig into.
by whalesalad | 2025-07-08 13:11:34+00:00
I didn't really enjoy reading as a kid until my mom gave me a Michael Crichton book. Then I spent the entire summer going to the library and reading every single book he ever wrote. For this reason, I am a big Jurassic Park fan! I think the movie is great. The Lost World is also decent enough. The newer ones... not so much.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-07-08 13:11:55+00:00
...we all agree that the right pronunciation of "nitch" is "neesh", though, or at least I've never heard a serious argument to the contrary. People just genuinely don't know how to pronounce it because they've only seen it written.

One that still gets me personally is "hyperbole"--I know how it's pronounced but when I read it, I still say "hyper-bowl" in my head more often than not. I don't think I've ever made the mistake while reading out loud to someone yet, but it will likely happen some day and when it does I will feel very stupid.