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by Shank | 2025-09-04 01:04:23+00:00
> I think that in practice the "eventual" reconciliation is fairly quick nowadays. Just that the offline spend can happen quickly, and then the packet gets sent over the wire maybe a minute later rather than before the spend is approved.

This is definitely the case, and it's also "relatively instant" in the happy path. There are cases like vending machines, or during system outages where the reconciliation happens much later, but those instances are definitely becoming rarer!
by CGamesPlay | 2025-09-04 01:04:54+00:00
I like the idea of this and think it could be useful, but I think this version of it isn't the right one.

It looks like you get little to no parameterization of commands. [edit] There is a "description" field for commands, but the recommended way to show command usage is to run an invalid command?[/edit] As it stands, it's a half-baked command runner.

The other main feature is basically grep presets, but they are too limiting. It looks like you can extract lines, but cannot get preceding/following lines, cannot specify a start/end inclusion pattern, or anything like that. Trivial example: I want line starting with "[ERROR]" and all following lines that start with a space (this is a typical log-line-continuation format).

So, maybe when refining this, drop the command runner support entirely and integrate with an existing one. For example, "aex npm test -- tests/foo.test.ts" is a wrapper around that command, and aex now has enough information to select which grep preset to use (the "npm test" one). And then extend what I can actually do with that preset.

Good luck!
by tptacek | 2025-09-04 01:05:30+00:00
Articles like these are frustrating because the mineralization of lead pipes (which prevents contact between water in the service line and the lead in the pipes) is actively managed by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, which is one of the most sophisticated water management agencies in (I think?) the world, and lead in pipes is not a major source of lead exposure in Chicago --- by far the biggest real culprit is paint.

If you want to map lead exposure, map home ages and renovations (and, unfortunately, the soil around the houses, which gets contaminated by the paint over time).

Ironically, for at least a short term after lead service lines are replaced, you're actually at higher risk of exposure --- the process disrupts the mineralization layer in the lines.
by AIPedant | 2025-09-04 01:05:32+00:00
Caves of Qud is quite good, though a bit less traditional in being a big open world vs a dungeon. There a few quirks and bugs but the game is very fun and creative, and it has excellent music. I also love the graphics but it is an acquired taste.

I played the Dwarf Fortress roguelike mode several years ago, and it was really more of a toy - nifty to play around with the mechanics but too dry and arbitrarily difficult to be a fun game. But almost all the dev focus was on fortress management, maybe they’ve spruced up the roguelike with the Steam release.
by tuckerman | 2025-09-04 01:05:58+00:00
I don’t think we should create standards that make it easier for companies to erode user freedoms and I’d support legislation to restrict what certain companies can/can’t do (banks, Google/Apple, etc)

The discussion about what happens in big companies is completely unrelated to this discussion. In that case the company is the user. They can do/enforce whatever they want and nobody is having any freedoms infringed.
by balder1991 | 2025-09-04 01:06:15+00:00
I must have written somewhere that I’m believing these claims once Linux UI becomes as polished as MacOS. Surely if LLMs are outputting this much quality code that shouldn’t take long, right?

Meanwhile I see WhatsApp sunsetting their native clients and making everything a single web-based client. I guess they must not be using LLMs to code if they can’t cope with maintaining the existing codebases, right?
by rtpg | 2025-09-04 01:07:08+00:00
> Apple didn't have a search engine when they created the iPhone, and why would they start? Ever?

I mean Apple Maps happened. Is it the same scale of problem? No, because Street View is harder than search in some sense! In all seriousness it's not the same problem, but it's something.

$20B/year is real money, and I have a very easy time imagining that squashing the idea at all (even if the intent on Google's side is "simply" to maintain dominance, and not squash out competition from Apple specifically)
by kevin_thibedeau | 2025-09-04 01:07:24+00:00
These eels undergo a notable sequence of transformations before their journey back to the sea. It wasn't until the 19th century that science connected the transitions from glass eel (larval form), to elvers, to yellow eel (freshwater adult), to silver eel (ocean spawning) form as members of the same species. Salmon are less mysterious as their spawning could be observed.
by ndiddy | 2025-09-04 01:07:49+00:00
Those are all disassemblies, not the original code (although the original code for 6809 BASIC was recently found, see https://github.com/davidlinsley/DragonBasic). Similarly, the blog post links a version of 6502 BASIC by Michael Steil on Github that's set up to build the BASIC ROMs for a variety of computers, but that appears to be based on a disassembly rather than the original code as well. Here's a random bit of code (the code handling processing a FOR statement) from Microsoft's repo, vs. the same code from Steil's repo: https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M6502/blob/main/m6502.asm... https://github.com/mist64/msbasic/blob/master/flow1.s#L3
by stevejb | 2025-09-04 01:08:10+00:00
> "Blue text, while also a widely recognizable clickable-text indicator, is crass and distracting. Luckily, it is also rendered unnecessary by the use of underlining."

Can someone explain this to me? I don't get the 'crass' part of it. I find that having different colors for things really helps me parse things quickly. By removing the color dimension from the equation, it seems to make it more difficult to know what is what.
by jjk166 | 2025-09-04 01:08:54+00:00
Any economic data from between 2020 and 2025 should be tossed in the garbage. We will have no idea what affect AI has or hasn't had until AI has been available outside of the extremely confounded current circumstances. Tell me how employment looks after the next recession when the after effects of the pandemic, rapid inflation, interest rate unpredictability, and tariff whiplash are hopefully all behind us.
by antonvs | 2025-09-04 01:09:23+00:00
You seem to be thinking about empathy, concern for human welfare, or some other property - "emotional intelligence", perhaps.

I'm talking about the kind of intelligence that supports excellence in subjects like mathematics, coding, logic, reading comprehension, writing, and so on.

That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with concern for human welfare. Despite all the talk about alignment, the companies building these models are focusing on their utility, and you're always going to be able to find some way in which the models say things which a sane and compassionate human wouldn't say.

In fact, it's probably a pity that "chatbot" was the first application they could think of, since the real strengths of these models - the functional intelligence they exhibit - lie elsewhere.
by BugsJustFindMe | 2025-09-04 01:09:37+00:00
> Well I agree and understand that herd immunity exists and it protects the small number of kids who can’t get the vaccine for whatever reason.

You need to understand that herd immunization actually helps everyone, not just some small number of children who can't get vaccinated, because even the best vaccines don't offer 100% protection.

Your odds of getting sick are based on the odds that other people around you are contagious. That much should be extremely obvious, because every encounter with a contagion rolls the dice again.

What's less obvious is how much that matters because math is hard. Even if you have 95% immunity to some infectious disease, your probability of getting it at least once after 10 exposures is a whopping 40% (1 - 0.95^10). Everyone's protection, yours included, comes from reducing your chances of being unwittingly exposed because the people around you aren't getting sick, and that means vaccinating them too. When one person gets sick, everyone around them is put at increased risk. The way you fix that for everyone is by making it less likely that any member of the herd gets sick from any given exposure.
by anigbrowl | 2025-09-04 01:09:39+00:00
There's a whole lot of virtual knob UX literature derived from synthesizer/effect plugin UIs. The main question I see with this is 'how does the system know what sort of knob you want to turn?' or conversely 'how does the user know what knobs are available without a knobby user interface?'

My hunch is that you'll find most non-technical users don't like highly skeuomorphic interfaces and prefer dropdown pickers and linear controls like faders, plus not too many of them. People who do like them like them a lot, but past a certain point we buy hardware with actual knobs or other physical controls.
by lovich | 2025-09-04 01:10:42+00:00
I’m not young or new to the industry. Not every place is this bad but it’s still highly common to get asked questions that seek to test out how many algorithms you’ve memorized.

This is not 500k/yr jobs but 150-250k year jobs where companies try to ape the practices of mag7 but fail at it because they are unwilling to implement fundamental aspects of those processes.

I also(until this current economy, lol) didn’t really ever have a problem crossing this barrier and getting jobs. But I still hate the extra effort needed and the extra hours of my personal life I have to sacrifice to brush up on or keep up to date on skills that the employers have, in my experience, never once had me use or even worse, blocked my efforts on working on tasks that would make use of the skill.

I grin and bear it because the moneys worth it but I think it’s inefficient posturing done to filter out social classes at this point, like how unpaid internships are used in the finance field
by pdonis | 2025-09-04 01:10:52+00:00
> A free market that you or I might define requires safeguards like a social welfare net to make sure individuals are truly free to decline an offer that is harmful to them.

That depends on how the safeguards are implemented. If they are implemented through coercive taxation, you don't have a free market, because people don't have the right to refuse to pay taxes, even if they disagree with how the money will be used.

> Without such a welfare net one is compelled to accept an offer that is harmful (to one's health, morality, etc.) because the alternative is to lose your dignity and all of your belongings, or worse.

Can you give an example?

> the owning class

What you're saying here is something different from what you said above. The problem you're now pointing to is not that rich people have power because they're rich, but that they have power because own too much other than just money. For example, they might own all the housing in the area you want to live in, so you either have to look elsewhere or accept renting on whatever terms they offer.

The solution for that isn't a "social welfare net". It's to restrict how much non-monetary property a rich person can own. And also to make it easier for people who aren't rich to own more things--for example, to own homes.

By the way, your use of the term "owning class" implies that ownership is somehow a bad thing, or that it's naturally restricted to a certain class of people. But that's not how things should be. Ownership gives you control. For example, if you own the home you live in, you're much better protected from various possible bad things forcing you to move, than if you rent. But that also means people need to be willing to accept the responsibilities that come with ownership. It appears that many people in our current society aren't--but they also don't want to accept the tradeoffs of giving up ownership. That's not a stable situation. You can't get something for nothing. And the best "safety net" a person can have is to own as many of the things they depend on as possible.
by Shank | 2025-09-04 01:11:21+00:00
> I believe there is a less limited suica card you can get (not a traveler), but I think you need a japanese address.

You don’t need a Japanese address. Simply visit any Suica vending machine, change the language to English, and purchase anonymous Suica.

There are various preloaded options you can purchase, but typically you cannot recharge e-money via cash.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-04 01:11:53+00:00
>Render on a normal pipeline (maybe with no lighting model at all), then put it through a style transfer network.

in 16ms? We keep needing higher resolutions to render to, so I doubt we'll ever have the budget to fit this kind of thing in.

Also, if Toon Shading is crap, this is completely unusable, even as a prototype. The present is being stripped away so it's a bit tiring talking about "the future". Let's actually secure it first.
by duxup | 2025-09-04 01:11:57+00:00
I feel like this is less likely a serious tech related evaluation / advice as it is just nationalist goading.

Granted with any leadership ... never know what these guys might do when it comes to "I do what I want, I'm in charge" when it comes to security.

I knew some guys in the US military who did communications and they said a lot of rules got broken because some high ranking moron didn't want to have to walk over to the secure area to do their thing ...
by cyberax | 2025-09-04 01:12:03+00:00
My experience: we're hiring for an AI engineer position and for a frontend developer position (and yes, we posted our positions here on Hackernews).

We have a stream of cookie-cutter candidates. As if they are clones of each other, it's uncanny. They typically have a BS degree in some foreign university, then a CS Masters' in the US, experience with robotics, then several years of experience in large companies.

And they completely fold during in-person coding tasks. Like, not being able to explain the difference between DFS and BFS (depth/breadth-first search). Or being able to write a simple custom metric and train a network in Pytorch.

And a similar story for the frontend developer position.

We now literally have to add more filters to not get inundated by underqualified candidates. These filters will make it harder for beginners to even _get_ to the resume review stage.

No conclusions from me, but something's been broken in the CS jobs market for a while.
by heisenzombie | 2025-09-04 01:12:34+00:00
I also was impressed at Chris Borge's lathe build:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Js8erWbsDQ

It's small and kind of underpowered, but not useless! The central idea is to 3D print shells that hold metal parts and are then filled with concrete for rigidity and mass. Quite clever, I think.
by pdonis | 2025-09-04 01:14:02+00:00
> unregulated market

A free market is not unregulated. It's regulated by the voluntary choices of all market participants.

The alternative is to have the market regulated by those who aren't participants--i.e., who have no skin in the game and who suffer no consequences if the regulations are bad. That's basically the situation we have now. Anyone who thinks that's a good thing isn't living on the same planet as I am.

> will be quickly monopolized by a biggest player

The claim that this is a problem of free markets, as opposed to non-free ones, is historically false. Virtually all monopolies, historically, have been due to government intervention in markets to give special privileges to certain players. THe original meaning of the word "monopoly" was permission from the king to be the sole seller of a particular product or service.
by breuleux | 2025-09-04 01:16:01+00:00
> So it makes me wonder, is embodiment (advanced robotics) 1000x harder than LLMs from an information processing perspective?

Essentially, yes, but I would go further in saying that embodiment is harder than intelligence in and of itself.

I would argue that intelligence is a very simple and primitive mechanism compared to the evolved animal body, and the effectiveness of our own intelligence is circumstantial. We manage to dominate the world mainly by using brute force to simplify our environment and then maintaining and building systems on top of that simplified environment. If we didn't have the proper tools to selectively ablate our environment's complexity, the combinatorial explosion of factors would be too much to model and our intelligence would be of limited usefulness.

And that's what we see with LLMs: I think they model relatively faithfully what, say, separates humans from chimps, but it lacks the animal library of innate world understanding which is supposed to ground intellect and stop it from hallucinating nonsense. It's trained on human language, which is basically the shadows in Plato's cave. It's very good at tasks that operate in that shadow world, like writing emails, or programming, or writing trite stories, but most of our understanding of the world isn't encoded in language, except very very implicitly, which is not enough.

What trips us up here is that we find language-related tasks difficult, but that's likely because the ability evolved recently, not because they are intrinsically difficult (likewise, we find mental arithmetic difficult, but it not intrinsically so). As it turns out, language is simple. Programming is simple. I expect that logic and reasoning are also simple. The evolved animal primitives that actually interface with the real world, on the other hand, appear to be much more complicated (but time will tell).
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-04 01:16:37+00:00
> Its not obvious to me if OpenAI/Anthropic will become competitors to coding startups like Cursor or continue to be model providers.

They’ll do both: continue to be model providers while also leveraging their position as model providers to own as many of the valauble markets in which models are used as possible. Kind of like Amazon and its role as both infrastructure provider and direct competitors to other sellers (on the shopping/logistics side) and SaaS vendors (on the AWS side).
by Onawa | 2025-09-04 01:16:51+00:00
It doesn't completely solve this problem but definitely helps to have something like context7 MCP server running that `Copilot et al.` can reach dramatically reduces hallucinations for most tools. And additionally I've used Continue.dev VSCode along with manually specified docs and guides that you can selectively inject into your context. Both of those tactics make a huge difference in answer quality.
by nanark | 2025-09-04 01:17:53+00:00
(author here) in a way, yes. you can see how I start with a god-mode euphoria, and slowly realise the vibe is mostly for boilerplates, and very (very) basic tasks.

"I freestyled with absolutely zero planification, and I'm paying the cost now as the product inches toward a production-ready form."

I'd say it helped me transition back into building, and even tho it can be (extremely) painful at times, I still enjoy ‘coding’ this way. These days I probably decide on and closely monitor 95% of the backend (and I'd probably be much faster coding some parts myself), but I still let Claude handle about 80% of the React bullshit I hate.
by worik | 2025-09-04 01:17:53+00:00
Look up The Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly. Or The King, the Mice and his Cheese

What you propose makes things worse, not better

LLMs are magnificent tools, but there needs to be a human hand holding them.

Nothing I have seen anywhere, yet, challenges my view that "agents" will not be a good idea until we have better technology, that there is no sign of yet (?), than LLMs.
by inkyoto | 2025-09-04 01:18:06+00:00
I would say it is a niche solution that solves a specific problem.

Modern data sources increasingly lean towards and produce nested and deeply nested semi-structured datasets (i.e. JSON) that are heavily denormalised and rely on organisation-wide entity ID's rather than system-generated referential integrity ID's (PK and FK ID's). That is a reason why modern data warehouse products (e.g. Redshift) have added extensive support for the nested data processing – because it neither makes sense to flatten/un-nest the nested data nor is it easy to do anyway.
by beeflet | 2025-09-04 01:18:20+00:00
The necessity of making change is major usability/privacy/fungibility roadblock that shows up in more than just cash. For example, it presents a problem for chaumian e-cash or other private money systems like pre-MLSAG monero.

If it's possible to do the equivalent of cash, but with some sort of smartcards that exchange some sort of offline zero-knowlege proofs, then that would be preferable over physical cash, because it could eliminate the need for change or marked bills and it would be even more private.
by dwd | 2025-09-04 01:18:44+00:00
Anil Seth recently wrote a book "Being You", which very much states that we can only know what it is like to be ourselves.

Basically, to know what it is like to be a bat, you need to have evolved as a bat.

His theory that our perception is a hallucination generated by a prediction algorithm that uses sensory input to update and correct the hallucination is very interesting.
by geye1234 | 2025-09-04 01:19:37+00:00
Here's something I posted a while ago, I'm copying and pasting with a few slight edits:

It is wrong to claim that brain states (neurons firing) are the same as mental states (thoughts). There are several reasons for this. One is that reducing thoughts to brain states means a thought cannot be correct or incorrect. For example, one series of mental states leads to the thought "2+2=4"; another series leads to the thought "2+2=5". The correctness of the former and the wrongness of the latter refers only to the thought's content, not the physical brain state. If thoughts are nothing more than brain states, it's meaningless to say that one thought is correct -- that is to say, it's a thought that conforms to reality -- and that the other is incorrect. A particular state of neurons and chemicals cannot per se be incorrect or incorrect. If one thought is right (about reality) and another thought is wrong (not about reality), then there must be aspects of thought that are distinct from the physical state of the brain.

If it's meaningless to say that one thought is correct and another is incorrect, then of course nothing we think or say has any connection to reality. Hence the existence of this disagreement, along with the belief that one of us is right and the other wrong, presupposes that the physicalist position is wrong.
by omegacharlie | 2025-09-04 01:20:36+00:00
Might be time to reconsider. Canon are (supposedly) not planning any further flagship DSLRs and I see little wrong with modifying your own property.

Independent of that: how dangerous is ML dev to the cameras themselves (in terms of brick potential)? Permanently bricking a camera in the price range of the 1DX is not exactly my idea of a good time. :-)
by jamii | 2025-09-04 01:20:39+00:00
I made a stupid simple model where hiring in all age brackets rose slowly until 2021 and then fell slowly. That produces very similar looking graphs, because the many engineers that were hired at the peak move up the demographic curve over time. Normalizing the graph to 2022 levels, as the paper seems to do, hides the fact that the actual hiring ratios didn't change at all.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z0l0rNebCTVWLk77_7HA...