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Ask HN: AI’s Silver Lining for Software?
I have been pondering for years about the potential to bring more kinds of people into the software development industry through division of labor. It seems to me that we may be on the verge of being able to make this happen. What are your thoughts?
I actually find their Goggles [0] feature really interesting.

[0] https://search.brave.com/help/goggles
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For me (I was still a pilot at the time), the camp I lived in was a bit like a more professional version of a belter colony from the Expanse with the exterior vibe of The Thing (without the aliens). Very industrial? And going outside was akin to going through and airlock and putting a spacesuit on.

The bedrooms were spartan but comfy, the internet was tolerably fast but still much slower than at home, and the meals were all communal.

Basically (and ironically) it was the closest to living under communism I’ve ever been exposed to in my life. It was kind of stifling from a “personal freedom” standpoint - even in the summer you couldn’t just go walk around on the tundra - but it was very cool to be a part of it all, and the job was fun and challenging.

What do you want to know? Accommodations were nice and after my hitch I got lots of time off. 10/10 would recommend.
If the John Deere engineers understand those systems so well, then they could design their products in ways that the farmers could repair the products for common use cases. They are intentionally designing the products to prevent that. That's the whole problem.
They are for user-facing queries, where performance counts.
> Scrubs has several different versions of music

Is there a list of the differences somewhere? I remember that show having a very good soundtrack.
I'm a screenwriter and my focus is on character NO MATTER WHAT. We watch movies because we love the characters inside the plot, inside the universe, and how they relate to each other. CHARACTER is the CORE DRIVER of all stories, be it the story of Beowulf or Star Wars or Succession. Period.

Today, I am fortunate enough to be developing 'characters' and backstories for AI companies, and I think its working; the new prototypes I've been working on really feel more warm (or more logical, or more relatable, or more philosophical, depending on what we're trying to transmit).

I think a lot of AI companies are really missing this important point, and I think Apple, of all companies, should have got this!
Good luck keeping that up with a partner and/or actual responsibilities like taking care of aging family.

Don’t want a partner? Sure.. we’ll hear from you in a few years. Probably complaining how they are hard to find.

I say go for it. You are young, this means nothing. If you were 40 I would be impressed.

Not only will age slow you down, but you will also care a lot less. Why work yourself to death? Oh, you’ll have some snappy answer now, but again, let’s talk in 5-10 years.

Edit: I came off way too negative. Sorry. I feel like talking you out of this because this lifestyle has consequences. But it is your life, go for it! Sorry about the neg.
And you can customize it using goggles.
As it happens I've just finished reading Irena Grudzińska Gross's Custine, Tocqueville, and the Romantic Imagination [1], half of it being devoted to Tocqueville and his journey to the United States. The part that touches on him and his friend Gustave de Beaumont visiting Lake Oneida and especially the deeply forested Frenchman Island located there was really illuminating. I highly recommend the entire book (the first part on Custine and his travels into Russia also deserves an entire article all by itself, probably even more so).

[1] https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft3b69...
siri definitely has multiple timers. BUT you can only have two though and it only works on Apple Watch and HomePods.

I know, right?

Also a little known hack to set a timer you don’t have to say the whole thing just press the Siri button or say hey siri ‘n minutes’ and it will set a timer for n minutes.
The company is gone, but the open source project lives on. We still use it in production.
What really blows is this has been a concern for at least 15 years:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11819-oral-sex-can-ca...
I'm not gonna judge the author, but it's quite distant from the perfect life I'd imagine, personally I wouldn't trade my health for 2 more lines of code.
FOSS tool to estimate GPU-based DNN training time and costs
DeepView.Predict - FOSS tool developed by CentML that predicts a deep neural network's training iteration execution time on a variety of GPUs. Know your model training costs before running it !
> I'm not pointing out folks with disabilities. I'm talking about perfectly healthy adults who seem to have no sense of awareness around them.

Careful. It's easy to overlook disabilities that may not be immediately externally visible.

I have a friend who's heavily dyslexic. You'd never know it if you ran into her on the street; she's quite successful in her career. Yet she uses voice dictation when sending text messages because it's an order of magnitude less time and cognitive effort for her to write something out that way.

I tend to think the world would be a better place if we were all just a little bit less judgemental of things we see others doing that we can't immediately explain.
There's an interesting Twitter thread about that topic here: https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1651256082424012806

Based on that thread it sounds like only AWS guarantees that their AZs are in physically separate DCs, while for Google and Microsoft AZs could be in separate buildings of the same DC facility.
Can you give a good example of a market problem that can’t be solved through increased competition?
It works on watch and HomePod only.
That would do wonders for some open source projects that need janitorial tasks.
Because I think Delphi is a better choice if you want to program a desktop application with design time support and a decent nested grid.
I admire the author. He seems to have the focus, work ethic, and vision of someone ten years older. However, I think the thing to realize is this lifestyle necessitates a healthy existence: physical health, financially healthy, healthy relationships with friends and family, a healthy mental state.

Don't take those for granted. As you get older they require more investment in order to sustain you. I'm only 41 and it already feels like properly taking care of myself is at least 10h/week (workouts + cooking healthy food) atop of 8h/day of sleep.

I think the thing I'd be most concerned about is the large amount of time spent on-keyboard and RSI.
It’s been that way ever since it because a vehicle for undemocratically pushing through laws that you can’t achieve democratically. It won’t stop being political unless it stops being an alternative to getting a majority of the vote for your preferred policies.
Worth noting GAA was suppose to come in N3, and Backside Power Delivery was originally scheduled for N2. So both feature got delayed and we end up with a fine tuned N3E. ( We could safely ignore N3.)

As with TSMC tradition we should see a fine tuned, cost reduction of N2P in 2027/2028. That is when all the mainstream products could enjoy those features.
as a brave user on my personal devices its nice to see that theyre continually working towards independence. brave browser with brave search has worked fine for me, i barely notice the difference having switched from chrome/google.
What is the benefit of having it closed source?

My view is that Datomic is a novel upstart in the persistence space. Most of their competition - Postgres, Mongo, Cassandra - is open-source, so they're just shooting themselves in the foot. The "pay us extra for convenient hosting and consulting" model isn't threatened by open-source in the slightest.

The only thing I can think of is that they're trying to compete with Oracle/Db2/SQL server, but I can't imagine an enterprise eyeing any of those solutions ever giving Datomic a chance.
sounds like they're not releasing the source code, just the binaries, even though the binaries are under the apache license

so, less than useful if you want to study and modify datomic; you may have the legal "right to repair" but not the practical possibility
Let's the servers cool down for sometime. Might have been working very hard.
One thing I really struggle is with iterating GPT to get it where I want. It always end up with "As an AI....".
This seems to significantly under-report what's going on, see:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/26/google_cloud_outage/

There is mention of a fire as well.
Not all programming is the same.

I have work and personal coding. And even in those, I have several projects under each category. In C#, python, Javascript, Swift, old-school C/C++, etc. Games, websites, CRUD apps, various "toys", etc. Stuff that is in maintenance, being designed, building infrastructure, implementing, etc.

If one thing bothers me, I move to something else. If I'm grooving on something, I keep at it.

Now, I don't have the time to dedicate to it like this guy does. Having other people put demands on your time does that. Last night, I had to finish playing Mario+Rabbids: Sparks of Hope, because our son thinks I'm his personal on-demand Twitch stream.

But when I was kicking it by myself, yeah, that's how I'd do. I think the key is removing the obligation for a large part of it. At any point while I was "casually" programming outside of school/work, I could stop. I could go and play video games, or watch a movie, or hang out with friends. I had the choice. The only pressure to finish any piece of code was the pressure of being close to being done with it.
Dutch is really close in compound word creation. Hottentottententententoonstelling : Exposition of the tents of the Hottentot people.

What I really like in English is how they verb nearly everything, especially nouns.

Where I cringe at, is Dutch and German pronunciation of English. There are very few non native English people with perfect pronunciation. European commissionary Frans Timmermans (who had his education in Belgium) and vrt journalist Johny Vansevant, who both have perfect British English pronunciation (Received pronunciation). Kim Clijsters speaks near perfect General American (but she lives there and has an American husband). I like Greta Thunberg's command and richness of vocabulary and grammar despite the accent.

I'm making a conscious effort to speak General American and follow a few youtube channels to get better all the time.
> 1 could be fixed by using a tokenizer that only splits at syllable boundaries

Maybe? Wouldn't that require the tokenizer to understand the word's usage in context of the surrounding text, or even worse, dialects?

What do you do with "fire" or "laboratory" or, god help us, "nuclear"?
Nothing really, but I'm not sure its a big priority for them. Since it's software sold to Universities it's pretty risky for them to do that since it's very hard to stop cheating and so forth with the AI. Also, adding things like Quiz prep, and other features would make it much harder to copy.
I wonder what would happen if the copyright for images generated by the AI were assigned to a corporation...which is the equivalent of an individual.
> I feel the only time wasted has been in trying to police comments on a comment thread eliciting uncurated information.

I disagree. I don't think anyone has tried to police anything here. I sent you down the best path to get the information you wanted quickly, and I was the first one to reply to your question. You're welcome. Have a nice day.
Civil War -> end of slavery

Civil rights movement -> equality under the law of all Americans (with later protections under affirmative action actually giving minorities a modest advantage in some situtions)

What hoped for outcome is being sought now? "Give me money because things aren't fair" isn't a change in law or status, it's grievance politics that has no logical end.

Disparate outcomes aren't proof of social injustice; disparate outcomes are proof of disparate behavior.
That other challenge is called "John Deere's moat: market entrenchment via dealership/service center network."

Agriculture is very time-of-year dependent. Waiting a few weeks for spare parts can be devastating to annual revenue.
You got some strangely heated responses to this, but I just wanted to say I share your boat. Its nice to see real pics as an adult now of it all. Also, my trip to Phobos and Deimos was, you could say, hellish. 11/10, would rip and tear again.
... They seek meaning and joy in a Stakhanovite desire to be “really useful engines”. The great trick of Sir Topham is to employ engines who essentially evoke the image of the New Soviet man in the service of a proto-capitalist, semi-feudal enterprise.

Like startups who want their employees to be "passionate" about the business. Even if it's a banal business.
“SpaceX's Texas Rocket Caused a Big Mess – What's Next?”
SpaceX, and CEO Elon Musk, immediately declared the mission a success since the incredibly low bar of not blowing up on the pad had been surpassed. NASA administrator Bill Nelson Tweeted approvingly, and several bloggers declared the mission a successful first try, yielding great data.

I’m not a rocket scientist, so I’ll save the commentary on the value of iterative development for others.

But the immediate claims of “MISSION SUCCESS” rang hollow nearly immediately as it was abundantly clear that not all was well on the ground.
How much they pay for GPU use ?
That's fine. They're 28. I also wrote a lot of code in my 20s and was pretty happy.

Turned out that I only enjoyed writing so much code because I hadn't discovered things that would ultimately be more fulfilling to me, like developing a real social life and meeting better women. And once I developed a better balance because of that, I also discovered I liked to write, go on runs, listen to audiobooks, cooking, live on a beach, surfing, idk—all sorts of things.

It's just the ebb and flow of life and self discovery. They're at the age where these things started to change for me. But it's a good sign that they are trying to convince themself with this sort of post—the crack is forming. ;)
> Also - I'm guessing you haven't started the transition to USB-C yet?

Shit, not more painful than nearly everything else. You're gonna need a USB-A/C hub anyway, unless you only use very new equipment and you've gone out of your way (and, not infrequently, spent more money) to make sure you get C instead of A versions of everything—lots of A devices still being sold.

If not for current-generation console video game controllers, I'd still have almost nothing in my house that natively uses C, aside from Macbooks and one newish iPad.

(However, I am, like you, a tad scandalized at the notion of favoring flash drives over network sync of some sort—I'm a luddite in a lot of ways, but god do I not miss losing flash drives, having them mysteriously fail in 6-24 months of light use [even the good brands! If anything, that part's worse now than it used to be], the "whoops, forgot to copy the file", not being able to have any of the stuff unless you physically have it with you, "let me just print this from my phone—oh, right, I don't have an adapter to plug a USB stick into it", et c. A bunch of extra stress and fiddling, to gain... ???)
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Yeah, but they don’t do a semantic correction. LLM are extraordinarily more powerful than HMM.
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When you revise the works of societies of the past, you are destroying the last remnants of their existence. It is a form of erasure. One has to think how this impacts people of the present day. Why should I commit my life and dedication to the work of art if it is to be revisioned and potentially condemned for all eternity? I'd rather die unknown than to have my art become bastardized by future revisionists. This gets to the heart of other matters. Why should one do anything great or noble for their society when there is an interest of future societies to revise who you were and what you did and, again, potentially condemn you for all eternity.
Scientists combine both x-ray and satellite data for environmental forensics
I also use it in a limited way and it's fairly successful. Just homekit turn on turn off and set scenes.

However I have one frustrating bug with shortcuts that sends me over the moon. I have a little shortcut that just sends a simple text message when i say 'Hey siri, Sweetie' about 20% of the time siri comes back telling me about musical artist sweetie... it's braindead.
Can you elaborate on "really well"? Because a few weeks of testing and "really well" versus the claim of reducing costly mistakes on the marketing blurb whilst simultaneously acknowledging hallucination doesn't inspire confidence.

I'd be interested to know a lot more about testing methodology too. A hallucination could be a much more expensive problem than someone simply making a basic mistake that someone might otherwise catch if they were doing things the usual way.

Not trying to be obstinate, genuinely interested, but sceptical as my experience of ChatGPT has been very negative due to hallucinations, to the point that I find that the marketing materials sound far too good to be true versus the comment here, which seems much more grounded.
Do you actually use google assistant?

The grass ain’t greener, it is rubbish too.
This is an odd comment in my opinion. Do you work at John Deere? I ask only because you say you are familiar with their testing environment. I don't think your horror scenario is realistic. How many farms are located in a neighborhood? If a farmer destroys property they are probably liable. I don't think John Deere is restricting repairs to protect random property damage since since I've never heard of that happening before.
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/448738a9ae9b4a5b9a647cb29ea...
It's very simple to do, for example via taxes, or by building the roads such that huge cars are impractical. You find very few F150s on twisty narrow Italian roads.
Any problem involving externalities rather than monopoly.
Could you please tell us the reason why any productive individual would remain in the UK in that case unless being violently threatened? Why wouldn't they follow in the foot steps of their brethren to America, Australia or anywhere else?
Talks shows and COPS largely preyed on the post-industrial American working class, bereft of opportunity, and gave the mass of socially conservative, a band that crosses party lines, an anchor for their anxiety of the growing plurality of identity.
Depends a lot on what the goal is to create, their corpus though probably doesn't have the kind of material people really want for AI art though. That's more on places like DeviantArt or ArtStation.
Excited to finally document and share Styles with ya'll. Iterate.World is a multiplayer AI image generator and Styles are the key collaboration mechanism. Essentially they're shared macros (in a global namespace ) that you can apply to your prompts. They stuff your prompt with keywords before submitting them to the image model (e.g. DALL-E or Stable Diffusion). Thanks for checking it out and lemme know if you have questions.

Here's one of my favorites:
https://iterate.world/styles/fp1
"No regret" -- its easier said than done. Dying is one thing, but accumulating 10 different health conditions for life is not going to be pleasant, and will potentially give lot of time to start regretting.

People are free to do whatever they want, but doesn't mean people can't express their opinion on that.
Stephan Kinsella makes a great case that the only reason we have a concept of "Fair Use" is that copyright law is so moronic that people would revolt if they didn't water it down a bit.

He also makes the case that it strongly undercuts the term "Intellectual Property". If I can make "Fair Use" of your book, why not your bed or your house?

https://www.stephankinsella.com/paf-podcast/kol236-intellect...
ag machinery has generational life spans, they aren't laptops or even lawn mowers.

would you buy the from the start up who pinky promises to always let you repair it, or the incumbent who is annoying to work with but has existed your entire life and will after you die?
Why on earth would you call this "copilot" when GitHub has already long established that as a name in this space? :I
Change in air quality by US metro area, 2015 to 2021
Failed startups lol
I dont understand why he posted about this? He knows it's divisive. Is it a humble brag because he views himself as different? It seems like he's okay with it. Why tell anyone?
Usually the maintenance on brand new cars for the first 36k miles (typical lease term) is minimal. Like a few oil changes and tire rotations minimal so ~$500 or so over 3 years. The dealer may include some of that anyhow, lease or loan. So comparing a lease vs. loan of the same exact vehicle for maintenance costs isn't terribly helpful in the short term. The items that will need frequent maintenance are your brakes and tires. I've had 2 leased cars need tires before turning in the lease (there's tire tread depth requirements for lease turn-in). In one case I bought used tires cheaply ($100) that barely met the requirement and turned it in since new tires were like $800 or so.

Leasing is a good option for cars where the brand is known for really expensive repairs (i.e. luxury or German made) and you want to try out that brand for 2-3 years and have zero strings attached at the end if you don't like it. If you have a budget of $X per month and just want to always have a car under warranty and maintenance covered then leasing will give you that peace of mind, at an added cost.

Your key things at lease end that will cost you are scratches, paint or fabric issues larger than a credit card/dollar bill (depends on lease), tire tread depth and mileage over the lease terms.

Long term maintenance for higher quality cars is going to make the total cost of ownership of a car be much cheaper than leasing. Pick a right sized Toyota, take a loan out and do all the scheduled maintenance at the right times and you could easily see that car get 200k miles before larger issues happen.
Yeah, it’s gross.
Have not seen the series yet, but looking forward to it! Currently reading through the books (book 6 atm) and want to finish the book series prior to starting the Prime series. :)
Its callous, not stupid. Consider whether those individuals best work (nobel prize granting e.g.) came before or after they started families. Consider how involved they can be with their families given how often you likely saw them around the department. Yes, it can be done. But its hard. And you're unlikely to be ultra successful if you devote the time your family deserves (not to mention the luck/charisma/skill/dedication needed on top of that).
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I don't understand this. Sao Paulo is mostly indistinguishable from any large city in the US. Big concrete-and-glass buildings city centre, lots of traffic-related infrastructure, large swaths of residential areas including richer suburbs and poorer ghettos ('favelas', in Brazil). Are there any large cities that do not conform to this formula?

What are you referring to, specifically?

The only thing that comes to mind are the homeless population, but then again you could say the same problem (and at arguably larger scale) afflicts San Francisco or New York.

Sao Paulo is not even particularly violent, too