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That outlook depends what you think programmers do...

Is it the act of writing code or is it creating things? I often wonder this when the threads discussing raw typing speed come up, or the "extra typing" involved in optional curly braces. Even today, without LLMs, only 20% or less of my work is writing actual code. Requirements/research, designing, optimizing, testing, etc make up the lion's share.

So you take out that 20%, I'll be more productive, but my work doesn't change.
> Lower prices for consumers is not the whole point of a competitive market.

You are 40 years behind on the modern day interpretations of the anti-trust laws by the courts then.

An analysis of how much consumers benefit or are harmed by certain behavior is what the courts use for most anti-trust laws.

And lower prices are almost the court decided definition of a consumer benefit.

So yes, the point stands.

Someone else was complaining about competitors being undercut, and I responded by saying that actually lower prices are good and this is what our anti-trust laws are trying to promote, not stop.
Have you seen this:

https://www.visor.com/shop

Disclosure, I'm an investor. But I share this as a fellow technologist who just bought one.

It's meant for working in VR/AR so it only ties to computers, but it might still work for you.
The problem with shareholders as the ruling class of an organization is that they are prima facie incapable of having a vision, projecting it, and marshalling the resources to make it a reality. Because they act as a crowd, they can only converge on their common interest, which is profit. When the shareholders have their way, a profitable venture and it's customers are min-maxed for share values until the enterprise is left a pile of rubble
> You don't have Desktop Linux that blows everything else out of the water because that would require investors to stake a lot of money doing these things, which they will only do if there is profit.

I think this illustrates what I believe you get backwards well. It's not that getting good quality and concise software requires traditional investors and a centralised force of vision. It's because doing software in general but specially desktops is hard.

I think Linux is not what it is despite investment, I think it is what it is because of it. Look at Windows and Mac, they show that they listen and develop their products with users in mind just as far as the market and investors let them. They will otherwise push anti-consumer features (like ads in the start menu) without even batting an eye.

This belief that profit drives innovation is just silly. Profit drives profit, innovation and competition are accidents. In a world with Googles and Amazons, Microsofts and Teslas, I am really baffled that it isn't clearer for us in tech that this is exactly like this.

The state of Linux and opensource in general, flourishing for decades is a living testament to that. Opensource is not only moral, it is the practice that we know to be the most sustainable and resilient in the long run.

I feel compelled to write, though, that even though I frame profit in this bad light, they are only so when the they are the ultimate goal of your product. What countless enterprises are enabled by Linux and OSS initiatives? What vast amounts of money flow only because Foss and OSS are the way they are?
> Isn't that itself the province of an LLM?

It is! The steps are:

1. Take a bunch of text, run it through an LLM in embedding mode. The LLM turns the text into a vector. If the text is longer than the LLM context window, chunk it.

2. Store the vector in a vector DB.

3. Use the LLM to generate a vector of your question.

4. Query the vectordb for all similar vectors (that fit in the context window)

5. Get the text from all those vectors. Concatenate the text with the question from step 3.

6. Step 5 is your prompt. The LLM can now answer your question with a collection of similar/relevant text already provided to the LLM in the context window along with your question.
I just bought a little mechanical keypad kit off alliexpress, nice alu case, bluetooth... I drag it down when I need it, which is mostly for when I'm doing CAD.
When I see something like this the first thing I think is “what sinister thing is disguised as harmless accessory?”

The proven benefit for meta outweighs any potential I might be sold.
Except that overlooks Amazons intentionally messed up search function. Amazon, unlike grocery stores, doesn't really put all of the items into the same location.

On amazon, if you want to browse "electric bike tires with motors" you will have to browse through dozens of full electric bikes, electric scooters, hoverboards, tires without motors, tricycles, and all sorts of close but not quite what you're looking for items to find 1 that you might be interested in.

Want to price shop them? Good luck finding others to compare with.

It would be like looking for a 5 lb bag of white sugar in the grocery store so you go to the sugar isle and finding 1 half pound bag of brown sugar amongst all of the flour and seasonings and honey and agave nectar and sweet n low in the first 100 feet.

Any grocery store organized like that would fail and be replaced by a company with decent organizational flow.

But amazon makes money by charging the vendors on its market for visibility, in addition to listing fees, storage fees, and whatever else.

Amazon has a perverse incentive to not show you, the customer, what you are looking for when there is anything else close enough to what you are looking for that they will make more money for selling to you.

There isn't a better word than evil for this, even if it is the benign sort of evil that only added to the chaos and misery of the world without directly harming anyone.
Function Composition in Programming Languages [video]
Our team has just started to use this a bit more and I really liked the .insomnia dir in our projects. This is pretty sad as we've seen this path with Postman - I ~~thought~~ hoped that since Kong had plenty of other viable revenue streams that Insomnia would stay out of this nonsense. Disappointing.
I think his prose quality varies widely from work to work. Typically it's not great. In Atrocity Exhibition it's beyond bland, though--almost bureaucratic in its mechanical periphrases, repetitive, clinical and bizarre. I can't imagine that's not intentional. And Crash, if you can stomach it, is outright pungent. At times it reads like an airport novel, at other points it's hallucinatory. Most of the rest is written indifferently, interesting for the ideas but not the writing.
It was a month or so that I heared of Insomnia, when we were looking for easier alternatives to Postman, which is much further down the VC-funded, "gotta monetise those users" trajectory.

But they're trying to catch up, maybe?
What I'm saying is that people have been living close to their friends and relatives since there have been human societies, as a rule. That has been the default for humans. It's the last hundred and fifty years or so in which that changed, and maybe especially the last few decades. It'd be like if people started sleeping during the daylight, and then somebody said "hey, I just realized there are benefits to sleeping at night, so I built an app to help you do that."
Humans are also buggy app generators. In both cases testing is key to high quality software, not perfection on the first go.
why did you disingenuously disconnect the two parts of my sentence (regarding "starting a business on one's own being perceived as being Literally Impossible" and "ubiquitous instantaneous communication has made collaboration in shared purpose easier than any prior point in human history", and then respond to them separately, as if they were two separate thoughts? they were two parts of the same thought, hence them sharing the same sentence.

anytime enthusiastically pro-union people want to try to start a business on their own, together, by pooling their resources to collectively take on risk—if for no reason but to prove that unions don't exist more or less solely to tear down existing things that weren't built by the union themselves—they're more than welcome to give it a shot. but, since this doesn't really seem to happen, it's really easy to continue to perceive enthusiastically pro-union people as outwardly appearing entitled to rewards for risks and resources that were not theirs.

anyone can destroy—it takes considerably more effort to create.
The problem is you want your hot water much hotter than your solar panels so there may be limited use for this compared to a traditional solar water heater.
This cuts both ways too - "if facebook deploys their spyware build and requires you to sideload it, then just don't use facebook". But then you lose contact with friends/families/etc.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/facebook-and-google-...

Also Google themselves currently don't actually use RCS either, but rather a proprietary fork of RCS which prevents interop, and already refuses access to third parties who ask to interoperate. And app-store warfare does not address this at all.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/new-google-site-begs...

https://ianbetteridge.com/2022/08/19/please-wont-someone-sto...

Trading proprietary iMessage for proprietary Google messaging is a net loss.
Cops have to wear body cams that are recording continuously (or at least we hope they are). Dash cams are popular...even standard...in places where insurance fraud is rife. How long the hold out will be until wearing a headset recording device is considered normal rather than creepy?
On a side note, the largest context for GPT4 is 32K. That will cost around $3 (rough estimate). If GPT5 is 20 times the cost of its predecessor as well, then that will cost around $60 per generation. GPT6 will then be $1200.
You can talk to people with smart earbuds, but you have no clue if those smart earbuds are recording what you say or not.

The person wearing them could be on a call, and the caller on the other side would hear what you say.

The person wearing them could be streaming to twitch, and everybody watching that stream would hear what you say.

All while you assume that you are having a private conversation with earbud person.
It is impossible to have a good display with a transparent lens, because you have to overlay the light that passes the lens with an even brighter light. Unless they find a way to dim shapes on the lenses, this will always be sub-optimal.

What will work is a camera on your VR device, that will give you a quasi-AR device, but those are still clunky and as you can see with the iGlasses they look a bit spooky from outside.
Insurance is interesting and has an interesting history. It started as a form of speculating or gambling and it's still a form of "betting."

Like casinos, an insurance company needs to design their product such that "house wins" in the aggregate. They need to take in enough income to pay employees, keep the lights on, pat out claims and turn a profit.

So they need good info on how to price it such that it is sustainable.

One way they make it sustainable: they conservatively invest part of the money they take in to defray costs.
Consumers without jobs can’t consume.
Intellectual property rights should be abolished.
To be fair the second sentence in the short top description is about staying connected with calls and messages. I don't think many people's first assumption (without any other context/knowing more) would be that that means having them read out.
Not really. It's actually a fairly good interview practice to see if somebody will defend their solution if probed on it.
at that point make your own glasses with a much tinier and less obvious camera.
> difference between `#include "myStringMap.h"` and `map[string]string` in C vs.g Go.

Except one is a language feature with custom syntax and the other is a library that could be implmented as a library just the same.

Not everyone in the ecosystem is going to use this because its not forced on them through syntax and espically because its inside deno and not node so barely anyone at all will use it.
Unpopular opinion (even wsj wrote this product off [1]) but as a new dad these things have been an absolute game changer.

I continue to play with my toddler at all times but I can also capture critical moments without my kid thinking I’m constantly on my phone.

The grandparents have the footage on loop. This is just a win-win-win all around tbh even without any displays.

[1]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/metas-ray-ban-smart-glasses-fai...

PS: added benefit that when I don’t pick up my phone to get to the camera constantly I conveniently miss the attention destroying notifications most times from other Meta products

PPS: Caveat: I live in a sunny location so sunglasses make sense most days.
"ClickHouse, Inc. is a Delaware company with headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area. We have no operations in Russia, no Russian investors, and no Russian members of our Board of Directors."

Source - https://clickhouse.com/blog/we-stand-with-ukraine
this is the book that made me realise programmers are losers
The days of doctor owned practices are largely over. Doctors don't make money from additional visits, they're probably already booked out and over worked.
That surprised me too, but then I decided it was actually kinda brilliant. The alternative for when an array is "too big" to display is usually something like

[1 2 3 ... 99999]

Which is unsurprising, but not very usable. Audio is useful!
Are business owners not people?
and not your lived experiences?
the same is also true of a console, and there's no reason that app stores can't prove (eg) productivity apps like word processing on console platforms. Just plug in a keyboard, or use wireless.
Desert Storm – The Air War, Day 1 – Animated [video]
I think this might be my favorite kind of nonfiction book. Truly the Bible of knots.

For years I have looked for a list of "Bibles" of their respective subjects, but have never found anything quite right.

Chapman's Piloting & Seamanship is another example that comes to mind.
These features pay for Deno. If they don't exist, Deno doesn't exist.
I'm hopeful that AI cars make renting one cheap enough that I can just rent an AI car the 0-2 times/week I need one instead of owning a car and all the time and stress on maintenance that entails.
As a slightly less wonky comparison, the entire market cap of Delta (the largest airline in the world by market cap) last year was $23B, so Facebook could've just outright purchased Delta and still had over $10B left over.
I’ve been biking around nyc boroughs for over a decade now and I still follow directions from mapping apps!

I’ve found Apple Watch to be okay (they give instructions on directions via haptic feedback) and AirPods with spoken directions to be even better.

I wear glasses too, but for directions I think I’d prefer haptic and/or audio even if visual was an option just for safety purposes.

The one pain point I have found with biking directions is that sometimes the directions come way too late to be useful (maybe I bike too fast haha).
And yet you didn't cite any of the reference material you used to post that reply, or any of the reference material that led to you having that opinion in the first place.

I'm not being flippant here. We all use massive amounts of reference material to even think the most basic thoughts. Expecting you—or an algorithm—to be able to quote or even know the reference material that let to anything you say is a pretty high bar.
My partner and I struggle with this. They’d like to live a bit further out of the city, have some land and some goats, and I’d love having a creek nearby, but the reality is that we like going out to music and vegan restaurants, and living out of the city would make this much more difficult.
Is a database software only open source if they release with data?
We were talking about "looking a gift horse in the mouth", as in it's still a positive thing regardless of the semantic quibbles about open source. Nobody would argue that a hypothetical openly licensed Windows binary-only release is "open source" and I'd appreciate it if you read my comments more charitably in future.

Source code licenses are naturally quite clear about what constitutes "source code", but things are murkier when it comes to ML models, training data, and associated software infrastructure, which brings up some interesting questions.
> Is there a good way to text someone with smart glasses yet?

You could stream video from the glasses and then video yourself writing them a note and hope someone else tags them to let them know it was for them.
should have said it at the same time. i'm sure i've posted this in the past. if AirGradient wishes to be taken seriously they need to get on this list:

http://www.aqmd.gov/aq-spec/evaluations/criteria-pollutants/...

AFAICT https://www.aqmd.gov/aq-spec/sensors is the same set of what they call "sensors" (but which are actually complete products), just the web page organized a little differently.

Until I see an independent evaluation, AirGradient's claims are just as useless as other vendor's claims.

I don't understand this bit from the AirGradient page https://www.airgradient.com/research/ :

> Open Air will focus on PM2.5 measurements

AQI is based on PM1.0, PM2.5 and PM10 measurement. Their products all (including the Open Air referenced in that page) appear to use Plantower sensors, which measure all 3 sizes.
Humans tend to put up a bit of a fight if you accuse them of producing incorrect program code; you know you're in good company if they pull-out Z3, slam out a few lines in their terminal keyboard, and show you rigid mathematical proof that their code is correct. LLMs don't do that.

...yet.
> What is it with people trying to find some magic diet that changes their lives?

Obesity has skyrocketed and "people" don't really understand why.

"People" were taught the old food pyramid which was terrible, and if they are trying to find out what they should eat ... where do they go? To the same people that published that old pyramid and have updated it?

There are so many contradictory and confusing information sources and people are desparate to get their obesity or looming obesity back under control.
I loved my MX Keys until I realised it was built with the same idea as the iPhone. I was meant to treat it as disposable/replaceable at the first sign of trouble. No user-serviceable parts. As soon as one key got sticky, that was the end of the experience with no way out without paying more money.

Next favourite is their K295. For some reason, it clicks with me (a joke because it is silent). All keys available and in the right position and a nice accurate mouse. Most importantly, the function keys are separate from the media keys, meaning less key presses.

My third favourite wireless keyboard/mouse combo cost $7 at a supermarket. Sometimes you just hit the jackpot with cheap manufacturing. I have to remember to go back and buy ten more when this luck occurs.

For reference, I've bought and used at least 20+ keyboards and/or mouses.
How about looking at applicants as individuals instead of stereotypes?

Who has time to look through hundreds of résumés and treat every single applicant as an individual? Hiring managers are looking to cull the stack as quickly as possible. If you’ve got 300 applicants and 15 of them are Ivy League, you throw away the other 285. Or so the conventional “wisdom” went.
I wonder if someone made a language where color matters...
The fundamental limit to energy expenditure is not the heating and boiling of water (as others have pointed out, that energy can all be captured). Rather, the limit is set by the requirement for the entropy of the universe to not decrease when we reduce the local entropy in the salt-water system.

According to GPT4, the numbers come out to 760 J/L for seawater with a salt concentration of 35 g/L. That would mean a limit of around 2 L/s*m2 for full intensity sunlight.
In terms of new renderers, there's Ladybird: https://ladybird.dev/
For innovative new browsers, there's Nyxt: https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/

Both are looking for funding and sponsors.
> There are now over 7,000 projects on GitHub built on or mentioning Llama. New tools, deployment libraries, methods for model evaluation, and even “tiny” versions of Llama are being developed to bring Llama to edge devices and mobile platforms.

Let’s say I want to find the latest or most recent projects on this, is it possible to find them on GitHub based on that criteria?
We should build a "car-free" city just to see how well it will go.

* Large percentage of city is green.

* Most of the city is mixed retail+residential.

* Lots of 3-5 story residential buildings to have appropriate density.

* Streets have a single one-way car lane + two bike lanes + two walking paths + green space.

* Bigger roads are 1+1 lane, and primarily used by buses, commercial vehicles, emergency vehicles and people with mobility disabilities.

* The city should not be much bigger than 10km x 10 km. That's enough for 0.5-1 million people, while small enough that a regular person can cycle end-to-end.

* High-speed train access to nearby cities.

Since, this is a new city people who looove cars don't have to move there. So nothing for them to complain about.
The 4 hour battery life will probably save us for a bit, but do you really want to walk around in a world where a bunch of strangers are taking pictures of you just by looking in your direction? I don’t. Who cares about the LED.
A region with limited access to prizes
Honestly this single HN comment may have turned my opinion of the product category around.
It doesn't bother me in my case since it's not my main monitor. I have a high refresh rate main monitor, and an ancient 60hz (1680x1050) second monitor. I don't notice it because I'm rarely dragging windows around on the second monitor.

I don't notice it on my phone either. However, I purposely got a high refresh rate laptop because of this concern. I think it depends on two things: The size of the screen, and how often you'll be looking at it.
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good example of how you need to be smarter than the AI to know whether it's correct or not

if you don't know the answer, and the AI just pretends to know the answer, you just have to take its word for it.
> Why glasses? I’ve paid a lot of money not to have to wear glasses.

Because it's the only socially acceptable way to point a camera at people without tipping them off.

That's one reason google glass didn't take off as well. When you show up at the party waving your camera around on record, people tend to find a way to distance themselves.
The multi-process Firefox project was called Electrolysis: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis
Not having to manage two rulesets -- one for IPv4 and one for IPv6 -- is pretty well a killer feature in my mind.
There was a period in hacker history when hackers thought they were reviving some kind of ancient zen and dao traditions, but in a very light and not really very appreciative way
Do it with toslink?

https://a.co/d/7Vl7L6t

a ground loop isolator is ancient technology by this point. It's something to be aware of, but if it's giving you distortion, you've got to ground more devices in the chain - it shouldn't be causing you problems.

As far as the theoretical, spidif/toslink will get you that, but also, I'd run recognizable patterns through the system and look at how much distortion you see before rejecting a solution based on some notion of signal purity.

But why is computer 1 restricted to not having speakers and just running a longer wire to them? There are a number of software solutions available in this space that might be better/easier, given some more context.
> completely understand trying to ensure one's own livelihood etc. not harmed unduly

So can I. And I'd still pay them: my problems are not their problems. They did the work, they should be paid. The possibility that I may be screwed over if I do that doesn't absolve me from the responsibility of holding up my end of the bargain.

I can't believe that this is even a question.