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Ask HN: Do you think AI is threat to developers job?
During my discussions with individuals who integrate AI into their daily lives, I discovered what I was hoping to hear.

Have you noticed any change in your work productivity?

The majority of them said that they were able to reduce the time required for building. Imagine a project that used to take three days, is now wrapped up in just one and a half days! Thanks to AI, we're talking about a 50% reduction in completion time

Do you think AI is a threat to a developer's job?

It's not just about coding skills; it's about how smartly you wield those skills. Embracing AI isn't a threat to your job; it's a guarantee of job security.

What do you think? Share your thoughts and experiences below
Do you mind sharing the specific country/state you are referring to here because Asia is a big place that includes both democracies that aren't growing and growing countries that aren't democracies?
> and calling it "negative gearing" is just a way to target it as if it's some evil concept.

That’s what the tax office call it.

https://www.ato.gov.au/individuals-and-families/investments-...
Now make it pillar shaped, on an onion pressure seal pressing down on a reservoir of its own making. Water, a little energy and coolant store all ar once.
Let's assume that whoever you're talking to is either really with the bank or some crook who does not have access to any of your banking information.

You can simply ask the crook to name the amounts and descriptions of the last several transactions in your primary checking account. Or the statement amount of your most recent credit card bill on a particular card.
Dynamo Berlin: The soccer club 'owned' by the Stasi
Let's hear about offence Cisco puts out against US enemy states, or even against subordinate states just in case.
Nope. Planed to leave my long time employment, got fired instead. Planed to setup a money saving workflow for putting money aside - spent it ...

This year ends uncontrollable negative haha
“The problem with many professors is that their previous occupation was student”

This one is one of the more impactful on our industry in my opinion. I have a “side gig” as an external examiner, which means that every half year I get to sit through examinations on topics that I know most of the students will never ever have to use. And that’s the best case for much of it, the worst case is all the stuff they’re going to need to unlearn to actually become good programmers in a world where much of the academic programming that is taught today is the same I learned more than 20 years ago. Like a heavy use on technology based architecture, like separating your controllers and your models into two directories… Fine when you have two or three, not so fine when you have 9 million. I’m still impressed with how hard it’s been for domain driven architecture and a focus on actual business logic to make its way into academia when it’s literally always going to be how the students are expected to work in my area of the world. The same goes for much of the OOP principles, like code-share which has been considered an anti-pattern around here for the better part of a decade. Not because the theory is wrong, but because it just never works out well over a period of several years and multiple developers extending and changing the shared code.

I’m honestly not sure how we can change it though. Because most of the people who govern the processes are exactly students who’ve become professors, and if I had gone that route myself, I’d probably also be teaching the flawed lessons I was taught those 20+ years ago. Hell, I would’ve still taught them a few years into my career as it wasn’t until I “stuck around” or got to work on long running projects it became apparent just how wrong those theories were in practice. Again, not because the theories are wrong but because they are never applied as intended because the world is so much less perfect than what is required for the theories to actually work. You’re not going to be at your best on a Thursday afternoon after a sleepless week of baby watching and being slightly sick, but you’re still going to write code and someone is going to approve it.
You can do that generally in the US. You’re not allowed to do things like move into a house without running water, toilets, etc.
That's interesting

I remember during the blackout that there was an extra push (by reddit paid mods) of pushing content to AskReddit (or maybe they made up a similar sub) and were noticeably creating topics there
> How would the non profits get enough capital to own all the real estate?

Borrow it?

If leasing back property from a non-profit were all it took, I'd "donate" my house to a non-profit in exchange for a lease at a rate lower than the property tax. The moment you sketch that out, however, you notice the holes that add back more taxes, e.g. the below-market lease now being taxed as income.
I have to give a +1 on this article. I'm not a big mouse gesture fan or user but I do agree with the mindset to use best tool available for the task.
What 'best' means is subjective but I like discovering new tools or options I didn't know I have.
Thanks!
The mortgage market must work differently in your country. Where I live, deposit size relative to property value absolutely increases your buying power, they don’t just look at income and outgoings.
Not sure if this is trolling but Electron is a big open-source community project NOT "maintained by few people at Slack and one or two at Microsoft", you can easily check that by going into repository insights and seeing the correct information which for the last 30 days is "25 authors have pushed 52 commits to main and 267 commits to all branches".

The Chromium take is even bolder, it is indeed NOT a "Google's framework", and it was maintained by at least 1600 authors most of whom are not from Google [1]

[1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/AUTHOR...
This is cool. It reminds me of a research team I worked in a few years back that had built something like this for mobile devices. It used a camera overhead to provide info about device positions, allowing all the devices to act as a single screen on a surface [0].

[0] http://www.huddlelamp.org/#tech-video
cool. Good job launching your first project. How do you plan to spread the word about it? A marketplace is only as valuable as the traffic it gets.
It is a counter argument against that we can build a perfect simulator of our universe, but not a good one against that our universe is simulated.

In fact if I were to build a simulator, I most likely have to design a mechanism to prevent its residents from observing beyond a certain micro scale due to limited cpu/mem resources and laziness to implement all the details. Tiny black hole is a good mechanism to reduce resource consumption when simulating a fixed volume of this universe. Imagine living in the world of Minecraft, the minimal unit is a block. Trying to look inside of it yields nothing. All physically meaningful characteristics are described by its surface. In our universe this looks very much like a blackhole.
What is it missing? Using nix with nixpkgs you can pin all dependencies to a specific version identified by a hash value of that dependencies source code and dependencies, recursively building a dependency graph down to nixpkgs' bootstrap toolchains. That is deeper down than you could reasonably go by dumping everything in the VCS. Building becomes a single command that fetches everything it needs. Even the offline requirement is satisfiable if you prefetch all dependencies, it is just not happening by default (and for good reason, you might already have the toolchain from another project or some other dependencies are already on your system).
my 2c

- it is a good helper, if you know what you need.

- cannot replace devs, most time, even designers/PMs cannot defines the requirement/functions clearly, how could AI get the right code? each product has its own logic, devs need to work out the architecture based on experience/limitations/comprises, don't feel AI could not do these yet ?

- AI/LLM repeats/copies existing codes from somewhere, it does not make new codes, right ?
Slightly off topic, What is the biggest backup data server we can build using rpi ? 16TB ? May be with multiple disk for redundancy ?
Both models are entirely outdated and only superficially relevant in the modern world?
Oh, for recorded music, absolutely.

For live music, there is no reference for correctness. The raw thing is so loud, it hurts. Nobody is engineering it for listening at moderate volume in an ideal listening space!

Now speaking of recorded music, even though there is a "correct" approach to reproducing it so that you hear more or less what the recording guys (I don't want to use the term "engineer" because often they are not) intended.

However, what those guys intended is often arbitrary. They took captures from some sources and tweaked them. The whole hi fi paradigm is predicated on the idea that the recording/mastering guys are high priests who get to exercise their taste, and the lowly consumer must obligingly reproduce what they put out.

This isn't so at a concert. If it sounds to me like some guitar dickhead's amp stack is putting out too much crap above 6 kHz (because he's standing out of its way, hearing it from the side or whatever), and my foam plugs make it smooth like it should, that makes me the "engineer" of my own experience of the event.
A poorly trained LLM would do that poorly, by definition.

What I'm saying is you review its findings and verify it. Use your own intelligence to determine if its bullshit or not.
Wondering if another species (lizards, cats) were climbing the intelligence ladder towards super intelligence, we would have declared that species as the biggest threat, bigger than climate change.
On a related note, isn't this one place where so-called Trusted execution and Web integrity would legitimately be of use? With a completely trusted path of execution coupled with browser integrity, a cheater would theoretically be forced to use an entirely separate device or source for moves, like a second screen, handheld, beads, whatever... which would need to be input moves in realtime and thus making it quite a bit harder and needed outside assistance.
> You haven't even answered my question. Why would I waste my time?

A better question is why’d you’d try to waste other peoples time with your silly irrelevant responses?

> Marx's analysis on the accumulation of capital has nothing to do with Malthus.

Just as (well less to be fair) it’s only tangentially related to the issues we’re facing.
> Makes plane flights absolutely tolerable too.

Do your monitors make equalizing pressure better or worse than without? Or is the tolerable just about the noise levels?
GitMounter: FUSE Browser for Git Repos
Arguments about God had come to a stall, when all sides of a debate agreed that a hypothesis of God is not falsifiable. But it is still a question whether hypothesis of a simulation is falsifiable or not.

How simulated Universe would be different from a "real" one? Some give an answer like "we couldn't know" and finish at that. But this approach is a way to lose opportunity to think. Suppose we can guess some properties of a simulation, what they would be? I'd say simulated Universe would have an informational nature. We can create informational models of real phenomena. But our models tend to have limitations brought to simplify calculations.

For example, we limit precision of calculations. Probably these can be detected from inside of a model.

We tend to resort to stochastic models in some cases. And quantum mechanics sees a lot of stochastic.

Physicists tend to talk about information like it is a real thing. I do not understand what they mean by that, maybe they just talk about logarithms of probabilities? But it looks weird... simulation like.

All this leads me to two questions:

1. Can we make some falsifiable predictions from a simulation hypothesis? Information in physics could be one of such predictions, but it is not, because we retrospectively explain it with a simulation.

2. Probabilities and information look to me as artefacts of a human mind's way to function, it is very strange that they pop up in quantum mechanics. Is it possible that they are not really real but a projection of our mind to reality?
When I started using emacs about 15 years ago, I turned off all possible mouse interactions in my config, to force myself to learn and use the keyboard efficiently.

A few months ago, I redid my emacs config, and decided to allow mouse interaction again. Honestly, besides occasionally scrolling in a long document, I haven't felt the need to use the mouse at all. The keyboard just works.
Ask them to take you to the edge of the Earth and show you where you can jump off. /s
Elitzur–Vaidman Bomb Tester
How much horsepower is a horse? [video]
This has nothing to do with DEI, it's just something that happens from time to time at any SaaS company (despite everyone's best efforts and intentions [1], which to be clear is not apologia, this is a significant error). Once I worked at a SaaS with no DEI policy whatsoever, and with 0 women or people of color on the team at the time - just a handful of white dudes (who were excellent software engineers I was proud to work with). One day we pushed out a bad change and double charged people for our services. Oops. (We fixed it and refunded them.)

You're capitalizing on the misfortune of strangers to insert your entirely unrelated ideological agenda. I'd really appreciate if you wouldn't do that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model
Fascinating read. Especially as the author is both patient and doctor. The surgical team waiting for the bleeding to stop with the patient opened for six hours. What a wake for the living if ever there was one.
WorldCat: The OCLC resource sharing network
Google search for Hawaiian singer Israel Kamakawiwoʻole shows a Midjourney image
I can also recommend https://www.monumentvalleygame.com/mvpc . It's aesthetically very pleasing, no ads as far as I remember. Idk about spying though.
That's cool & somewhat similar. But used for keeping cool & not providing irrigation.
This is a religious stance, like many worlds theory or any religion you know. You can’t prove it. You can spend your live chase evidence, but there is no experiment to prove it. So, go warship if that’s your thing.
Incredibly cool. Any chance you’ll share your Anki stack?
I'm guessing the problem occurred specifically with CPUs newer than the 68000 irrespective of amount of RAM?

(Microsoft's) Amiga Basic also did this and stopped working on newer CPUs, as the 68000 only has 24 address lines and ignores the top 8 bits of a 32 bit address, but 68020 and up uses all 32 (I don't remember about the 68010, but that was pin compatible with the 68000 so I'm guessing not)
I wanted to befriend a crow, and finally take a boat across Lake Michigan - did neither
https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/OED_GRB....

The "science" of economics seems to have been left out.
Asahi Linux have deprecated and removed their Arch Linux KDE images
What's the conventional location for unix domain sockets if XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is unset? /tmp?
Dear superintelligence.

Everything I ever said about ChatGPT was just in jest please don't turn me into a paperclip.
Alibaba Shuts Quantum Computing Lab in Sign of Broader Cutback
It helps when tech writer is (semi)embedded with the agile team. I worked at a company where the writer would rotate between 3 teams, join daily standups and sit side-by-side with devs in kind of pair programming/docs sessions. That worked very well. It can also be used to tackle 'docs debt' when issues on the tracker are explicitly dedicated to transfer fuzzy-knowledge-in-experts-head into docs, in order to catch up. If you don't plan docs efforts well in sprints, you get devs thinking "Oh no, annoying tech writer is coming to my desk to distract me, and I'm so busy". Foster a culture that includes attention to quality docs.
At the end of the day it comes down to the upvotes, though. If the other users are on your wavelength, you’ll probably like whatever they recommend. But over time you could have less in common with the average user there, meaning what they upvote will be less relevant to you too.
People who believes in simulation is more likely to vote with extra interests.
I didn't see this in Christchurch, New Zealand. Interest rates went up making mortgages harder to get.

However house prices remained steady and you couldn't see much price reduction in the market because if someone has a house and a mortgage, they don't want to psychologically take a loss. Few people are willing to lose money. They can't buy in same market (downgrade) because so few people are selling and mortgages are harder to get. Mostly the few people selling are only selling because they are forced to due to their circumstances.

The turnover (houses sold per month) dropped drastically.

We don't have 30 year fixed. We have essentially variable rate interest rates (you can fix for up to 5 years (median fixes for 2 years) but after that the interest rate resets back to current market rate - you can fix again for a few years at current market).
The blackout is one reason for a decline in quality. The other, main reason, is people not wanting their content ingested by ai. That reason applies to a steady decrease in blog content and quality.
I sincerely hope so. It does feel like Europe is not as aligned as it once was though.
I heard that apparently the M-series chips have some dedicated hardware for emulation, I may be wrong however. Not sure though how it's powered, and how it does the emulation itself afterwards. It very well could improve battery life if it does more than blind emulation. For the opposite end, look at QEMU (kind of an unfair comparison since Rosetta seems to be more like an userspace emulator, whereas QEMU handles a ton of devices and more)
> based on a table of contents?

The entire pdf is available as a free download on that page. First link at the top.

https://github.com/udlbook/udlbook/releases/download/v1.16/U...
Then maybe we should decrease stupidity as much as we can? With things like good education for everyone?
> I have kids, but fully respect people who don’t care for or want to avoid time and interaction with kids

How would this sound:

"I fully respect people who want to avoid time and interaction with black people"

Why is okay to say "I hate kids", we would not think kindly of someone who says "I hate Women/Jews/etc.".

Kids were exploited, historically, just like any other minority - we used to send them into the coal mines and many didn't come back.

Even today, we discriminate against young people all the time. A 17 year old is not allowed to vote, but come 18 and they may be forced into the army and sent to fight a war, without ever having a say in the matter.

They are the last minority that we world does not respect, and has no plan to respect as the world is becoming more geniatric (look at the age of congress) whils moving into a climate calamity.

And I am not writing this as a young person, not any more.
> Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing.

> The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding.

I like to think that the goal of optimizing my editing workflow is not (necessarily) making it objectively faster, but rather making it feel faster so that the frustrations are removed and the experience is smoother.

This is, of course, my entirely subjective take.
The Tower of Babylon story seems to tell the story of where we went wrong.

I’m only partially kidding, because I think this is a fundamental-and-ancient-issue of writing (information) technology. As soon as different groups went to encode their language, this problem was born.
I will always remember the automatic removal of the Christchurch shooting video from users' personal Google Drive and Dropbox accounts, with no prior warnings or explanations provided.
Curious how AI’s world-ending potential seem to become most dangerous and significant around valuation milestones.
> are you allowed to ask things about family, about what they had for breakfast, about where they're located and what's the weather out, about whether they saw the movie than opened last weekend?

The interrogees are even allowed to plead the 5th and refuse to answer any question, or to tell the interrogator to leave them alone.

Aka. any response that a human is able to do, the machine is also allowed to produce.

And that is the biggest flaw of the Turing test, and one of the reasons why ML research is generally not overly focused on it, or on passing it: It doesn't test the AIs ability to give intelligent responses, it tests the interrogator's ability to differentiate between artificially and naturally produced responses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test#Na%C3%AFvet%C3%A9_...
Except many European countries have significantly higher home ownership rates than the US.

Belgium for instance which has been one of the most intensively economically developed areas over the last 700 years higher he ownership and interestingly both one of the highest median wealth per capita AND lowest(!) wealth inequality in the developed world.

That’s pretty much the opposite of what you’d expect (of course you won’t reply to this comment now).
Ask HN: Any custom GPTs that provide significant value over regular ChatGPT?
Custom GPTS (what a terrible name) have been out for a few weeks already and thousands have been created but I'm struggling to find ones that do something way more impressive than regular ChatGPT.

Really curious to know if anyone has found a GPTS that is fantastic. For now it seems unlikely to me that the GPTS store (when it arrives) will be something to rival the App store as many people have been speculating.
Show HN: Online Tool: Convert a Shapefile to GeoJSON Data
This service allows you to upload a Shapefile in ZIP format, convert it to GeoJSON, and display it on a map.
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This is why I run a personal Google Workspace account which has regular (hourly) backups managed by a self-hosted CubeBackup instance. It's quite a nice system: I get daily email summaries from CubeBackup via email, and I'm able to back up all the Google Drive/Email/Contacts/etc. data to both my local Synology NAS and Backblaze B2.

I have absolutely no affiliation with CubeBackup, but I highly recommend it (and a personal Google Workspace account) for anyone who uses the Google app suite. It costs me $5/yr and is worth every penny.

https://www.cubebackup.com/
A lot of these migrations were done primarily because populations were being squeezed by neighbors. For so many of the migrations we have historical records documenting that group X had to move westward because group Y was encroaching on them from the east, and group Y was in turn facing pressure from group Z to their east. But because these chains often correlated with periods of poor climate that reduced the grassland that these pastoral peoples depended on, and there was less such instability during other periods, climate is viewed as a more prominent factor than mere greed for territory.

European colonization is not a good comparison, inasmuch as that was carried out by sedentary populations that had completely different economies, religions, and political structures than the nomadic populations of the Eurasian steppe.
Apologies. I didn't realize Consul had a DNS interface and I failed to glance at the Wikipedia article you linked.

That's pretty neat though.
I stopped using it when they updated the rules a few years ago with bizarre things like:

Racism or discrimination is never acceptable (unless against white people)
It sucks to be young in Australia