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I've really struggled every time I've pulled out any LLM for programming besides using Copilot for generating tests.

Maybe I've been using it for the wrong things—it certainly never helps unblock me when I'm stuck like it sounds like it does for some (I suspect it's because when I get stuck it's deep in undocumented rabbit holes), but it sounds like it might be decent at large-scale rote refactoring? Aside from specialized editors, how do people use it for things like that?
Now I wonder how complicated it would be to implement a pointing stick (aka track point aka the red nipple from the Thinkpads). I think it has the same benefits as this circle track point with an even smaller footprint.
> Doesn’t that mean there’s no “too young,” either?

> Yes and no. “Yes” for all purposes of working with ability. “No” from perspectives of responsibility, culture, and law. This question is more complex (and this post about the ageist notion of anyone being “too old”).

Ah, the monkey's paw closes. How dare you say someone is too old, for having expectations based on an older version of reality that may or may not reflect the realities and social norms of the present? It's simply ageist to identify the part of their consciousness that objects.

But the children? We discount them from the start, until they're the beneficiary of age and wisdom. Surely then they won't become worse people, knowing responsibility, culture and law.
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> Have you considered that a significant number of companies that are presented - in good faith - as revolutionary startups that will open aviation to the masses are just investment schemes?

So you’re suggesting that Airhart is just engaged in an investment scheme? Do you have any evidence to support that?
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41166862
In 1992, the Danish representative for the music industry managed to negotiate a “Private Copying Levy” on all recordable media (mainly CDs, DVDs, VHS tapes , memory cards and USB drives).

fees were around (per media) :

CD media : $0.35

DVD media : $0.56

Memory card : $0.80

They then managed to pass a new law in 2022 that expanded the original law to also apply to phones, tablets, computers, basically anything that can store data.

Hard drive < 128GB (SSD or magnetic, internal or external) : $0.59

Hard drive > 128GB : $2.34

Tablet / Phone / Computer : $6.59

No wonder the music industry loves piracy. For every tablet/phone/computer sold, they’re literally pocketing $6.59 without ever lifting a finger or even delivering any content (not even a bad U2 album).

For every hard drive, memory card, or SSD sold, they’re pocketing from $0.59 to $2.34, again, those are not preloaded with music content either.

Of course, having paid the fee does not entitle you to any form of piracy.
I have two butterfly bushes in upstate NY. They are not invasive here; they struggle to survive cold winters (being killed back to the roots and recovering only partially.) They show no signs of spreading. When I lived near Chicago, they wouldn't survive cold winters at all.
sterility is the killer for my closet scale experiments. i aim for "clean enough for robust things to survive"
Things can increase in value independent of a currency's change in value, so while dollars costing less may tell some of the story, it does not necessarily tell the entire story.
> it is much nicer to sit in public transit for an hour than drive for an hour.

Maybe to you but certainly not to me. I’ll gladly take a considerably longer car ride in the comfort of my vehicle with my music blasting over sitting next to strangers on a train. I have no problem with public transportation existing but it isn’t something I enjoy.
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Trading zombie websites for nickles.

It's funny how badly pretty much every corporate acquisition of web publishing site has gone.
There was a classic study, https://www.princeton.edu/~mjs3/salganik_dodds_watts06_full...., quality is pretty significantly correlated to success. It is not everything - there are random factors, marketing, etc. - but I would certainly say there is significant evidence that how good a musician is does in fact matter and contributes to their success. Besides "Friday" or the "so bad it's good" category, terrible song = terrible sales.
Always surprised when people buy (as opposed to rescue) one of those health issue ridden pups which are constantly hobbling around and panting from just walking. Some people find it cute but it really is sad to see the little gremlin have a painful life trying to do normal dog things.
> You wouldn't make a thousand mile trip over the weekend by car, but people don't bat an eye doing it by plane.

You wouldn't take that by car? I would and I'm not an outlier in the midwest - many of us do it all the time. There just isn't a better option for a family. Flying would cost thousands of dollars more and you risk missing a connection and the trip taking even longer. The train doesn't really go many places in the US and isn't cheap. Just get in the car and travel on your own time - it is relaxing after a while. If you get bored stop to see some small town attraction for an hour and continue on.
> How do you get seven times?

I asked chatgpt what the average consumption of a car is; the answer was 0.5-1 gallon on a highway.
Here is how Ireland is trialling to pay some artists:

https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/unemploymen...

tl;dr: Just give artists with body of work a basic wage and ask for nothing in return. See what they produce.

We will see at the end of 2025/2026 some report that suggests either this is feasible or not to continue.
At least from my experience:

You take Claude, you create a new Project, in your Project you explain the context of what you are doing and what you are programming (you have to explain it only once!).

If you have specific technical documentation (e.g. rare programming language, your own framework, etc), you can put it there in the project.

Then you create a conversation, and copy-paste the source-code for your file, and ask for your refactoring or improvement.

If you are lazy just say:
"give me the full code"

and then

"continue the code" few times in a row

and you're done :)
then why are you reading hacker news comments about it?
It absolutely blows my mind that the US cannot even make election day a national holiday.
Thank you for documenting your journey, and sharing something so difficult and intimate with us. It is really eye opening. I wish your family all the best and hope you find peace.

Will your blog remain available to share with others?
Are you seriously comparing a payment processor to an airplane manufacturer? Are you aware that Stripe received VC funding from Musk, Thiel and Sequoia in order to keep it from competing with PayPal and to provide a second-source provider to protect PayPal from accusations of monopolization of online processing fees? Are you aware that the storyline you are promoting is in fact a specifically curated myth?
That's not all he's spreading..

edit: though largely it is.
I don't think that's clear at all. There's damage being done, and ameliorating or avoiding that is sensible, but "destroying" is quite an exaggeration.
I'd be surprised to learn about an unlimited run of a print that is signed by an artist like Warhol or Haring. The lithographs in your sibling comment are in the price range you're talking about, but have a printed signature.
NDA's aren't really bound by law. Good luck explaining why this change is stealing customers, and which customers have left because of this change
Provide context to the model. The code you're working on, what it's for, where you're stuckhat you've tried, etc. Pretend it's a colleague that should help you out and onboard it to your problem, then have a conversation with it as of your are rubber ducking your colleague.

Don't ask short one-off questions and expect it to work (it might just, depending on what you ask, but probably not if you're deep on some proprietary code base with no traces in the LLMs pretraining).
I was equally confused, google left me more so
I keep hearing this comment everywhere Claude is mentioned, as if there is a coordinated PR boost on social media. My personal experience with Claude 3.5 however is, meh. I don't see much difference compared to GPT-4 and I use AI to help me code every day.
If I quit, the company will fail.

Successful succession is a first order priority of successful leadership. Working toward it might or might not mitigate your loneliness, but building a structure to make a successor successful will give you another option for moving on and solve a critical business problem.

The worst outcome will be about the same as the average outcome in the absence of a succession structure. Good luck.
It was emotional manipulation in place of reasoned argument.
Your original comment becomes much more understandable when you mention you live in SA.
> Debt service was estimated at ~$100m/mo

source?
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Per capita is such a stupid way to measure shooting danger. What really matters is average proximity to shootings (which does measure danger, since proximity to the bullet could lead to you getting killed, or the shooter aiming in another close direction). Obviously, this is higher in dense areas, hence the higher perceived danger.

Case in point, if you have a rural area of 1000 people and there are 10 shootings (1% shooting rate), the likelihood that any of the 980 people not involved was near any of those shooting is very low.

On the other hand, a 4 block stretch of a city with a 1000 people with ten shootings, you can bet that all 1000 heard / saw / were affected by the shootings.

Cities need to be safer than other places in order to feel safe. And until people get this obvious fact, cities will always have this reputation.
One of those LSTs is in service with Cross Sound Ferry, ferrying cars across Long Island Sound:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgdDJDQA0Ek

It's the largest ship in their ferry fleet.
I don't understand why I (or any Open Source contributor) would spend time supporting a product like this. Unless you are paying me, I don't care. You can gussy your website up with friendly colors and modern art, but you're still asking me to be a suck-up for a business. Why would we do that?

I get why a business wants this; "developer engagement" = "free work" in most situations. But these greedy attempts at getting everyone under one umbrella entirely misses the aspect of shared ownership that makes Open Source successful in the first place. Partially-open business software only attracts sycophants and abuse-cases to contribute, which only justifies a less-open approach.
Since the railroads are heavily regulated, it's not easy to innovate there.
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Just so you know that kind of reasoning is flawed.

Farmers are perfectly capable of using less glyphosphate, but the problem is that their buyers pay them so little that it isn't cost effective to do anything other than spray glypho everywhere.

With the health risks associated with glyphosphate, I assume a lot of farmers actually would love to stop using that shit.
If he got herbicide on their property a lawsuit would have been justified.

If their concern was over slight contamination, not enough to noticeably affect plant growth, then not. It's not like it would have significant effect on human health in that situation, if it has any effect at all.
> Misgendering and having some rather "blunt" debates on this topic meant the platforms usually sided with the trans or left-wing party.

Do you have an examples?
Judging by his recent podcast appearances, he is probably still fine. But it's also clear that he won't be for long, and it would have almost felt cruel had he been serving as president in his final years. He seems like the type of guy who'd rather spend time with his family and grandchildren.
They did not ban Trump for "continued calls for violence and election interference".

Look at the two Tweets they used as a justification of his ban [1]

> The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!

And

> To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.

Of course, in the blog post, Twitter claims to have "assessed the two Tweets referenced above under our Glorification of Violence policy"

If those two tweets are glorification of violence, then your post is calling for genocide.

[1] https://blog.x.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension
It's a subsidy to people, but it's the indirect subsidy to companies by allowing them to lean on people being underpaid and have society pick up the bill that is a problem.

You can "fix" that problem by eliminating welfare, or by ensuring companies pay enough. Since most of us don't want people to starve, either we're stuck with the problem, where we're distorting the market in a way that incentivizes behavior that harms society, or we level the playing field by ensuring companies pay enough.
I live and have an engineering office in SOMA and I've had the exact opposite experience.

In 8 years living here my dog has been viciously attacked twice, we've had people attack us on the Embarcadero and around the sidewalks and parks in our neighborhood, and just yesterday I was lamenting that there was a time in my past where I wasn't comfortable around drug use. Now when I walk out of my office and see someone smoking whatever or I injecting whatever else it's just normal to me.

That's the problem in this city, living like this, all of us, normalizes all these things that shouldn't be.
lead singer of punk band sells some junk, is now singled out (pun!)
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Until now I've found cat hair to be an annoying substance. After the surprise of that page; well, maybe it isn't such a bad thing after all.
The US doesn't have any national holidays.

We have federal and state holidays that specify that those government employees have those holidays, but private employers aren't required to do anything on those days (there might be some states that impose requirements, but certainly not a majority).
> Are you seriously comparing a payment processor to an airplane manufacturer?

Clearly, my comparison had more to do with the regulation aspect than actually comparing payments and airplanes. Did you read the comment I was responding to?
It’s somewhat humorous that the US is the military world police while Europe is the regulatory police. Spider-Man pointing meme.
And chewed up the soil.
I'm using Firebase Auth for my side project. Pretty easy to get started and has generous free limits. I went with Google Auth and passwordless email links. SMS auth would start getting expensive very quick, especially with international users.
People also continue to use them as knowledge databases, despite that not being where they shine. Give enough context into the model (descriptions, code, documentation, ideas, examples) and have a dialog, that's where these strong LLMs really shine.
Not everything can be made into a one way graph with limited data types. Node graphs work in specific domains because they only have a few data types and don't need to worry much about side effects, ordering, branching, state and IO.

On top of that you also need a good GUI which itself is rare. Houdini has a great interface that is well designed. Touch designer is much more wonky, loose and awkward.
How much would you value a soldier riding one of those?
How much longer until we reach the logical conclusion here? - "Google kills off Google"
Yes, SPE could get you ~1km. https://electricui.com/blog/spe-sensor-node
Surely you can provide specific details of this alleged censorship? It was heavily covered here but even pretty conservative people didn’t see it living up to the PR claims.
Perhaps because it's not catastrophic?
We are discussing if the agreement is in good faith or possibly it’s there to cover up nefarious intent.
I honestly think people like ahuth honestly don't see these sorts of things. I've found that a substantial portion of people who live in my lovely city of Portland for example, simply are not very good at observation, and will happily walk by incredibly dangerous situations and never notice. I've had to point out to my very progressive in-laws for example, needles in parks, drug deals in broad daylight, guns, etc, that they honestly just do not see. This complete lack of awareness is very common among a certain subset of residents, especially in cities, and probably explains why they vote the way they do.

I'm not sure how to go about teaching situational awareness, but I imagine voting patterns would change if people were aware at all.
I have a moonlander that I love, and I want to add a trackball or trackpad to it.

I saw the mod that Kevin Christensen wrote on ZSA's site: https://blog.zsa.io/diy-moonlander-trackball/

The missing piece is that the trackball doesn't click, and this seems to be the case in general with trackballs on the market.

Does anyone know why trackballs don't click? I'm imagining a casing that would allow the entire ball to drop by a few millimeters to trigger a click. One potential reason is that it's hard to click without moving the mouse on screen, but I'm unsure of how much of an issue that is in reality.
So, congratulations on releasing your project but I'm not sure what problem are you trying to solve.

Please add some use-cases to make it clear where exactly does it come in, because once I add a key in my ssh config, I'm pretty much there. For more complicated tasks I use ansible.
If you're managing a ton of servers manually, this makes a lot of sense.
I'm confused with GPT4o. While it's faster than GPT4, the quality is noticeably worse.

It often enters into a state where it just repeats what it already said, when all I want is a clarification or another opinion on what we were chatting about. A clarification could be a short sentence, a snipped of code, but no, I get the entire answer again, slightly modified.

I cancelled Plus for one month, but got back this week, and for some reason I feel that it really isn't worth it anymore. And the teasing with the free tier, which is downgraded really fast, is more of an annoyance than a solution.

There are these promises of "memory" and "talking with it", but they are just ads of something that isn't on the market, at least I don't have access to both of these features.

Gemini used to be pretty bad, but for some reason it feels like it has improved a lot, focusing more on the task than on trying to be humanly friendly.

Claude and Mistral are not able to execute code, which is a dealbreaker for me.
Realistically, X is better than its ever been; community notes have been a game-changer in terms of fact-checking. Higher quality and much more balanced.
Glyphosate was demonized to create justification for trade barriers in agricultural products. The anti-GMO clamor is similar.
Sure, but their actual population change statistics, today, are similar, presumably due to higher infant mortality (almost 10 times as high!) and lower life expectancy, NK. Like, sure, on an infinite time horizon where nothing else changes forever, you might expect NK's population to eventually exceed SK's, but even under those circumstances it won't be happening for a very long time.

(In practice, you'd probably expect NK's birth rate to keep dropping, too, and SK's will eventually reach equilibrium if it hasn't already.)
I agree that people have creative impulses, and not everyone wants to be a couch potato. However, I imagine a lot of people would rather noodle around on a guitar (or try to be a YouTuber, or mess with RPGmaker, or write a blog, etc) than haul trash all day. If we subsidize that, we might end up flooded with physical trash and digital trash.
> GPT-4o is different from GPT-4, you can "feel" it is smaller model that really struggles to do reasoning and programming and has a much weaker logic.

FWIW according to LMSYS this is not the case. In coding, current GPT-4o (and mini, for that matter) beat GPT-4-Turbo handily, by a margin of 32 points.

By contrast Sonnet 3.5 is #1, 4 score points ahead of GPT-4o.
Well, if you're not selling a product aimed at developers/engineers, it's probably not going to do you any favours. The average person on the street still sees .com as the norm for website addresses, or completely ignores them in favour of Google/search engines/social media links.

So there's not really a reason to have a short/catchy .dev domain over a .com or country domain one.
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Don't talk about banning, talk about giving people a good alternate. Fix zoning so that people don't have to move so far out just to afford a nice place to live (people who want a hobby farm will have to live that far out, but many in the suburbs would be happy with a 5 bedroom apartment for a similar monthly costs - but none exist). Build good transit so that people have a reasonable option to driving.

If you want to ban fueles you just attack people's way of life. If you want to provide the things I list you don't need to ban fuel as they will switch to not driving.
What is a “Silicon Valley face? Does nvidia’s CEO have it? Google’s founders?

I guess anthropic’s founders don’t have it?
Yeah the QC company is using the silk for stuffing for mittens, as a kind of down replacement: https://lasclay.com/en/products/mittens

Which seems promising to me, at least.

Again it seems like a plant that with some smart old fashioned selective breeding could be made a lot more useful. But that kind of horticultural work has on the whole fallen out of fashion, it seems.
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