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I would pay $200 for GPT4o. Since GPT4, ChatGPT is absolutely necessary for my work and for my life. It changed every workflow like Google changed. I'm paying $20 to remove ads from youtube which I watch may be once a week, so $20 for ChatGPT was a steal.

That said, my "issue" might be that I usually work alone and I don't have anyone to consult with. I can bother people on forums, but these days forums are pretty much dead and full of trolls, so it's not very useful. ChatGPT was that thing that allows me to progress in this environment. If you work in Google and can ask Rob Pike about something, probably you don't need ChatGPT as much.
I bet you never get tired of being told LLMs are just statistical computational curiosities.
I rebuilt my algorithmic trading platform in Rust. I have no regrets
not when your throughput is dictated by how fast you can process a single task
It's not obvious that one should prefer that, versus not having that output at all.
I would say the two courses of actions are complementary rather than contradictory, especially since most SW developers aren't also teachers or education activists / parents' association members etc.
Let me rephrase. I never looked back at React as the default option for any greenfield project.

I still have to deal with React codebases, and every time I do I dread it.
Can't wait. The toilet paper thing was a big part in changing my thoughts and outlook on people and society at large.
Why is the US DOJ wasting time and money enforcing other countries laws for them? They broke the law in South Africa. Let South Africa handle it.
Ironically, the freelance consulting world is largely on fire due to the lowered barrier of entry and flood of new consultants using AI to perform at higher levels, driving prices down simply through increased supply.

I wouldn't be surprised if AI was also eating consultants from the demand side as well, enabling would-be employers to do a higher % of tasks themselves that they would have previously needed to hire for.
Which has been a complete shitshow while the Airbus alternative keeps snagging up customers around the world.

> By January 2021, Boeing's losses on the program were estimated at $5 billion (~$5.55 billion in 2023).[88] At the time, it was expected that the KC-46 would not be combat ready until at least late 2023.[89]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_KC-46_Pegasus
I love how exhaustive your approach to documentation is here, because (like you said) it really does need to be to be truly useful. If the user doesn't know how to get to "Contacts", saying "Start by opening Contacts" does them no good and just discourages them.
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I find it weird that he shows those immigrant clothes at end the as an expression of individuality. If you were to go back to the origin towns of those immigrants, almost everyone would wear the same thing! It's the same with all traditional clothes, they are quite close to uniforms. They show the exact opposite of individuality, they show membership of a certain group. And taking too many liberties with that outfit would be frowned upon in the community.
To arrive at a conclusion which suggests you should always just add a fixed amount of some substance to your diet seems generally flawed to me. It treats bodies like they're all average machines with fixed inputs and predictable results and zero emergent properties.

If wonder if we'll eventually improve genetic and blood testing to the point where everyone can have customized daily information to help them make the best individual choice.
I just read that 33% of federal employees are active duty military or law enforcement so I'm not sure how they get the 6% number.
I tried this with LeChat (mistral) and ChatGPT 3.5 (free) and they start to respond to "something" following the style but... without any question asked.
Extraordinary!

I can’t think of any of the advent of code questions this year where a database would have been of any use.

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I asked ChatGPT 4o if there's anything that can be improved in your docker-compose file. Among other (seemingly sensible) suggestions, it offered:

## Restrict Host Ports for Security

If app and mariadb are only communicating internally, you can remove 3306:3306 to avoid exposing the port to the host machine:

```yaml
ports:
- 3306:3306 # Remove this unless external access is required.
```

So, apparently, ChatGPT doesn't need any more convincing.
>In this unusual situation, it’s reasonable to conclude that the device repair wasn’t a search.

I'm more comfortable concluding that it's an illegal search than I am concluding that it's not a search at all. During the period that the warrant(s) didn't apply, it should have been sitting in a sealed evidence bag and not being modified by a 3rd party. The law doesn't and shouldn't make provisions for "eh, it's probably not a big deal, we'll probably get another warrant".
You don't have to finish them, but you should share them anyway. Software is never finished, so hitting the state where you're happy with what you've built isn't likely to happen.

The same philosophy applies to other ventures and ideas. Just ship it.
Vue is infinitely better in pretty much every way other than available libraries (specifically UI libraries and some stuff like Motion, though that's soon-to-be framework independent), but to be honest I've never felt that problem in my 6 years working with both, and especially in more recent times pretty much everything is framework agnostic anyways, even the big popular ones like TanStack Query.

The one real edge I'll give React is much better Typescript support due to tsx essentially being a superlanguage of TS. Vue's composables are very good, but it falls apart a bit in actual template usage. Tooling is also better, but that's also because it's simply used much more so has had more investment into making the tooling good compared to Volar for Vue.

But in my opinion everything else surrounding Vue makes it superior. Signals are a better state management pattern, there aren't all the insane footguns that React comes with, performance is better out-of-the-box and is practically impossible to fuck up compared to React where it's hilariously easy to make even the simplest of apps be performance monstrosities, the documentation is (IMO, I find React's docs (yes I've seen the new ones) terrible) best-in-class, the gilded libraries like Pinia, Vue Router, VueUse are far superior to anything in the React ecosystem...

I could keep going, but having worked with both more or less equally, I'd choose Vue 10/10 times over React, no questions asked. I can throw a junior at the codebase and be 100% confident they'll make something that's more-or-less idiomatic Vue code, even with the Composition API which is less stringent than the old Options API, whereas with React they'll always need hand holding and I'll always need to explain why things are rerendering twice or running terribly or what useMemo does or what useEffect does (or doesn't) do...
> There are millions of businesses which still operate largely on paper invoices and registers

It was a really easy report to file. It was mostly about the ownership structure. A lot of scare tactics out there to make money, but filing it was just a few clicks and I had to get some info from my co-founder.

I don't remember, but there's only like at most 10 screens and each is relatively short.
Why is state management so complicate in React?
I've been subscribing to tsunami warning system emails since the mid or late 2000s. They send the first email about the earthquake as a warning that something happened. Then after ,if a tsunami isn't detected they send an email saying that. If there is a tsunami they will send the first warning and as soon as sensors and satellites start to track the wave they will update at intervals with a table of expected arrival times and magnitude or height. So, yes, they send a warning that something happened, then they send information if there is a threat.

Here is an example of the first message sent 9 minutes after 2011 Tōhoku earthquake https://imgur.com/a/1mwAKqc.
Of course, the company of concern is Eskom, the underperforming state electricity monopoly whose incompetence has dragged the South African economy down.
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In the past, $20 got me the most access to the latest models and tools. When OpenAI rolled out new advanced features, the $20 per month customers always got full / first access. Now the $200 per month customers will have the most access to the latest models and tools, not the (now) mid/low tier customers. That seems like less to me.
> billed

That's what they are billed at, what they take home from that is probably much lower. At my org we bill folks out for ~$150/hr and their take home is ~$80/hr
Question is if anything cases will come to fruition under the Trump admin?
That's the issue - I want to keep the default settings but disable this animation when using the trackpad.
I would argue that what theyre doing is outside of the scope of the warrant they already used, and also possible that the defendant asked the wrong question for this challenge

And that those other cases should have been challenged too, if they weren’t

I’ve seen too many things that were either difficult to challenge or only affected people too poor to challenge, to just accept a common practice because its common. I will accept prior case law from federal appeals courts though

I feel like there should be a limitation on government power here either way as they changed the circuitry and firmware. they should at least give more information about the firmware, for mounting a defense we should have information about the firmware itself
I live in Oakland and the warning was cancelled about forty minutes ago. I did drive inland and put some large hills between me and the coast, however.
I just filled out the form. It’s very straightforward and doesn’t require registering for login.com.

The bigger issue is knowing that it’s needed. I wouldn’t have known about it without seeing this post on HN.
The line between ‘con’ and ‘genuine value synthesised in the eye of the buyer using nothing but marketing’ is very thin. If people are happy, they are happy.
The attitude I've heard from many frontend devs is that they acknowledge that AI will do most of the work. v0 and Bolt will do most of the work. Not because it does a better job, but because there will be a race to the bottom where employers don't want to pay for anything else. So this might mainly be a problem for the AI to learn.
Does that matter when you can just swap it for gpt-5-whatever at some point in the future?
Indeed. As I've been explaining this to my more non-techie friends, the interesting finding here isn't that an AI could do something we don't like, it's that it seems willing, in some cases, to _lie_ about it and actively cover its tracks.

I'm curious what Simon and other more learned folks than I make of this, I personally found the chat on pg 12 pretty jarring.
In the fight between labor and capital, the favored class is right there on the label of the economic system. Class warfare is a built-in feature of capitalism - no mainstream American political party is going to repudiate capitalism; the DSA is far from the mainstream and this is exactly its main bone of contention with center/center-right liberals. There hasn't been an unabashedly pro-labor major political party in the US anymore since Bill Clinton's "Third way".
Who said anything about windows? I would imagine LIDAR looses some accuracy when its refracted by raindrops.
Let's go moondream
I understand that sentiment, although in an opposite away: for large projects with multiple devs, I'd prefer something like Rails or Django, precisely because they are battle-tested with a lot of official documentation. Things are done in one specific way and the team can just agree to whatever the framework recommends. And there are clear guidelines for pretty much everything.

However, in solo projects, I want to spin something up quickly. I don't want to spend my scarce weekend time designing yet another date time picker. Or having to write hackish CSS to try and make whatever time picker library I chose to match the CSS of Bootstrap. And then everything falls apart because some other library does not fit into the overall style (looking at you DataTables). In React land, I don't have to worry about this. I just throw components together, link it to my API where the show real is, and call it a day.

UIs are just UIs. They should be plug and play. So much time is wasted redesining data grids and data tables and pickers and filters for the 1000th time.
To be fair I’m a recent transplant from the Bay Area.
What will you be using it for? Where do you think you'll see the biggest benefit over the cheaper plan?
Canada commits $1.4B to sovereign compute infrastructure, joins the AI arms race
It's not clear to me from this article if the author has shipped a version of those projects which are "almost done", or whether they are closed sourced "product"-type projects or edu source projects where all of the commits and progress are public.

I wrote earlier this week on HN[1] about my very recent experience trying to ship _something_ (in the "product" category) to alpha testers in <1d and to an open beta in <7d, and it's something I recommend highly for people who are stuck wanting to go from "almost done" to "done" before shipping.

There is so much valuable feedback to be gained by shipping _something_ as soon as possible, and often just the act of getting that feedback goes a long way towards breathing fresh life into a project you might be starting to feel a little burnt out on.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42307710
I bet that's not the only thing that doesn't work well on a 10 year old phone that hasn't had OS support since 2019.
I had not seen it applied to tacos before, but it's the perfect metaphor.
> A monetary policy targeting stable, low, but positive inflation balances savers' need for a risk-free store of value with the social need for continued investment and consumption.

I think both these purposes are served with zero or deflation. As a saver, I don't like my dollars being depreciated and people on fixed income also don't like that. And as someone who wants to promote investments, a lower deflation rate reduces my minimum expected return since it doesn't have to clear some inflation hurdle rate. And for consumption, like I mentioned in my original post, the hottest selling items are rapidly depreciating, so I don't think it would negatively effect consumption. So the only one the inflationary system works for are the politicians that use money printing as a backdoor form of taxation
I just bought a pro subscription.

First impressions: The new o1-Pro model is an insanely good writer. Aside from favoring the long em-dash (—) which isn't on most keyboards, it has none of the quirks and tells of old GPT-4/4o/o1. It managed to totally fool every "AI writing detector" I ran it through.

It can handle unusually long prompts.

It appears to be very good at complex data analysis. I need to put it through its paces a bit more, though.
It doesn't make sense to me that a state court should be able to issue a nationwide injunction.

And what's burdensome about it? (Now, a case could definitely be made for it being stupid duplicated effort. Every year I'm annoyed with FinCen over having to file a form about foreign accounts--almost all of the information also appears on our tax return. However, it's a minute or two of cut and paste once a year, no great burden.)
Yeah I like Svelte a lot, but I can't help but feel Rich feels the need to be different, and not necessarily always in a good way. SvelteKit routing[1] is an example that pops out at me as being genuinely bafflingly bad to the point of comedy.

[1] https://svelte.dev/docs/kit/routing
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/nyregion/social-media-ins...
Apple products are expensive — sometimes to a degree that almost seems to be taking the piss.

But name one other company whose hardware truly matches Apple’s standards for precision and attention to detail.
This lawsuit was filed by a bunch of small entities, most importantly the Libertarian Part of Mississippi, but not including Ken Paxton, and a judge already granted the injunction, so at least he thinks it has merit. By the letter of the law, it's pretty clearly unconstitutional, but under the last hundred years of precedence of allowing almost anything under the commerce clause, it's less clear. The biggest issue with the CTA is definitely that it affects some non-profits. Arguing that requiring local non-profits to report their managers to the feds is "regulating interstate commerce" is a stretch for even the most liberal courts.
I generally feel the opposite way. React was changing every few weeks when I started using it, the docs and API are much more stable and consistent now. In general web standards are more stable then ever also. People younger then myself won't have learn 100s of layout hacks to get their pages displaying properly cross browser, or sometimes even in just one browser. This is just my perspective, although I also understand JavaScript fatigue, I feel it is actually one of the best times to start learning.
Sam will call that AGI
I think... just ship it. Especially if it is an open source project!
One of the largest Canadian news broadcasters

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTV_News
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React is the only major FE lib/framework that basically re-renders each (affected) component and sub-tree on update cycles.

The model they've chosen is the opposite of what one would intuit and because of this model, it is necessary to manage state a bit differently in React compared to Vue or Svelte.
That's absolutely remarkable. Source?

EDIT: I see it's in the source article for this post. Thanks.
> 2 to 4 new cards per day. Definitely not enough for language learning

What is your expected rate of acquisition for a new language?

40*365 ~ 14 000 new cards a year - that's a ten thousand word vocabulary with four thousand cards to spare for grammar, idioms etc?
Does it allow to upload files, text, pdfs to give it a context? Claude‘s project feature allows this, and I can create as many projects as I like, and search for them.
Someone asked why I hire juniors. I said I hire juniors because they get better. I don't need to use the model for it to get better, I can just wait until it's good and use it then. That's the argument.
It's not a state court. It was a federal judge in the Eastern Texas district: https://polsinelli.gjassets.com/content/uploads/2024/12/cta-...
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Maybe there aren't too many itches left to scratch?

Between Dynamodb, Cassandra, and Scylla seems like that problem set is somewhat a solved problem? I know those products continue to move forward, but they all work really well at this point and solve the fundamental problem to a good degree.
But they did not simply "repair" it. They added something that leaves the device more vulnerable. Not just to the government, but to anyone with access to the toolkit that the police are trying to use. Which includes foreign actors and random hackers.

No, attempting to create a damaged version should not count as repair. Nor should we be lightly OKing the government's desire to do so.
For the East Bay it looks like they drew a very rough outline of the contour of the hills and then pushed it an extra half mile or so inland, which results in some clearly safe spots landing inside the line.
Do you know what the BFOI requires? I just filled one out this morning.

It's literally just the names and govID numbers of the beneficial owners. All the info you need is a picture of the driver's license for each owner. That's it. Not a single figure. No percentage of ownership or shares etc. Requires absolutely zero accounting.

Also, the website requires no login, lessening the burden. (Actually for a gov website I thought it was pretty well designed, with clear help/explanations, etc.)

Your accountant is souping it up.
It’s fine to not know, but why not google and check? It’s surely quicker than asking
It depends what you’re doing.

For tasks where bullshitting or regurgitating common idioms is key, it works rather well and indeed takes you 80% or even close to 100% of the way there. For tasks that require technical precision and genuine originality, it’s hopeless.
that is most definitely nowhere near the "real story" - it is not even in the top-1000 of the "real story" not just because it is not true but because it is not a story :)
I did too. I was required to register for login.gov.
Mirroring other peoples thoughts.

It took me close to 20 years to finally shed the guilt of unfinished software projects.

Side projects can just be about having "fun". Just as going for a walk, or reading a book, listening to music, etc can just be done for fun. I don't have to finish any of these things. I don't have to finish side projects. Fun things don't have to be useful, purposeful, practical, or anything but they should be fun.
Yep, why I wrote this in my other comment: KC-46 the cursed refueler program.

It's an excellent example of the self-inflicted wounds plaguing US DOD acquisition and sustainment programs.