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AI as Tech Analyst
A few days ago, I attended an event in San Francisco where we explored how AI can be used to create personas and how realistic these personas can be compared to real human panelists.

The discussion sparked an intriguing question: Can AI be leveraged to make accurate tech predictions? We’re at that time of year when prominent figures in the tech world begin sharing their visions for what 2025 holds.

To test this idea, I asked ChatGPT and Claude to generate tech predictions for 2025, channeling the personas of Marc Andreessen and Marques Brownlee. The results were fascinating — each prediction reflected the style and interests of these figures, though some overlaps naturally emerged.

One amusing insight: Due to outdated information, Claude predicted a bright future for the Apple Vision, a product Apple discontinued just a few weeks ago. This was the only instance where I had to step in and provide updated information to generate a new prediction. It makes sense, though — Marques often focuses on product reviews, and tech products can appear and disappear faster than tech stacks or broader concepts.

It will be interesting to revisit these predictions in a few months to see what was accurate, what missed the mark, and what was completely off-base.

Happy Holidays!

Read more here:
[Top 10 Technology Trends for 2025, capturing the spirit of Marc Andreessen](https://medium.com/@spaquet/top-10-technology-trends-for-2025-f2dc56896947)
[Top 10 Technology Trends for 2025, capturing the spirit of Marques Brownlee](https://medium.com/@spaquet/top-10-technology-trends-for-2025-cf117f54ed72)

Let me know your thoughts.
If anything, it's a relatively straightforward way to do what amounts to publishable work in mathematics. Besides the obvious point of being able to claim "I've dotted all the i's and crossed all the t's", formalized proofs are often more elegant than the original they're based on because refactoring a proof to be simpler, more general etc. and checking that it still goes through is comparatively easy - and obviously, mathematicians are interested in that.
if you’re reducing the ethics of right to terminate one’s life to “far woke leftist diseases i don’t think you have anything valuable to contribute to the discussion
That theoretical maximum for a lithium-air battery seems much too high, so it is likely to be computed in the wrong way, in order to provide an optimistic but false value.

The mass that must be used for computing the theoretical maximum is that of Li2O, not the mass of lithium. Per atom of lithium, the mass of Li2O is 2.14 times greater, so it is likely that the number quoted by you must be divided by 2.14.

Indeed, computing very approximately 1 electron x the value of the elementary charge x 3 volt x the number of Avogadro (per kmol) / 15 kilogram / 3600 seconds, gives about 5500 Wh/kg, so the value quoted by you is indeed wrong.
Reminder: try and use the latest intel GPU drivers on Linux. These intel devices are very new and constantly get software updates for obvious visual artefacts in 3D workloads (mostly games). Also improving performance in many cases.
Oh, Radio Free Skaro uses this version on their podcasts!
This is so weird, why does every user has to use their LLM subscriptions/keys instead of just storing the summarization of the HN posts as a static website somewhere? (e.g. summarize once for all users)
> That relies on "knowing that undefined behavior cannot happen."

No it doesn't.
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You call this "fraud," but aren't you describing murder? So in essence, you're suggesting that doctors are murdering people because of incentives?
One of my two most vivid memories is seeing pink Floyd live while on acid.

I'm not advocating for drug use unless you can get a time machine and go see them at the height of their fame. And then I am immediately advocating for you to be on acid.
That or the Q key
interesting idea! how was the pricing model developed? Is it the same thing to look at 1 million emails a month versus just 1000 emails?
The main point is having LOCAL systems (not-OEM controlled), which is a problem since 99% of the people, electricians included, have not enough IT skills to configure a fully local system even if some are available commercially...

The secondary point is using p.v. for self-consumption with a bit of storage instead of injected to the grid in the absence, and substantial technical impossibility, of a national smart-grid.

Unfortunately giants do not want people who own, so do their best to be against self-consumption and storage, even pretend to meter the self-consumed energy and tax them. If the current pro-giants evolutionary moves against civil society interest do not end we will end in disasters and civil wars, and no, it's not an exaggeration.
Both the colon and Q keys can be in different places, which can really mess with your muscle memory.
I was in 8th grade when this came out and it was like catnip for angst-y teens. Our music teacher actually went over the lyrics of Another Brick In the Wall (Part 2) line-by-line with our class. He was not a fan. He tried to explain how wrong-headed each and every line was. Needless to say, he didn't win any hearts and minds, but we did appreciate listening to PF in music class.

Bear in mind, this guy also paddled the hell out of a kid who threw a pencil ("you could blind someone that way!") And by paddle, I mean a cricket-bat sized piece of wood, hands up against the lockers. Teacher, leave them kids alone!
I had missed the idle consumption. That being said I guess if they are that energy conscious the next question would be why aren't they shutting down their computer when not in use.
Early stage founders involved in patent infringement suit?
have any of your early stage companies been hit with a patent infringement suit? how much did it cost for them to go away?
In this century, wars are unlikely to end once they are started, so camps might become permanent, gas chambers are more cost effective.
of this tournament, i think magnus would have loved to play against ding, and not at all gukesh.

prep memorization remains a bit of a cheat where its your memorization and prep picking thats playing the game, rather than actually playing the game.

i think a randomly chosen "start from x position, with y time, and z increment after move c" for some 30 games over two weeks would do pretty well. Steal the formats from engine chess.
"In Christianity life is about suffering. You're basically earning heaven points." I think you're conflating WoW with other people's faith somehow. YMMV
If true

1)why doesn't someone say they are delivery drones?

2) wouldn't someone see them deliver something?
Open source monospace component library for React built with variable fonts
To anyone that thinks this is a bad idea honestly try doing a ride along (where you get to spend the day following a police officer). The amount of paperwork they do is insane - a single crash report can be 4+ pages long and the vast majority of the questions are incredibly menial.
I love this idea, this is really cool. I work on a joint data/business team and this would be useful for us. One piece of technical feedback: it would be good if you could press = and then use the arrow keys to select parts of your formula (like in excel). With quantus, I need to press =, and then switch to my mouse, and then click the cell (for example EBITDA), then press '/' on my keyboard, then go back to my mouse to select revenue, and then finally press equal, and then submit the assignment.

You should also make the tutorials/mini assignments slightly harder. Its really easy to calculate EBITDA margin when there are 2 lines on the page: revenue and EBITDA. It would be better if there were a few red herrings (like in a real financial statement/operating model). It would be even better if there were some harder stages where someone needs to first calculate EBITDA through the income statement, and then EBITDA margin.

Final piece of feedback: the various mini assignments in a module should all operate off of the same broader set of tabs/excel sheet. It would be rewarding to keep filling out more and more of the broader model, and also to have the context of the entire financial model available at any given time.

Happy to chat more. I would like to add something like this to my team's employee onboarding / training process.
> is to believe that Jesus died for your sins and through accepting Jesus (not through works)

This is true in much of mainline Protestant Christianity, but it's less clear cut in the Catholic and Orthodox branches or in some of the hard-to-categorize groups (Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, etc). They still emphasize that it's only through Christ you can be saved, but they place varying degrees of emphasis on what you should be doing and why.

None I'm aware of says anything about heaven points through suffering, though.
in this video, Tesler explains cut and paste and makes no reference to "the system", it's simply within his editor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhmz68CII9Y
Not everything about India has to be about caste but this is definitely about caste even though it probably happens on autopilot now.

A social movement throughout TN, has made people give up their surnames and instead only mention their initial, so that no one can tell your caste easily. And everyone just follows that convention now. A remarkable example of a societal wide movement making real progress on societal issues without requiring the force of government.
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Deaf, me, here.

They couldn't guess my accent (they were all over the world, each time I tried it).
cooked mode also generally gives input to the program a line at a time and handles things like backspace to delete characters, and it handles program output too, doing things like replacing \n with \r\n.
a view from a generation earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39084117

Re: Ghost in the Shell, I find it amusing that Gibson's 1984 opening line: "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." used to mean grey, but now could mean bright blue (or even black?) due to the march of progress...
Her approval was based on an untreatable medical condition, and the suffering that ensued. That medical condition was made worse by the housing she had, but was not the cause of it.

You can't apply for MAID due to social conditions on their own, it has to be medically justified first and foremost.

It is an interesting case, but at the end of the day it was a medical decision made by doctors, and a completely separate housing decision made by social services. Neither can talk about the case publicly. It is entirely possible that her chemical sensitivity was so non-specific that it wasn't feasible to provide her with any housing.

The flip side of this is you don't want people to be able to use MAID as some sort of weird blackmail. This woman's stance was "I want a better place to live, or my only other option is MAID".
There isn't even a Scientific consensus right now.
I posted this quote in another comment, but felt the harshness of your tone may have been dervied from the topic of Christianity.

Christianity isn't the only religion/world view that has the perspective that your life has value to others, even if you yourself feel doomed.

From the Havamal, the wise words of Odin:

> The lame can ride a horse, the handless drive cattle, the deaf can fight and win. It’s better even to be blind, than fuel on a pyre; a corpse is of no use to anyone.
Maybe Frank Herbert got you covered, with the Bureau of Sabotage https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tactful_Saboteur :-)
Execs should be to blame for everything a company does. That's how leadership is supposed to work. Culturally we should not be okay with someone having power without the consequent responsibility. Hopefully we see that shift.
>> If it looks promising they keep getting more resources until it either has explosive growth and profits or someone higher in the chain thinks

This may be the case, but everything eventually gets compared to the ad business, and the projected financials, no matter how optimistic, look terrible. Then the team leading the initiative wises up and drops it, gets tasked with something else or frustrated and those people leave.
You submitted this 2 hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42403455
Actually WhatsApp used to break on new years eve because everyone was sending messages at the same time. FB fixed that
I built https://gadabout.ai through experimentation with multimodal LLMs / computer use to reduce the burden of user testing side projects. I can't recall the last time I was this excited by a new technology.

Following conversations with others, I've since positioned the tool for marketing teams to run deep competitor analysis and monitoring. Two pilot customers through word of mouth expected to double next month. Invite-only building in tandem with customer feedback, I haven't even put together a landing page yet.

I'm currently designing a ranking algorithm, working name UAC (Usability, Accessibility, Conversion) score.
> Our music teacher actually went over the lyrics of Another Brick In the Wall (Part 2) line-by-line with our class. He was not a fan. He tried to explain how wrong-headed each and every line was.

Hahah, next thing you know, the police academy instructors will go over the lyrics of Fuck Tha Police and conclude that every line is wrong-headed :)
> Canada might not be the worst but their healthcare only cover 60-70% of canadians' need. And it's slowly getting worse with the private sector eating the market.

What's that figure based on?
I use it, it is not very good, ie. it is pretty bad in terms of predictions. Love the mission and everything, just prediction is bad.

I thought once it learns it will be better, but it's been months..
Ongoing discussion (265 points, 17 hours ago, 454 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42396733
Its not free.

This is in their original DNA of being a lending library.
Related:

A 'Second Tree of Life' Could Wreak Havoc, Scientists Warn (nytimes.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42403886
India did invent the game (probably).
> But denying a full grown adult control over their life decisions is cruel and unduly authoritarian.

You’re assuming a clear state of mind and perfect circumstances. Suicidal thoughts are very common in depression. I would say giving people with depression access to euthanasia is more cruel than forcing them to seek help. Suicidal thoughts are also common in people who are struggling financially or people who have curable ailments but no access to healthcare. I would also say letting people kill themselves because they are poor is also much more cruel than denying them euthanasia.

Bodily autonomy is important but we still require you wear seatbelts when you drive.
I appreciate it, but there's no need to be delicate: sexually abusing minors is evil. It's especially evil when a priest does it, since they hold positions of special influence and, of all people, should be best acquainted with how evil sunders the soul from God (priests are specifically trained to hear confessions, absolve people of sin, and advise them on how to avoid sin).

So that's the categorical statement.

More concretely, every adult in our archdiocese receives training on the risks of sexual abuse and I regularly hear the sex abuse scandals addressed during homilies. So it seems like the church, as an organization, is taking steps to address the issue.

But to step back and take a wider view, I think Catholicism acknowledges the brokenness of human beings, but reserves eternal judgement for God. So most serious Catholics are not going to walk away from the church because there is evil inside of priests. There is evil inside all of us. But we are called to do battle with evil. For most of us, that battle is within our own hearts, but certainly we must also root out systemic evil within the Church.

And finally, I see this line of thinking a lot from atheists wrt religion, but I think it is more widely applicable. Which is this: "people have done evil in the name of (or under the banner of) this religion and I will choose to only consider that one particular thing when measuring the moral worth of this religion." So in this case, it would be "the Catholic Church facilitated the mass sexual abuse of minors, therefore it is evil and should be done away with." But I think we have to consider the good that people and groups do when measuring their moral worth. In this case, I would point to all the charitable works done by the church and its faithful as worthy of your consideration.

To see how essential this expanded consideration is, I think it helps to slot in institutions which have less emotional valence than the Catholic Church (or Christianity or whatever). For instance, there have been many cases of school teachers sexually abusing students. Yet I don't think anybody would argue that the entire institution of school should be done away with or that adherents to schooling should walk away from it. After all, school is a crucial institution where many children thrive and where most teachers are grinding out good acts on a daily basis.
To add on to that, battery "lifetime" is typically defined as 80% of original capacity. So after 1000 full cycles, you still have 80% capacity left!
Apple vision sales surpass iPad
ding was attacking though. it skuat crazy that he was looking to play for a draw with the white pieces, when he was in a great position to play for the win earlier, before he forced a trade of all the pieces.

ding may have lost for a blunder late in the game, but i think he lost the game and match early, when he traded down to try to play for a draw.

gukesh played every game for a win
Delaware poised to join the 8 other states that adopted UCC Article 12 (2023)
You're so off on this one.

My Trump voting evangelical mother who has quite conservative social opinions says that if she ever gets Alzheimer's as bad as her mother had, she wants us to shoot her in the head. And I don't think she's kidding in the spirit of wanting to die rather than waste away without knowing who she is for years while someone else changes her underwear.

Really, I have to wonder how you got it in your head that this is left-right.
I don't know why anyone would willingly sign up for Carta these days.

Between this and the fact they got caught sharing private cap table data, it's like they're actively being hostile to their users.
In a hypothetical conflict with China, how would you prevent sabotage?
A lithium-air battery (in general all metal-air batteries) is likely to have lower efficiencies for a complete cycle than other lithium-based batteries, perhaps not much above 80%, if not even less. The lower efficiency is caused by one of the reactants being a gas, which causes certain thermodynamic constraints.

A fuel cell with hydrocarbons would have a slightly better efficiency than the best mobile thermal engines, e.g. of 60%, while the ideal energy per mass ratio is more than double for hydrocarbons in comparison with lithium-air batteries, so even with a better efficiency lithium can never match hydrocarbons in usable energy per mass, not even in lithium-air batteries.

The claim from the parent article is wrong and it is based on an incorrect method for computing the ideal energy per mass ratio for lithium-air batteries.
Simply being first isn't the moat -- _switching cost_ is the moat. You've got to get people using your app in order for being first to matter. And the easier it is for those users to switch, the smaller the moat is.

IE6's moat wasn't that it was first at anything, it was that it was installed as the default browser on all new Windows machines -- switching was work. And once lots of custom web applications were built that used IE6-only features (or required IE6-only bugs), switching became impossible.
Or if you are like me and have caps mapped as escape.

Vim works really weird when you start typing random capital letters after thinking you were moving somewhere.
Check out this truly classic first time listen reaction video for Dogs off the Animals album [1]. (Who is that guitarist?!)

King KTF makes you appreciate this track even more than you believed :-)

[1] https://youtu.be/JBPRSKRnpyI?feature=shared
I always quit GHCi with Ctrl-D. I don't even know how else one is supposed to.

Is there some setting that changes it?
Yes - if the observable universe is just a low entropy random fluctuation.
That costs money to host a server, summarize yourself, etc.

While it is possible, such a service would require advertisements, a (probably monthly) fee, or a benevolent patron to pay for the costs.

With this, the only necessary benevolence is the creator of the extension.
Realistically the FTC doesn’t have the staffing or expertise to act on much at all.

They can offer “rules” of questionable value post-Chevron, but even in areas like COPPA where they have clear statutory authority, and widespread lawbreaking, they do nothing.

However, like all things in the United States, justice is for sale, you just need to sue.
This is awesome! I've been thinking about making something like this, but felt like a huge undertaking. One of the major reasons I wanted it was to visualize how (ie under which treaty) were boundary lines moved or redrawn.
I have a family member who would be a straightforward candidate for this if they were in canada. I do not consider them a burden, nor are they "sullying their good name" by continuing to exist.

It does disgust me the way you and others here speak of the possibility of becoming like them. They still find life worth living and the world is better with them in it.
Evaluated step by step...

Offhand, *sink(&y-&x);* the compiler is not _required_ to lay out variables adjacently. So the computation of the pointers fed to sink does not have to be defined and might not be portable.

It would be permissible for the compiler to refuse to compile that ('line blah, op blah' does not conform the the standard's allowed range of behavior).

It would also be permissible to just allow that operation to happen. It's the difference of two pointer sized units being passed. That's the operation the programmer wrote, that's the operation that will happen. Do not verify bounds or alter behavior because the compiler could calculate that the value happens to be PTRMAX-sizeof(int)+1 (it placed X and Y in reverse of how a naive assumption might assume).

The = 42 line might write to any random address in memory. Again, just compile the code to perform the operation. If that happens to write 42 somewhere in the stack frame that leads to the program corrupting / a segfault that's fine. If the compiler says 'wait that's not a known memory location' or 'that's going to write onto the protected stack!' it can ALSO refuse to compile and say why that code is not valid.

I would expect valid results to be a return of: 42, 1 (possibly with a warning message about undefined operations and the affected lines), OR the program does not compile and there is an error message which says what's wrong.
Steve Yegge had an interesting perspective that Google as a company is incredibly arrogant, but is staffed with humble individuals. I can't see how that persists though, without their people getting cocky, or at least ignorant and out of touch. None of these scenarios ends with a responsive company that listens to stakeholders and acts in their best interests.
You can actually do online multiplayer with retro NES/SNES games now using Nintendo switch online.

There have also been several NES emulators that support online play.