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My job is not to write monospace, 80 column-wide text but to find solutions to problems.

The solution often involves software but what that software does and how it does it can vary wildly and it is my job to know how to prioritize the right things over the wrong things and get to decent solution as quickly as possible.

Should we implement this using a dependency? It seems it is too big / too slow, is there an alternative or do we do it ourselves? If we do it ourselves how do we tackle this 1000 page PDF full of diagrams?

LLMs cannot do what I do and I assume it will take a very long time before they can. Even with top of the line ones I'm routinely disappointed in their output on more niche subjects where they just hallucinate whatever crap to fill in the gaps.

I feel bad for junior devs that just grab tickets in a treadmill, however. They will likely be replaced by senior people just throwing those tickets at LLMs. The issue is that seniors age and without juniors you cannot have new seniors.

Lets hope this nonsense doesn't lead to our field falling apart.
> AI can already do everything you can imagine, and more

Just like https://zombo.com/.
> We are in for an interesting few years regarding auto safety in the US

Not the kind of thing you want to call "interesting", concerning would be a better word
Ask HN: How should I deal with US based client not paying?
Hi,

I am currently dealing with a US based client, not paying me for my work. This was mainly a payroll company for which I worked for around 3 years.

In general their payment were delayed, but they used to come in 2-3 months. Unfortunately, I kept working after 2nd year without renewing the contract and at the end of 3rd years, payment started having more and more delays.

I've currently stopped working for them but working for same company via different payroll provider.

The previous payroll company haven't paid me for my last 3 months of work for them, but actually client has informed me that they have paid to the payroll company for the invoices I raised.

The total amount is around $10000, it may be small amount for someone in USA, but it is certainly big enough to run my whole family for a year here in India.

This payroll company has now been acquired by a bigger company and may have ceased their operations.

Do I have any avenues to recover this amount ? Looking for suggestions from the community.
As someone who went to a bootcamp a good while ago...I am now formally pursuing a technical masters program which has an angle on AI(just enough to understand where to apply it, not doing any research).
Yeah, look at the Sonim XP3+/XP5+ (depending if you want a flip phone or candybar).

Rugged, Android-Go powered "Call/SMS/MMS" devices, week and a half on battery if you leave it on constantly, hotspot, and you can, if you insist, sideload apps. Just, don't expect any modern Android app to be usable on a 240x320 screen with keyboard input only. If you use a Bluetooth mouse, it's marginally less-awful, but still, don't expect much to work.

I did get KDE Connect working - that allows you to send text messages with a real computer keyboard. It's not as nicely integrated as the Apple iMessage ecosystem, but it does allow for sending texts without having to T9 the whole thing. Alternately, the better option is to just move longer conversations to email or an actual phone call.

One of these shouldn't run you much over about $150 (in the US), and they work fine on the super cheap MVNO operators out there.

My writeup from about a year ago: https://www.sevarg.net/2023/12/30/more-flip-phone-sonim-xp3-...
ZA (South Africa) is 15–20% of revenue.
Bodies are processes, like chemical reactions or baseball games, not "objects." No problem.
As someone who's personally tried ( with lots of effort) to build agentic assistants/systems 3+ times over the course of the last few years I haven't seen any huge improvements in the quality of output. I think you greatly underestimate the plateau these models are running into.

Grok and o1 are great examples of how these plateaus also wont be overcome with more capital and compute.

Agentic systems might become great search/research tools to speed up the time it takes to gather (human created) info from the web, but I don't see them creating anything impressive or novel on their own without a completely different architecture.
I guess I have enough FU money to say things like this, but I can't fathom getting to this login page and continuing. Do I think I'm actually making a legal agreement with these checkboxes? No. Do I think Matt is going to come after me, personally? (LOL, I don't think he has much of a grasp on the rest of our's shared reality right now, so...) no. But also, I have a low-bar of tolerance for insulting or abusive BS and this far, far exceeds it.
The analytical engine wasn't a stored program computer. It most closely follows the Harvard architecture, with instructions read from punch card memory. The analytical engine's claim to fame is that it was the first Turing complete computer to be designed.
Come on, how would you know the difference, if you'd grown up without ever have known the real thing?

To extrapolate the theme of that movie just a little bit further?
That does not include security cameras: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/domestic-cctv-usi...
Autocomplete and snippets have been a thing for a long time and it hasn’t come for my job yet, and I suspect, will never.
Privatization is a bad idea for an essential service that does not need to grow, innovate, or add new features. Services like postal service should promise a core set of features (sending stuff) with minor upgrades to keep up with basic technique without any profit.
I remember using GPT-4 when it first dropped to get a feeling of its capabilities, and no, I wouldn't say that llama-3.3-70b is comparable.

At the end of the day, there's only so much you can cram into any given number of parameters, regardless of what any artificial benchmark says.
Looks like you put the private models link in your Show HN post text as well - it's worth fixing.

Are you planning to support any image or video generation models, or focusing on text for now?
Has anyone built a virtual machine out of Babbage's instruction set and then tried Ada's program?
Also, we need to be more specific about what ML actually means. I see a lot of people thinking that Kalman filters/CFAR/wavelet transforms/super-res/DSP correlation/whatever are all just magic AI bullshit that can find any signal regardless of how far below the noise floor it is.

I wish we'd go back to referring to things by their core algorithm like "Neural Nets for DSP filtering". I guess that just doesn't get the ultra wealthy dumb fuck class to open their wallet fast enough...
This might be a dumb question to ask, but what exactly is this useful for? B-Roll for YouTube videos? I'm not sure why so much effort is being put into something like this when the applications are so limited.
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> > LLM’s never provide code that pass my sniff test

> This is ego speaking.

That's been my experience of LLM-generated code that people have submitted to open source projects I work on. It's all been crap. Some of it didn't even compile. Some of it changed comments that were previously correct to say something untrue. I've yet to see a single PR that implemented something useful.
It raises the cost and hassle involved from "I need a cheap hosting package" to I need to do paperwork, keep and file accounts, etc.
> “I’m not a sandwich person, I don’t think sandwiches are a real food, it’s what you have for breakfast.” The Tory leader went on to confirm that she “will not touch bread if it’s moist.

The headline is clickbait. She didn't say that sandwiches are not real. She is saying that she doesn't believe it is a proper lunch/meal.
3dfx VoodooX custom project aims to modernize the classic GPU
This is generating SVG data, not using an image generator.
The first thing I did when I loaded this page was add 3 css rules (margin, line height, font size). Like I get purity, but c'mon.
If a product is straightforward, works well, has no lock-in, then customers don't spend on support or switch to a competitor. So don't make good products. That's the message for most of the SaaS world.
I love simple solutions. I am doing something similar-but not so similar. I got tired of Loom and needed something simpler, and I made VideoBackr.com that can record your screen for share directly in the browser. I just made a cronjob to encode/compress the videos once a minute, works like a charm though there's a little delay :)
Did you have those challenges after the 1.0 update? I heard that update fixed a lot of those issues.
If the elephant isn't wearing a tie it's still a casual setting.
I feel the influencer crowd is overblowing the actual utility of LLM's massively. Kind of feels akin to the "cryptocurrency will take over the world" trope 10 years ago, and yet .. I don't see it any crypto in my day to day life to this day. Will it improve general productivity and boring tasks nobody wants to do? Sure, but to think any more than that frankly I'd like some hard evidence of it being actually able to "reason". And reason better than most devs I've ever worked with, because quite honestly humans are also pretty bad at writing software, and LLM's learn from humans, so ...
Assuming you regard the cost of keeping and filing accounts and other paperwork, annual registration fees, etc. as negligible yes.
If you showed the raw output of, say, QwQ-32 to any engineer from 10 years ago, I suspect they would be astonished to hear that this doesn't count as "true reasoning".
No, that isn't a done deal yet:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/810406/ratio-of-military...
post-cold-war numbers until 2022 are under 1.4%

2023 is still well below 2% at 1.5%:
https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2024-04/2404_fs_mi...

2024 is expected to maybe barely scratch 2%, but maybe only with accounting tricks such as including road and train infra spending:
https://www.politico.eu/article/berlin-germany-pump-defense-...
Also, the 100mio are only expected to last until 2026 at most, and the budget for 2025 led to the blowup of the traffic-light-coalition government and is expected to include major slashes in spending when the next government after the spring election gets working on it.
This is the the artist you are thinking of.

https://www.gianlucagimini.it/portfolio-item/velocipedia/
I feel like ”quite well” is overselling it a bit. It did maybe better.
That description made me smile, not bad for alt text!
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>Parents should be the ones that should be controlling their children's social media usage.

I guess we should stop checking age when buying alcohol in pubs (_Parents should be the ones that should be controlling their children's alcohol purchases_)

And stop checking age when buying cigarettes (_Parents should be the ones that should be controlling their children's tobacco purchases_)

etc.

It's illuminating that your post is both "tech can't solve it" and so brazenly pro-tech with manifestations of its laziest arguments each way.

Of course tech can solve the ID problem. It could solve it in a way that doesn't need to give ground to your slippery slope argument too. It just doesn't have the incentive model to do so. Any "control" in this space would reduce the marketable headcount and so it's not in tech's interests to solve - without government intervention.
If you have strong consistency requirements, then it doesn't work by the very nature of making multiple copies of the database. Even if the clocks are perfect. (Though the clocks are probably close enough that it doesn't matter.)
Once again, this seems to only apply to Python / ML SWEs. Try to get any of these models to write decent Rust, Go or C boilerplate.
> Is there some expectation that these things won't improve?

I definitely expect them to improve. But I also think the point at which they can actually replace a senior programmer is pretty much the exact point at which they can replace any knowledge worker, at which point western society (possibly all society) is in way deeper shit than just me being out of a job.

> This is ego speaking.

It definitely isn't. LLMs are useful for coding now, but they can't really do the whole job without help - at least not for anything non-trivial.
I don't think that I've ever had an issue like that on Windows. Their business practices with the ads and whatnot are awful, but the drivers and hardware work very, very well. Honestly even as a pretty knowledgeable person I don't consider your situation to be acceptable, much less someone who isn't knowledgeable. "You have to roll back the kernel" is just not reasonable to expect of people.
>as a bike geek, I could draw one from memory that's correct in all details.

Mo link, sorry, but on youtube, GCN asked pro riders to draw a bicycle...none could.
That naming convention makes perfect sense to the mathematician, so why not? It's why we use `for(int i = i; i < n; i++)` in for loops; its the mathematical sigma sum of values with the same naming convention
Was yours an SVG? I think that’s what makes Simon feel that this test is useful: the LLM has to generate functioning SVG code describing these shapes.
Sure. There is almost no industry left where AI is not plugged into the business processes.

LLM are tunable, so we'll get some kind of kindergartened version of AI which will be still useful, yet too polite.
There are around 5000 active kernel devs, they are generally highly skilled and therefore highly paid, and they've been working for a lot longer than 10 years.

So doesn't seem that unlikely based on your estimates.
Called the Harbinger Effect

the same group of consumers has an outsized tendency to purchase all kinds of failed products, time after time, flop after flop

You really don't want these people as customers:

In a key part of the study, the researchers studied consumers whose purchases flop at least 50 percent of the time, and saw pronounced effects when these harbingers of failure buy products. When the percentage of total sales of a product accounted for by these consumers increases from 25 to 50 percent, the probability of success for that product decreases by 31 percent. And when the harbingers buy a product at least three times, it’s really bad news: The probability of success for that product drops 56 percent

https://news.mit.edu/2015/harbinger-failure-consumers-unpopu...
Yeah, Sweden. Every citizen above the age of majority can vote. The only way to lose your right to vote it to not be a citizen. I'm sure there are other countries as well. The US is not one of them however as certain felons can't vote, making up a total of 2,47% of the voting population in 2016 according to wikipedia.

Unless you wanna argue that age of majority is the same as disallowing black people and women, which I'd disagree strongly with. You don't grow out of being black or a woman.
A different idea based on time-varying antennas, but I've always wondered about the interesting technical challenges behind building a phased array antenna from a bunch of flying drones.
The CEO in the story, Geetesh Goyal, seems exceptionally scummy.
I had this phone, sometimes from boredom I was tossing and catching it and it occasionally fell on the ground. Try doing this with these miserable fragile iPhones and Galaxies. Unfortunately one day it cracked while falling and I regret so much throwing it, the 6310i would have been working until today.
It's highly dependent on the pizza and the pineapple and how it's cooked. In a general sense most of the time I've had pineapple on pizza it's not very good but there are specific instances where it was phenomenal.

First you need to have fresh pineapple. Not that fibrous tough stuff that's not quite ripe yet but beautifully ripe perfectly sweet fresh pineapple. Canned pineapple is just trash you throw in a fruitcake.

Next you need a pizza that's going to be spicy. Not a little bit spicy but we're most people will go oh my God it's very spicy. Generally a very spicy pepperoni works along with some additional hot peppers.

Lastly you need to be able to cook it so the sugars in the pineapple gets caramelized without burning the pizza and without burning the cheese. Once you've accomplished these things you have a very awesome sweet and spicy pizza with pineapple on it.

It is oh so rare to be able to find a pizza like this.
Agree, some domains are a big gray area. I used it to understand some accounting jargon while diagnosing a software issue, but anything that is not very commonplace is littered with misinformation, so you have to doublecheck. I find it more useful to gain a direction or lead on a topic rather than answers directly.

Of course many executives don't deal with the obscure stuff day to day (e.g. regular stuff people actually get paid to deal with) and think that LLMs can turn anyone into a superhero overnight :) The amount of times we were told that we were "putting our heads in the sand" regarding the advantages of AI was very annoying.
^^^ - this was my first reaction too. I wonder how they would ensure the same level of quality (e.g. not just safe code due to Rust)
Ha, see, even missed that part! Honestly.
It looks like no LLM has seen a pelican before at all.
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> Not in the winter though!

> In the hot and humid summer you're definitely trying to reduce indoor humidity.

No, you can't do that with ventilation when it's hotter outside than inside actually, that's not how thermodynamics works! But we don't care about that, because in the summer you don't have cold walls or window where water vapor can condense and let mold grow.

> But in the winter when it's bone-dry? A hot shower barely makes a difference.

The reason why it doesn't make a difference is because all the moisture is vented away by your ventilation system! And that's because that's what it's designed to do! Stop it and see how it goes! For the record a single wet sponge drying up in your kitchen is enough to raise humidity by 10%! You barely need 2cL of water per cubic meter to have 50% humidity at 20°C.

As I said the problem is that in winter, ventilation system often ventilate way too much.

Also, they are often designed so the cold and dry air enters in the bedrooms/living room and the warm/moist air is extracted in the kitchen and the bathroom, and because of that the rest of the house doesn't get any of the excess moisture of these places. This is done because the designers wanted to make sure that the humidity level never raise too much in the room, because again humidity will ruin your house and health pretty quick (having air that's too dry isn't very good for your lungs, but having fungi spores in the air is much worse!)
Are they that limited? It's a machine that can make videos from user input: it can ostensibly be used wherever you need video, including for creative, technical and professional applications.

Now, it may not be the best fit for those yet due to its limitations, but you've gotta walk before you can run: compare Stable Diffusion 1.x to FLUX.1 with ControlNet to see where quality and controllability could head in the future.
> It's not particularly egregious because it's not a national vote for a party, is it?

You're talking with someone who thinks that it is egregious that a party that gets the minority of the vote runs the government, and the grandfather of your own comment points out that in 2024 it was with the lowest percentage vote in 30 years, which is particular.

The electorate lurched from the Conservatives farther right, and the result of that was a centrist government.
Spot on!

Funnily, I think this is also true of most traditional religions. I have known a variety of thoughtful and sincere religious people over the years. They have studied extensively and deeply engaged with the human meaning of the words. But I've also met a lot of very shallowly religious people, either because they haven't bothered or because they work energetically to maintain a narrow take because it's socially or economically useful to them.

And of course there's an intersection in what I've heard called the "Supply Side Jesus" view.
I'm shocked.

How is it only 1 in 6? Surely they've got plenty of time to harass the other 83%. It doesn't take long to bang out a quick deepfake.
I couldn't agree more, but with one exception. I tend to heavily indulge the simulation hypothesis, but the nuance here being that it's not necessarily just an arbitrarily simulated complete reality.

Our lives do an unbelievably good job of teaching us endless unteachable lessons. What if life as we know it is, for instance, little more than a day's lesson in another reality? Or a day of a gaming? Perhaps a test of character for some sort of role? There's no reason to assume time, and life expectancy as we know it, are universal truths. Even within our own reality the rate of the passage of time is variable.

The only problem I have with the simulation hypothesis is it being turtles all the way down. Imagine you pass from this world only to 'awake' in another. How does the exact same simulation argument not just apply yet again? It seems fundamentally unfalsifiable and circular, but I suppose that is standard for any explanation of life.
>As someone who's personally tried ( with lots of effort) to build agentic assistants/systems 3+ times over the course of the last few years I haven't seen any huge improvements in the quality of output. I think you greatly underestimate the plateau these models are running into.

As someone who's personally tried with great success to build agentic systems over the last 6 months, you need to be aware of how fast these things are improving. The latest Claude Sonnet makes GPT-3.5 look like a research toy. Things are trivial now in the code gen space that were impossible just earlier this year. Anyone not paying attention is missing the boat.
> if you exclude the smaller providers, that’s where the drugs and CSAM and the freewheeling dialog go.

- Bad actors go everywhere now.

- £18 million fines seem like a fairly unhinged cannon to aim at small webistes.

- A baseless accusation is enough to trigger a risk of life-changing fines. Bad actors don't just sell drugs and freewheel; they also falsely accuse.