skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And FWIW, I cannot imagine a programmer, in 2024, that remains dismissive of LLMs or the related tooling.

Hi.

> While they are grossly oversold by the LinkedIn crowd,

That is true.

> and are still a far ways from so-called "prompt engineers" replacing devs,

Also true.

> they're a massive accelerator and "second set of eyes", especially if you're doing varied, novel work.

That is not even remotely my experience.

Like I can envision a programmer who would get benefits from it, but bluntly put, the code I work on day to day is far, far too interesting to be handled by copilot, simply because there aren't nearly enough stackoverflow pages about it to be scraped. Honestly if you found yourself able to automate most of your job with copilot, if anything, you have my sincerest condolences. I can't imagine how utterly bored you are in your day-to-day.

IF copilot could get to a place where it could understand, comprehend, and weigh-in on code, that would be incredibly useful. But that's not what Copilot is because that's not what transformers are. They are fancy word probability calculators. And don't get me wrong, that has uses, but it is nothing I'd be comfortable calling a second set of eyes for for anything, save for maybe writing.
I'm so interesting in Shortcuts and I love the idea of them, but I haven't found much of a personal use for them yet outside of a shortcut to a specific Google Sheet.

That said, I love that Apple has made this a first party thing. Tasker on Android was a bit finicky (not a knock - it's gotta be hard not being the platform owner and dealing with so much different hardware).

I want to have a use for them so badly! Everything I would've made a shortcut for back in my original iOS days (ended in 2014) are things they've added to the OS directly, so I really can't complain too much.
Yes, and then they throw it out 2 years later and buy a new one.

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

— Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
Two years ago, this comment would have asked whether Blockchain will change this.

I wonder what it'll say two years from now.
Stock prices goes up for shareholders when the C-suite declares they are integrating "AI". This is a well made and short video about the strategy, but the short of it is: "AI integration is not for the sake of employees, but investor's stock price".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lxk9NMeWHg
And the corollary to that called the "Principle of Subsidiarity" which states (paraphrasing) that "Responsibilities must be minimally delegated upwards"
Imagine it. I’m dismissive. The current crop are mediocre interns.
This post is so interesting to me, esp. the build-vs-buy spectrum.

As Dan notes, a lot of software is just...not very good. It either isn't upfront with flaws (as in the case of the Postgres -> Snowflake tool), has too much scope, or is abstracted poorly. Finding things to buy/use (as in the case of open source) can often eat a lot more time than you anticipate.

I've been dipping my toes into the JS ecosystem, and I keep bumping into the fact that using mentally cheap signals of quality (such as stars or DL counts) almost never indicates the quality of the thing itself. Winners seem to be randomly chosen, almost! The only way to assess is to read the code and try integrating it in.

I'd go farther to argue that the larger an ecosystem/market is, the more untrustworthy it behaves as a whole, simply due to the size, and the types of people attracted to it who want to get influence/money. See also: appliances that everyone needs.
I believe it’s state sanctioned child abuse to require kids to attend a bad, inner city school.

Get rid of compulsory schooling and leave it open to all who want it. The animals will leave on their own.
The Vegas loop is also connecting existing infrastructure, not sure why that would be less constrained in terms of destination than any other public transit project.

Again though, the reason I was comparing the two is because The Boring Company delivered what they promised on budget and in 15mo, which to me sounds like a success story, not one of the "worst municipal infrastructure boondoggles in recent years", especially when compared to CAHSR which is about a decade behind and $80B (or 250%) over budget (so far).

This in turn is why, in my judgement, the response posted by the davidw is not a "good take".
To be clear, I think a "phone" as in smartphone, that can't make calls would be mostly as useful for me, personally.

But you might be claiming "people would buy an empty box, if apple put its logo on the box"
I still have their mug!

(Which my child consistently gives me shit for. "Dad, why we we have a cup with the F-word on it!?")
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39731878
Technologies are starting to feel like javascript libraries. Every year there is a new one and the next year nobody cares about it anymore.

I don't understand a lot about AI or quantum computers, but I'm 50% sure in the future we'll be sold QPU's to use AI or something like that.
> It's so straightforward that you've used the exponential function on the complex plane to prove it?! You started by claiming that Pythagoras's theorem follows "directly" from the definition of the dot product. Can you admit that we're now quite far away from that?

I does follow from the definition and common properties of the dot product, which was my original point. But you claimed it was circular because these properties derived from Pythagora's theorem, and so we've ended up showing it doesn't need to. And this later part was obviously much more involved than just “using the dot product”. But that's as if we had to prove that real numbers' multiplication is actually distributive over addition when saying “it follows from a (b+c) = ab + ac”, it's far from trivial if you want to go this far…

> To be honest, your comments have been quite low effort. They amount to "yeah but that bit's pretty easy too" while leaving it to me to work out how (and whether) your points fit into a coherent proof. I do get why this stuff all feels so trivial: we usually skip over it in higher-level proofs. But the only reason we can is that we can use nice abstractions like the dot product with its equivalent definitions, and that's thanks to the foundation these lower-level theorems provide.

I agree with you here, even on the low-effort part, I'm not particularly comfortable writing math on a keyboard and especially not on an English speaking forum because the notations are very different than the ones we use in France.
In French, the bear is killed. In Spanish, he is chased. In Dutch, he is shot. The Spanish look adventurous, and the French straight-forward.
This looks great. How well does the WM12 circulate the air, with the intake and exhaust being so close?
I do, and it's not the default HTML appearance but the default style of how your browser chooses to show unstyled HTML.

Just because it's the default doesn't mean it's suitable for reading and it was never thought of being that.
Maybe - but Dobbs is 50 years too late for anyone to say "American judges aren't political"

Some US states even elect judges and sheriffs, just like they elect politicians - complete with TV ads and tens of millions of dollars being spent by shady super-PACs.
Will a Roku stick work with one?
in order to cure Macular Degeneration we have to develop many different technologies that can be used for power control, it's inevitable as our history shows cyclical nature and behaviors of humans are predefined throughout the history because conceptually the same ideas and thoughts are being encoded and rehashed and decoded by newer generations.
> You think every single one of your coworkers "cause you pain and stress during code reviews"?

Yes, I have a right to have an opinion on how other people’s behaviors make me feel, and so long as I’m still functional at work it’s not a problem (and I am, I always put up a good face and don’t cause any drama, I will refactor my perfectly working PR 1000 times to make all the nitpickers happy). Fortunately “being functional” doesn’t require to answer their referral or Zoom request years later, the hell with that, why would I want those people in my life again.

I simply have no tolerance for most coworkers and managers, it is not that hard to believe and I know a lot of people who despise their coworkers, I am not a unicorn.

My spouse is pretty much the same and has her own small solo business because she couldn’t stand the 9 to 5.

My dad, a very wise man living in a different side of the world and the happiest person I know, decided in his 30s after a corporate stint that he couldn’t live his life being told what to do by managers and coworkers, and became entrepreneur. Clearly he had ups and downs, but he has always been very happy with the independence this choice afforded him.

I earn 7 figures a year through my job in Silicon Valley and so I am putting up with this fundamental pain until I have enough to withdraw, which should be soon!
TEE Toolkit for Autonomous Agents
Introducing the aApp Toolkit - making it easy to build, deploy & run autonomous apps and agents running in TEE (confidential computing).

It allows you to deploy across ANY cloud supporting TEE - AWS, Azure, GCP, or decentralized ones.

Key Features of the toolkit:

- Container-based packaging

- Remote attestations

- Service discovery

- Confidential networking

GitHub link: https://github.com/comrade-coop/aapp-toolkit
The data is in the linked survey: https://www.sellcell.com/blog/iphone-vs-samsung-ai-survey/

- 11.1% of iPhone's users felt the AI features were "very valuable"

- 5.9% of Samsung Galaxy's users felt the AI features were "very valuable"
As a sibling says, this likely won't work for a Nokia feature phone, because it's an integrated design and there's no separate modem.

For a design with a modem module and a ux module, it might possibly just work to swap things out, but it would depend on how VoLTE is supported. If that is all managed by the modem module, then you're probably good.

These modem modules are generally a serial port that speaks Hayes (AT) protocol. Plus some analog lines for mic and speaker. Some 4g modules might be serial over USB and may leave VoLTE entirely up to the application module, that's going go look different.

Some of the modules are a qualcom SoC that runs headless Android. Which works, I guess, but seems bizarre.
> Magnets are only used in spinning storage right?

Maybe not forever. Magnetoresistive RAM (MRAM)[1] has the potential to be both faster than DRAM and non-volatile (but maybe not configured for both at the same time), in which case it could replace both DRAM and flash.

That said, I'm not familiar with the physics of MRAM, so I'm not sure the Altermagnets mentioned in the article are applicable to MRAM in particular.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoresistive_RAM
How do I know the $130 version is any better? Formally good brands have been cost cut to death and can be just as bad or worse as the cheap version. Only difference is the manufacturer collects a higher margin on the perceived product superiority.

There was a time where you knew a Craftsman tool was worth a premium price.
> any sort of LLM writing is a tacit acknowledgement that people don’t really care what they are writing

Couldn’t be further from my experience. I work with a distributed team that has four different native languages, with substantial engineering staff for each.

LLMs have made our cross-geo communications so much better. I can get a summary of a standup that happened overnight (to me) and in a foreign language (to me) when I get up in the morning. I can write idiomatically and naturally without worrying it will be confusing or misinterpreted.

Plenty of people are not naturally talented writers, especially in your language of choice. LLM writing doesn’t mean they don’t care, it means they DO care about communicating clearly.
FreeCAD maybe quite capable, but I am not. I want something I can throw a few shapes in and print.
> When I hear the word "integration" I reach for my keyword and code up a 15-line python script while management is on hold waiting to hear what the "call us" price is

Stop doing that. Management wants someone to blame when things go wrong. Don't be that one for no extra compensation.
> Another major DoD challenge is that outside of the IT field, the DoD asks for industrial competency and competitiveness that frankly the overall US industrial base looks to barely be able to meet. And so not only is it inflicted by vendors acting like dicks, they're inflicted by incompetent vendors acting like dicks.

And inside the IT field it's even worse.
The doubling-down on AI will continue until morale improves. If users don't engage with AI it's clearly because there isn't enough AI in the product yet.
I think for companies to use them is because employees want to use them and there's tons of blog posts (AI written?) that say it increases productivity and you'll be left behind if you don't adopt it.

For startups that basically implement a frontend to chatgpt or similar… well they have no chance of ever being profitable but investors might not know that.
The most expensive thing in this work is human attention. Ie somebody has to give a shit so the thing works well.
> Being generous is voting for healthcare and social welfare programmes for all, regardless of income.

There are various methods of rationing healthcare. I'm not sure choosing the government to arbitrate rationing is any more "generous". Regardless, American's that can't afford to subsidize their own healthcare (poor, disabled, child, elderly, etc) have many options from the government to assist them such as Medicare, Medicaid, a variety of state programs, etc. I also wouldn't use the NHS as any model of egalitarian or generosity in healthcare as any Brit that can afford it has private insurance on top of it since the NHS leaves a lot to be desired.

> Also, the charitable giving figures you quote are skewed as the US offers tax breaks to donate to "charities" which can be financially beneficial to the giver (charity oversight in the USA is notoriously lax).

You can deduct from your taxable burden certain charitable donations, but it isn't anywhere near a complete write-off. You'd save considerably more by just paying taxes instead of giving to charity. And this is a great policy as it allows citizens to fund things that would otherwise be well out of scope of government.

> Don't take the piss!

Waitstaff is what many people think of in this context. But waitstaff in the USA earns considerably more than in the UK or EU due to the generosity of tipping culture. I've never met a waiter that wanted a higher hourly wage to replace their tips as they can and do make a lot of money with tips.

But Americans tip far more than waiters. During Christmas we give tips to our garbage collectors, mail carriers, extra to maids and other helpers, tip to teachers and school staff, doormen if you live in an apartment with them. People give greatly to organizations they support and to their churches.

I've spent a lot of time in the UK and although a lovely place in many regards, I'm not sure there's a more stingy, tight culture anywhere else on Earth. Everything is precise and transactional and anything regarding helping someone is measured and on the lean side. In large part it's because Brits are very poor compared to Americans but it's also a culture thing too.
I tried image playground on mac and can't think of why I'd want to use these corny looking images. It downloaded a ~5GB model and doesn't offer the option to remove it. Anyone know where it's stored so I can delete it?
It's not long. Excluding the footnotes, it's ~5000 words, a 10-20 minute read.
AFAICT the docs don't seem to be directly searchable:

https://doc.modelica.org/Modelica%204.0.0/Resources/helpDymo...

Are NEMA motors modeled? Could one use this to simulate/model a CNC machine?

EDIT:

Apparently not, given that "NEMA" doesn't show up searching:

https://mbe.modelica.university/
I wouldn't say simplified. You can model a lot of systems with it. It's pretty good.
but is that true? you're standing in target, looking at air fryers. they're all priced differently. how do you know which is the good one? is it really the more expensive one? highly doubt it. and it's the same almost with everything now. price carries a very low signal.
Fusion 360 has an API in C# and Python.

I use the Python API to write 3D modeling scripts for everything I 3D model. It takes a little longer to build up your own utility function library so you can make models quicker, but once you've got a solid utility library of your own, making 3D models with code is really easy and fun.
The damming bits were 100% on Ticktock, no need for comparison.

On TickTock, views to likes ratio for anti China content was 87% lower despite higher upvotes on TickTock anti China content. Read page 4 suppression on anti China content.

That alone shows the algorithmic alone isn’t selecting results and they are instead engaging in propaganda. The credibility question in my mind is in regards to how they are classifying videos and other bits you don’t see, but that’s a deeper question than the methodology.
Or using the reader mode.
I don't think this is much different to "when do you introduce internet"?

Both for "when do you introduce in a supervised setup" and "when do you let them use in an unsupervised setup".

LLMs are new to us, but for them it's not more new than the rest of the internet. It can be harmful, but probably less than social media.
I am also unfamiliar. Pray do tell!!!
Have you checked out the reception to Devin last week? The only thing it's going after is being another notch on the leaderboard of scams, right next to the Rabbit R1.
Other than legally sensitive topics, what meetings would you not want recorded? Do people take notes or are they just totally ephemeral?
If the CIA is spying on my TV using zero day exploits, I have very big problems!

I don't think it's worth TV manufacturer's time and effort to find ways to exfiltrate the BS I might say around my TV in ways that go beyond using a configured network connection, which I said is not something I have on any televisions under my control.
Your source doesn't seem to support your claim, though? Being more careful on school-monitored devices seems like an ideal outcome: you want students using school-provided devices to do school-related things, not browse YouTube videos or look at porn. This would also apply in the future on work-provided devices, so it seems like they're learning an important skill in the process?

The rest of your examples have no relevance to the original claim, and are (again), largely hypothetical. They're "real examples", but the connection between them and the original claim is still hypothetical. This is why I called your earlier responses attempts to move the goalposts: you have yet to provide any evidence that directly supports your original claim, while instead providing "evidence" of similar things that aren't directly related except through careful framing.

Do you have any examples directly relevant to the original statement? Here it is again, in case you've lost track:

> They scan license plates all through the city and use this technology to create a chilling effect which allows their authoritarian regime to remain unchallenged.
? My calculator does too. Unless you mean (9, 11) > (9, 9) which is an entirely different thing.
Not surprising. This is an early alpha phase to be fair, where there isn't enough integration to be wowed. The features are basic, and if you use other Apple apps, you get some help, but it's not as deeply integrated as you would like it.

I think on phones, real value comes from intuitive actions which are integrated deeply. And peripheral vs having to be prompted everytime. Eg: A very simple usecase is just knowing when to disturb via notifications. (eg: disturb me when I need to intervene where something is blowing up in a group chat I have muted. Or automations and insights that come from aggregation. Eg: I get notifications about a spend - smartly put them in a sheet somewhere that i can look at later. Translation, transcription, image editing etc. are all already covered. Those are more nice to haves and not essential at the moment.
Austerity measures (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austerity)

People will be unhappy though
It's quite good, I used my browser's "Reader Mode" to be able to read it though.
>Hi.

I was being dismissively rhetorical. I can actually imagine them because we see them on HN constantly, with a Luddism that somehow actually becomes a rather hilarious attempt at superiority. A "well if you actually get use out of them, I guess you're just not at my superior level of Unique Projects and Unique Code". It's honestly just embarrassing at this point.

>but bluntly put, the code I work on day to day is far, far too interesting to be handled by copilot

Hilarious. It's a cliche at this point.

Let me take it further and turn this on its head: The people who usually think LLMs aren't valuable to coders generally work on the most boring, copy/paste prattle. They stick to the same tiny niche all day every day. They're basically implementing the same thing again and again. It's so rote, and they're so profoundly unchallenged, that tooling has no value.
According to this interview, TSMC was the first to deploy copper interconnects in a production process.

"...So, when we went to .13u, .13u the
people began to change from aluminum to copper. And IBM was the leader for the copper metal. They
had the longest history of developing copper technology. They worked for more than ten years on copper.
TSMC didn't have any experience in copper at all. So, when we decided we need to adopt copper, okay.
So, the copper is one story and low-k material is another one. IBM decided kind of low-k material is a
spin-on material called SILK. IBM had a Research Consortium that IBM-- Samsung joined them, I think,
ST Micro joined them. Several companies joined the Consortium.

"And UMC joined them. But we didn't join them. They all used that spin-on low-K material. But
we decided to use CVD - instead of flourine-doped it's a carbon-doped made by Applied Materials.
They're called Black Diamond. So, we choose Black Diamond. The reason we chose Black Diamond was
very simple, because I suffer at .18 with a spin-on. I wouldn't touch spin-on again. <laughter> But they
didn't go through that. So, we were very, very lucky. TSMC became the first company in the world which
was able to ship a manufacturing wafers with the copper and low-k, because IBM failed..."

".13u was actually the very important node for TSMC. Because we became the first one in the
world to deliver manufacturing wafer of copper and low-K."

--Moris Chiang

https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10265812...
How exactly does unstyled HTML cater to a wider audience? That's just a non sequitur.
You know Steve was right when Palm doesn't exist anymore now
Unlike other areas they don’t seem to have found any sort of way to apply apple special sauce.

If you’re just doing the same as everyone else then you can’t justify any premium.

Maybe they’ll pull something out of a hat but think if they had something they’d have done it already