skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that there's a difference between "this is a thing that has happened" and "this is a thing that happens". The latter thing is the toxic exaggeration of the truth IMO.

Like you're absolutely right that this particular rare event has happened before and I'm not discounting that, but the phrasing of the OPs story more suggests at the form of this story that is the myth that this is a trend and frequent occurrence.

I follow your point. Certainly this is more real than lizard people in the sewer, but not as real as people would have you believe when they casually exaggerate and insinuate that all the homeless around are from elsewhere and are being trucked in to this day.
I'm too busy thinking about the capacity of nothing at all, which is zero.
Legalese is a cost-reduction technique founded on the principle of making your potential future case look as much like a previous case, even word for word, as possible.
You're one of today's lucky 10,000: https://xkcd.com/1053/
See, the thing is, to determine which abstractions are "right and proper" you _already need a software engineer_ who knows those kinds of things. Moreover, that engineer needs to ability to read that code, understand it, and plan its evolution over time. He/she also needs to be able to fix the bugs, because there will be bugs.
Finance is all in on reading 10-Ks and generating summaries. If you have decisions in mind, I’ll be referring to IBM 1979 slide until an HR LLM fires me.
Nothingburger. The keys were accidentally handed out for free.
I used to do like 20 days or so in uni, but now I just wish it was in any other month but December - it's just impossible to find the time with all the year-end tasks and ceremonies.
This insight was all the more remarkable given that Menabrea saw the Analytical Engine primarily as a tool for automating “long and arid computation,” which would free up the intellectual capacities of brilliant scientists for more advanced thinking.

It's funny how enduring this trope about automation is. The same thing is said now of LLMs.
What you referenced seems to be for the US? Like I said, this in Africa.
> Even if I was close to my grandparents' generation, I only have four of them and that number doesn't increase over time.

The scenario I was thinking of to get to more than "five or six" funerals by age 16, was to have "always go to the funeral" parents who took you to the funerals of grandparents and great aunts/uncles living nearby.
This conference ended years ago, but really glad to see GoGaRuCo in there
Read further:

> In order to keep SQLite completely free and unencumbered by copyright, the project does not accept patches.
To me this brings to mind Eliezer's Inadequate Equilibria(https://intelligence.org/equilibriabook/ ), which goes on explaining how these non-optimal, but stable situations arise all around us in societies.

Especially the part how everyone can see the inefficiencies, but there is no (easy, non-coordinated) way to fix them.
Sorry for your loss. Hope they lived a great life, and you can make it to the funeral.
Border security and thief's wet dream.
If you think they're being dishonest by betting on future app revenue from iPhone users... buy an Android.
Future at this point is ... unpredictable. It is unsatisfactory answer but it is true.

So what does it take for LLM to replace SWE?

1. It needs to get better, much better
2. It needs to be cheaper still

Those two things are at odds with each other. If Scaling Laws is the god we preaching to, then it apparently has already hit the diminishing of return, maybe if we scale up 1000x we can get AGI, but that won't be economically reasonable for a long time.

Back to reality, what does it mean to survive in a market assuming coding assistants are going to get marginally better over say next 5 years? Just use them, they are genuinely useful tools to accomplish really boring and mundane stuff. Things like writing docker files, those will go away to LLM and human won't be able and don't have to compete. They are also great second thoughts advice givers, it is fun to know what LLM thought of your design proposal and build upon their advice.

Overall, I don't think much will change over night, the industry might experience contraction in terms of how many developers it will hire, for which I think for a long time, the demand will not be there. For people already in the industry, as long as you keep learning, it is probably going to be fine, well, for now.
I quote:

> In order to keep SQLite completely free and unencumbered by copyright, the project does not accept patches.
> But when you have to scale the work, then the code has to be easy to read, easy to extend, easy to test, have extensive test coverage, have proper dependency injection / be easy to mock the 3rd party dependencies, be easy to configure so it can be deployed in every cloud provider

the code doesn't have to be anything like that, it only has to do one thing and one thing only: ship
The cost is almost irrelevant - the vast majority of British trees meeting those specifications will be legally protected, so most of the challenge is simply finding a suitable tree that can be legally felled.

https://www.trees.org.uk/Help-Advice/Public/A-brief-guide-to...
> Tens of millions of teenage Americans are addicted to it is the evidence. Chinese don't allow their kids to waste all day long on stupid douyin, Americans don't have such luxuries, as tons of red necks are going to jump up and label it as anti free speech if you want something similar. As a result, you see Chinese kids spend time on STEM subjects, building toy robots and learning how to code AI stuff while American kids are all dreaming to be the most popular influencer on social media.

So it's Chinas fault that the US doesn't have the same laws restricting social media content and screentime for children? Or, if it is the red necks fault, then how does 'TikTok is spreading CCP propaganda' follow from 'US red necks oppose laws that are anti free speech'? It seems you're skipping some steps to get to that conclusion.
What is the purpose of this pdf? Just random images?
Not (currently) worried. Lots of comments here about intellisense being a similar step up and I’ve had it disabled for years (I find it more a distraction than use). So far LLMs feel like a more capable - but more error prone - intellisense. Unless it’s stamping out boiler plate or very menial tasks I have yet to find a use for LLMs that doesn’t take up more time fixing it than just writing it in the first place.

Who knows though in 10 years time I imagine things will be radically different and I intend to periodically use the latest AI assistance so I keep up, even if it’s a world I don’t necessarily want. Part of why I love to code is the craft and AI generated code loses that for me.

I do, however, feel really lucky to be at the senior end of things now. Because I think junior roles are seriously at risk. Lots of the corrections needed for LLMs seem to be the same kind of errors new grads make.

The problem is - what happens when all us seniors are dead/retired and there’s no juniors because they got wiped out by AI.
I'm sure LLMs can do it, and I'm sure they will be riddled with mistakes! Especially if you're not competent enough in an area to grok docs (I don't mean that in a condescending way — I would definitely not be competent enough to grok shader docs) then LLMs can be a great way to learn.

It won't take long before you see all the mistakes in their responses before trying them, and from there it's just a hop and a skip to it being more efficient to just reading the docs then arguing with an LLM.

But that beginning part is where LLMs can provide the most value to programmers. Especially if you go in with the mindset that 90% of what it says will be wrong
There's a simpler explanation. Legislative drafting is a low-status legal job in the USA. In the K, traditionally only the best new law graduates are considered for legislative drafting, official rulemaking and so on. In the US, politics is a destination for lawyers who can't qualify for prestigious corporate or judicial appointments.

Legislative language doesn't have to be this way, but Americans are weirdly impressed by prolixity, and love writing phrases like 'in order to' instead of just 'to', or 'at this time' instead of 'now.'

Also the American legal code is horrendously overgrown (not comparing it to other countries here, just on its own terms). Plato warned that when laws are so many and complex as to be incomprehensible to the average person, tyrants would exploit the resulting disillusionment with law to the detriment of the public.
multiple passkeys
That bill is an amendment to the aforementioned act.

But yes, I'm confused as to whether it applies to online gaming, or sites such as wikipedia as well
Just one big one, afaik. I’m no vacuum engineer though
I convinced myself that it is a semi-conscious effort to justify their existence and fees.

Everyone interacts with law at some point, it is unavoidable. And since legalese can be impenetrable, you just have to hire a lawyer. This bakes in their societal necessity and guarantees fees for lawyers if all kinds.
We’re here already. Nobody wants to hire junior devs anymore. Seniors are still a couple phone calls away from new positions.
When I said “runtime” and “program” I meant it. If I had meant process I would probably have used that word.
I think this is the first actual settlement in the 20 years those rules have been on the books?
Donny Dunn is a character in netflix series Baby Reinder, wonder if that is related.
I still have it, haven't put it together yet. I've heard it doesn't actually work with carriers.
Actually they did.

About 200 years ago they realised that the UK needed trees to build warships of the future, and so a number of were planted to supply the navy.

It’s just that things moved on in the meantime, and metal replaced wood.

But you can see it in the countryside there being 300 year old oaks in hedgerows, but no 100, or 50 year old oaks coming up to replace them, admittedly that’s what I’ve observed around here.

An item about the Royal Navy’s voracious appetite for wood:

https://legionmagazine.com/the-royal-navys-war-on-trees/
Yeah now actually check the nRF905 documentation. You'll find it has basically made everything up.
the only secure device is turned off
Where "etc." includes lots of engineers who are polishing up the frontend to the model which translates text to tokens and vice versa, so that well-known demonstrations of the lack of reasoning in the model cannot be surfaced as easily as before? What reason is there to believe that the generated output, while often impressive, is based on something that resembles understanding, something that can be relied on?
Well, isn't the main point of computers as tools (as opposed to consumption devices) the automating of “long and arid computation"?
You go past all the path dependence with a external attempt at it.
It is very clever that this test looks very complex on its face but the author made the answer to every question “B”
These videos are from three and six years ago, lol.
>As a rule of thumb, US companies don't care about workers.

In which countries do you think companies actually care about workers?

I live in Europe and none of the companies I worked for ever cared about the workers beyond the bare minimum they were mandated to by regulations and even there they were trying to weasel out of some (unpaid overtime, etc) because "the economy is bad" and "we're not competitive with cheaper countries". The moment I got a longer sickness I've been laid off.

Sure, some companies have more perks like Kindergartens for employees and pension plans but that's because they want to attract more competitive workers, not because they actually care about those workers. Their care about you is limited to the amount of added value you bring in, not on some moral or ethical grounds. Otherwise those same companies wouldn't be using sweatshop workers in the far east.

We're economic cannon fodder everywhere. The private sector exists only to provide innovations and return on investment to shareholders or owners, not to care about workers, that's the government's job.
Well, if you do it manually, it was never not an option!
Buf CLI itself is licensed under a permissive Apache 2.0 License [0]. Since Buf is a compiler, its output cannot be copyrighted (similar to proprietary or GPL licensed compilers). DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer.

Buf distinguishes a few types of plugins: the most important being local and remote.
Local plugins are executables installed on your own machine, and Buf places no restrictions on use of those.
Remote plugins are hosted on BSR (Buf Schema Registry) servers [1], which are rate limited. All remote plugins are also available as local plugins if you install them.

It's worth to mention that the only time I've personally hit the rate limits of remote plugins is when I misconfigured makefile dependencies to run buf on every change of my code, instead of every change of proto definitions. So, for most development purposes, even remote plugins should be fine.

Additionally, BSR also offers hosting of user proto schemas and plugins, and this is where pricing comes in [2].

[0] https://github.com/bufbuild/buf/blob/main/LICENSE

[1] https://buf.build/blog/remote-plugin-execution

[2] https://buf.build/pricing
You obviously didn’t read the article and just wrote this comment on looking at the headline and picture. The circling the room twice is referring to an actual dragon fly. Also, it’s not ICE but fluidic motors driven by lithium nitrate crystals.

There’s also cover how it is very hard to control and how they do it manually with IR lasers. There’s even a video at the end of the prototype flying.
Are drones looking for nuclear weapons in New Jersey? [video]
Reading that article, it seems that the mom was arrested because the cops wanted to. Someone called the cops for a child walking down the highway by themselves, and then the cops showed up and arrested her. Cops can arrest people for any reason practically, a lot of times because they just don't like you. I was thrown up against the back of a patrol car and searched when ordering chinese food late at night once. I don't see that she was charged by the prosecutor, or that the child was taken away.

The other link you have is neighbors that obviously dislike each other, and they told the cops the kid was in danger.
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If you want a majority government, half the political spectrum must twist itself into a pretzel. The key issue is will the people in question try to find common ground, or do they prefer to play identity politics.

The most stable government coalition in Finnish history was Lipponen's first government in 1995-1999. It consisted of SDP, National Coalition Party (center-right), the Greens, the Left, and Swedish People's Party (center). The coalition was stable enough that it lasted the full four-year term and another three years after the elections.

Government stability is ultimately about people. Are those people willing to work together, or do they let political labels get in the way.
This is exactly the kind of project that makes me smile
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>Funny enough, now I write better code than I used to thanks to AI because of two reasons:

I assume you also believe you'll be one of the developers AI doesn't replace.
I’m not a lawyer but I wouldn’t recommend posting a dump of the PII columns lol
Nine is a bit young, but I lived down the street from a school and plenty of 10 - 12 year olds walked there by themselves.
To be completely honest, it's surprising to me as well. I would expect it to be bad, but not as bad as it was. I entirely expected that the slow part would be decoding, not copying. In fact, my initial plan was to convert the remaining images that couldn't be DDS to Targa, on the assumption it would decode faster. However, when I investigated the slow functions and found they were only copying, I changed tactic because then in theory that would not make a difference.

There is no fixed amount of per-frame work. After the 550ms hardcoded timer is up, it is blocking during the loading of those images, and during this phase all animations on screen are completely still. I thought to check for this, because it did occur to me that if it tried to render a frame inbetween loading each image to keep the app responsive, that would push it to be significantly longer, and that would be a pretty normal thing to want to do! But I found no evidence of this happening. Furthermore, I never changed anything but the actual image loading related code - if it tried to push out a frame after every image load or every x number of image loads, those x number of frames wouldn't go away only by making the images load faster, so it'd have never gotten as instant as it did without even more change.

The only explanation I can really fathom is the one I provided. The L_GetBitmapRow function has a bunch of branches at the start of it, it's a DLL export so the actual loop happens in a different DLL, and that happens row by row for 500+ images per node... I can only guess it must be because of a lack of CPU caching, it's the only thing that makes sense given the data I got. Probably doesn't help that the images are loaded in single threaded fashion, either.

That said, there have been plenty of criticisms of my profiling methodology here in these comments, so it would be nice to perhaps have someone more experienced in low level optimizations back me up. At the end of the day, I'm pretty sure I'm close enough to right, at least close enough to have created a satisfactory solution :)
I can feel that the remake is a labor of love
It's nice to combine the two but the ranking takes tuning.
The hardest part of remaking a beloved classic is knowing what not to change
goddamn the English language
I don't think anyone believe that the "think of the children" argument leads to "unintended" consequences. They are thoroughly intended. It doesn't look like that, but policy makers do analyze potential impact and this is a problem you understand if you are more than 5 minutes into the topic.

Although I do think they overlook that their legislation is restricted to their domestic market though, so any potential positive effect is more or less immediately negated. That is especially true for English speaking countries.
Hey man, thanks for posting this. There's about ten years between us. I too hope that they will need to pry a keyboard from my cold dead hands.
>I think even he is a little averse to straight up saying it out loud (we’ve discussed it many times): software and product outcomes have gone to shit because we don’t enforce anti-trust law already on the books, let alone update it in light of 50 Moore doublings.

None of the examples of crappy software from the OP are Magnificent 7 companies, are they? Those companies seem to be capable of hiring the best talent.

A critical input into the build vs buy decision is whether your company is actually capable of building. Suppose Dan was advising the company that made the crappy Postgres/Snowflake sync software on whether to build vs buy a supporting component. Given that their main product is already crap, can they really be expected to build a better supporting component in-house? Seems like they might as well buy, and focus their energy on fixing the main product.

Dan advocates vertical integration here, and elsewhere says engineers get better compensation from FAANG than startups. This suggests that big companies made up of lots of talented engineers have natural efficiencies, relative to the alternatives.

A natural interpretation of "antitrust" is: break companies up into their smaller business units. That basically replaces an in-house "build" relationship with an inter-business "buy" relationship. So it seems antithetical to the OP.

Dan, if you're reading this, I encourage you to write a reply here on HN tearing me apart, like you did to all the other HN commenters.
In fact Dymola was published (including source code) in Hilding Elmqvist's doctoral thesis:

Elmqvist, H. (1978). A Structured Model Language for Large Continuous Systems. [Doctoral Thesis (monograph), Department of Automatic Control]. Department of Automatic Control, Lund Institute of Technology (LTH).

portal: https://portal.research.lu.se/en/publications/a-structured-m...

direct pdf link: https://lucris.lub.lu.se/ws/portalfiles/portal/4602422/85704...
In short, the root cause was a new telemetry service configuration that unexpectedly generated massive Kubernetes API load across large clusters, overwhelming the control plane and breaking DNS-based service discovery.

The DNS song seems appropriate.

https://soundcloud.com/ryan-flowers-916961339/dns-to-the-tun...
Microsoft will probably tell you that the Microsoft Authenticator supports syncing, so you should set it up on a backup device.

This has several problems though, one of them being that they assume you have at least two mobile devices (let's say a phone and a tablet) and another that they assume the OS you run on both your devices is the same. They do not support migrating you passwords between Android and iOS for example!
But in a world of subscription based services, it has to ship more than once. And as soon as that's a requirement, all of the above applies, and the LLM model breaks down.
This exactly. It was Jobs himself who said "Real artists sign their work" - as in the (literal) case of the original Mac, which included the signatures of the Mac team including Steve Jobs.

Losing that sort of energetic and creative culture has short term and long term costs which are hard to quantify.
For most industries the tech isn't the primary product.

Google sells ads, not tech
Uber sells rides, not tech.
Amazon sells a marketplace, not tech.
Tesla sells cars, not tech.

Tech is just the tool.
I used all my brain cells to make a bash script my doorbell, I did not have brain cells left to envision ever needing ssh on it.
I mean, same with passwords, right? If you enter your password on a compromised device or you forget it, you are screwed. Which is what password managers (or passkey managers, or perhaps we could use a new term like "credential managers") help you with. Syncing, preventing unauthorised access (for example requiring your biometrics, main password or similar), backing up...
It loses the login every few months to the point that I got fed up to repeatedly login and obtain the token again and never touched it again.
also: nodered, windmill.

And non ui flow diagram but essentially the same thing: inngest, hatchet.