skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it was something we wanted to punish, it needs claw backs and draconian fines plus piercing the corporate veil when those companies are suspected of it. Usually though, there's little downside to abusing the system, so the risk/reward is badly skewed.
Depends on the niche (software is broad) but I think as a whole for the large software efforts employing a good chunk of the market - I think so. Two main reasons for thinking this way:

- Software scales; generally it is a function of market size, reach, network effects, etc. Cost is a factor but not the greatest factor. Most software makes profit "at scale" - engineering is a capital fixed cost. This means that software feasibility is generally inelastic to cost or rather - if I make SWE's cheaper/not required to employ it wouldn't change the potential profit vs cost equation much IMV for many different opportunities. Software is limited more by ideas, and potential untapped market opportunities. Yes - it would be much cheaper to build things; but it wouldn't change the feasibility of a lot of project assessments since cost of SWE's at least from what I've seen in assessments isn't the biggest factor. This effect plays out to varying degrees in a lot of capex - as long as the ROI makes sense its worth going ahead especially for larger orgs who have more access to capital. The ROI from scale dwarfs potential cost rises often making it less of a function of end SWE demand. This effect happens in other engineering disciplines as well to varying effects - software just has it in spades until you mix hardware scaling into the mix (e.g GPUs).

- The previous "golden era" where the in-elasticity of software demand w.r.t cost meant salaries just kept rising. Inelasticity can be good for sellers of a commodity if demand increases. More importantly demand didn't really decrease for most companies as SWE salaries kept rising - entry requirements were relaxing generally. The good side of in-elasticity is reversed potentially by AI making it a bad thing.

However small "throwaway" software which does have a "is it worth it/cost factor" will increase under AI most probably. Just don't think it will offset the reduction demanded by capital holders; nor will it be necessarily done by the same people anyway (democratizing software dev) meaning it isn't a job saver.

In your case I would imagine there is a reason why said software doesn't have SWE's coding it now - it isn't feasible given the likely scale it would have (I assume just your team). AI may make it feasible, but that doesn't help the OP in the way it does it - it does so by making it feasible for as you put it junior out of uni not even "SWE" grads. That doesn't help the OP.
One could even call that guiding... Coding
RDBMS isn't the best place to store time series data. There are better and more efficient options for that.
I don't know if it works on Artix, but there is seatd [1], which works with wlroots compositors in place of (e)logind.

seatd is ~6k lines of code compared to elogind's ~200k.

[1]: https://sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/seatd/
There is a McDonald's drive in next to my gym. It gives me the motivation I need not to become overweight.
Expensive, shitty, loud I will never understand why they are so loved.
Each server is moderated independently and if any nasty ones are allowed to fester they get shut down?

Imho the long term answer to these problems is trust networks and decentralised moderation. Howbwe get there.. dunno
The Online Safety Act came into being under a Conservative government.
I'm wondering, would putting the forum behind auth wall 'solve' this 'problem'? Forum users already have accounts, and make it not too difficult for new users to sign up.. Otherwise content would be not accessible to unauthed users.

Or another thought, distribute it only through VPN, OpenVPN can be installed on mobiles these days (I have one installed on my Android). Make keys creation part of registration process.
Can you really not think of the situation beyond your personal immediate material experience?
To that I can add from personal experience, that indeed cognitive capacity and muscular health are tightly linked. I remember that on the peak of my form in a gym, I was able to code better, longer, and keep larger mental models in my head while doing it. Compared that to the period after back injury, where I was unable to do any physically challenging activities, I noticed a slump in cognitive abilities as well. So I can't see, how evolutionary, population with weaker and weaker bodies can keep producing highly capable individuals. And yes, of course there are plenty of cases such as Stephen Hawking and alike, but these probably are exceptions that prove the rule.
Utilizing highly synchronized clocks in distributed databases
Why does it include Chinese "bons mots" [see below] in so many of its answers? That would be an annoying quirk even if it were right, but it's especially obnoxious when it's being smugly stupid.
Kinda surprising considering how everyone can do it perfectly on the escalator. To the point of ignoring the signs that tell them to stand two abreast.
Or not. The point is that we don't know.
I could't see any datum->syntax or syntax->datum anywhere.

If you have it, you know you can just implement syntax-rules in syntax-case? I do believe that is how chez, guile and racket does it.
Because pedophiles and terrorists exist and this is why we can't have nice things.
> A non-cancerous company review board (f glassdoor)

We used to have one of those.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company
> If it is as expensive as taxi services in Tokyo, it could fail.

You mean cheap? How are taxi services in Tokyo expensive?
Ask HN: How much performance can be gained by etching LLM weights into hardware?
I am not very familiar with hardware design, so I really appreciate if someone with knowledge in this area could tell me how much performance we could gain by creating an LLM-specific inference hardware. I don't mean e.g. a chip optimized for general transformers, I mean going beyond that and hard-coding the weights of a trained model into the hardware.
My personal estimation is that this will be noticeable in the first six months of 2025 in the USA big tech organizations.

I think this is actually already in motion in board meetings, I'm pretty sure executives are discussing something like "if we spend Z$ on AI tools, can we avoid hiring how many engineers?"
Awesome, m2 to SATA adapters exist so you can likely use your old laptop as a NAS in the future
Here's to Yudkowsky's 84th law.
Peter Watts’ work is indeed bleak, harsh, but brilliant. I thought Blindsight was a hard read but the Rifters trilogy is another level
> I spent a few hours yesterday pulling it’s massive blobby component apart by hand. But on the plus side, I didn’t have to write the whole thing.

The question, really, is: are you confident that this was better than actually writing the whole thing yourself? Not only in terms of how long it took this one time, but also in terms of how much you learned while doing it.

You accumulate experience when you write code, which is an investment. It makes you better for later. Now if the LLM makes you slightly faster in the short term, but prevents you from acquiring experience, then I would say that it's not a good deal, is it?
> What are these 'illegal harms'? I'm online 10+ hours a day for 10 years straight and never seen one. (not assuming they don't exist, but their prevalence/impact might be inflated).

As I understand things, MPs who are on Twitter regularly get anonymous threats of rape, murder etc https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63330885 - credible threats, with two MPs murdered in the last decade.

You and I have the luxury that we can just not be on Twitter - but when you're an MP, unless you're in a very safe seat you've got to meet voters where they are, not where you'd like them to be.

So from an MP's perspective? In one hand they've got a report about revenge porn, cyber-bullying, 4chan /pol/ and pro-anorexia facebook groups. In the other hand they've got their phone where someone's just told them to kill themselves.

They believe in these "illegal harms" because they've got a front row seat, and experience them on a daily basis.
I haven't read the act and am not going to, but, for this size community I'm pretty sure having a flag/report button would do the trick, and to go the extra mile, with very cheap LLM's generating a "dodgy content" score on every message would be pretty trivial. This seems a bit knee-jerk of a reaction to delete the whole site.
I think this is THE point.
You are the smart one; I hope everything will work for you!
We're gonna get mini-milled.

People with the attitude that real programmers are producing the high level product are going to get eaten slowly, from below, in the most embarrassing way possible.

Embarrassing because they'll actually be right. LLMs aren't making the high quality products, it's true.

But the low quality CRUD websites (think restaurant menus) will get swallowed by LLMs. You no longer need a guy to code up a model, run a migration, and throw it on AWS. You also don't need a guy to make the art.

Advances in LLMs will feed on the money made from sweeping up all these crap jobs, which will legitimately vanish. That guy who can barely glue together a couple of pages, he is indeed finished.

But the money will make better LLMs. They will swallow up the field from below.
Not sure if you are trolling, but in that case you're a criminal and you'll have a problem with tax authorities.
Community Referrals for Web3 Brands
Think often-mentioned tarifs. It's per sector. In this case, facebook, google, twitter/x are banned, thus tiktok gets banned too. That's how gvt operates; steel for steel, cars for cars, social media for social media... Aside examples of how its actually to own and operate a business in china vastly different than US (local partner with a significant share, board control, oversight..).
...plenty of weather, scenic potholes, medieval plumbing and occasional trains.
Interesting. Do you think this other thing might be related?

I usually supress emotions in order to perform, solve problems. I ignore all frustration, sadness, boredom and just focus or executing the steps to solve the current problem. Convinced that good performance is what leads to good quality of life.

It's like the kid who jumps and cries around the father saying "I want to play". The father ignores him and says "go away, don't bother me please, I'm working", thinking "what he really needs is a nice house, food and clothes, that's why I work".

But this has lead me to a pervasive state of unsatisfaction, even though I now have many shiny things to enjoy.
At least broadcast doesn't microtarget their ads by snitching on what I watch or game.
Maybe he has enough savings to live few years on it?
This is a feeling I have too. However, compared to Visual Programming it's perhaps harder to dismiss? Visual programming - its pretty obvious you can't effectively or even at all step through a UML diagram with a debugger to find a problem. The code that gets generated from diagrams, with visual programming, is obviously cr*p. So the illusion doesn't last long. Whereas AI - it kind of looks OK, you can indeed debug it, its not necessarily more complex or worse than the hideously over-complex systems human teams create. Especially if the human team is mismanaged e:g original devs left, some got burnt out and became unproductive, others had to cut corners and make tech debt to hit unrealistic deadlines, other bits get outsourced to another country where the devs themselves are great but perhaps there's a language barrier or simply geographical distance means requirements and domain understanding got lost somewhere in the mix. So, I suppose I sit on the fence, AI-generated code may be terrible but is it worse than what we were making anyway? ;). In the future there are probably going to be companies run by "unwise people" that generate massive amounts of their codebase then find themselves in a hole when no-one working at the company understands the code at all. (whereas in the past perhaps they could hire back a dev they laid off on large contractor rates of pay to save the day). Seems inevitable one day the news will be of some high profile company failure and/or tanking of stock caused by a company basically not knowing what it was doing due to AI generated code.
> Is there some expectation that these things won't improve?

Most of the noise I hear about LLMs is about expectations that things will improve. It's always like that: people extrapolate and get money from VCs for that.

The thing is: nobody can know. So when someone extrapolates and says it's likely to happen as they predict, they shouldn't be surprised to get answers that say "I don't have the same beliefs".
Of all the different sci-fi futures I’ve encountered, I never thought we’d end up in the Phillip k Dick one.
Mine don't they just phone.
“…put a disclaimer disclosing…”
It might be a dystopian nightmare, but the transition to it is inevitable, and closing one’s eyes and doing nothing might not be the most optimal strategy. Delaying or fighting it will also not work.

What “something else” do you have in mind?
Difference is that if you don’t go drinking extremely far from home you can generally just walk back. Sure, may be more sensible to just drink a few hours longer and take the first train, but it’s never impossible to get home.

Seriously, if I stay out drinking past 1 I don’t generally care any more whether I stop at 2 or 5am.
Detailed discussion of this problem in tech: https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
Not for me - I have just had to turn the block off.
Is it possible to reset progress somehow?
not OP, but not necessarily. the general reason is not that indians are worse developers per se. in my opinion it's more about the business structure. the "replacement indian" is usually not a coworker at the same company, but an employee at an outsourcing company.

the outsourcing company's goal is not to ship a good product, but to make the most money from you. so while the "indian developer" might theoretically be able to deliver a better product than you, they wont be incentivized to do so.

in practice, there are also many other factors that play into this - which might arguably play a bigger role like communication barriers, indian career paths (i.e. dev is only a stepstone on the way to manager), employee churn at cheap & terrible outsourcing companies, etc.
It's a silly reason given, too. I wouldn't call a question about techniques for representing inheritance, "asking for an opinion".
Another perspective is: Given that Shopify should have the capabilities to be good at this and their AI assistant is still sucking ass, it's not possible to make a better product with the current technology.

Maybe it's right 99% of the time and works well for many of their developers. But this is exactly the point. I just can't trust a system that sometimes gives me the wrong answer.
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Appreciated that you took the time to address my points. Glad to see that it's probably the website design that doesn't do justice to the product.

IMHO, you should be putting these details in the spotlight. As a new brand in the espresso world, this would help convince customers go with you instead of a tried-and-trusted brand with decades of history on their back. Also, if there is a hackable PID controller or if there are plans to add one, this would also be a selling point for many (see the renewed popularity of the relatively humble Gaggia Classic).

For the burrs, maybe running a lab test of Turbina against a traditional grinder of the same class would help make a solid argument for the new design. E.g. start grinding 2 kilo batches on each grinder and then take a sample and lab-test it for consistency. Continue until the ground coffee becomes inconsistent on both. Yes, this may turn out to be pricey. And maybe there are established test procedures that I'm not aware of (not a coffee pro - just pulled this out of my engineering bottom).

As a final comment, for the wooden parts of Trefolo, maybe a darker or even black varnish would look more premium/classy. The pale wood color is vaguely reminiscent of IKEA furniture, something you probably want to avoid.
We have evolved to trust our senses as roughly representative of reality. I'm not convinced we are able to adapt to that kind of rapid shift.

I have not heard of Timber Sycamore until this comment. A quick look at Wikipedia I'm struggling to see the relevance here. Can you elaborate?
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De gaule was part of the exception, most politicians have always been cowards but some were also resistant and got jailed during ww2 by Vichy or joined de gaule.
Undecidability of Underfitting in Learning Algorithms
Think in what specifically, example?

I don't see what else I should think of.
> But the low quality CRUD websites (think restaurant menus) will get swallowed by LLMs. You no longer need a guy to code up a model, run a migration, and throw it on AWS. You also don't need a guy to make the art.

To be fair those were eaten long ago by Wordpress and site builders.
Show HN: Fun Elo-based leaderboard for games
Hi HN,

I built a leaderboard app to track rankings for my Catan group. It’s based on the Elo ranking system—the same system used in chess.

Everyone starts with 1100 points, and your score changes based on game results. Beating a stronger player earns you more points.

Turns out, the "elo" system isn’t just for chess. It works for any competitive game. We’re now using it for a variety of board games, and even for padel, and tennis.

Recently, I decided to open it up to the public.

You can give it a try — it’s free.
In my country just a hamburger is 5 euro.
Poor people cook their own food- it's the supermarket that operates at a 2-3% margin.
lazygit is a TUI app, IMHO that's a step back. I have many reflections on the widespread anachronism that is emulating a 60s piece of hardware - wanna make a blog post about it, but tl;dr imagine you're writing software for a GameBoy Color instead.

You can't even select multi-line text or use ctrl-c to copy text. It's not all that far from being limited to A/B/start/select/d-pad.
Um, what?

It's perfectly fine to make a business implementing, installing, or supporting FOSS software. I would even consider that a positive thing. Even if you don't (or can't!) help the upstream development.
"What content promotes eating disorders?"

When I watch UK streaming services (ITVx) I get bombarded with adds for junkfood takaway services. The obesity promotions are just staggering. (Outside that I mostly watch YouTube with a premium sub, so maybe I'm just unaware as to how this compares to non UK media services)
Actual title is “Introduction to the FIX Protocol for Developers”, the protocol isn’t unknown, and it’d be better if this wasn’t really just a self-promotion piece for a TypeScript library.
Sad to watch this play out. I worked at Puppet for a number of years. The technology was really cool! But the slow decline has been really predictable. After the Perforce acquisition, it basically disappeared off the radar. The company itself had great people, but they cared way too much about social justice and not enough about staying relevant for Puppet to remain competitive.
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> Streaming Devices Are the Real Smart Choice

Physical media you own is the only smart choice. No apps, just a BluRay player. Or better yet, .mkv files on a PC.

> Connectivity options also need an upgrade. HDMI ports, ARC (Audio Return Channel) support for soundbars, and USB inputs should be standard.

DisplayPort should be standard, at least until the HDMI consortium pulls its head out of its arse and allows open source implementations. Of course the TV manufacturers are all part of the HDMI Consortium. Might need antitrust enforcement.

This article is pointless though since smart TVs are also dumb TVs. There is no incentive for display TV manufacturers to make a separate SKU without the "smarts" but on most models you don't have to use them.
> many times I wouldn't even meet with them for a month, and that made them extremely productive.

That's an interesting idea. Since I feel like it's same for me. When I meet with people they have their ideas, suggestions and requirements that they put out and I feel like I have some sort of social obligation to meet them and eventually it might not fit very well into what I had planned and then I start to overthink related to how I can fit their ideas into what I was planning to do and it derails a lot. If I ignore the ideas I might need to justify it later or at some point, or argue immediately, but then so much energy will go towards justifying and debating, it will derail what I was to do anyway. It just I have this very strict big picture idea of what I'm planning to do in my head, and it feels impossible to share it with people without actually going through with it. Even if I wrote a massive document it wouldn't help I feel.

I've actually got feedback in my past that I should consider other's opinions more when doing something, but then it just breaks down everything I was to do, and I feel like I could execute really quickly.

I have trouble with group meetings as well, e.g. where people are going through tasks by splitting them down into subtasks, then discussing subtasks one by one, while I feel like I have a big picture thing, where I do not want to divide things into subtasks, since it's everything supposed to work together, and they can't be discussed individually. Although it's considered common best practice to divide and conquer, I feel like it's not how I best think. And I have idea for each subtask, but it's all coming from that "big picture" idea, and if I propose it I will have to start explaining the whole big picture I have in mind, and it would derail the whole thing, so I usually just let people discuss things out, because I can't explain the whole thing anyway. I can never be in sync with people in group meetings, so I'll just try to come up with things to pretend I'm being an active participant.

I'm obsessed with this big picture idea, and excited about executing it, but everything around it demotivates me and kills the excitement.
Part of the answer is the Histones (spools for DNA)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histone

There are other protein complexes that keep the strand in proper shape and form. They unfold the strand periodically, and can cut and repair it as needed.

If my mind serves me correctly, it is part of gene regulation. Genes located in places of the strand that tend to form tight knots are "more difficult" to transcribe, so they express less, to some extent.
> How much damage can they withstand before they figure out how to stop hurting themselves?

Funnily enough we wonder this about the USA and its drain-circling obsession with giving power -- and now grotesque, performative preemptive obeisance -- to Donald Trump.
of course, they have to be accounted for before making a bet. but even then, it's possible to get out with profit sometimes.