skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
interesting. In case of plasma displays, the consumer ones used to be the more expensive by a wide margin.
I think the poster above meant "wouldn't notice anything out of the ordinary until it's too late."
I don’t quite buy the Excel analogy, because the business experts do understand the Excel formulas that they write, and thus can maintain them and reason about them. The same wouldn’t be the case with programs written by LLMs.
Customer reviews and professional advice are still not solved - and still a huge opportunity in my mind.

1) Customer reviews would in theory help people choose better and fast. There will always be the issue of difference of opinions but we are far from a point where this would be the only problem.

2) Professional advice is great but as anyone who has been around the hiring of consultants can tell you, if you are not competent in a field then it's hard to choose someone who is. And beyond that, diligence and listening are not uniformly distributed.

Until these are solved, the goal of the firm is to "sell something that people buy" instead of "sell something great".

It's interesting that in a large part, Amazon makes its distribution business out of this. If you watch what you buy and for the most part, you can reliably and easily return duds. There is some, poor customer feedback on the site, AND there is very easy returns. And that still does not solve the issue of items that are difficult to test good or dud such as a battery or an electronic device where it might be a while until the problem appears. Costco is also in this strategy with a very long return window that mostly will give you time to notice whether the item does the job or not.
> He wrote his own font, once, because he didn't like the way...

Wonder how many folks here have done the same thing, building and discarding in the throes of creation like tibetan monks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_mandala
Show HN: Convert PDF invoices to e-invoice XML using AI in seconds
I got approached by the finance department of a large company. There is a new regulation in Europe that mandates a defined XML-format for e-invoices for some transactions and - I kid you not - their SAP implementation wasn't able to address this. They also said that all solutions on the market were either cumbersome (think: manually typing in all fields) or required deep system integration.

I thought it cannot be that hard to use AI for this and built a little invoice converter that takes your PDF invoice in whatever form it is, and outputs exactly the XML structure that is required in the regulation. Given that AI is not perfect (but surprisingly close to it!), you can manually edit all fields.

Target users are companies where their current solution does not yet support the standard and that do not want to change their existing invoicing flow (incl. foreign businesses).

Trying it out is free. Given this is my first real B2B tool, would love some feedback!
The question isn't about what you'll do when you're replaced by an LLM, it's what you're doing to future proof your job. There is a difference. The risk to hedge against is the productivity boost brought by LLMs resulting in a drop in the needs for new software engineers. This will put pressure on jobs (simply don't need as many as we used to so we're cutting 15%) AND wages (more engineers looking for fewer jobs with a larger part of their utility being commoditized).

Regardless of how sharp you keep yourself you're still at subject to the macro environment.
This was my favorite of all of the videos. There's no uncanny valley; it's openly absurd, and I watched it 4-5 times with increasing enjoyment.
Oof, the times I've heard something like that with X tech.
clickable:

2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22849208

2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34069106

I have no idea why HN does that :-(
This looks very promising! I’m tempted to find a use-case just to try and use this lib…
A local REST API doesn't require servers.
Yeah but what I'm saying is the level of engineering power that goes into making such relatively simple abstraction is huge and we have decades of experience.

I think if AI ever gets to the point where it's so reliable for natural language -> code - we're into the AGI era and I don't see the role of programmers at all - bridging that layer successfully requires some very careful analysis and context awareness.

Unless you think we're headed off in a direction where LLLms are gluing idiot proof boxes that are super inefficient but get the job done. I can sort of see that happening but in my experience reasoning through/debugging natural language specs is harder than going through equivalent code - I don't think we're getting much value here and adding a huge layer of inefficiency.
I can't wait until user agent strings die off. They both leak personal data and break web pages that all too often use them inappropriately to determine browser functionality.
I just wish there were a higher resolution image than the one linked in that website. The original photos of M87 are so stunning and have such a cool story where they split the research group into two teams and they both came to the same conclusion about the discovery of the black hole. The photos that go along with the original discovery were my wallpaper forever because it just looks so awesome.
CRUD apps should already be disappearing. You should be using a framework that auto-generates the boilerplate stuff.
> My entire "medium sized European suburban house" runs on a $2.5k 400m3/h unit with HEPA filters made in Lithuania - and that was the more expensive model

That is just the HRV, not the design of the system, the ductwork, and the installation. All those add up. In new construction those costs can be shared with the regular HVAC system design, but in a retrofit its far more expensive
emmmmm... i think your argument is not valid any more:

https://chatgpt.com/c/6760a0a0-fa34-800c-9ef4-78c76c71e03b
wouldn't it be coredns caches the information and records from API server for X amount of time (it seems like this might be 20 minutes?) then once the 20 minutes expired coredns would query api server, receive no response, then fail?

I think the idea of just serving cached responses indefinitely when api server is unreachable is what you're describing but not sure if this is default. (and probably has other tradeoffs that I'm not sure about too)
While they could, I'm pretty sure that's already illegal, probably in multiple ways.

In the same way that you could be sued for anything, I'm sure you could also be dragged to court for things like that under this law... And probably under existing laws, too.

That doesn't mean you'll lose, though. It just means you're out some time and money and stress.
Wow, sounds like a nightmare. Operations staff definitely have real jobs.
sadly it's likely that video gen models will master this ability faster than state officials
Do you know a small business that has got into trouble with GDPR?
It's just a research and analysis tool that automates the process of reading lots of SEC Filings and earnings call transcripts and checking the news and stock quotes back to back.

Just automates the research that users would do manually.
https://chatgpt.com/share/6760a122-0ec4-8008-8b72-3e950f0288...

My first try with o1. Seems right to me…what does this teach us about LLMs :)?
I use lazygit as a ui. I like it. I think magit can do way more.
Hard to know if this is satire, but I'm assuming so.
I think anything tied to gambling got a big black eye after everyone got constant access to the internet with epayments. Be it loot boxes or traditional gambling the accessibility to any where any time money gambling games created a more negative image than the space had previously.
In the US at least, we’re at a point where letting your kids play in your yard is enough to get arrested and jailed with child endangerment. Within the last 30 days, a woman has been arrested and charged with child endangerment for the crime of… letting her child walk to the store [1] and others have been jailed for letting their child play outside [2].

So what do you do to entertain children? Use what you have. Dunk them on the internet via YouTube first and then let them free range because you’re tired and can’t give a fuck anymore.

^1 https://abcnews.go.com/amp/GMA/Family/mom-arrested-after-son... ^2 https://www.aol.com/news/2015-12-03-woman-gets-arrested-for-...
Is a thought an object or a process?
Nerve – A Universal API Client
For high-paid senior software engineers I believe it is delusional to think that the wolves are not coming for your job.

Maybe not today, and depending on your retirement date maybe you won’t be affected. But if your answer is “nothing” it is delusional. At a minimum you need to understand the failure modes of statistical models well enough to explain them to short-sighted upper management that sees you as a line in a spreadsheet. (And if your contention is you are seen as more than that, congrats on working for a unicorn.)

And if you’re making $250k today, don’t think they won’t jump at the chance to pay you half that and turn your role into a glorified (or not) prompt engineer. Your job is to find the failure modes and either mitigate them or flag them so the project doesn’t make insurmountable assumptions about “AI”.

And for the AI boosters:

I see the idea that AI will change nothing as just as delusional as the idea that “AI” will solve all of our problems. No it won’t. Many of our problems are people problems that even a perfect oracle couldn’t fix. If in 2015 you bought that self-driving cars would be here in 3 years, please see the above.
Why do people [maintain] that Russia is capable of even threatening the EU?

Because its regime has verbally done just that, and has conducted sabotage and assassinations on EU soil on multiple recent occasions.

The fact that is attacking Ukraine in part as a response to its attempt to join the EU is also very reasonably interpreted as part of this intrinsically threatening stance.
You can get large with decently defined muscles with medium time investment.

But real strength, like farmers traditionally had, is hardly visible and needs an insane amount of time just handling heavy weights.

These people look completely average but can easily handle way more weight than the totally jacked body builder can.

But if the goal is mainly the physic and not strength... Then yes: a few hours a week is plenty
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his re-election depends on him not understanding it.
Its not really that bad. Being petty for pocket change and complaining on hn is lowlife.

Wealth tax aint great if you want to keep the money stale, but that just means you should use it to compund itself.
You get ads for agreeing to buy a cheap subsidized device, like amazon devices. There's lots of guides out there to disable ads/msa.

>soon, smart home

How? With what screen or speaker? The half inch oled on my smart ricer cooker? Xiaomi has been in the smart home market for ~10 years, with 100s of products, except pushing for storage subscription in the mi home app, they haven't done anything aggregious. My robovacuum, air purifier, air conditioner didn't screamed ads in the middle of the night. There's nothing stopping any tech company that inputs to a screen or speaker from monetizing ads, except for past behaviour, and so far Xiaomi home has been very good.
our project https://github.com/stackql/stackql has a k8s provider which might be of interest here, we implement our own front end SQL parser and expose all control plane routes (and data plane routes in many cases) through overloaded SQL methods, this is not FDW based and does not require a server (postgres etc)
The point is to do it automatically by just feeding it pictures of walls
Much like science in general, these topics are never -- and can never be -- considered settled. Hence why we still experiment with and iterate on architectural patterns, because reality is ever-changing. The real world from whence we get our input to produce desired output is always changing and evolving, and thus so are the software requirements.

The day there is no need to debate systems architecture anymore is the heat death of the universe. Maybe before that AGI will be debating it for us, but it will be debated.
Because then they're responsible, at least socially, for the things the new admin does.

This way, people have been given plenty of advanced notice and can start their own forums somewhere instead. I'm sure each of the 300 subforums already has some people running them, and they could do the above if they actually cared.

I find it hard to believe someone will take over 300 forums out of the goodness of their hearts and not start making it worse eventually, if not immediately.
Wait, people actually read The Register, like, for real? I've been vaguely aware of it for .. 25+ years and in all that time assumed it was basically The Onion but for tech.
Things that taste like vegetation are often called "vegetal". Tastes like plant.
With 1 or 2 competent mods, a forum can be very low-maintenance.
Even if seniors still do the last mile, that’s a significant reduction from the full commute they were paid for previously. Are you saying seniors should concede this?
> At least Qualcomm is actually engaging the Linux community. Something that works, even delayed, is better than years of community reverse engineering efforts with no guarantee of fully working.

I don't know that Qualcomm lifted a single finger to help the non-qualcomm employees who have been doing ALL of the work to make ANY Linux happy on their devices. Trust me, I was there with half a dozen other people trying to figure out what kernel module was so buggy that it would cause reboot when loaded in initrm, but without it would block boot. And that was just until I gave up and said to hell with it.
Comparing an LLM to an industrial textile machine is laughable, because one is consistent and reliable while the other is not.
This is a discussion about the UK online safety act! That is about the internet isn't it?
Yeah you can dispute them but it's by no means guaranteed and it can cause further problems. You certainly would not dispute them in the case mentioned by the GP poster. So bringing up disputes is just muddying the waters.

Refusing chargebacks and not issuing refunds are two very different things with distinct language. And if you don't issue refunds for a case like the GP described, where thousands of customers were incorrectly billed, you certainly would be flooded with chargebacks and likely put your merchant account in jeopardy. (Most of the big processors would close your account if they get evidence you are fraudulently billing customers and actively resisting making it right.)

It's clearly a made up story by someone with no experience actually managing credit card payments for a real business.
That latter thing is a much harder cat and mouse game though. Is the proposal to use the rendered output as feedback to help the LLM converge faster than the people already making de-shittified UIs? If you can't use the actual content of the page to assist the AI then that seems like a very hard problem.
They have a bit of this with their "IoT classes". All of the integrations are denoted as either local or cloud based.

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2016/02/12/classifying-th...
The truth is somewhere in the middle. Do you remember the early 2000s boom of web developers that built custom websites for clients ranging from e-commerce sites to pizza restaurants? Those folks have found new work as the pressure from one-size fits all CMS providers (like Squarespace) and much stronger frameworks for simple front-ends (like node) have squeezed that market down to just businesses that actually need complex custom solutions and reduced the number of people required to maintain those.

It's likely we'll see LLMs used to build a lot of the cheap stuff that previously existed as arcane excel macros (I've already seen less technical folks use it to analyze spreadsheets) but there will remain hard problems that developers are needed to solve.
The parent point isn't that shitty code doesn't have defects but rather that there's usually a big gap between the code (and any defects in that code) and the actual service or product that's being provided.

Most companies have no relation between their code and their products at all - a major food conglomerate will have hundreds or thousands of IT personnel and no direct link between defects in their business process automation code (which is the #1 employment of developers) and the quality of their products.

For companies where the product does have some tech component (e.g. refrigerators mentioned above) again, I'd bet that most of that companies developers don't work on any code that's intended to be in the product, in such a company there simply is far more programming work outside of that product than inside of one. The companies making a software-first product (like startups on hackernews) where a software defect implies a product defect are an exception, not the mainstream.
If any of these metrics were arbitrage, it would mean the fastest execution wins and the gap wouldnt last long. These metrics almost never work
IKEA is a hybrid venture.
It's a minimum maximum. The amount is still "up to" and courts rarely assign the maximum penalty for anything. It seems aimed at platforms which really break the rules, but are run at minimal cost. Basically a value of "what do you charge a minimal forum run at cost, with sole purpose of breaking all these rules".
You're right - they have no free speech. They can't even speak freely about the horrible crimes being committed in their nation by grooming gangs.

Many US companies won't capitulate to these regulations. The UK is going to simply be cut off from many social media services.
TikTok Does an Emergency Supreme Court Application to Prevent Its Ban [pdf]
if things go as you predict then the models are going to start to eat their own tail in terms of training data. because of the nature of LLMs training, they can't come up with anything truly original. if you have tried to do something even slightly novel then you'll know what I mean. web development might need taken out, if front-end Devs didn't perpetually reinvent the FE :P
"Generate room with no elephant"
https://imgur.com/BI61S1T
^^ best definition.

Right now they are "read-only" which I would call a persona
> You can probably do it, but it would require millions of dollars in FIB and SEM equipment and likely would destroy the chip for any useful purpose.

The price tag and size of these things are what I'm talking about. SOME day it will get much cheaper and smaller. A 4090 will be useless at that point, but I still play with 8086s and vacuum tubes, so...

No point in betting though. We'll both be dead by then.
Gotcha; it's less that my complaint doesn't apply, but more that it isn't relevant (i.e., "squares" and "cubes" aren't especially interesting constructs which need to coexist nicely, and if you relax that constraint then directional geometry can be very interesting). Does that sound right?
> It can be helpful to think of the Econ 101/homo economicus view of the world as something more akin to a secular religion.

I find it much more common for people to dismiss Econ 101 principles religiously (e.g. less strict zoning will just create more luxury apartments that will actually make housing more expensive; demand subsidies to college education, an inelastic good, will make it more affordable).
T-Mobile Opens Registration for Starlink Direct-to-Cell Satellite Service Beta
When I was running the 50,000 user forum, I had five. Mods are great, but I still can't grok 300+ forums all being done well. He'd need hundreds of mods.
I'd be cautious as describing anything in tech as human generations away because we're only about a single human generation into a lot of this industry existing.
I don't even understand why binning non-defect cards is dubious.

It's like the logic people have on /r/pcmasterrace is that if they didn't bin, they would just release all 4090s at 4080 prices. No, there would just be less 4080s for people to buy. No chip maker is going to sell their chips at sub-market rates just because they engineered them to/have a fab that can produce them at very low defect rates.

Now, Nvidia certainly has done dubious things. They've hurt their partners (EVGA, you're missed), and skyrocketing the baseline GPU prices is scummy as hell. But binning isn't anything I necessarily consider dubious.
Depending on who you ask, binning is segmentation. Generally demand isn't going to exactly match how the yields work out, so companies often take a bunch of perfectly good high-end chips, nerf them, and throw them in the cheapo version. You used to be able to (and still can, in some cases) take a low-end device and, if you'd won the chip lottery, "undo" the binning and have a perfectly functional high-end version. For some chips, almost all the nerfed ones had no defects. But manufacturers like nVidia hated it when customers pulled that trick, so they started making sure it was impossible.
You honestly sound paranoid.
Thanks, I needed that. In a thread full of people criticising UK law, I am very happy to have a crazy US example to make me feel better.
The GP comment was calling for complex context-aware cross-app functionality. The new Photos app features do have their use, but they are limited to the particular compartmentalized use cases envisaged by Apple. For example, they support cats and dogs specifically, but not pets in general.

There’s also the tendency that once a feature has shipped, it’s apparently considered “done”, and the lead developers likely move on to other things. It doesn’t feel like there is a continuous ownership and coherent vision behind the features and apps, or behind the overall OS trajectory.
Too Much Fun finally tells the C64's legacy
I don't think anyone has ever gone to TSMC and said "hey we're short on our low end chips, can you lower your yields for a bit?"
It's much more responsible to put this whole thing into some nonprofit trust format and hand it over to someone with the time and energy to handle it. This also would not exclude you from volunteering.
I hope you realised my comment was in jest lol (and I'm only partially Italian), but to get serious:

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"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away"

Sure, there are arguments against that. But when you see the manner in which American cuisine takes the opposite of that principle - especially when it comes to the creation of Italian-American cuisine - it's hardly like the laying of multiple beautiful, well-chosen instruments in an orchestra. Instead, it's a one-trick pony of: add cheese, cream and garlic. And lots of everything

Fettuccine Alfredo: Loads of butter, cream and cheese

Deep dish pizza: Tons of cheese. It's a meat/cheese pie

Carbonora: "Fixed" it by adding cream and garlic.

It's like believing you're improving an orchestra by always adding huge, loud crashing cymbals.

Trying to eat at Italian restaurants in the US as a lactose intolerant person was an exercise in frustration.

> the one thing that unequivocally makes me proud to be American is that we have improved pizza

Gosh...
Whilst programming isn’t the main topic, Miss Kobayashi is a Python programmer

https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/latest/2017/2/12/see-what-m...
But Tony Soprano sucks the blood out of pre-existing economic activity while Apple created a brand-new playing field for billions of $ of new activity, complete with the hardware platform and app hosting.
So if you can't control something, ban it for everyone. Got it.