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The article gives some useful tips. But (if I may) I'll disagree with a couple of small parts:

> Write for beginners

I prefer "write for your audience". For example, in the first lesson for my canvas library[1], I'm aiming at an audience of front-end developers - they should know how to code a very basic HTML page and start a local server to view it.

Of course, my lesson fails here. I'll add a line near the top of the copy to say who the intended audience is, and a link to the MDN frontend developer course[2] for any complete beginners who (somehow) found the lesson.

> Make code snippets copy/pasteable

Maybe I'm an outlier but, when I blindly copy-paste code, I rarely learn about that code: it's just some magic that I feed into the computer to get results. I learn better when the tutorial forces me to type out the code (and I do nasty things in my tutorial to persuade learners to type rather than copy-paste).

[1] - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/learn/first-lesson

[2] - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_developme...
LegalEagle's video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H4sScCB1cY
They're absolutely not going to solve or improve anything at all, doctors are already over booked (in fr/de), if anything doctolib adds to the problem.

We're slowly arriving to the tipping point, too many people, not enough doctors, people going to the doctor for ridiculous problems because "it's free" (plot twist it isn't, it's paid with your/our taxes), &c.
TL;DR: It's a chatbot.

It's a sad state of affairs that this seems to be all that the industry rose up to.
Pretty much, yes.
Reading WSJ/NYT is fun but not productive at all
There's a lot of great (and some remarkably bad) advice in the replies here, but one thing I can share from my two decades of having my hands in sales, engineering and service is that customers, regardless of they are B2B or private, are going to weigh your product on two things;

1. Does this solve a problem we have?

2. Can we afford it?

That's it. There's no magic tricks or dark patterns to be exploited, contrary to what a variety of sales/marketing books might tell you (those books are selling you the books, nothing more).

Here's a few easy things to remember:

1. Your customer has needs. Meet them or walk away before you waste valuable time and create resentment.

2. Your customer is a human that values honesty and wants to make an informed decision, so be prepared to give them the information they need to do so.

If you go into a presentation knowing your product and knowing your customer's needs, there's really no other controls you can account for that will sway that deal one way or the other. So, do your homework. Use OSINT techniques to gather info on your customer, build a profile of what they already use, what their pain points are, etc and don't forget to just talk to them. Not every interaction has to result in a sale, in fact, most are fact-finding/info-gathering sessions for both parties, in my experience.

Despite doing well for myself when I was operating in a sales capacity, I do not do sales much these days mostly because I prefer the troubleshooting and development side of the industry I'm in, but if you approach it with a Troubleshooting Mindset, you're better off. It sets you up to offer the right solution for the right problem if you think of your customer's workflow/processes as something to be studied so that it can be improved.

I say this because I have met countless salesmen in my day that think they can human-hack their way to a deal because they watched Glengarry Glen Ross too many times, or read a Malcolm Gladwell book. They're the reason why we have a used car salesman stereotype and why movies like Wolf of Wall Street are made (that movie is not about a hero). Approach with caution any advice that a behavioral economist or anyone claiming to be a market expert offers; none of these people have crystal balls or mind-reading capabilities and they make money by convincing people they do. You're in a position where a lot of that might seem attractive and I was there once myself, going so far as to paying real money to attend a Tony Robbins seminar more than once when I was first starting out. It's all nonsense in the end, boiling down to getting yourself out there, building relationships with people, spiced with a bit of luck and privilege.
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To me, it seems that the author previously focused on "making as much money possible". That is understandable as a driving force, as most people think to be rich is what it means to be successful. It is also very understandable in the context of "the American dream", which is all about this. But now that the author reached the place of being more than rich enough, this overarching purpose and goal is gone.

What I think is much better though, is to instead just have curiosity as a driving force. And I think many people here on Hacker News do have curiosity as a bigger driving force than becoming rich. It is curiosity that drives one to tinker around, make random projects, hack around. Making money in the process of this has just been a convenient side effect in our industry. The truth is, if you have insatiable curiosity you will never not have purpose because there will always be a "next day" that you do not know about yet.
It isn't just something intrinsic either, you can self-identify as being insatiably curious and try to live that way.

Having that said, there is a certain amount of privilege required to even be in a position where you can claim this without having to worry too much about your survival.
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This is a good idea. You could take a set of problems, have the LLM solve it, then continuously rewrite the LLM's context window to introduce subtle bugs or coding errors in previous code submissions (use another LLM to be fully hands off), and have it try to amend the issues through debugging the compiler or test errors. I don't know to what extent this is already done.
Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app
Hi, I'm a developer and first time i shipped the real product after observing the startups and indie hackers community for years.

I had made so many useless apps [you should check my website https://ansh.life], but this time I built a very useful product that has a number of super easy-to-use tools in one app for video, music, and photo files. Users can compress, convert, resize, and do so much more with easy-to-use tools.

Background: I developed a frame-by-frame video cropper to upload cropped landscape videos to Instagram Reels. However, it required FFmpeg, and as a noob video editor, I decided to incorporate more user-friendly video tools. I then introduced image and audio tools to maximize the capabilities of FFmpeg. I use my app daily, and it has surprisingly generated a few thousand dollars for me.
I’d like to read on actual techniques, cause this post makes me suspicious. That question “how do I feel about it” is only a first step in a complex approach and the focus on it may suggest that there’s something missing in my picture. Which is lots of circumstantial techniques and ideas. I wouldn’t think of pointing this particular question out from all that if I was writing a blog post. Maybe I’m just different?

Anyway, I agree when they say that people who need therapy the most are the ones who cannot afford it. It makes you think different, not just pat you on the head and commiserate.
It's also not just your phone. People seem to have forgotten about things like PRISM [1] because it's no longer in the news, but it's still very much around and likely only more extensive. The surveillance state extends far beyond just phones.

Yet these articles, from well known organisations, extensively investigating (even featuring 0 day revelations) the decline of civil society in lieu of ever more pervasive surveillance and manipulation of opinion, only seem to ever focus on geopolitical adversaries of the US.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM
It's a bit like the tradeoff of diesel cars: more local pollutants that damage human health (particulates and NOx) but less global warming.
Some time ago I have watched an interwiew from Shia Labeouf on why he became catholic, for more that I think a good advice for everyone is getting closer to God, He said something that may help you:

"Purpose in life is when you get something you're good at or have a natual inclination to that and help people with that, that's porpose"

I'm very very far from getting rich but that's what I think that maybe help you
Yes we do have evidence. For example ISPs throttling specifically Netflix, and trying to extort money from them, when the customers already paid for the service. And continuing to do so, after Netflix offered to host middleboxes in their datacenters, to discredit their fake arguments. They are not doing that for service quality, but out of greed.

We should have had comprehensive broadband and fiber in every home for decades, but ISPs would rather throttle you, and charge you more for worse service, rather than make overdue investments in infrastructure.

Or ISPs not counting their own streaming services towards the data cap, but counting their competitors. Very anti competitive.

We need net neutrality.
There is no choice. It is literally illegal for me to buy a decent laptop with cash in Portugal for example.
" deadline: This field defines the virtual runtime limit for the current execution slice. When a process's vruntime exceeds this deadline, it becomes a candidate for context switching."

Is this right? I would have thought that the deadline is used for the nearest-deadline-first scheduler to pick the task with, well, nearest deadline.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v6.1/scheduler/sched-deadlin... [a wee bit hard to follow, IMHO]

https://lwn.net/Articles/397749/ [old, but more easily digestible with pictures!]
>>Courts rule on laws.

Not always. They invent laws. They defy laws. They defy common sense. For example "qualified immunity" is invented out of thin air, while "the spirit of Aloha says US Constitution does not apply to Hawai" is defiance. "boneless chicken does not mean it has no bones, but it is a style of cooking" is totally nuts. All the examples are Supreme Courts cases.

This is not about winning or losing, it is about judicial system not fair and not impartial, sometimes borderline crazy.
That’s what antitrust law is for. We just need to actually enforce it.
Day in 1977 Apple was incorporated
Human drives are reproduction and power. Or maybe just only reproduction actually?

This guy blatantly and strategically got himself talked about and you guys call it "insecurity" and "childish".

It is a meme that guy in loud ferrari has a small something but we poor people say it to each other to cope. it is a working mechanism to get noticed by girls and girls will look on that ferrari. These are facts.

"insecurity" is not it. "childish" is not it.

"poor taste" maybe it. "selfish" maybe it. Try those instead.

Edit: yes, maybe guy in ferrari has a different taste than you. But also he will get noticed by more girls and that is just fact. Another fact: getting noticed is first step to talk about how sophisticated you are with someone who already has 100 people competing for attention and full DMs. If you ignore those facts and you think you are not the one being childish, I don't know...
> What would happen if we tried a similar technique with code?

It was tried as part of the same trend. I remember people asking it to make a TODO app and then tell it to make it better in an infinite loop. It became really crazy after like 20 iterations.
And last mile access didn't improve?

Not oversubscribing is a cost multiplier at every level. 1 million 1 Gbit customers in a city is going to need 1000 100Gbit connections out of that city and the same for transit, and that will have no impact on pricing? And everything is on average used at 1% of capacity.
This looks pretty good, great job!

How are you making profit from this so that it’s sustainable?
TiDB – cloud-native, distributed SQL database written in Go
This method requires a lot less skill, you just need to read it and run it. Reading is much easier than writing!
We don't really need to build from scratch in less than 10 years. We don't really NEED something as good as netflix, google, or Facebook. We need smaller, better alternatives.

Ask yourself this: imagine Facebook and Twitter going down for good. Would society be worse off? Probably not. We'd quickly find alternatives. Maybe they wouldn't be as fully featured but they'd work.
Oh, I agree with you. I was hasty when I wrote that: I meant "building smaller alternatives"!
> that is clearly a more sensible target for legislation†; that's what I'd expect a court to say those words meant, if they were written today.

You're acting like because ISPs of 1996 fit the definition of an information service in 1996 every org claiming to be an ISP should always be classified as an information service even if their roles in society radically changed.

If a law targets people aged 21 and up, and several years passed, you don't then say "well back when this law was written you weren't 21 so you somehow aren't in this definition", no, you look at the language of the law and see how it applies to the people today.

In that same vein we should look at what an ISP does today, look at the words in the law as written, and decide which bucket they belong in: information service or telecommunications service. And they really don't do a damn thing like what an ISP did as an information service did in 1996. And they're also now largely those RBOCs that were targeted as telecommunications services and have the same market complications as they did back then.

> In short, an “information service” manipulates data, while a “telecommunications service” does not.

In 1996 I'd agree that people subscribed to a particular ISP because of how they manipulated data. These days nobody uses any of the information services provided by an ISP, they're entirely vestigial and ignored. Nobody cares about the ISPs portal or their email services or whatever and they shut down their newsgroups and what not ages ago. All they use their ISP for is to telecommunicate, not to manipulate their data.
Thank you for the links! Then I don't understand something: if this one party supported some topic, any topic, how come said topic is not made into law but only lives in the internal regulations of some organization? Courts applying existing law will then by necessity strike those down, by definition: if it's not in the law it will not be recognized by the courts. Simple. So the whole complaining "court strikes down something" is pointless, because the courts function as designed. I'd say the problem is the parties which don't bother making supporting laws - yes even the parties claiming to support said topic. How can a party holding majorities (in a two party system one party will always have majority) even temporary, not actually make laws? Isn't this the very reason parties exist? So I'm still confused.
Related :

Scottish Government bans use of WhatsApp for official business (2024)

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/scottish-government-b...

> The decision follows a fierce backlash over the mass deletion of messages by ministers and officials during the Covid pandemic.
godbolt exists and can run code, so surely similar principles could be used here.
I'm not sure you can actually break code with the new for-loop semantics (I mean, in real life situations). It can probably fix some buggy code in the wild, but I have a hard time believing anyone would voluntarily write code relying on the old semantics of loop variables being reassigned instead of reinitialized.

Honestly I think this is a non-issue.
Democracy is not fair, it is "mob rules" by definition.
Yep, I agree with that. It's much worse than just phones.
There's no clear threshold with an universal answer. Sometimes prompting will be easier, sometimes writing things yourself. You'll have to add some debugging time to both sides in practice. Also, you can be opportunistic - you're going to write a commit anyway, right? A good commit message will be close to the prompt anyway, so why not start with that and see if you want to write your own or not?

> I also get to do a code review.

Don't you review your own code after some checkpoint too?
Oh random I'll definitely look into it thank you!
pglogical can do that (or at least minimize the manual steps as much as possible)

I am not entirely sure, but I think CloudNativePG (a Kubernetes operator) can also be used for that.
Be aware that Amnesty International has tendency to publish defamatory and incorrect opinion pieces. They are even happy to publish complete lies when it satisfies their agenda - to be a middleman for the international aid.
High Hopes – ants walking along a constantly stretching rope
Running code would be a downstream (client) concern. There's the ability to get structured data from LLMs (usually called 'tool use' or 'function calling') which is the first port of call. Then running it is usually an iterative agent<>agent task where fixes need to be made. FWIW Langchain seems to be what people use to link things together but I find it overkill.* In terms of actually running the code, there are a bunch of tools popping up at different areas in the pipeline (replit, agentrun, riza.io, etc)

What we really need (from end-user POV) is that kinda 'resting assumption' that LLMs we talk to via chat clients are verifying any math they do. For actually programming, I like Replit, Cursor, ClaudeEngineer, Aider, Devin. There are bunch of others. All of them seem to now include ongoing 'agentic' steps where they keep trying until they get the response they want, with you as human in the chain, approving each step (usually).

* I (messing locally with my own tooling and chat client) just ask the LLM for what I want, delimited in some way by a boundary I can easily check for, and then I'll grab whatever is in it and run it in a worker or semi-sandboxed area. I'll halt the stream then do another call to the LLM with the latest output so it can continue with a more-informed response.
Reminder: don't ask your t-shirt folding robot to do a better and better job.
Does RISC-V org itself list/document suggested insn fusion sequences anywhere? I can't quite figure out whether they do because the technical wiki they use is quite hard to navigate and search, and their unofficial Github repos are not much better.
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I have a 10gbps fiber LAN. It was cheap to set up and have it running.

I do not buy your argument.

People buy a certain level of service, they should be able to enjoy it as in the rest of the world.
This guy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42579873
Came here to post this - this was a great (and short!) read to help validate if your idea could be something somebody wants to pay for.
I said inexpensive
Now honestly I prefer people going to doctors for ridiculous problems, than having a gatekeeping which keeps real problems unsolved. So the real problem would be then: how to handle better the "ridiculous problems" and keep doctors busy with the real ones? I don't see that one being addressed by agents - another example of tech solving the wrong problem indeed.

Edit: now maybe this would be a good startup idea.
We need date of birth due to age requirements of social media unfortunately.

As for requiring friends to use it, we are very early stage at the moment and don't have enough content to populate the feed of users without populating it with their friends' content. But I definitely appreciate the feedback thank you!
I highly recommend the command line AI coding tool, AIder. You fill its context window with a few relevant files, ask questions, and then set it to code mode and it starts making commits. It’s all git, so you can back anything out, see the history, etc.

It’s remarkable, and I agree Claude 3.5 makes playing with local LLMs seem silly in comparison. Claude is useful for generating real work.
> Hardware in the 70s was full of security issues.

It's however clearly not in the "70s hardware portion" of iTerm that this issue arises. Also not in the features we've come to expect of the most bare bones terminal emulators since, like Unicode support, scrollback buffers and font rendering, or even the somewhat gratuitous features like escape sequences for RGB colors, setting the window title or sixel rendering.

This is very clearly one of the kitchen sink features, and playing the devil's advocate I should say that it reflects poorly on the kitchen sink design ethos.
If they only took marine SO2 reduction in account it could still be because of other places where there was a reduction in SO2 pollution?
They are comparable for expectations.

You pay for a certain level of service, you expect it delivered.
The people who whine about shorts are ridiculous IMO.

Yes, shorts have some negative incentives that we need to be careful about.

But they’re the only ones in the entire market who don’t have incentives to lie about how well a company is doing. A decently run market with a reasonable number of shorts would not build up to the bubbles we see regularly that collapse and need to be bailed out.

It was the shorts who noticed the housing bubble in the first place. If there’s were more of them they could have popped it much more gradually and less painfully than the crash we had which has been the precursor to a lot of the terrible things we’ve faced since then.
If you think like that, then everything is arbitrary. Even the rules of logic are "arbitrarily" chosen. Sometimes you have to fix some notions to gain anything at all.
He's the reason I asked :)