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> we really need to explain to people exactly the value that we can achieve with AI

This feels like one of those things where you're having to explain things so hard that it should give you a clue you're duping yourself. People don't get it? We just need more salespeople to explain it more. Gotta keep those KPIs up.
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And SteamOS will be able to run on the desktop.
"The real-time video and data feeds don’t require any usernames or passwords to access."

I wish I found this to be more surprising. About 400 of these are being deployed in SF: https://sfist.com/2025/01/03/sfpd-refuses-to-say-where-theyv...
https://app.watchduty.org/i/40388

Altadena fire
Heroku is still a thing? I would have figured their lunch would have been eaten years ago with how expensive they were.
Related Leaked Docs Show Nvidia Scraping a Human Lifetime of Videos per Day to Train AI (50 points, 5 months ago, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41163032
Marc Benioff says a lot of things. You would think they wouldn't have any software engineering job postings up if this were actually true.
Steve Jobs reportedly[1] never really liked computer games, and didn't really care about them being on Macintosh. It wouldn't be surprising if this streak still exists in Apple culture, even though iOS became quite the gaming powerhouse despite Apple's lack of interest in the genre.

1: https://bit-tech.net/news/gaming/john-carmack-steve-jobs-hat...
LA is surrounded by hills and mountains. Hollywood sign has burned down before.
I too like to hold my safety gear to the standard of whether it grants invulnerability. That's a productive way to approach nuance.
He will be hiring by Jan 15, 2025
Just get a second job at Walmart.

Same quality of advice.

Anyway, the real advice is not to always preemptively work a second job. It's use your high engineering salary for as long as you have it to save, save, save and invest, invest, invest. This is how you shield yourself.
Current SFDC software engineer - this is just cover for a widespread engineering hiring freeze since the layoffs in January 2023. There's a ton of pressure to control costs after the near shareholder revolt that caused the layoffs.

The public nature of the announcement is certainly marketing for our AI offerings as well, but at this point I think most engineers are just worried there will be additional layoffs, in the event management cannibalizes product for short term stock gains again.
The classic tell, don't show.
Sounds like a devious prank to pull on a coworker. Flash their keyboard with firmware that has builtin cloud -> butt, or their -> there and vice-versa
What exactly have they achieved with ai? What incredible progress has been made ? Does anyone know, I am genuinely curious.

AI has increased my productivity greatly, but it is a long way away from replacing my Job. Though maybe I am biased.
How many of software devs working for Salesforce are outsourced in India or literal slaves working on H1B Visa?
If there are productivity gains of 30% per engineer, doesn't it stand to reason that hiring more engineers would make the org even more productive?

This is like the opposite of 2021 where every tech company went on a wild hiring spree (remember how well that went?). Now in 2025 tech companies are just going to stop hiring anyone. I suspect by 2026 they will have a bunch of slop AI spaghetti code that no one can maintain. I'm starting to question whether this field is worth it anymore
How bad is the job market right now? Is it as bad as everyone says it is? Makes me pretty scared for the future, tbh.
Judging by the history of the Los Angeles Police Department and their own gangs, run by members of the department, policemen, getting rid of cops might actually help reduce crime!
That's concerning. I can see why IT wouldn't be giving API keys to random students. Who on the uni side is doing this?
Oh so Oracle.
Seems crazy to steal a design for something like this. Wouldn't you want something original and innovative? And when the author offered to design them something new, why turn that down?

Ultimately they probably plagiarized from something else.
Great suggestion, just added it. Thanks for teaching me about FarFarOut.
An LLM can't explain the value of Salesforce?
The conflict is so intense because the stakes are so low.
Similar to a developer who copy-pastes sections of code from StackOverflow and puts their faith in it being correct. The bigger issue with LLMs is that it's easier to be tricked into thinking you actually understand the code when your understanding may actually be quite superficial.
I wrote the article. Thanks for the feedback!
I tried to buy Pro Tools a few years ago. Avid was using a SalesForce system, which is such a monumental piece of trash that they couldn't complete the transaction. The attempt involved weeks of back-&-forth, mind-bogglingly incompetent and defective. They ended up giving me a temporary license because they thought I had a project to complete.

SalesForce, SAP, and the other purveyors of steaming legacy enterprise excrement simply point the finger at the client when end-users can't accomplish basic tasks with their systems. And of course they're prime go-tos for government work. I don't wish unemployment on their people; but the faster their monolithic junk fades away, the better.
Plan is that others will need to hire expensive Salesforce consultants anyway. I don’t think they are getting rid of those people.
It's also poor fire management practice. California has had 100 years of very aggressive fire suppression that's led to burnable areas being extra-flammable: dry brush, dead material, etc. The wildfires have been much worse the last couple decades because it's catching up to them. These extra-flammable areas burn extra hot, extra fast, and spread much, much more quickly than normal.

Managing wildfire risks mean letting a certain amount burn every year, including deliberately setting fires to create firebreaks and clearing out areas overdue for it. A fleet of drones constantly finding and stopping wildfires in their early stages would do nothing but set the stage for cataclysmic fires down the road.
We lost our house to the Eaton fire this morning. It’s difficult to describe the vastness of the destruction in our community. Everything within a couple square miles of us burned.
Salesforce has tons of features, but at its root it's Microsoft Access Online for 80% of the companies that use it.
Benioff is very far removed from what goes on day-to-day at Salesforce. He is the marketer in chief, nothing else. This interview itself is an ad for "Agentforce". They will keep hiring engineers as normal (heck there are 104 software engineering openings on their careers site as I write this).

I also don't know how he is pulling the "AI is making our engineers 30% more effective" stat when last I checked software engineers at Salesforce weren't even allowed to use AI.
Not sure about ads, but things are definitely getting worse in terms of health first at FB and now at Instagram. It seems like sex workers (onlyfans models) seemed to have realized the way to skirt the FB community guidelines. There’s no straight porn, but when cooking videos and reels about cute animals suddenly starts morphing into cooking videos but with someone wearing suggestive clothes and animal videos centered around an attractive person doing suggestive things, things go downhill real fast.

Recommendation takes higher precedence over your network. And then nefarious actors take over the recommendations. That’s how these products die. The recommendation engine is unfortunately not able to distinguish between regular content and suggestive content, and no amount of reporting/blocking seems to change that. Plus almost all the reports are reviewed and are determined to have not broken any community rules.
I thought SerenityOS already ran on real hardware? Is it all just inside Qemu still?
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Apologies I have no idea who this is or why I should respect their authority on this subject?
Looks like Syntorial is an app, whereas Ableton link is web based. Would be nice to see Syntorial converted to a web app.
In USSR there was a common saying that "the lower the position, the pettier the bureaucrat"
Your votes work the same as anybody else's. It's the voting algorithm that's complicated.
Ok coomer
And will your advice make enough to pay the average person’s bills?
AFAIK Agentforce is programming the chatbot to allow it to execute SF flows on behalf of the customer.

I can see things like update my profile. Or give me a quote for this insurance product.

I fail to see how Agentforce or AI in general means less software engineers are needed. The only explanation I can think of is he is contracting with OpenAI or Anthropic or someone else and implementing that. My experience with SF Einstein or Genie has been like “you gotta be kidding if that is what you are selling”.
You're attributing extreme claims without citation or context.
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Wouldn’t my business AI agent automatically talk with the salesforce AI agent and buy it automatically?

Why would you need buyers or even sellers? Why even have humans in the loop at all for any business process or transaction.

My understanding from all the magazines at my dentist office is that AI will replace the whole thing.

What’s even the point of humans? It’s just AI bots jerking each other off all the way down!

…now my head hurts.
Same. Making me create another account is an immediate non-starter.
Why do you say Kamal is a game changer?
> have a lot of time on their hands because there are so, so many people in administration

It shouldn't be difficult to determine why education costs are so inflated, nor should it be difficult to see the obvious solution here.
Behavioural surveillance fuels the online ads industry.

It's possible to have ads without the current levels of surveillance. Many of us grew up in such a world.

The ads still work just as well without the Trojan Horse surveillance. Commerce does not suffer.

Of course so-called "tech" companies are terrified of a world where this computer-based surveillance to fuel online ads is competitive or tightly regulated. For them it is "unthinkable". For some of us subjected to this nonsense, it is easily thinkable. It is fresh in the memory.
I was at Salesforce for 4 years, and during those years the company made a massive deal about:

2020: the first AI craze, introducing “Einstein” as their name for their analytics platform, and officially changing the corporate vision to being the “No. 1 AI CRM company”.

2021: Now it’s all about “Customer 360”, i.e. account-based marketing, i.e. what basically everyone else does without such a memeable name. You wouldn’t believe the number of slide decks I had to sit through with all our little product logos orbiting this stock art character straight out of Women Laughing While Eating Salad.

2022: Never mind, now we’re betting the company on a real-time unified database called Genie, which was neither real-time nor unified (and eventually not called Genie either). Got sued for that one.

2024: AGENTS. AGENTS EVERYWHERE. WE ARE AN AGENT COMPANY NOW.

So, let’s see how this holds up in the face of the next hot thing.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42639478
Ask HN: What is the current state of prompt engineering?
Things have changed so much lately that I’m curious how prompt engineering has changed or evolved.

Specifically, the engineering aspect. How are you testing? What are you testing for? How are you tracking diffs? Etc.
I find it curious that some people here consider it as slavery ?

It is an optional activity if I understand right.

It seems rewarding to do a training to become a firefighter and join the team, than to idle in prison.

It is a volunteer role. Many people in the world become volunteers in the firefighters, a lot are unpaid. They do it for reasons beyond money (making friends, feeling useful, helping people, etc).

A prisoner may get some carrot as a reward (like less served time) but at the end, they all benefit.
Maximum being 1 or 100?
https://app.watchduty.org/i/40388
HN is no different to those places.
"is a crank" is really far from "has some controversial or heterodox views"

I'm not arguing that everything Lustig says is correct, on the contrary, I've gone out of my way to criticize him. My point in this conversation is that saying a reputable scientist, at a reputable institution, doing reputable research is somehow a crank... is bananas.
Dwight -> Diapers
Operating Systems: Almost every modern OS, including Linux, Windows, macOS, and even microkernel systems, has its kernel written predominantly in C.

Compilers: The compilers for many higher-level languages (e.g., GCC, Clang) are either written in C or C++ (itself derived from C).

Network Stacks: C dominates the implementation of networking protocols. Browser engines, routers, and switches heavily rely on C for their performance-critical network stacks.

Browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge all have engines written in C or C++ (e.g., Blink, Gecko, WebKit). These engines drive the rendering of the web.

Database Systems: Many databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) rely on C for their core implementations due to its speed and fine-grained control over resources.
It's all fun and games until you're called into a deposition.
Also, treat email conversations as “unrecorded” if they’re using your university email address. Make sure to download a copy of all email correspondence to a storage device outside the control of the university.
Side note...

Sometimes the sketchy ads are from account hacks. I've seen this happen a couple of times with business accounts. Hackers get access to a personal Meta account that has access to Ad Manager. They run a bunch of scam ads that go live because of the previous reputation of the ad account let's it slip by the AI moderation.

The scam ads will run for a few days or more before Meta gets around to human moderation triggered by users flagging the ads. This usually leads to the ad account getting banned.

There's a pretty huge ecosystem out there for hacking ad accounts. I would imagine it adds to the overall load on the human moderation process.
Show HN: Using Bacalhau and DuckDB for processing remote data
Yea, I don't understand the response to him here. You can just tell the random student who wants the keys to the student database "no" and go about your day.
Your post has great insight. I would just take ever so slight exception to your final paragraph based on two physicians I know that are 8n bad shape medically through no fault of their own. ;-)
Is this new or interesting? I mean my 10 year old car has a feature that shows realtime traffic cams wherever I am. I imagine these things are widely available and you could run a plate reader on those feeds.
It is ironic that LA is one of the oldest fossil industry originations, Pacific Palisades probably includes a lot of old LA oil money driving gas guzzling Range Rovers, and that the fire surrounds the Getty Villa of the OG Getty Oil Company.
Let's say coding is actually 50% of your job (for almost no engineers is it).

If AI makes you 30% more efficient at coding (it might if you went from having literally 0 code completion or any form of AI to state of the art, not many people are doing that):

* 1 engineer = 50% feature dev (1x), 50% other

* 1 engineer with AI = 50% feature dev (1.15x), 50% other

So engineers are theoretically getting 15% more done. If your company is growing faster than 15%, you're probably still going to need to hire eng.

The real way SalesForce is going to increase productivity is by forcing more unpaid overtime, not by AI.
I am yet to have Google, Microsoft, Amazon or Facebook suggest that they’ve achieved 30% productivity gains from AI. Those are companies at the forefront of AI investment and if they haven’t achieved that kind of increased engineering productivity, I am ready to bet money on the fact that any other company claiming so hasn’t either.

Even if 30% productivity gains are true, they are probably not because of AI. They could have fired a bunch of low performers and overworked the rest of the engineers to achieve productivity gains, but even then, I’d be very skeptical if the 30% gains would stay there long term.
At the risk of repeating what others have said, your page requiring the user to create yet another account for something that has no business requiring an account is an immediate non-starter.

Your search function could have puppies and rainbows but it surely doesn't do anything worth creating an account for.
where we can check actual model output? The worry could be that it is unreadable buggy mess, even if it managed to close some specific bug.
This is slightly misleading because it doesn't take into account the extra funding they got when contract negotiations finished
Something advice that I received that seemed truthy and actionable was:

Build your reputation by helping others get their job done while you do yours.

That was a part of the plot of Rand's _Fountainhead_, but you don't have to do it so selfishly, and doing it selflessly is possibly more effective in a non-stick workplace.

Is also contrary to football team advice, "stay in your lane and just do your job"; however, football teams are actually more like co-acting groups, where one may succeed while others, including the overall group, may fail so I'm not sure how applicable football advice is to the corporate world.
Girls are not as interested in nightclub substantial interaction anymore. "Substantial interaction" defined as "genuine attempts to meet a guy to go to the next club/bar/party and then maybe home"

There's a whole separate realm of social circle snapchatting (networking).

Not to mention swiping in dating apps.
I feel like if you just piped stdin to stdout you would have a solid start on it
Who exactly are you taking about? Marx and Engels seldom spoke of sexuality. What does an economic theory has to do with LGBT rights? And no the USSR was never "woke"[1], not even in the 20s, you can't just claim stuff like that. Bring sources next time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_history_in_the_Soviet_Un...
Can you evidence that Musk posts things that are provably true?
I do like LLMs, but I do no think they are appropriate for children. And the shit version much less so.

And if you are a parent or a big brother, you absolutely have control over what online services a child uses.

What an insane world we would live in otherwise.
I tried this a while back, when going 6700 XT HDMI 2.1 to LG Oled C2 HDMI 2.1 with proper cable i could not get RGB 444 with 'correct' colordepth in Bazzite (or any distro)
Windows 10 or 11 does not have this problem. Apparently it's an issue with the HDMI board and proprietary drivers for linux.
The point of this announcement is to boost sales, not to save costs. He's selling AI hype. The only thing that matters if customers are buying the hype, not the reality of AI's limitations which I'm sure the board is well aware of.
FWIW that's LASD, not LAPD
This is bonkers, and sort of smells. I’m not saying you have outright said anything untrue, but there is at least some ambiguity that my mind is filling in, potentially incorrectly.

Can you clarify how you got the Swagger files? Were they publicly available?

Could you share the exact verbiage they used to seemingly extort labor and intellectual property from you?

Does the university have some previously existing (and communicated/documented) policy regarding swapping or trading seats?
Gayfemboy: A Botnet Deliver Through a Four-Faith Industrial Router 0-Day Exploit
I've said this too many times, but Facebook only did political censorship because they were extorted into doing political censorship, so "it's not censorship because they're a private company," whatever you believe about the principle, is factually wrong.

Facebook only wants to censor stories about Facebook, just like Musk is only interested in censoring stories about Musk. This is the natural state of these companies. They were never actually interested in being moral arbiters for the government, they were just used as proxies because of their self-interest, through the leverage that the people who regulate them and pay them have over them.
I don't know what the big mystery is. Trends come and go, activities wax and wane in popularity.

Raves aren't special here.
/bin/sh: the biggest Unix security loophole (1984) [pdf]
Presumably the goal would be to have the designer of the stained glass dome receive some kind of royalty for its use in the new building. And so the losses from not having it licensed correctly would be whatever those fees would be.

> As a result, I had financial expenses that I did not intend to have. I spent a lot of time doing research, analyzing drawings and different information. I did put an effort to protect my intellectual property and integrity of my original design. Above all, I experienced a lot of negative emotions while I was working on this case.

> Consequently, I stopped working on all design projects developments for all my current clients that I was under the contract with. The reason was that stressed and depressed I could not provide the quality design services to my clients as I usually do. Sadly, four months of my professional life were taken away. The case has not been fully resolved.

So, rather than getting the royalties he was presumably owed under a license, he instead became so stressed and financially burdened that he had to stop work entirely.

Ironically, it seems like he would have come away with more money if he had done nothing at all.
There are all sorts of volunteer roles someone needs to do, from directing parking, to helping in the kitchen, to roaming around at 3am to see if anyone needs help, to working the first aid stand, and a hundred other things. I always sign up for at least a couple of shifts doing something, so feel like part of the "we" helping to put it on, but it's still something I go to as a participant to have fun.
Yes, this seems to make lot of sense. Initially second income maybe additional savings, day-to-day conveniences, some extra luxuries etc, now it is part of survival.

Since second job is sold as "freedom from household drudgery" and GDP booster it can't really be challenged.
And then downgrades to the shit version right?
'It will continue to happen until people realize the true root cause which is bad leadership... or continue blaming "climate change" and giving up because we're not changing how much China pollutes the air anytime soon. I would rather at least elect better leaders who have their priorities in order.
Essentially the amount of water/chemicals they can move is trivial compared to land approaches

I'm sure that's correct for many geographies, but most of this fire is burning on steep mountainsides and in canyons without road access, or an occasional dirt road and no water connection. With the amount of wind, probably nothing could be done, land or air, once this started.

edit: Here is a glimpse of the terrain: https://x.com/firevalleyphoto/status/1876731317464760629
> would you care to elaborate on how exactly you found those files and if this might have been the reason for the heavy handed response? usually swagger files would be locked down on the backend .

Presumably by visiting `https://site.com/swagger-ui` or one of the other common doc endpoints. It's not that hard, and many places do not lock them down (even if they should).
This is a lot of words to describe hysteresis.
> Good ole 'free speech' capitalism for ya.

People who say stuff like this somehow always want to give them more power to censor, not less.
This doesn't look like a valid Show HN

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

> Off topic: blog posts, (..) and other reading material.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638