skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In what imaginary world you’re living, where basic Android app or iOS app are 100x smaller and 100x faster than RN?
You’re ignoring one critical difference between these two scenarios. Humans, and all human related activities, produce heat as a waste product. It’s much easier, and consumes less additional energy, to heat an occupied space, than to cool it. Thanks to the fact that your average human produces 80W of heat just to stay alive.

So every human in your cold space is 80W fewer watts of energy you need to produce to heat the space. But in a hot space, it’s an extra 80W that needs to be removed.

Add to that all of the appliances in a home. It’s not unusual for a home to be drawing 100W of electricity just keep stuff powered on in standby, and that’s another 100W of “free” heating. All of this is before we get to big ticket items, like hobs, ovens, water heaters etc.

So cooling a living space is always more costly than heating a living space. Simply because all the waste energy created by people living in the space reduces the total heating requirement of the space, but equally increases the cooling requirement of that same space.

All of this is ignoring the fact that it’s easy to create a tiny personal heated environment around an individual (it’s called a woolly jumper). But practically impossible to create a cool individual environment around a person. So in cold spaces you don’t have to heat everything up to same temperature for the space to be perfectly liveable, but when cooling a space, you have to cool everything, regardless of if it’ll impact the comfort of the occupants.
> With LLMs, it makes the decisions completely for you, and if it doesn't work you can even get it to figure out why for you.

To an extent. The failure modes are still weird, I've tried this kind of automation loop manually to see how good it is, and while it can as you say produce functional mediocre code*… it can also get stuck in stupid loops.

* I ran this until I got bored; it is mediocre code, but ChatGPT did keep improving the code as I wanted it to, right up to the point of boredom: https://github.com/BenWheatley/JSPaint
So they perfectly nailed the junior engineer. It’s just that that isn’t what people are looking for.
No matter what happens with Devin specifically, I think this is a really important topic and I enjoy reading updates on this kind of review every time.

Please keep them coming.
Didn't they say the same about gpt 3, gpt 3.x {x in 1..whatever}, gpt 4, gpt 4.x... ?

It's the marketing department at work.

Edit: "the same" being "it changes everything". Did not click on the click bait and don't intend to.
From trying to research Jewish folklore, I can tell you there are a ton of books and archival materials (eg at YIVO) that have never been translated from Hebrew or Yiddish (or, occasionally, Ladino and other Jewish languages).
Cursor isn't designed to do long running tasks. As someone mentioned in another comment it's closer to a function call than a process like Devin.

It will only do one task at a time that it's asked to do.
First, 'doing the damn work' all day feels horrible. You need to do some self-assigned and self-guided work during the day to not feel like an assembly line worker.

Second, tweaking your local setup is more like 'ergonomics' then 'productivity'. Working with more ergonomic setup may yield the same output, but it's more enjoyable.
Proprietary software is just one part of this issue. There seems to be a growing trend in attempting to entrap a servile subscriber base within your own walled enclosure.

To be successful you need to keep your buyer unaware of the trap until they have too much invested within your walls to cut their losses emotionally. Here the poster has bought a high cost camera (even at a discount) without realising there would be an on-going recurring cost.

Expensive propriety hardware, tied to propriety software, tied to an online account with telemetry, where nothing works without all the other bits is a wonderful trap. It works great for John Deer and I guess will soon be coming with your next vehicle.

Personally, someone bought me a Fitbit Sense 2 watch for Christmas. It can't even be used as a watch until you have signed in with a Google account and "consent to Google using my health and wellness data". Of course you don't get to see this before you break the seal on the box. And although the watch gathers lots of your data, you can't see it until after it has been upload to Google, and some of it is only available once you have signed up for Fitbit Premium.

But wait, it gets better. The time on the default watch face is tiny (for an old fart like me). I could download a larger one, if I signed up for Fitbit Premium. I could sign up to download the developer kit and write my own for free (a new watch face is a simple example). However, if I go too far and accidentally break the data collection, they reserve the right to suspend my accounts and turn my £200 "watch" into a brick.

I am still deciding if I can return my sanity using a hammer.
> I’m interested in creative breakthroughs, not maximizing any predictable or conceivable variable.

Most jobs and tasks in life don't need any "creative breakthroughs". The article is discussing scheduling, task prioritization and management. Fix this bug, implement this feature, schedule this doctor's appointment, do the dishes, buy toilet paper. No breakthroughs needed for those, creative or otherwise :)
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What does it mean when a whole country has expensive labour? The highly-paid people of said country can afford each others' services. It basically means "low cost of materials" from a human perspective.
Many of the gouses burning weren't built to current codes, but the cost to retrofit houses to code was insurmountable by any of the owners and apparently by the state or even the nation. So they will just wait for them all to burn and then rebuild them I guess?
Oh no! I hate censorship!
That’s not limited to Japan.

And besides it’s a strange take to argue that you shouldn’t acknowledge good thing A because unrelated thing B is bad there.
Read more printed books, away from distractions. There's also an element of slow being fast. Trying to read faster often reduces your comprehension.
According to your given examples/definition, under which one would this act fall? Because it's very much not clear to me how they would apply, but to you it seems obvious, so please do explain.
Building out of wood is cheap and perfectly strong for most areas.

Engineering is always a set of trade-offs.
launching a rocket is far more analogulous to shipping a release, than it is running code.
Would this approach also give you control of camera settings? I think the OP's situation, he wanted that.
Nice, what happened of it?
Of course, there is also this (quote from the site):

> If you find this online version useful, please consider buying a copy of the current edition. This helps to support the Lua project.
> The most interesting jobs I've seen are where people bring two specializations together, into a single role

I usually think about a career in sales engineering because of this.
> We care very deeply about performance at Shopify

> We’ve achieved sub-500ms (P75) screen loads in the Shopify app

Pick 1.

Also interesting that this deep care about performance extends to blogs, where a simple animated image showing how awesome hot reload is causing a noticeable delay in scrolling
"Even more telling was that we couldn’t discern any pattern to predict which tasks would work."

I think this cuts to the core of the problem for having a human in the loop. If we cannot learn how to best use the tool from repeated use and discern some kind of patterns of best and worst practices then it isn't really a tool.
What’s the point in this? Isn’t Trump going to just cancel this immediately on Monday?

I don’t see how we can assume it will be enacted at all.
How else should the parent had framed his comment ? Can you give an example of the correct wording ?

I’m genuinely confused because his comment was valuable to me.

OP had either made an error or was attempting to mislead the audience by downplaying critical facts in his argument and patent highlighted it, which I appreciate because no one has the time to digest all the references.

Cherry picking or skippping over critical context is unhelpful at best or deceptive st worst.
All those make sense and are pretty common: bread is taxed lower than most pizza toppings.

Raw ingredients are taxed less than ready-to-eat or sugar-coated ultra-processed good. And I'm totally ok with that.
I'll save you from them.
Sony's "webcam" app that does the same purpose is free but buggy as fuck and not available on Apple M CPUs (at least not the one for the A7S2).

I don't understand why this is necessary in the first place anyway. These cameras all have USB interfaces to expose the card content or even remote control, it wouldn't have cost them much engineering effort to add an UVC descriptor...
That. You can spend money to save money in the long run. Just buy the house instead of having to pay for mortgage. Invest it so that it’s generating money while you do nothing. Many things only accessible if you already have money.
The problem always becomes, who is going to pay for that action.
So, if I read this right, all the major AI companies are not releasing their highest performing models because it's too expensive to roll them out en masse, they are instead using it to (somehow, IANA ML expert) make their existing models cheaper to run.

If I'm reading this right, they're peaking on general performance (as a function of GPUs on hamster wheels), and instead are focusing on reducing costs for their most-demanded operating modes.

A testable prediction of this is then: "All major AI companies will roll out hyper-specialized models that exceed general models at the same price point" and simultaneously will boost profits. The game is to find the specializations that make the most money?
> "a provider is trying to capture for themselves all the value their product creates for you".

And what precisely is the problem? Obviously, we have incomplete information, but in efficient markets ALL providers all trying to capture the full value of the solution they provide. With infinite time, markets essentially adjust themselves towards this goal. As long as that number is 99.99% (meaning the buyer creates an additional 0.01% of economical value) it's still valuable for BOTH parties.

FWIW most SaaS businesses severely underprice their offering relative to the economic value they create.
> It doesn't take complete blocking before there are significant implications.

Mostly for consumers. Advanced users in e.g. China (likely in Russia as well) use VPNs routinely already.

> from more friction in getting access to distribution channels to the more fundamental "forking" of initiatives and visions

What's in it for the devs/companies to fork just because of the geopolitical situation? A fork means more work, more costs. In some cases, like the Linux kernel, Russian companies (Baikal) are forced to fork, but I don't seem them doing this on a massive scale for projects where they don't have to.

I think there is some parallel development going on in China, but that's more because of the language/cultural barrier and has always been so, so I don't expect a major change.
Please do let me know where I can live that is guaranteed to be safe from unexpected natural disaster.
In the OLED example people were indicted in 2018 and went to prison in 2023 or 2024. You are making it seem like it’s an old story, but it’s not really true.
(sorry, somehow the end vanished)

Do when they ended the 15 slides with their history I left the room.

I find out really annoying when a vendor knows better what we need to hear. But not all are like this, some start by saying that the first 10 slides were removed :)
I actually just finished my second career pivot. I was in hardware, then in software, now I'm in government.

I'd take careful stock of your support network behind you, and of who you're supporting. But keep in mind, there's no "wrong answer". Live your life out loud and you do you. If your situation makes that untenable, do some soul searching and find peace without the shakeup. Lots of good advice on this thread, but you know you better than anyone (and if not, start there).

Know the risks though. My wife and I have changed our religious and political beliefs over the past decade or so and as a result have lost contact/intimacy with much of our families/friends. Losing community takes a much steeper toll than I would ever have guessed.
Which legally probably also makes it a fairy tale

"It's a nice story and the court won't prevent you from telling it, but legally these beings in that story are clearly NOT humans"

Hilarious.
> SpaceX gets credit and rightly so because they have achieved things which no national space agency nor private company has ever done before

Such as?
For me Lua, from a minimalism point of view, feels like the Go of dynamically typed languages.

I love how you can acquire the language easily within a very short period of time (apart from some idioms, which like in other languages take more practice). I appreciate the low number of keywords and that you have only one real way to structure data, through tables. Yet, you can use meta tables to "emulate" classes as blueprints for object creation and even inheritance, if you really need OOP, or for that matter other paradigms. In a way this reminds me of JavaScript prototypes.

As an indie game dev, Love2D really clicked. Lua is awesome as a scripting language inside a host language like C/C++/Rust, because it is simple, intuitive (both for imperative or functional styles) and rather fast.

I'm even using it as my go-to scripting language for the Linux CLI instead of Python. Python, as great as it is, feels sometimes too comprehensive for small scripts. I like to script using a language I can fully keep in my "working memory", without having to refresh my memory about some constructs/idioms. That said, I use Rust as my main statically typed language, so maybe I'm just finding excuses for my love for Lua...

I also think Lua is underrated as a possible first language. Its simplicity, readability and details like using keywords for blocks (do, end, etc) IMO make it suitable for beginners.
The point is, the idea is virtuous. The reality often isn’t.

So going on and on about the idea can often cause more harm than good.

And almost no one goes on a loud rant when the split was amicable/voluntary.
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This is such a worn out talking point.

Because concrete and bricks are more expensive and for most places wood construction is perfectly adequate.

It's really very intuitive.
> use this as a reason to become locked down ecosystems

If it wasn't this, it would have been something else eventually. All things tend toward closed top-down controlled systems or whatever brings the most profit/power to the fewest people. It is our way.

Enjoy the time of 3D printer innovation and open use while it lasts.
The Dutch national office of statistics has tools intended to de-identify 'microdata' such that k-anonimity[1] is achieved called mu-argus[2] and tau-argus.

[1] A release of data is said to have the k-anonymity property if the information for each person contained in the release cannot be distinguished from at least k-1 individuals whose information also appear in the release. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-anonymity
[2] https://research.cbs.nl/casc/mu.htm
How did they manage to achieve the literally impossible thing for many years before this transition?

> I literally cannot allow for my brain to rot waiting for minutes waiting for Xcode to compile for a simple border radius change.

You can literally think about/edit other things while your simple border radius is being updated. No rot involved
No pictures or reports of anything falling in the Caribbean. People just love adding to the drama, they will later backtrack and explain that by “rain down” they meant the light show.

It would be extremely unlikely due to the laws of physics, last time I checked they were still in effect.
I hear there is a small fortune to be made in this technology. First, start with a large fortune.

This fits with most VC backed companies. Back in 30 minutes with my showHN post!
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I don't get how can one put his own future in a cheaply built building you're one fire or thougher-than-usual natural event away from losing.

It's normal nobody wants to insure such risky assets, especially as nominal value of this wooden crap is stellar due to the skewed demand/offer ratio plaguing good parts of US.

In my life I've seen my and my family's real estate being hit by a tree, fire, floodings and I've never had to face anything close to a total loss.

Huge expenses? Sure. But never anything close to a loss.

The only thing that could put my real estate on a serious risk are earthquakes, I guess that's a scenario where lighter built houses would have instead an advantage.
Landing boosters, reducing costs etc etc
Indeed.

Given that I am the original russian translator of this article, shame on me for not remembering exactly which article it was.
>Remember how modern OLEDs were made feasible basically by LG and Samsung?

That was Japan's game to lose and their loss was absolutely deserved. Japanese companies are more interested in bickering with each other, while Korean and Chinese companies have bigger worldly goals.

Japan Display[1] and Renesas[2] could have been the LG/Samsung had Japan realized much sooner that there are better things to be doing than dragging each other down.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Display

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renesas_Electronics
It certainly makes sense for a deep dive sales interaction if you're actually going to your product or engineering team to make changes.

But if you're selling what's already on the truck, as most of these companies are, then there is no reason for the "call for pricing" for a standard enterprise plan. Pricing pages should have a separate column for custom/bespoke solutions, where it makes sense to have "schedule a call".
That makes complete sense to me. OpenAI is selling shovels and putting $$$ into improving and selling those shovels.

Salesforce (and other app builders) are buying those shovels (AI) to lower costs to build applications
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It's easy to find entry level jobs? Where? I was trying for ages and barely anyone even replied to my applications
I also point out that Phoenix's "summer" last longer than Berlin's winter:

https://weatherspark.com/y/75981/Average-Weather-in-Berlin-G...

https://weatherspark.com/y/2460/Average-Weather-in-Phoenix-A...
I wish supermarkets would put them on the cake aisle instead and keep the biscuit aisle pure.
It seems everyone is on the same "We will find new solutions to a new problem".
I totally agree.

Here is a list of all new solutions we need:
1) not insure places at higher risk
2) mass desalinification
3) fix US hot climate grids sparkles and/or place them underground
4) Street corridors to isolate fires in neighborhood
5) Build with more fire-resistant materials
6) Install automated hydrant towers with cameras able to spray water on fire remotely (it's done in Spain on the edge of forests and urban areas)
7) Pass on the costs of maintaining of living in expensive risky areas to the people living there and/or give them benefits to move to unpopulated areas with no risk

1) Not all the world will suffer equally from climate change.
The parts that are at higher risk should not be insurable so that new housing will not be built there but somewhere else.

2) The idea there won't be water because it doesn't rain it's ridiculous.
We live on a planet literally made of water. We'll develop mass production de-salinification plants and have enough water.
We need to keep investing and improving that technology. I think having water artifically priced at a low price won't help the development of the desalinification industry. So water should cost more NOW that we can afford it to reflect the R&D cost of it that we must make to have water later.

5) Hot countries don't tend to have plenty of wood to build with. Forests grow with more rain. Building with wood in Spain and Italy is very rare. LA got his wood shipped from somewhere further out. Let's build with other materials in arid fire-prone zones. Yes it's perfectly possible to have houses that are both more-fire-resistant and more-earthquake resistant.
The whole idea of Devin is pointless and doomed to fail in my humble opinion, big tech will be quite capable on delivering A.I agents / assistants - very soon. I don't think wrappers over other people's LLMs like Devin make a lot of sense.
Can someone help me understand what's the value proposition / moat of this company?
If they had built that from the beginning people would have said "every other tasks it asks me for help, how is it a developer then if I have to assist it all the time?"

But now since you are okay with that, I think it's the right time to add that feature.
FTC Statement in the Matter of Snap, Inc.'s AI Chatbot [pdf]
You’re ignoring things like the geological conditions in the Netherlands, they have very peaty soil which is fairly impermeable to water. Which makes the task of keep the sea back pretty easy, you just build a big wall.

But if you look in places like Florida, the ground conditions there are substantially more porous. If you try to keep the sea back there with a simple wall, it’ll just flow under the wall through the soil. You would have to dig all the way to bedrock and install some kind of impermeable barrier to prevent most of Florida from flooding due to sea level rise. Something that’s unbelievably cost prohibitive to do.

The Netherlands only exists below sea level because their ground conditions meant it was possible to pump out the country using technology available in the 1740s. If the ground conditions weren’t basically perfect for this kind of geo-engineering, the Netherlands simply wouldn’t exist as it does today.

You’re using an example that exists purely as a result of survivorship bias, as an argument that it’s practical to apply the same techniques or achieve the same outcomes anywhere else. Completely ignoring the fact that your example only exists because a unique set of geologic conditions made it possible, and those conditions are far from universal, and not in anyway correlated with places we humans would like to protect.
I strongly believe in writing things down. But not so much in having a specific routine for it. The only criteria I have is to make it visible according to context. Some time I use Reminders.app, or I message myself in WA. I may also use an org file or my physical notebook. it’s pretty much the same as notes, I want them to be contextually visible. I don’t care to have a perfect filing system.
That's simplifying things a bit too far. For a lot of people, the required productivity system is exactly what's needed to enable them to "just work". For example Pomodoro timer is in that category. Unfortunately conveying what's happening in your brain to other people is really tricky.
For a few years now, every new car sold in the EU needs a cellular connection for e-call (when airbags are deployed, the car calls 112 itself) functionality. I don't know if it's legal or common to reuse that radio for collecting other data. I would hope not.
Aside from what others have mentioned - maintenance/upgradability. I own a home in Costa Rica, which is basically all concrete. Try upgrading your building with Cat6 ethernet when you have concrete (vs wood/sheetrock).