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> NVIDIA probably has a bit of time left as the market leader, but it's really due mostly to luck.

Look, I think NVIDIA is overvalued and AI hype has poisoned markets/valuations quite a bit. But if I set that aside, I can't actually say NVIDIA is in the position they're in due to luck.

Jensen has seemingly been executing against a cohesive vision for a very long time. And focused early on on the software side of the business to make actually using the GPUs easier. The only luck is that LLMs became popular.. but I would say consistent execution at NVIDIA is why they are the most used solution today.
Identifiers are super important and should be chosen wisely, but a C program with English identifiers is still a C program, while an LLM prompt is in fact NL and a whole new layer of that between your brain and the bytes. Which is why I think that saying "we already put NL between us and the bytes" minimizes that difference and is a bad take.
No love for the <plaintext> tag? "The <plaintext> HTML element renders everything following the start tag as raw text, ignoring any following HTML. There is no closing tag, since everything after it is considered raw text." - it's my favorite obscure deprecated HTML tag.
Maybe you just have no experience with Silicon Valley or just hate it for whatever reason, but the only thing in that list that doesn’t apply to SV is the unions… Not sure the point you’re making.
aren't the smaller param models all just Qwen/Llama trained on R1 600bn?
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"Replicants are either a benefit or a hazard."—Deckard
Sixth form is hardly the oddest name for a year, though. Shell, remove, fifth, 6b, 6a at my school, and quite a few others.
Garbage in, garbage out. Code spewed by a random generator that has not the slightest understanding of what it is doing, whacked at by a hammer until it seems to be working.

What is this supposed to produce other than a mass of bugs and vulnerabilities? "A.I." is utter garbage and always will be, it is foolish to think otherwise.
Same here, I really don't get all the "it's totally useless for programming" posts on here.

It makes me think many people haven't taken the time to actually learn to use the tool.

It just feels like they tried Copilot or ChatGPT for 5 minutes last year and concluded that all LLM's are useless and will be useless forever.

It makes me wonder if those people know that Claude 3.5 sonnet projects and/or Cursor with Claude exist?

Do they not appreciate some help to document their code? Do they never need to write or quickly understand scripts or code in one of the 100's of languages/stacks they're not too familiar with that they might encounter in the wild? How to get out of yet another git mess? Build a proof of concept in an hour that would've taken you days? A refresher on how to set up x toolchain to get started asap (the nr 1 hardest thing in programming :p) etc etc.
> Basically, imagine if Russia conquered Ukraine and then renamed Kyiv to "Vladimir Putin City".

This is really a poor analogy. Kyiv is the birthplace of ancient Russia (Kyiv Rus) and for both Ukrainians and Russians it is like Jerusalem for Jews and Arabs. It is easier to imagine renaming Moscow into Zelensky City than Kyiv into Putin.
So is all the stuff I pirate because I have no reasonable path to get it elsewhere
wiv was not documenting them. Hospitals were documenting flu like cases increasing at exponential rages. And there are hospitals everywhere
Maybe HN needs to fork (not like Wordpress, though...) into 3 sites:

1) Wordpress Original
2) Wordpress no AI/LLM/ML
3) Wordpress ONLY AI/LLM/ML

I would choose 2) in a heartbeat.
Scrolling through this quickly, I notice that I have not heard of a single one of these companies.

I’m not sure I can assign any meaning to that. Just my immediate observation.
Funky! Round trip through Signal worked. But you can tell, because a regular single emoji gets "jumbo sized", these ones don't.
This isn't a direct answer to your question, but be very careful with asking for HAR files. They're super convenient, but if your tech support doesn't understand that HAR files are the worst kind of PII you can get in big trouble.

I've seen HAR files containing Google account session tokens attached in plain text to Jira tickets. If you end up leaking those tokens your customers will not be amused.

See the Okta breach:

https://www.rezonate.io/blog/har-files-attack-okta-customers...
So, an M3 MacBook with 64GiB of RAM running Deepseek R1 Zero in ollama prompted via aider?
No, I don't think it's overly harsh. This hype is out of control and it's important to push back on breathless "exponential" nonsense. That's a term with well defined easily demonstrated mathematical meaning. If you're going to claim growth in some quantity x is exponential, show me that measurements of that quantity fit an exponential function (as opposed to some other function) or provide me a falsifiable theory predicting said fit.
https://github.com/paxo-phone/paxo-electronic has something, no cool diagrams tho.
821 out of how many in total?
And 10x slower. Builds anticipation.
Where I find coding assistants the most useful _is_ in writing code that I already want to write.

Ala - I need to write this unit test, it has these checks, it validates these methods.

Or write a log message for me about what error got encountered here. Those are annoying to write out, but often the llm has enough context that I just start to write and it completes it appropriately.

All of these are things I can easily do myself, are easy to validate correctness, but if I were to write them would consume my limited mental energy for the day.
Ok i dont know. When I first read it, it sounded like you have to spoon feed details until AI gets it right. Or perhaps your ide could be better!
I would nominate recent surge in UAP developments as equally interesting. Perhaps they're not unrelated.
I've recently ended an internship for my bachelor at the Italian research Council where I had to deal with federated learning, and it was hard as well for my researchers supervisors. However, I sort of did a good job. I'm fairly sure I wouldn't be able to solve many leetcode exercises, since it's something that I've never had to deal with aside from university tasks... And I made a few side projects for myself as well
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I know a guy who sells kitchens for a living and makes around $2-3 million per year with a profit margin of 60% or so.

But he didn’t spend 10s of million dollars to get there.
Which will also be much faster because you don't have to worry about sanitizing your code before sending it to an LLM or that the LLM made a mistake somewhere along the way.
Probably mostly the former. It's cheap to provide in a larger hotel and some business travelers sort of expect it even if they basically never use.
> one may argue that the non-GNU userland is simpler in a sense.

This seems to be the main argument of the article. Along with some stuff about systemD.

> In service of that goal, the project is based on BSD tools. Chimera's frequently asked questions page explains that unlike other projects that use those tools for licensing reasons, project picked BSD tools for their smaller code size and reduced complexity.

> But then again, it is presented here as a simplified desktop, while GNOME-based and KDE-based systems are on the images it provides.

Yeah, when I read the title here, I thought it would be about a simplified desktop environment. But they seem to just be using the standard stuff. So, I don’t think this is what they meant to say.
The authors specifically recommend against using a system prompt in the model card.
What in the world was the intended use for that?
The methodology is just this list filtered for companies tagged "Inactive": https://www.ycombinator.com/companies
I think people are running into a couple of challenges. One is keeping up with the pace of improvement. The tools are much improved over 6-12-24 months ago. A poor first impression can leave people thinking a tool is terrible forever more. Second is that someone must learn to work with the new tools. The hype can lead people to think the tools will magically just do all these things. The reality is, like most tools, it takes some trial and error to learn how to best use it.
Yes, the OP is probably unaware of the recent advancements in Prolog. There is a set of techniques using pure Prolog that have made the language incredibly powerful compared to the techniques of the 80s and 80s. The more we use the abstract features of Prolog, the more powerful it becomes.
You should give World Quester 2 a try then!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gy9hJauXns
Apple are setting a good example for sure, I use them a lot for rentals if it's something I don't know if I want to physically yet, or otherwise just want to watch there and then.

Their original content on TV+ looks and sounds incredible, and while you do sometimes come across licensed stuff on iTunes that is only 1080p SDR, I don't recall any time I've bought or rented a movie from there and been reminded of the 700MB DVD rips I used to download as a teenager. I'm sure there are some stinkers, but it seems far less prevalent.
Sounds like everyone have different use cases for LLMs, which makes sense, we need help with different things.

Personally, I try to get rid of writing boilerplate (which it sounds like you're talking about?) fully, no one should write that.

Instead I get help from LLMs to deal with areas where I'm not super great, like math. So I know what results I want, but I'm not sure how to get them. So setup a bunch of tests and the interface I want, then let the LLM figure out how to do the implementation itself.
Which has been proved again and again to only get you 70% there [1].

[1] https://addyo.substack.com/p/the-70-problem-hard-truths-abou...
i'm mostly converting 4k from a phone to 1440p and cutting [backup] storage by 6x. most of these vids are < 3min, and i can do quite a few in a batch job overnight. im in no rush. it does about 4fps with the 1080p30 HQ preset with the only additional change to up the res to 1440p. i would not use it for batching feature length films, but you can do one in a pinch :D
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There's not enough of a corpus out there for the LLMs to snarf up
Which AI to Use Now: An Updated Opinionated Guide
This guide compares top general-purpose AI models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, highlighting recent advancements, strengths, and use cases. It offers practical advice on choosing the right AI for various needs, making it I think a useful resource for anyone navigating the fast-changing AI landscape.
No one is disrupting banks – at least not the big ones
Databases aren't magic.

They have limited CPU and IO resources. They can only optimize within the bounds of the current table/index structure. And sometimes they make a bad optimization decision and need to be pushed to do the right thing.

Databases can, for example, sort things. However, if that thing being sorted isn't covered by an index then you are better off doing it in the application where you have a CPU that can do the n log n sort.

Short quips lead to lazy thinking. Learn what your database can and can't do fast and work with it. If something will be just as fast in the application as it would be in the database you should do it in the application.

I've seen the end result of the "do everything in the database" thinking and it has created some of the worst performance bottlenecks in my company. You can do almost everything in the database. That doesn't mean you should.
I've found that quality degrades really quickly after just the first reply, for some reason. They all seem heavily biased towards one-shot correct answers, and as you say, they go down the wrong path really quickly if you even get the first message slightly wrong.

I tend to restart chats from the beginning pretty much all the time, because of this.
> completely irrelevant and I’m only interested in writing (chat, stories, etc)

There's a person keeping track of a few writing prompts and the evolution of the quality of text with each new shiny model. They shared this link somewhere, can't find the source but I had it bookmarked for further reading. Have a look at it and see if it's something you'd like.

https://eqbench.com/results/creative-writing-v2/deepseek-ai_...
With all respect to the younger generation, this is project is oversold compared to previous similar projects.

BTW, which OSHW project is advanced enough to deserve more contributions ?

Back to paxo one, According to

https://github.com/paxo-phone/paxo-electronic

It is integration of SIM800L modem with ESP32

Software side, the main app (aka OS):

https://github.com/paxo-phone/PaxOS-9
Since a few years, I just play on Linux

Almost anything works with proton - unless you're playing competitive online games with anti cheats software
> I'd put less blame on London and more on secondary cities

> HS2 is cut short because of money that people outside of London demand be spent on making it so expensive on a per-mile basis.

I'm not sure that's accurate. Cost overruns have also come from inability to find efficiencies, high inflation in the construction sector, low contingency estimate (half cross rails) and a misunderstanding of ground conditions.

The expense increases due to consultation / public demand have come from demands made on the route between London and Birmingham. For example the Chiltern tunnel extension. There aren't many cities in that gap, and most of that area is London facing rather than Birmingham or north facing.

HS2 between London and Birmingham has the worse cost:benefit ratio of the whole initial plan, and yet it's the only bit being built.
Setting a reminder for Jan’26 then, thanks!
There are multiple ways to accomplish this, but the one that is the most straightforward is to simply make an object mapping of the type you are familiar with via AVL trees[1]. Easy way to get the "this.maze" semantics. You can get global context and local context via "blackboard"[2] semantics.

However quite frankly the most powerful way to do this is not obvious because it doesn't translate well to other languages: meta-interpreters[3].

[1]: https://www.scryer.pl/assoc

[2]: https://www.scryer.pl/iso_ext.html#bb_get/2

[3]: https://youtu.be/nmBkU-l1zyc
Agreed. I came here during the JS library hype fad when everyone was using query and waiting for the next best thing. JS libraries felt like 30% of all posts til they weren’t.

I can see how the AI posts can get overbearing if you are in the /new trenches. I’d recommend stepping back and just view the top post rss for a bit.
Not just for gaming. Mice are better for everything.

> Now I use a vertical mouse (by Logitech).

Ugh I tried that when I had RSI. Absolutely awful. The fundamental flaw is that you click sideways which always moves the pointer a little unless you strain to avoid it, which kind of defeats the point.

Get a better chair and desk. That solved the RSI for me - no weird ergonomic input devices made any difference.
I work in copyright law. Familiarize yourself with the AFC test concept and I'm willing to have a conversation about what would be copyrightable in this project of mine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction-Filtration-Compari...
A lot of engineers invested in building crypto stuff and we didn’t go far in personal banking. Hype-driven development is not guaranteed to succeed.
Can I suggest something? Integrate this with some TTS and LLM so I can say “send my tanks north”, that rough command should translate. I’m not a game dev, so it’ll take me forever to even figure out where in the code to do this interception, but it’s a dream of mine.
> I'm an extremely qualified engineer who has worked at FAANG.

> I just paste error-messages directly into the AI

...
4b 65 6e 74 20 50 69 74 6d 61 6e 20 72 65 6c 61 74 65 64 20 5b 30 5d 20 74 68 65 20 63 6f 6d 6d 65 6e 74 20 6f 66 20 61 20 70 72 6f 67 72 61 6d 6d 65 72 20 69 6e 20 50 61 6e 61 6d 61 2c 20 77 68 6f 20 6c 69 6b 65 6e 65 64 20 45 6e 67 6c 69 73 68 20 6b 65 79 77 6f 72 64 73 20 74 6f 20 6d 75 73 69 63 61 6c 20 6e 6f 74 61 74 69 6f 6e 73 20 62 6f 72 72 6f 77 65 64 20 66 72 6f 6d 20 49 74 61 6c 69 61 6e 2e 0a 0a 5b 30 5d 20 68 74 74 70 73 3a 2f 2f 64 65 76 65 6c 6f 70 65 72 73 2e 73 6c 61 73 68 64 6f 74 2e 6f 72 67 2f 73 74 6f 72 79 2f 30 31 2f 31 31 2f 30 33 2f 31 37 32 36 32 35 31 2f 6b 65 6e 74 2d 6d 2d 70 69 74 6d 61 6e 2d 61 6e 73 77 65 72 73 2d 6f 6e 2d 6c 69 73 70 2d 61 6e 64 2d 6d 75 63 68 2d 6d 6f 72 65
That statement is hotly contested, as it doesn't align with the prevailing evidence
> LLMs are useless if you don’t understand the context
> AI can be worse than useless when you don't understand the underlying technologies

I made a saying about this some weeks ago: "A.I. can make the road for you, but you have to know where you are going". In Greek it sounds a little bit better.

Also code is the truth, but it is not the only truth. The underlying computer, the network infrastructure and other things have an effect on the code. So, there could be a saying in addition to the first: "A.I. can make the road for you, but you have to test the road".
https://archive.is/tBUmr
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I have a non-technical friend who in the last two months has bootstrapped a SaaS startup using nothing but AI. He's got just over a handful of paying customers at this point on a monthly subscription[0].

I asked him to show me his process[1] after trying my hand (20 year, principal) and noticed a big difference in how we used AI: I instruct the AI how to code, he asks the AI to fix problems. In other words, I have a tendency to look at the code and ask the AI to fix it in more specific and direct ways that I want it fixed. On the other hand, if something doesn't work, my friend will copy/paste the error to the AI directly out of the dev tools console and ask the AI to fix the error. The two approaches are totally different.

My lesson here is that you're not meant to debug AI generated code; hand the error off to the AI and let it fix itself. I think if you're debugging AI generated code, you're doing AI generated code wrong. If you're an experienced dev picking up AI coding, I think you need to shift your mindset entirely. Ideally, someone out there will just create a closed loop where the AI can fix itself when it finds an error (integrate some browser and autonomous test loop into Cursor, for example, and let it fix its own errors).

Conclusion: if you're going to use AI to code, commit to it and use AI to fix the errors as well. Use AI for every aspect of it.

[0] Yes, I'm sure there are security holes and code issues galore, but those can always be fixed later when he's proven the business model.

[1] Yes, I have told him that he should create a YT channel or stream on Twitch because the content itself is super interesting how well he's been able to use AI.
Misinformation. This guide compares only generative models, not AI as a whole. Please be specific next time.
I put it: "copilot doesn't save me much thinking, but it saves a ton of typing".
It was required in the XHTML 1.0 specs, people carried it over I don’t know why but everyone stopped validating html so nobody cared.
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The photo of a man carrying a baby and a woman by his side in the article is not of Buang Ly. The naval institute even has a video of the actual landing here:

https://www.facebook.com/NavalInstitute/videos/1638823169892...
I'm curious what you are asking it to do and whether you think the thoughts it expresses along the seemed likely to lead it in a useful direction before it resorted to a summary. Also perhaps it doesn't realize you don't want a summary?
> you work in a language that is underrepresented in models meaning off the shelf tools don't work well

That's exactly what happens, and why I think the whole hype is a joke. I have tried all the models and tools though, it's always an annoying mess.

> tools can solve nearly every single leet code problem faster than you

That would be useful if I was paid to "leet code" or solve Christmas games. This is not a good rebutal though but it made me smile.

> The kind of work I'd give to a Jr/Mid

Good, but I don't want to know what happens in 20 years when there are no more juniors to feed the AI and work on becoming seniors. I will be retired by then and I'll enjoy writing my own open-source stuff.
Perhaps I am unfairly lumping Alienware in with some of the other Steam Machines, which very much did look almost identical to their manufacturer’s other PCs at the time.

As someone who at the time was VERY into buying the “console-like” PC gaming experience that Valve was seemingly selling, I remember being pretty disappointed not just by the SteamOS delays, but also how much most of the Steam Machines still basically looked, to me as an uninformed buyer, at least, to basically just be a different SKU of their regular lines rather than the true “Steam experience” that I was hoping for (and which the Steam Deck eventually delivered).
Is this a CSP thing? Can you get away with https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re... and window.onerror?

Also, do you actually need the HAR file? or just a log of your servers' inputs/outputs from the clients' perspective? You can get that The Boring Way if you don't have a CSP issue, so maybe solve that issue?
The most pervasive misunderstanding about evolution is that it leads to "perfection". Sure it is a kind of optimization procedure, but a) it's optimizing on a loss function that is measured on the population scale, not the scale of a particular organ, so don't expect your pet figure of merit to be optimized even in an average sense, and certainly not in an individual; and b) there is not a unique optimum, the optima are not stationary, and local optima generally are not all that sharp, so do not expect the population to be all that close to the optimum either.
“By: Shondiin Silversmith”?

I think you may have intended a different word.
Same here. I see these tools as teaching me patiently and challenging me (unwittingly) in areas where i'm out of depth. When i'm lucky they will do simpler stuff for me, but for $40/month, I don't feel entitled to a SaaS-unicorn-terraformer.
Yes, that's exactly it. Many corporations firing coders because "AI can do that" and then discovering that AI can't.

It's offshoring 2.0. $developing_country is cheaper so let's hire them, and why is everything broken now?

This fantasy economy is based entirely on Numbers Must Go Up. Everyone seems to have forgotten the numbers are linked to real people in a physical world, and the real people and the physical world both have rules and consequences of their own which don't care about quarterly returns.
And this is nothing new. People already knew how to write compilers in Prolog (easily) in the 90s. The problem with Prolog is that it requires a change in the way you think about problems, to a more declarative way. Programmers are in general not willing to do this since the result will be not as performant as what they can do with C. There must be a revolution in programming education and tools before people fully understand how Prolog works.
That's what I thought 10 years ago, and then he started dumping every trash thought he had on twitter and making nazi salutes.
Definitely not, if you use modern db like MongoDB :D
As the war was ending, a lot of of these choppers wouldn't have been required anymore and would have ended up in some graveyard anyway.
How does one pivot into finance with a stem degree and computer engineering experience? What are you looking for in a resume and what's the interview process like?
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Yeah this works for crud apps with conventional methods for accounts email payments and not at all for anything complex especially if it isn’t a super commonly used language or framework. Try coding a single game with AI that isn’t something done 10000 times already. It actually is impossible.