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> Time-zone-unaware date/time ("Plain")

Why?!

The thing I hate most about most SQL DateTime/Timestamps are their choice to default to TZ ambiguity. Too often it means everything must actually be UTC nearly all the time, or you get messy data that could be any zone. I.e. It's a lossy data type.

TZ unaware should not be an option. Or if there's truly a case for it then it should at least be some non default, opt in, with 'dangerous' in the type name(s).
What do you think of the increasingly sparse measurement data available to marketers and the rise of needing to focus on measuring incrementality through statistical experiments when smaller companies may not have enough data to obtain statsig results?
I'm with ya. I've owned 4 (Model S P100D, Model S Plaid, Model X, Model Y) over the past 10+ years. When the lease on my Plaid expired, I couldn't bring myself to get another one.

I took a long look at the Taycan as the used ones are "almost" sensibly priced but the first 2 generations are simply not great cars. The new 2025 (3rd Gen) is much nicer but the pricing is doesn't make sense.

Hopefully 2-3 years from now brings a much bigger diversity of performance electric cars. The BYD sports cars look very interesting.
“Crack the books”—can anybody recommend good books for this shared future of ours? I’m tired of trying to piece it together from blog posts, READMEs, and short video tutorials.
A phishing attack involving g.co, Google's URL shortener
What we are currently calling AI is just a fancy programming language/REPL/compiler anyway, so obviously software developers aren't going away any time soon. You fundamentally must be a software developer to use these tools.

Elevator operators never went away either. In fact, there have never been more elevator operators in human history! Not a good career choice, though. That is what these warnings, realistic or not, are actually calling attention to.
Wow, Dec 2009 is literally when I had launched the MVP of VWO. So cool to hear this story from you! Brings back so many memories of anxious excitement and working till 3 am :)
This must be a parody article. I've never heard anyone say anything positive about Oracle or Oracle Linux.

If your primary goal is to run k3s in a VM, literally any LInux distro works well for that. How about Debian 12 instead - from an organization that truly stands behind Linux and Open Source.

Oracle ... geez .. seriously?
Not buying new Teslas sure, but getting rid of an existing Tesla doesn't somehow pull money back from Musk.
> And then you get into all the compatibility problems - many e-bike conversion kits are sold with a freehub that's not the correct size for modern cassettes (comes with HG 9-speed, need an HG 11-speed, XD, XDR, or Microspline freehub). Axle widths and axle type (bolt, QR, thru-axle).

To be fair, all of these problems exist when doing work on normal bikes too.
There's also the implied endorsement, though.
> Most people don’t need to drive.

This is one of those comments that just tells everyone reading that you don't think much outside whatever area you dwell. There are lots of people not anywhere near you that do need to drive. Not accepting not everyone is like you is just small minded, and makes the conversation not worth having
Baked in S3 and PGSQL feels like it's just waiting for AWS to undercut Bun's future monetization model. Deno has KV and even they are being pushed to the point of cutting regions.
> there have never been more elevator operators in human history

Press X to doubt
> The creators of this algorithm note that it can enumerate all tic-tac-toe games in just over a second!

This is achievable in most languages, no?
While I found myself in furious agreement with the section titled "Jevons Paradox", I'm less convinced by this argument from the "Comparative Advantage" section:

"While AI is powerful, it’s also computationally expensive. Unless someone decides to rewrite the laws of physics, there will always be a limit on how much artificial intelligence humanity can bring to bear."

The cost for running a prompt through the best-available model has collapsed over the past couple of years. GPT-4o is about 100x times less expensive than GPT-3 was, and massively more capable.

DeepSeek v3 and R1 are priced at a fraction of OpenAI's current prices for GPT-4 and o1 model and appear to be highly competitive with them.

I don't think we've hit the end of that trend yet - my intuition is that there's a lot more performance gains still to be had.

I don't think LLM systems will be competitive with everything that humans can do for a long time, if ever. But for the things they CAN do the cost is rapidly dropping to almost nothing.
I don't know what caused your experience, but I've had the opposite experience using XFS with many small files. It's my filesystem of choice for simple (single device) use cases.

The main reason is that XFS automatically allocates inode space. With ext4, I would quickly run out of the default inode quota while the volume was nowhere near full, and then manually tune the inode to block ratio to accommodate more files. XFS took care of that automatically. Performance was otherwise identical, and I've never seen any data loss bugs or even crashes from either one.
Working with nontechnical people make prompts is interesting.

I’m seeing a lot of frustration with people dealing with markdown. Even though it’s free form and not really like code at all the hashes, dashes etc throw them off

Also seeing a lot of people having a hard time expressing their desired behavior in a concrete way. It reminds me in 3rd grade when we had to write recipes and then the teacher had a classmate maliciously comply to only what was written.

Overall I think tools will improve and barriers will continue to disappear but for the time being still has big demand for people to convert abstract intention to concrete machine usable format. It’s just how those ideas are expressed get more flexible with llms
It’s been a conscious effort to reduce the amount of obligations in my life, and I’m proud to have free time to spend any way I want to, even if someone else might consider it a trivial waste of time.
Professionally, Oracle is pretty much the only cloud provider with a super strong focus on ARM. If you want a Linux distro with guaranteed secure and complete packaging for AArch64 you're not going to find many non-corporate options.
That was 85 days ago. Since then:

Journal that published faulty black plastic study removed from science index (105 points, 31 days ago, 84 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42494733

Huge math error corrected in black plastic study; authors say it doesn't matter (173 points, 34 days ago, 116 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42437201

A simple math error sparked a panic about black plastic kitchen utensils (141 poitns, 42 days ago, 176 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42400008

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42400960
Yeah, I always suspected this. Increased software productivity facilitated by IA would lead to even more and more complex software.

But are we the software workers going to see the results of our increased productivity in our paychecks or are we now on the same boat as the other proletarians that haven't seen their salaries increase in proportion to the increases on their productivities facilitated by automation since the 70s.

Are we going to enter history as the last profession to resist feudalization, the last one who gave a lower class person some chance of upward mobility only to finally be conquered by the power of the ultra-rich?
Makes sense. I wonder if it affects the model output performance (sans quotes), as I could imagine that splitting up the model output to add the quotes could cause it to lose attention on what it was saying.
When I was very young in Canada, before the metric changeover, it was still common to measure distance with time.
Fyi: Duckduckgo has a free ai chat with o1-mini at https://duck.ai

They also offer Claude 3 Haiku, Llama 3.1 70B and Mixtral 8x7B. No account required and they say it's not logged + anonymous. I'm sure they have limits but I never reached them.
Trillion tonne iceberg on collision course with South Georgia
Crunchyroll Is Currently Getting Hacked and They're Sharing Login Information
Haha, yes - we were neck to neck often.
Also all the jobs for replacing unreliable/insecure systems where LLM output is being given wayyy too much trust and system authority.
Also check https://github.com/kagisearch/llm-chess-puzzles
Trump signs executive order promoting crypto
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I haven’t seen a study yet that suggests AI tools enhance productivity of developers.

I wouldn’t take it as a given.

The study I have seen was from a company selling AI developer tools whose researchers were employed by said company. Not exactly and independent and bias-free study.

Personally they don’t work for me.

It’s not AI that is going to take out jobs. It’s the capital class that will do that. That’s what is changing the industry.

I suspect this will be the year we start to hear stories of folks getting let go for not using LLM codegen.
From the story: Crypto investors, companies and executives accounted for almost half of corporate donations in the 2024 election cycle, with some contributing tens of millions of dollars to help Trump win a second term in office.
I am envious too. When I was young, even younger than Bryan's age, I had grown a strong interest in electronics. But I was limited by a lot of things:

1. Breadboards are the best thing I can use, to create a PCB, I can only rely on manually soldering connections on a general-purpose PCB (the kind of PCB with many holes). And I had never heard of EDA at that time (~2008-12ish)

2. Being raised in a family where my parents never went to college, they can't give me any help and advice in study, let alone the funding. It took me 2 years of begging to convince my parents to buy me a computer, which already costs them 2 months of wages.

3. In the small town in middle west China where I grown up, I searched every corner of the library, only to find 2 or 3 books that are related to electronics, and I spent all my time after school studying them. I can't find anyone who are also interested in the same things I was doing, I was all on my own.

What happened then?

1. I studied hard on the only books I found, and learned about C51 microcontrollers, and that introduced me to the world of programming

2. I took a selective examination and went to one of the most prestigious high school in the capital of the province (Changsha, Hunan), and because of my intests in programming, I took part in olymptics in informatics, which is competitive algorithmic contest, and got the entrance to one of the best universities of China

3. After graduation and 5 years of working as a professional programmer, I was finally able to give myself a good environment for what I loved as a kid, something people like Bryan would already have when they were born. I bought myself 3d printing machines, and learned EDA and found JLC, PCBWays are so helpful.

I really wish I could have all these when I was young, but I think I'll give myself all the things my parents can't, and make myself a kid again, to learn and to play.
> More software means more jobs for increasingly efficient software developers

This assumes software developers will be the ones needed to meet the demand. I think it will be more like technical product managers
All of our initial growth came from either word of mouth or the content I was churning out on a daily basis.
When was there more? We keep building more and more buildings with elevators in places where there are more and more people. With defined elevator attendants being almost unheard of nowadays, leaving elevator users to be operator in nearly every case, anything else is mathematically unlikely.

Software developers aren't going anywhere, but, like the elevator operator, everyone might become a software developer. At least that is the theory the grifters are grifting on. They aren't literally saying software developers are going away. That couldn't work given that you become, if you weren't already, a software developer when you use these tools.
I remember when Hinton said that that we should "stop training radiologists now" in 2016[1]. Meanwhile, radiologists are in high demand and are getting paid better than ever. I believe the same will be true for programmers in the future. Sure, some of the boilerplate will be handled for you, just like segmentation is for radiologists. That's great for everyone.

1 = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HMPRXstSvQ&t=30s
Enterprises don't ask that. We never got that request.
How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?
> Software development has always been a career where you are either learning new things or stagnating. AI doesn’t change the need to keep learning and evolving.

Keep in mind, there are still COBOL developers. If you want to stagnate, there's a market for that.
I haven't read these all the way through myself but I've seen enough of them that I'm confident suggesting them:

- Prompt Engineering for LLMs by John Berryman and Albert Ziegler: https://www.amazon.com/Prompt-Engineering-LLMs-Model-Based-A...

- AI Engineering by Chip Huyen, which I recommend based on the strength of this extract about "agents": https://huyenchip.com/2025/01/07/agents.html
Curious to learn more. Did you make these changes by just switching jobs? Did education precede it?
ChatGPT and similar tools have made getting started programming way more accessible. My girlfriend just learned to program starting a few months ago and I’m constantly impressed what she’s able to do with the help of AI tools.
It would also seem that the information about Crunchyroll not currently allowing password changes is true as well.
It depends how good the AI becomes. There aren't a lot of horses employed for commercial transportation any more.
UI is hell: four-function calculators
Oh I forgot to mention my favorite 18th century experiment which used a plumb bob, like on a pendulum, and the gravitational pull of a mountain in Scotland to estimate the mass and size of the earth

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schiehallion_experiment

Many surveying expeditions had cartographical errors attempting to draw straight lines across vast distances due to this phenomena when they were passing the various because of their gravitational pull. These surveys had to be done at night because they relied on the stars to guide them and used the gravity of the perpendicular plumb to go straight. The pull of the mountains were not accounted for.

This has a name https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_deflection

It also disproved Hollow Earth theory, which at the time had a number of notable supporters, such as Edmond Halley, who to go back, was a friend of Newton's and plausibly copied Flamsteed's work on the famous comet.

Flamsteed was really protective and didn't like Halley so it's hard to suss out the reality. He made the calculations predicting the return but viewed them as property of the observatory being made during his employment there. Haley, who had access to the work, on the other hand, publicized his calculations and was not protective. Did he independently derive them? Haley claims he didn't know about the work, Flamsteed says otherwise. Who knows? +1 for open access I guess
LOL. You try to get pedantic about per capita and use a buffet analogy, but don't even get the mapping to the problem right or make a point that helps you.

China is responsible for >30% of ghg emissions and for 90% of incremental CO2 emissions growth in the last decade. Their population didn't grow more than ~2%! Your buffet analogy misses the constraint about the earth's carbon budget being limited to keep global warming to +1.5c. China is effectively blowing through everyone's budget so that no steak will be left and running the buffet out of business.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Edit: but karpathy's posts in this thread are fine - see my clarifying comment downthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42816589
I think this effect will be even greater this time (last time being higher-level “slow” languages like python and js), because AI will allow for a new wave of developers who won’t care about the “right” code that much and will perceive it as a disposable resource rather than a form of art. This aligns well with many smaller businesses that are by nature temporary or very dynamic and have to actually fight with developers tendencies to create beautiful solutions after the ship has sailed.
The film soup technique. what are the main considerations?
I like hands-on learning more than I like textbooks, so in case that matches your requirements, maybe try training your own GPT to have a sense for how it works. I wrote a Rust version of the famous https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT (which is in Python) so that I could learn how it's built.

I wrote it in Rust because I wanted to improve my skills in that language, be forced to write code instead of just reading the existing implementation so that I would truly learn, and test the quality of the nascent Rust AI/ML ecosystem, but you could pick your own language
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Very well put. The efficiency improvement I don’t think is the piece to debate, it’s pretty clear (like having auto complete for typing out text messages). I have yet to feel threatened (job security wise) by LLMs.
We have Geppetto, a FOSS that you can ask questions within Slack and using several services. Feel free to fork it: <https://github.com/Deeptechia/geppetto>
Can’t say for sure, but Mario Party 9, Mario Party Island Tour, Mario Party Star Rush, and Mario Party: The Top 100 all had rainbow logos.

Mario Party 9, Island Tour, and The Top 100 roughly have the same arrangement, which contains arguably three shades of green (MARIIOPARTY).
I think it will be the software developers that lean more into the kind of skills you see in technical product managers, or maybe vice-versa.
Who cares about the virtue signals, buy and drive what you like.
No, they said that not just anyone can get in for free; there's an admission test.
I think the plan is to keep growing profitably, but I'm also curious and keen to learn how private equity runs a company.
Text is barely readable. What part of this is trans friendly? Do trans people not have eyes?
If we had some sort of enhancement that makes horses 500% faster and stronger, we probably would.
That's all great feedback. Much appreciated. I agree re: clicking on a verse rather than selecting the text. Especially if you're on a phone. Will be updating in the next few days
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Doesn't this assume there will always be significant business needs that can be met by software, but are not yet? Or at least not as efficiently as they could be?

I imagine there is an upper bound on how much of the world can be eaten by software, and the trend seems to be getting closer to that point. Unless there are some massive breakthroughs in robotics or cybernetics which open more of the physical world to software.

There's also a point where incremental software improvement requires bulldozing, paving, or burning so much nature that we'll be worse off in the end. Watching billionaires squabble about who gets the new AI data centers makes me wonder if we haven't crossed over that point a few funding rounds ago.
It's great how the most niche of posts still find their aficionados <3
Where they say the site is closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, my brain immmeidately thought they meant the website, and I couldn’t understand how that might be plausible!
So far HN users seem to be doing a pretty job of flagging them.

Of course, the big question is what to do if/when they're smart enough to fool everybody.
AI is going to make building software way cheaper and more profitable, but that's actually bad news for a lot of developers out there. Think about how many people are only employed because they know the basics of React or Django or whatever. They can copy-paste code and tweak existing patterns, but that's exactly what AI is getting really good at.

The developers who are actually going to thrive are the ones who can architect complex systems and solve gnarly technical problems. That stuff is getting more valuable, not less.

But a lot of folks have built careers on pretty basic skills. They've gotten by because there just aren't many humans who can do even simple technical work. That advantage is disappearing fast.
Cars didn’t eliminate the need for someone to still operate transportation, going from horses to cars to ships just changed the vessel and if anything opened up more jobs as efficiency increased. We may have to adjust our roles as software engineers, but wholesale eliminating the role as a job family feels a bit difficult to picture. When software written by an LLM (which has been trained on human written code) ultimately fails or has some bug/edge case, I don’t think TPMs will have much fun debugging outages via their LLM..
You probably have installed it from the Google Play store rather than from F-Droid, I'd bet.
- No, never applied to YC.

- Not expecting this to happen

- I plan to explore starting a fundamental AI lab from India (China has Deepseek, US has OpenAI and Anthropic, Japan has Sakana - India doesn't have one yet!)
Don't think so. They need medical care, food. And a 500% strength horse is still not as fast as a semi truck.
For coders/devs -->
AI is useful only to novice coders ai give them a basuc core/template code to start with that they can modify

But actual coders who work in companies on projects thay have to follow different styles/languages/algorithm for coding practices, ai cant conform to that , if you are working on legacy codes or refactoring you need to maintain the style and format the code already is in, ai cant give you exact, you cant say ai these is my million line, code scattered on thousand files, analyse and add these feature while maintaining sanctity of current code practice

Ai will just introduce new bugs and you will waste more time in finding and solving

AI gives productivity boost only if you are starting from scratch, it can give you core code / boilerplate to rapidly start with adding features
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If there's a warrant for your arrest, you're not going to avoid it by the police not having remote access to your car locks.
Same high school as Zuck.
I think the two different sides of the view is really just a matter of perspective and definition.

Do you view the next evolution of software engineering with AI as still software engineering? Or do you think it's something else that replaces software engineering. Something akin to the Ship of Theseus.

I belong to the replacement camp, but I don't think the underlying thinking differs much. Just a matter of how you look at it.

My personal take: https://github.com/paradite/ai-replace-swe
There's also the effect that reviewing AI generated code is a lot less fun than writing your own code. It becomes more of an admin task, and less of a creative one, thereby attracting less motivated developers.
Did the radiologists suddenly get better than the AI at reading images? Or is the system simply unchangeable?
Typically, you wouldn't manually select the documents in a query, you’d use this as part of a system wrapped around the LLM where a query (possibly itself from the model like other tool invocations) would be sent out to a web api, vectord DB, etc., return documents that would be fed back in to the model as part of a continuation query, and then the model would frame a response citing the relevant sources for elements of the response.
Certainly, there will be some people who will decide not to drive Tesla for "virtue signal" reasons, but there will also be some people who decide not to drive Tesla on principle. Two different things, and both exist.