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Discussion (45 points, 12 hours ago, 59 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42929093
Reflections on an LLM-Only Coding Project
No, you can't. Because r/f changes and/or adds escape sequences, AND you can't have double-raw strings for example. In Swift there's 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc number of #. It's not raw strings at all! There's no -1 number of #. So for example to do regexes in python you normally use r-strings, to avoid \ escaping in the regex. In Swift you could do the same the opposite way: not by removing \ escaping, but by changing it to \#. And if you want to regex match for \#, you can do ##. And if you want to match for \## you can use ###, etc.

There is always a clean escape where you can write the literal that you want to write. Unlike in Python where there is no escape (amusingly).
GitHub reveals how software engineers are purging federal databases
> Money flows to the things people want. The real housewives, the view, twilight, etc. Hell people make millions simply playing video games on twitch. But nobody is owed an income for doing something they love.

It's not about love. Tons of creatives work jobs they loathe just as much as any other profession, but it's what they're trained to do. It's their specialization, one honed over their entire lives, which can be like 25 years, or 50, or 70. What are those people supposed to do when the job market for the skill they're in rapidly shrinks?

And, in a larger view: what do you think is going to happen to the society you live in when thousands, millions of workers who work these jobs, now no longer can make rent? Can't pay their bills? Can't buy food? Like this is one of the better arguments against socialized medicine is that we have millions of people in the USA who work in the insurance industry, both for insurers, and for doctors offices. Medical billing is an entire job description and skillset, and like, I don't think that should be a thing, I think we should get rid of it, but I'm also cognizant that we'll have tons of white collar professionals who will need financial support and job training as part of that because I'm not a heartless monster and don't want to send millions of people to die on the streets.

> The question you should be asking, is how do you increase demand for the things you value? How do you make people want the thing you have to offer. Musicians, comedians, and other artists who figure out that answer (or luck into it), get very wealthy indeed.

A tiny, tiny minority get wealthy. Most creatives, even successful ones, earn like... a middling middle class income, in good times. But that income also comes with a lot of it's own issues: having to arrange their own insurance, their taxes are a nightmare, and the income stream isn't steady like a paycheck, it's gig-based.

And a whole lot more do it, indeed, for the love of their craft and oftentimes have other jobs to make enough to get by.
It is a fact that he admires dictators, not sure why you feel the need to reframe it as ‘easy to say’?

He has been useful to Putin already (‘This is genius.’ Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine — Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful,” ) and will be again by pausing the disastrous invasion and refusing Ukraine aid. I can see him being similarly useful to Xi for similar reasons.

China was not ready last decade they have been clearly preparing the last few years and now is the time to do so.
We had this problem in our organization circa 20 years back so I built a ticketing system, now each conversation exists as its own object, and "the same thing being discussed twice" has the opportunity to be merged into one, etc. That seems to have helped a lot with our internal conversations.
It depends on your video memory and how it is structured. Also as I've said, skills ;-)
both can be true! if a huge ship can be destroyed by a $100k drone boat, we still have a problem
Innate… superiority? There are zero ways to interpret this that are okay if you have a sliver of moral integrity in you.
The "post-radio" world is a weird one. An algorithm selecting songs for streaming audio just isn't the same as the kind of curated-for-genre/channel experience that radio used to provide. Sure songs would get overplayed, but radio also did a pretty good job of keeping that absolute tripe off the air. Good radio stations would also surface good local bands and cater to regional tastes.

As much as I love the fact that teens these days are growing up with the same songs I grew up with as a teen, I also view it as a problem. The shared cultural experience that radio generated was powerful.

We're lost somewhat in quantity now and there's really nobody who's helping form and shape taste. An algorithm might find similar songs based on musical features, but the same sounding song over and over is boring. AI just makes more boring songs because it's largely looking to replicate popular song features as well. This can be passable for purely background music meant to fill space with non-distracting sound, but is terrible for active listening.

Radio was good at mixing in variety within the confines of the genre and audience expectations. Heck, many channels use to program to support the mood during the commute and work hours, and outside of those main audience times would allow the DJs to get a little wild sometimes. Growing up the only place you could catch early EDM was on weekend late-night broadcasts on the local alt-rock station.

It's not like radio of a sort does still exist - just download the GNOME Shortwave client and you can drown in channels there. It's just not powered by the marketing that supports Spotify.

edit - I think it's interesting that the comments I'm seeing below this so far are talking about recent radio. I should have been more clear. In the U.S. markets at least Radio "died" during a great consolidation wave in the earl 2000s when Clearchannel and a few other media companies slurped up all the local channels, switched their formats and started playing consolidated playlists.

It really did used to be the case that your local station DJs were local brands, each with their own curation of songs. Some stations would even have local music festivals and were big promoters of local talent. I spent many evenings calling up the local station to request songs to be slipped into the playlist, sometimes to promote somebody I knew and get them some airtime.
Bandcamp docks 15% for revenue share and charges a payment processor fee. Someone recently paid $4.00 for an album I published and Bandcamp gave me $3.15 of it
Drug trafficking has little to do with the border issue, since you cannot really do anything about it when you have thousands of miles of border to secure. The issue here is how much corruption exists in the US and how little it does against the really big criminals who control traffic.

The justice system concentrates only on putting small vendors behind bars (usually black people), but they're not the ones making real profits. I guarantee you don't know any big drug traffickers operating inside the US that were sent to jail. When you hear about big bosses it is always some guy outside the US, but the ones operating inside the country are all protected in one way or another. They're all laughing and buying mansions all over the country. This corruption is what the US should be concentrating on if they want to stop drug trafficking.
> I am seeing more and more stories about people that don't know how to program are using AI to create software products.

They are, in every case I've seen, creating software _demos_. Those things will fall over under their own weight with 1-2 more iterations.

Someone with no code experience can say "Make snake!" and for other contrived examples and maybe even add a handful of features but very quickly they will code themselves into a corner that they can't get out of. Heck, I sometimes go 3-4 prompts deep on something with Aider then git reset back once it turns out something isn't going to work out.

If some has _fully launched_ a product using only AI to write _all_ the code (Press X to doubt) then it's either a product that will never grow past its initial feature set and/or something trivially copied (with or without AI).

What AI tools may change is the ability for "ideas people" to create a basic MVP (Of the tool itself, I don't think you are going to get an LLM to churn out a whole SaaS codebase without a developer guiding) and raise interest/funding/recruit-others. That's not the "barrier to entry" lowering, that's just a "better slide deck".
Mission Accomplished. iOS is a significantly large enough market that it will have some success for those looking to replace FB/evite.

You can say the same thing about FB/Whatsapp or any other social network - you have to be in-network to get the invite even.

Looking forward to testing this out for some events.
At the same time, putting your ideas to words forces you to make them concrete instead of nebulous brain waves. I find that the chat interface gets rid of the downsides of pair programming (that the other person is a human being with their own agency*) while maintaining the “intelligent” pair programmer aspect.

Especially with the new r1 thinking output, I find it useful to iterate on the initial prompt as a way to make my ideas more concrete as much as iterating through the chat interface which is more hit and miss due to context length limits.

* I don’t mean that in a negative way, but in a “I can’t expect another person to respond to me instantly at 10 words per second” way.
Found it and set it to "automatic" for now.

It wasn't there last time i went into accessibility to enable reduce motion. That one not because it gave me motion sickness but because the background parallax scrolling is pointless and annoying.
Twist things around however you want, but VGPMX [0] invests in the companies producing precious metals. 1/4 of the portfolio is that.

[0] https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/mutual-fun...
Chemical looping turns environmental waste into fuel
I jumped ship when Windows 8 was introduced, never looked back.
Congrats! Tomie here, this is absolutely great!
I have a fore­bod­ing of an Amer­i­ca in my chil­dren’s or grand­chil­dren’s time — when the Unit­ed States is a ser­vice and infor­ma­tion econ­o­my; when near­ly all the man­u­fac­tur­ing indus­tries have slipped away to oth­er coun­tries; when awe­some tech­no­log­i­cal pow­ers are in the hands of a very few, and no one rep­re­sent­ing the pub­lic inter­est can even grasp the issues; when the peo­ple have lost the abil­i­ty to set their own agen­das or knowl­edge­ably ques­tion those in author­i­ty; when, clutch­ing our crys­tals and ner­vous­ly con­sult­ing our horo­scopes, our crit­i­cal fac­ul­ties in decline, unable to dis­tin­guish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost with­out notic­ing, back into super­sti­tion and dark­ness…
I'm not sure it is common. I was thinking about Brazil when I made this comment but further review makes me believe it is not all that common worldwide.
The US President does NOT have the authority to refuse spending money that Congress has approved.
How many people is ideal to look after $10,000,000,000,000 in assets? Some bloat is definitely necessary at these mind-boggling numbers, and assets-per-employee is still half a billion.
Math articles are excruciatingly bad on this. I find myself setting the language to "simple english" and it helps.
They can't even correctly donate from a Vanguard brokerage account to a Vanguard DAF without breaking the cost basis.
Uhh no? Neither party held a pro-palestian position, Trump told Netanyahou to "finish the job" [1] before the election.

[1] https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/americas/artc-t...
https://www.crfb.org/blogs/do-we-spend-more-interest-defense

According to the Congressional Budget Office’s latest baseline, in Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, spending on interest is projected to total $870 billion, while spending on national defense will total $822 billion. This has never been the case before, going back to at least 1940.

Maybe the fed interest rate drop pulled it back.
I haven't tried cursor yet, but how is this different from the copilot plugin in vscode? Sounds pretty similar.
> the US Army could walk into DC and shut this down tomorrow.

Yes, a military coup could override a civilian autocoup, and while there are a few (globally) historical cases where that has happened and the military coup leaders quickly worked with civilian leadership outside of either coup to restore something like normal government processes, there are also plenty of cases where that was out of the frying pan, into the fire.
Thanks for the Blog System/5 plug! This is the first time I see my own publication recommended in one of these threads without me bringing it up :)
I remember seeing that tweet, I thought it was the craziest coincidence ever when I saw this on the front page. I guess it’s not haha
> For more anecdotal context, my other interests lean into a demographic/stereotype of an upper middle class pilates/health/cleangirl girliepop. Which from my experience they centrist/ambivalent maybe skew left but not inherently pro trans.

I'm not sure this is accurate, speaking as someone whose social circle has a lot of people in that group and who also sometimes ends up on that side of the algo. For various reasons, it's only socially acceptable to be outspokenly on the left in that group (more so for women over the age of 25/30), but there's a sizable minority who either disagree with certain topics or are more aligned with the right, but they aren't going to jeopardize their social circles or (particularly in the case of content creators) their audience.

It's the girl version of the men who put 'apolitical' on dating apps to hide being a conservative because they don't want to limit their dating prospects.
What are the tells in most of these videos? I can't point at any in many of them. Hands, teeth, lip sync, body and should movement all look correct. Specially the TED talk like presentation examples near bottom.
> There's no decentralized way to get a push notification onto a Google/Android phone

What is a "push notification" exactly?
The US should go back to subsidizing its shipbuilding industry.
The politics was already in the science. So in the same spirit of being charitable that you afforded me, are you naive or foolish?
a great job of what?

honestly all i see is incompetence and creating situations only to solve them and claim victory, while letting some loon terrorize and try to dismantle the bureaucracy
If a 55 year old with no knowledge of the system was set loose I'd still be freaking out
People voted for this, didn't they?
Would be cool if that SoC gets released on a "compute module" board design, so it can be used with ComputeBlade. Would love to build a cluster out of a few of them.

https://computeblade.com/
> Many did not vote at all.

If they didn't vote they voted for the winner. America (including me, because voting wasn't enough) earned this 100%.
> sufficiently self-aware

You look at people like Bezos, Musk and Zuck and tell me they have a shred of self-awareness.
Or, consider that "insane" is a word that's excessive for pretty much every position of every candidate of every party, primarily used to generate immediate emotional responses and shutting down conversation.

There are positions which I think are dumb, or potentially harmful, or counter to what I believe, etc. But there's rarely been a position I consider "insane" (from all parties!).

If you're immediately jumping to calling every position you disagree with "insane", you're just being hyperbolic.
Which of these do you use personally?
Sort of true, but don't act like such a glib answer holds water.

It is even less of a democracy when the party in power neither believes in nor abides by the rule of law.

In First-Past-The-Post voting, the dynamics inevitably force 1- or 2-Party rule. Third-party candidates are always spoilers, and candidates who absolutely do NOT have majority support can be elected. None of those are true when Ranked Choice Voting is used.

These flaws of 1PTP voting have been repeatedly exploited by fascists and authoritarians to gain power and impose their rules and avoid the rule of law.

The most essential part of a democracy is that THE PEOPLE write the laws and NO ONE, including and especially the rulers, is above the law. The rulers are there to implement the laws of the people, not to impose on the people their laws or whims.

When under 1PTP voting, one party abandons democracy and rule of law, yes, there is not much of a choice and that demands repair. The authoritarian party must be brought back to abide by rule of law or be replaced by one that does.

Acting like we need to 'respect' the authoritarian party because otherwise there would be only one viable party left in the democracy is just wrong.

If it were up to me, I'd ban any party that stopped respecting the rule of law (as the current one has), and implement Ranked Choice Voting nationwide to ensure that any leader has at least a majority of people who support him/her. I'd expect new parties or currently fringe parties to play a much larger role in a more vibrant democracy. But at this point, complaining that only one party respects rule of law is not the priority; re-establishing the rule of law is Job #1.
They also wouldn't know about many of the artists in the first place.
I think it's less about "25-year-old" and more about unvetted stranger with no clearance given unfettered read-write access to the money of a country apparently not run by a dictator, but elected officials(none of which were involved).
Having skipped over Vista and Windows 8, my hope is that 11 is another one of those versions where they throw crap at the wall that will not stick to the next version. On the other hand, Windows 10 still has things I considered unacceptable, which I ended up accepting begrudgingly. Perhaps that is the whole strategy.
> 100% wealth confiscation above any threshold

This is a clever play on words, akin to “made with 100% real juice” while 98% is sugar, water, preservative and food dye. Very different framing from “you can inherit e.g. $20 million tax free”. Of course a realistic system would be graduated, not all or nothing around some hard, unchanging limit.

Again, if you want to leave enough to ensure a lifetime of not only survival, but luxury, be my guest. But that is still only in the tens of millions, not hundreds of billions.

A person that didn’t accumulate that wealth likely doesn’t have the experience to manage it. So not only is it being locked away, it will be perverted. “Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.” And that’s before you even consider spoiled brats that get drunk on power like trump or musk.

The idea of such grandiose inheritance seems to be a workaround for “you can’t take it with you.” But your kids are not you. It’s a control fantasy. You can’t prevent all suffering for your children, they will still die alone in their own mind one day.

It’s reasonable to want to minimize that suffering. But there are extremely marginal returns on that once you’re beyond 2 commas of net assets in the current economy. I believe that setting them up for life in such a way actually cripples them, in the shirtsleeves curse way.

> Might be wise to infer why that is.

Part of the reason is that they generate tax revenue from other avenues, like pure wealth taxes, or much higher income tax.

And I doubt you’d be willing to follow all their other examples, like free speech limitations, gun control, immigration, or medical philosophies like euthanasia and abortion. Note that this is not an exhaustive list and is only stated rhetorically, designed to help you realize that you’re comparing apples and oranges.

At the end of the day we do actually need some government services and they need to need paid for as long as we have any semblance of market economy. Staunch libertarians are happy to forego two marshmallows later so long as they can have one now.

We’ve seen that centrally planned communism fails, but that decentralized nodes of aristocracy and oligopoly also fail. I think we’ll eventually see societies try some new things to break out of this dichotomy. It’s not a question of whether or not to distribute, but how.
In a way it is revealing that Trump apologists' idea of an "insane Democrat policy" is sticking with existing law which affects almost nobody and they had no interest in discussing as part of their political platform, whilst the new President is pondering the idea of hitting Denmark with tariffs if they don't let him annex Greenland...
The tariffs on Canada have now been paused after a promise to enhance border security (which was reportedly already in the works)

So who knows at this point
I don't recall the entire Democratic Party getting taken over, no. I recall Biden saying things like "No, I don‘t support defunding the police." I remember Biden's 2022 crime prevention plan which called for $13 billion to hire 100,000 police officers around the country over a five year period.
This is one reason I love what Bret Victor has been doing with Dynamic Land[1]. He's really been doing in on trying to engage as many senses as possible, and make the whole system understandable. One of his big points is that the future in technology is helping us understand more, not defer our understanding to something else.

[1] https://dynamicland.org/

EDIT: love your analogy to dance!
Perhaps I should have been more clear. It's TikTok, so of course the only way to collect recommendations is to watch videos. Some studies watch the whole video, some just watch part of it, but it's TikTok, so fundamentally you're watching a video.
Why do people keep harping on the age. I don't care about how old they are, I know plenty of cracked teenagers. I care that they have no constitutional authority.
Demographic changes also make it much harder for the Democrats to win in the future (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/democrats-future-crisi...).
Harris had fewer than half the media appearances as Trump. There is nothing to debate on this front.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-harris-tv-podca...
Although it is currently undocumented, since v0.21.0 you can make `--edit` the default by adding the following to your configuration:

[ui.movement]
edit = true

Ref: https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/pull/4283
When Americans voted for crazy, did they expect anything less than crazy? I don't understand how you can be shocked.
That's their beta group before releasing it to all for iOS (and possibly Android later on).
Paragraph 4:

That’s the equivalent of an entire standard plastic spoon, Campen said.
I do the same for my QT desktop app. I’ve got an “Inspector” singleton that allows me to select a component tree via click, similar to browser devtools. It takes a screenshot, dumps the QML source, and serializes the state of the components into the clipboard.

I paste that into Claude and it is surprisingly good at fixing bugs and making visual modifications.
I like mutation in global variables. I don't think it's the problem. I'm explaining it in my next article
It doesn't always work this way, and very much hasn't in the USA. It's been more akin to:

Fear of invasion creates massive military spending

Massive military spending creates a need for justification, and ability to invade

The need for justification, and ability to invade create wars abroad

Wars abroad create enemies and fear of invasion
> I just wanted to mention it as something people have been grouping into this and complaining about.

For sure. Fair point.

> they could very well have gone through the regular process

My understanding is that the "regular process" is pretty rigorous (background checks, calls to family members, etc). So, I would take a "former comms dir"'s tweet with a grain of salt.
Hospitals still treat people who shoot themselves in the foot, some times people make mistakes, crazy how there is no mechanism to correct this though.