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I guess I'm officially listed as a "staff engineer". I have been at this for 20 years, and I work with multiple teams in pretty different areas, like the kernel, some media/audio logic, security, database stuff... I end up alternating a lot between using Rust, Java, C++, C, Python and Go.

Coding assistant LLMs have changed how I work in a couple of ways:

1) They make it a lot easier to context switch between e.g. writing kernel code one day and a Pandas notebook the next, because you're no longer handicapped by slightly forgetting the idiosyncrasies of every single language. It's like having smart code search and documentation search built into the autocomplete.

2) They can do simple transformations of existing code really well, like generating a match expression from an enum. They can extrapolate the rest from 2-3 examples of something repetitive, like converting from Rust types into corresponding Arrow types.

I don't find the other use cases the author brings up realistic. The AI is terrible at code review and I have never seen it spot a logic error I missed. Asking the AI to explain how e.g. Unity works might feel nice, but the answers are at least 40% total bullshit and I think it's easier to just read the documentation.

I still get a lot of use out of Copilot. The speed boost and removal of friction lets me work on more stacks and, consequently, lead a much bigger span of related projects. Instead of explaining how to do something to a junior engineer, I can often just do it myself.

I don't understand how fresh grads can get use out of these things, though. Tools like Copilot need a lot of hand-holding. You can get them to follow simple instructions over a moderate amount of existing code, which works most of the time, or ask them to do something you don't exactly know how to do without looking it up, and then it's a crapshoot.

The main reason I get a lot of mileage out of Copilot is exactly because I have been doing this job for two decades and understand what's happening. People who are starting in the industry today, IMO, should be very judicious with how they use these tools, lest they end up with only a superficial knowledge of computing. Every project is a chance to learn, and by going all trial-and-error with a chatbot you're robbing yourself of that. (Not to mention the resulting code is almost certainly half-broken.)
Imagine not reading the article
The issue is state law forbids them from not taking their money if they operate anywhere else in the state, with certain exceptions such as historical disasters (which now the Palisades has). And the rates can’t be adjusted on a per-property basis, either. That’s why many insurers have left the state entirely.

Many properties have no willing insurer left, and have to participate in a state-funded plan (that many fear is not actually solvent). Many more properties only have one or two insurers left.

State Farm was the only insurer left in the Palisades, and my guess is after the moratorium to cancel policies is up in one year, if they can’t reflect the risk in their premiums to account for this fire, the Palisades will have no insurer left either. And then rebuilding will be impossible.
>some supposed status symbols are breathtakingly stupid to care about.

All status symbols are stupid, that's part of the point. That has never mattered. It doesn't matter how stupid a symbol is, it can still have tangible effects on you and your life.

Humans are social animals first and foremost, and are not rational in any way. Tribalism is literally the point.
Odin has commercial applications, basically all the JangaFX apps... But yeah, it's missing a killer open source app. Positive is it has a decent amount of batteries included.
Dude, anyone can go and look at who are members of the Nordic council, you should try it.
Yeah, this is straight up f.lux 2.0 where Apple saw an idea take off, and unlike 'Nightshift' where they connected it to their new 'Health' product to stimulate Apple Watch purchases, they connected Apple Invites to social behaviors to stimulate iMessage and iCloud adoption and revenues.
AI is killing the traditional SEO But it's not over
Even with modern instances of those technologies, finding and bombing a moving boat that wants to hide at night on water is not easy, but we're talking about the start of WWII, no smart bombs or other things like that.

Some years this might have been tricky but nowadays it's possible to fire up any somewhat realistic simulator and get on on any WWII era plane, say Ju-88 or Ju-87 and try hitting a supply boat in the middle of the night with a bomb.

> night missions were a thing (even in pre-radar WWI, a little).

Yes, carpet bombing cities and industrial complexes, not pin point targets on water!
> But Rust has tons of extra features that C doesn't have, just like C++.

C++ has tons of extra features over C because it's a kitchen sink language. Rust has some extra features over C because in order to support static analysis for memory safety in a practically usable manner, you need those features. In practice, there are lots of C++ features that Rust doesn't bother with, especially around templates. (Rust just has a more general macro feature instead. The C++ folks are now on track to adding a clunky "metaclass" feature which is a lot like Rust macros.)
"deportation" flights to Guantanamo Bay have begun.

https://apnews.com/article/deportation-flights-military-indi...
Good point! Yeah I think I should record myself doing an actual review while balancing showing the complete feature set.

Thank you!
There's been a lot so far. More than we've had in a while.
Sounds awesome. I would love to hear more about this. Any chance you can share this or at least more details?
jj is not just a new interface for git, it has a lot of new and powerful features to offer, even when you're using the git backend with a colocated repo.
Just to name a few:

- deferred conflict resolution

- The very expressive revset language

- the op log and ability to undo any operation

Many things that you can do with the git cli are significantly easier and in some cases comparatively effortless using jj. If all you do is git add and git commit then you probably aren't missing out on much, but if you ever split or rebase commits you should definitely try jj.
the Xitter Youth may be counting on a pardon but what they are doing now is clearly illegal

Only Congress by passing laws can order what they are doing on their own

They are about to purge 1400 accounts just because they physically can

https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3lhezs...
Aha! You taught me something today. ;-)

The solder on the tips reminds me of a doctor visit years ago. I thought I may have broken a finger, and when I got to the doctor's office I mentioned to the receptionist that I had a high-deductible (HSA-compatible) insurance plan.

The physician's assistant said, "We could send you over for an X-ray, but since you're paying out of pocket, we can start with a simple test." He pulled a contraption out of his desk drawer and asked, "Do you know what this is?"

I said, "Yeah, a tuning fork. And based on the size and those heavy weights on the tips, it must be tuned to a rather low frequency."

It looked like this one:

https://www.stethoscope.com/adc-tuning-fork-128hz-500128/

He said, "Yep. So we get it vibrating and then touch the base to your finger. If you have a fracture, it will hurt because of the broken bone ends jiggling against each other. Then we will go for the X-ray to get more details. If it doesn't hurt, you are good to go. Is that OK?"

"Sounds good to me!"

It didn't hurt at all, and I just had to pay for a simple office visit instead of an expensive X-ray.
Denver taxpayers also end up supporting things like the CSU Extension system, which they won't ever see a direct benefit from.
FSF to auction off original GNU drawings, RMS award, and historic tech
Your book is on my to-read list. :-)
Just the way I wrote the reply. It's unnecessary. Yes, you send a text and it's iMessage or not iMessage. Doesn't matter. There are some nuances if you're on your Mac with your phone off/on an international SIM (which I admit to not totally understanding).
You could even use audio to text before that and tap all conversations in a country...
I'd rather have people who are smart with experience handling our inner government workings. ;P
DeepSeek's 'Thinking' Exposes the AI's Ethical Boundaries
Most money? Sure. Most success? That depends on what you're quantifying.
> Putting money before other considerations is what’s evil.

Depends on the considerations and what you consider to be evil. My point wasn't to argue about what's evil, of course there is probably a few hundred years of philosophy to overcome in that discussion, but to point out that if you truly think an organization is evil it's not useful to only care about the legal fiction or the CEO or the board that you won't have any impact on - you have to blame the workers who make the evil possible too, and stop using the products. Otherwise you're just deceiving yourself into feeling like you are doing something.
Thanks for sharing! It seems that many well-intentioned government policies cause disproportionate harm to smaller businesses and other entities (like charity). Perhaps something should be done to compensate for this (such as making reimbursement inversely proportional to capital or revenue).
Applying for EC Projects is a complicated game. For SMEs there is typically Open Calls like this: https://www.ffplus-project.eu/

Regarding compute simply file an application here: https://eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/access-our-supercomputers/euroh...

The data analytics and AI call is currently not open but the AI factories will start in April, so there will be compute.

If you have questions don't hesitate to contact me as I will have to do commuty management for HammerHAI
Vanguard is also a broker.
Voluntarily choosing not to say something is preference, not self-censorship. For example, some people choose not to swear because they don't like swears. That is just a preference, self-censorship is when you want to swear but don't because of external pressure.

Nobody was forced to stop using master/slave, some companies just chose not to because that was their preference. They didn't want to use the word slave anymore. It's reasonable to call it pointless or performative, but I don't think any of the decision-makers at these companies were forced into it. Most companies did not change anything, and they faced absolutely no consequences.

I'm sure there were some (for example) GitHub employees who didn't agree with the decision and maybe felt censored, but basically every company on the planet has standards for language in the workplace, so in that sense every company is guilty of censorship. GitHub did not force any of its users to do anything, you could still use whatever language you want, and you can search "slave" right now to see how common it still is.
I don't mean this to be insensitive but one thing I don't understand...

If the ranchers are barely scraping by, maybe they shouldn't be ranchers?

I mean, I spent a while trying to be a photographer but it was hard and paid really badly. So I stopped being a photographer.

Obviously that sucks and it's good to have a safety net for people to fall back on but I don't see why someone being a rancher now means they have to be forever.
Not everything is in the position or can afford to transitionally tax the whole of the internet itself like big tech.

You're paying for Apple Invites whether you realize it or not. There's immense value in making their platform more sticky.

In a few years you'll read articles about uncool Android kids not getting invited to parties. And that's your answer.

One of these behaviors is way more insidious.
> This is the first time the veil of undocumented or secret government payments has been pierced and it's going to shed a lot of light into the corruption behind government spending.

... is there somewhere that DOGE people with access are publishing the stuff they see? If this were about transparency, that could be good, but that purpose could be served with read only access.

I'm not saying there isn't serious corruption in government spending, but this administration and Musk aren't in a credible position to fight it, especially not this way. The Treasury Department should refer stuff to Justice who should convene a grand jury, present some evidence, and prosecute corrupt contractors etc. We're supposed to be a country of laws.
Because enough users flag it.

I usually flag anything related to the US political circus.
Not the best reporting, but still interesting (although not surprising) that the Australian gov is cautious about usage of DeepSeek.
In the old system, you only had to sue for compensation if / when the government wasn't offering you what you were due. It was entirely the government's choice to drag so many cases through the courts instead of paying. But at least the judicial system eventually made you whole, if you were able to navigate it. If the government cared about us so much that they wanted to fix the system, they could have simply chosen to pay what was due from the start, saving everyone the time and the legal expenses. But they didn't.

Fraud was another concern. Huge payouts from parking lot whiplash were indeed not uncommon, with the help of lawyers. However, I fail to see how the new system was the best solution for that. They went from one extreme, where fraud was rampant, to another extreme, where we have no rights. At least the first extreme cost us only a few hundred bucks per year on average. The new extreme saves you a bit of money but leaves people injured for life with no meaningful compensation for the harm done to them.

Kind of beside the point though, regarding self-driving cars.
Yes that is normal thing to do in pluralist democracies. Unfortunately not an option in two-party system.
It's been reported that the elevation of the helicopter was reported as hundreds of feet off. It's unlikely it was just an issue at the specific tower the crash occurred at. If they can't even get accurate elevation data there's no way they'll be able to automate.
But it does. Do you think a new citizen is a lesser citizen?
That it's predominantly used for speculation is the reason it has had high volatility, which is the point. Increased use as a currency would cause the volatility to decline, because when the majority of the value is held by a hundred million people each holding three-digit numbers of dollars worth, they don't try to predict the market and dump their holding of pocket money. So volatility not only doesn't preclude use as a currency, wider use as a currency solves the volatility.

There is also a pretty obvious way to avoid the volatility in the interim when using it as a currency: Don't use it to specify prices and don't hoard large quantities of it. If you have a Bitcoin wallet with the equivalent of $100 in it, it doesn't matter that much if it goes down to $50 and then up to $150 and then back to $100 again over the course of a year, because +/- $50/year is not a big deal. Meanwhile we have computers now, so prices can be listed in US dollars or any other currency and then use the live exchange rate when paying in cryptocurrency, while still accepting it widely.

And "it has no other purpose" is a weird claim. It has an obvious purpose: It allows you to exchange value without permission or identity. The "it's a public ledger so there's no privacy" claim is silly; your wallet address is public but you can have arbitrarily many of them, there is nothing inherently tying them to your identity, and there are known implementations (e.g. Monero) that provide even stronger privacy. These are things the existing banking system doesn't provide, and from the perspective of countries that actually respect the privacy of their citizens (or any citizens who want their privacy protected), are features.
I've had great luck just base64'ing images and asking Qwen 2.5 VL to both parse it to markdown and generate a title, description and list of keywords (seems to work well on tables and charts). My plan is to split PDFs into pngs first then run those against Qwen async, then put them into a vector database (haven't gotten around to that quite yet).
We have an apples to apples comparison with Mexican-made vehicles, though, since both GM and Toyota build there.

What's the excuse for the shoddy non-union Mexican GM vehicles?
Look, if you're trying to argue that Musk isn't a successful person in many ways, my only question is "then who is?". You're talking about literally the richest person in the world, and one that has had several successful companies.

And having failures is not that uncommon, especially for serial entrepreneurs. You've gotta accept some failures to get to successes.

As for the whole "he bought his way into Tesla" thing, this is just making the idea of a "founder" some kind of sacrosanct thing. By most histories I've read, he is the reason the company is the success it is today.
The reason trump won is that is he authentic. He is following through on his promises. He doesn't have 20 speech writers corralling his every word to be completely neutral and say nothing at all.

It's insane to me that the so called left are going to bat to defend the status quo, when the status quo is multi-national corporations lobbying gov for their own goals of super globalist trade. Isn't "buy local" a left position? Obviously trump is a flawed character, even the most ardent supporters will admit that. But he is not a cookie cutter straight of the factory line politician.

The same goes for Elon, he is an idiot a lot of time, but he is not a lobbyist just sitting in the shadows, he is public about being an idiot for better and worse.

These are all left wing ideas, f the corruption, that's what doge is supposed to be doing, it supposed to be cutting out inefficient spending, which lets be honest, will go to friends of friends, but the left are losing their shit because they got their funding for dressing up as the opposite sex cut off.
So when we have to use main instead of master everyone is fine with it but now it's bad to purge words?

I think this is great news. Well done Trump & co.
Right! The suggestion just doesn't make sense. Of course consumers will pay the tariffs in the form of increased prices.
I'm not convinced they're leaving a lot of money on the table by pitching a free app at a billion iPhone users vs. the famously lucrative Linux desktop market.
Turso is rewriting SQLite in Rust [audio]
> For any problem there are infinite number of wrong solutions, but only a handful of ones that yield success, why waste time trying all the wrong ones?

Devil's advocate: because unless you're working in heavily dysfunctional organization, or are doing a live coding interview, you're not playing "guess the password" with your management. Most of the time, they have even less of a clue about how the right solution looks like! "Building the wrong thing" lets them diff something concrete against what they imagined and felt like it would be, forcing them to clarify their expectations and give you more accurate directions (which, being a diff against a concrete things, are less likely to be then misunderstood by you!). And, the faster you can build that wrong thing, the less money and time is burned to buy that extra clarity.
Again, you say that as if I am using the products of companies I consider evil.

The fact you assume people are going to do things they believe to be morally reprehensible is troubling to me.

I don’t assume people need to be evil to work at such companies because I don’t assume they notice the same things I do.
What a great idea, my friend was working on an almost identical idea but built using Flutter instead.

A couple of downsides with this is:

- Only for Apple users

- Requires iCloud+
Or we just get beyond the idea of punishing the guilty and go to restorative justice.
As a fellow "staff engineer" LLMs are terrible at writing or teaching how to write idiomatic code, and they are actually causing me to spend more time reviewing than I was previously due to the influx of junior to senior engineers trying to sneak in LLM garbage.

In my opinion, using LLMs to write code comes as a faustian deal where you learn terrible practices and rely on code quantity, boilerplate, and indeterministic outputs - all hallmarks of poor software craftsmanship. Until ML can actually go end to end on requirements to product and they fire all of us, you can't cut corners on building intuition as a human by forgoing reading and writing code yourself.

I do think that there is a place for LLMs in generating ideas or exploring an untrusted knowledge base of information, but using code generated from an LLM is pure madness unless what you are building is truly going to be thrown away and rewritten from scratch, as is relying on it as a linting, debugging, or source of truth tool.
> Arrests need warrants.

Arrests need probable cause. They can either be done on a warrant or without a warrant (in the latter case, in the federal system, a complaint must be filed and the arrested person must be brought before a magistrate for a hearing on probable cause within 72 hours after arrest.)
I'd say not as of today's state of AI tools, but it's difficult to predict the future.
So far, I can see many excited non-tech people who can build simple things or demos. But the real complexity starts behind that, once the solution needs to be deployed, maintained, extended with new features, bugs have to be fixed, etc. That's when it gets tricky.

I did a short experiment by trying to build an app with Cursor in the stack and domain I know nothing about. I got it to the first stage, and it was cool. But the app kept crashing once in a while with the memory issues, and my AI friend kept coming up with solutions that didn't help, but made the code more and more overengineered and harder to navigate. I'd feel sorry for those who'd need to maintain tools like this on stages like the one I described. Maybe that's the state of future start-ups out there?
Agreed. Any other answer is just burying your head in the sand. Our adversaries are forging ahead: China plans to integrate AI into every level of its military, and Russia is getting a crash course on drone warfare in Ukraine. You can build a FPV drone with Chinese parts and the warhead scavenged from an RPG for about $500 [1]. Every month, tens of thousands of these drones fly on Ukrainian battlefields and kill thousands of people. This is happening whether we like it or not; the train is leaving the station and we can either get on board or be left behind.

[1] https://www.kyivpost.com/post/44112
If they could prove he was in the country illegally and breaking laws maybe they could revoke his citizenship?

[1]: https://youtu.be/CgV2KzyWKx0?t=794

He often talks about the most ironic outcome being the most likely so this could fit lol.
There's many services to solve this pain point. I've used https://allorigins.win/ in the past.
Yep. It was a pinky swear to maybe pay for 8 months that might be able to be spent on leave, but none of it was guaranteed.

The employee's agency determines if they spend it on leave, not OPM. Congress will determine if there's even money after March 14th available to pay for 8 months of anything, let alone 8 months of admin leave.
There is "America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization", from 2019 by Graham Hancock. But while Graham Hancock refers to lots of real research, he also mixes in his own unverified ideas and theories. In that sense, Charles C. Mann is a more serious reporter than Hancock.
This is pretty much how i use llm for coding. I already know what i want i just don't want to type it out. I ask the llm to do the typing for me and then i check it over, copy/paste it in, and make any adjustments or extensions.
Currently Partiful doesn't generate revenue, which is evidence for its quality. As soon as the purse strings get attached, it'll be time to get out. But for now, it's an excellent service.