skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Almost two years ago now, I was exploring

If a story from two years ago had to be dug up as an illustration of usefulness... I don't know where the author positions himself on that graph, but that's like the direct opposite of high impact on the day-to-day
Who am I to debate with Tim O'Reilly?

But this made my mind explode:

> So yes, let’s be bold and assume that AI codevelopers make programmers ten times as productive. (Your mileage may vary, depending on how eager your developers are to learn new skills.)

Has anyone ever seen this hypothetical 10x AI developer? Why do we always back into such hand-wavy arguments when talking about the efficiency of AI-supported software engineering?

Here's what I think the flaw is in all the AI hype's arguments, including the one in this article (I hope Tim O'Reilly can withstand this small amount of debate).

Currently, LLM AIs are stochastic parrots and they don't offer creating levels of abstractions, i.e. creatively and responsively packaging ideas into some higher level form that can be reused.

All the examples in the article did offer a higher level of abstraction: assembly, high-level programming languages, libraries & frameworks like React, database systems etc.

AIs don't offer abstractions. They are not creative, they don't have "better ideas" than what their training data contains. They don't take responsibility for their work.

Us engineers at our company have all tried and are using some AI tools but they don't nearly work as well as management would think so. They make us 10%, maybe in the best case 20% more efficient, but not 10x efficient or anything.
They also created their own scroll, cooked it, and scanned it to create a ground truth dataset.
Note that Dieter Rams is an industrial designer so his 10 principles are not about software but about 'design'. In that context a "good design" is indeed innovative in some way. But in engineering a "good design" does not have to be, and in many cases probably shouldn't be.
You all forgot about /System/Applications
Real Time Price Tracking Tool – SiteScanner
I think rectangular rocks would work best here. You can lay those down as even rows and get flat walls very easily.

Perhaps we don’t need to use actual rocks, even! Dried clay can work just as well. If we put it in fire, it should become firm enough for most purposes.
In Delphi the Windows types are declared as-is, ie with all caps, but then most of them are aliased to more Pascal-like names.

So you can use TRect and TPoint and pass those to PtInRect[1] which expects RECT and POINT respectively.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/...
Students are frequently not allowed to use their own servers.
This is very close to the arguments Strong Towns make in favour of denser neighbourhoods.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI
Don Syme from .NET generics and F# fame has written about it, that is how we got made aware of it.

Now those blog posts are kind of gone from their original hosts.

F# HOPL paper,

https://fsharp.org/history/hopl-final/hopl-fsharp.pdf

Original blog post on way back machine, including the link to "MSR White Paper: Proposed Extensions to COM+ VOS (Draft)" paper.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190111203733/https://blogs.msd...
It’s also why they can produce such hard to identify bullshit and harmful output. I’ve had some really convincing, yet fundamentally flawed, code output that if I hadn’t done about a million code reviews before I might have just used.

And been totally screwed later.

Near as I can tell, that the bullshit is so much more convincing with them is a huge detriment that society really won’t learn to appreciate until it’s gotten really bad. As I noted in another thread, it
allows people to get much further into the ‘fake it until you make it’ hole than they otherwise would.

That 90% of the time it’s fine is what actually makes it all worse.
I'm of course assigning apps to specific spaces. But my browser has to be in all spaces. MacOS still doesn't remember which window is where when the app restarts or the OS reboots.
I’m not sure this is correct; in general many people would think of themselves as X and European, where X is the country of origin or citizenship. The EU is not a country.

For that matter, the UK, despite being a country, has some aspects of this; while Northern Ireland in particular is complicated for historical reasons, plenty of English and Scottish and Welsh people would think of themselves as English or Scottish or Welsh AND British.
PSN Downtime Raises Fresh Questions About PS5's Future Functionality
"An industrious user took the opportunity during the outage to test whether his disc drive would connect while PSN was down, and as expected, it didn’t."
> the average residential rate for Finland, an EU country known for its recent nuclear developments (great!), is ~$0.25 per kWh, about 25% higher

Huh? More like 11-17c/kWh.

- Average spot price for 2024 was less than 6c/kwh https://www.nodesk.fi/sahkon-keskihinta-2024/

- Transmission costs are around 2-6c/kwh https://sahkokuningas.fi/sahkon-siirtohinta/

- Taxes bit less than 3c/kWh

Even if you add all those up, you only get max 15c/kWh.

As of today, you can get 2 year fixed price for less than 8c/kWh, even with that it only adds up to 17c/kWh, with most expensive transmission costs, taxes rounded up and energy price rounded up.

Nuclear energy has contributed to the cheap price, but so has wind power https://www.talouselama.fi/uutiset/te/bfe4f5f4-0329-4cfe-989...
Nah, the GDPR has pushed a lot of good principles directly into business decisions. It's not perfect , sure, but the mentality has changed also because of the GDPR. Compliance has zero cost, if you avoid certain decisions.
AI act? We'll see.
There are other regulations that are far more costly and designed for big companies with fat legal departments.

As for EU research projects, I agree with most that has been said, but there are some very good exceptions. The problem with EU research programmes is that they offer often too research and little businesses opportunities.
since when has that stopped go? “[]rune(someString)” is O(n) and quite inobvious

The O(n) loop is here: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/215de81513286c010951624243...
Cat has a jpeg decoder now ? There are terminal image viewers using sixel or kitty image protocol, but cat I'm not sure.
What is happening at midnight?
Well yeah, 1000 years is obvious hyperbole. But I've been annoyed and frustrated enough by churn over the last two and a half decades that I always ask myself "will this still work in 5 years?" when considering new software - and especially its build process.

It's alarming how often the answer isn't a confident "yes".
> I also don’t see any bloat or something, they all render instantly on both my pc and my phone.

That's because both our phones and computers have multicore CPUs running billions of instructions per second per core. So all the bloat gets executed quickly, and we don't get to notice that it's there.

But it's there. And it's dirty.
I prefer "waffle" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_(speech)

"Waffle machines" is even kind of funny.
> Moreover, a hallucination is a pathology. It's something that happens when systems are not working properly.

> When an LLM fabricates a falsehood, that is not a malfunction at all. The machine is doing exactly what it has been designed to do: guess, and sound confident while doing it.

> When LLMs get things wrong they aren't hallucinating. They are bullshitting.

Very important distinction and again, shows the marketing bias to make these systems seem different than they are.
> The comments here unintentionally qualify this assessment.

Which comments might those be? Be concrete.

You also didn't give any example as I asked, you are happy just generalizing so it's not really interesting to engage with you, is what I am finding.
Yeah I think that’s probably true and why I greatly admire efforts by people like Steven Strogatz and especially Sean Carroll who are leading the way from no-maths pop-sci to high school maths pop-sci where you know you don’t want to actually work with the maths but you can start to get an appreciation for the components of it and what the implications are.
On the subject of fashion, obsessions and magazine writing, this piece is excellent too.

https://www.gq.com/story/buzz-bissinger-shopaholic-gucci-add...
Yeah, I meant “style”, not literal 80s tech. I’m just used to subtracting a few years due to growing up in the location that had everything too late. I think that for learning the pre-IBM-PC spirit would be the best. Basically a ROM BASIC style “OS” with an SSD chip as RAM+ROM and some mainstream embedded CPU chip. Flat everything, but in abundance. The key idea here is to give them INKEY, LINE,BF and PSET before they learn to integrate a payment widget into their wordpress deployment.
> A lot of these points are opposites of each other, so much so that it seems intentional.

The writing style is reminiscent to this famous text (not written in jest, you have to understand that most of these statements depend on a context that is for you to provide):

"Property is theft." -- P.J. Proudhon

"Property is liberty." -- P.J. Proudhon

"Property is impossible." -- P.J. Proudhon

"Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds." -- R.W. Emerson
This website is so important!

Now ask yourself why AI companies don't want to be regulated or scrutinized.

So many companies (users and providers) jump on the AI hype train because of FOMO. The end result might be just as destructive as this mythical "AGI".

Edit: I am not saying to not use the technology. I am just on the side of caution and constant validation. The technology has to serve society. But I fear this hype (and ideology) has it the other way around. Musk isn't destroying the US government for no reason...
I am amused by the way the author gives such detailed directions for “an enterprising trespasser” to pay an unauthorised visit to the Clock.

It’s also a clever device to make the account of the author’s visit more vivid, because I as the reader imagine making the journey myself.

(But I do think it would be a fun adventure to try to follow the directions.)
Well, you got me there... I worked with vim and 2-3 years ago moved to nvim.
The transition has been so smooth that I often confuse the two without noticing :)
That's a feature that would need to be implemented. There's no reason to think it could look at the image of the plot it generated automatically, but feeding it the image it generated back to it is no different to if it did view it automatically
> Personally I find it hard to internalise canonical notation. Like f and F in probability theory, which is which again?

Probability theory's notation isn't very canonized. The typical usage, f for PDF and F for CDF, is easy to remember from the calculus notation of uppercase being an integral of the lowercase.
I can reproduce the bug:

1. go to https://social.treehouse.systems/explore

2. type @marcan in the search box

3. select "go to profile" from suggestions

Feels like a problem with the dynamic/partial JS content loading.

(Apologies for the confusion, there's no indication that made me suspect a bug... and I hadn't at that point seen anything about him deleting his own account yet.)
The title is referencing a ’60s movie, I think. Nothing particular is happening at midnight, as far as I know.
At some point in every project you may need to assess if the leadership is becoming detrimental to the goals. For a project to succeed, there must be willingness to openly review leadership.
without speculating on what actually transpired, the transition team of the incoming president gains access to computer systems after the election result is certified and before the inauguration. so the jan 8th date doesn't disqualify whatever happened from possibly being the result of a doge-precursor team
Funny you should say that.

I have a legally-purchased copy of Return to Castle Wolfenstein here, both the Windows version and the official Linux port.

One of them works on modern Linux (with the help of Wine), one of them doesn't.

I wrote some specialist software for Linux round about 2005 to cover a then-business need, and ported it to Windows (using libgtk's Windows port distributed with GIMP at the time.) The windows port still works. Attemping to build the Linux version now would be a huge ordeal.
They wait out the great AI war then repopulate the planet. Maybe?
Apparently my comment is also flagged now :)

I suppose those AI evangelists felt insulted.
That and the fact that we can’t have Argentina colonizing a place while the indigenous people are still on it.
Well now China will definitely have people on the moon, while at the same time SpaceX will have an excuse not to make the existing time frame because of scope changes.
The AMA lobbied for the freeze in slots in the 90s. Their change of heart today doesn't make them less responsible for creating the mess, in the name of protecting physician salaries, in the first place.
It'll be Sunday lunch time in New York City @ midnight here.
This is timely. I just spent a few hours rewriting my custom homepage/dashboard around a bit of JavaScript that takes a JSON file, fills a few tabs with icons and provides type ahead find functionality to quickly get to the services I want.

There are dozens of homelab solutions for this (homepage, heimdall, etc.) but none of them was simple enough, framework-free or able to run completely offline (or even from cache).

Being able to code something that fits into a couple of screenfuls of text and does 99% of what I need still feels like “the right way”.
LLMs are always bullshitting, even when they get things right, as they simply do not have any concept of truthfulness.
Are you sure? I generally see more use-after-free and other lifetime issues.
As someone who struggles on their personal life to do things step by step, I thank you for this private-life example of the OP approach.
Categorise them as you wish, but from the outside, they are American politics. Like every cycle of American politics before it, Americans are certain that this time it's different, and the entire world has to constantly hear about it.

Sure, it's important, but there are other places to discuss it.
> We are destroying software pushing for rewrites of things that work.

Software written in C continues to be riddled with elementary security holes, despite being written and reviewed by experts. If anything the push to rewrite is too weak, we have known about the dangers for decades at this point.

We aren't destroying software, it was never all that. The software of the 90s was generally janky in a way that would never be tolerated today.
It’s obvious that this is O(n), no? You’re casting something immutable to something mutable, so it has to be copied.
I just threw this together this week for a friend to keep track of medication compliance and I want to test prose-base flagging of journal entries if a user may need medication adjustments or impending mania/depression.

I wanted a HIPAA compliant PWA that was HTML + js + CSS, but I am not a web developer and wasted a lot of time relying on Google and AI that "service workers are totally the way, dude".

Service workers require http[s] "domain" or something so I ditched that idea and implemented a 30 line discord bot in node. It writes JSON for alarms and journal entries.

It isn't what I wanted, but my friend gets a beep to take their medicine and they reply "took it" in the morning and journal at night. I had then make a private channel on their own Discord server and they just journal them there. I figured it would be really easy to export for my experiment.

P. S. Timezones suck I am not dealing with it, so this isn't a product. I actively dislike development, probably because I keep messing with new languages to more efficiently (read faster and less effort on my part) solve specific problems.
Here is a meta study debunking the myth that wine good for you was a myth.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10507274/#:~:text=T...
I would never show an interviewer how I code. Let alone allow them to give me 2 hours to solve a problem. It's contradicting that you know that developers "mostly shine when not under pressure", yet you set 2 hours to solve a problem (Sounds like you don't want to pay them for the take home). The positive feedback you're getting for your flawed process just shows how worse other, more common, recruiters are.
The article does mention modules.
Suppose Ag was as cheap as, or even cheaper than Al, would it be more useful?
This seems bad actually.
“inverse temperature is imaginary time” is in the final sentence of the abstract of the paper he links - cool

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.14741
The listed features are:

1. runs on every platform (KNative runs natively on Linux, Mac, Windows, Android, iOS. It can also run under the JVM non-natively, and anywhere Javascript runs non-natively. The native code can build for a variety of architectures including ARM and x86)

2. compiles to native (As above, compiles to native on Linux/Mac/Windows/Android/iOS)

3. has real parallelism via isolates (Kotlin can spawn and interact with full processes, OS threads, and/or green threads in any admixture)

4. native async (Kotlin has native async/await support via coroutines, which work under KNative)

5. native type safety (Kotlin has a strong static type system which is available for native code as well and encompasses native types interactive with Kotlin code in either direction)

I don't think anything you said pertains to the listed five features. Especially complaining about compile speed is a strange thing to be doing in the context of this conversation.
I wouldn't be able to relax for fear of damaging or soiling the suit. Cats, dogs, children, food, bushes and trees, mud, not spot-clean metro cars - everything is an enemy.
The uncanny valley of competence.
Same in Spanish. That gets rid of the problem.
I just checked, over the last 10 years that they've used Minix as their ME operating system, they've sold an average of 50M processors a year.

Ok, I take it back. Linux is the undisputed champion of the world.
People frequently laugh about it, but media studies goes into what you describe.
My impression is that companies in most of the fields do not like to be regulated or scrutinized, so nothing new there.

While observing some people using LLMs, I realized that for a lot of people it really makes a huge difference in time saved. For me the difference is not significant, but I am generally solving complex problems, not writing nicely formatted reports where words and not numbers are relevant, so YMMV.
- Try to regain some agency, instead of being a ticket monkey. Self-employment can be much more satisfying to some.

- Work outside of tech. There are so many places where a single developer can have disproportionate impact simply because developers never work on those problems.

- Work on smaller scale problems where you have an impact on the entire solution, and not only on a tiny part of the implementation.

My job is to help immigrants settle in Germany. I still write a lot of code, but it's in support of a more concrete goal. I have a lot of agency and essentially choose what I work on. The scale is small but the impact of even simple tools is disproportionate.

It's the best job I have ever had.
Article [0] and graph [1] FT citing Bloomberg, UNLV says Macau gambling revenues outstrip LV every year 2007-2020 except 2009 (recession); even with the huge Covid drop in 2020.

And [2] second graph says "Macau [Gross gaming revenue ($bn)] has regained lead from Las Vegas as world’s top gaming hub" in 2023; LV was briefly > Macau for the three years 2020-2022. (Also shows visitor arrivals from mainland China recovered since 1/2023).

Yes, even post-Chinese crackdowns (2012- ongoing, and also in 2021) on corruption.

[0]: https://www.ft.com/content/417f2513-37b2-4900-ac36-4729df36a...

[1]: graph 3 from that FT article https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/htt...

[]: FT 3/2024 "Macau roars back as gamblers return to ‘Las Vegas of the east’" https://www.ft.com/content/918d868a-e862-45e0-9072-e79461159...
This stuff is so frustrating, I have colleagues who sent long, clearly AI generated documents who don’t seem to understand that if they can’t be arsed to write something, why should I bother reading it?
Suits like carpets have to be a compromise between fineness and longevity. 21 is probably as fine as weaves strong twill suitable for a modern suit. It's a fucktonne finer than the Harris Tweed in my ten euro jacket I got in cliqnancourt.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250209102959/blog.tomaszdunia....
> Java's backwards-compatibility is often really bad.

“Often” is a huge exaggeration. I always hear about it, but never encountered it myself in 25 years of commercial Java development. It almost feels like some people are doing weird stuff and then blame the technology.

> Is it? The "foo.so foo.1.so foo.1.2.3.so"

Is it “sharing” or having every version of runtime used by at least one app?
It is one of those rare cases where Government actually knows where the monopoly could get into and formed OpenReach. Probably worth a submission on its own [1] but UK is slowly and surely getting all the FTTP roll out.

Hopefully there will be enough push to get 1Gbps Connection to every home rather than settled on 30Mbps.

[1] EXCLUSIVE: January 2025 update on broadband availability across the UK, nations and regions

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/10528-exclusive-january-...
This is basically how a lot of it works already. What you are describing is more or less just structured output and tool usage.
UK Superfast and Fibre Coverage
What about Greenland?
What have they asked for and received worse than this?
The study in question is a medical study.

There are too many replicating findings to call it “the rule” with social sciences. It’s more that social systems are inherently chaotic, context dependent, multi causal, etc.

Thats why they don’t idealize as well.
MVS-TK5 update 4 released
Advice on getting a competitor as a potential co-founder
I'm a solo founder of an e-commerce platform with some traction. I'm open to finding a co-founder and was recently introduced to another solo founder who is effectively a competitor, but with some more traction than me. We're considering joining forces as co-founders, but I have a few concerns:

1. Fast Compatibility Check: We don't have the time or bandwidth for lengthy trial collaborations. How can we quickly assess if we're a good fit as co-founders?

2. Sharing Competitive Secrets: To make this work, we'd have to disclose sensitive information about our business strategies. How do we protect ourselves if it doesn't work out?

3. Potential Fallout: What steps should we take to ensure a clean and fair exit plan if the partnership doesn't succeed?

Any advice on structuring this process and making a well-informed decision would be greatly appreciated!
Doubt those phones compete with apple.