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> I dont think making Copilot better by handling its bad ouput means replacing developers

The blog post goes through more than what I mentioned in my comment. For example:

> When the product we are building under the codename Project Padawan ships later this year, it will allow you to directly assign issues to GitHub Copilot, using any of the GitHub clients, and have it produce fully tested pull requests. Once a task is finished, Copilot will assign human reviewers to the PR, and work to resolve feedback they add.

How is that not trying to replace at least a small section of junior/boilerplate developers?

The developer might be the one who listens to the product team, maybe even creates the issue and finally reviews the code before it gets merged. But I'm having a hard time imagining the flow above as "Pair programming" or a developer working with a "co-pilot", as they're trying to say it's all about.
@dang check out this guy's submission history?
Show HN: An API that takes a URL and returns a file with browser screenshots
> however, why is DRM so important and require so much focus?

Because the content owners demand it. No content = no customers. You could probably build out a public domain streaming service, if you really wanted to build out a non-DRM streaming platform, but it's going to be hard to find customers for that too, I'd imagine.
It literally is the scenario, as really the only outcome of the VEP (for serious, "marketable" vulnerabilities) is "disclose once burned".
It is indeed a division of NOAA, one of several.

https://www.noaa.gov/about/organization/noaa-organization-ch...

It seems premature to me to predict that the National Hurricane Center's services will be interrupted by the cuts that are likely coming to NOAA. If I worked there, I would be much more worried about losing coworkers in, say, climate education and outreach.
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This certainly has been brewing under the surface for quite some time now, not just in business, but in most of society. What's changed is that now the dominoes have started to fall, people are finally comfortable expressing it in clear terms.
I try to never ever use the word "refactor" or "clean up" in any of my work items or even commit messages. My boss and other teams I am collaborating with are like clients to me. Restaurant bills typically do not include explicit line items for "dish washing, mopping, grease-trap cleaning, oil disposal, etc."

The downside is that other people/teams can appear to work much faster and put you at a disadvantage or even risk of being let go due to this perception. Unfortunately this is where IMO you have to play the game and make sure you toot your own horn to the right people sometimes.
https://archive.ph/bQoFV
This last part is such pseudoscience that it makes me suspicious of everything I was nodding along with before:

> Of the 70,000 chemicals in widespread commercial production, only around 500 have been competently screened for human toxicity. Since most products are a blend of numerous ingredients, it is axiomatic that all products contain at least one ingredient that is untested and not known to be safe. This includes everything from hand lotion to plastic water bottles to deoderizers.
Great was my first thought - except that I am met with “the uploader have not made this video available on your country” (Denmark). So no value for me…
Maybe I'm just a filthy computationalist, but the way I see it, the most accurate model of the universe is the one which makes the most accurate predictions with the fewest parameters.

The Newtonian model makes provably less accurate predictions than Einsteinian (yes, I'm using a different example), so while still useful in many contexts where accuracy is less important, the number of parameters it requires doesn't much matter when looking for the one true GUT.

My understanding, again as a filthy computationalist, is that an accurate model of the real bonafide underlying architecture of the universe will be the simplest possible way to accurately predict anything. With the word "accurately" doing all the lifting.

As always: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dbalmer/eportfolio/Nature%20of%20...

I'm sure there are decreasingly accurate, but still useful, models all the way up the computational complexity hierarchy. Lossy compression is, precisely, using one of them.
Ask HN: Why Isn't Anyone Building a Global Brain for LLMs?
LLMs thrive on high-quality data. While features like web search, file uploads, and integrations with diverse data sources are useful, there seems to be no system for sharing and accessing information between LLM users.

Take my case as an example: I lend money to businesses. Ideally, if someone asks ChatGPT a question like "How can I get B2B financing?" I’d want them to discover me and then be able to ask follow-up questions about financing options, eligibility criteria, required documents, and the process. From there, I could step in and provide personalized assistance.

While web search exists, the internet wasn’t built for the LLM era, and appearing in search results isn’t guaranteed. I’ve also thought about creating an AI agent, but discoverability remains the issue.

Wouldn't a new information system tailored for LLMs be valuable? Imagine an open ecosystem where structured and unstructured data can be shared and accessed by LLMs on behalf of users, powering apps and tools that unlock opportunities and save time.

Am I missing something here, or does this idea have merit?
The term 'Deep State' often refers to a group of individuals within the government who operate without transparency or accountability, as appears to be the case with DOGE. It's crucial for these fears to be addressed openly and transparently to maintain public trust. Their disregard for the public and contempt for the law have led some people to call this a coup.
> Some extensions are MS only though

Is that really true? According to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42931088 ("VSCode Marketplace Web Pages No Longer Allow Direct VSIX Downloads"), you can still manually download extensions via cURL et al, if you really want to. Probably will disappear in the future though.
Patent free and royalty free are not the same thing.
Elon Musk's 'Fork in the Road' Is a Dead End
I don’t see how this is a net positive for programmers, and for people in general. It’s hard to fathom why anyone worked on this.
Also not Nvidia Inference Microservices

https://build.nvidia.com/explore/discover
Chisel is just a Scala library to generate SV. I haven't actually used it but I've used similar systems and a really big problem with them is debugging. The generated SV tends to be unreadable and you will spend a lot of time debugging it.

Chisel has a similar competitor called SpinalHDL that is apparently a bit better.

https://spinalhdl.github.io/SpinalDoc-RTD/master/index.html

IMO using general purpose languages as SV generators is not the right approach. The most interesting HDL I've seen is Filament. They're trying to do for hardware what Rust has done for software. (It's kind of insane that nobody has done that yet, given how much effort we put into verifying shitty SV.) Haven't tried it yet though.

https://filamenthdl.com/
Somewhat similarly, I've started recording myself talking about various things and then using a speech to text program to transcribe it for me. It just helps me get my thoughts out a bit more fluidly than if I waited for when I can write them down (which then carries with it a temptation to edit as I record).

I'll later on clean up the thoughts, though, not just serve them unedited in some way unless it was a really clean take on a topic - trying to be respectful of the audience's time.

I do think you're onto something, though, with the idea about using screen recordings as a means of capturing your reactions and thoughts regarding some matter that can be shown visually. I think I'll be doing that soon, but with some editing to the video.
There's a big difference between "no politics" and "no party politics". If it involves people, it involves politics! But it's only party politics if it's discussion that references (possibly very obliquely) a political party.

It's too common that people say "politics" when they mean "party politics", and I know that's not a battle I'm going to win. But it's still necessary to remember that a strict rule of "no politics" is an oxymoron, being itself inherently political.
It's getting worse, isn't it?
A Gentle Guide to Running a Local LLM, for Complete Beginners
Sorry about that. Can you switch to copilot chat pre-release extension. Should be a big button "switch to pre-release".

We are tracking this issue here https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/239836
Also described in this newspaper https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/feb/06/scientists-c...
You're the expert, and certainly not wrong, I wrote my comment because I have had to explain this to folks in a professional capacity and thought it might be helpful.
Hey! Oh the notebook takes 1 to 3 hours on a free GPU - it's best to run it for 1 day for a full run - faster GPUs can be much better.

Yep - bigger models should help! Definitely give Llama a try!
You're only a contrarian on message boards. The economics of CNE SIGINT are so clear --- you'd be paying integer multiples just in health benefits for the extra staff you'd need if you replaced it --- that vulnerabilities could get 10x, maybe 100x more expensive and the only thing that would change would be how lucrative it was to be a competitive vuln developer.

A lot of things can be understood better through the lens of "what reduces truck rolls".
Ferroelectric Slime
Yeah, because intelligence is famously a discipline where nothing ever goes wrong.
Open-net fish farming (as seen in British Columbia) always seemed a bit crazy to me.

There are a lot of fish farms that are actually on land, and just get their water from the sea. Here's one in Praia de Mira, Portugal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE1_ExgfrSg (my video, I have relatives who used to work there).

So I guess this "enclosed" salmon farm in Scotland is half-way between the two. In the ocean itself, but not with open nets. Is this Loch Long considered to be "in the ocean" ?
A 1 in 45 chance is rather significant.
The VEP is literally based on that premise.
> The kind of progress being made leads me to believe there absolutely ARE people who absolutely know how the LLMs work

Just like alchemists made enormous strides in chemistry, but their goal was to turn piss into gold.
Yes but the letters don't stand for that. There is also UVC. We simply separated it into three ranges due to the different physical interactions and called it A B C.
What else would the goal of agentic generative AI be other than to replace humans doing the same work?
The future belongs to idea guys who can just do things
How would you build this (which costs both infra and human time to build and operate for the collection of knowledge) to only have every commercial entity soak it up for private gain?

It would be swank to have something like Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, etc where you could compound returns on teaching the system, but someone has to pay for it, and lots of folks don't want their work (free or otherwise) to just go into Big Tech or AI Startup valuations and returns. Novel training data is precious, and democratization of generative AI outcomes is not a function of time, but of effort and resources.
The Great Social Media Diaspora
> What happens when sprawling online communities fracture into politically homogenous, self-governing communities?
CNE "zero-day" isn't "NOBUS", so you're arguing with a straw man.
The 8 cycles between boiling and room temp would be tedious without automation. I wonder if a similar outcome would be achieved by sous vide followed by boiling briefly to set the white, much like sous vide steak followed by searing.
It's a "tell" in these discussions when they center exclusively on NSA, since there are dozens of agencies in the USG that traffick in exploit chains.
How should I approach looking at what that will install before I run it? Every path on the site returns 'nope' https://atdr.meo.ws/archiveteam/warrior-dockerfile
In most situations (not mine), you can likely depend on MacPorts, Homebrew, or Nix to provide more up-to-date version of the tools you need that what Xcode provides. In that way, it's similar to WSL in that you can augment your environment to get the proper Unix tools you expect.
32B models are easy to run on 24GB of RAM at a 4-bit quant.

It sounds like you need to play with some of the existing 32B models with better documentation on how to run them if you're having trouble, but it is entirely plausible to run this on a laptop.

I can run Qwen2.5-Instruct-32B-q4_K_M at 22 tokens per second on just an RTX 3090.
FWIW, Nim (the programming language) is certainly interesting and possibly underrated.

https://nim-lang.org/
Terminally online yet unaware of the Streisand effect. Such an odd combination.
> One thing to consider for those of us who are more sensitive to online outrage is to just quit social media all together.

This is hard to overstate. Checkout Jonathan Haidts research into social medias role in skyrocketing mental health problems in kids over the past decade.

The junkfood comparison is great. It feels good now but makes you extremely unhealthy long term. Its deceptive because it doesnt look that bad, but it displaces things that you actually need to be healthy.
If they really put the human at the center then they'd contribute back and publish the weights so that we can run this locally and build our own AIs on top, etc.
Yeah, but it doesn't look like there's been much progress on the robotics front.
Cool site. One thing I wish we had were rich, open archives of news that could be fed into something like this so we could see not just the live updating perspective, but a retrospective time series of the fascism-o-meter over a long time. Especially seeing how the different contributing categories change over time, and how you likely would see some of them start ticking up earlier than people might expect.
I think that the first question to ask oneself is "why do you want to learn assembly language?"

If you want to learn to write programs in assembly language or to debug disassembly of programs written in higher languages, then learn the language for the platform that you want to target. This also covers the "I want to write/understand retro stuff" case.

If you want to understand how high-level programs are compiled into assembly language, then read Aho[1].

If you want to understand how algorithms are implemented in assembly, read Knuth[2]. Knuth invented a hypothetical computer "MIX" with its own assembly level instruction set and I believe that MIX has actually been implemented in software several times.

If you just want to play a little bit with assembly, "dipping your toes in the water", then I agree with the OP that 6502 is simple and easy to learn, but it is not practical for many modern use cases and has sharp edges.

[1] "Compilers - Principles, Techniques and Tools", by Alfred V. Aho et al. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compilers:_Principles,_Techniq...

[2] "The Art of Computer Programming", Volume 1, by Donald Knuth, Section 1.3 "MIX" (p. 124 in the 3rd edition) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Computer_Programmin...
I don't want to derail conversation, but I had a really hard time following / understanding that post. Am I the only one?
either it works on customers, or it works on business people - by duping them into spending alot of money ever since Edward Bernays. projected to be a trillion a year 2025
I get the joke, but on the one hand Debian isn't the most user friendly option; on the other systemd is another monolithic potential problem. I suppose Devuan would be the recommendation I'd give instead of Debian; roughly the same, no systemd.
Yes. Centralized platforms and people unwilling to act against the aggregation effect are drivers of the market capture that make these antiuser activities normal.
Replacing a product you sell, which results in a periodic, unpredictable, and spiky revenue stream, with a subscription or lease is an explicit goal of American business theology.

You as a software developer will never convince the guys that hired you to NOT do that, because it's literally and clearly Good For Business.

Good Software development, good Product development, etc, is Art, ie knowing which tradeoffs will benefit a subset of users, knowing where to spend limited time optimizing for the best results, caring about aesthetics and accessibility and interoperability, caring about software freedoms...

Business Management abhors art because even if you as a CEO or something value it on some level, it's impossible to generate the kind of graphs that please the beancounters from artistic merits.
The US VEP, which is like 10 years old now, is explicit about the fact that zero-day exploits are not fundamentally "NOBUS". That term describes things like Dual EC, or hardware embedded vulnerabilities; things that are actually Hard for an adversary to take advantage of. Chrome chains don't count.
You could spend the rest of your life, writing anecdotes and stories, but how it will be meaningful in determining the net sum of upsides and downsides…?
> tends to diagonalize the physics of our universe

Because it diagonalizes all good translationally invariant operators, and our universe is fond of translation invariance until you get into general relativity. (This sounds less mysterious once you learn that all good translationally invariant operators are essentially convolutions. Neither of these statements is often taught at the elementary level, probably because of the difficulty and ambiguity in defining “all good” and “are essentially”.)
Spot price for Al is $2.50 as I type this. Lithium is rare and expensive in context, yeah.
I am so over this LLM obsession. Please let it end
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How exactly QML is not lean and fast? I’ve built and app that is both in QML and Qt[1][2].

[1] https://www.get-notes.com/

[2] https://rubymamistvalove.com/block-editor
My (limited) understanding is that the shape is a large factor. Something about sharp edges or points concentrating the electric field induced by the microwaves, leading to a high voltage buildup. So forks are a bad idea, while spoons will likely not result in any sparks.
anything that results in buying a new domain makes me happy xD
I understand your confusion.

PDF is terrible because it has grown over time from a format that was originally made for one purpose into a format that is used for too many purposes. That organic growth has caused PDFs to be very difficult to use for a wide variety of use cases.

That opinion doesn't imply almost anything else that you have claimed I support (and generally do not).
> Many many layers of that. It’s not a profound mechanism

Bad argument. Cavemen understood stone, but they could not build the aqueducts.
Medieval people understood iron, water and fire but they could not make a steam engine

Finally we understand protons, electrons, and neutrons and the forces that government them but it does not mean we understand everything they could mossibly make
sure, fine, substitute NBA with L8 at FAANG or something. Now, I stll think you're either in FAANG (or somewhere more exclusive?) and surrounded by very talented people and over extrapolating to the general programmer population, or making assumptions never having worked there.

There are a lot of engineers that cannot pass even basic warmup questions and probably never will be able to.
That doesn't answer the question of how much of that compute is used for their very established hedge fund business.
... doesn't really change it
> It's unfortunate people expect you to have social media like a girl asks me if I have Instagram and I'm weird to not have one, I get it they can scope you out too for safety but when I tried using that stuff I felt this pressure to post about something

I actually feel really good when people expect me to be on social media and I tell them Im not.

Kind of similar to the feeling when I say that I quit cigarettes. Im still surprised by it and talking about it makes me feel very blessed to be free of it.
It's just a rhetoric thing. We're talking about the USG "hoarding" stuff, but, in a sense, the government has a conceptual monopoly on this kind of coercive capability. Anybody can find vulnerabilities and write exploits, but using them in anger and without mutual consent is an authority exclusively granted to law enforcement and intelligence agencies. This is just an extension of the "monopoly on violence".

The longstanding objection to this is that secretly holding a gun doesn't intrinsically make everyone less safe, and there's a sense in which not disclosing a vulnerability does. That argument made more sense back in and before 2010; it doesn't make much sense now.
This may be an unpopular opinion but I think Knuth's MMIX is ideal as an initial introduction to ASM these days.

It is Purpose built, load-store etc...

https://mmix.cs.hm.edu/

You can use the simplified MMIX-SIM

Then you can move to typical RISC features like full pipeline, cache, etc...

Then you can move to actual hardware etc..

But I am probably bitter, I learned on a Heathkit ET 3400, and I find that a lot of the quirks of the 6800 are something I had to get around to understand modern processors.

MMIX may not be 'useful' for real applications, but being intentionally free of those quirks is very useful for understanding the core concepts, at least for the few people I have had try it.
On the other hand Redis on the server side makes more sense as an LDAP backup, but then mapping should be user id -> bcrypt hash.
The provide the docker image:

run docker image: docker run --name t1 -it -v $PWD:/workspace --rm ghcr.io/chipsalliance/t1-blastoise:latest /bin/bash

execute program: ip-emulator --no-logging -C yourProgram
LFP batteries are Li-ion though
> Sure enough, here we are, except it seems nobody is looking out for the best interests of their communities anymore. Thank god for dang.

Here's to dang! Even when you do things I might not agree with if I knew about them, this is a place where interesting things can be shared and found without all the blah-blah.
I answer those kinds of questions by piping my entire codebase into a large context model (like Claude or o3-mini or Gemini) and prompting it directly.

Here's a recent example:

files-to-prompt datasette tests -e py -c | \
llm -m gemini-2.0-flash-exp -u \
'which of these files contain tests that indirectly exercise the label_column_for_table() function'

https://gist.github.com/simonw/bee455c41d463abc6282a5c9c132c...
I've seen the invite-only marketplaces where these exploits are sold. You can buy an exploit to compromise any piece of software or hardware that you can imagine. Many of them go for millions of dollars.

There are known exploits to get root access to every phone or laptop in the world. But researchers won't disclose these to the manufacturers when they can make millions of dollars selling them to governments. Governments won't disclose them because they want to use them to spy on their citizens and foreign adversaries.

The manufacturers prefer to fix these bugs, but aren't usually willing to pay as much as the nation states that are bidding. All they do is drive up the price. Worse, intelligence agencies like the NSA often pressure or incentivize major tech companies to keep zero-days unpatched for exploitation.

It's a really hard problem. There are a bunch of perverse incentives that are putting us all at risk.
I'm confused why search + LLM wouldn't work for this?