skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think “prompt engineering” will remain its own field.

It’s just modern SEO and SEO will eat it, eventually.

Prompt engineering as a service makes more sense than having on-staff people anyway, since your prompt’s effectiveness can change from model to model.

Have someone else deal with platform inconsistencies, like always.
I used claude to help write a crypto trading bot. It helped me push out thousands of lines a day. What wouldve taken months took a couple weeks. Obviously you still need experienced pilots but unless we find an absolute fuckload of new work to do(not unlikely looking at history) its hard for me to see anything other than way less developers being needed.
Honestly, it isn't different. Engineers are just nerds who are very prone to forgetting that the user cares about results, not tech.
You are a monster. Being against trailing commas is like being against happiness or cute children or Cheetohs.

You do not need to see the missing comma. That is what compilers are for. Also, literally the only reason anyone has a missing comma is because they reordered the terms and forgot to put the comma onto the one that was forced to not have one because of this monstrous failure.

Some things are nothing but good. You are on the wrong side of history.
Just a paperclip maximizer, with all humans reduced to shareholders in the paperclip maximizer, and also possibly future paperclips.
> It's going down the way of web search.

This is an interesting idea. There's an obvious force directing search to get worse, which is the adversarial desire of certain people to be found.

But no such force exists for directions. Why would they be getting worse?
The Hindu swastika is generally red in colour, has serif like font and tilted by 45° (compared to the generally accepted Nazi swastika). I'm sure someone can use it maliciously but as someone who grew up looking at Hindu swastika pretty much everywhere, and much later in my life saw the Nazi swastika, at first glance, I didn't really think they were identical.
Dynamo maker ready to roll (2011)
Agreed, I often see AI discussed as if most companies wouldn't take 10x more developers if they could have them for free
I was disappointed that it was a bit bitter, yes, but not in the category of “won’t do it twice”. Such that I even tried multiple cartridges. I’m retirement age, though, so maybe my taste buds are shot.
You could commission works that exploit the medium.
Agreed - AI agents are simply a form of outsourcing and companies that go all in on that premise will get bonked hard.

Getting into cyber security might be a gold mine in spite of all the AI generated code that is going to be churned out in this transition period.
Those efficiency cores would put a full core from just a few years ago to shame, and data center chips have always contained a majority niche focused on throughput and perf/watt over latency. That's nearly always been focused on somewhere closer to the 45° part of the scurve than more on the top.
Apple's stance that this is a shocking development, and previously the iPhone was some sort of porn-free zone is... strange.

Obviously, there's a web browser, but let's ignore that for now. More notably in this "we make you safe from porn inside apps" framing, there's incredibly prominent apps like Reddit or X, both of which are lousy with porn. If Apple thinks that porn is bad and worthy of being blocked from its store, they should take a look at that. This is just wildly hypocritical otherwise.
Cool idea, but I wouldn't run this for security reasons unless it was open source and I compiled it myself
This is a good example of how the most obvious intuition can be wrong, or at best incomplete.
Right, but the "fast increasing fixed costs" are what really matters usually. It's not just perception.
Many products sold in the United States must be tested in a CPSC-certified lab for conformity, of which UL is the best known. But consumer electronics don’t seem to be among that set, unless they are roped in somehow (maybe for hazardous substances?).
However, an increase in computing quality doesn't necessarily mean an increase in output quality, as you need compute power + data to train these models.

Just increasing compute power will increase the performance/training speed of these models, but you also need to increase the quality of the data that you are training these models on.

Maybe... the reason why these models show a high school level of understanding is because most of the data on the internet that these models have been trained on is of high school graduate quality.
American here. Lived all over the country from small towns to now the largest city, lived in other countries, traveled extensively, served in the military, first in my entire extended family to graduate from college, was highly religious and conservative, now agnostic. I say all this to say that I've seen America from many different angles.

Here's my opinion: there's a rot at the very core of America, and as a result, many of us are extremely ignorant, petty, and cruel. Trying to discuss any of these issues with probably 40% of the country is utterly useless, because they've never traveled, they have no perspective on how other countries (or even other parts of this country) actually work, they have no education or sense of history to speak of, and their only source of info is blatant propaganda. They don't care what works, they have no vision for the world they want to build, they just don't want the other side to "win", even when that would be better for them. If we have to burn everything down to make sure the other side doesn't get the world they want, so be it. And they're proud of all of this.

It truly feels hopeless sometimes.
Damn I could have gotten the "no fluff" version by looking at wikipedia or just googling.

Why do people expect their non-fiction reading to be entertaining? That's not the point and I inherently don't trust your judgement if that's what you're looking for. At some point you've got to provide insight.
Doesn't that violate the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_Agai... ?
Matt Levine: Sure Elon Musk Might Buy OpenAI
This reminds me of the outsourcing panic, many years ago. Hiring cheaper talent overseas seemed like a no brainer, so everyone's job was in danger. Of course, it turned out that it was not as simple, it came with its own costs, and somehow the whole thing just settled. I wonder if the same will happen here. In this line of work, it's almost as when you know exactly what you want to build, you are 90% there. AI helps you with the rest.
Alternately:

SELECT a, b, c, NULL FROM ...

SELECT a, b, c, true FROM ...

SELECT a, b, c, 'ignore me' FROM ...

FWIW, my SQL grammar ignores trailing commas. IIRC, H2 Database does too.
The Puckle Gun or Defense Gun
The experiment of "all the porn for all the people with no limits" has been tried, and the results have been absolutely abysmal for humans.

Beyond the abuse and sex trafficking ties (or the right at the edge of the legal definition but certainly not entirely consensual), revenge porn, and such, the impacts of porn on humans have been exceedingly harmful. There's the whole "PIED" (porn induced erectile dysfunction) thing, where a boy or young man's brain has been so wired from porn that they can't function with an actual woman, you've got disturbing increases in physical damage to people (mostly young women) from boys trying what they've seen in porn, etc.

It's not harmless, on either end of the process, and as far as age gating, I'm not aware of any of the porn sites even trying to do anything until legally required. A 10 year old with a smartphone has no trouble finding things way over their head.

So, yeah. The experiment has been tried and found wanting. I'm perfectly fine with them trying to make it illegal, or at least "radically harder to access than it is currently," which is "zero roadblocks at all."

Society, and humans, were rather better off when you had to walk through the curtain into the back corner of the video store, or get something from the papered off magazine rack at a seedy gas station, than having it available, in total privacy, 24/7.
Generally speaking, it's not often a problem.

The DOJ usually operates with some level of autonomy. Trump has no interest in that.
https://archive.ph/fK0Tr
I understand that they were given a day to prove they weren’t violating policies, but my point is that it seems pretty obvious Shopify is selectively enforcing its policies to shut down the store because they don’t like the shirt being sold. The policy is just a cover for the real reason.
Build Box64 with Box32 for x86 Emulation on RISC-V Linux
Long before any use of LLMs, OsmAnd would direct you, if you were driving past Palo Alto, to take a congested offramp to the onramp that faced it across the street. There is no earthly reason to do that; just staying on the freeway is faster and safer.

So it's not obvious to me that patently crazy directions must come from watching people's behavior. Something else is going on.
> execs really love the idea and are trying every angle to achieve it.

reminds me of the offshoring hype in the early 2000's. Where it worked, it worked well but it wasn't the final solution for all of software development that many CEOs wanted it to be.
Wireguard is deeply not boring in lots of fairly horrible ways.
Some people can't tell the difference:

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Area-summer-camp-...

> A California summer camp tucked away in a woodsy pocket of the Silicon Valley abruptly canceled all summer sessions after several staff members quit over a controversy around a swastika symbol on one of the buildings.

> The camp administration explained in its letter that the house had three tiles, each about 12-by-12 inches, with Buddhist swastikas and a lotus embedded in them. When the home was constructed, the symbol would have been considered good luck.
When it comes to subjective opinions, what other choice do you have? Your idea of doing studies is interesting but that's not even been done for most languages, yet claiming "python is unreadable" would clearly be laughable.

Either everyone who uses array languages does actually find them readable, or they're all persistently lying for... what reason? And forcing themselves to use something they don't find readable? Why would anyone do that! Especially considering a lot of array language users are hobbyists, who have chosen to use them, it's not like they're forced to.
There are many types of reasoning, and LLMs appear to do some of them.
Not sure I get the downvotes, this is a core tenant of evangelical conservatism which is now the dominant force of the GOP. Republicans might have a big tent but everyone else is getting squeezed out. The evolution of the US right has been happening since the tea party. It's been sad to see political Republicanism die out, they were a good counterbalance to center-left Democrats.
Information technology is the fashion industry.

What is old becomes new, and what is new becomes old. You think you're creating some cool new "shitz", but someone else has already done it. You're just reinventing the wheel with some extra "shitz" tacked on
Anduril and Microsoft partner to advance IVAS program for the U.S. Army
I nominate this post for worst idea of the century.
There is still a long road to improve database usability on semistructured data.

My team has compared PostgreSQL and MongoDB on analytical queries on JSON, and the results so far have been unimpressive: https://github.com/ClickHouse/JSONBench/
I've been going through that a year or so back and I believe the trigger was mostly doing meaningless (technically) work on top of shifting ground (because it was either rushed and no one actually care about quality). And there was the syndrome of shiny stuff (because consumerism) and FOMO. I took a step back, bought some cheap office PC (a mini desktop and a laptop), installed Linux first (alpine), then FreeBSD. Then it's been an exploration of what I can do with computers, not just whatever some company allowed me to do.

What I concocted was more fragile, but I either understood it completely or it would be easy to actually learn how it works. This feeling of control worked wonder for me.
I notice the article predates this video by a few years. Clearly Liz Cook was tasting Honda's Spicy Tape before it was cool.
Subhead is "Sandboxing Perl with WebAssembly - Part 2."

The subhead sounds weird, but part 1 makes more sense and is pretty interesting. Perl has many modules to deal with file formats nobody has used since Perl's prime. It isn't totally clear to me if the goal is to compile the Perl interpreter into WASM or interpreter + modules. In any either case the goal is to re-use the original tools within new tooling.

I’m building a new startup and file metadata plays an important role. There are thousands of file formats, each format may have dozens of versions, and each stores metadata differently.

Our use-case also needs metadata to be present when a file is uploaded - extracting the data on our servers means we add considerable overhead to upload post-processing & we lose data that is useful to customers.

So we need to extract metadata client-side and staple it to the upload. Herein begins a journey of self-inflicted pain and suffering.

ExifTool is written in Perl.

https://andrews.substack.com/p/zeroperl-sandboxed-perl-with-...
"i don't think my Youtube history gives a reasonalble insight into who i am or who would be a good match for me" i think it does tell about your interests if you spend a lot of time on youtube..... about the automated analysis of the history, i don't know that i would need to try it
But thanks for your constructive criticism .. let me build something and will show it to you
Name one successful company that doesn’t outsource developer labor outside America.
Are they doing anything with the on-device "Hey, this image someone texted you may contain nudity, are you sure you want to see it?" sort of filters with what's displayed in apps, or is this a parental control option?
Douglas Crockford made a commitment that JSON would never, ever get better. He promised us that it would always suck. He is as good as his word.

It has the small benefit that you never, ever have to worry about running into an old version of a JSON parser that bounces your fancy trailing commas.

Worth it? Not to me but Douglas Crockford does not care what I think. Or you either, apparently.
Come to think of it, what's the point of the sharp ends? Seems mostly useful in horror movies.
Oh, that video brought memories. I wonder if there is any good content about low code fallacy or cloud?
At least for the type of coding I do, if someone gave me the choice between continuing to work in a modern high-level language (such as C#) without LLM assistance, or switching to a low-level language like C with LLM assistance, I know which one I would choose.
A well-known commercial storage vendor gives their system releases codenames from beer brands. We had Becks, Guinnes, Longboard, Voodoo Ranger, and many others. Presumably what the devs drank during that release cycle, or something ;-)

It's fun for the developers and the end-users alike... So no, it's not limited to GPU enthusiasts at all. Everyone likes codenames :)
I suspect you mental model of the past is maybe overindexed on Industrial Revolution stories where industry was utterly off-the-rails
Does it run on the Vision Pro?
Shaft: A New Cross-Platform UI Framework (Swift Port of Flutter)
I'm sure some can't. I didn't mean to say that, I was just telling how I perceived it. In fact, I warn my Hindu friends against using the Hindu swastika on their cars or on their houses here in the West, just so that they don't confuse people here.
I agree with the statement in the title.

Using AI to write code does two things:

1. Everything seems to go faster at first until you have to debug it because the AI can't seem to be able to fix the issue... It's hard enough to debug code you wrote yourself. However, if you work with code written by others (team environment) then maybe you're used to this, but not being able to quickly debug code you're responsible for will shoot you in the foot.

2. You brain neurons in charge of code production will be naturally re-assigned for other cognitive tasks. It's not like riding a bicycle or swimming which once learned is never forgotten. It's more like advanced math, which if you don't practice you can forget.

Short term gain; long term pain.
And have no ethics.
> The result? We’ll have a whole wave of programmers who are more like AI operators than real engineers.

I was a developer for over a decade, and pretty much what I did day-to-day was plumb together existing front end libraries, and write a little bit of job-specific code that today's LLMs could certainly have helped me with, if they'd existed at the time. I agree that the really complicated stuff can't yet be done by AI, but how sure are we that that'll always be true? And the idea that a mediocre programmer can't debug code written by another entity is also false, I did it all the time. In any case, I don't resonate with the idea that the bottom 90% of programmers are doing important, novel, challenging programming that only a special genius can do. They paid us $180k a year to download NPM packages because they didn't have AI. Now they have AI, and the future is uncertain with respect to just how high programmers will be flying ten years from now.
I’m not arguing otherwise, but it wasn’t clear to me at all that that was your point.
I think there's more to this than the skeptical commenters here think.

The closer you look at quantum mechanics the more it seems to be entirely (in some sense) information-theoretic, although this nature is largely concealed from our vantage point on the inside. Measurement and quantization are due to the fact that we're part of any quantum system we measure and we have to experience a single value for our measurement, which comes out as a probability distribution over possible values (although why it takes the exact distribution that it does is a still mysterious, I believe?). Entropy and decoherence under time evolution result from the fact that if you let a bunch of states mix together for a while they statistically tend into more decohered configurations. Conservation laws seem to be slightly emergent rather than completely fundamental: internal to systems some limited 'off-shell' interactions that don't conserve e.g. energy are allowed, but these are suppressed by the time we measure anything, so we only experience the laws holding exactly.

When all of this is peeled away, the resulting system looks like "a bunch of initial (discrete) data, plus rules for looking at the implications of that data as it is allowed to interact with other data, in such a way that certain high-amplitude states amplify and low-amplitude states get destructively interfered away, allowing complex patterns to crystallize and replicate/evolve at increasingly macroscopic scales". Which, if you squint, looks a lot like a cellular automata such as Conway's Game of Life. But it can also (under some squinting) look like how thinking works, or how neural networks work, -ish: start with some low level bits, look for patterns in those, look for patterns in those patterns, etc, and then observe that certain resulting states have their amplitudes driven to 1 while others are driven to 0. Which reminds me, at least, of convolutional NNs. I don't know much about how LLMs work but I suspect they are perhaps slightly less good of an analogy, although perhaps they do but it's just slightly more masked by the architecture.

I wouldn't, like, bet anything on the details, but I suspect that in the long run there will be some widely-held hypothesis (similar in status to the Church-Turing thesis) that the universe, the brain, neural networks, and cellular automata all have some essential symmetry in their structure. Something to do with the requirements for how a system has to work if it is going to have emergent complexity.

(Incidentally I think this is what Stephen Wolfram sees also and is the basis for his quirky "Wolfram Physics Project", although I suspect that in his overconfidence/immunity to critique he's pretending to see a lot more of it than he actually does.)
You can work around this by just actually selling swastika shirts instead of pretending to
Amelie – Relational Database for High-Intensity OLTP Workloads
Generalized Transformers from Applicative Functors
Can we give this one a cool name like Stargate, but European, so it can hit the top of HN?
IIRC the patchwork of laws, standards and regulations across the world for low voltage wiring is what restricted voltage in the 36 V – 52 V range. Some locations treating it as low, some as an intermediate and others treated it as high voltage.

It may be marine market specific, but several manufacturers limit to 36v for even high amperage motors because of it.

Obviously I=V/R will force this in the future though.
> Because under mathematical logic, the opposite of "repressing discussion" is "encouraging discussion", nothing less, nothing more.

What? No...
The problem is now that the LLM GPS will lead you to the wrong place once a day on average, and then you still need either open the map and study where you are and figure out the route, or refine the destination address and pray it will bring you to the correct place. Such a great analogy!