skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah so the company that produced the most cutting edge technology needs to hire more people to stay ahead.. and that's proof LLMs aren't making most of the programmers in the trenches more productive. Let's see if an LLM can reason better than you do.

(You're Alice btw) :

Alice's response has a few issues:

Shifts the Goalpost:
Bob's point was about AI's impact on existing jobs—he's arguing that AI increases productivity, not that companies like OpenAI don't need people. Alice shifts the discussion to whether OpenAI, an AI company, is hiring people, which isn't directly relevant to Bob's claim.

Strawman Argument:
She implies that if AI is truly productive, OpenAI shouldn't need to hire. But OpenAI is in a high-growth phase, likely hiring to build and maintain the technology, not to replace traditional roles with AI. AI productivity doesn't mean zero hiring—it often means hiring in different areas or scaling faster.

Burden of Proof Misstep:
Alice demands proof from Bob while making her own claim ("baseless assertion") without providing evidence that AI is directly causing 1:1 replacements.

Weak "AI Native" Point:
The question about "AI native" companies might sound clever, but it doesn't address Bob's core argument about existing companies using AI to do more with fewer people.

Alice's frustration is understandable, but her argument misses the mark because it's more about OpenAI's hiring practices than the broader point of productivity gains through AI.
Unfortunately I can’t post this thread on bluesky as bluesky has a limit of 25 posts per thread (and this has 33).

However, I’ve reproduced the content of the thread on my personal site: https://chadnauseam.com/coding/random/calculator-app

(I didn’t share this link because I don’t like the formatting much (some of the pictures are way too big) and I don’t have time to fix that right now.)
If you classify mental illness as an unjustifiable expense, this kind of thing is what you get.
Software engineering is 10% knowing how to code and 90% knowing what to code. So I don't buy it either. I use LLMs daily for programming. Sometimes they're helpful. But I see them like one of our first power tools (comparable to the language servers and compilers in our toolbelt).
Not sure whether they used a value pattern.

typedef struct { float value; } meter;

typedef struct { float value; } feet;

Using strong typing, you can avoid passing values in wrong units.
The medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde – Iseult Gillespie [video]
I believe these concerns about entry-level talent pipeline neglect one thing, which is that LLMs offer learning on steroids - motivated intelligent junior developers can learn more about any technical or business topic in one morning of well-structured investigation with the help of the more advanced reasoning models than they might get in a month of on-the-job learning in the days before such tools existed. But it requires truly active, self-driven investigation and structured thinking. These skills in turn require education on "how to learn", from a very early age. I am not sure our education systems are there yet.
Kagi, if you're willing to pay for search.
I think it's one of those "be contrarian for the sake of it" positions. People think they sound smart for going nuclear because it ticks a lot of boxes at the surface level.

Then you realise it costs multiple times more than renewables and batteries (ain't that the real revolution), takes over a decade to build and imposes large obligations on the owners.
Just for context, these aren’t really “rules” as much as proposed practices. Note that official “rules” are in documents with names like “NPR” aka “NASA procedural requirements.”[1] So, while someone may use the document in the featured article to frame a discussion, a developer is not bound to comply (or alternatively waive) those “rules” and could conceivably just dismiss them.

[1] e.g. https://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/displayDir.cfm?t=NPR&c=7150&s=2...
>If I make two ford fiestas, one in the US and one in Germany and they are otherwise identical--identical labor costs, identical shipping costs, etc etc--do I have to sell each ford fiesta in germany at a different cost to the consumer (so including all taxes levied on the consumer) for me to make the same profit on each fiesta?

No, probably. It depends on the price of the materials you use. It's a value added tax. It taxes the value that you created.

Lets say you buy €5000 worth of steel and then make it into a car that you sell for €10,000. With a 20% VAT rate the government gets €2000 and you get €8000.

However, that steel you bought also included 20% VAT in its price (€1000). You get this money back from the government. The steel actually cost €4000 for you.

In total your profit would be €4000. Effectively, the 20% VAT applies to the €5000 of value that you created.

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If you built that Ford Fiesta outside of the EU then the "value add" is the entire price of the vehicle. But you don't have to pay VAT for the raw materials you buy, so theoretically it should end up being the same amount of profit.
The older I get the more I realize that the most effective and productive things I can do are not at all what seem to be productive or effective on the surface.

One of the most mentally and physically crippling things I’ve ever done was work too hard, for too long. I worked and earned more money than I thought I ever could but… All I truly got out of it was a lesson. To never do it again. I would have earned enough but also enjoyed my life had I just calmed down a bit.

I’m sure you know as well as I do, if not better. It seemed worth noting though.
If you have an E2E test that tests the button behavior thoroughly (i.e. not just showing it, but the fact that, when it's clicked, the app state changes accordingly), then you have a test showing that "code that put it there worked".
Thank you for your words on this, and energy on everything else!
How does Germany define low revenue for VAT purposes? In the UK, the threshold for compulsory VAT registration is currently £90,000 annual revenue, which I would say is quite large.
extreme shill
Ugh, imagine if Renaissance painters took out patents on the color blue or perspective drawing. This is where we’re at with game design.
I'd like to see a bit less fearmongering about how our bosses won't need us anymore and a bit more about how maybe we won't need our bosses anymore.

Most of us are already accountable for outcomes, not outputs. Perhaps we could go further in that direction--but doing so only makes personal sense if the underlying work that you're doing is important to you. If AI is about to make us all 10x coders, why should we keep the jobs we have when we could take that extra capability and go do something more meaningful--the kind of something that used to require a 10-person company.

I'm personally pretty happy with my company, but my point is that once everybody gets more productive, what's the likelihood that everybody who still has a job after the transition still wants that job now that doors which were previously closed are now open?

It's gonna be a bigger reshuffle than just taking more ownership over our existing domains.
> Some of them are other peoples tax dollars that do want this.

Well then those people can take their money and donate it directly to the causes they care about. They do not need to use my tax money for it.

Yes actually some of this money WAS mine. I paid into this system (actually I was forced to under threat of violence), and I do not want my money being spent on this. I would rather keep my own money or have it used on paying down the national debt.

All money spent by the government is ultimately taxation, if it doesn’t come directly from taxpayers it comes from us in the form of inflation. i.e. printing more money than there is value in the economy.
I wouldn't go this far, it's a really hit-or-miss thing, but as someone who is seeing it heavily integrated... Our days are numbered. That number, in my opinion, is closer to a decade, but I have folk at a junior level building out entire internal tools in a couple days what would have taken weeks.

The operations crew is having it automate metrics rapidly. Senior developers are increasing their throughout rates. Things come back to code review in a generally better state because folk say "hey, review this for me".

Is it a real developer? Not at all. Is it affecting our hiring or anything? Nah. But it's already a huge help and rapidly getting better with new models (o3 / deepseek), tooling (CSP and agents), and integration (cline, cursor, memory prompting).
As a European myself, I wouldn't be too sanctimonious. The EU has a lot to fix internally.
The whole point of the study is to show the limitations of a Randomized Controlled trial.

This study shows the difficulty in studying the effectiveness of entrenched practices, especially when there is good reason to suspect that not using the practice will result in extremely significant harm at high probability. Here we have a study with enormous self-selection bias.

They did ask candidates mid-flight in commercial aircraft if they would be willing to participate at their current altitude and speed, and obviously all declined. On the other hand a number of candidates found on private planes that were not moving were willing to participate.

This study also shows how statistical techniques can be misused, as here in a study where the adverse results in question occurred in literally zero participants of the control group is obviously worthless, but one can still run the stats to conclude no statistically significant difference was detected.

Lastly it brings up questions about best available evidence. Many researchers tend to automatically assume that an RCT is better than other evidence. Now if they read the study closely and notice flaws they often change their mind, but if they just skim the abstract they can miss this. This is an example of a case where the only available RCT is total garbage, and we have far better evidence in the form of accident statistics from skydivers. Accidents where no chute was packed, or the chute (and any backups) completely fail to deploy are a very good proxy in practice for jumping without one at all.
(Shrug) Well, those people can go do something else now. We'll all end up better off.

Most anti-AI arguments can be dispensed with by recasting them in terms of the broken-window fallacy. This is certainly one of them.
Here’s another version of mine: https://rishikeshs.com/timeline/
Simulators are the bridge. Just like AI could operate calc.exe to cross check math, it could use a circuit simulator to prove a circuit topology.

Perhaps our future overlord will thank you :)
Create a QubesOS Gaming HVM with GPU PCI passthrough (2023)
> Use the imperative mood in the subject line

I like to think of this not as giving an order to the codebase, but as casting a spell.
Me too. I’d have more freedom to do certain things I love, but they’d quickly lose their appeal and I’d have no one to share any of it with. My family are literally the only people who give half a shit about me. Life would be quiet and hollow without them.
Instagram was 10 people and $1B at acquisition. Cursor is a modified version of an existing monolith maintained by Microsoft. Much of their AI is offloaded and their own bespoke model is relatively light (cursor-tab). It's not surprising it can be ran with 20 people. I can totally see an incompetent CEO running today's cursor with 300 people. But it's a leadership style, not so much down to programming efficiency. I will concede that the programmers at Cursor are more efficient than they would be without access to LLMs.
I was on a small team using Darcs around 2005-2008, and I was a big fan of it, evangelizing as much as I could.

However, we were constantly hitting the exponential merge conflict bug. Darcs messed up our repo state several times and cost us days of productivity. It had nothing do with the size of the codebase; as far as I remember, all that was needed to trigger the bug was to make a patch that happened to include the same code line change as someone else. It felt ridiculously fragile. As far as I remember, once you hit the bug, your repo was beyond saving. You had to roll back to a backup.

We still stuck by Darcs until around 2009-2010 when it was pretty obvious the writing was on the wall and Git was going to eat the world, in large part thanks to GitHub.
For me I just want to remember what's gone on in my life better, even if it's sometimes mundane. I've tried short-form daily journaling, but I've only made it around 3 months before I start skipping days and stop doing it altogether.

When it comes to doing something new/memorable, I'd be fine with aspiring for just one thing per month (with the assumption that sometimes/often I'd end up with more than that).

I think the way to make things like this work is to start with a low-ambition target, and then scale up until just before the point where it starts to feel difficult to keep it going. I'm not sure I could keep up a cadence of doing one memorable thing per week. Once a month seems doable, though. But if I were really uncertain, maybe I'd first target once per two months, and then see how much more frequently I could do memorable things before it started feeling like a difficult burden.
4000 in total. The first ~1000 are spent in the the very limited tutorial area.
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precisely, fossil fuels are ruining the economy
Yeah, can confirm, there are a lot of targeted emails going out inviting people to dodgy auth flow endpoints.

Disabling device authentication (which is rarely needed anyway) and forcing Microsoft Authenticator (with the yes-this-is-really-me number entry thing) or something like a Yubikey should make your org like 99% less vulnerable. If you're not on a Microsoft-or-similar platform (good for you!), one word of advice: passkeys.

As for the inevitable "who would fall for this" question: prior to 2017, when Google instituted a strict 2FA policy, even members of their elite security team were successfully phished. After that, not so much: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/07/google-security-keys-neu...
> While BEVs have a lot of benefits, they are still objectively inferior to ICE vehicles.

This hasn't been true for a couple of years. China is an excellent example of that, its market flipped to EVs virtually overnight once the benefits of EVs became clear. Last year, 48% of all the new cars sold in China were EVs, and this year it's projected to be around 60%.

> The real solution is public transit

No, it's not. Public transit is nothing but a distilled misery concentrator. Transit is also _not_ more CO2 effective than small-to-medium EVs when the carbon footprint of their _drivers_ is taken into the account.
We need to talk about San Francisco's e-bike problem
> And it takes me right to someone's specific website.

Which you then have to assess for believability, just like ChatGPT. And read the comments and incorporate their reactions, or know enough to not need them (but then the search isn’t contributing much, is it?).

> But with ChatGPT there is some significant probability of hallucination

As opposed to ending up on a bogus SEO-“created” web site.

I guess fake recipes are more obvious, but I see a lot of BS on the low end of online recipes too.
I think this article doesn’t do the sport justice. Modern basketball is amazing and light years ahead of where it was even ten years ago. Watch “explain one play” on YouTube and you’ll begin to understand how much thought goes into even 5 seconds of normal basketball. The craziest part is how teams now days know how to punish a mistake, and virtually every point comes from very slight mistakes happening. Being too slow to close out, miscommunication on the dribble handoff, size mismatch, etc… in this way it’s like chess where you make threats but they’re just threats until your opponent commits an error. You still have to be able to punish the error.

A big conversation I see now days is what’s “wrong” with the modern nba, with too many 3’s being the most common refrain. That’s silly. I will tell you what’s actually wrong about the nba. They’re playing the most amazing basketball the worlds ever seen, but the entertainment ecosystem around them hasn’t changed at all. Literally they just talk about the stupidest stuff, like who’s the GOAT, instead of actually educating their audiences about the incredible level of play that exists now days.

You could argue that people aren’t interested in seeing that, but I don’t think we will ever know until it’s been tried. Instead, sports pundits are just being negative about the sport and filling the airwaves with low effort, toxic cliches while providing zero information about the brilliance we’re seeing. As to why I think people would actually care to know, I think it’s because once you’re exposed to this stuff it sticks and then you can’t unsee it. You start to notice the patterns and enjoy the game again.

So anyways sorry for the rant but it drives me nuts. Basketball is so cool right now once you start to get what you’re actually seeing and players can be so smart too. It’s amazing.
Yeah, I don't know why you were downvoted. I upvoted you because I was sure you were replying to me sincerely.
Some quick searching says openai had a headcount of 3500 employees in 2024. It also had a valuation of $150billion. Another search says $150 billion companies tend to average 10000-50000 employees. So it does seem like they’re doing more with less. A different search says average company with $3 billion revenue has 5000-10000 employees. Either way OpenAI seems to be running leaner than average.
They are compelled to make decisions for efficiency reasons as much as the government is. Companies make boneheaded decisions based on ideology all the time.

Additionally every time I hear someone claim that companies running everything will be more efficient, when I dive into their beliefs I find out that they expect organizations they call “governments” are required to do many tasks that would not be required of organizations they call “corporations” and that is where all the “efficiency” comes from.

If this was supposedly so much more of an “efficiently system then why has Texas experienced years of outage causing problems in their electrical grid?
Simple rule of thumb.

Always write functional tests first. Doesn't matter if they are slow - you still want something that faithfully captures the specified behavior and allows you to detect regressions automatically.

Then, if your resulting test suite is too slow, add finer-grained tests in areas where the perf benefits of doing so dwarf the cost of necessary black-boxing.

Getting down to the level of individual classes, never mind functions - i.e. the traditional "unit tests" - should be fairly rare in non-library code.
The nice thing about income taxes is that when your income increases, which increases the amount of tax you owe, your ability to afford that tax also goes up due to that income increase.

With property taxes you don't have that coupling between changes in income and changes in the tax. That can make a property tax way more painful.
The nature of the thing is that people are dis-incentivized to share their trade secrets when there is competitive advantage in not sharing.

What the competent people are saying is often overshadowed by the echo chamber of misleading information, since there is profit in driving people towards chaos.
5x faster react boilerplate! #winning
>astroturf

Is the much greater weight of EVs not worse for tire and road wear?
That's not how VAT works in EU, when I'm buying stuff as business expenses from EU I need a reverse charge bill with my VAT ID and no VAT is applied on purchase. If I buy locally then I subtract the input when I'm paying my VAT or request a return if it's more than I owe in VAT (which happens when you are selling to other countries).
Two thoughts on this.

(1) The agent is the ad (Facebook/Reddit)
(2) Game Theory and Agent Reasoning (Subtle malevolent intentions in adversarial gameplay)
In my country, segments more prone to “informal” sales (SMEs, cash transactions, limited incentive for paperwork), have reduced VAT (final sale has a reduced rate compared to many supplies), and the customer can get some of that VAT back as an income tax deduction if they demand to be invoiced.

The advantage of this, is that if you have to have accounting for sales, you'll probably have accounting too for labour, and you'll also pay income tax, social security, etc.
My wife considers microplastic ingestion unavoidable and refuses to make any effort to mitigate it. So I think a certain "health-fatigue" spread around the world.

I cannot comprehend it but I can certainly observe it.
That is understandable, perhaps keeping it to “where Rust is being adopted” good enough? What you are gaining by finding more about your demographic?

Is there any technicality in the language that benefits from extra info? I’m not asking in bad faith, I legit want to know.
I am so damaged by our local school districts outrageous outlays that reading this all I can think of is how this family traveled the country on tax payer money over a pretty stupid non-sport.

Which I recognize is over the top, but in particular the covid ESSR funds to schools were invitations to everybody and their sister to bilk public schools anyway they could with programs like this.

Our regional tiny PreK-4th grade school gifted itself with a $25k wall to ceiling video game system along the same lines (https://play-lu.com/). These companies even have marketing literature on how to use ESSR funds.

For those who want to dive down this ea bit hole a bit for our local spend dilemma:

https://www.westamwelltimes.com/post/champagne-dreams-the-lp...
> Putting some non-trivial reusable business logic between the UI and the DB was non-trivial.

It took me a good long while to figure it out too, but once you got the hang of it, it wasn't really all that complex. AFAICR, the trick was mainly to put object definitions (that pretty closely reflected your DB table structures) and functions/procedures to manipulate them in your data modules with the DB components.

The main problem, IMO, was that these strategies weren't really documented anywhere, you had to figure them out for yourself. This, in turn, was AIUI probably because Borland itself wanted to upsell you to the Enterprise (and later Architect) version, while independent companies also wanted to sell you their various (more-or-less-)fancy "middleware" alternatives.
I feel it's a bit like with self driving cars: Until they can bring me safely to any destination without intervention, then they're not that useful. Currently LLMs are at the stage where I can shortly let go of the wheel but still need to be very focused, maybe even more focused. And while they improve at a fast rate, it's not sure they'll ever fully get there. In the meantime they're at best a slight productivity boost saving me some keystrokes.
Bitcode was never required for app submissions on macOS. It also was never portable across architectures.
The ANSI Y14.2 committee has a version of the font available for download here, created by Peter Karnold.

https://cstools.asme.org/csconnect/CommitteePages.cfm?Commit...
GLP-1 agonists are life extension drugs, they cure way more than just weight.