skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Systems built from scratch with AI won't have these limitations, because only the model will ever see the code. It will implement a spec that's written in English or another human language.

When the business requirements change, the spec will change. When that happens, the system will either modify its previously-written code or regenerate it from the ground up. Which strategy it chooses won't be especially interesting or important.

The process of maintaining the English-language spec will still require great care and precision. It will be called "programming," or perhaps "coding."

A few graybearded gurus will insist on examining the underlying C or Javascript or Python or Rust or whatever the model generates, the way they peer at compiler-generated assembly code now. Occasionally this capability will be important, even vital. But not usually. The situations where it's necessary will become less common over time.
Yes I agree. But also I just don’t know what to do about it. I mostly try to make things more private. Like I write a newsletter about my thoughts on ai/ml, physics, etc that’s only for my research institute sent through the email listserv. Maybe nobody reads it but also nobody monetises it. And I get an outlet that is hopefully useful to others I’m directly connected to.
I don't mean to disagree with you. I have my own snap judgments, but trying to temper them at the moment. When I commented, I thought there was already more than enough people piling on to condemn, so I thought I should take a deep breath, and make some complementary points.

(Though, one of my snap judgments is that this is probably worse than they realize, over 0.6 probability, unless they're far into their sales meetings, or have a lot of world experience. The impression in the video is that they're imagining a class-based dynamic, with someone from a lower class than them being a lazy and unmotivated problem worker, and how they think is culturally appropriate to interact. That might actually be what they envision. But we have enough analogous examples, for decades, to assume that many customers will use it even worse. And with interaction flavors that are more culturally familiar and recognizable to us in the US.)

Edit: I didn't see your edit link when I responded. Yes, I think that link fits my first impression. I'll stand by my position that the condemning comments have been done enough, and that some other nuance and alternate interpretations might apply, and are worth mentioning, for this case and in general.
I'm not saying you should do anything, but many people will buy Tesla because they don't see Tesla and Elon as the same thing.
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43140754

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43164773

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43130143
The title card of the video is "Please don't sue me", so I assume OP is at least somewhat familiar with the risks.
As well as BYD offering their driving assist capability at no additional cost.
I'm just saying that I don't think I agree with some of this; even if PMs are writing the prompts (and calling that "prompt engineering"), it's not equivalent because they don't know how to audit the code given to them.

A PM might generate that SQL thing I mentioned and just blindly cut and paste it. For any application with more than one user, that is a bug, it's incorrect, and it's not like this is some deep cut: upserts happen all over the place.

I didn't finish the entire article, I disagreed with the line, "Prompting Is Here To Stay and PMs—Not Engineers—Are Going to Do It", because I fundamentally do not think that is true unless AI models get considerably better.

It's possible they will, maybe OpenAI will crack AGI or maybe these models will just get a lot better at figuring out your intent or maybe there's another variable that I'm not thinking of that will fix it.

I hate the term "prompt engineer" because I don't think it's engineering, at least not really. I will agree that there's a skill to getting ChatGPT to give you what you want, I think I'm pretty good at it even, but I hesitate to call it engineering because it lacks a lot of "objectivity". I can come up with a "good" prompt that will 90% of the time give me a good answer, but 10% of the time give me utter rubbish, which doesn't really feel like engineering to me.

I saw the line: `As AI models become able to write complex applications end-to-end, the work of an engineer will increasingly start to resemble that of a product manager.`, and while I don't completely disagree, I also don't completely agree either. Even when I heavily abuse ChatGPT for code generation, it doesn't feel at all like I'm barking orders to a human. It might superficially resemble it but I'm not convinced that it's actually that similar.

I hope I'm not coming off as too much of a dick here, I apologize if I am, and obviously a blog post in which you wax philosophical about the implications of new technology is perfectly fine. I think I'm just a bit on edge with this stuff because you get morons like Zuckerberg claiming they'll be able to replace all their junior and mid level engineers with AI soon, and I think that's ridiculous unless they have access to considerably better models than I do.
Here's a screenshot (WEBP 1452 x 16383) of the product page, for anyone who wants a glimpse at what's behind the Cloudflare wall:

https://i.ibb.co/Y4n5Qhzm/framework.webp ("Framework Desktop is a big computer made mini")
> You can get similar bandwidth with server boards

Could be wrong, but I don't think you can. The bandwidth limit, AFAIK, is a problem with the DDR5 spec. These soldered solutions can go faster specifically because they aren't DDR5.
Breaking everything? I'm not aware of any huge changes in state government yet. You know, the governments that run everything.
There are dogs that are not food motivated. Some are play motivated while others can be attention (petting, praise) motivated. You come across the occasional one that isn't really motivated by anything and they are quite the training challenge.
Framework is really doing something special.

They're ticking boxes and finding some really cool niches IMO.
The title is misleading. The people who resigned were former USDS employees, not people brought in by Musk.
Related. Others?

Climbing the cosmic distance ladder: Terence Tao book announcement - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24743177 - Oct 2020 (13 comments)

Terrence Tao: The Cosmic Distance Ladder - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1782398 - Oct 2010 (6 comments)
I don't think the Hezbollah pagers have been good marketing for defensive security products either...
I promise not to exceed the level of unmoderated flamebait, vitriol, hatred and froth directed at me and my ideological cohort by the average HN poster.
Soldered memory and no x16 PCIe slot on a desktop are interesting choices. Not sure who the target market is. Seems like the interconnect between boards is also pretty slow compared to Nvidia Digits or even thunderbolt 5.
News from 3 months ago: https://redditinc.com/blog/introducing-reddit-answers
I wrote «barions», but yes, you are right, I meant «fermions». Fixed.
Of course I can't disagree that it's good that it's now settled. Still I can't help but imagine a world where the meaning, at least in terms of which words apply to which others (rather than qualifiers like "reasonable"), should be settled before the law is debated, voted on, and passed.

Even (some) programmers have learnt the dangers of parsing at run time (e.g. "eval is evil"). How can we decide it's the law we want if we don't know what it means yet?
21 DOGE Staffers Resign
Yes and no. "Constantly" in the title means "with regular occurrence", like, I'm constantly being a pain in the neck with my word explanations. And the "constantly" you mean is more like "continuously". And you are both right, it's just that language in imprecise.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/constantly
The comment you're responding to didn't assert that it is proven, but regardless: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation#Emission_pro...
"The staffers who resigned had worked for what was once known as the United States Digital Service, but said their duties were being integrated into DOGE"

-TFA

Title is pretty misleading
Isn't the Snapdragon X Elite pretty much the only part that would fit the bill? Framework might not even be able to get those, Qualcomm generally won't even give you the time of day unless you commit to buying a bazillion units.
Considering how much they fought to not release the schema, there's probably a column named "exempt_from_penalty" or something equally obvious.
The primary goal of software design should be to facilitate understanding and modification for future developers, emphasizing the importance of code readability.
would have been cool to know about this a month ago

i just built a mini ITX gaming PC for a friend, and this one looks pretty good for quality/$. good enough that i wouldn't be surprised if these get snapped up and re-sold for more than the sticker price

i think it makes more sense to think of it as a high-end console, given that basically everything is soldered, though
Anything that either "the libs" bring up, or is attributed to them, becomes fodder for polarization propaganda. So there is no stable statement of MAGA being "satisfied" with something since the goalposts are always moved by propaganda. For example, "Defeat Project 2025" projects were derided as libs acting dumb, e.g. (1) Trump had attempted to sidestep association with it, (2) libs were demonstrating more of their "Trump Derangement Syndrome", (3) some parts of p2025 had been highlighted and praised in MAGA media. So a positive association with p2025 by MAGA was not due to thoughtful committment to some principle or desire. They're flooded with misinformation, and don't believe they should be concerned about being misinformed, partly because anything negative about MAGA is projected as "the bad thing the libs do", e.g. be misinformed is
the other guy's problem, not mine.
They couldn't hit the memory bandwidth target for AI workloads with slotted RAM, they said in the demo.
Adopting a Minimalist, Adaptable Mindset
Title of post: "Mindset"
Look into a Delaware S Corp. It's easy and cheap to setup (relative), acts like an LLC, and easily converts to a C Corp when funding happens
And that's why you should probably use base45 for binary data in QR codes: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9285.html
Ghost House – software for automatic inbetweens
Bob's had a long life with too much success. He really believes in himself. But, I have to say that the other guy was aggressive and bad even though I am more inclined to agree with him. He willfully misrepresented Bob's ideas. I thought he presented more misguided certainty than Bob. No Bueno.
Not me, but my buddy got out of software development and learned to be, as he describes it, "a bog standard electrician." He had money for trade school, and then apprenticed under an experienced electrician. Dude is in his 40's, so late career change. Makes double the money he did doing remote coding.
I google search w/ reddit because it provides a selection of random users' opinions. Real opinions free of any SEO or ads, summarised by my brain using my personal set of weights and priorities, and my personal well-oiled bullshit detector.
And with Apple, even as a user, privacy mostly means a "what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" type of deal.
I don't understand why all these comments are against web dev. Creating an html file is quick, easy, and most importantly for kids, you instantly get visual results! You don't even need to open ugly terminal consoles, you could just use something like JS Bin (https://jsbin.com/) or JSFiddle or CodePen.

I used to volunteer with CoderDojo, a non-profit that hosted intro to coding workshops for kids of all ages (including 7-year-olds). Maybe you can find something like that local to you? I don't know if the organization still exists, but this is one of the lesson plans we used, which I think still holds up today (except the last part, you don't need jQuery anymore lol):

https://github.com/CoderDojoSV/beginner-web

I also came up with my own workshop as a follow-up, specifically about creating fun shapes with css:

https://github.com/heidid/css-art-workshop

I remember the kids also enjoyed trying out Inspect Element on existing webpages – I joked that you could pretend to change your grades to A+'s (temporarily of course), though hopefully grades are not of concern to a 7-year-old yet :)
Apple won the phone wars because it did not allow the Microsoft Windows playbook to repeat itself. The only way to stop that was to hire an expert from a PC company and deploy significant American capital to buy up all the available offshore capacity to efficiently produce that new class of product before the potential competition could even take it seriously. I blame Apple for a lot, but going to bed with the CCP is not one of them. They were forced to play the game that was created by the Taiwanese PC clone manufacturers that used cheap Chinese labor to outcompete American based manufacturers, including Apple. Blame AST and IBM (who, after opening the hardware to create the PC clone business, ironically sold its own to Lenovo in a final spit on America.)

If Apple didn't take such an investment risk in China, then we'd all have Windows Phones now and Android would have been canceled long ago.

Bringing it back? The DNC pivoting to expand entitlements beyond sick, elderly and legacy civil rights victims to leverage economic downturns greatly expanded their political base in California and also played a major role in locking the door behind Apple, CISCO and others, leaving all the supporting manufacturing tech and processes to evolve elsewhere. Consider what happened when a billionaire tried to open up Tesla down the road from Apple's original Fremont manufacturing facility. Texas has grown rich building up as a California alternative, but doing more than moving people out of California, actually bringing back overseas operations that would have gone to California had it not devolved into an economic wasteland, required a powerful financial incentive and Trump has finally given one.
For now. They won’t last long at these co2 levels.
CF can only handle static websites, I suspect the issue the store-backend side not being able to catch up.
This blanket statement makes me sad, hopefully it’s not what you intended. Businesses are made of people, and many are improving the world by their operation. One of my friends is helping a business that provides insurance to newly-released-prisoners (apparently it’s very hard for them to get insurance). The business makes money, but also improves the world — if you’re in a financial position to help these kinds of businesses, I think it’s great.
Aren’t they both nearly bankrupt
I've used xonsh as my primary shell since around 2017. It's awesome. Being able to write shell scripts in something very similar to Python is awesome. Bash scripting is the epitome of "not awesome".
Those poor bosses, they’re employing people that are barely making them any profit, purely out of the goodness in their hearts.

Spare me your BS.
He's sorry about the backlash his lack of decorum caused, not the contents of the rant.

> I completely respect people that don't want to go to the office all five days a week.

I mean, clearly not.
It's because fans actually care about the data! Corporations do not care about data. Corporations will never put in anything beyond minimum effort to get it right. Usually they won't go beyond a good guess.

what.cd was another example of this.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/remembering-whatcd-the-inter...
The part that is new is technology making things worse. To me that qualifies as a technology story.
There's a difference in caring about something and pointing something out as meaningless and contrived.
You mentioned D, but are you familiar with D's BetterC?

https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html

The goal with BetterC is to write D code that's part of a C program. There's no runtime, no garbage collector, or any of that. Of course you lose numerous D features, but that's kind of the point - get rid of the stuff that doesn't work as part of a C program.
I said in another comment but I suspect the column names themselves are incriminating (basically saying this person doesn't get a ticket because they are in a special club, that's probably not technically legal)
> It must be possible to manage a company in a sustainable way where constant influx of capital is not necessary

It absolutely is! It's called being "Free Cash Flow" (FCF) Positive - ie a business generates more cash from operations compared to capital expenditures.

Sadly, not all businesses can become FCF Positive - especially if they are heavily leveraged, have significant liabilities, or don't care for optimizing for FCF at the expense of expanding market share or growth.

FCF Positive has become the primary indicator for business health over the past 2-3 years, whereas before the primary metric was market share growth, but it is very difficult to retool or drastically change a business.

More fundamentally, a company like Joann's is dealing with a relatively crowded market (Michaels, Hobby Lobby, resurgence of boutique craft shops), and something has to let go.
There is a balance between forgetting your purpose and thinking too narrowly about your business.

At first, Framework is "laptops that are repairable". But if you broaden what they are, they are a disruptor of direct-to-consumer computing equipment, with a core competency of repairability and upgradability.

An integrated CPU/RAM is a decrease in that measure, but it is for a valid benefit - a large improvement in performance for low-power graphics and AI software. They aren't sacrificing upgradability for aesthetic, and they continue to offer fully upgradable laptops.

I wonder if modular memory will continue to evolve and be competitive bandwidth wise with soldered.
I’m guessing he primarily regrets the “getting caught on tape” element.
If that was available when I started to build my homelab server, I'd have bought it. My requirements were a low-power but modern and punchy mini-ITX board with an AMD processor in a very compact build with a 48v DC power supply and SmartOS.

That was basically unobtainium and I've compromised down to a AliExpress mini-ITX motherboard with a mobile AMD CPU, a AM5 heatsink and firmware that is... flavorful, powered by a screaming TFX power supply crammed in an absurdly tight 3.8L noname case running on Proxmox (when you start reconfiguring PCI Express bridges through the serial port kernel debugger because that's just about the only device the Illumos kernel enumerated at all on what is supposed to be your main server, it's time to give up on SmartOS).

It works, but it's a little box of pure hatred and heresy that's quite far off from what I've wanted initially. It is actually an improvement over my previous main server, somehow.
Minor nitpick,

Should be "document ranking reduces to these hard problems",

I never knew why the convention was like that, it seems backwards to me as well, but that's how it is.
A Mac mini with an M4 Pro and 64GB of memory has the same bandwidth and costs £1,999, compared to £1,750 for the Framework Desktop when factoring in the minimum costs for storage, tiles, and necessary expansion cards.
Hmm, I think a Threadripper 7965WX can get you there. Probably around 4-5k all in so I guess similar pricing to a Mac Studio.
wdym if?
my guess is the first packet got through a firewall, which created a flow.

subsequent packets then got blocked because the firewall has no way of matching this to an existing flow.
Could you substantiate this comment in any way whatsoever? I don't need more pithy adverts for authoritarian politicians in my life.
it works in my version of Firefox, and I tested it on mobile as well. Can you send a screenshot and give information about your version of Firefox? what it looks like for me: https://imgur.com/a/ma37KtJ
I still think very fondly of my 11” MacBook Air. The idea of a 12” framework laptop is very appealing.
> [Public bodies] shall provide a sufficient description of the structures of all databases under the control of the public body to allow a requester to request the public body to perform specific database queries.

I sure hope the impact of this is not that government entities switch to schema less databases!
Repair-friendly form factor for a "Unified Memory" platform.

For $2000, you get 128 of system RAM, 96 of which is addressable as VRAM. Only ways of getting 96GB of VRAM in a desktop are to either:

1. Drop ~$5000 on a (very non-upgradeable) Mac Studio
2. Drop ~$20k on a dual RTX 6000 workstation

For running local LLMs, there's nothing on the market presently even remotely like this.
Neither of those deposits are being extracted in large enough scale yet to make a dent in the near-monopoly China has.
In a xonsh script, you can have regular statements like "cd", "ls", and pretty much everything.

It's just like Bash scripting, except in Python. You can mix and match Python statements with regular shell commands.
I fondly remember "Social and Ethical Issues In Computing" which I took in my senior year as an undergrad. Lots of "can we / should we" discussions. Topics included "IP, Patents and Piracy," "Encryption and Privacy," "Robotics, Automation and AI," "White Hat / Black Hat hacking," Phiber Optik and Kevin Mitnick (I'm dating myself here, my class predated the Snowden stuff by almost 20 years). A lot of the curriculum was from High Noon on the Electronic Frontier, a copy of which I still have! Some of it was fluff, like we watched and discussed Ghost In The Shell (LOL), but overall I thought it was a decent current-issues/ethics course, which IMO should have probably been required to graduate with the title "Engineer."
Tesla growth has also largely stalled
I've never seen a marketing website gated like this. Queue the user for the purchase, I just want to see what the dang thing is
They don't take an oath to the job.
There's a solid chance that the schema gives away what DBMS is being used. But even if it didn't, I'd still call it a file layout in this context.
True, but less RAM.
Ex-US security officials urge funding for science research to keep up with China
The video shows two people whose full-time job is watching an automated dashboard and who have failed to spot an issue for at least a month.

Quite apart from anything else, this isn't a good argument that this type of performance management is necessary, it's a great argument for firing all the managers in that factory.
https://youtu.be/-lErGZZgUbY

The ceo kind of explains why in this video. In essence it seems to be a limitation of the chip from AMD
Alternate article: https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-us-final-stages-agreei...

It's not clear what changed.
Not a lawyer, but why not use opensource as an example? Many successful public e-commerce websites have public schemas and aren't all hacked.
> Makes double the money

Canada?
not to be THAT NERD but in the UK at least, the financial year (April 6th - April 5th) was aligned with the start of the new year which was March 25th.

The old financial year started on 25th March, which was also new year's day (and also the point that the year incremented, so if you were knocking around on March 24th 1300 the next day would be March 25th 1301.

But when everyone changed to the Gregorian Calendar - which added 11 days to the calendar to make up for some sloppy Papal mathematicians who didn't believe in things like astronomy or leap years - the tax year had to be shifted to be April 6th, because while everyone else was happy to work around things, the tax office was NOT going to have a tax year that was 11 days shorter because that would have meant less money.

So basically, when the calendar changed happened, new year was set as 1st January (yawn, stupid time to have new year!) at which point the year count incremented up by one year, and the tax year stayed (and still stays) as April 6th, which was really March 25th but with some days tacked on.

1752 must have been a pretty confusing year.