skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you gotta explain why the analogy is applicable, otherwise I could do the same thing and say "I don't understand why so many people are convinced that hovercars won't replace automobiles one day." Infinite analogies could be made to support any conclusion, they aren't worth anything without reasoning(implied or explicit) for why your analogy is particularly relevant compared to others.

Tbh I am completely unsure about the AI Programmer debate, I don't have the knowledge of the AI landscape to make an informed decision. For that reason I do what I often do and make a meta-judgement based on the types of arguments made by each side.

Who is arguing that AI will replace programmers? People who are invested in AI, or people who want cheaper labor.

Who is arguing against that? Programmers who want to keep their job.

Not much to draw from that angle.

What KIND of arguments is each side making?
Programmers: specific points that touch reality directly.
AI Programmer supporters: Typically, arguments are abstract and never touch reality directly, and seem to be motivated by hype more than experience. In the past, there has been cases where the abstract dreamer hype crowd has been right, but typically there are many pre-emptive waves who are wrong(as would be expected, unless you assume that people are incapable of expecting a thing to come before it's time, then there will be waves of people who pick up on a thing before it gets here, and they will be pre-emptive).

For this reason, plus the very limited amount of AI-generated code applied to non-trivial projects that I've seen(which doesn't and shouldn't hold much weight, because I'm not super familiar with the latest tech), I'm feeling like AI replacing programmers is at least a decade off.

I also feel like people are thinking about the problem wrong in general. They are jumping from our current state to a state where we have capable AI programmers without imagining the incremental transformations in work-place structure over time. We've been going through a trend where coding language gets closer to human language since the days of punch cards, and programmers will exist as a job until that trend reaches the point where programmers are "squeezed out". By that I mean, a programmers job is to convert the intentions(not words, important distinction) of the product manager into code, from this perspective they can be considered middlemen. Programmers will exist until the day that AI is so good that a middleman is no longer needed, that a product manager can talk directly to an AI and get the desired results. Knowing how bad product managers are at explaining what they ACTUALLY need, on a concrete literal level, I think this problem is more difficult than people assume. Even if we had AI that produced perfect code that did exactly what was asked of it, I'm not sure if that'd be good enough, precisely because it does EXACTLY what is asked of it.
Reflections on 25 Years of Blogging
I started blogging in February 2000 (it was social like Twitter back then). 5 years ago, I ramped up my writing again: I've been posted at least weekly for 256 weeks.

I've learnt that blogging is a necessary part of my practice for finding and exploring new ideas. It's brought me work and friends. And there's especially a place for blogging today: no platform will value your words like you will yourself.
PostgreSQL Sequence Cache
https://www.wsj.com/business/elon-musk-illegal-drugs-e826a9e...
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/18/tech/elon-musk-ketamine-u...
https://www.foxnews.com/health/elon-musk-reveals-takes-ketam...

etc.

just ask any search engine
It’s not exactly like this but the Superhappy app makes you chat with a bot and ask it to unlock for a period of time.
Back in 1993 ship your startup in hours it sound like jokes But Nowdays! it can be possible with AI
it easy to ship your startup in hours
Build webpage with AI just type your product and lets AI build webpage with AI
customized with AI Assistant change the layout quickly with AI
theme generator -best uses of theme generate can change the whole outlook of wepage its simpel enter the prompt and AI will generate theme and can be appliable quickly to change the look of web page

after building page downlaod the page in typescript or javascript based your need and implement in webdone starter kit know you are done 50 % work

Lastly;
setup payment stripe
setup mongodb
setup Auth
setup resend
and after setting all these required for your startup now you are ready go live

dont mind it but you still have few hours left
thank you
I feel like 3.7's personality is neutered, and frankly, the personality was the biggest selling point for me
> I do care about what I buy, I just don't care what others buy and what other people think about the things that I buy. Is that clear now? You need special flavor of mental illness to care and vocalize about the shit other people buy with their own money.

Are you fine with someone buying a human slave, then?
If you play long enough, you always lose all of your money.
Ask HN: Why No "Cursor for Docs"? AI Contract and Form Editing Still Feels Stuck
Code-editing AI tools (Replit, Bolt, etc.) have exploded in capability—letting non-devs build full-stack MVPs. But document workflows are still clunky. Microsoft 365 Copilot and Google’s AI are underwhelming for real contract editing.

Typical workflow: download a contract template, tweak terms in Word, send docx for redlines, convert to PDF, use DocuSign, store it in CRM. Next year, dig it up and do it all again.

Why don’t we have an AI editor that shows only diffs on the sections we want to change, keeps version control (like Git), allows real-time collaboration, and seamlessly exports/imports to docx/PDF with built-in e-sign? Is it a technical challenge, lack of market demand, or something else?
Deterrent to future like-minded scumbags.
"I don't want to live in a world where someone else is making the world a better place better than we are"

- Silicon Valley Season 2
Interesting article - but not quite a counterpoint regarding share of global wealth.
If you post anything pro-Musk, or even anything questioning people posting deranged conspiracy theories about him without evidence, you just get flagged and downvoted and yelled at.

Why bother engaging? Lefties in America are mad they lost the election and lefties in Europe are mad that Americans are expressing their opinions about European politics. They are angry, and don't want to engage in good faith or have a real conversation. So why bother trying to engage with people that just want to rant.

It is like if your girlfriend comes to you and rants about her day. She doesn't want to debate the issue she is ranting about and if you tried to do so you'd be reading the room very wrong.

Your entire comment, by the way, is inaccurate. He is not incompetent or stupid, obviously. He isn't failing: the EU is putting tariffs on EVs made in China because it can't compete on price. The rest of the stuff is just pathetic. Nazi! REALLY? That is the level of discourse on HN now.

It is so obvious that these threads are brigaded.
I think that was the year he went off the rail with the flamethrower, right?
Mine is here [1], I basically had all of these set already (other than column ui which I don't like), but I suspect that's just because I've probably previously read nice posts by Scott and others talking about them.

Maybe trading alias tips is another useful thing to do though, hence sharing the link.

[1]: https://github.com/Julian/dotfiles/blob/main/.config/git/con...
Animals are not next token predictors. Most animals don't have language and don't generate sentences/ideas. It is unique feature of humans and big part of our success.

Animals do have sensors and can reason about real world quite intelligently. This is what LLM- models don't have. Surely, all the text in Internet has a lot of textual information about real world, but something "obvious to animal" might not be there.

I feel us humans are kind of both: We have sensors and experiences about real world, but also oral and written tradition.

Once we develope LLM- with cabability to sense and experience real word (perhaps with some evolutionary algorithm to make it better over time) it should start to be close to human beings.
Depends, are you a deceptive advertiser or are you a regulator supposed to protect consumers. The average person will read this as "buying a book". They will tell their friends they have bought the book if the topic comes up. They might even ask others if they "own" the book as well.
Like anything else, the manner in which it is exploited becomes its purpose.
pretty negative social score on the boiled egg
DigiCert and other CA's need to write in their terms that failure to follow the policies and revocation timelines can/will result in termination of the contract. Alegeus should have been dropped as a customer as soon as the incident was resolved and refused further products/renewals.

Use of a TRO protects you short term, but results in having to migrate to a new CA medium term. You can't stop them from using TRO's but you can make it not worth it.
She stole from billionaires. If she had stolen from poor people or the government she’d be lauded as a hero.
seconded. It doesn't sound like practical security that would help anyone, but like a bunch of snake-oil mumbo-jumbo written by "growth-hackers" without a clue.

I get the theory but until there is actually a quantum computer that can break it it would be more helpful to talk about threat-models or operational security. because crypto is hardly what anyone with brains will try to break to steal your memes.

much more worried about terrible security of MIME parsing.
Heard about this several years ago and while it's very cool technology, it's sadly also like putting makeup on a pig. Fish health in those tanks is terrible. The entire idea of farming fish is terrible. The best idea they've come up with so far to avoid sickness is moving those farm tanks onto land so they can be as controlled as possible. I find it to be a bleak industry.

https://www.vetinst.no/nyheter/fiskehelserapporten-2022-inte...
The fact that there’s a term for it which we all know suggests otherwise. It’s literally in textbooks, too, so you’d have a better argument if you explained your conceptual disagreement rather than trying to pretend the concept doesn’t exist.
Way to high. People don't read it or don't understand it apparently.
Why do you think ag needs disruption? Ag has had the latest tech applied to it since the dawn of civilization. Any tech you can think of is already being used there.
15 years ago felt very different to me as well. Many of us lucked into the conditions that made many online interactions feel worthwhile. The loss of these settings sucks.* But such a creative environment is still attainable and can be found in pockets.

* To be fair, nostalgia around many off these communities can be misleading. Many were never designed to sustain realistic growth nor the inevitable pressures to monetize them. They were naive and ignored human nature, a product of the mentality of their creators or perhaps their participants or both. We know better now. Community building is tricky and worthwhile, rarely a matter of formulaic scaling.
Isn't Waymo way ahead in the US?
The trade war US and China has had for years sure is going to feel different in a few years time when China is the source of increasing amount of innovation and forbids the export of that technology to US and its allies.
> but I have not seen many companies that still hire programmers in the most narrow sense, that only focus on writing code.

So you yourself have already seen the demise of the programmer so why are you arguing against it? Software development isn’t going away. But just like we no longer have tweeners in animation, we’ll soon no longer have programmers in software development. Then soon there after we won’t have “front-enders” and “back-ended” the term “full stack” will lose meaning and at the end what we call a software developer will be more akin to what you today call a business analyst than a programmer.
You could probably say the same thing about tens if not hundreds of thousands of people in prison.
I’m not someone who wants prison purely as a punitive measure. I’d much rather the focus be on rehabilitation. But you’re making it sound like Elizabeth Holmes was accused of something relatively "harmless" like insider trading, rather than what she actually did.

A small sample from Wikipedia:

> In January 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sent a letter to Theranos based on a 2015 inspection of its Newark, California lab, reporting that the facility caused "immediate jeopardy to patient health and safety" due to a test to determine the correct dose of the blood-thinning drug warfarin
so while the US is chasing GPU receipts in Singapore just to ensure DeepSeek was using H800s only, the rest of the world can run these optimizations on the full H100s?

while we also pretend that H100s were difficult to get or access because of the US sanctions and their hubris to believe their edicts blanket the globe?

am I understanding this correctly?
If threat to society is the only purpose to put someone behind bars, then a large swathe of the incarcerated population wouldn't be behind bars. You could make the same argument for Bernie Madoff, who probably isn't a danger to society considering his fraud is out in the open.
Text of decision,

(.pdf) https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca9.341...

Arguments in video format,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9mP8zxSi6g ("22-10312 USA v. Elizabeth Holmes: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (23.2K subscribers)")
The TRO actually means you aren't allowed, that's the point. It's an ordered injunction that legally obliges you from not acting until the courts can review the facts.

The court IS deciding, temporarily.
ReScript: A Better Typed JavaScript? [video]
Does anyone know a game where 2d sprites sit on 3d chairs? This is something this engine will have to tackle.
My cousins from the countryside have several cats, and there is plenty of mice and birds. Mostly every prey the cats bring home are birds. Birds are easier to track, nest in visible places, while mice hides better, they are good detectors by smell and sound. Maybe in the city birds are harder to reach.

The more I think about the article the less it makes sense. Humans would have eaten all their preys' meat, and thrown the bones they didn't use to build tools and accesories into pits, would have burned the rest to avoid bringing predators. Proto-dogs would have been like pigs to them, they are still like such in Asia. It's just that their decendants are good alarms and defenders, and can be trained to help in hunting and other tasks.
Ag is a harsh mistress.
I wasn't sure what this was built on top of. I've asked the model and told me this:

No, I'm not specifically "Gemini 2.0." Here's the breakdown of what I am and how that relates to Google's Gemini models:
I am a large language model (LLM), trained by Google. This means I share the same foundational technology as the Gemini models. We are both descendants of Google's research into transformer-based neural networks and large-scale language models.

I am built on a variant of the models used in the Gemini family. While I don't have a specific version number like "Gemini 2.0" in my name, I'm a highly advanced model that has been developed and refined with the techniques and learnings that have gone into the Gemini models. This means i am a Mixture of Experts model.

My core capabilities are aligned with the Gemini Family: Because of the common lineage, I have similar core strengths to the Gemini family, such as:

* Understanding and responding to complex prompts.

* Generating creative content.

* Engaging in multi-turn conversations.

* Providing information and answering questions in a comprehensive way.

* Processing and understanding code.

The naming conventions for models are fluid and complex. Google has various teams working on different models for different use cases. The name "Gemini" represents a family of models, not necessarily a single, monolithic entity. Also, the naming used in the different versions may vary.

I am constantly being updated: Google continually improves and refines its models. My capabilities are always growing and evolving.
Most of the items in this list were introduced more recently (a lot from '22) and are definite quality of life improvements. But sure, the core of Git remains mostly unchanged - the 'porcelain', if you will - although the one major change is that they're changing the default hashing algorithm (I'm not sure if this has been done yet, I know it was decided upon in 2018).
Wow I never knew this, I always just type `--no-ext-diff` when piping the output. Thanks!
Apartment-Level Floor Plan Dataset Derived from MSD
in a practical sense, well executed stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.
A Defense of Weird Research
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40768225

That one is fixed, though.
Maybe its time we stop seeing housing as an investment and more of a place to shelter oneself from the elements. One of the core pillars of survival
I live in a city with one of the best public transport systems in the world. Anywhere I want to go, there's a bus/tram/trolleybus/subway that goes there and leaves in less than 15 minutes. It costs $150 a year. If that isn't luxury then I don't know what is.
There's indeed a middle ground now, as far as I can tell. It's called "show less personalized ads" or something like that, but in effect I think it's showing ads related just to the page you're currently looking at. I'm perfectly fine with this model, and I'd rather we collectively go back to it, instead of ad trackers following you around on the Internet and serving you ads based on your browser history instead.

Of course that doesn't mean I trust Meta/Facebook/Instagram/Whatsapp, but at least on the surface it seems they understood the assignment.
What do people see when they're tripping? Analyzing Erowid's trip reports
HN is extremely (American) left-leaning. Do you not remember the threads about the murderer of the health insurance CEO? Any thread about US politics? Or just the simple fact every thread about office politics or workplace relations is VERY pro-unionisation, VERY anti-manager. HN highly favours higher taxes, higher minimum wage, trade unionism, work from home, open borders, net zero etc. Of course it is an American leftism rather than European leftism or Commonwealth leftism which have different focuses.
I just want to tell you that it's very well written, well done!

> With a mighty Pearson's correlation of 0.091, the data indicates that this could be true!

I almost choked on this bit, as I was eating a sandwich (not a kebab sadly)
They are making the world a better place.
To add to this, 3 days after the TRO was filed both parties moved to vacate the TRO.

DOCKET TEXT ORDER. 9 Joint Motion to Vacate 3 Order Granting Ex Parte Motion for TRO is GRANTED

I'm not sure DigiCert could have done anything about the TRO or the impacted certs, but it should have been able to move forward with the revocation of all other certificates. That IMO is the real issue/failure, alongside the concern/impact of TRO's on security processes in the future.
For those wondering the original image was speaking of "Gare" which are well-defined: https://www.sncf-connect.com/gares/paris
Yeah, it's very interesting. To me, this is like saying "why write a journal when AI can generate years worth of journal entries?"

Not even coherent, really. That's not why I write at all. It's also not why I read.
> I just don’t see why my life needs to be optimised for making money compared to engaging in interesting ideas and creating peace and happiness in the space around me.

This means your are rich, and you can afford the luxury of such mindset.
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Under what criterion were your answers decided?

To play the devil's advocate: Google has vastly improved access to information. Facebook has allowed hundreds of millions of people to remain in each other's lives even while separated by oceans. Amazon made it much easier to acquire very specific items. Tinder has helped people find love.
Castle.io's customers seem to include marketing platforms, and their listed use-cases include preventing account sharing and alt accounts. Can understand why a company would want to be able to uniquely identify users, but also from a user/privacy perspective it's something I'd very much like my browser/extensions to block.
Netherlands as well, one of the smallest countries in the world but the 3rd largest agricultural exporter in the world.
These are not meant to distract you from current goals/ways - pick those which ~80% match what you already have, postpone/abandon the others. Like, devOps view is very different from all else, with somewhat weak links across to the product-related or build-related views (heh, new view: costs-related. Be them people-hours or compute/storage). No need to compete with focused tools in that space, (e.g. see [0]). Though some linkage/hints might be doable and valuable. (also see some github-repo visualizers below.)

3+ years ago i landed as architect onto a working system having 300Kloc js codebase across 20+ repos, plus other ~100 unused ones with unknown Mlocs in them, running over 25+ containers in 2 datacenters.. without neither good architectural diagram nor deployment diagram nor runtime flow diagram... took me quite some months to build some mental image of which is what and where and why. It was event-sourcing engine so event-flows mapping from parsing the source was doable (few weeks, python+esprima+graphviz), but all else... nope.

Anyway, do ping me if you feel like it, any time.

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[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43161332 - subimage.io

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42521769 - gitdiagram.com

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42976467 (manned service?)

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41393458 - codeviz.ai
This kind of product is really shameful, and peak capitalism... looking at people as mere robots to serve your, disgusting
Social violence describes the gutting of social security, healthcare systems etc to the detriment of primarily the most vulnerable. Not the fact that people protest, however violently. It's just not the right vocabulary.
Usually, a client is the one who wants to be in the role of [fractional] CTO.
# clearly makes git better

If these options clearly make git better, why aren't they the defaults?
She made alot of powerful people look foolish.

The nature of how the people around her exploited her also makes her a great candidate for being made an example. She has no friends to explain away her crimes, which were significant — this isn’t a Martha Stewart scenario.
FYI if anyone is looking into data formats for high performance stuff I recommend looking into CBOR:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBOR

It is very popular in embedded systems and IoT. It is basically binary JSON, but supports numbers as key, variable-sized ints/floats, utf-8 strings. CBOR binary blobs can be converted to JSON keeping similar semantics (number keys will be converted to strings) and parsed with `jq` for human-readability/debugging.

It can also be read in "pull parsing" mode so you don't need to keep the whole message in memory. This is the opposite of "DOM parsing" although I don't know if these terms are applicable in non XML contexts. When you only have 256KB of RAM this is quite important.
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