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You're not doing yourself any favors, as this excludes audiences that don't have or don't want to expose their Google accounts just for some survey. More than a few very reputable vendors have used Survey Monkey to poll me in the past, in case you were looking for an alternative to G-docs
> Oh, we're going to make this personal???

Personal? Are you Phil??
I hope this doesn’t come off as combative because that’s not my intention, but given that your code needed to be brought into alignment with the wider code base, couldn’t this have been achieved in a couple minutes with a find and replace that was scoped to just your endpoint methods and routes? In all the discussions about coding with AI I’m just continually struck by the idea that if someone has enough knowledge of their code base then most of the changes I see described seem trivial.

On the other hand, I also get the sense that for a very large organization with siloed teams that sure, the org moved to bring all the endpoint timestamps to a standard 3339 and either you never got the memo or your endpoint being misaligned would get caught at code review time and changed then but the agent was proactive here and went ahead and saved some time. Like, truly, I get that the marginal gains there add up on the balance sheet.

But what about when it is important that your APIs timestamps stay unaligned as epoch? Do you now need to set an override to meta-program that field for the AI as an additional token in the context window every time it runs?

Part of me is impressed for sure about what’s being achieved, but then another part is like “is the boilerplate of copying in the database field names and then shift+alting to write 100 lines of { get; set; } at the same time really so terrible for everyone?” I’m being hyperbolic for effect but I think my point is clear.

There’s also a third part of me that feels like I’m watching the creation of credit-default swaps of tech debt. If no one has time to do the changes that seem like a lot of work to a large organization with inertia because no one has the breadth of mastery needed to implement them as efficiently as possible, how the heck is anyone going to audit and fix the behavior when subtle mistakes eventually cascade?

Is this just the coding version of Amazon outsourcing their shipping to third party contractors that definitely led to people dying but shielded Amazon from liability? Like, “oops, sorry we don’t know why the AI changed our code and your bank account got emptied, we’ll look into it, but it’s not our fault, just the vagaries of fate!”

Again, I do understand the possible business savings in the short term in terms of administrative overhead, but I really shudder at the possible downstream effects of agentic code at scale and I’m trying to understand the real savings for a user that outweighs the downside risk of blowing up your production system and then being in a position of no one suited to fixing it who is responsible to do so.
Bringing WebKit Back to Android
Vivaldi sync works like clockwork for me across Windows/Linux/Mac/iOS/Android after their last major update in this department.
Oh you hit the nail on the head! I know these people! I live in their town! A lot of MAGA is not poor, they are actually upper middle class(If I recall correctly one of the Jan 6 people even arrived to do her revolt using a private jet? I might be misremembering that)

I can't ever understand why they have so much hate and bile in them? I'm guessing its just fear of losing what they do have? I don't really know.
From a knowledge standpoint an LLM can give you pointers at any point.

Theres no way it will "fall short".

You just have to improve your prompt. In the worst case scenario you can say "please list out all the different research angles I should proceed from here and which of these might most likely yield a useful result for me"
Arrogance won’t solve any problems nor convince those who disagree with you.

You could start by stating your assumptions and basic axioms. Rather than asserting your conclusions and name calling things heterodox.
Since the administration specifically brought up "Department of State" as one of the entities that helped with the effort, my guess is the action is founded on this specific statue, not the "terrorist support" piece in particular, despite the latter being the widespread speculation:

8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(3)(C)(i) "An alien whose presence or activities in the United States the Secretary of State has reasonable ground to believe would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States is deportable"

This provision basically lets Secretary of State to deport any alien he deems in the future might post a threat to foreign policy. It does not appear to be a difficult standard to justify either and gives Secretary of State broad leeways in deportation of all aliens, including LPRs. That said, I am not sure it even technically constitutes "revocation" of green card. They seem to be able to simply deport you with a green card without needing the procedural burden of revocation.

All the other provisions outlined for cancelation seem to involve DHS (incl. USCIS) and Attorney General to cancels one's green card, and would not really be in purview of Dept. of State.
It may have something to do with what we say to ourselves inside our heads. If we say something to ourselves it is kind of believing. We believe what we think, we believe what we say. We can of course change our thoughts later. Like when you started feeling sick but when there was no more need for the symptoms, you could say "I'm no longer sick at all" :-)
The US has had normal relations with places as radical as Saudi Arabia for many decades. Ideological, political, and other differences do not preclude normal relations. There's really an absolutely phenomenal article on the deterioration of Russia-US relations here. [1] In general, the problem is that after the collapse of the USSR, the US was left as the defacto ruler of the world. And we wanted to cling onto that position permanently. Germany, for example, is a country that could be independently great but has made no efforts towards such and has largely been content to remain deferential to the US, so it retains extremely positive relations with the US, so far as such a relationship can be called positive.

But as Russia started to regain strength in the early 2000s, they specifically aimed for positive relations with the US, but also were not happy with a Germany style relationship and wanted to be treated as equals. This led to us doubling down on hostilities towards them. But this deterioration of relations inevitably led to where we are today, but fortunately not where we could have ended up - which is in the nuclear wasteland that was briefly called WW3.

This also ties right back in to Georgia. Back in 2008 at the Bucharest summit the US was openly encouraging and supportive of Georgia's efforts to join NATO. France and Germany were strongly opposed to such, arguing that such a move would needlessly provoke Russia, but we aimed to move ahead with it anyhow. The Georgia-Russia war would start a few months later.

[1] - https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/us-russia-putin-re...
How can I follow this book? I’m interested too.
Let's imagine that we all had a trillion dollars. Then we would all sit around and go "well dang, we have everything, what should we do?". I think you'll find that just about everyone would agree, "we oughta see how far that LLM thing can go". We could be in nuclear fallout shelters for decades, and I think you'll still see us trying to push the LLM thing underground, through duress. We dream of this, so the bear case is wrong in spirit. There's no bear case when the spirit of the thing is that strong.
Have you seen Elon Musk's literal Nazi salute? This isn't anyone painting him as a Nazi but himself
Commenters are getting increasingly cynical on here. I wouldn’t worry about it.
Maybe its more relative prices have gone up. Europeans were already used to paying more so paying even more is part of the norm. However things have been really cheap in the US for a long time. Taking the inflation as a whole(ie. not just looking at egg prices) this is likely the beginning of a long term permanent inflation that is coming due to things like China possibly aging out of manufacturing and the replacements being more expensive. People think they can turn back the clock so they try. Eventually they will be forced to get used to the new reality.
It curtails one of the four essential freedoms that form the core of the Free Software Foundation's definition of Free Software:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

"The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0)."

If you modified the software, there are restrictions on running it; you cannot run the program as you wish, for any purpose.

It looks like an open and shut case to me. The place where the AGPL comes from doesn't meet the free software definition coming from the same place.

It might meet your personal definition of what is free, but that doesn't fix the above hypocrisy.
I really despise people that commit .dll and .exe files to git, and https://github.com/Versoft-Software/Free95/blob/main/free95/... isn't doing themselves any favors. However, https://github.com/Versoft-Software/Free95/blob/main/free95/... makes me wonder if this whole repo is some kind of elaborate joke or something
From watching, it seems this was a clip of a larger presentation. I spent some time trying to find a longer version but had no luck.

Anyone perhaps know what this was from?
our approach wasn’t about over-engineering, we were trying to leverage our existing investments (like Confluent BYOC) while optimizing for flexibility, cost, and performance. We wanted to stay loosely coupled to adapt to cloud restrictions across multiple geographic deployments.
You don't need to read the GPL, or any other free software license, to modify a program and to run it.
I think we are entering a period where protestors are going to have to ask themselves if they are willing to accept the consequences of their actions to protest. If you’re going to disrupt other people lives for your cause, you’re going to have to bear the conseuqneces of it.

The no consequences violent and disruptive protests for many different causes in the United States for the last several years are broadly over and if you’re going to do these things, you’re probably going to have to deal with life changing consequences.
For me, a larger part than "cost of lock-in" is the "hacker spirit", the curiosity to understand how it works.

Sure, I can pay google or fastmail to host a mailserver for me, but that deprives me of the joy of configuring and updating dovecot/postfix/etc, writing custom backup scripts, writing my own anti-spam tooling, etc. I want to know how all those pieces work.

Sure, I can pay kagi to search its index of webpages for me, but that deprives me of the joy of creating and running a botnet to index webpages, storing 100s of terrabytes of scraped data, and writing my own search code.

Targeting hackers is indeed a sucker's game.
> False dichotomy

No, you’re looking at the short term effects on a largely irrelevant metric (volume) while ignoring the underlying mechanisms at play.

> Your body will hold on to a surprising amount of muscle.

It’s only surprising if you ignore what going on at the cellular level. Gaining fat or muscle eventually involves gaining new cells and structures like capillaries not just increased the volume of existing cells. This is a really slow process in muscle, but those new cells stick around and can rapidly adapt to stimulus as long as you have a sufficient diet.

So yes in rapid weight loss your individual muscles cells become smaller and less capable but that’s very quick to recover. Longer term, you’ll hit the exact same homeostasis point based on stimulus and long term diet.

PS: If this seems like voodoo magic it’s simply a very old evolutionary response to starvation that predates hominid development. Being able to fairly rapidly lower energy expenditure over say winter and then recover is a major advantage.
Why learn if the computer can do it better than you and by the time you learn the roi on the market approaches 0? This wave of llm removed a lot of my interest in coding professionally
It's more that it's a dumb idea in the face of other government regulations making it impossible to substitute (looking at you mostly zoning making walking, biking, and public transit best case being extremely inconvenient vs car and severely limiting accommodation choice to mostly very low density car required single family or a very small supply mostly ancient missing middle options or sky scrapers.) This makes the carbon tax need to be very high to change behavior which has knock on effects in the less easily substitutable stuff we all need like food transport that makes every noticeably poorer even when they are getting reimbursed for most to all of their primary carbon tax payments. It doesn't help that close by competitors don't have this tax and can incentivize various companies to leave for greener pastures.

So it's not that it was improperly communicated, pretty much every Canadian understands what is going on. It's that it's dumb without a myriad of other changes to regulation at various other levels of government that should have been changed first. That the feds went at it alone meant it would inevitably be their downfall (all the other really questionable/borderline criminal things this government has done is bonus material)
I have an old toyota camry hybrid. The estimated range is calculated based on the trip mpg, and as such is accurate when I'm going like a speed demon or cruising along at 90kph.

Displaying a marketing number on the dash is inexcusable, regardless of how fast or slow drivers are going.
This is definitely true in some ways. I was just talking around this point about spending money incrementally on aider, cursor, etc, and how it would have been a turnoff to me. But yes, all that I had back then people still have, and thats great.
> F-Droid insists on building the APKs for the apps.

You could say that OpenAPK blindly redistributes whatever APK upstream is peddling whereas F-Droid builds from source. I see the merits of both systems but prefer reproducible builds so that we can have the best of both worlds
If we lose a bastion of being able to speak quite freely in front of other intelligent humans, that will be a shame.
One could argue that's not strictly "AI labor", just cheap (but real) labor using shortcuts because they're not paid enough to give a damn.
The American order that stood for decades was anti-fragile. Everyone outsourced their defense to some reasonable degree, so no one was strong enough to pose an existential threat to anyone else, so we could all afford to be off guard.

Now every actor needs to have the strength to deter all others, which means everyone gets stronger, which means everyone needs even more strength to deter others, or deterrence simply breaks down. We had a multi-polar world in the past, it went terribly and led to massive wars. Now we are returning to that system but with nukes.
Just wait until that dipshit and his teens are in Control of FCC.
previous administrations have done way worse clear all the way to fdr imprisoning citizens and wilson imprisoning debs.
> It obviously does not matter to the people running this administration, I agree with you.

How is it so obvious? What is an example where they broke a law and they continued to do so after courts ruled otherwise?

There have been a number of cases that were judicially reversed both in Trump 1.0 and 2.0. They may have non-traditional interpretations of the law, but to say they don't care about laws at all is filed under TDS. Obviously they do as it dictates the boundaries and therefore their tactics.
What a stupid take. Sorry to be blunt, but you need to be told that, because you should feel bad.

There's a reason for the quote "Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company".

Replace "idiots" with "Nazis" for enlightenment.
I’m approaching middle age and have always wanted to learn to code and run servers, but would get caught up somewhere on tutorials and eventually give up in frustration.

Over the past year I have accomplished so much with the ever patient LLMs as my guide. It has been so much fun too. I imagine there are many others in my shoes and those that want to learn now have a much friendlier experience.
On any ICE I've ever driven, the range number displayed on the dash is calculated from the current trip's average mpg.
Highly recommend reading through some of the old “E” ticket magazines. There’s some excellent pieces from some of the original masterminds at Disney. There’s creativity they had especially back then was unmatched IMO.
It is really a double edged sword. Some APIs I would not have found myself. In some way an AI works like my mind fuzzy associating memory fragements: There should be an option for this command to do X because similar commands have this option and it would be possible to provide this option. But in reality the library is less than perfectly engineered and the option is not there. The AI also guesses the option is there. But I do not need a guess when I ask the AI - I need reliable facts. If the cost of an error is not high I still ask the AI and if it fails it is back to RTFM but if the cost of failure is high then everything that comes out of a LLM needs checking.
Problem is this requires turning off protection for unknown origin apks and these days many banking apps etc stop working once you do that.

Could be useful for a spare phone for secure but non critical work.
The issue with deflation is that it discourages investment and so prevents growth in productivity. It's not about denominations.
> It makes me think about how many ancient ruins don't exist simply because the people nearby didn't see reason not to reuse all that convenient unowned pre-quarried rock.

In the case of Ostia near Rome, they mined it for building material until it became a malaria swamp. It wasn't drained until the 20th century. Around 20% of the workers draining the swap contracted malaria.
I'm tired of reading gloom & doom about Trump's executive orders over the past 2 months and no one except lawyers doing anything about it.

There's 3 million Federal US employees. If even a small fraction began to conduct "simple sabotage" on carrying out his orders, it'd significantly slow down his plans and give time to courts / public to catch up.
I think all these articles begging the question: what's author's credential to claim these things.

Be careful about consuming information from chatters, not doers. There is only knowledge from doing, not from pondering.
So far I've used Aider for only a few projects - almost all where it starts from scratch. And virtually always for personal use - not work. As such, the focus on quality is not as high (i.e. there's no downside to me letting it run wild).

So I hope you can understand it when I say: Why should I waste my brain cells debugging when I can just tell it to fix its own problems?

Say you want something done (for personal use), and don't have the time to develop it yourself. Someone volunteers to write it for you. You run it, and it fails. Would you spend much time reading code someone else wrote to find the bug, or just go back to the guy with the error?

Yes, I have had to debug a few things myself occasionally, but I do it only when it's clear that the LLM isn't able to solve it.

In other cases, I'm writing something in a domain I'm not fully knowledgeable (or using a library I'm only mildly familiar with). So I lack the knowledge to debug quickly. I would have to read the docs or Google. Why Google when the LLM is more effective at figuring it out? Certainly in a few cases, the solution turned out to require knowledge I did not have, and I appreciate that the LLM solved it (and I learned something as a result).

The point with all this is: The experience not binary. It's the full spectrum. For my main codebase I'm responsible for at work, I haven't bothered using an LLM (and I have access to Copilot). I need to ensure the quality of the code, and I don't want to spend my time understanding the code the LLM wrote - to the level I would need to feel comfortable pushing to production.
I have pretty severe social anxiety and this industry was a refuge for me.

The added social and political mental load that has crept in over the past decade or so has effectively pushed me to burnout.

And I was a happy "lifer" making subpar salary writing government software. I got to work in a large dark office with other nerds and joked about esoteric things.

But once software development became formalized, homogenized, and micromanaged, I couldn't conform.
I would have thought they could use KernelEx for that.
I suspect given the right amount of money they can have access to whatever is required.
Proposal for Direct Messages Feature in GitHub
Regarding "AGI", is there any evidence of true synthetic a priori knowledge from an LLM?
Bold of you to assume there will be a next administration in the United States in four years.
Exactly same with Google, people think they it is the internet even if it is not the default.
Not completely disagreeing with you but:

1. It is a single entity but composed of teams from 38 different partners. They have a "consortium". It has its disadvantages but it is not a completely independent funding.

2. The "consortium" may have asked for much more (between 5x to 20x more) and was probably denied.

As to your question of why we cannot seriously invest in startups?

- Because we do not have a single funding agency across whole of Europe. Each country has its own funding problems and Germany has its debt brake. So, the funding is not unified. Each country wants to fund 10 of its own startups instead of Europe by itself funding 10. This means 10x less money. EU Horizon projects didn't focus on industry at all. EuroHPC is a very new, 4 years into its first projects.

- There's no funding because we do not have customers! None of European tech companies will benefit from chips enough to invest in new tech. All of them are running old technologies. Car companies are to blame here because they are the biggest customers in Germany and they think of themselves as only car companies. No one in Germany is doing AI for cars for FSD for example. In general, European consumption is very backward and low-tech.

- Europe is finding it very hard to raise capital from outside Europe due to various reasons. Like Groq raised 650M from Saudi Arabia. In Europe, that is politically impossible.
And for even further historical background, I wrote .NET on Non-Windows Platforms: A Brief History.[1]

[1]: https://entropicthoughts.com/dotnet-on-non-windows-platforms...
That's useful context, thanks.
Didn't Yandex RU divest and its now EU owned in Europe? could be a thin shell of course.
They should have done half height function keys and kept the Touch Bar. Best of both worlds.
What do you call Starlink's requests for the FTC to open spectrum for Starlink?

https://www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-opens-up-more-spectrum-for-st...
Show HN: Free Local DMARC Report Analyser
Got so many report for DMARC that thought of building my own DMARC report analyser. Would like to here your feedback on UX and information side.

Goal was to not send any report to a server for processing and do all the processing locally.