skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed!

That could be a good solution to increase the corp tax rate and provide more benefits and more broadly. The problem is corporations, especially large corps, have historically bought favors from congress, with the result that the tax burden falls on the middle class.

UBI is an astoundingly good concept, especially when people get automated out of their jobs — tax every producing entity at a level required to distribute funds and services (e.g., healthcare) to everyone just above poverty level.

The cool thing is that with UBI, there is basically no need for a minimum wage. First, potential workers are already being supported above poverty, and second, corporations will need to offer a wage and working conditions that together are worth it for workers to bother getting up and going to work. UBI would essentially give everybody "F.U. money", i.e., the option to get up and walk out anytime without endangering their family's ability to live. Studies testing UBI also repeatedly show people consistently spend the money well and do not squander it. The principle once advocated by some conservatives that the people themselves know best how to spend their money is really true (not absolutely, but at a very high level).

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This is something that I struggle with for AI programming. I actually like writing the code myself. Like how someone might enjoy knitting or model building or painting or some other "tedious" activity. Using AI to generate my code just takes all the fun out of it for me.
Actually, open-source product and code can totally be deployed or reused by private actors to make money of it
> I like to build things, the faster the better.

what's the largest (traffic, revenue) product you've built? quantity >>>> quality of code is a great trade-off for hacking things together but doesn't lend itself to maintainable systems, in my experience.

Have you seen it work to the long term?
Most people use the term self-hosting (or self-hostable) instead of ejectable.
American judicial jurisprudence is paramount to American business interests and informed discourse is vital to anyone wishing to conduct a successful enterprise.

That this is flagged is concerning... as it amounts to saying court decisions, compliance, and enforcement, are irrelevant to this forum. As we saw on the thread yesterday by a YC immigration lawyer there is a real immediate impact to his community and it should be discussed not banned.
It'd be slightly more funny if your user name was LLM...
I'm in full agreement with this, and it's part of the reason I'm considering leaving the software engineering field for good.

I've been programming for over 25 years, and the joy I get from it is the artistry of it, I see beauty in systems constructed in the abstract realm. But LLM based development remove much of that. I haven't used nor desire to use LLM for this, but I don't want to compete with people that do because I won't win in the short-term nature of corporate performance based culture. And so I'm now searching for careers that will be more resistant to LLM based workflows. Unfortunately in my opinion this pretty much rules out any knowledge based economy.
"Simple collaborative editing without the formatting complexity of markdown"

It is incredible that nowadays Markdown is considered "complex".
Ha. so the reason that I is next to 8 is that early typewriters used the I as a 1(no independent 1 key) and the morse transcription company wanted to type years(1871) quickly. I love it.
It seems from the finer details, a lot might be AI generated, which at least to me would defeat the message about how our interfaces are less human. I'd be very glad to be proven wrong, and it's just the style.
All I ask is the chance to prove it.
I'm happy to hear that and thank you very much!
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It's also making the sleazy and lazy one thrive a bit more, which is quite painful when passionated devs which are also great colleagues don't gain any real leverage from chatgpt.
We humans forget what freedom is, but do we need to be tosed in jails and beaten the shit out of us to remember?
I think "AI makes developers dumb" makes as much sense as "becoming a manager makes developers dumb."

I was an engineer before moving to more product and strategy oriented roles, and I work on side projects with assistance from Copilot and Roo Code. I find that the skills that I developed as a manager (like writing clear reqs, reviewing code, helping balance tool selection tradeoffs, researching prior art, intuiting when to dive deep into a component and when to keep it abstract, designing system architectures, identifying long-term-bad ideas that initially seem like good ideas, and pushing toward a unified vision of the future) are sometimes more useful for interacting with AI devtools than my engineering skillset.

I think giving someone an AI coding assistant is pretty bad for having them develop coding skills, but pretty good for having them develop "working with an AI assistant" skills. Ultimately, if the result is that AI-assisted programmers can ship products faster without sacrificing sustainability (i.e. you can't have your codebase collapse under the weight of AI-generated code that nobody understands), then I think there will be space in the future for both AI-power users who can go fast as well as conventional engineers who can go deep.
Calculators either get you through math you won't use in the real world or can aid in calculating when you know the right formula already.

Calculators don't pretend to think or solve a class of problems. They are pure execution. The comparison in tech is probably compilers, not code.
That is true for classical probability, but the idea that unknown quantities are determining the outcomes in quantum mechanics has been disproven in the event of the speed of light being a true limit on communication speed. This is known as, "Bell's theorem."
Or it makes dumb people become developers ;)
Sorry, my last sentence wasn't formulated well. Yes, a wave with higher amplitude (or one could say "intensity") has a higher energy. The photoelectric effect happens when you shine light with "enough" energy on some material such that the atoms of the material are ionized, i. e. electrons are freed. You need a minimal energy for this and if you use dim light with a low frequency, you will not see the effect. Now, if you increase the frequency of the light, you can measure electrons. If, instead, you make the light brighter, that is, increase the amplitude of the wave (if it were a wave), you don't see electrons. So at least in this experiment, light does not function as a wave.
In the list of things that DiceDB is at the top, you should add "an in-memory database". Pretty critical thing to leave out right at the top.
I fear that history says yes :(
I do agree that it's probably nowhere near the top of the list of issues preventing this thing from working at least as well as conventional drilling technology.

However, anything about radar, ultrasound, or laser ToF would require electronics at the head of this waveguide and a way to communicate data to the surface. From what they're saying, the downhole environment of this thing is going to be very high temperature. Physically vaporizing 100% of the rock to make hole tends to do that. Conventional oilfield electronic tools already have trouble getting the MTBF above a few hundred hours at current downhole temperatures, which are much cooler. It seems likely that no electronics would survive at all at the temperatures they're planning on running.
I morally agree, but not quite: think of the wave function as not more than a bookkeeping device. It does get the job done but be careful to ascribe it too high an ontological status! The path integral formulation seems a lot more natural to me and it does not need a wave function, instead you can derive it and treat it as a bookkeeping device. The way I think about it is that it's an attempt to deterministically model non-deterministic behavior: you "pretend" that the system is deterministic by keeping track of all the possible ways it could have evolved in time. sure enough, once you make a measurement this probability distribution "collapses" and you find out what is actually the case.
Have you though? You're at A, near but not at the first bus depot. If there is a bus that originates at the depot, stops at A and then takes you all the way to B, you get there in 30 minutes. If it only takes you half way to B, you have to go half way, wait there for another bus from a different depot, take it back to that depot and wait for a third bus from the depot to B.

Not only is that slower, having the first bus stop there and turn around instead of going all the way to B hasn't benefited anyone else either. The route from the first depot to the halfway point is still being covered by the same bus route. The interval is determined by how many buses cover that route and not just by its total length, and another bus that covers that section of the route might even go somewhere other than B after reaching the point you'd have had it turn around to go back, also giving a faster option than multiple transfers for people who want to go from A to C. When A, B and C are all high density areas, creating direct routes between them makes sense even if they're each more than 15 minutes apart.
Yes, in general https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_field_theory but also the list of details in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model
Comparison of Frontier Open-Source and Proprietary LLMs for Complex Diagnoses
I use LLMs for generating small chunks of code (less than 150 lines) but I am of the opinion that you should always understand what generated cide is doing. I take time go read through it and make sure it makes sense before I actually run it. I've found that for smaller chunks of code it's usually pretty accurate on the first try. Occasionally it can't figure it out all all, even with trying to massage the prompt to be more descriptive.
The experiment working on clusters of atoms is news to me and I loved getting to know about that. But the thing that really breaks my mind is the experiment that proves that the behavior depends on the possibility of getting information from which slit the particle went through. So we can rule out the act of measurement itself interfering with the behavior of the particle.

They did it by splitting a beam of particles into a pair of entangled particles and then setting up a way to measure the polarity of one of them after the point in time where it even hits the final screen. If you measure the polarity then, after the other stream of particles from the beam had already had time to make the pattern, the pattern will be two clusters. If you don't, it goes back to an interference pattern.

That one really cemented the notion in my head that this is just how the Universe is and not some local weirdness with particles and measurements.
I wonder if there will be enough of a rebellion to Trump to stop him. Sigh.
I lost the past 10 years of my life because of massive mental health damage caused by noise pollution. Started after some seriously shitty neighbors moved next door, with dogs barking for hours without pause, 2 am courtyard parties, blasting music, honking instead than using the doorbell... we managed to move out 2 year later, and got thoroughly screwed by a private airport 3km away that brought small sports planes over us every few minutes up to 8 hours a day most days.

Had to move deep into rural country, giving up all prospects of a decent job, and yet even here there's plenty of noise from dogs, motorbikes etc.

Shitty time to be alive.
AI lowers the bar. You can say Python makes developers dumb too. Or that canned food makes cooks dumb. That’s not really the point though. When something is easier more people can do it. That expansion is biased downward.
If you divide by 0 you’ll get an “E” - LLM will just make something up
Why is it Alexa, not Alex? A century of hard-coded sexism in tech (2022)
But this is exactly what the higher ups want according to Braverman, they will insist on "know-how" being non-existent, and always push to tell workers what they - of course - know of the work, that we peons would ignore.
> Bun’s codebase is massive. It is currently at ~850k lines of Zig code.

I’m an ignorant in zig, but wouldn’t breaking the code up in libraries help?
The models of quantum mechanics have already withstood experiments to a dozen decimal places. You aren't going to find departures just by banging around in your garage; you just can't generate enough precision.

The only way forward at this point is to start with the model and design experiments focusing on some specific element that strikes you as promising. Unless you're staring at the model you're just guessing, and it's practically impossible that you're going to guess right.
Calling VoA “anti-American” is a fascinating bit of spin.

It’s unfortunate the entirety of the press room is full of feckless losers more concerned about their follower counts and engagement numbers than calling these people out for lying, but I guess the US has gotten the “journalists” it deserves.
And .NET
Carbon fibre production via microwave carbonisation
If you think of either crypto or gaming and not accelerated compute for advanced modeling and simulation when you hear Nvidia, you won't have sufficient perspective to answer this question.

What does RTX do, what does it replace, and what does it enable, for whom? Repeat for Physx, etc. Give yourself a bonus point if you've ever heard of Nvidia Omniverse before right now.
also ironic - an article lamenting the way things are so flat and lacking physicality yet it’s jam packed with AI generated art
I'll consider adding that, thanks!
In this scenario, if AI does a not so good job, there will still be good developers left to code.
Then maybe they should've figured out how to keep hard drives in a climate controlled environment before they decided to launch a bank.

https://ncua.gov/newsroom/press-release/2016/internet-archiv...
People say it because it's true for them. User experience is after all highly subjective. I think that the open-source world largely ignores this fact and pretends that if any one person says "good enough for me" then it's done.
I just recently converted my gaming PC to a game streaming system. I considered getting a PiKVM for power/resolving issues remotely but I ended up going with Wake-on-LAN. Though setting it up was a hassle.

If you just need power control and your motherboard supports it, I've seen that some people use smart plugs and enable a setting in their BIOS that turns on the computer whenever it detects power.
sounds like a homestead in the mountains could be one of the solutions.
> Some people might not enjoy writing their own code. If that’s the case, as harsh as it may seem, I would say that they’re trying to work in a field that isn’t for them

Conversely: Some people want to insist that writing code 10x slower is the right way to do things, that horses were always better, more dependable than cares, and that nobody would want to step into one of those flying monstrosities. And they may also find that they are no longer in the right field.
How did you start and what are you getting out of it? Did you get certified?
What modern LLMs are good at is reducing boilerplate for workflows that are annoying and tedious, but b) genuinely save time b) are less likely for a LLM to screw up c) are easy to spot check and identify issues in the event the LLM does mess up.

For example, in one of my recent blog posts I wanted to use Python's Pillow to composite five images: one consisting of the left half of the image, the other four in quadrants (https://github.com/minimaxir/mtg-embeddings/blob/main/mtg_re...). I know how to do that in PIL (have to manually specify the coordinates and resize images) but it is annoying and prone to human error and I can never remember what corner is the origin in PIL-land.

Meanwhile I asked Claude 3.5 Sonnet this:

Write Python code using the Pillow library to compose 5 images into a single image:

1. The left half consists of one image.
2. The right half consists of the remaining 4 images, equally sized with one quadrant each

And it got the PIL code mostly correct, except it tried to load the images from a file path which wasn't desired, but it is both an easy fix and my fault since I didn't specify that.

Point (c) above is also why I despise the "vibe coding" meme because I believe it's intentionally misleading, since identifying code and functional requirement issues is an implicit requisite skill that is intentionally ignored in hype as it goes against the novelty of "an AI actually did all of this without much human intervention."
I'm not sure if there is any literature to this effect, but an institutional arrangement that has known flaws is one in which peers nominate future peers for membership. Academia is an example of this arrangement.

When evaluating whether an institution is accountable, a good default question to ask is, "Is power plural?" In the terminology of the American political order, this is called checks and balances. It's not perfect, but a system of overlapping institutions, whose members are chosen by a plurality of methods and from a plurality of backgrounds, and which have oversight over each other in a loop, are more accountable than unitary institutions.

I'm sure some have attempted to answer this analytically, basically making a "directed power graph" to measure how plural power is, and then correlating that with measures of accountability such as corruption perceptions. This is a huge topic and the second paragraph is my opinion, but that's because I think that's what such an analysis would show.
Actually that would be kind of awesome.
I don’t enjoy writing unit tests but fortunately this is one task LLMs seem to be very good at and isn’t high stakes, they can exhaustively create test cases for all kinds of conditions, and can torture test your code without mercy. This is the only true improvement LLMs have made to my enjoyment.
Was our universe born inside a black hole?
Last time I checked ( a few months back) there was a little package of configurations + plugins / skins that were geared towards tweaking GIMP to be more accessible to people who were familiar with Photoshop -

And it wasn’t perfect, but give credit where credit is due, it was better than it’s ever been, it definitely got me close enough to complete a little photo collage project.
That's so strange as I just assumed most nations were proactive about recruitment as well.

In the US there's a legit effort and many of the benefits like education benefits are great, and transferable in some cases.
yeah, except the url shortener is being used for it’s usual functionality here, and they’re killing it. They’re not just “changing a workflow” they’re killing every poor soul who relies on it.
The article is quite a bit smarter (if a bit long) than this comment. "The first duty of your documentation is to be complete and correct". The source code satisfies this demand. It is complete and it truly describes the product in all its details. But now we are stuck in 'act 1' of the article. So maybe we need some more helpful hints. O wait, there is an article called 'Teach, Don't Tell' that provides these helpful hints.
I'd love to be able to do something with this, but I am struggling to get TempleOS to work in a VM, so I am a bit stuck. Intrigued, though!
Most Externalities Are Solved with Technology, Not Coordination
I was mildly interested in poetry as an adolescent, and "discovering" Poe in the English original (I was only aware of bad translations) had quite an impact on my young, impressionable brain. I still have large parts of "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee" memorized, 20 years later. After Poe, it was hard for me to take writers seriously who just inserted line breaks into prose texts and called it poetry.
This is a public forum and anyone can reply to anyone else… if you want to post a message to someone privately, you can always use email
How'd that go in China? Robot-burger flipping always seemed cool. With the level of automation they otherwise employ, why isn't McDonald's doing it yet?
Humble craftsmen have long been getting replaced by automation and technology. Devs are resisting the same way as everyone else did before them but it's futile.

It's just especially poignant/painful because developers are being hoisted by their own petard, so to speak.
I require the email address primarily to reduce spam as it discourages most people who don't want to give real feedback. and I plan to release a feature later for some kind of communication between the board owner and the feedback giver and I will need the email for that.

About the email: I use Resend. Could you give me the board ID and a time when you requested a magic link, then I'd be happy to take a look at it. Sorry for the little problem, it shouldn't happen :D
It’s probably healthier to just move on, at least that was what it was for me when I was let go during the Great Recession when the company when bankrupt and reneged on severance paying only the legal requirements.
I also love building things. LLM-assisted workflows have definitely not taken this away. If anything, it has only amplified my love for coding. I can finally focus on the creative parts only.

That said, the author is probably right that it has made me dumber or at least less prolific at writing boilerplate.
Wouldn't the time before the big bang be ... effectively black hole-ish?
I will bite. Correct question would be:

What do you think is the big difference between these tools and *outsourcing*?

AI is far more comparable to delegating work to *people*.
Calculators and compilers are deterministic. Using them doesn't change the nature of your work.

AI, depending on how you use it, gives you a different role. So take that as a clue: if you are less interested in building things and more interested into getting results, maybe a product management role would be a better fit.
The Growing Battle over How to Define a 'Podcast'
There's no reason a legitimate parental control app would ever need to hide its presence. Any "parental control" app with such a feature is actually meant for domestic abusers.
Those who do will in the first place have to be actual Libertarians. Most "libertarians" are Trumpies who somehow don't like calling themselves Trumpies and gladly support censorship and so on of "others". A very few of Libertarians are actually Libertarian, and they might or might not regret Trump today or at some future date.
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This feels like a submarine ad for a newsletter about getting laid off.
The USA appears to be destroying much of the 'soft power' that it spent decades building. And it cost a tiny amount compared to the 'hard power' of the military. As an outsider, it seems very short sighted.

The BBC is also cutting jobs in the BBC World Service, which seems similarly short sighted. But I don't think the cuts are as far reaching as the US ones:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpql1vvdn58o
This is the new technology is always better argument that invoked the imagery of all the times I was true and ignores all the products that have been disposed of.

The truth is it depends on every detail. What technology. For who. When.
I remember spending my whole years (part-time) work salary on an Amiga 4000 in 1993 or 94. I miss that computer. But man, my then girlfriend (now wife) was pretty horrified that I spent so much money on a computer… I don’t remember what other plans she had for my money, haha.
Religion, Perceptions of Scientists' Moral Culture, and Support for Science