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I think it far more likely that we have an intelligence collapse.

If AI becomes good enough to replace intelligence workers (pretty sure it won't anytime soon, but let’s pretend) what’s the incentive to be intelligent?

Once being smart isn’t marketable, who’s going to study?

Once it doesn’t pay, who’s going to go to college?

Any gain humanity gets from offloading thinking to machines is offset by us doing less thinking.

It’s why “computer” is no longer a profession all by itself.
Theoretically - yes, practically, on average, any of the things you’ve listed is far, far, far more complex than your average frontend that is basically glue between “real” logic and user.
Congratulations on your launch!
Super interesting to see all of the technical documentation behind it.
Oh wow yes, you made me remember I didn't much like that. Money was tight as a teenager and it always hurt a little to "spend" floppy disks on multiple copies.
I meant red(dead). Also losing a lot of valuation after jacking up to that point is not fun.

Also a business paying $1M/year in cloud bill is neither poor nor tiny. We have very different definition of tiny and poor.

Meta is very well suited in this AI race and will prevail well. Others will cut some loss and throw some ashes sometime soon.
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I am also creating a Log viewer in a single HTML file (like Splunk, but a bit smaller). Pure JavaScript with no dependencies makes it runnable and integratable everywhere, which is nice.

https://github.com/dobin/SemiDataSieve
Not sure what you mean with fundamental. As mentioned in the thread parent comment links to, the issue lies in enforced limits and lack* of general mechanism available to developers to allow background execution for any kind of app or/and purpose. No one said iOS itself lacks the functionality for background execution.

*In the same thread, it is noted that this lack is by choice and special-purpose mechanisms are preferred instead to prevent abuse.
Great read, but I honestly had wished the author had split it into several separate articles.
I can't help but think that there must be some arbitrage opportunity there: massive companies hire top notch engineers and all make them waste their time in (commute to/from) offices.

What if someone comes along and is like "I'm going to provide the exact same service, but without offices and everybody works from home".

That company would have a competitive edge, because: people from the established company would have a reason to work for WFH company instead, WFH company would have significantly less expenses (more profits/budgets).

Does the fact that WFH is not a thing mean that in the real world, for most people, coming to the office IS actually more efficient? Or does this just need more time? I'm honestly not sure, but I've sure been tempted to start a competitor to very silly old fashion "you shall come here and sit at a computer where I can see you" type companies.
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Avoid it totally. Social media has some of the lowest effectiveness by far, and they punish traffic going outwards. They're ad platforms, not organic.

Most of the people you see on social media probably are using another channel that's more effective. You see the one guy go viral when they've already built a following via media, email, forums, streamers, past games and so on.

The exception that seems to work is if you have a community or link to media coverage.
Does it make a readable HTML if Javascript was to be disabled?

edit: yup it does. Can use Ctrl + S to save via browser too instead of the save icon. Nice work.

I wanted to make/have something like this [1] and got claude to get something close as a PoC.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42464740
Another video, from a different angle:

https://www.reddit.com/r/serbia/comments/1jchks6/novi_snimci...
What people in general don't realize is that "left" and "right" are nonsense words with no coherent relationship to modern politics. For example, are dictatorial totalitarians the right or the left? Notice that this category includes both Hitler and Stalin.

More retirees vote for Republicans than Democrats and then Republicans tend to do things like expand Medicare (e.g. Medicare Part D). Does that mean Republicans are on the left? They also seem to have few qualms about interfering in the market when it suits them, e.g. to subsidize oil companies with tax dollars. Is belief in free markets the left wing position or the right wing position? If it's the right wing position, doesn't that mean subsidizing oil companies with tax dollars is a left-wing activity?

You can define "left" as Democrats and "right" as Republicans, but then the US tautologically has both a left party and a right party. Or you can try to define "left" and "right" in some independent way, in which case the US doesn't have a left party or a right party because it basically has two kleptocrat parties each representing a different set of bandits.
Thanks so much for the kind words. I really enjoyed writing the documentation.
There's another factor here I forgot to mention - web development, as a specialization, tends to be paid less and has a lower career ceiling in many companies than backend and infra engineering. This is a personal observation on my part but I've seen many other people remark on this. True full stack engineering, I think, is reasonably safe from the robots at the moment.

If someone likes building products, I'd basically recommend that they not go 100% full-bore on frontend engineering, definitely go for "full-stack", and accept that a lot of frontend code is trivia that you can just ask the LLM for these days. I would also recommend that they develop solid product management and UX skills.
I certainly lifted all the hexagon logic for mine straight from that page.

Spent so much time trying to do suboptimal things until I just followed all the advice there…
Ah yep that does explain it well.
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Anxiety wouldn't allow me to go for a break without locking my workstation first.
I’m not sure I agree it’s entirely measurable. Often when something becomes more productive at the expense of something, that something is the comfort of being in the place or the friendliness of the staff or… and these things are intrinsically tough to measure. Not unmeasurable I suppose, but challenging by comparison.
thanks, this encourages me to explore it more
Just like we study the “Crash of 1929”, our kids will study the “bubbles economy”:

- Internet bubble 2001,
- Blockchain bubble 2021,
- AI bubble 2025,

(Omitting 2008 and Covid because they’re not startup-related).

Am I wrong or are they bubbling faster?
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> Does the fact that WFH is not a thing mean that in the real world, for most people, coming to the office IS actually more efficient?

I don't think the labor market is efficient to such a degree that we can draw this conclusion. Lots of startups are doing this, but it takes time, capital and luck to achieve the success of the big corporate competitors, which have a huge amount of middle management who hate WFH.
what disqualified this model for me (I mostly use llms for codding) was 12% score in aider benchmark (https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/)
Look interesting, but seems like it's Linux only. And closed source.
No one cares. If I wanted to know what an LLM thinks, I'd ask it myself.
> The author doesn't seem to interrogate this assumption.

Neither do my senior leaders, so it might as well be true.
Better known as "boss key": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key
I like this kind of simple tooling - I built a simple custom “homepage”/dashboard the other day: https://github.com/rcarmo/onepage-by-spec
Certainly. Front-end and UX skills go together. Front-end dev as a beginner → UX → PM later, would provide the same salary as back-end dev -> DevOps / K8s.
Yes that is my point.

If you want to prevent such alternatives from existing, you'd need fairly authoritarian measures.
Yeah the research result and IP should belong to the public commons, if the initial researchers get a head start with exploiting the IP im fine with that.
It’s also been used as a self-justification by the likes of Sam Bankman-Fried, who exemplifies the qualities I mentioned above.

It’s clearly a very flexible philosophy that “smart people” can use to justify pretty much whatever, and given the presence of such people as SBF and cronies, certainly doesn’t support the notion that it’s a great thing for “smart people” to get rich, or really that we should expect that to be any more than neutral.

“Smart People” can be scumbags, and some prominent EA folks were, all the while shouting about how good they were.
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That doesn’t answer the question really, does it? What proportion of users use paid apps?

I can easily find those figures on App Store revenue you gave, and on the proportion of paid apps in the app stores (5% on iOS, less for Android), but not the details on distribution of payments vs number of users or whatever. Do we have a few users spending a lot and lot of users spending little to nothing? Or am I in a tiny minority as implied?

Given there are approx 1.38 billion iOS users, that’s a mean of $60ish per user per year… a few larger users could easily be skewing that.
What do you mean WFH is not a thing? Since the pandemic it's a huge thing.
> SUSE, via its SUSE Multi-Linux Support, formerly Liberty Linux, will support your “obsolete” Linux distro. This support is available for standalone servers and on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

So this is what's enhanced. I wonder if IBM has something to say about this.
> A simple index card taped to the last milk carton in a row stating, “Bring me to Kasia.” That’s it.

A callback to indicate completion. Would have been better if the index card was taped to a carton towards the end, but still a few cartons remaining, to provide sufficient advance notice to restock.
Didn’t downvote you, but I don’t see any value in posting a copy/paste from Claude.

You’re not saving me any meaningful time or doing something I couldn’t. It is not worth a post IMO
I think the coloring should remain more-less consistent when changing the number of iterations. Can be done with actually scaling iteration thresholds relative to the max iteration.
"Focuses on" does not mean "exclusively undertakes".

Hence "I focus on enjoying life more than chasing money" does not imply "I don't do anything for money". It does not preclude me from engaging in paid activities. It simply means they are not the main priority.

So pointing out that I have earned money is not a contradiction of my claim.

The comment seems to be entirely ignorant of the basic semantics of "focus".
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As someone who is studying maths at the moment I don’t recognise this picture at all. Every resource I learn from stresses the practical motivation for things. My book of odes is full of problems involving liquids mixing, pollution dispersing through lakes, etc, my analysis book has a whole big thing about heat diffusion to justify Fourier analysis, the course I’m following online uses differential equations in population dynamics to justify eigenvalues etc.
I'd personally try to stay away from anything built this way, if I can get a whiff of it (and it's not super hard to find the slop right now). But, even if learn to agree on this for the share of throwaway apps or internal tools that might not need sophistication or care, my point was that the same take applies to the backend side as well and I'd argue that's a more at-risk domain since data is usually in a serializable format to be fed into LLMs and doesn't have the challenges of visual input.
It's really not that hard, just start the way you mean to continue. My children went to McDonalds twice in their youth, once for a party and once on a road trip with no other options. We would take them to the cinema and walk right past the food and drinks. Whilst other parents took their kids to the sweet shop after school we went right to the park.

There were no complaints because they didn't know any different.

Clearly a lot of parents don't do this sort of thing but that doesn't make it impossible. We were far from alone.
There is also the danger of being successful and then acquired by a big tech.

You will then be folded into the organisation, maybe the initially hired staff will retain certain perks but they will be eroded with time, and new joiners to the project would never be afforded the same.
There's also a sort-of-middle-ground here. There are trolleybusses which also have batteries, and can operate as regular busses where no overhead power is available. Basically you get continuous charge on parts of the route, while also being able to operate in other areas. Granted, this works for cities which already have trolleybus infrastructure in place.
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I distrust those benchmarks after working with sonnet for half a year now. Many OpenAI models beat Sonnet on paper. This seems to be the case because it's strength (agent, visual, caching) aren't being used, I guess? Otherwise there is no explanation why it's not constantly on top. I have tried so many times to use other models for various tasks, not only coding. The only thing where OpenAI accelerates is analytic tasks at a much higher price. Everything else sonnet works for me the best and Gemini Flash 2.0 for cost effective and latency relevant tasks.

In practice this perception of mine seems to be valid: https://openrouter.ai/models?order=top-weekly

The same with this model. It claims to be good at coding but it seriously isn't compared to sonnet. Funny enough it isn't being tested against.
Back in the days, I figured that Nethack would be too obvious so I went for MUDs (online multiplayer text adventure) instead. Except you need to connect somewhere in order to play. Hopefully, I had a device on which I could randomize the MAC address and IP, so if someone was monitoring outgoing connections they could have a harder time to figure out who it was.

I didn't do that long enough to really put it to the test, though. Eventually I switched to working on side projects instead, which look similar to what I was normally doing. And worst case scenario, I could argue that it is for training or something, which wouldn't entirely be a lie.
And bicycles! A bike path takes half the width of a single car lane, there is absolutely no excuse not to have a network of bike paths almost everywhere there is a road. Literally just throw concrete barriers on one of the outermost lanes and you're most of the way there.

The impact this has on the quality of life of everyone, but particularly those that can't/won't drive, is enormous.
There are actually some clever approaches to eval abstractive summarization.

Examples: https://eugeneyan.com/writing/evals/#summarization-consisten...
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Never underestimate the power of colour on a terminal.

Back when I was first becoming an adminsys, colour in the terminal was pretty rare. Emoji's certainly didn't exist even as a concept in the west at that point either.

However, a senior sysadmin on my team said "when you're writing your management scripts, remember to add colour codes if things are good or if they are not good. Managers freaking love that". He was incredibly right, and though the development team avoided colour codes (they can mess with things like stdout redirection) the admin team leaned into them- and the managers lapped it up like crazy.

"Red bad" is a universal language in our culture, and it makes managers feel like they understand, I guess.
The problem of rural communities having no power is, I think mostly a non issue across most of europe.

Having most of the electrical grid already it makes no sense to scale it back or not connect the few not connected communities

I'm not arguing against renewable I'm arguing against the idea that in most of europe it would be better to use small grids instead of an european wide big grid.

Hydrostorage is cheap if it provides enough energy for more than one small community, having the ability to balance energy production and needs across europe is easier than being at the mercy of local weather.

A good example for that is austria, where the grid has a problem where a better connection between east and west is not finished/buid because of discussions about environmental impact.

This leads to overproduction in one place which can't be transferred to places that need electricity.

https://kommunal.at/wir-haben-ein-strom-problem
After 20 years working in and around London in IT I empathise. Thx for sharing this story.
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Voice of America, if anyone else wondered and had to google. Closing it will reduce the USA's soft power in the world and make it easier for China, Iran and Russia to step in.
Gold is not analogous to trading.

If you subscribe to the theory that markets allocating capital based on supply and demand is beneficial for society (even if detrimental sometimes in the short term), then traders provide the utility of contributing to the proper allocation of resources in society (which is constantly in flux).

The fact that smart people opt to go into trading (or selling advertising) rather than research is a consequence of government underpaying scientists (or the volatility is too high, or the path to quality of life at work is too low).

Either way, if the situation is that society needs more scientists or doctors or whatever, then the government should be paying more to incentivize those choices.
Thank you for this feedback. The first part of what I said was right and backed up by facts.

For the second part, I heard it on a podcast but couldn't find proof, so I removed that part - about government funded data centers.

Your focus on facts is what makes this group so good. Thank you for keeping our talks honest.
Didn’t invidious stop working?
Fired on the spot when I walk in and ask what is that.
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That’s an unpopular opinion but given more than a decade of remote work experience I’d say: yes, people are less efficient in remote environment (on average).

The „on average” is key however. I’d say that most of the people don’t understand the cost of remote work until it hits them and simply not all can bear that cost.

It’s not like people are unwilling (occasionally you can find slackers) but it’s more often things like issues caused by functioning without micromanagement (which is the case in many companies), problem with written communication skills, communication process not efficient for remote work (e.g. water cooler knowledge share which is foundational for people breaks without water cooler) etc.

Then there’s self-drive requirement that can easily be extinguished by home conflicts, non-prepped environment or depression coming from isolation and lack of physical movement. Efficient teams are more difficult to create when there is no space for people to bond over non-work (team pizza/social events)

From my experience, both remote work proponents and opponents are right with their arguments but the crowd cannot be generalized. Some will suck at the desk, some will suck in remote.

As for „sit where I can see you” - that’s a standard offshoring practice, nothing new. You do get to the point of „who watches the watchers” conundrum sooner or later ;)
It may be short as the crow flies but incredibly unsafe due to e.g. having no sidewalk or having to cross 6 lanes of traffic. When everything is designed around the car it's no wonder people have no choice but to drive.
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"The drive died on me with absolutely no warning signs,…"

Except for the drive killed by the dropped manual, that's essentially what happened to the others—about a dozen or so. They just stopped working, either they wouldn't start on boot or they'd just become inaccessible during operation. I wasn't alone, others I know had the same issues. They were an unmitigated disaster, it beats me how they ever made it to market. (All were replaced under warranty with other brands.) BTW, I never lost any data as I used Tandberg QIC tape streamers for backups.

Incidentally, the drive killed by the manual was only 20MB. If I recall correctly the largest Connor drive I used was only 40MB.

Did you ever attempt to recover the data from that drive by way of a data recovery service or such?
Is this the way to get your boss buy you a faster computer?
Kimi sadly only allows signup through WeChat, wish they fixed that so I can try it
Then make it so one does not have to sacrifice their 20s and harm their health to become one.

Expand the number of medical schools, the number of residency positions, etc. Reduce tuition or pay graduates and residents more. Reduce unnecessary learning requirements so that one can expect to have a life and become a surgeon. Reform tort law.

None of these are under the purview of trading firms or the people that work there.
If you are doing CRUD simple data apps, I don’t get why your backend will be complicated. Sure the industry has complicated stuff (aws & friends) for complexity sake but that doesn’t mean you have to go down that rabbit hole.

Front-End is complex which is why we have 36362 libraries to solve the same problem and still move user interfaces sucks.
I wouldnt even drive a Tesla if it was given to me for free. Thats pretty easy to compete with.
Existing infrastructure is designed for & can be used for hydrocarbons with varying levels of hydrogen in their molecular structure; I don't believe there's an issue there. Most of the H2 in town gas is in the form of hydrocarbons, which are less reactive than pure H2, even if there's a relatively high percentage of H2 in the mix (as the H2 is strongly bound to the carbon). Embrittlement is definitely an issue for more than just storage tanks.