skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really hard to accurately assess the possibilities granted by LLMs, because they just feel like they have so much potential.

But ultimately I think Satya Nadella is right. We can speculate about the potential of these technologies all we want, but they are now here. If they are of value, then they'll start to significantly move the needle on GDP, beyond just the companies focused on creating them.

If they don't, then it's hype.
Previous discussions with notable engagement:

- Feb 2023, 284pts, 64 comments: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34946811>

- March 2023, 115pts, 37 comments: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35338074>

- April 2021, 507pts, 172 comments: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26911399>

- September 2017, 427pts, 79 comments: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15198093>

Worth noting that there are changes on a regular basis: <https://github.com/beejjorgensen/bgc>
I worry about the cultural shift in Tech to "what have you done for me lately" over patient innovation. Due to no more ZIRP, due to a shift to very top-down management, narcissistic CEO bros, and the new focus to please investors over all else... There's little appetite for actual innovation, which would require IMO a different culture and much more trust between management and employees. So instead, there's top-down AI death marches to "innovate" because that's the current trend.

But who is DEFINING the trend? Who is actually trying to stand out and do something different?

There's glimmers of hope in tiny bootstrapped startups now. That seems to be the sweet spot of not needing to obsess about investor sentiment, and instead focus on being lean and having a small team with the trust to actually try new things. Though this time with a focus early profitability where they can dictate terms to investors, not the other way around.
So they decided to just ignore the patent problem? Fair, I guess, that’s what other open source projects do.

Why hasn’t canonical been sued by MPEG-LA et.al? Are they no redistributing compiled FFMPEG for commercial purpose?
It's common for Asian people, especially Asian men, to work like hell for their parents and children, and not really think about what other life choices they have.

That's caused by social values and expectations – people think you are disrespectful to your parents if you don't provide them and carry on the family name.

That happened to my dad too. He worked really hard for his family, but as his child, it is crystal clear to me that he doesn't enjoy childcare.

The situation is improving as the new generation puts more focus on their own life. But it's still a long way to go.
The mistake here is equating Putin to Trump. One is a mastermind and the other is a puppet.
>Of course, they could have been lying at that point, in order to gain interest I suppose , but they were pretty outspoken about that idea at least in the beginning.

I don't see how those notions contradict each other when it's all to get funding.
They sort of have. I'm using a 7900xtx, which has 24gb of vram. The next competitor would be a 4090, which would cost more than double today; granted, that would be much faster.

Technically there is also the 3090, which is more comparable price wise. I don't know about performance, though.

VRAM is supply limited enough that going bigger isn't as easy as it sounds. AMD can probably sell as much as they get their hands on, so they may as well still more GPUs, too.
No!

"Computer Science" != "Science with a Computer"

"Computer science" (in contrast to software engineering) is the science that looks into the properties of computers and thing related to it (algorithms, database systems). E.g. examining those systems on a scientific level. Depending on how abstract that can have more or less direct input on how to engineer systems in their software/hardware implementations.

"Science with a computer" on the other hand are usually (in terms of majors/academic disciplines) taught in the adjecent subfields: Bioinformatics, Chemoinformatics, Computational biology, etc.. Of course basic computing is also on some level seeping into every science subfield.
It looks like VVC (H.266) will be significantly better compared to HVEC and AV1.
But due to the patent issues it'll bound to have, I suspect common usage will practically be nonexistent, just like HVEC.
I didn't study Engineering. I work in Germany and all my software positions said literally "Engineer" in the contract (both in German and English version). Maybe if it is in English it's not illegal who knows.
The software industry as a whole generates trillions of dollars every year. The current state of AI makes coders significantly more efficient and it’s only getting better.

It’s easily worth trillions with just normal speculation.
>Well, yeah, real unions tend to have more than one issue.

They also have other issues. My friends municipal power and water union actually fought management to remove WFH. It is composed of line workers and computer workers, with line workers being the majority. The line workers essentially thought it was unfair that computer/office workers could WFH while their work was in person, and bargained remove it from company policy.

IMO, a lot of problems arise from the way US union law is structured to favor entire workplaces or workforces. This leads to contested unionization votes to create the union, and once you have them, it creates monopoly effects and lots of internal politics.
Web apps run on everything. If it's good enough for your needs, just do that.
Hosting is never hard. It's about maintainability. How do you handle HA? How will you expose the service? What about backups? How efficiently are you running it? That's just the tip of the iceberg. For an average joe, this is not something they wanna deal with
> it’s simply too hard to distribute software even to your own devices, let alone someone else’s

As the author said multiple times, again, this isn't new. That developer pushback hasn't resulted in any meaningful change to the developer experience over the years, speaks volumes of where the company's allegiances lie.
There's research that has shown that stress in the early years of life delays development of the hippocampus - and without sufficiently developed hippocampus you can't have these kinds of memories.

So the generalization ("all kids") is wrong, but some people, being exposed to toxins or stress sources (fetal alcohol syndrome, cigarettes, lead, premature birth, asthma, ...), can really only develop memories later. 10 years is a bit much, though...
It took over two weeks to triage on Vercel’s side after disclosure. How is that “good”?
Abliterated? Alliterated LLMs might be fun though…
My friend's father used a notebook for all logins and passwords, he used phrases for most with some exceptions. He started doing this before password managers were a thing in the late 90s. When he died a few years ago, his family had access to everything.
Because they want people to connect online.
> I guess they are trying to be the Apple of the AI world...

iOS and MacOS are apple's moat, OpenAI has Altman's big mouth and all those nonsense from that big mouth.
The Netherlands may have a per capita GDP of (only) $65000, but people tend to forget that we work on average 5.5h a day.

Compared to the US’s $65875, and 6.7h worked on average.
> Get your bloodwork checked again after a month and proceed from there

As someone who's had a vitamin D deficiency, your serum vitamin d levels will almost certainly vary month to month as a result of the weather.
Where are they promising it then? Board meetings? I don't think lying (or creating unsubstantiated truthyness) is the same as saying the quiet part out loud.
It's looking a lot like it'll mostly be a tiny bits of value scattered around all over, amounting to quite a bit all together, but little in the way of acute disruption of... anything. Aside from ruining some things, as you note.

The supposed Jobs quip about Dropbox being a "feature, not a company" comes to mind.
Europe has SEPA for instant value transfer, they do not need paypal. AT Protocol can replace X, no need for Europe to have their own X ("protocols, not platforms"). Europe can eventually build EVs faster and/or better (~20 moving parts in a drivetrain) and improved space vehicles when they're ready, they're not trying to live on Mars.

What has US tech built that Europe needs? Europe has services and great quality of life, the US has performance art capitalism paperclip maximizing for shareholder returns and is a third world country [1] [2] [3], broadly speaking. The race is not what you think it is. What are you building for? To just keep grinding or building? Or for people to live happy, healthy lives at scale? Engineering is fun, and leads to progress, but it is a means to an end, not the point of life.

[1] https://worldhappiness.report/

[2] https://dashboards.sdgindex.org/rankings

[3] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/a-visual-breakdown-of-who-o...
I'm not sure if EE stands for electrical engineering or Eastern Europe. Either way, I'd get a degree from a well-known school in the field you wish to work. I don't have an online degree so I can't recommend from experience, but that's my advice as a hiring manager. Berkeley's MAS, which has specializations in robotics, electronics, and electronics, is $42k+:

https://www.coursera.org/degrees/mas-engineering-berkeley

The CS program rankings are roughly https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-sch...

I suggest reviewing the curricula before applying.
It's so surreal, because we've watched this one evolve in real time. Anti-vax was not a mainstream conservative position even five years ago. You were much more likely to hear it from progressives, as an anti-corporate and anti-big-pharma position.

I think that's where RFK Jr. started from. He was rejected by progressives, and eventually conservatives welcomed him.

In just five years we went from "COVID is not a problem" to "We don't need a COVID vaccine" to "The new COVID vaccine must be bad" to "all vaccines are bad". It didn't even take five years; it was really set by 2022.

It was never a conservative goal before that, and you were much more likely to hear conservatives pretend that it was a mainstream liberal position by highlighting the small number of celebrity dimwits. Surely somebody is out recruiting Jenny McCarthy for CPAC.
Software should be written robustly, and libraries shouldn't keep changing their APIs and ABIs. It's a shame some people who call themselves developers have forgotten that. Also you're assuming that distro packagers don't care, which is certainly not true. We are then ones who get to triage the bugs.
I remember what a revolution web apps were in the 1990s. Web applications "just work" without any installing or updating, for one thing.

Many software firms that made software for Windows had a full-time installer engineer. The story has gotten much better but enterprises still struggle to keep desktop software up to date. Talk about fighting with the app store.
> Fast distance computation using SIMD (AVX) instructions

cool to see this. however, really missing benchmarks to compare to Redis, Vertex, Elastic, FAISS
I imagine it wouldn't be for the system admins to use, it's for all the other users who can use terminal applications but always treat ssh keys as a nuisance and try to avoid them as much as possible.
Some of the parties involved are known for long-cons, shameless backstabbing, and generally ruthless self-interest.

So I would wouldn't be surprised if the "open" and "non-profit" was just a thin PR veneer from the start.

It would also explain how values consistent with their supposed mission seem to have been zero consideration in hiring. (Given that, during what looked like a coup, almost all of those hires lined up to effectively say they would discard the values in exchange for more money.)
A nice GH project for this: https://github.com/friendly-bits/geoip-shell?tab=readme-ov-f...
> Surveys confirm that for many workers, AI tools like ChatGPT reduce their productivity

I'm pretty suspicious of that survey (the one that always gets cited as proof that Copilot makes developers less productive, which then inevitably gets used to argue that all generative AI makes developers left productive): https://resources.uplevelteam.com/gen-ai-for-coding

If I was running a company like https://uplevelteam.com/ that sells developer productivity metrics software, one of the smartest marketing moves I could make would be to put out a report that makes a bold, contrarian claim about a hot topic like AI coding productivity. Guaranteed to get a ton of press coverage from that.

Is the survey itself any good? I filled in the "request a copy" form and it's a two page infographic! Precious few confirmable details on how they actually ran it: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2025/uplevel-genai-p...

Here's what they say about their methodology:

> Metrics were evaluated prior to implementation of Copilot from January 9 through April 9, 2023 versus after implementation from January 8 through April 7, 2024. This time period was selected to remove the effects of seasonality.

> Data on Copilot access was provided to Uplevel Data Labs across several enterprise engineering customers for a total of 351 developers in the TEST group (with Copilot access) and 434 in the CONTROL group (without Copilot access). The developers in the CONTROL group were similar to those in the TEST group in terms of role, working days, and PR volume in each period.
We use both, in different circumstances
Wirecutter (NYT) would agree: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/the-best-dishwash...

Requisite archive.ph link: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/the-best-dishwash...
Steam's "app" store seems pretty good to me. Not to mention other app stores for game consoles such as Xbox, PS, and Nintendo as well as the Meta Quest.

If the Play store is bad it's because Android is bad, not because the store is bad in and of itself.

I had decent experiences with the app store back in my Salesforce days, as much as that seems a different life.
Even if I was programming Starship's flight computers, I would miss my family too much to work more than 40 hours per week.

Regardless of really believing in their work, people want to have time with their loved ones.
I'm having a hard time following you. All I'm saying is, I believe that all other things being equal, a more simple architecture with fewer tiers, layers, network servers, and moving parts will tend to require fewer people than a less simple architecture with more tiers, layers, network servers, and moving parts. If you're saying that isn't true in a hyper-growth startup then I guess I'll have to take your word for it as I've never worked in a hyper-growth startup (only in glacial-growth non-startups).
Yes, 90% of the world’s population does not absorb dietary vitamin D well, which should make people skeptical of this result.
The trick is knowing what the optimum settings are to use.. with h.265 as you lower the bitrate it smooths more and more and you lose detail. h.264 does blocking instead, so there is an image quality difference.
Exact same experience—first pair from 2008 lasted over three years of heavy use (running on mostly pavement) and each replacement has barely survived one or two years.
> Music in the 70s/80s were more about romance

> today is more about sex and drugs

I mean I think you're just being very selective about, well, both eras.

There were plenty of lyrics about sex and drugs in the 70s and 80s. Some of them quite disturbing (I'm still slightly traumatised by Spotify serving me what I _thought_ was "Ca plane pour moi" but was actually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_Boy,_Jet_Girl a while back - it's the same tune, but... very different lyrics). And there's plenty of fluff in the 21st century.
Thanks anal_reactor, solid theory!
Yes, it seems to be the same progression. This blog post covers my progression from the minimalist beginnings:

https://benhouston3d.com/blog/building-an-agentic-code-from-...

My chronology can be summarized as:

Phase 1:

- Add async shell commands with input/output/status checking/kill - combines all of the required functionality.

- text editing that can read/write sub-blocks, rather than whole files. But not multiple files yet (but I can look into that now.)

- Add fetch

- Add browser tools with async input/output

- Add sub-agents (to reduce context, send them on research tasks or other sub-tasks to report back.)

Phase 2:

- Github mode (basically prompt it to use git and gh cli tools in its workflows)

- Github action integration (run automatically on the cloud in response to triggers)

- Token caching (reduce costs by 80%)

I will check out your planning stage. I've been having my tool run off GitHub issues so I get it to write a plan there and then implement, which is sort of the same thing in a way.
> requires C (or C++) compile

so this is just FFI into C? hm...
Just an anecdote, my father when he was younger used to be a great driver. He would drive all around Europe on our vacations, in capital cities (e.g. Paris) with nothing but a tourist map (mother holding the map) and his eyes and ears.

Places I wouldn't really like to drive myself today because of the difficulty (Italy etc.).

For many years he's been using GPS to assist him, first TomTom then iPhone and now his new car has CarPlay.

He's a much worse driver today, constantly distracted, constantly looking at the screen instead of his surroundings and actually learning, using his brain.

I myself like to ride MTB in the woods, I know all the trails and small features in the back of my head. I'm aware of my surroundings and it just sticks without any effort over the years.

I have friends I ride with who use a trail map on their phone or bike computer, many years later they still don't know the trails because they're always looking at their devices.

Sometimes we stop to "have a look" where the fork in the trail goes, drives me mad when it interrupts the flow of the ride.

This is what AI feels to me in many ways.

It's a double-edged sword.
That's just moving the problem elsewhere. Since the smallest possible value is a possible value, then it may be present in the array, or it may not actually be present in the array. The caller would have to determine which case is which by testing for the length of the array, which if done, negates the entire utility of returning the smallest possible value.
... worry?
Always take magnesium with vit D. Ask an LLM why.
Sales: "look, I turned this off and sales went way up"

Security: "We had to cancel every single one of those sales because they came from stolen credit cards. It's costing us more to deal with that then we are earning"
DKIM is not meant to block spam, it's meant to authenticate that the sender had access to the private key for the public key exposed on the domain that it was sent from, implying that the sender has sufficient permissions to send from the domain.

It should not be used to imply anything else, none of these have anything to do with spam, that's reputation (and yes, having DKIM set-up boosts your reputation but it is not sufficient) and should be "built" up by the domains sending the emails.
I see it as a case of forced decentralisation leading to bad incentives. When you had few NHS trusts covering entire UK, you could easily handle common issues because their scale matched close enough to cover entire vertical slice.

Now you have trusts cut in size creating incentives against cooperation if only because of how funding is going to be arranged, and even if there's centralised service like NHS Digital... it's not the entity that is going to fight for budget for trust-local employee training and support needs.
If I look at Nvidia stock from mid-June of last year, or the IYW index (Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google) - NVDA is down 10%, IYW is down maybe 2-3%. It doesn't feel like I'm in the middle of a huge bubble like, say, the beginning of 2000.
> But the reaction to Stargate was muted as Silicon Valley had turned its attention west. A new generative AI model called DeepSeek R1, released by the Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer, sent a threatening tremor through the balance sheets and investment portfolios

You gotta love how this paragraph reads like an unfolding battle scene from a Tolkien novel.
Ed Zitron is trying to be a wittier Kara Swisher, which means there is near zero signal in the anti-tech noise. Which is a shame because he has the talent to be something else.
I watched the automated challenges to balls and strikes during a spring training game and thought it was relatively quick. I’m much more concerned about a proposed change that isn’t being tested this spring: the Golden At Bat, which will allow each manager to, once per game, substitute the batter of his choice without regard for the batting order. I pray the baseball gods prevent MLB from even testing it out in spring training.
A big problem is to what extent do future business models disrupt the public perception that AI is "objective" or unbiased, a perception that is often itself the product of these companies' own marketing. When the very results of a prompt to an agent/LLM, such as ChatGPT, are suspected of profit/corporate interests over accuracy, why would anyone use it over the dozen other players in the field? This is precisely the thing that has soured google search results.
I think the distinction is evident in the words themselves. Coding creates code, programming creates programs.

If you write code but it doesn't create a program (i.e. you are just recording data) then you're coding but not programming.

Likewise, if you create a program without writing any code (for example, the way a pilot programs routes into his nav computer, or the way you can program a modern thermostat to have specific temperatures at specific times of the day) you're programming but not coding.
I’m fairly certain this is because nobody feels the need to, combined with a dose of old money.
Only if you assume that everyone claiming this is _correct_, or more specifically that they're incorrect when they're young and correct when they're old (this is usually something primarily claimed by old people).

Cato the Elder used to moan about this a lot. Society is clearly better now by any conceivable measure in any developed country than it was in his day.
Empire Builder
The real problem is that coding is more like being a great musician than a traditional engineer.

It's like telling Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, George Benson, or Wes Montgomery that they're not qualified to teach at a music conservatory because they lack formal diplomas. Sure, technically they're not "certified," but put them next to your average conservatory professor and they'll play circles around 99.99% of them.

Same goes for brilliant coders versus formal engineers.
And US law is rigorously enforced these days.