skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is 5x if you are already a senior SE knowing your programming language really well, constantly suggesting good architecture yourself ("seed files" is a brilliant idea), and not accepting any slop / asking to rewrite things if something is not up to your standards (of course, every piece of code should be reviewed).

Otherwise, it can be 0.2x in some cases. And you should not use LLMs for anything security-related unless you are a security expert, otherwise you are screwed.

(this is SOTA as of April 2025, I expect things to become better in the near future)
Don't put them in the queue. Put the large payload into an object store like s3/gcs and put a reference into the db or queue
SSH is kind of a secret hidden interface because of how nerdy it is, so I feel that it goes underappreciated sometimes. I host one such interface, do ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no funky.nondeterministic.computer and see what's on offer!
'Cathedral of crap': is this the most beautiful sewage treatment plant?
The main problem with development of new antibiotics is not that it requires groundbreaking new science to be invented, but that there is no business case for it. Or at least the business case for spending your R&D on anti-obesity medicine looks a lot better.
It’s also kind of difficult to hate on a guy that devoted his remaining decades to literally saving tens of thousands of lives around the world.
Indeed, we are in agreement. they were in disbelief responding to my parent post.
If you put a knife in someone’s heart, you’re the one who did it and ultimately you’re responsible. If someone told you to do it and you were just following orders… you still did it. If you say there were no rules against putting knives in other people’s hearts, you still did it and you’re still responsible.

If it’s somehow different for corporations, please enlighten me how.
Sure, and why not open an Institute of Enhanced Interrogation Studies while you’re at it? Ugh.
That's another way to put it. The disagreement doesn't still elevate either party to a moral high ground. That was the only thing that upset me about this write up.
I recently played cs2 for 4 months until the paranoia of closet cheaters got me.

There are pro players who get caught cheating, this game is rotten to the core.

Valve doesn't seem to care because apparently, players don't care about cheaters since they are so addicted to gambling with skins.
The trouble with OSINT is that they often take the opinions of "good" government officials and journalists at face value.

This sort of lazy thinking doesn't miss a beat when it comes to take the opinions of an LLM at face value.

Why not? It sounds mostly the same. The motivations to believe AI, is exactly the same as the motivation to believe government officials and journalists.
TIL that Heroku is owned by Salesforce.
Crazy idea --- A high level of skill and talent doesn't necessarily equate to a more enjoyable game for fans.

Personally, I'd rather watch the women. Their play relates more to my (and I think most fans) personal experience with the game of basketball.

The men's professional play looks totally foreign to the game the average fan has played. A lot of this has to do with the fact that most ordinary players can't begin to hit 35% from 3 point range.
The Fellowship of the Ring, the first of Peter Jackson's LOTR movies released in 2001, made $887 million in its original theatrical run (on a $93 million budget). It would absolutely still have been made if copyright was only 20 years. And now it would be in the public domain!
I consider the ability to bypass secure boot a feature, not a bug.
> One piece of chewing gum on the ground will get you a caning in Singapore

This is not true, by the way. You will be fined for littering; or, if you are a repeat offender, be sentenced to cleaning public areas while wearing an offensively bright-coloured uniform (so that everyone can see that you are being punished). Source: https://www.nea.gov.sg/media/news/news/index/nea-increases-v...

But no, you won't be caned for littering. Caning is reserved for more serious offences like vandalism, or much worse crimes like rape and murder.
How do you deal with cloud tasks in dev/test?
That's why it's just the first stage of an incremental rewrite.

argv is easy to pass, though.
EU depends on the US for many things. That was clearly a mistake, and it's now working to work out backup solutions.

Having your government depend on foreign cloud and software was always a bad idea in my opinion, but IT security is not high on the list of the people that make decisions.

Russia depended on Europe, but got wiser after 2014 and certainly after 2022. To the point of having it's own Linux distribution (which I ridiculed along with everyone, and now it turns out they were right). Geopolitics change, friends become enemies and enemies become friends. Barring a civil war, a country will never refuse to work with itself, so it's the most reliable partner possible.
I kind of agree - since the Bostrom book there is a cottage industry of people with non-technical backgrounds writing papers about singularity thought experiments, and it does seem to be on the spectrum with hard sci-fi writing. A lot of these people are clearly intelligent, and it's not even that I think everything they say is wrong (I made similar assumptions long ago before I'd even heard of Ray Kurzweil and the Singularity, although at the time I would have guessed 2050). It's just that they seem to believe their thought process and Bayesian logic is more rigourous than it actually is.
Most people I know are now using deepseek. I don't even have to show them a filtered ad-free web, anymore (that most didn't even notice the lack of cruft).
The cantaloupe is how the US production process in vats got a massive efficiency kick because the mould on the cantaloupe released significantly more penicillin than the prior one. But, this was after the initial discovery.

It's in "Florey: The Man Who Made Penicillin" by Lennard Bickel
How was your shop taken down?

Usually there are lawyers letters involved first?
Pulseaudio still doesn't work reliably.
I think it's an amazing tool as a starting point or a way to get ideas. Our small ad agency's policy has always been to research the hell out of something... like, if you're asked to do a logo for someone running for state Senate, go read the history of the state senate since 1846, and look up all the things everyone used, and start brainstorming art ideas that have multiple layers of meaning that work with your candidate's message. But AI makes it super easy to get a nice looking starting point and then use your ideas to iterate on top of that.

I'm a bit of a home moonshiner, too, so love that you're coming up with labels and using these tools to help out! If I could offer one piece of advice, whether for writing prompts or making your own final art, it would be: History is so rich with visual ideas you can riff from. The history of beer and wine bottles itself is unbelievable. If aliens came here a thousand years after we're gone, and all that was left were liquor labels, they could understand most of our culture. The LLMs always go to the most obvious thing, unless you tell them specifically otherwise. Use the tool but also get funky and mix up the ideas you love the most, adding your own flavor. Just like being a brewer or a chef. That's the essence of being an artist, and making something that at the end of the day is unique and new. Love it. Send me a beer please.
For a family of two?
Exponential growth means the first order of magnitude comes slowly and the last one runs past you unexpectedly.
> All of these companies are selling AI as a tool to do work for you, and the AI _sounds confident_ not matter what it spits out.

If your LLM + pre-prompt setup sounds confident with every response, something is probably wrong; it doesn't have to be that way. It isn't for me. I haven't collected statistics, but I often get decent nuance back from Claude.

Think more about what you're doing and experiment. Try different pre-prompts. Try different conversation styles.

This is not dismissing the tendency for overconfidence, sycophancy, and more. I'm just sharing some mitigations.
Yeah, I suppose you're right and I'd love to understand more. Do you imagine a modality of programming a computer in an abstract (pictorial? diagrammatic?) way that fully bypasses the current need to form statements?
> Convoluted and unreasonable workarounds for a growing police state.

Well, those are _basic_ OPSEC for people whose life/safety/freedom would actually be threatened by a search ("good guys", "bad guys", it doesn't matter). If the only things threatened by a search are your pride/moral principles, then yeah, those might seem unreasonable.

> Please don't try to minimize the egregiousness of having your personal documents searched for the sake of security theater.

I don't know if that term has been coined before, but "privacy theater" is also a thing, and it is just as grotesque as the other theater.
Would like to know their thoughts on data insights, vis-a-vis First-Party Data Activation [1].

[1] https://www.manning.com/books/first-party-data-activation
> "The problem is now that our law enforcement, they have been losing ground on criminals because our police investigators, they don't have access to data," she added.

OK, I get this worry from a certain perspective, but you can't put the encryption genie back in the bottle, regardless what the EU thinks about encryption, I can just roll my own in one way or another, either on my own platform, or using steganography on another platform, and encrypt/decrypt manually.
> I think you'll never find a case where someone got in trouble for not being a hero

Very much depends on country:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_to_rescue
First it’s people disagreeing with me, then it’s deportation to the death camps. There is zero nuance and the slippery slope is basically guaranteed so I should have freedom of consequence for everything I do!
There are fields of study that agree with you. It is evidence based that treating your workers well, having reasonable quotas and expectations for work life balance, good wages and reinforcement for effort, etc creates conditions where workers perform more efficiently and last longer

But many organizations reject this. Why wouldn’t they? There is a surplus of workers and consumers accept substandard products. Skimp on training, put out crap. Throw workers into the fire, demand everything from them, get furious if they don’t prioritize the company above everything in their life, burn them out, cut them loose, pick another from the stack of resumes

I was talking to someone who works for a startup recently. A colleague died and it was announced on a Friday. They were expected to finish the day. On Monday their replacement started and the team was told to bring this person up to speed asap. No space to grieve, no time to process. Soulless and inhuman. Disgusting and sociopathic behavior
Wait, I've been told by "evangelists" that besides not having any security vulnerabilities, you also can't have deadlocks in Rust!
A badge of honor
Straight from FAQ [1]:

> Who can see my data?
> Only you can see your data. Almost all of it stays on your computer and only a little bit goes to our safe helper. We also give you ways to make it even more private if you want.

So, am I correct to understand that the actual model backing this is on the server side?

[1] https://meeting-buddy.com/Faq
> His test scores and GPA are average at the schools he applied to.

Average is quite a bit above the floor though, so that just makes it sound like he should have been accepted.
The "move" from an agricultural economy to an industrial economy didn't end agriculture being a significant part of the national economy; agriculture just lost relative share of GDP. Similarly, the "move" to an information or services economy isn't necessarily going to eliminate either agricultural or industrial work. China, for example, has its tech giants (Tencent, Alibaba, etc.) but it also has vast industrial capacity (e.g. Shenzhen) and agricultural capacity (e.g. the largest pork production in the world). American education deciding to push children towards information-economy jobs that were a poor fit for their talents, neglecting classes like shop skills that were once common, was a mistake and certainly not inevitable.
Honestly you sound like a robot.
> Other deployment models, such as self-contained, ReadyToRun, and highly optimized Native AOT, are also supported out of the box.

The self contained deployment option seems hazardous to advertise here. You can dump this output to any cloud VM and it will just work. Combine with something like SQLite and there's nothing to orchestrate except for copying a folder and bouncing a process.
Curious if you have any examples since I didn’t read any zeal from the posted essay.
> So no, the stock market will not be growing because of AI, it will be in spite of it.

The stock market will be one of the very few ways you will be able to own some of that AI… assuming it won’t be nationalized.
> And if your system has bash, it often has python as well, or at least it's easy to install.

The problem is, bash is a universal target. Every unixoid system has bash in one way or another, usually at /bin/bash or in a pinch /usr/bin/env bash. No matter if your target system is Debian oldoldstable or bleeding edge Gentoo, it will run.

Python however is a hot mess. Some operating systems are at `python` yielding v2, others v3. Others (Macports) have python2 and python3 binaries if the user doesn't also do a `port select` afterwards. The user may have overridden this with virtualenv's (that this exists at all is a disgrace in itself). And that all is before `pip` even has entered the stage, or before you try to figure out what whitespace format Python expects and what whitespace format you just used in the last YAML file you edited.

(The whitespace shit is what will keep me from using Python if at all possible.)
>Writing a BASIC interpreter, with floating point, is much harder. Gates, Allen and other collaborators BASIC was pretty damned good.

The floating point routines are Monte Davidoff's work. But yes, Gates and Allen writing Altair BASIC on the Harvard PDP-10 without ever actually seeing a real Altair, then having it work on the first try after laboriously entering it with toggle switches at MITS in Albuquerque, was a remarkable achievement.
You can use classes without doing OOP and you can do OOP without using classes
Which is why you rewrite in Python long before reaching that threshold. I start considering it as early as when I need to add any non-trivial command line parsing: argparse is just so much better than "while getopt".
For ingestion, yes, but if you want to write back the ini, you have now lost all comments. Besides, jq's syntax is ... arcane.
Another good one is pgqueuer https://github.com/janbjorge/pgqueuer
Print in demands definitely have terms of service allowing them to take whatever down. You’re playing by their rules, and your $2 revenue / tshirt and very few overall sales is not worth the potentially millions in legal fees to fight for you.
It probably depends on your definition of "OOP" and your definition of "better"
Most importantly, the use of novel antibiotics must be strictly prohibited in the animal food industry.

This is crucial because the misuse of antibiotics in livestock farming has been a major driver of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), a global health crisis. When antibiotics are overused or improperly applied in animals, bacteria can evolve to become resistant, rendering these life-saving drugs ineffective for treating infections in humans and animals alike.

It has always been a perversity that life-saving reserve antibiotics were ever permitted to prop up the grotesque machinery of the modern food industry—a system built on global-scale animal cruelty.
Late to the party, but I'm currently building an MVP where you learn the vocab to understand a specific youtube video — since it was inspired by literally this video, I figured you may be interested: https://www.videovocab.app/
> I have counterpoints to that

How? Efficiency of scale can never drive marginal coasts below 0.

> You look at present energy expenditure as waste, if the asset itself is not consumed for an equally arbitrary reason that you approve of, or generates an even more valuable asset or ongoing revenue stream.

I think you’re missing my point, a gold ring may be purely decorative but people actually want the ring. A gold bar sitting in a safety deposit box for decades is there purely an investment, the nature as a physical piece of gold is essentially irrelevant the person wants is a store of value not gold. At that point why not simply leave the gold unearth and use the potential location of a mine as a store of value?

IE, for a 50 gallon drum of oil to be sitting in my basement it must have already been extracted from the earth. We don’t extract oil as fast as possible and store it because the ground itself was already storing it instead people pump faster or slower in response to market conditions that’s efficient unlike silver, gold, etc sitting in a vault.

Thus using mined gold as an investment is simply inherently wasteful, a pure dead loss for humanity.
Had the same issue until I made a 2nd brain system. Just read the book by Tiago Forte about this, I was surprised how effective his methods are. Implement the described system as you read, but know that 99% of the issues you encounter will be solved in the book.
Yes, when they send unmanned jets to combat.
Skeletor might want to live in Castle Grayskull, but he actually lives in Snake Mountain.
Yes, it's called pulling the ladder up behind you. I don't think "he was a hacker" mitigates anything whatsoever.
Similar to how corruption has basically become the political system in Russia. If you refuse to participate in the corrupt system than the government has no leverage over you and you will be kept out of power by all means. They only want corrupted people because a corrupt person has levers that they can be controlled by. Honest people who are only led by their ideology cannot be controlled.
Building out clean energy infrastructure provides value. That's perfectly fine. There is plenty of need for hands to maintain American road infrastructure that is falling apart and build new infrastructure like high-speed intercity rail and more subway lines to help support additional population growth.

The reference is to how a government can pay people to literally dig ditches then refill them. This nominally increases GDP (due to additional government expenditure) but it does not produce value and, more importantly, does not give people the dignity they would ordinarily achieve through their labor because they know such work is bullshit.
"AI enhanced for acuracy"
buh bye
Operating an excavator when building a stretch of road. Won’t happen by 2027.
Yes that's my take as well. It might be TSMC trying to survive, and America trying to deprive themselves of a future war to defend TSMC or China's inevitable taking of TSMC.

I don't see how it helps Taiwan that much, but perhaps it makes it less attractive to China to take if TSMC can move.
> And what do you propose instead? I'm not seeing the EU doing any better than the US with their lowest socioeconomic class groups.

Key word „socioeconomic“ groups. It should not be racist policies based on skin color. Help poor people, help people growing up in shitty neighbourhods. True diversity is people with different life experiences. Sometimes it correlates with skin color, sometimes it doesn't. Just like poor economic situation and shitty upbringing.

> Bigotry exists. What are you going to do about it? It seems that the most popular answers right now vary from "Not a goddamn thing" to "Fuck those bastards."

Of course. Including among those so-called „anti racists“.

Slightly offtoic, but it's funny that modern „antifa“ is one of the most authoritarian-minded people I've met. While a good chunk of far-right people are full-on anarchistic-minded people. With about equal amount of bigotry on either side. People loooove abusing labels to further their agenda.

> (In reality, I'm pessimistic that there is much that can be actively done. The bigots who threw slurs at my immigrant ancestors didn't so much get better as much as just change epithets and targets. Sadly, so it goes.)

And then there're bigot immigrants who talk shit about locals. My country was a major source of migration two decades ago and it's horrible what our people would say about locals. Now tables switched and we got more incoming migration. And now we're on the other side of the same transaction guests not respecting our culture. Bigots are everywhere. But current policies tend to focus on one side of bigots which just breeds more resent on the other side.
Why OSINT? That goes for any domain.

Besides "OSINT" has been busy posting scareware for years, even before "AI".

There's so much spam that you can't figure out what the real security issues are. Every other "security article" is about "an attacker" that "could" obtain access if you were sitting at your keyboard and they were holding a gun to your head.
> There is generally a negative correlation between higher tax rates and GDP per capita

There are lots of reasons for high/low GDP per capita, but I would like to see proof of this to believe it.

Why is Denmark so high up for example, generally considered the country in the world with the highest tax pressure, and without any substantial natural resources. Cherry picking of course, but your claim is very sweeping, so I'd put the pressure on you to prove it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
I'm on this boat. I can use LLMs to skip the boring bits like generating API glue classes or simple output functions.

Example:

I'm building a tool to grab my data from different sites like Steam, Imdb, Letterboxd and Goodreads.

I know perfectly well how to write a parser for the Goodreads CSV output, but it doesn't exactly tickle my brain. Cursor or Cline will do it in minutes.

Now I've got some data to work with, which is the fun bit.

Again if I want to format the output to markdown for Obsidian, the LLM can do it in a few minutes and maybe even add stuff I didn't think about at first.
Also, modern wars are not at all one by guns but by missiles, tanks and intelligence, all the guns in the world will not help you when himars are falling on your house.
GP's not missing those edge cases; GP recognizes those edge cases are themselves a product of IP laws.

Those laws are effectively attempting to make information behave as physical objects, by giving them simulated "mass" through a rent-seeking structure. The case you describe is where this simulated physical substrate stops behaving like physical substrate, and choice was made to paper over that with extra rules, so that family can inherit and profit from IP of a dead creator, much like they would inherit physical products of a dead craftsman and profit from selling them.

It's a valid question whether or not this is taking things too far, just for the sake of making information conform to rules of markets for physical goods.
The goal would be dismantling the state, and hence (national) tariffs, for good. The people behind it are quite well off, and can bear the tariffs for now. And it's not just capitalist-anarchists. This is a cabal of spiteful people with different goals, but some shared ideas about the scale of government, prepared to use as much force as necessary.

> Protectionism is a left-wing, big-government policy.

It isn't left-wing. Just check the US history of protectionism. Or Germany's. Or the France's. Even the UK's. Or even simpler: look at what happened just now. How can you call Trump left-wing?