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> All of which gen pop sits on their hands and enables.

I 100% agree with this, this is what the majority asked for (and probably still want, hatred seems to run deeper than self-interest).
Pivoting every month! After 24 month and after raising VC money. That does not sound good. There are very few things that can be uncovered/learned in one month that would justify pivoting away from it, even in B2C. Even while throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks, one needs to actually wait for the thing to actually hit the wall, at the very least...
the point of an OS is to be out of the way, w2k was both the best and last windows to do so
My professor always said: "The sum of the problems is constant"

You can code faster, but then you might overlook things. You can work a lot and earn a lot of money, but you might struggle with nurturing your friendships. You can have a partner but then you'll have arguments with them. You can remain single but then you'll have to deal with loneliness.
Main contributor here, had a lot of fun working with automerge and its amazing C API around the core Rust library and collaborating with Supabase. This allowed me to take advantage of expanded datum features and improvement in postgres 18 driven by a feature I needed for another project storing large in-memory sparse matrices [1][2]. Based on these new features, lots of rich object data model API can now be used very efficiently from sql when doing multiple complex operations in a function.

This is still experimental bleeding edge stuff that's only available on the unreleased pg 18 so far (using the current dev mainline branch) but will open up a lot of possibilities in the future. Future improvements I hope to make to pg_crdt include implementing the sync() api for easy peer-to-peer synchronization and a full round-trip example application. Word is automerge 3.0 will have some nice new features and I look forward to that.

As an HN specific side note, there was a choice to make initially to use either Rust via pgrx or the automerge C API. At the time (and maybe still?) pgrx did not support expanded datum, which I think would be an amazing addition, but it was out of my scope, and my familiarity with the postgres C extension API made us choose C. Happy to discuss further improvements in this regard as I go up the Rust learning curve myself.

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/647219.1736019347...

[2] https://onesparse.com/docs.html
I think strengths are more difficult to define than weaknesses, because they are very context dependent. “Speed” may be useful in certain situations, but in many cases “speed” can be harmful in more ways than just overlooking details. You miss out on opportunities to learn, to ask for help, to become better at thinking critically as a software engineer.

What the idea of “strengths being weaknesses” reflects is how much we identify with our present state of ability. It seems like we get it backwards. We ask our jobs to fit us as people, rather than how we as individuals can become best for the job.
Librem 5 is starting to get old, can't argue with that, but it's not quite 10+ years old yet. It's a 2018-2019 design based on a SoC that went into GA in 2018. Even though its ARM cores weren't state-of-the-art at that time already, it has bigger caches, stronger GPU and faster DDR that what you would usually find paired with similar cores earlier, giving it a solid boost when compared to, say, PinePhone, which uses a CPU that seems very similar from a quick glance at specs on paper until you actually try to use it.

I've been using L5 as my daily driver for years now and I don't feel very constrained with its performance just yet. The most painful things are related to lack of features in its SoC rather than its age - such as no hw video encoding or camera ISP, which means that things that other phones do efficiently in hardware have to be done in software. i.MX 8M Quad isn't the best suited SoC for mobile phone use-case, but it was the best that was available back then given other constraints of the project.

Today there's still no abundance of such choices, but there actually are a few more interesting ones on the market. I hope we'll see some projects following through soonish, as I'll eventually need an upgrade path for my Librem 5 indeed.
On trips to remote sites I never miss an opportunity to explain to the younger guys that "when I was younger Spotify was called MP3s and it was made of files that you had on your device!" and then proceed to play late 90s EDM until we get back into mobile range.
I will start by saying, I completely agree with you!

But, then, I have to behave like a typical computer nerd and say..

Well ackchuallyyyyyy:

> "This is not a really a problem in "regular" programming languages"

Browsers do stupid: <!--[if IE 8]>

Linux does stupid: #!/bin/bash

C/C++ (preprocessor marcos) do stupid: #ifdef

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_comment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comment_(computer_programming)
That's pretty much it, providing cover for more regressive policies, denying funding for programs they don't approve of, etc.
I'm your target audience. I use home assistant. I care about having a beautiful UI for it on Android. I wanted to buy your thing.

Put your pricing up front - don't waste my time.
I heard that __used__ to be the appeal, now that goodwill and soft power has been completely nuked.
you could try to statically link them if the package support it, it does so by using musl

nix build github:NixOS/nixpkgs#pkgsStatic.git

return the pacakge as:

ls -lah git

-r-xr-xr-x 1 rucadi rucadi 5.1M Jan 1 1970 git

ldd git

$ not a dynamic executable

So you don't really need to really grow the container
We wrote https://github.com/compumike/idle-gc to run GC when the long-running process is otherwise mostly idle. It’s been fine for us.
I promise you never want that.
"but that's a decision based on cheap labor, not one that's inherent in smartphone design"

This is the heart of the matter. The US has abandoned skills because cheap labor in Asia. An example from the story about dealing with touch screen tests: they're employing disposable workers to toy with pinch and zoom testing; something easily automated with a simple machine and image comparisons. How sad. This is an actual regression in technology.
I feel the appeal of your argument, but people just aren’t fungible, and the incentives in a public in private identity are completely different.

I work at a consulting firm, and, trust me, you want state employees doing the absolute minimum amount of work necessary. Ideally, you just have enough people to administer the funds and then all work anyone cares about should be routed to private entities through a competitive process (market discipline for consultants is key here). My experience is that the people at the state are highly likable, but in terms of productivity are close to worthless or are a major obstacle to productive work. I work for a department of transportation where the leadership in the materials division does not actually know what density is or that it is measurable. I would expect someone with good grades in high school to understand this. Every single construction contract for highways has about a 15% overage on crushed rock. The weight to the material is determined by a “50% compaction factor“ and if you’re thinking “that sounds like a made up concept“ you would be correct. This has been happening for years and nobody is allowed to use the correct number because that would embarrass someone with a long tenure. The state Congress needs to liquidate the whole agency.
But from the quote it seems that for reasons unrelated to the language itself?
Composer still making music 4 years after his death – thanks to artificial brain
> A particular worry in the Treasury market is that a doom loop could arise from the “basis trade”. This is popular with hedge funds and has minted fortunes at some of America’s largest. It attempts to profit from the difference in price between Treasury bonds and Treasury futures contracts, caused by high demand for the futures from asset managers. Traders exploit this by buying Treasuries and selling futures contracts. To amplify the returns, they borrow using the Treasuries they have bought as collateral, then recycle the cash into even more Treasuries. Thanks to this procedure, hedge funds are short some $1trn-worth of Treasury futures.

Every few years some dumb shit like this blows up and then the "experts" hem and haw about why reform actually can never be done and "we MUST keep gambling with instruments you see!" it's just so transparently stupid at this point.
>Side note: I discovered by accident last week that uBlock Origin eliminates ads on Amazon Prime Video too.

It works on Hulu too. You get a box at the beginning of the show saying "please turn off your ad blocker" but once you click OK it never comes up again.
There was an option to pay like $20 for literally nothing just to support the idea of an open source phone. I did so many years ago.

Worst $20 I ever spent. The amount of spam I've gotten as an "investor" is fucking ridiculous. The amount of times I've opened my email to see an "investment opportunity" from Todd Weaver (originating from multiple email addresses, no functional way to unsubscribe) is downright insulting.

From the bottom of my heart: fuck Todd Weaver, whose name is at the bottom of hundreds of spam emails I've received going back years.
Yep this was true a decade or 2 ago not true anymore. Generous compared to Walmart, sure but not compared to Industry for any type of Technical work.
You have to understand consultancies in IT are just brokers. They buy in "inventory" of "profiles" at as low a cost as possible, and sell that inventory to their customers for as much as possible.

So you've got your CS graduate which you recruit and pay $40/hr, slap a badge on them and rent them out for $120/hr. Once in a while you fall short and need to hire some freelancers for $60/hr. That's it.

As your gov agency is capped on paying it's own recruits $25/hr for the position, very few will end up as 'native' gov workers, and the once that do will get poached swiftly by the consultancies.

Now these juicy contracts are not sold piecemeal, but in huge bulk. Not 3 guys for 2 months for a project, but an umbrella contract for delivering 2.000 full time profiles over the next 2 years. Very few consultancies can credibly fulfill on such commitments making the market fairly small and not too competitive. The few that participate have no incentive to spoil the roost and derail the gravy train. No explicit collusion is required. It's an iterative prissoners dilemma situation where the few players all know each other and frequently switch sides.
"partner at AlleyCorp, a New York-based venture capital firm, where I focus on AI"

Yeah, I think I can safely ignore 100% of what you're saying.
Regarding "what else has to happen": I would say something catastrophic. Nothing comes to mind recently.

Security is good, but occasionally I wonder if technical people don't imagine fantastic scenarios of evil masterminds doing something with the data and manage to rule the world.

While in reality, at least the last 5 years there are so many leaders (and people) doing and saying so plainly stupid that I feel we should be more afraid of stupid people than of hackers.
We are all serfs
This is why I suggested the URL for the submission page be unique- having a session nonce / token or similar. That way, once the user checks out you invalidate the checkout session, and if the user hits the back button you redirect them to the appropriate page.

I specifically called out the issue of re-submitting certain forms and proposed the above solution. I don't think relying on cache headers is going to be sufficiently reliable.
>Ads are embedded into the media Netflix sells.

That money goes to the people who made the film though, which in some cases actually is Netflix but not usually.
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I think I understand the economics here, but it bugs me there aren't more slow-growth self-funded places to fill in these niches.
There are "some" Photoshop wannabes. I still haven't found any program on Linux that can give me anywhere close to the same ease of use and powerful tools that Photoshop has. The example you provided sounds like you want to use Illustrator for your use case anyway.
Sorry for not replying. But good to see you got your answer in the end.

Tip, Although not entirely what you asked, but related: what about using more caving in your CI/CD Pipeline. Customers see incredible time savings when using Varnish on that context (mostly with Enterprise w/MSE4 as you will need a massive cache, but it can be useful even with Varnish Cache grounding on your pipeline and workflow). If you are interested, read more here: https://www.varnish-software.com/solutions/data-ai-accelerat...
Yes, the US can spend away their troubles, as long as it maintains treaties it signed on to, can, at least, to some degree, demonstrate some maintenance of its debt, and doesn’t alienate its trade parters, much less the whole world.

If you think I’m just being a partisan, take a look at the US Bond market for the last two weeks.
Ask HN: If aliens transmit using neutrinos, can we hear them?
They are not.

Arch hovers around 87%-90% depending on regressions.
https://reproducible.archlinux.org/

Debian reproduces 91%-95% of their packages (architecture dependent)
https://reproduce.debian.net/

> Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with Nix, Fedora, Debian etc. I just recognize that Nix has done a lot of hard work in this space & Fedora + Debian jumping onto this is in no small part thanks to the path shown by Nix

This is completely the wrong way around.

Debian spearheaded the Reproducible Builds efforts in 2016 with contributions from SUSE, Fedora and Arch. NixOS got onto this as well but has seen less progress until the past 4-5 years.

The NixOS efforts owes the Debian project all their thanks.
The latter comment is a reference to one of america's founding events being triggered by an ~8% tariff on foreign imports by americans, levied by a unilateral power who thought themselves king of the territory.
It's Qualcomm. You didn't pay for the command+click license.
Doubt it, many mid/low tier industries still struggle to hire because they pay engineering salaries not tech money. Government salaries are easily 30-50% lower
The "faster horses" comment is unfortunate, both because Henry Ford was a huge Nazi and because it's a dramatically wrong idea of what people actually wanted that only makes sense if you're already so car-brained[0] to think that the only alternative to a car is a horse. At least in cities, you had trains, trams, and omnibuses; not to mention walking was also an option.

There's a tendency in consumer tech companies to look at TikTok as the ultimate goal: everyone wants a pipeline to pump entertainment slurry into, and the old versions of the product are just worse slurry pipelines. But this is wrong. Old Spotify and Netflix aren't "faster horses". They're the train connecting a walkable urban core that got replaced with a never-on-time bus route[1] while the government encouraged everyone to move into car-dependent suburban prisons.

Like cars, entertainment slurry pipelines exist for the benefit of the pipeline owner, not the creator nor the viewer. Nobody asks for TikTok, it's just a global minima in the reward function[2] of "how do we most actively exploit creative industry". The platform owners want you to forget about the artists on their platforms so that those artists can't tell you to move to another platform. It's akin to one of the nightmare scenarios trotted out by copyright maximalists during the Napster Wars of the early 2000s, except the owning class now has significant economic interest in the platforms, so it's OK now.

[0] I have a pet theory that cars were a fascist long-con to destroy cities and atomize society to avoid the creation of class solidarity and durable political movements against large business interests.

[1] Remember when Netflix rented DVDs? And had almost everything, because physical media has really robust consumer protections?

[2] If you think my "cars are fascist" theory is insane, wait until I talk about AI.
I have had two separate "best managers" for different reasons, both based on the circumstances.

On a small, focused team where all members were highly experienced & competent specialists, the good manager kept the team focused on the actual business goal we were trying to solve, and especially by making decisions in the times when the team didn't have a clear consensus about how to approach something. Sometimes it's more important that a decision be clearly made than that it be exactly correct, and having someone with the authority to do that and the willingness to take responsibility for the consequences is incredible for team morale. But most of the time the team will come to a solution on their own and the manager can be part of that but also be able to step back and let it happen. And then sometimes it's more important that the decision be exactly correct than that it be made quickly, and an individual with practiced discernment between these situations is a treasure.

In a bigger company my best manager understood their role as a primarily political one mediating the needs of their team (both as a team and as individuals) with the sometimes contradictory needs of the broader business. They "manage up" by presenting the team's work to leadership in a way where leadership can understand the value of the team's work. And they "manage down" by contextualizing business decisions to get team buy in when possible, and just generally being a buffer between the changing whims of leaders and the daily work of the team. Blocking interruptions, arguing about whether things should be done, taking the heat when things go wrong.
'Amazon slayer': the Dublin minnow taking on the giants in drone deliveries
Probably her or they wouldn’t be asking
How so? I'd really like to see an example. If you can't explain what requirements your function has before calling it then how do you know it even does what you expect?
Speaking of WordPress, hows the entire WordPress debacle going with Matt Mullenweg?
It's the same playbook the tobacco and petrochemical industries use to block or weaken regulations. The refrain is something like, "the science is not settled".

ExxonMobil and Phillip Morris used to have to fund their own scientists, this is just getting government to spend your tax dollars for them.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I can't help but feel this is a solution in search of a problem.

I feel like "building a simple website" has been a solved issue with templates for decades now. The only thing you need to add is the text, and for a useful website, you're already going to have to be typing 90% of that into the prompt anyway - most of what an LLM is going to add will be more of a value-subtract than a value-add.

Sure, that still leaves the tweaking and customization, but I feel like that's the part most people enjoy the most? Humans love decorating.

Maybe I'm seeing this the wrong way, and I'm forgetting truly non-technical folks exist, and this is for the people who would otherwise be forcing their nephew to help them make a basic website, and that's the role the LLM is playing here, as a conversational interface. I think the marketing copy for this announcement is total bullshit, then (plastering "AI" all over the announcement is more for marketers than customers), but I can at least see that use case.
Right, and projects that are millions lines of code usually aren't even one codebase or one app or service.
It's a port of entry. Once they flagged her for a search they can and do search electronic devices. Officials there may also deny those kind of visas on a whim seemingly. The next step is usually being sent back to the country of origin where the visa was issued and re-applying for it at the embassy. I don't think her status of a J-1 student automatically cancelled. Except in this case it wasn't safe to send her back to Russia so she ended up in detection.
My sister who has never coded in her life is building mini apps to do things at work.

It’s taken her a month to get up and running.

Everyone needs to realize this is not a matter of AI stealing dev jobs but the supply of low skilled developers exploding and eating into the market.
I did read it, and that argument is bullshit, just like a hypothetical argument that e.g. the government can mow down protestors because they held a mass trial declaring ("satisfied due process") that all people in the street are guilty of a crime and subject to the death penalty. Nothing in the Constitution precludes such an interpretation.

There is no way to write words that preclude all such interpretations, that does not make all possible interpretations valid or reasonable.

> I'm unconvinced that the Supreme Court will look towards public sentiment.

Yet stunningly, SCOTUS decisions overwhelmingly align with cultural attitudes of their time because that is in fact the role of SCOTUS — to adapt interpretations of text to the current cultural moment. That's why it's notable in the few occasions where they conflict.

I know originalists and textualists like to act otherwise, but they're liars, and you know this because they do in fact rule against the text of law when the text conflicts with their cultural imperatives.
This is not core the to article, but -

> However, most examples of high agency agents operate in ideal environments which provide complete knowledge to the agent, and are ‘patient’ to erroneous or flaky interactions. That is, the agent has access to the complete snapshot of its environment at all times, and the environment is forgiving of its mistakes.

This is a long way around basic (very basic) existing concepts in classic AI ("Fully" vs "partially" observable environments; nondeterministic actions; are all, if I'm not sorely mistaken, discussed in Russel and Norvig - the standard textbook for AI 101).

Now, maybe the authors _do_ know and choose to discuss this at pre-undergrad level like this on purpose. Regardless of whether they don't know the basic concepts or think its better to pretend they don't because their audience doesn't - this signals that folks working on/with the new AI wave (authors or audience) have not read the basic literature of classic AI

The bastardization of the word 'agent' is related to this, but I'll stop here at the risk of going too far as 'old man yells at clouds', as if I'd never seen technical terms coopted for hype
If it's so performance critical why not do a native UI?
When dealing with prompts, there is no such thing as reproducible builds, since we are dealing with a non-deterministic system. The purpose for connecting prompts and conversation to code is to aid in debugging and developing new features. I also believe by connecting code to conversations, we will produce better LLMs in the future.

I would say AI has generated about 98% of my code for my chat app in the last 3 months and it was definitely not vibe coding. Every function and feature was discussed in detail and some conversations took over a week.

My reasoning for building my chat app wasn't to support vibe coding, but rather to 10x senior developers. Once you know how things work, the biggest bottleneck to a senior developers productivity is typing and documentation. The speed at which LLMs can produce code and documentation cannot be matched by humans.

The only downside is, LLM don't necessary produce pretty or more readable code. The more readable code is something I would like to tackle in the future, as I believe post-processing tools can make LLM code much more readable.
Is this really new? Will it become an option in Unity, Unreal and the like? The results seem convincing!