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I admit that I don't know who Tyler Cowen is, but millions (billions?) of people have drunk coffee daily for centuries and if there were ill effects in the same ballpark as opioids or tobacco by now we would certainly know?

Since he might not be known to most (especially a younger audience), the author is a writer best known for many of the Choose Your Own Adventure books that were hugely successful in the 80s.

Jimmy Maher wrote about them recently https://www.filfre.net/2025/09/choose-your-own-adventure/

Sherlock Holmes stories are very interesting to read in order because they span a good 40 years. The first stories are set in the classic Victorian setting with horses and carriages and in the later ones the first cars appear, WW1 happens, etc…

I don’t see anything inherently wrong in a news site reporting different views on the same topic.

I wish more would do that and let me make up my own mind, instead of pursuing a specific editorial line cherry-picking what news to comment and how to spin them, which seems to be the case for most (I’m talking in general terms).

That makes no sense. No one sane wants to go back to a time where all mobile electronics had separate chargers, especially since the number of mobile devices we use on a daily basis is higher than ever before.

If anything, manufacturers that are able to provide working, compatible solutions should be preferred by consumers to those that don't, and the laws of economics will take care of the rest.

But some of those manufacturers have large loyal customer bases that will find ways to justify them even if they were to employ child labor, so there is that.

Yes, thanks OP for sharing. I check HN front page mostly everyday and had no clue such sophisticated scams existed (I pretty much don’t use social media).

It’s easy to think “eh, it will never happen to me” but hindsight is 20/20. I impulse-donated to things like Wikipedia in the past and I’m susceptible to FOMO as most people.

"what model are you?"

ChatGPT said: You're chatting with ChatGPT based on the GPT-4o architecture (also known as GPT-4 omni), released by OpenAI in May 2024.

Does it even make sense calling them 'GPUs' (I just checked NVIDIA product page for the H100 and it is indeed so)?

There should be a quicker way to differentiate between 'consumer-grade hardware that is mainly meant to be used for gaming and can also run LLMs inference in a limited way' and 'business-grade hardware whose main purpose is AI training or running inference for LLMs".

You can install ollama with a script fetched with curl and run a llm model with a grand total of two bash commands (including curl).

If I understand correctly, looking at API pricing for Sonnet, output tokens are 5 times more expensive than input tokens.

So, if rate limits are based on an overall token cost, it is likely that one will hit them first if CC reads a few files and writes a lot of text as output (comments/documentation) rather than if it analyzes a large codebase and then makes a few edits in code.

If we assume that AI coding actually increases productivity of a programmer without side effects (which of course is a controversial assumption, but not affecting the actual question):

1) If you are a salaried employee, if you are seen as less productive than your colleagues that use AI, at the very least you won't be valued as much. Either you will eventually earn less than your colleagues or be made redundant.

2) If you are a consultant, you'll be able to invoice more work in the same amount of time. Of course, so will your competitors, so that rates for a set amount work will probably decrease.

3) If you are an entrepreneur, you will be able to create a new product hiring less people (or on your own). Of course, so will your competitors, so that the expectations for viable MVPs will likley be raised.

In short, if AI coding assistants actually make a programmer more productive, you will likely have to learn to live with it in order to not be left behind.

Or Marvin, the Paranoid Android: “I have a brain the size of a planet and you are asking me to modify a trivial CSS styling. Now I’m depressed.”

I append this to basically every prompt as soon as Claude starts getting frustrated, to preserve my sanity:

"Don't apologize. Don't say I'm right. Don't say it's a good idea. Don't say something is fixed unless I say so. Don't say that the issue is clear now. Don't use emojis. Keep a detached, professional tone and focus on the matter at hand.".

Worth every token.

The article that is linked in the post is a much more interesting read.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/07/behind-the-next-battl...

According to Wilkipedia, general average wages in Italy in 2023 were 48K, and SWE jobs are usually above average.

It would be interesting to know from where Chatgpt sourced those figures as some of them look very sketchy.

That is true but also probably misguided.

Scientific knowledge evolves as new discoveries are made, immutable and unequivocal “truth” is the realm of religion, not science (which makes the former much more appealing to many than the latter).

Trust really should not erode if X acted in good faith based on the consensus knowledge at the time.

I’m not sure how this decade is any different than the one that preceded it?

The current console generation is 4 years old and it’s at mid-cycle at best.

Games running on modern consoles are visually marginally better than those in the previous generation, and AAA titles are so expensive to develop that consoles will still be the target HW.

I really could not be bothered in updating my 3080…

Have I missed a new “Crysis”?

Yes. For example I fed it a public tender and associated regulations in Norwegian and it was able to answer questions about the parts I mas interested in correctly and succinctly. I have also fed it research papers that normally I would not have the patience or knowledge to go through on my own.

In terms of actual usefulness, it’s one of the AI tools that most impressed me.

The main issue is, of course, privacy.

I have tried to reproduce something similar using AnythingLLM and the low tier Llama models, but of course the experience is much worse, both in terms of results, response times and UI. If someone knows of a better local setup, I’m all ears.

I would consider a Workspace subscription if I could actually trust Google to make good on the commitment of not reading your stuff, which I’m finding hard to do…

Funnily enough, “AI search” (Recall) is one of the most touted feature of Copilot+ PCs.

I’m no Microsoft hater, but their track record in implementing that feature at a basic level definitely does not bode well for something more complex…

Diary in UK English can mean “Planner” or “Datebook”, and the article is from the BBC.

https://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2007/04/diar...

I fed it an Italian Wikipedia entry and it generated a (relevant) podcast and summaries in English, so at least the input seem to support multiple languages even if the output is in English.

If I had come across something like this 2/3 years ago it would have looked like magic, but even now it’s quite impressive.

Edit: You can change the language following the indications in the FAQ; after that, text generation seems to be in the configured language, but the podcast is still in English.

Even being unable to see the eclipse live, I felt compelled to read Nightfall again, yesterday.

One of the things I appreciate about Asimov as a scifi author is that he never goes too deeply into explaining the science or physics of his novels (no technobabbles or midichlorians), he is more interested in the Big Ideas and characters.

I'm not sure that a world like Kalgash can exist, and many details about the story could be nitpicked to death, but it doesn't make it any less fascinating and complelling.

I think the title is misleading.

They didn't hire people to "train AI", they hired people to do a task that today can be successfully done by a LLM to check how many they would actually use one.

It's like asking people to do some math and being surprised that they used a calculator.

Easier to use is often all that it takes.

In Midjourney you get fantastic results just by using their discord and a text prompt.

To get some similar results in Stable Diffusion you need to set it up, download the models, understand how the various moving parts work together, fiddle with the parameters, donwload specific models out of the hundreds (thousands?) available, iterate, iterate, iterate...

My thoughts exactly. As useful at it might become, "Bing it" will always sound ridicolous.

Here it is the USDA regulations on how cucumbers are supposed to bend and how to grade them:

https://www.ams.usda.gov/grades-standards/cucumber-grades-an...

Damn that US government overreaching, telling cucumbers how much should they bend!

...or maybe that regulation is there for a reason (most times to protect consumers)?

The thing is, chatGPT seems to be already capable to perform Google's function reasonably well.

If you ask for the top websites about [topic], it will output a shortlist of web links each with a description of the website.

You can narrow down, ask for a specific number of links, ask to exclude videos or specific websites from the results...etc.

If there was a chatGPT service with UI/speed/availability/up-to-date database of Google (a 2-months-old technology vs. a 25-years-old one), I would probably do my searches there almost exclusively.

In a world where we are bombarded by nearly limitless information, the ability to synthesise and focus on what one is already looking for is far more valuable than the breadth of results Google will output.

It's the concept of "Terroir":

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

The same crops acquire very specific characteristics based on the geographical location they are planted.

I never tried salad tomatoes as sweet and flavorful as those I used to eat as a kid in Sicily...

Salaries for devs in the US are insane compared to the rest of the world, I don't think they can be taken as a reference, especially as most people do not have an easy way to just choose to move there.