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committed to making the world a better place can unite and focus on getting things done

The problem is that nobody can agree on what "better" is, so it is difficult to unite.

And in the meantime, people who don't care about "uniting" or "better" just carry on with whatever their goal is(usually just to make as much money as possible), and that sometimes ends up on net making the world a worse place.

This is a legitimate systematic problem that many of us are concerned about solving. It could easily be more important than the technical problems that geeks such as myself would love to be able to focus on.

The obvious question then becomes why 4 military-grade surveillance Tech Tahoes are needed.

Was three not enough for the current demand for military grade surveillance by the police?

Why is there so much demand for military grade surveillance? Is there a better way to address that core need?

A million bucks buys a lot of essential services.

To be fair, a lot of these items are cannot really be purchased without assembly being required.

Or purchasing them in their assembled state can require even more logistical transportation overhead such as specialized vehicle rentals.

Your point stands though that furniture has a higher cost than the sticker implies.

I wonder if parallel processing is related to musical training or ability.

I've always been jealous of people who can play the drums and sing or play piano with both hands and a foot while singing.

When the line was "don't believe me just watch"

And then the clip was literally just an arm wearing a watch!

That's freaking hilarious!

It's like someone playing charades

Maybe another DeepSeek moment right here.

Surely not... What made DeepSeek disruptive was that the cost was 10X lower.

In this case, the cost is about 2X lower the Sol I think?

At 2X, you're pretty close to the error margins due to token efficiency etc...

I'd say this is "on trend" for open models catching up to frontier labs, but its not a "change in the trend" like DeepSeek was IMO.

Ooh ohh Ohh I think I know what it is!

Someone should come up with an index to track this objectively.

Otherwise, its all anecdotes and speculation.

Some random ideas:

1. Measure trends in HTTP status codes over time

2. Measure github issues created over time

3. Measure complaints on forums over time

4. Google trends

Never thought I'd find myself questioning Antirez, but I have many questions about this post and overall attitude. For example:

Yes: I identify things that I don’t like how they are coded, but if I open other Redis files written by other Redis contributors there is far worse, and not since they are not good coders, but because it is a matter of taste.

Why is the attitude here about keeping the floor up rather than raising the bar?

Why can't we have better code with AIs? Its not impossible to do!

When I implement things by basically pairing with the AI, I end up with better designs/architectures/code than I could have written by myself.

It sounds like some people think of the AI code paradigm as one where there will be fewer but better devs producing code/designs of lower quality than they could individually produce, but that is higher quality than the average dev could produce.

Is that really better than a world where AI raises the average across the board at the expense of a bit of speed? At the very least, it seems like a far less risky and less disruptive way to still capture significant benefits from AI.

"What did you find when you googled it?"

"What did an LLM say about it?"

"What did the docs say?"

These are all better follow-ups than telling someone to do a specific thing.

This is super wrong! Honestly they should probably take this down because of how wrong it is.

Where is Norman Borlaug?

Looking only at stocks is spitting in the face of every economist in the history of humanity. And they didn't even do that right. A company is not one person for starters! And what about if your company causes another company's stock to decrease in value, thereby destroying wealth? This is embarrassing.

No one is really pushing me to increase my workload

Spoken like someone who is not at an org/team that has undergone layoffs and reduced hiring in the last 3 years.

You might be in the minority there - especially when it comes to those who are facing burnout.

Thanks for sharing. That's an awesome site!

I think its the same Knot. I really like Ian's Secure Knot too: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm

Super cool!

Here is how to tie a bow in under 1 second in case anyone wants something that looks a bit cleaner but is less functional: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/Q5qZpQe_4EA

Software isn't the product though.

Just like the article says, it depends on if the product is an essential or a dessert.

If your product is a "essential necessity" one, then 98% is terrible for your software.

If your product is a "dessert", then for it's software 98% is awesome.

Same.

I'd like to see this guy die at 100 or something because I personally think immortality is bad for the world, but like 50 or whatever he is now is just sad. He could do a lot of good for the world by sharing lessons to help people live healthier lives.

Good potential for discussion here. I full agree with the underlying premise: This technology CANNOT be allowed to just give us more of the same, but lazily. It HAS TO be an empowering tool. It has to unlock NEW discoveries.

For the purpose of discussion though, this also undersells AIs:

1. They CAN be great tools for novelty + discovery! You just need to ask and explore and put in work. Its not "easy", but it does help.

2. Sometimes "the mean" is what you want. Sometimes I'm not after art. I'm after something efficient and recognizable and easy to maintain.

How this oversells AIs:

1. We are losing the muscle of forced creativity and problem solving. There is a certain kind of learned privilege that comes from facing a problem and having your instinctive reaction be to ask for and expect help from something else rather than to roll up your sleeves or sit back and have a think. If the system incentivizes loss of muscle en-masse, we're gonna lose something beautiful and powerful.

Unfortunately, in our industry we haven’t recognized building up synthesis expertise as a first-class thing.

Good shout out. Same as with integral calc though, a bag of common tricks can get you pretty far. Would make for a good training regimen.

Same.

I thought it was interesting that the author mentioned using AI for the integral - they clearly didn't use it for the prose which is exceptional!

I miss reading high quality stuff like this.

I'm not sure how well this take will age.

Its certainly true at the moment, but give it 10 years and we might have systems that are much cheaper and much better at context management than they are now.

(Apologies to anyone who is under the impression that we were very likely going to be at the singularity in 10 years time. Possible != very likely)

i dont think there is any software on the planet that i would consider "truly life changing", so i find it a bit weird to hold ai up to that standard.

Surely you're kidding right?

You can have a medical emergency while sitting on the can in a bathroom, and then call up your doctor who can magically see exactly whats wrong as if they are looking through a literal crystal ball portal, and then they can immediately search through a corpus of billions of medical papers to find the best solution, and relay that back to you. Then when the call ends, you can summon a car to come drive you home like a magic carpet, and the dude driving it gets paid automatically with coins that you weren't even carrying at the time.

Magic is real. We are f***ing wizards.

What if their position represents their values

One of my best professors often asked me:

"what are you trying to achieve here?"

Every time they asked this, it always put me into a deep thinking mode. In some cases it did trigger defensive mindsets, but I think having to actually engage by taking a step back and think deeply is for the best if you want to have any hope of changing your mind on something.

I only discuss pros and cons with smart people; I don’t argue right and wrong with ego-driven ones.

There is a certain logic to this. If someone can't reason, there is no point in giving them the truth. You might as well lie to them.

Of course, your ability to assess someone's reasoning depends often on their existing opinions, so there is a circular reasoning here where two sides with the same mindset can each believe the other to be stupid because of their position, and then refuse to engage in good faith discussions.

I don't make a lot of friends this way, but I usually try to just focus on facts no matter what, and do my best to separate the fact that I'm discussing ideas and not people. An idea might be good or bad given a certain situation, but not the people involved.

Speak for yourself but I certainly don't know how it works.

Also, if you don't think the difficulty is the knowledge, I'm sorry but I must disagree. There has been more than one government or corporation or large institution that has tried to destroy history and knowledge in the past.

I think it's fair to say that knowledge is also at risk.

Nope nope nope. That's enough internet news for today thank you!

Land value tax would fix this

IMO nothing even comes close to beating a land value tax with a citizens dividend for fixing housing and wealth distribution challenges.

This. Isn't. News.

People. Already. Know. This.

It hasn't been the bottleneck for decades for the majority of products.

Any good resources or wrappers for indexedDB people would recommend? The API seems kinda unapproachable compared to other data stores.

https://github.com/tinyplex/tinybase seems kinda good maybe?

Most people in the real work are pretty nervous about AI as well.

This isn't a HN specific thing.

Most people think AI represents a threat to many good things.

I can't say that they're saying either. There are undoubtedly many ways that this doesn't end well.

I think it's pretty natural to be defensive when it feels like your way of life is being threatened.