bellowsgulch

My God! You're practically a terrorist and should be on a watchlist! Who knows what you'll ask next? "Who is the surgeon to the boy?"

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Huh, I guess if you don’t have human employees you don’t need human customers. Thanks for the heads up!

This is a time when I don’t want HN to rewrite an article’s title.

I understand why the mods do it, but I don’t appreciate it. It’s your space, but it’s not your article.

Considering one of ASML's machines supposedly costs half a billion dollars to produce, yeah, $20k is piss to ASML. They could literally sell shares at some fraction of a fraction of ownership, effectively printing money for no voting rights, and pay people six-figure bonuses for staying. Depending on role, maybe 7-figure.

You can simplify your question even more:

To everyone praising free and open source software, if software companies don't make money, how are they and YOU going to get paid, PERIOD?

I was confused about how this was written in the article. Sure, include system time, or a simple get current time tool, whatever, it’s inconsequential for the most part, but who is out here changing datetimes in a conversation and invalidating prefixes?

If you need to, just prefix user messages with the current datetime.

Why is this even a complaint?

By the time you’re sawzall’ing a design it’s not a clean room process.

Why are people designing such thoughtless websites?

Clean-room design isn’t a thing in manufacturing.

Yes, but how do we know specific manufacturing processes weren’t in employee contracts like, “If you leave Apple you can’t utilize the invisible weld process invented here for the iMac.”

I mean regardless of whether it’s a trade secret, you’re going to know how to do specific things that can’t be protected against copying.

There are no practical laws against understanding the laws of physics, chemistry, and metallurgy when it comes to anodizing.

If someone can take it away from you after you've paid for it.*

Physically holding things in the digital age, where someone can remotely change your software, or render it unusable, isn't true ownership.

I observed the same. There are "poor" countries listed here that would make large swaths of Americans look like they still lived pre-WWII, and were destitute.

Edit: Sorry, to be more explicit: by global standards large swaths of Americans DO live pre-WWII lives and have poorly constructed homes and lifestyles.

I don't know why people keep saying there's no moat. There's no moat. Having a FUCK ton of money to train these gigantic fucking models and retain the brains to make it happen is a moat.

You're not going to train one using a VPS from LowEndBox.

Self-attention is an O(n^2) operation. You don't want to train on individual characters, or bytes.

However, what's funny is, RIP to a lot of the paid apps that simply wrap Whisper, I'm sure Apple will make a native GUI such as a recorder app for macOS that obviates the need for these wrappers, which everyone seems to be vibe coding these days.

What's insane to me is that you have all of these low-quality me-too apps, and literally no one could bother to read the damn Human Interface Guidelines or follow iOS design conventions.

Doing so is literally LESS WORK than trying to make your own custom awful iOS UI.

I'm not trying to be edgy or intentionally controversial or something, it's just life. Most things people have to say are not interesting. Not everything written on HN can be exceptional, because by definition it wouldn't be the exception.

Your comment right now, and mine above are not interesting!

In another thread there might be one whole comment out of hundreds that retells the experience of a senior engineer working on an uncommon problem, sharing specifics about a particular industry, piece of intellectual property, or another individual.

The rest will not be interesting. That's normal! That's OK! But most are not.

Most comments aren't interesting.

Yawn. Train a domain-specific model on human inputs and then run inference against that. At integration, you change what, one line of code with another? You at best raise the expense to bot, but in today's world, this isn't much compute expense. You can do it on 10-year-old Xenon processors, the same ones used by companies promoted on LowEndBox.

Skids already fall into the trap of using open source automation like playwright-extra-stealth.

Dan likes some people and you ain't in the group, buddy.

A lot of web development problems are solved. That's what this author and many other very experienced jaded principal engineers try to say year after year.

Because you think whatever you want to pretend your web software isn't MVC isn't solved doesn't mean it's true. Oh brother, MVVM, Model-template-view (no offense, Simon), come on.

You define resources on an HTML page, the browser loads them, renders a page, loads scripts, and makes AJAX calls.

You don't need build scripts for this. More over, these frameworks and build scripts DON'T SOLVE PROBLEMS. They move them. They want you to become a React developer. Not a software engineer who writes web software.

They don't solve routing, because you rewrite it every year. They don't solve bundling, because you change bundlers every year. They don't solve event handling, because they just move the chain of calls where you define the listener.

It's all a lie.

Generally speaking, HN seems to have more of a problem now of people just drive-by downvoting things because they don't like someone's opinion.

I know you hate the supposedly "noob" comment, as you've put it over the years, and as it is written in the guidelines, that HN is or isn't turning into Reddit, but this aspect of HN makes it indistinguishable to me as a long-time reader here whether you accept it from your perspective as a long-time moderator or not.

Because HN moderation allows people to downvote or flag things simply because they don't like something, it will always be like Reddit. There is no distinguishing feature to separate it otherwise.

One thing that would, would be forcing users to say why they downvoted or flagged something.

Edit: If you spend years saying "no, no, it isn't true" to people, you're just sticking your fingers in your ears. Where there's smoke, there's fire.

Something you could distribute without dragging along hundreds of megabytes of V8 or Node.

Holy crap, V8 is that big now? Very interested in this for embedding purposes.

A subtle reminder how inconsequential our actions are on this planet in the grand, unplanned scheme.

I don't like that our culture has developed statements like this.

Every single action you make on planet Earth is more consequential and impactful than the countless parsecs of worthless unobtainable space dust that astrophysicists and science promoters like to glaze over.

Space is nothing compared to the unfathomable amount of synaptic connections in your brain, or the impact you can have on someone's life by hugging them.

Let's piss away all the small blue dot sentiments. They're old and pointless.

Yeah, I start with smaller tasks, like matching dimensional parts. Tasks like these you can't one shot, or they end up producing diagrams of plausible looking Super Soakers, but maybe ones that look more like an enthusiast making their own designs from scratch. Fair approach! But replication is different.

For me, it's not knowing whether or not it understands there's a big difference between a ball valve and a button release, or that once you start talking about depressing mechanisms for pressure release, you're activating some sort of signals that are too close to triggers (which, is what you want, after all!) and "triggers" are embedded with a very short distance to "guns" in any well-trained model.

Because your fucking bananas aren't connected to servers in a datacenter that require you to pay monthly bills and engineers need to get paid more than people stacking rocks for living.

Certainly, but deconstructing the problem, none of the models seem to appreciate the staggering difference between a ball valve and a button release.

Of course, there's also no super soaker engineer jobs to take, so I'm sure training sophisticated models to do well in that area is not a high priority for any firms.

Seems like depending on your field these days, the hot thing to do is build your own private benchmarks.

In my own testing, no frontier model knows how to replicate an original 1990s Super Soaker prototype design, which for the most part, should be almost completely possible with Home Depot parts.

They just don't understand PVC parts, triggers, etc.

The government's worse nightmare: People who own Pixels talking to their family members.

Given the export fears, might want to make that a gay Israelite just to be safe.