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You shouldn't need to read a manual to figure out how to open the door of your car.

Depends on what we categorize as a coding agent. Devin was released two years ago. Cursor was about the same, and it released agent mode around 1.5 years ago. Aider has been around even longer than that I think.

How exactly would they become "unflushable"?

Also, surely if they were excellent candidates then you'd be doing your absolute best to keep them around?

Are the companies running the various AI systems going to release all of their source code and internal research to benefit society too?

He sits on the U.S. Supreme Court and is one of those responsible for this ruling.

"While it is true that pigs are less compatible with humans than monkeys, they can be genetically manipulated to produce organs less likely to be rejected on transplantation. Pigs quickly grow to full size, produce larger litters and can be more easily reared by biotechnology companies."

They do cover this point.

Funnily enough, I recently had to help with an issue where a company's payment screen was not loading correctly and instead displaying "Invalid session". They use a third-party vendor to handle payments and display their payment form in an iFrame on their website.

There is an initial request to create a session that has to pass the desired expiration time of the session. Unfortunately, the vendor requires the time to be in Eastern Time. The poor, naive soul that originally implemented this just got the current date, added 15 minutes, and converted it to "EST". As soon as daylight savings hit a few weeks ago, the expiration time was automatically being set to 45 minutes in the past, the vendor was responding with "Invalid Session" and the company was unable to take payments from customers.

I think their scouting team has definitely played a huge part, bringing in relative unknowns like Vardy, Mahrez and Kante. Most teams in the premier league track all sorts of statistics nowadays though, so I don't think that has set Leicester apart from the others. Companies like Opta make a fortune by providing some of this data.

Overall, I think they've recruited well, been managed well and have all played to a level most people didn't think was in them. All of that combined with the other top teams all having horrific seasons means the stars have aligned for Leicester. It would be a tragedy if they didn't go ahead and take the title now.

Well in a browser extension, you wouldn't necessarily have a lot of people grabbing the comment history. The program could still run as it does, calling the HN API every ten minutes for new replies. The browser extension could just call the service to see if it has found any new replies for you particularly.

I had a conversation about this exact thing while on a business trip with some colleagues recently. I'm from Ireland while my colleagues were from Finland, Italy and France. In Irish culture, we talk a lot and seeing strangers conversing on public transport, with the cashier at the check-out or just waiting at a bus stop is quite normal. However, my Italian and Finnish friends said that this was one of the weirdest things they had to get used to when in Ireland. In their respective countries it's just considered common courtesy to not start up conversations with strangers and just grant them their personal space.

This social experiment is very interesting, but the results would probably be very different depending on what country you're in.

Not entirely true though. Yes the advertisers are their customers, but their customers need a large supply of the product (the users). In order to keep a consistently large supply of the product, Facebook has the difficult task of finding that middle ground where users are happy using the site and advertisers are happy with the revenue they are making from it.

My first car cost me €1000. My latest car that I bought in November cost just north of €3000.

It'll be very interesting to see if she can manage to get out of the deal. It'd also take a monumental effort in recruitment and research to make a move like this a success, in my opinion anyway.

I agree with you on a certain level, since there are so many outside factors influencing how quickly you can become a good programmer. It's not as if you are an average programmer for 10,000 hours and then you magically become a great programmer in the 10,001st hour.

That being said, I don't think the estimate is totally wrong. I've been programming for five years, have just gotten through a Software Engineering degree and am comfortable using three or four languages, but there are many people around me with more experience who's development skills I am just in awe of.

The main point is that nobody can teach themselves to be a programmer (or at least a good one) in three days. To build up the amount of skills and experience required takes many years.