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> Ps does HN offer the capability of completely deleting the account and all of the comments ?

They claim to allow deleting the account (just the name, they keep the comments up), but in practice they ignore requests. Source: personal experience.

This is also very similar to N-version programming :)

> I take it you haven't seen the world of HTML cleaners [1]?

Are you seriously comparing deterministic code formatters to nondeterministic LLMs? This isn't just a change of scale because it is qualitatively different.

> Kansas certainly didn't develop their website [2] using an LLM.

Just because the software industry has a problem with incompetence doesn't mean we should be reaching for a tool that regularly hallucinates nonsense.

> IMO, the real problem with software is the lack of a warranty.

You will never get a warranty from an LLM because it is inherently nondeterministic. This is actually a fantastic argument _not_ to use LLMs for anything important including generating program text for software.

> It really shouldn't matter how the software is made

It does matter regardless of warranty or the qualities of the software because programs ought to be written to be read by humans first and machines second if you care about maintaining them. Until we create a tool that actually understands things, we will have to grapple with the problem of maintaining software that is written and read by humans.

No, a lot of people on this website value very highly their completely irrelevant nitpicks. I’m starting to think it’s just the kind of mind the tech industry attracts, because I’ve noticed it in some coworkers as well.

GDP per capita is an almost completely meaningless metric if you don’t also include cost of living and some way of measuring the quality of goods and services it acquires for you.

You are correct, but universities did use to actually teach. SICP is still relevant 40 years later, and it was because the professors who created the class and textbook actually gave a fuck, knew what they were doing, and were still allowed to do their jobs. I really do think this is a recent phenomenon, but I have no idea how to get back what we once had from the parasite class.

FWIW, I believe RealPage works to lower rent. Every landlord wants to say, “We charge below the 50% mark”, thereby steadily lowering it over time.

That all sounds obvious and inevitable, but it also relies on the return from capital out-earning the return from labor by quite a lot. This hasn’t always been true, but it does seem likely to continue.

No

Really? All real estate is worth the exact same? That's news to me.

Look up fungible in a dictionary. Housing is not fungible because not all units of housing are interchangeable. Being able to sell something does not make it fungible.

Stocks are fungible. Housing is not.

> I think this is because we introduce a complicated way to calculate determinants and then we use determinants to calculate the eigenvalues?

Yes, the determinant should be taught and defined as the volume of the parallelepiped in n-dimensions defined by the columns of the given square matrix. This perspective makes it immediately obvious that the eigenvalues scale the parallelepiped in each of its dimensions (a basis of eigenvectors makes it even simpler). Of course the volume (determinant) must be the product of these scaling factors (eigenvalues)! Since algebra is too convenient for solving problems, this geometric intuition is often an afterthought if it's even taught at all.