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Reddit seems to me like the worst example for this.

Reddit does not create the content on their site, the users do.

If anybody’s going to get compensated for that content, it should be the users, not Reddit. Complaining that Reddit is losing out on the monetization of their users’ output seems problematic to me. It feels like shilling for a pimp.

Given Pete Hegseth’s history, this could be a huge national security issue.

This.

What everybody keeps forgetting over and over again is that software is super complicated even if it can be changed from a keyboard without the use of physical morphing tools.

People who do not themselves generate software are in the position of telling the people who generate software how to do it and what the constraints should be on the outcomes.

Accept that it is complicated and that you cannot know in advance when it will be done unless it is a super simple request.

It is indeed more like oil field exploration than it is like sweeping the floor.

You cannot really know where the solution to a complicated problem lies in advance and therefore you cannot predict how long it will take you to find it.

People on the finance side just need to face the fact that there is risk that cannot be eliminated in advance or even quantified particularly accurately.

If your investors cannot stomach this, they probably need to invest in something other than software development.

Good luck with finding that in 2026.

There’s a long history of using various organs from dead animals as parts/tools in agricultural and industrial processes.

This is one of the smallest scale cases I’ve heard of, but not nearly as weird or innovative as it sounds at first blush.

People have long been making analogous use of stomachs, intestines, even skulls if you go back far enough.

It's definitely a cult for elected officials who join (according to your discriminating criterion)

Why did the original post for which these are the discussions disappear from HN? I cannot even find it with a word search and it should not have been displaced from the top 30 yet.

I suspect this was an easy way to test it without having to build a rotatable optical bench.

A practical device may be an array of light sources and telescopes on a rotating mount or a set of moveable mirrors that achieve the same effect.

This is truly terrible.

What happened to a new JS front end library every week?

If this keeps up, we won't get to completely throw away all of our old code and retool every two years (the way we've been operating for the last 20 years)

How will we ever spend 85% of our time spinning up on new js front end libraries?

And don't even get me started on the back end.

If AI had been around in 2010, we probably still have some people writing apps in Rails.

OMG what a disaster that would be.

It's a good thing we just completely threw away all of the work that went into all of those gems. If people had continued using them, we wouldn't have had the chance to completely rewrite all of them in node and python from scratch.

I guess this signals the end of focusing on testing to prove one's "rank" as a student and actually start focusing on educating students rather than evaluating them.

The whole problem with factory mass-education is the almost exclusive focus on evaluation. A little bit of education happens as a side-effect of the unrelenting soul-crushing evaluation so we've put up with it and called it education for 100 years.

ChatGPT will make it nearly impossible to cause any educating to happen as a side effect of constant re-evaluation.

That means we are going to have to focus on education directly. Probably just train ChatGPT to be a really good tutor and everybody gets a 19th century rich boy's education instead of the junk we've had in feed-lot-style schools for the last 100 years.

Note that Waldorf schools are kind of immune to this problem since the kids don't get to touch a computer until they are in 9th grade and heck, they don't even read until 2nd grade.

Waldorf schools work. There is no testing, there are no grades until high School.

Lots of the silicon valley elite send their kids to Waldorf schools.

Are they all completely unaware of the effectiveness of deliberate practice?

I rather doubt it.

I think they are aware that motivation is what really matters.

My three kids all went to Waldorf School and never had grades until they entered high school at a public school.

None of them ever made anything less than an a+ in any class in a public school.

This was transitioning cold straight out of Waldorf with no testing to a public school.

They all got into very good colleges and are performing extraordinarily well at college. (My oldest daughter graduated from Stanford with a CS degree and straight A's)

Motivation, motivation, motivation.

This document is conduct unbecoming of a congressional committee.

Can you guys add huggingface transformers as one of the public demo repos? I have some very specific use cases where I've seen ChatGPT with GPT4 totally fall on its face Dunning-Kruger style.

I'd like to see if your tech solves those issues.

So specifically, you are saying that LLM coding assistant currently gets confused when working on a large source file but if it had room for more context, you could get better help in writing code because it would have understanding of the entire module. Correct?

No specific practical problems though? Looks to me a lot like "it's amazing. we want more amazing" rather than "if we had it, we could solve this specific practical problem people have been wanting to solve for a long time without considering a LLM as a possible solution"