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by codingdave 7mo ago
Please don't make this a daily thing. We have a monthly thread for this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937696
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by codingdave 7mo ago
There was also the WPA program in the USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration The work also included infrastructure projects, and often would create public art to decorate the infrastructure. T
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by codingdave 7mo ago
IANAL, but this seems like an odd test to me. Judges do what their name implies - make judgment calls. I find it re-assuring that judges get different answers under different scenarios, because it means they are listening and making judgmen
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by codingdave 7mo ago
SaaS didn't disrupt spreadsheets, it just gave people the opportunity to get the processes out of spreadsheets that never should have been there in the first place. What we are seeing today from LLMs is another flavor of how SaaS fixed
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by codingdave 7mo ago
You should have a shutoff valve on every pipe that goes through an external wall. Before bitter cold like that, turn off the valve and drain that pipe. If it is supplying an outdoor spigot, that shutoff should just be part of your winter pr
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by codingdave 7mo ago
This doesn't sound like a problem that need its own tool. A robust prompt specifying that you want each response to include consideration of those various perspectives should do the job just as well. Paste such a prompt into any new ch
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by codingdave 7mo ago
Your question is also asked all the time: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... You can probably find many other posts as well by searching different phrases. Folks are always fishing f
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by codingdave 7mo ago
Sounds plausible, but the article itself lists a number of downsides to this, including a statement about potential security problems with a somewhat wishy washy "The input is almost never user-controlled". That "almost never
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by codingdave 7mo ago
This sounds like it is embracing the most dystopian parts of social apps: "Was having an algorithm mindlessly feed you content not passive enough for you? Now we'll remove all your privacy, watch everything you do, and tell you wh
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by codingdave 7mo ago
> If you haven’t spent at least $1,000 on tokens today per human engineer, your software factory has room for improvement At that point, outside of FAANG and their salaries, you are spending more on AI than you are on your humans. And th
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by codingdave 7mo ago
What limits did you run into with JWT?
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by codingdave 7mo ago
The discussions around this point are taking it too seriously, even when they are 100% correct. LLMs are not deterministic, so they are not compilers. Sure, if you specify everything - every tiny detail, you can often get them to mostly mat
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by codingdave 8mo ago
Ah, yes, a former co-worker was one of the guys who stole a gnome for some travel and made national news with it in the 90s. Amusing anecdotes, to be sure.
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by codingdave 8mo ago
I tell ya what - I'm currently working on finalizing a contract with someone for related work, but if that falls apart for some reason, I might pick this back up independently, and if so, I might be interested in chatting more. I'
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by codingdave 8mo ago
Can people add old trips to their map? Otherwise, this is more of a "where I took my phone since installing this app", not a full journal of lifetime travel. I'd also recommend offering a native or web app, so people who have
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by codingdave 8mo ago
There is zero information on your page. It literally is just a couple buttons. For a "Show HN", you need to post something people can try out: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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by codingdave 8mo ago
Re-indexing seem sub-optimal. I can't think of a use case where people care if the design changes. Even some content changes are not going to be interesting. Someone corrected a typo, updated punctuation, that kind of thing... such thi
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by codingdave 8mo ago
This isn't a 'Show HN". It is an ad for paid content. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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by codingdave 8mo ago
Writing a scraper isn't the hard part, that is actually fairly trivial at this point in time. Pulling content into JSON from your scrape is also fairly trivial - libraries exist that handle it well. The harder parts are things like pla
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by codingdave 8mo ago
Overly-polished real estate listings also can directly impact your long-term finances. In many jurisdictions, assessors will update your property value after a sale, and they will look at the listing to be sure the valuation matches the cur
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by codingdave 8mo ago
Yes, the public nature of government payrolls is unique. Many of the other concerns mentioned in the article are more broadly problematic, but private payrolls are not published. Government payrolls are. You can seek out the names, titles,
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by codingdave 8mo ago
It depends on what you mean by "a job in CS". An academic job, actually working with computer science concepts? Doubtful. But that is not what most tech jobs are. Coding and IT roles are certainly related to the academic CS, but y
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by codingdave 8mo ago
There is nothing wrong with being in the minority opinion. Sometimes that is where good insights come from, but even if not, we don't need to encourage tunnel vision in the opinions here. But I agree that the pace of the postings is a
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by codingdave 8mo ago
The cards aren't sorted by suit, and I saw no way to do so. Hearts really isn't playable if you cannot organize your cards.
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by codingdave 8mo ago
Yes, but not the way you are thinking. My prior job was for a group within a large company who were early into going "All in" on AI. They insisted that we move our products towards AI, that everyone use AI for all the things, etc.
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by codingdave 8mo ago
Keep in mind that in ye olden days, email was not a worldwide communication method. It was more typical for it to be an internal-only mail system, running on whatever legacy mainframe your org had, and working within whatever constraints th
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by codingdave 8mo ago
They are good at purely mechanical debugging - throw them an error, they can figure out which line threw it, and therefore take a reasonable stab at how to fix it. Anything where the bug is actually in the code, sure, you'll get an ans
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by codingdave 8mo ago
Yes, in my experience sprints almost always go according to plan. But that is because if the team cannot successfully run a Scrum process, then they don't. Trying to force sprints and scrum onto a team that cannot or will not do it is
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by codingdave 8mo ago
I find that most of the people I talk to feel about the same as this. There are vocal minorities at the extremes, and there are people producing and falling for hype, but if you get away from online discussions and just talk to people worki
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by codingdave 8mo ago
Interesting naming choice and use of the screenshots from the Simpsons considering the backlash that show has received for its racist stereotypes.

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