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It's a fair point. It's hard to know where we are in the S curve. Considering how much better it's gotten in the past 12 months I don't get the sense that we're decelerating toward…

Beautiful and witty prose to say "vibe coding sucks". He's not at all wrong about the state of AI coding in May of 2025. The 3 hours I just burned trying to get it to correct outpu…

This seems correct, and I suffer from the same issue as the author, but I'm curious if it's as simple as "you don't believe in the projects". Does Pieter Levels believe in all of h…

https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/378171

Chris - just saw your presentation of this at PNNL, awesome seeing it pop up on HN too!

I'm starting at Pacific Northwest National Lab on Monday in the data science and analytics group. I am coming from a 100% corporate background, and I am expecting a non-trivial cul…

This is an excellent demonstration of the denial that Romney is pointing out

We have to do everything. There's no either/or... we HAVE to reduce consumption, we HAVE to find lower-carbon alternatives for everything we continue to consume, and we HAVE to cre…

I did a weekly "don't eat anything on Sunday and don't eat until Monday lunch" for about a year. Sunday afternoon/evening I'd be kinda groggy and grumpy. I'd wake up on Monday morn…

It's not about what's easier, and it's not an either/or proposal. Atmospheric CO2 is currently around 419ppm. Even if we cut our CO2 emissions to zero tomorrow, we still have 419pp…

I held my nose and jumped in feet first. Actually, I spent 3 months backpacking around Europe first, then went home and just didn't get a new job. It took 6 months to land a client…

I did this in 2013. I not only quit my job, but my life. I packed up my entire apartment in a uhaul and dropped it off at goodwill. I packed a backpack and bounced around a handful…

I wish I had your confidence, to argue with Wes McKinney about the details of how Arrow works

How would he look me up? He didn't know my name. Can lyft drivers see the full name of the people who they pick up, or just the first name? If they can see the full name, then MAYB…

Oh, and also - this morning FB suggested I may know the Lyft driver from last night. I wasn't even the one who ordered the Lyft, I just rode in it. I don't have the FB app installe…

Recently my girlfriend discovered the depth of the program FB started to listen to the microphone, even if the app isn't on. She never installed the FB app on her new phone. Multip…

[slow clap]

I worked for Hospira last year on the Plum A+ and 360 infusion pumps but not the PCA. I'm a little surprised such a blatant security hole wasn't caught, considering the magnitude o…

TL;DR - "This rule is so underrated, keep ya family and business complete separated"

That's really cool. At times it looks like a spider spinning a web. Does it ever reach a state where the behavior becomes constant?

If you want to remove some of your self-described "ignorance" I highly recommend "Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos". It's a great primer on the origi…

We'll also find Turing's prosecution as insane as Galileo's. I suppose the overwhelming majority of us already do, but hopefully in the year 4000 even the most conservative of reli…

In the example scenario, wouldn't the doctor be able to get tax deductions for college loan payments as well as dependent care of seniors? The mortgage underwater scenario sucks, b…