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If AI works the way you suggest then we've literally been here before and we know exactly how this goes. When tractors came along, farmers became dramatically more productive. Were…

In what sense is AI like paying for ads? In one case you legitimately lose to the competition if you stop (prisoner's dilemma). In other case, whether and how much you lose depends…

Or, you know, just use a service intended for this purpose: https://timestamp.stanford.edu/

And how do you get this to work exactly? I keep getting variations of "Missing required parameter: redirect_uri" in the OAuth flow. The solutions proposed by Gemini and Google's AI…

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Just popping in here because people seem to be surprised by > I build on the exact hardware I intend to deploy my software to and ship it to another machine with the same specs as …

Post is new but the original PDF is from 2025: Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42959775

Please don't take up space in the comment section with accusations. You can report this at the email below and the mods will look at it: > Please don't post insinuations about astr…

Without an empirical methodology it's hard to know how true this is. There are known and well-documented human biases (e.g., placebo effect) that could easily be involved here. And…

I agree with your points. Answering your one question for posterity: > Also how were the data races significant if nobody noticed them for a decade ? They only replicated in our CI…

> it is a career-ending failure It depends highly on the field. In history, sure. The point of getting a history PhD is to become a history professor, and you can't do that if you …

I have an old account, you can read my history of comments and see if my style has changed. No need to take my word for it.

Iteration is inherent to how computers work. There's nothing new or interesting about this. The question is who prunes the space of possible answers. If the LLM spews things at you…

For context I've been an AI skeptic and am trying as hard as I can to continue to be. I honestly think we've moved the goalposts. I'm saying this because, for the longest time, I t…

It's not just about the increase in volume, it's about the delta between the prompt and the generation. If the generation merely restates the prompt (possibly in prettier, cleaner …

Is there something like this, but without (or with minimal) spoilers?

It's that, but it's also that the incentives are misaligned. How many supposed "10x" coders actually produced unreadable code that no one else could maintain? But then the effort t…

Not the same industry but at least one literary agent does this: if you physically print and mail your book proposal, they will respond with a short but polite, physical rejection …

But this is exactly my point: if your "code" is different than your "pseudocode", something is wrong. There's a reason why people call Lisp "executable pseudocode", and it's becaus…

But this is what I don't get. Writing code is not that hard . If the act of physically typing my code out is a bottleneck to my process, I am doing something wrong . Either I've un…

Here's a paper from September 2025 that compares programs for (a) semantic equivalence (do they do the same thing) and (b) syntactic similarity (are the parse trees similar). LLMs …

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The other answers are great, but let me just add that C++ cannot be parsed with conventional LL/LALR/LR parsers, because the syntax is ambiguous and requires disambiguation via typ…

The solution I've found is to make using the API a hard error with an explicitly temporary and obnoxiously-named workaround variable. WORKAROUND_URLLIB3_HEADER_DEPRECATION_THIS_IS_…