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The worst part of this, is that projects that present themselves like this, poison the pool for everyone else. I imagine that many people are now disinclined to ever publish a hand…

I've heard someone say that this has been going on since 2012, because that is the year that 60% of all Americans (and probably most industrialized countries), owned a smartphone. …

This feels very much like a distinction between letter of the law and spirit of the law. I knew a guy who once forked a very popular browser extension (you've definitely heard of i…

A project can probably use the EUPL instead of the AGPL (EUPL is to AGPL, as MPLv2[0] is to GPL). Basically, EUPL is file-based, not project based, and so it is not aggressively vi…

My understanding is that they used c2rust, and then told the LLM/Agents to make the code more idiomatic rust, while also using the PG test suite as a feedback mechanism. This is al…

Yeah, attacking the problem at the root, is even better than treating the symptoms.

This is similar to the arms-race between spammers and spam-filters, just much more capital intensive. The funny thing about the battle between spammer and spammee, is that we alrea…

In a way, LLMs have made it much more difficult to be believed. On the one hand, my inner paranoiac feels vindicated -- preparing for the worst case, over a lifetime, feels more pr…

This is just the rationalist-empiricist[0] tension, from philosophy. Most empiricists (usually people who are _not_ from continental European cultures), take a position that knowle…

I mean, my point is that we would all be better off without any of the KPIs, and stack-ranking, and so on, in large part because they are not reliable metrics, and making them reli…

Unreliable software is also expensive. Rather, building reliable software is incompatible with a management policy that rewards and punishes people based on KPIs (basically leading…

The argument is not just "theft", and to the extent that "theft" is a part of it, it is not the most important part, not by large margin. The reason that "theft" is not a solid arg…

With the exception of _one_ company that I worked at, pretty much every[0] company was a struggle between engineering and management. Engineering wants to get the software correct,…

Owners and developers. I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Years ago, maybe in the late 2000s, when startups were becoming culturally significant, and "Tech" became an "Ind…

This is very vague. Maybe you could actually name the fintech (or, if that is too sensitive), you can list a few of its competitors?

Yeah, that is situation 2 mentioned above. A Chomsky Grammar is also a generator. So it can generate valid inputs, and then turn them into valid outputs -- and it can do the first …

So, take a look at my previous comment (I am sibling, not parent). The pencil pushers are still being manufactured by the educational system itself, but they major in Business now,…

And, in case anyone needed proof, this is reflected in the US degree-completion-data, when measured as a percentage ( https://galacticbeyond.com/two-percent-programmer/plots/over..…

As someone who does a lot of genetic programming (like, old-school, without AI/LLMs, etc), I can confirm that the fitness function is very difficult to get right, especially if you…

Disclaimer: I have never applied nor worked at oxide, but nevertheless have a bit of an odd thought. Having looked at the process (RFD 3 and original post on dtrace.org), and conte…

You might be surprised just how durable the effects of 40-year-old decisions are. You can actually see changes to the very degree completion-rates, when partitioned by field of stu…

You, and the HN users, `lojban`, `klingon`, `ido`, `brithenig`, `solresol`, `babm`, and `tokipona`, may want to start a club. Amusingly, nobody seems to have registered the `espera…