One of my favorite stories about logistics and quarterly earnings deadlines (from when I worked at a pharmaceutical company:"In our business, a truckload of various drugs can easily reach $10-$15 million. Now, if that truck arrives at the depot at 11:59pm March 31st then it's first quarter earnings. If it arrives at 12:01am April 1st then it's second quarter earnings.$15 million is a BIG shortfall, even for us, so you better believe those truck drivers will roll the stop signs, blow red lights e

> How is this the fault of AI? It flagged a possible match. A live human detective confirmed it.Because we're seeing the first instances of what reality looks like with AI in the hands of the average bear. Just like the excuse was "but the computer said it was correct," now we're just shifting to "but the AI said it was correct."Don't underestimate how much authority and thinking people will delegate to machines. Not to mention the lengths they'll go to weasel out of taking responsibility for a

For historical context, the Advogato site in question: https://web.archive.org/web/20170715120119/http://advogato.o...Background on the "trust metric" implemented on the site: https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000542/https://advogato....Apparently my account on the site is/was now more than a quarter of a century old... Gonna try to avoid thinking on that too deeply. :DThere's been a non-zero number of occasions since that time where I've observed situations that mirror the trust-based challen

One way that I could imagine a human-only HN could evolve in the coming AI wasteland: motivated individuals join small local groups and are validated face-to-face at meet-ups. Local trusted leads gatekeep their chapter’s posts, and this scalable moderation works up the tree. Bad leaves get culled out reasonably fast, maybe there’s some controls at the top level that let you see more content “lower down the tree” if you’re ok with lower SNR. Latency to get a post widely distributed grows but I do

> I furthermore wish that "posting an LLM-generated comment (i.e. and passing it off as your own)" was worthy of an instant banIt pretty much is. It’s not hard and fast (sometimes we’ll warn people or email them to ask if it’s not certain) and it takes time for us to see things and act, especially when people don’t email us when they see these comments.But as a general rule, accounts that post generated comments get banned.

I think this is a reasonable decision (although maybe increasingly insufficient).It doesn't really matter what your stance on AI is, the problem is the increased review burden on OSS maintainers.In the past, the code itself was a sort of proof of effort - you would need to invest some time and effort on your PRs, otherwise they would be easily dismissed at a glance. That is no longer the case, as LLMs can quickly generate PRs that might look superficially correct. Effort can still have been out

There is a lot of talk about how LLMs will disrupt software development and office work and whatnot, but there is one thing that they are massively disrupting right now, and that is education. I've witnessed this with a group of CS master students recently, and they have let their programming skills atrophy to barely imaginable levels. LLMs have the twin effect of raising the bar for what even a barely viable junior developer has to live up to, while simultaneously lowering their actual skills.

I've accidentally been using an AI-proof hiring technique for about 20 years: ask a junior developer to bring code with them and ask them to explain it verbally. You can then talk about what they would change, how they would change it, what they would do differently, if they've used patterns (on purpose or by accident) what the benefits/drawbacks are etc. If they're a senior dev, we give them - on the day - a small but humorously-nasty chunk of code and ask them to reason through it live.Works r

Or, and I beg you to consider this radical position: we arrest people who break the law (insider trading is illegal) and those who knowingly help them to do so (the operators of the prediction markets).How quickly we accept the death of even the ideal of rule of law in favor of embracing a return to an explicit rule by might, fuck-you-got-mine mentality.

This idea isn't uncommon because it's beyond the Overton window, it's uncommon because it is silly and unworkable.* Total fantasy to think you wouldn't fall afoul of free speech, both legally (in the US) and morally.In fact, the author touts as a benefit that you'd stop populists being able to talk to their audience. This is destroying the village of liberal democracy in order to save it!* Absolutely zero thought has been given to how to police the boundaries. Giving a paid speech? Free gifts fo

There is a certain amount of irony that people try really hard to say that hallucinations are not a big problem anymore and then a company that would benefit from that narrative gets directly hurt by it.Which of course they are going to try to brush it all away. Better than admitting that this problem very much still exists and isn’t going away anytime soon.

> The idea that the free market will self-correct and optimize outcomes is a well-documented fantasy.There are far too many documented instances of it actually working to call it a fantasy.> Markets don’t account for externalitiesMarkets aren't expected to account for externalities. Externalities are the things you're supposed to tax.> they concentrate wealth (and therefore political power)You're describing regulatory capture. This is why governments are supposed to have limited powers. To keep

Students want the diploma because it has value. It has value because a student can only get it by learning and problem-solving.If students find a way to get a diploma without doing the work, it will soon be worth less than the paper on which it is printed.

I think we are going to be seeing a vast partitioning in society in the next months and years.The process of forming expressions just is the process of conceptual and rational articulation (as per Brandom). Those who misunderstand this -- believing that concepts are ready made, then encoded and decoded from permutations of tokens, or, worse, who have no room to think of reasoning or conceptualization at all -- they will be automated away.I don't mean that their jobs will be automated: I mean tha

There really is a few comments here with great suggestions for how to improve your resume and online presence. It seems like some of it can still be tried, or if you feel it was already tried but got rolled back, then they can be tried again altogether.Unfortunately, there's also a lot of noise here too... As a start, I'd say these few comments have solid, specific, actionable suggestions:- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43978225- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43978405- https://new

I love the fact that the author "wrote" this page with massive CSS framework (tailwind) and some sort of Javascript framework, with a bundler and obfuscator - instead of a plain, simple HTML page. Well played! :-)

I've been trying to manifest Web of Trust coming back to help people navigate towards content that's created by humans.A system where I can mark other people as trusted and see who they trust, so when I navigate to a web page or in this case, a Github pull request, my WoT would tell me if this is a trusted person according to my network.

I have a Clicks Keyboard and love it. As far as I can tell the team behind the Clicks are pretty intertwined with https://www.fxtec.com/ - in that FX Tech staff seem to be involved in Clicks support, etc.The Clicks Keyboard for iPhone (14) was a great concept, and pretty well executed for a V1 - I haven’t tried their follow-up devices.But assuming it’s the same team, there’s a history of shipping devices behind them.(That isn’t to encourage you to pre-order! Just to perhaps contribute some more

I mean if people had to pay $9.99 per application that would drastically reduce spam applications. So the mail proposal still has a good effect here.

Yeah, this is just long-form linkedin slop. He's thought-leadering to get you to get his (no-doubt slop-written) guides and do leadgen for his forthcoming saas.sigh.

These comments are comical. How hard is it to understand that human beings are experiential creatures. Our experiences matter, to survival, to culture, and identity.I mourn the horse masters and stable boys of a century past because of their craft. Years of intuition and experience.Why do you watch a chess master play, or a live concert, or any form of human creation?Should we automate parts of our profession? Yes.Should he mourn the loss of our craft. Also yes.

I'm happy for the guy, but am I jealous as well? Well yes, and that's perfectly human.We have someone who vibe coded software with major security vulnerabilities. This is reported by many folksWe also have someone who vibecoded without reading any of the code. This is self admitted by this person.We don't know how much of the github stars are bought. We don't know how many twitter followings/tweets are bought.Then after a bunch of podcasts and interviews, this person gets hired by a big tech com

Wait a second, did they measure exposure from Claude logs and just assumed impact?Let's say I sell snake oil and I survey every buyer, trying to convince everyone doctors won't be needed in the future.First conclusion is that retired population seeks medical services the most (reality check - according to CDC most doctor visits are for infants).Second conclusion is that because it's a snake oil, it heals all the problems and those people will never return to outdated healthcare system.

I am not going to trust a single word from a company whose business is selling you AI products.

I am going to try to put this kindly: it is very glib, and people will find it offensive and obnoxious, to implicitly round off all resistance or skepticism to incuriosity. Perhaps to alienate AI critics even further is the goal, in which case - carry on.But if you are genuinely confused by the attitudes of your peers, try asking not "what do I have that they lack" ("curiosity"?) but "what do they see that I don't" or "what do they care about that I don't"? Is it possible that they are not enthu

We're going to at least restrict Show HNs for a while.I do think this is relevant though: "HN can't be immune from macro trends" - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...