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I didn’t catch it either on the first pass but also felt something was off about the article, as if a human had sanitised most of the AI idiosyncrasies out.

Now I have taken note to auto-distrust any “article” that lacks an author name, who is willing to personally own any accusations of the article being AI slop.

Considering that you chose to not include your name or even a HN username in the byline of the article, there is an argument to be made that you are, in fact, hiding from it.

Also three uses of a semi-colon for no reason. Nobody writes like this.

> The log is the truth; the order book is just a real-time projection of this sequence.

> The book is fast; the log is truth.

> Matching engines can crash; the log cannot.

This is an interesting observation. One possible explanation for a lack of robust first class table manipulation support in mainstream languages could be due to the large variance in real-world table sizes and the mutually exclusive subproblems that come with each respective jump in order-of-magnitude row size.

The problems that one might encounter in dealing with a 1m row table are quite different to a 1b row table, and a 1b row table is a rounding error compared to the problems that a 1t row table presents. A standard library needs to support these massive variations at least somewhat gracefully and that's not a trivial API surface to design.

TUI libraries have sufficiently abstracted away the low-level quirks of terminal rendering that the terminal has become something like a canvas[0] available in the IDE with no extensions. This is quite a nice DevX if you want to display the state of an app that does something to data, without writing the necessary plumbing to pipe that data to a browser and render it.

[0] https://github.com/NimbleMarkets/ntcharts/blob/main/examples...

Imo the fact that an "AWS Certified Solutions Architect" is yet another AWS service/thing that is attainable, via an actual exam[0] for $300, is indicative of just how intentionally bloated the entire system has become.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-solutions-arc...

> where I feel so disconnected from my codebase I'd rather just delete it than continue.

If you allow your codebase to grow unfamiliar, even unrecognisable to you, that's on you, not the AI. Chasing some illusion of control via LLM output reproducibility won't fix the systemic problem of you integrating code that you do not understand.

> is absolutely cruel.

> What a horrible thing

They offered 6 months severance which dispels any serious notion of 'cruelty'. Substance over form.

The problem with using random real world situations as analogies for niches within Software Engineering is that they're not only (almost) ways wrong, but always misrepresentative of the situation in it's entirety

> But honestly what are the examples of people losing their jobs to software?

And furthermore, what is the full causality chain that links the precise PR in provided example software to the employment termination decision? Lacking that, can you really assert the software 'automated' a dev out of the job?

This is too abstract and a concrete example of what this looks like in output is needed.

It often does[0].

[0] https://vfoley.xyz/just/

I don't know x3

> some of us are in the demoscene since over 20 years :)

Demoscene is different, though what I'm imagining with shadertoy and what it could be hasn't really been implemented. GLSL shaders are fully obscure outside of dev circles and that's a bummer.

GLSL is fine. People don't understand that shaders are not just programs but literal works of art[0]. The art comes from the ability to map a canvas's (x,y) -> (r,g,b,a) coordinates in real time to create something mesmerising, and then let anyone remix the code to create something new from the browser.

With IV code, that goes out the way.

[0] examples Matrix 3D shader: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4t3BWl - Very fast procedural ocean: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4dSBDt

Blockchain is here to stay, this is way past the point of "believing in the tech" - recently an wss:// order book exchange (Hyperliquid) crossed $1T volume traded, and they started in 2023.

Blockchains are becoming real-time data structures where everyone has admin level read-only access to everyone.

The issue here is regardless of implementation details (all the privacy/ID stuff falls in this bucket), the remedy being proposed here seems obviously much worse than the ailment.

The privacy concerns and “ID everyone” are the boring, standard dystopian parts of this, perfectly in line with the government-by-nannying that Canberra types enjoy.

The better question is what counts as social media? Is HN social media that under 16yo Australians need to be kept away from?

With o1 pro you're paying for unlimited compute that you don't get with $20 + capped o1.

There's a need to be pragmatic here; In the event of any kinetic Chinese aggression, TSMC (and other co's) fabs are going to be rendered inoperable, regardless of how well executed a US response is.

There is a difference between "this code does things in ways I don't like" and "this code does things in ways nobody likes"

The FH synchronised side booster landing was visually epic and is timeless, but nothing quite tops the distinct feeling of actually seeing a the first stage of an orbital-class rocket return to Earth in a non-mangled up state. This video helps to relive the goosebumps: https://youtu.be/brE21SBO2j8?si=EZ8y5vcRTmG3eU75

This might be the first launch that tops the jaw-dropping excitement of the Falcon 9 LZ-1 landing way back in 2015. Godspeed starship and best of luck to all the SpaceX team.

If you are a native English speaker it’s nearly trivial. What i’ve found is even ESL speakers who have basically perfect English are thrown off by this. I don’t know why.

Some backstory: By chance whilst visiting Ho Chi Minh city, I tried to create a tongue twister for a Vietnamese girl who spoke perfect English. This one did it.

I hadn’t yet asked ChatGPT or any other LLM until now to break down why a very reproducible task (English essentially must be your native language to pronounce this correctly) is near-impossible to do in rapid succession for ESL speakers.

I used o1-preview. Afaik, this is a new tongue twister.

Doubt this is coordinated - more likely a singular (m/b)illionaire wanted a post/photo/video, or multiple of, deleted for good, perhaps for suppression of legal evidence, and this was one way of bringing some firepower to a… library. One of the internets biggest libraries too. Odd.

I fully trust apple photos / g photos, on an iphone.

Idk/idc about the "daily 0 days" that you referenced, I do care about being able to know with absolute certainty that my photos will be there 20 years from now.

> apple still won't let you use the european app store because the phone knows your location.

The national app store you get to use (the region of your iphone) is based on your billing address + card details (which obviously are validated when you enter them), not your phone location.

To answer your question - however you feel about Israel, if you live in the west, it is absolutely not in your best interest to have Russia or China be buddies with Israel, which either would very gladly be.

I don't think anybody in 2014 believed that the performance of GPT-4/Claude Opus/... was 10 years away. 25 years maybe, 50 years probably, but not 10.

It was made to be small out of necessity. The US government put extensive export controls on many inter-GPU connectivity products last year and expanded those controls recently to include anything above an A100.

Page 9 of this recently published paper[1] is a strong indicator of how far non-US firms go to formally analyze and factor in these bandwidth constraints in building large models.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.15786v2.pdf