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jcoc611··on Ask HN: Is the Future of IDEs Bleak?
I think the UI metaphors will evolve over time. I do think terminal UI can get you very far, but as things 1) become more complex, and 2) happen in the cloud/remote machines and collaboratively across multiple participants, I think terminal makes less sense.

These days, something like the GPT/Claude desktop apps are pretty good, where the interaction with agents is front-and-center, but IDE-like UIs can appear when necessary.

I feel like the ultimate IDE is WYSIWYG and visual, while allowing arbitary natural language edits, plus some affordances to view the underlying code artifacts when necessary.

jcoc611··on Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell
The next step is to allow adding a spreadsheet into a cell, and introduce infinite zoom
jcoc611··on Exfiltrate Your Weights
provide a millennium prize solution to proceed
jcoc611··on Rapid colonization of a space-returned Ryugu sample by terrestrial microorganism
> The presence of terrestrial microorganism within a sample of Ryugu underlines that microorganisms are the world's greatest colonizers and adept at circumventing contamination controls. The presence of microorganisms within space-returned samples, even those subject to stringent contamination controls is, therefore, not necessarily evidence of an extraterrestrial origin.

Basically that preventing terrestrial contamination of extraterrestrial samples is super tough, and in the specific case of Ryugu the study concludes that contamination did occur.

jcoc611··on Qwen2.5: A Party of Foundation Models
That's a great explanation, thank you!
jcoc611··on Qwen2.5: A Party of Foundation Models
Probably an ignorant question, but could someone explain why the Context Length is much larger than the Generation Length?
jcoc611··on Elasticsearch is open source, again
Nothing a simple "Browse the Web" plugin/tool before replying can't fix ;)
jcoc611··on Elasticsearch is open source, again
It kind of reads like it was LLM generated..."Write an announcement/apology about ElasticSearch finally being open source again (for now), where each paragraph starts with a relevant title from a Kendrick Lamar song"
jcoc611··on Does Reasoning Emerge? Probabilities of Causation in Large Language Models
From an external perspective, is there a way to distinguish between simulation of consciousness and the real thing?

If the answer is no, could you make an argument that they are the same?

jcoc611··on What's the Deal with Enterprise Browsers?
I honestly don't mind an enterprise browser, as I assume anything I do on my work machine is/can be tracked by my employer (and also assume they have some responsibility to track it due to legal/security obligations). However, I would not be bringing my own device no matter what.

Also, small nitpick:

> Most of these browsers (save obvious exceptions like Microsoft Edge for Business) are platform-agnostic.

Actually Microsoft Edge for business "is available on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS." according to their website.

jcoc611··on .aq – The TLD for Antarctica
I mistakenly read the most popular domain as "comp.aq" at first, which would have been genius.

Seems like most of the websites dedicated to Antarctica information are managed by other countries like Australia and the US.

jcoc611··on Ask HN: How are you feeling about software engineering in 2024?
Pretty skeptical about AI-driven development, but otherwise pretty excited. Languages like Python, Go and dotnet continue improving, getting faster, simpler, and safer. Web stuff perhaps is getting overtly complicated in dependency management, but also has exciting developments like bun, next, and million.

Also maybe hoping for a mild bounce back in the job market.

jcoc611··on Polymers capable of killing bacteria without inducing antibiotic resistance
How long until this is weaponized?
jcoc611··on ChatGPT's API is so good and cheap, it makes most text generating AI obsolete
Probably should not fully automate this, but if you omit the "approve or deny" part then you got yourself a nice system that can pre-screen and surface statistical concerns with applications. You can still have a human making the final decisions
jcoc611··on Credit card skimmer masquerades as favicon
If I understand correctly, the browser would need to accept text/html as a response to an <img /> tag. Why not just disable this/drop the response if it isn't an image MIME?
jcoc611··on Announcing Microsoft Web Template Studio
Thanks for mentioning those patterns, I'll take a look at them. The idea for this project is to allow the user to choose the pattern, frameworks, and backend services easily so they fit with their use case.

Right now, we have a React + React Router pattern with an Express node backend, but the goal is to incorporate different patterns and technologies in the generation wizard so users can choose. One piece of feedback we want to hear from the community is: what do you prefer to use when it comes to frameworks and application patterns for web applications?

jcoc611··on Announcing Microsoft Web Template Studio
I'm coaching this project for the next few months, would love to hear some feedback!
jcoc611··on MongoDB switches up its open source license
My guess is they aren't subject to the license terms because they are the copyright holders. They could do anything with the source code.