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super_linearon Amazon CEO says AI agents will soon reduce company's corporate workforce

The Jassy "Thoughts on Gen AI" memo was released a month ago and this article doesn't seem to reveal any new information on this beyond just suggesting "amazon might soon reduce cost to serve" without providing any real information https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-ceo-and...

super_linearon Readme Driven Development (2010)

Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25222601 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1627246 (the original)

super_linearon How Not to Measure Latency (The P99 Lie) by GIL Tene

Tried to link to the specific timestamp in the video, where the p99 lie is discussed. Core takeaway for me was that most users of a page will experience the p99 latency of the system: https://youtu.be/lJ8ydIuPFeU?si=HasLt5QBsB1tzww_&t=648

super_linearon Amazon's Plan to Reduce AI Hallucinations

> Amazon is using math to help solve one of artificial intelligence’s most intractable problems

Seems like pretty bad way to start this article off. AI is math at the end of the day how is this special.

Generally the article seems to lack a lot of substance or specifics on what or how effective automated reasoning is at improving results. Actual substantive studies/papers might be more interesting...

super_linearon Why Amazon Is Betting on 'Automated Reasoning' to Reduce AI's Hallucinations

Also see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42952936

super_linearon Duolingo: We reduced our cloud spending by 20%

I liked how many of these solutions were pretty "simple" and easily applicable to many engineering teams. Our team similarly saved a ton by just "right-scaling" our AWS resources, applying TTL where possible.

super_linearon Lillian Schwartz, Pioneer in Computer-Generated Art, Dies at 97

https://archive.ph/1EfaF

super_linearon One Year of Rust in Production

Sorry, yeah I was a bit unclear. I was curious if there was any metrics to show how maybe server CPU/Memory or client-side latency changed after moving your app to Rust and running for a year.

But that's fair, if adding open-telemetry is maybe overkill to add to the application it might not apply as much to your use-case.

super_linearon One Year of Rust in Production

Nice article, but was looking forward to more of the "in production" angle (e.g. more operations, monitoring, performance). Instead this seemed to more focus on the the maintainability, developer experience using Rust and the ecosystem.

super_linearon The Art of Finishing

Similar to "The Cult of Done Manifesto" (2009) https://designmanifestos.org/bre-pettis-and-kio-stark-2009-t...

super_linearon Volkswagen to invest up to $5B in Rivian

I love CarPlay/AA, and maybe this is hyperbole but not doing CarPlay/AA isn't that crazy of a decision. Tesla, GM, other big automakers have done this too.

super_linearon SimCity in the web browser using WebAssembly and OpenGL

https://github.com/SimHacker/MicropolisCore

super_linearon Starting emails with "BEGIN PGP MESSAGE" will fool the filter

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36639530

super_linearon Hackers know everything is securities fraud

https://archive.ph/Yffbh

super_linearon Porsche Open Source Platform

Potentially vaguely related, the Eclipse foundation project GM is backing to establish an open source protocol for vehicle app / service communication: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/automotive.uprotocol

super_linearon FBI warns against using public USB charging ports

Have been using around "USB condoms" to protect against this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00T0DW3F8

super_linearon Bottlerocket – Minimal, immutable Linux OS with verified boot

Is anyone successfully using this outside of AWS?

super_linearon A toy code remote runner in Go

A toy Go project to run code as a non-root user and some CPU/time/memory limits

super_linearon AWS us-east-1 down

Seems like it's time for end of the quarter AWS demos and someone got a little too eager for launch.

super_linearon Incident with Git Operations, Issues and Pull Requests [resolved]

Pull request eventually succeeded. Just "retry until the load balancer gives you a good node"

super_linearon AWS CodeWhisperer (Amazon's attempt to make a Github Copilot competitor)

My bad, missed that the blog post was submitted already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35554460

super_linearon Type system of Fortnite's Verse language

It's a bit tedious to even try it in my experience: you have to use Unreal Engine for Fortnite and interact with the code through that (no publicly available compiler/VM afaik). They have some docs at least on setting it up but still depends on having UEFN which is a little unfortunate: https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/uefn/verse-api, https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/uefn/starting-...

super_linearon Let ChatGPT run free on random webpages and do what it likes

(Not the commit author, just an "interesting" commit I saw)

super_linearon OpenAI Becomes ClosedAI

https://github.com/closedai

> This organization has no public repositories.

A nice touch

super_linearon 16,000 Amazon workers launched petition to fight CEO mandate to return to office

Sounds like a much cheaper "layoff" for Amazon.

re: https://fortune.com/2023/02/13/layoffs-cost-companies-billio...

super_linearon Serverless Video Transcription inspired by Cyberpunk 2077

For the hand-drawn style ones, I think it's https://excalidraw.com/

super_linearon Acreom 1.0 – a lightweight Markdown editor with tasks for developers