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I would if I had that kind of money!

tediousgraffit1on Omacom Foundation launches with $8M

TIL a really good r/unixporn post is worth $8M

tediousgraffit1on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

maybe I'm missing something, I'll admit I haven't made it through the whole smug article, but critiquing knowledge work, especially IT work, just a few years after that field yielded it's...what, fourth?... major contribution to society in the last say 40 years is pretty funny imho.

I'm counting:

1. the pc (80's) 2. the web (90's-early 2000's) 3. the cloud (early 2010s) 4. the computers that speak natural langage (early 2020s)

a big chunk of gdp in the most prosperus nation on earth is dedicated to knowledge work but sure, it's abstract so I guess it doesn't feel as useful.

tediousgraffit1on Why I Left Google DeepMind

I think there's some nuance here that a lot of these convos dont make plain - are we talking about just using 'ai' in the military broadly, or are we specifically talking about fully autonomous weapons systems?

In the former case, I would agree with you completely, I havent heard any arguments beyond 'I dont like working on military stuff'. But if we're talking fully autonomous weapons, that's a different story. And further muddying the waters is the fact that the former is obviously a step along the path to the latter.

tediousgraffit1on The dead economy theory

> at a fraction of the cost of human workers.

herein lies the rub

tediousgraffit1on ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

> I am also dealing with a number of emergencies, including a lockdown at the Minneapolis courthouse because of protest activity, the defiance of several court orders by ICE, and the illegal detention of many detainees by ICE (including, yesterday, a two-year old).[1]

Federal district judges in mpls are releasing dozens of illegally detained individuals per day. You may not be hearing about it, but it is absolutely happening. Your not hearing about is part of the problem.

[1] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca8.113...

tediousgraffit1on I know you didn't write this

> It used to be that a well-written document was a proof-of-work that the author thought things through (or at least spent some time thinking about it).

I think you hit the nail on the head here. The problem isn't so much that people can do bad work faster than ever now, its that we can no longer rely on the same heuristics for quickly assessing a given piece of work. I dont have a great answer. But I do still think it has something to do with trust and how we build relationships with each other.

tediousgraffit1on I know you didn't write this

This is a trust issue. If someone I trust hands me a big pr, I focus on the important details. If someone i dont trust hands me a big pr, i just reject it and ask them to break the problem down further. I dont waste my time on this kind of thing, regardless of whether it was hand written or generated.

tediousgraffit1on I know you didn't write this

Nowhere in here does it indicate that the generated plan was wrong or broken. I dont care if you use ai to write. I care if you write well. If the author trusted the other person, then it shouldn't matter. If the author didn't trust the other person, then they'd have to validate their output anyway. Granted the tech allows people I dont trust to generate a lot more bs, a lot faster. But i just reject and move on with my life in that case. I am no ai booster but a lot people are expressing distaste for tools when they should be expressing distaste for fools.

tediousgraffit1on Show HN: Backlog – a public repository of real work problems

I guess this is more broad than like code triage and sites like that? Hard to tell cause I dont want to sign up to see what's in it.

tediousgraffit1on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

tediousgraffit1on New mathematical framework reshapes debate over simulation hypothesis

I Don't Know, Timmy, Being God Is a Big Responsibility https://qntm.org/responsibilit

tediousgraffit1on Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

ok but how does it work though? Is this seriously just passing the titles to some llm with a prompt like 'roast this'? is it reading the actual content of the link as well?

tediousgraffit1on Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill

By that logic, we should ban lettuce[1] next

[1] https://www.science.org/content/article/e-coli-outbreak-trac...

tediousgraffit1on AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents

lol, if the primary outcome is better documentation...i'll take it

tediousgraffit1on Journaling using Nix, Vim and coreutils

Yeah, this is a good blog article and a great pitch for this service. There was a discussion yesterday about where to look for the next github...

tediousgraffit1on Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills

> You’re not rejecting a bad engineer, you’re rejecting someone who doesn’t perform well while being watched.

a related thing here is that I've long believed that remote work positively impacted my career for precisely this reason.

tediousgraffit1on Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills

I'm curious how you would respond to the folks who are concerned that asking people to 'just do the work' in an interview are asking for unpaid labor, and that's unfair?

(post made me lol, thanks)

tediousgraffit1on Viral ChatGPT trend is doing 'reverse location search' from photos

Because we can still do things computers can't and that's interesting

tediousgraffit1on Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age

this is the key idea right here. LLMs are not replacing good coders, they're electric yak shavers that we should all learn how to use. The value add is real, and incremental, not revolutionary.

tediousgraffit1on Show HN: Zig Topological Sort Library for Parallel Processing

I really like this, this is the perfect size project for exploring a new piece of tech. I especially like that you implemented an actual cli and not just tests.

tediousgraffit1on What to Do

This. No one, not even the very wicked, get up in the morning and think 'Im going to go make some old, bad stuff, because I'd like to decrease the amount of The Good in the world.' This article reads like the height of narcissistic navel-gazing, with absolutely zero nontrivial insight.

tediousgraffit1on What to Do

That just pushes the question off a step; a chair fit for sitting isn't fit for sleeping, etc. Fitness assumes a purpose.

tediousgraffit1on xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B

I believe musk to be a fool and this reinforces that belief. It should not have taken him 3 years to realize that the value of Twitter was the hot and cold running stream of conversational data.

tediousgraffit1on Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood

I love this and I'm not trying to be a downer, but I do think it's funny that 'go outside and talk to your neighbors' is an innovative idea in 20xx

tediousgraffit1on Gemini Robotics brings AI into the physical world

I'm ignorant, what do they have in 3) cutting edge robotics?

tediousgraffit1on Ask HN: Advice for tolerating the "corporate" aspect of software jobs?

You just want to code, I get, I'm the same way. What helps me is recognizing that in the 'corporate' environment, the challenge is not merely solving technical problems, but also coordination problems. Negative work is real, and avoiding it _requires_ coordination. That's what the 'corporate processes' are directed at.

Now, understanding this fact enables us not only to better understand why we do these things, but also provides a concrete way to criticize and improve those process. You can use data to figure out which processes aren't actually improving quality, velocity, and coordination.

Tldr: be the change you want to see.

tediousgraffit1on Put a data center on the moon?

Everyone's focused on the dumb 'backups' pitch and missing all the interesting engineering problems people are mentioning as objections against it.

tediousgraffit1on DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data

> Not related to Project 2025, and they have countless times said they aren't associated with that project.

lmao the chief author is the head of the OMB my guy[1]

[1]https://apnews.com/article/trump-russell-vought-confirmation...