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How are you doing orchestration - using sol for plan mode in codex? Or some other pattern/harness?

I'm actually surprised that TestFlight was available for this, since I recently worked on a private app and did a bit of research into how to distribute it - everything I read implied that TestFlight apps will be reviewed by Apple employees and must be apps that intend to eventually be distributed more widely (e.g. beta versions). I got the impression that an app for family or friends that wasn't set up with a plan for release at some point would be rejected.

Same here, and honestly I suspect a lot of people probably don't know this and use Obsidian for work or include work-related notes in their free plan without realizing that it technically violates the license.

I can only speak for myself, but it just hasn't been around long enough for me to properly trust any AI-driven tool to give me correct output for anything important.

I'll admit I haven't played with Copilot yet (since I don't think my employer would be happy for me to send off proprietary code to third-party servers, so I've effectively self-banned myself from using it at work*), but I'd feel that for anything non-trivial like your example of complex SQL queries I'd be reluctant to use the generated output without extra scrutiny (essentially a very fine-toothed code review, which is exhausting).

My opinion will probably change as the tools become more mature, but for now I'm treating them as toys primarily which limits the excitement.

Something like TLDR is less risky as it's not producing code, just summarising it, but I'd still feel wary to trust it since it's such a new field. Maybe this speaks more to my own paranoia than anything else!

EDIT: *and on this topic while I'm here: I'm actually a bit confused (and honestly... jealous?) on the topic of privacy for these kinds of external models. Is everyone who's using Copilot and tools like this working at non-Bigcos? Or just ignoring that it's sending off your source code to a third party server? Or am I missing something here?

It'd be against the rules to use external pastebins or other online tools that send off private source code to a server, so I'm kind of shocked how many devs are talking about how they use AI tools like this at work... is this just a case of "ask for forgiveness, not permission"?

Thank you! We actually do use the "projects" feature, but we've found a fair number of options don't work when defined at the project level (a good example is `coverageThreshold` - we weren't able to make per-project thresholds work, at least in jest 26).

Glad that this one has the ability to be configured more granually - that'll come in handy for migrating gradually.

That seems great, definitely going to check it out!

Do you know if there's a way to use that runner per-file or per-project within jest? Seems like that's the only way it'd be possible to smoothly migrate in a large codebase without rewriting all tests at once.

The author recently commented: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/next-backblaze-storage-pod/#c...

It's apparently the "Dell PowerEdge R740xd2 rack server".

The actual CNN title is "As Covid-19 deaths hit record lows, those dying are younger and more disproportionately Black than before" currently, so the HN title using "Blacks" is an editorialisation (I checked because I found it weird that a major news organisation would use "Blacks").

Perfect, thank you.

TIL - this is cool!

Do you know if there's a way to see that XML list they mention anywhere publically? I can't find a link to it on that page.

I guess it should be possible to spin up IE11 in a VM on macOS and inspect the network, but would be nice to take a look and see which sites are on there.

The author talked about this in part 1 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25538820).

I do understand where you're coming from, and I also find myself using such analogies as often they are the quickest way to communicate a concept to an audience of developers. However, I think it's often worth considering if there are other ways to communicate the same ideas using methods more accessible to non-technical people, or those who might be new developers. I think my gut reaction to the (over)use of such terms is more of a reaction towards a potentially exclusionary culture which I dislike strongly.

I know this is petty and on a slight tangent, but for some reason I get a bit irritated by the constant use of software development-specific terminology (e.g. Anti-Pattern) in articles talking about psychology, human nature, and other general topics. In this case the author could have simply used 'stereotype' or 'personality type' which would have been perfectly fine.

It provokes a similar reaction to when I see people using 'grok' unironically in general conversation: it just feels a bit awkward and almost forced.

Commenting on the actual article, I agree with others who have pointed out that this article isn't particular helpful. It's a gross simplification of human behaviour and makes me wonder what the working culture is like at an organisation that would be 'disheartened' by a newhire asking questions like that.

Yeah, it's generally a good tip for interaction in general, where constantly making assertions comes across as argumentative and annoys people who realise that not everything they say is a fact.

When dealing with (London) tubes and train lines, most of the time it should be possible to indeed work out which route is actually quickest. I agree that buses do complicate things.

I've also experienced issues where the data provided by Citymapper for a desired journey in London is just plain inefficient when compared with common sense. Often the app will suggest a route which takes an extremely long way round (such as suggesting only one journey at something ridiculous like 85 minutes), seemingly optimising for some unintuitive variable (possibly number of changes or as-the-crow-flies distance? I'm not sure) which makes it unfortunately unusable for me. I was excited to try it out since I find the app well-made and seemingly a more focused version of Google Maps.

However, Google Maps, given the same destination, provides several routes (and allows for explicit choice by the user for their own weighting) where 99% of the time the quickest route is the one that I had thought of beforehand. And this is when selecting Train + Underground in order to compare directly to the equivalent set of results in CM. A shame.