As a European I'm conflicted because I think this particular set of privacy laws are overreaching bordering on stupid; but "exemptions" for one of the richest corporations on earth would be beyond absurd and infinitely worse.

I hate Windows 11 immensely. At home I use Mac, Linux and... Windows 7. But at my current client I have to use Windows 11. I have no choice; I can either accept that or leave.

So at this point Windows could send small electrical shocks with every keystroke, it would not make a difference whatsoever.

Yes, but that's not its main selling point. An SQLite database is also a single file, which makes it incredibly easy to replicate, backup, transfer, restore, etc.

I rewrote the pipeline in Python (a correct version of it) with state management in SQLite and logs in plain old flat files, and everything has been running smoothly ever since. In fact this is the only data flow that has worked without errors or interruptions in the last six months.

Instead of replicating the db file with Litestream I do a remote backup with Restic before and after each run; it's not an exact replacement of Litestream as we could possibly lose a whole run if the machine died / disappeared at the end of a run, but it lets one restore any day very easily. In an ideal world I think we should have both (live replica + backups).

Yes, but not AI. This is where AI differs from other software: marginal cost is not zero, in fact it doesn't go down much, if at all, for each generated token (after accounting for the depreciation of hardware), and could even go up if trying to find an extra MWh gets more and more difficult and therefore more and more expensive.

Economies of scale don't work well in AI.

So I would say: only humans can send me notifications. That includes me in the case of 2FA. But no machine ever, for any reason.

But yes, it's likely that the ease of which code can now be outout lets us produce lots of unnecessary code just because we can, and the author says as much in a below comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48303890

As you might suspect, this is what I have an issue with. Without LLMs, isn't it possible or even likely that that code wouldn't have been written at all, and wouldn't have been missed? If LLMs are mostly used to produce throwaway prototypes then it's a stretch to say that's money well spent.

If indeed it let you advance your main product much faster then sure it's a different story. You're the judge of that. It's hard to see the impact from the consumer side; everything is still broken and no extraordinary app seems to be emerging. Maybe it's just a question of time. We'll see.

So the author claims he's getting $2000 per month worth of frontier AI free of charge. Ok. If he's been doing that for 6 months that's $12k. What has this produced concretely? For $12k you can find a used car in decent condition. Heck for $1200 (his actual out-of-pocket spend) you get a brand new ebike! (on which you could put a pelican and make a photo of both if that's your fancy). But here it's unclear what has come of it.

This may be the promise of the American dream, but it's not the promise of "capitalism". Capitalism promises nothing to the individual. Capitalism means putting machines to work, and using as few people as possible, paying them as little as possible, to operate them. In that sense, AI is capitalists' wet dream: all machines and no people.

The comments on this page so far seem to agree that it all will happen like this. I have doubts. What I see mostly is slop. Slop can replace bullshit jobs, but the point of bullshit jobs is not to produce bullshit, it is to employ people. There is no point in having bullshit jobs done by machines. For the non-bullshit jobs (of which, yes, there may be fewer than we think), slop won't cut it.

This is profoundly true, and the corollary is: beware of titles.

From project manager at some company to CEO of some megacorp: there have been, there are and there will be others just like that. But if you're you, defined only by your name (or your existence, without a name), then there is no one else, there can be no one else, because there is only one you in the whole universe.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48216016

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> I’ve always had a fairly entrepreneurial spirit

but that doesn't square well with being a cog in the huge Disney machine.

https://www.americanscientist.org/sites/americanscientist.or...

3D printers are good at printing snowflakes for Christmas too ;-)