Foreignborn

Great critique, thanks for sharing. These are good examples of supporting and detracting from the subject of the writing.

Actually all traffic modalities are tied together by relative or induced demand.

Making one method easier induces demand for it. So perhaps not the same pot of money, but impacts it all the same.

I only hear that from people on Medicare and Medicaid, and certain areas if they’re covered by the VA. Maybe ACA plans if they’re low income.

I definitely don’t hear that from the middle. I definitely don’t hear that from travel nurses or truck drivers. No one has ever said that about COBRA.

And this isn’t getting into average wait times for specialist appointments (though other countries deal with this too.)

I feel like I’m missing something, forgive me.

I’ve read your entire thread, and I don’t mean this negatively… but I can’t tell if you’re larping.

Take this example: “[They learn] piano as easily as molecular engineering”

Pretty much anyone with a career will have one or more other interests, like playing an instrument. And yes, at elite levels. Or sports, I know multiple olympians… but like… they’re quite normal. It’s obviously impressive, sure, but… what you’re saying doesn’t reflect my experience so I feel like I’m missing something!

I have never met any ivy league elite, actor, scientist, musician or anyone else that felt like they were super human.

The only ones who felt unworldly were billionaires because they could hire so many people to work on their projects in parallel.

I had done the same kind of game for a dnd group with some friends. What I found is that:

- As a text based game... the wall of text isn't fun at all. There is always way too much fat in the writing, even if you use another agent to trim it.

- You can always jailbreak it. I won in the second move of the OPs post by telling it to write in another style, and then it let me win.

- You end up needing multiple agents to better handle the quality, but at the expense of making the game more interactive.

Eager to hear if anyone else has some lessons from creative writing usage of LLMs.

There are so many layers to your comment.

Aren’t you now asking yourself, “who are they scared of?”

Let the answer sink in.

In many countries and jurisdictions, that’s exactly what they owe you.

It's very cool you're doing your own voice over reading for your articles.

Soooo many sites have AI read voice overs, and while I understand why, it's a nice touch to listen to a real human with natural prosody.

I’m from very rural USA (population: 32). I’ve only seen farm stands in very isolated towns where people generally know each other. A lot near my home town have disappeared.

In my experience, I’ve seen unattended farm stands, antique stores, and flea markets even in Tokyo.

No one said deserve.

But if we’re just going to use the states’ body counts as justification, you’ve sort of answered your own question.

You can separate one group of innocents killed horrifically from other innocents killed horrifically.

No one goes around expecting New York City to attone for the events that led up to 9/11.

Most pre-commits I’ve seen are usually formatting/prettier.

But if need be, I will spam my commits locally with `—no-verify`. Once the code is ready, I reset to head and remake them as nice, conventional commits.

In this context, I would say *finishing things* is the actual creative release. The "not finishing" is getting in the way of it.

(also, I highly doubtful that this is the author's one creative release, and and even more doubt he's coding up a project with his hypothetical grandson)

None of these comments here are reassuring. As if people’s concerns about developing weapon technology are economic concerns lol.

- Partner countries like Israel (however you feel about that) will eventually use whatever we make. America will not be sole user.

- America’s police is not afraid to use technology on its own citizens. Obviously they don’t have access to missile defense, but there are plenty examples of them getting military hardware.

I am not actually 100% never-make-weapons, but I have strong doubts anyone profit-motivated is strongly thinking about the second order effects.

This is VERY cool. What made you pursue this instead of other energy monitoring solutions?

I want to read on this subject, but it’s very clear this article was heavily written by LLMs.

Reading it feels like a waste of time. I could just (a) look up 1st hand sources or (b) have an interactive lesson from the same model that helped write this.

When using gen ai for writing, you still have to work fairly hard to remove the fluff, bloviating and other cruft. Without a surplus of content to narrow down more concisely, it usually adds fat to the writing.

You’re often better off asking it to be a very disagreeable editor than asking it to do the writing or editing itself.

I use a 2013 MacBook running Ubuntu to code in.

It works totally fine UNLESS you load something like a crazy landing page with animations. I always end up having to kill Firefox and prevent that site from opening.

One unexpected benefit of LLMs is they’re more performance friendly, I can query the docs of what I’m working on without loading the docs themselves.

kinda disappointing comments in this thread. Thanks to LLMs I have built more home cooked software than ever.

I’m not an engineer, but I've written more code this year than ever. LLMs have helped me tackle a huge backlog of projects at home that I wouldn't have been able to justify starting before. And I know 3-5 others doing similarly (we have a group chat).

Off the top of my head, this year I’ve made:

- webscrapers

- notification agents

- websites

- data manipulation and charting

- IaC devops for my entire homelab

- an RPG (well, a roguelike)

- applets for OBS

- chrome extensions to glue together a bunch of stuff I do to study Japanese

I’ve written projects in languages I’ve never used like rust and elixir, and learned a ton. Am I gonna switch ladders to be a SWE? Nope, but for better or worse have stopped asking my SWE friends for help.

And lately, between RAG and large context models, it’s much easier to improve existing projects. Typing, refactoring, linting, documentation generation, and GitHub ops are now practically effortless.

What you're saying doesn't hold up.

Japan: > Road fatalities per 100 000 population: 2.6

USA: > Road fatalities per 100 000 population: 13.8

[0]https://www.itf-oecd.org/sites/default/files/japan-road-safe... [1]https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/historical-fatalit...

I read the article, but was replying to parent comment about "young global leaders fly their private jets..."

I'm going to bet my bottom dollar none of those featured in the article are flying private, nor have any political ability to limit the parent commenter in any way. Hence, not who they I think they were talking about.

Hypocrisy sucks, yes. Corps and states are more to blame than individuals, yes.

However, your conclusions are strange to me. Some of these seem out of left field (eg “stop having children?” IMO people are lamenting not being able to afford children and the state wants more kids)

Others are misguided. For things like “stop driving”, the arguments are usually positing that everyone needs to pay for the externalities that have long been subsidized. For example, car centric urban planning. We need to factor in all the other negative aspects driving cars brings. Additionally, car centric urban planning limits other lifestyles.

I’m gonna ignore the idiot comment and assume the best.

Good luck to you.

I believe you're vastly overselling driving. We're talking saving ~10 minutes on the mean ride, at a huge increase in cost (and IMO, health).

Source:

>>> Differences between cities [public transportation vs car transportation times] mainly concern the magnitude of the ratio, where the car is remarkably faster than public transit in Los Angeles but _not that much in Tokyo and Seoul._ (Emphasis mine)

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PT travel time (minutes) Min: 9 Max: 121 Mean: 52.8

Car travel time (minutes) Min: 11 Max: 123 Mean: 41.8

PT travel cost (¥). Min: 110 Max: 1290 Mean: 430.8

Car travel cost (¥) Min: 149 Max: 6138 Mean:2102.6

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Source: Altieri, M., Silva, C., & Terabe, S. (2021). Keep pushing! Analysing public transit and car competitiveness in Tokyo. Case Studies on Transport Policy, 9(2), 457–465. doi:10.1016/j.cstp.2021.02

This is a bit of projection. I have a child younger than yours and I feel exactly like OP.

I’m really sorry about your son’s experience. Getting lost can be terrifying for a kid.

But being lost happens (eg I was lost in hunting woods at 8yo), and many commenters have shared their experiences. Being scared and eventually overcoming the fear is a quintessential growing experience.

Obviously there are countless caveats because each kid is different, and depends on the level of danger etc

Has anyone built a screenless music player for their kids, or perhaps other projects that allow safe, independent exploration without a phone?

I'm interested in creating something for my children to discover music beyond my own collection. My kid doesn't have a phone, and so doesn't really have any autonomy in finding and playing music (as the article points out).

I recall DIY projects with NFC-enabled printed albums or perhaps using eink tags (though expensive). Maybe I'd hook it up to some api like Bandcamp (or *arr apps if need be).

Could you explain more about what you mean by modeling interactions between comments and entities?

While nothing is truly maintenance free, methods like hardscaping, xeriscaping and even permaculture planting methods like STUN (okay a harder sell but still) are easily doable.

In the longer term, the emergent benefit is that bicycle friendly infrastructure incentivizes density which saves on money and maintenance.

Anecdotally, I don’t feel this way about “giving a shit” in japan. We did have inflation and other issues, but I didn’t notice any big change of the sort here.

This post significantly influenced me back when it was first on HN, and helped me articulate what I was already doing subconsciously.

I started a homelab years ago like a lot of folks here, and slowly that’s changed to being a hobby of building and selfhosting applications for my “users” of 5-15 of my family and closest friends.

I’ve written so many little apps for them (e.g movie night scheduler) and integrations into our group chat for whatever someone can think of. It’s really blossomed into something that has made us all talk and hang out so much more.

Even distant friend groups that don’t know each other have now met in person (without me!) and gone to baby showers, weddings, etc.

If anyone has a group of friends like that, consider making something for them!

Really? We have yearly hearing tests in my country but nothing has ever come back from them. I'll look more into it!

Wow I feel like something may be wrong with me.

This isn’t the first comment I’ve read about the noise, but I’ve had an 8i5beh for almost 5 years (just replaced a dead fan last week!) and a 13anhi5. I never notice them, they’re essentially fanless to me.

Currently sits at 40db in my bedroom with the fan at 100% 24/7.

Is it a high pitched whine? Or is it like… unfavorable harmonics? I have an old brocade switched that had a very discordant sound, I did end up replacing those fans.