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WhyIsItAlwaysHN

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WhyIsItAlwaysHN··on Thoughts on thinking
O3s story is not amazing but it sure is orders of magnitude more interesting than your example:

https://chatgpt.com/share/68282eb2-e53c-8000-853f-9a03eee128...

I don't think it's possible to generate an acceptable story without reasoning.

That is not to say that I disagree with you. I would prefer to read human authors even if the AI was great at writing stories, because there's something alluring about getting a glimpse into a world that somebody else created in their head.

WhyIsItAlwaysHN··on Show HN: Translate between dialects and share SQL queries on the browser
Cool idea, I'll update it
WhyIsItAlwaysHN··on Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by AI
Very often the code looks like:

fn actualLogic(param, param, param) ...

switch (some Condition) { case a: actualLogic(Foo, bar) ; case b: actualLogic(bar, Foo) ; ... }

It might be expressed with if statements, pattern matching, function calls etc., but most of the code is boilerplate.

From my experience in a C# codebase most of the code which completes correctly is this boilerplate.

O3/Sonnet/Gemini are able to write actual logic in chat/agent mode sometimes but then the problem is that they rewrite too much, which would count as AI generated code.

These two factors probably play a huge role in the 30% if it's counted in any accurate way.

WhyIsItAlwaysHN··on The case against conversational interfaces
I worked like that for a year in uni because of RSI and it's very easy to get voice strain if you use your voice for coding like that. Many short commands is very tiring for the voice.

It's also hard to dictate code without a lot of these commands because it's very dense in information.

I hope something else will be the solution. Maybe LLMs being smart enough to guess the code out of a very short description and then a set of corrections.

WhyIsItAlwaysHN··on Breaking Up with On-Call
So it takes 10 min until you've gone to the drastic solution? With this time-frame it would be risky to go the bathroom, not go to a movie. Also even the backup sounds like a primary in this scenario.
WhyIsItAlwaysHN··on GitHub reveals how software engineers are purging federal databases
The year is 2025. You have an internet browser. Look up the concepts you don't understand.

How are you so certain about a phenomenon not existing when you have no idea about it? Do you apply the same filters to everything else you don't understand?

Also be careful with wishing for "progress" to be rolled back. First it's other peoples' freedom to live their lives how they want to and then it's yours.

WhyIsItAlwaysHN··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025)
Location: EU Remote: Only Technologies: C#, Roslyn, SQL Server, Azure,Typescript, VSCode extensions, compilers,low level stuff, dotnet internals Experience: 2 years compiler engineering and 5 years solving the performance problems everyone hates Email: 3o7zwdz04@mozmail.com
WhyIsItAlwaysHN··on Fixing left and mutual recursions in grammars
I think you're semi-right here, but the term precedence is ambiguous.

Left recursion causes rules to be ambiguous. In `<S> | a`, it's always ambiguous if the input has ended. Thus the data structure that would be traversed can be a circular graph. In `<S> := a | <S>, S := ε', the rules are unambiguous and the data structure that is traversed has the shape of a tree.

You get precedence rules by defining the shape of this tree, thus which rules will be visited before which.

However it doesn't have to be strict precedence. Some rules can have an ambiguous order as long as the execution still follows the shape of a tree.

For example, in my simple rule above, it doesn't matter if you visit the ε rule or the other rule first in your implementation (although it's less efficient to visit ε first).

So, I think precedence is a side-effect of doing this transformation.

WhyIsItAlwaysHN··on Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online
This is talking about sexuality, not gender identity. Who you want to have sex with is not determined by your sex or gender. It is correlated, but not determined (as in more cis men are bi and straight than gay, thus a random man is more likely to be bi or straight than gay).

In this case, she's talking about her preferences which can be any identity, sex etc.

For example, a trans person may prefer to date other trans people because they will have more common experiences and there will be less explaining if how things work on their body etc. Others might have preferences based on primary or secondary sex characteristics. Others may only date people who like a specific type of cheese.

WhyIsItAlwaysHN··on Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts
Long lasting usernames across websites is the worst for privacy though, unless the username is not public. In general, it's best if the unique identifier is only known to the user.

Example: https://instantusername.com

I've seen quite personal details being leaked because sometimes even smart people don't realise how easy it is to cross-reference given a unique username.

WhyIsItAlwaysHN··on Tenured, Trapped, and Miserable
It's quite depressing to compare the amount of tenured professors dissatisfied with their jobs and doing meaningless work (according to them) , who keep the positions occupied in relation to the amount of students studying the Humanities and not having a chance to be employed in their field of study. Potential new ideas and potential get thrown away, so that some people can keep their status quo and at the same time they complain about having unfulfilling jobs.
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