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endofreach··on Silicon Valley startups: being evil, again and again
...yet kids are pretty quick (and eager) to understand "mine"... and seem to struggle understanding "not mine" at first.

Transgenerational greed?

And still, not respecting these concepts make you the thief today. So, what now?

endofreach··on Show HN: Create-LLM – Train your own LLM in 60 seconds
While you are not wrong about this not being the wisest choice, i have seen it done before countless times already long before llms arrived. So i don‘t think it‘s such a clear sign of intense llm usage as you make it out to be.
endofreach··on Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it
> Sounds like this app wasn't a good fit for htmx

Might be beneficial to think the other way around, and rather think htmx was not a good fit for the app.

endofreach··on Repetitive negative thinking associated with cognitive decline in older adults
"Ah, the good old days... when we weren't this dumb"
endofreach··on Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity, union says
My bank started to use an ai chatbot and it seems impossible to bypass... i mean sorry to bother you about all of my money that you have... what do you think is your job here in our relationship? Drives me nuts.

But switching banks is just too much of a hassle for me currently.

endofreach··on Ask HN: How do you tune your personality to get better at interviews?
Just dropping in to say, i appreciate this comment, and i have no skin in the game whatsoever. Upvote didn't feel enough.
endofreach··on Show HN: Open-Source International Space Station Tracker ESP32/Arduino for $20
you seem to be (someone who wants to appear) more experienced. maybe you could give constructive feedback rather than ridiculing. what a negative comment just to feel better about yourself. sad.
endofreach··on My Lights Run on Bash
> The true power of shell script is to coordinate programs. Once you find yourself altering data with the shell constructs, that's the sign to use $LISP instead.

one might awk how much logic one can bash into a script before leaving the beloved shell

endofreach··on A look at Cloudflare's AI-coded OAuth library
It will dawn on non-tech people soon enough. Hopefully the "AI" (LLM) hypetrain riders will follow.
endofreach··on The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code
> I understand the incentives to pretend these algorithms are even approaching humans in overall capability, but reducing human experience like this is embarrassing to watch.

Seems like you were very much guessing what i believe. And you were not right.

I don't agree with the people who think LLMs are close to human-level-anything. But i do believe, many smarter people like you, who i agree with in the most part, do underestimate how much of what we do and believe is the result of insane, yet still just, information processing & most of what brought us so far, is instinct. The brain is good at providing stories to make us feel in control. But given enough human experience and time, one will be surprised, what artificial systems can emulate. Not to mention how much of human behaviour is emulation itself.

endofreach··on The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code
> I'd be prepared to argue that most humans aren't guessing most of the time.

Honestly interested about your arguments here. While unprepared, i'd actually be guessing the opposite, saying that most people are guessing most of the time.

endofreach··on DuoBook: Generate bilingual stories to learn any language
Whenever i am in a new country, i hit the first bookstore in the city centre. Child section often has disney books or similar. Sometimes even bilingual versions. I recommend it.

No idea how to order my food, but if i ever need to find my son, who's a clownfish, and was kidnapped, and i need to do it in italian, i am ready.

endofreach··on docker2exe: Convert a Docker image to an executable
> You can have a full and extensive api backend in golang, having a total image size of 5-6MB.

So people are building docker "binaries", that depend on docker installed on the host, to run a container inside a container on the host– or even better, on a non-linux host, all of that then runs in a VM on the host... just... to run a golang application that is... already compiled to a binary?

endofreach··on docker2exe: Convert a Docker image to an executable
> my keys copied in as well for instance.

Tip: you could also forward your ssh agent. I remember it was a bit of a pain in the ass on macos and a windows WSL2 setup, but likely worth it for your setup.

endofreach··on Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis
I don't wanna brag, but i remember building something similar when i was 6 or years old... by folding up one side of the table.
endofreach··on Show HN: I built a synthesizer based on 3D physics
I'd focus on ipad & an awesome multitouch experience. App store sales are easier & i'd bet apple would spotlight it.
endofreach··on xAI dev leaks API key for private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs
Big fan of bill burr. I don't get how some here don't understand what my comment is about. I assume your implication is that is have no sense of humour or am too snowflaky. I mean, next time you visit a bill burr show, let me know if his punchline is such a banger like the one i commented on. And if you think this is the same type of humour, please, let me know when you visit a bill burr show next!

But, my comment was clearly not about making excuses for the mistake of the engineer. I wanted to express that it's insane that such a common mistake can happen in a company like that. And i don't get how people let the ceos & leads off the hook so easily.

But some apparently don't think that way.

In my opinion: the mistakes that are common, and severe, and very easy to avoid, have to be expected and hence circumvented through industry standard behaviour. And that is not (solely) the responsibility of one committing engineer. Any good team has best practices to prevent these type of basic, potentially fatal mistakes from happening, and usually at least a glance-over review process where these mistakes should be found by another team member on first sight... and now, when it's an "AI making devs extinct"-type of company... and they're not catch this type of error, is ridiculous. That an individual can screw up something potentially so critical, is an organizational failure.

But anyway, i think my points were clear in the first comment already.

endofreach··on xAI dev leaks API key for private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs
> Guess who's going to be fired by elon :D

i know, you probably just meant it as a fun comment. but i don't get how this is funny. this person probably relies on income, might have a family to feed... and just made a mistake. a type of mistake, that is not uncommon. i mean i have seen corporate projects where senior engineers didn't even understand why committing secrets might be a bad idea.

yes, of course, as a engineer you have responsibilities and this is clearly an error. but it also says a lot about the revolutionary AIs that will apparently replace all engineers... but the companies claiming it are not using it to catch stuff like this.

and let's keep in mind– i am surely not the only one making this experience: every single time i am using an LLM for code generation, i have to remove hardcoded secrets and explicitly show them how to do it. but even then, it starts to suggest hardcoding sensitive info here and there. which means: A. troublesome results made by these models, presented to inexperienced engineers. and people are conditioned to believe in the superiority of LLM code, given all the claims in the media. but also B: that models suggest this practice, shows just how common this issue is.

yes, this shouldn't happen at any company. but these AI companies with their wild claims should put their money where their mouth is. if your AI is about to replace X many engineers, why is it not supervising at least commits? to public repos? why are your powerful, AGI-agentic autonomous supernatural creations not able to regex the sh outta it? could it be that they don't really believe their own tales? or do they believe, but not think?

of course, an incident like this could lead to attempts of turning it into a PR-win– claiming something like "see, this would have never happened with/to our Almighty Intelligence. that's why it should replace your humans." but then: if you truly believe it and have already invested so much resources, you believe to foresee the future so surely, why ignore the obvious? or are is this silent, implicit testimony, that you got caught up in a hype-train and got brainwashed into thinking, that code generation is what makes a good engineer? (just to be safe: i am not saying LLMs are not useful).

also: that something this could even happen at a company like that, is not the fault of one engineer. it indicates either bad architecture or conventions and/or bad practice and culture... and... a l s o: no (human) code review process in place?

the mistake was made by one engineer, yes. but as though it's made to seem like this mistake is the root... it's not. the mistake is a symptom, not the cause.

i honestly hope the engineer does not get fired. and i really don't understand this mentality. if this person is actually good at their job and takes it seriously, it's certain: he or she is not going to leak a secret again. someone who replaces him or her, might.

endofreach··on JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant
Not great. Any other company would have been put on my greedy-morons list. But i believe JetBrains is special and is allowed more mistakes than others.

I also believe they should really stay calm and not get sucked into the AI hype. Worst case they will be the heroes to the people who like to program for the joy of it, in case these AI IDEs should really take over (which i highly doubt).

endofreach··on LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo
What's your benchmark? How many paid subscribers do you have that actually use it while browsing?

And why do you think did duolingos competitor "toucan" not take off? How does nuenki do the job better?

Seriously interested and happy to read more insights.

Disclaimer: i did create an MVP of this exactly. But it was just to try and generate some cash quickly to finance my main project (dumb idea, of course). I did get some signups but never even launched the app (and not planning to). Just curious what your experience is.

endofreach··on Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI
Just be thankful for all the companies destroying their "products" in favour of AI. They show that they won't be worth it in the future. A lot of companies will go away, and it won't be the ones "missing out" on "AI"... most of them will be the ones who cripple their product for some pseudo hype.

It just shows they have no idea what to do, so just squeeze "AI" in... there are too many SaaS out there anyway.

endofreach··on Paper2Code: Automating Code Generation from Scientific Papers
Imagine, this was actually the consequence— against all odds. The true power of AI is about to be discovered... through this silly experiment... and you are the one... all you gotta do— is do it. And imagine you don't do it, because you think it can't lead to such a serious result... and if we miss this great leap forward... go, throw your life away and do this. now. the universe is waiting on you, my friend.
endofreach··on Paper2Code: Automating Code Generation from Scientific Papers
Damn, i was hoping the link was your result of that. Please do that. I can't start another project currently. But i'd love the short result as an anecdote. But if you don't do it, i might have to. Please let me know. Great idea, really.
endofreach··on eInk Mode: Making web pages easier to read
I have actually written a shitty & dumb version of exactly this, that works quite well (but not tested much). Might share a link here in the comments if i find time to publish.
endofreach··on YAML: The Norway Problem (2022)
The article mentioned people with the last name "null". I never thought about that. It sounds like really fun in modern days to have that last name.
endofreach··on Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries
I have this "fear" of being in a situation where a judge has to form judgments about code i wrote, even when relying on an "expert".

For the same reason that i believe a situation like that could play out, i don't think i should judge a judges understanding of, dedication to work through, and knowledge about– the laws.

I actually studied law for a few years. And i am baffled by the confidence of laymen about court rulings. It's almost like a client explaining to me how easy it is to fix this small bug.

endofreach··on What if we made advertising illegal?
> The part that really struck me was framing advertising and propaganda as essentially the same mechanism

You might enjoy reading about– or a book written by– Edward Bernays.

endofreach··on Show HN: iPhone 2005 weird "Blob Keyboard" simulator
Wow, i always think "i wish there was a demo" of each iterative step on these kind of design journeys. And especially the iOS keyboard, as i thought a lot about it. Awesome that you made this.

I really like their idea to make the touch keyboard work well by increasing the (invisible) "padding" area for the key most likely to be typed next. So obvious in hindsight but demos like your's show part of the journey.

There are rumors that in the beginning they tried the ipod wheel as the user input interface.

While working on my device, that idea is super motivating. I know where i am headed and have done a lot of work and really got something very, very interesting already. But a few parts are yet not clear at all. But, i am definitely further than our "clickwheel" stage. Not yet at the "secret padding" stage for some input ideas, but still.

In case you are free and interested to loosely talk about ideas or feedback you have for a very novel device (and interface), please let me know how to reach out. Just because you made this demo, i feel we'd get a long & i can learn a lot from you. And this might be a very interesting challenge for someone like you. Anyway, great work!

endofreach··on xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B
> Since its founding two years ago, xAI has rapidly become one of the leading AI labs in the world

Am i behind the moon because i haven't heard of xAI?

endofreach··on Rost – Rust Programming in German
Agree. Felt the same. Just wanted to add that "wesenszug" for trait would be my choice.
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