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input_sh··on AI coding is gambling
Until it produces predictable output, it's gambling. But it can't produce predictable output because it's a non-deterministic tool.

What you're describing is increasing your odds while gambling, not that it's not gambling. Card counting also increases your odds while gambling, but it doesn't make it not gambling.

input_sh··on Mistral AI Releases Forge
Come on, compared to Google Workspace / Microsoft's whatever-it's-called-these-days, the cost of switching from one LLM provider to another is pretty much zero.

Having an option at the back of your mind is all it takes right now, until push comes to shove of course.

input_sh··on Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup
For the same reason I care about Elon Musk's decisions after he purchased Twitter: I want more tech CEOs to publish as much of their bullshit online as possible for people to hopefully realise what their "superhuman productivity" actually looks like in practice.
input_sh··on Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup
Wow, the astroturfing by other YC-funded CEOs over there in the comments is quite ridiculous.
input_sh··on Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup
Considering he mentions ten sessions at once and I'm pretty confident he wouldn't tolerate waiting for the quota to reset itself... maybe like high four digits with the discount applied, definitely five without it.

I could be underestimating both by a digit.

input_sh··on Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup
Looking at the README file, my first question would be what's his monthly API bill, with my second question being how much of a discount does he get as the CEO of Ycombinator.

My guesses would be five digits and 90%.

input_sh··on Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise to drove engagement, say whistleblowers
I'd wager how expensive it has gotten plus a year or two of lockdowns which lead to a whole generation of people not going out to get wasted as soon as they're legally allowed to had way more effect.

Oh, and weed being increasingly legal to consume.

input_sh··on Kagi Small Web
No, it's the website owners setting a specific header (X-Frame-Options to SAMEORIGIN), as it prevents someone else from embedding your website and phishing for user credentials.

No browser prevents that by default, but this tip is found in pretty much every "best practices" hosting tutorial, so it's very common to stumble upon that browser error in the wild.

input_sh··on Kagi Small Web
Could've at least checked if the website even allows embedding before embedding it, I found two by randomly clicking around that don't.
input_sh··on AirPods Max 2
Can you name the models? I'd be curious to know.

I know my way around premium wireless headphones and I'd wager most of them within that price range are somewhere between 250 and 320 grams (like 8.8 oz to 11 oz).

input_sh··on How I write software with LLMs
I don't disagree with that, my claim is that bosses don't know what they're doing. If all of the pre-established quality standards go out the window, that's completely fine with me, I still get paid just the same, but then later on I get to point to that decision and say "I told you so".

Luckily for me, I'm fortunate enough to not have to work in that sort of environment.

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In the US specifically, because they weren't allowed to operate in the US until November last year. But... they didn't really try to prevent US users from accessing it, just gently pointed them towards using a VPN and paying with cryptocurrencies.

"Coincidentally", they also gave a bullshit advisory position to Trump Jr. and accepted an investment from his firm (1789 Capital), which I'm sure had nothing to do with them getting that licence. But to be "fair and balanced" to Polymarket, Trump Jr. is also Kalshi's "strategic advisor", so there's that!

input_sh··on Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story
Polymarket already only accepts cryptocurrencies. :)

Kalshi is worse in a sense that it also accepts fiat payments.

input_sh··on How I write software with LLMs
You can make it better by investing a lot of time playing around with the tooling so that it produces something more akin to what you're looking for.

Good luck convincing your boss that this ungodly amount of time spent messing around with your tooling for an immeasurable improvement in your delivery is the time well spent as opposed to using that same amount of time delivering results by hand.

input_sh··on Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
Well then your experience is not really relevant in this thread when the prompt is specifically asking for professional coding work now, is it?

You're not an LLM (at least I don't think you are), you're not obliged to respond with an answer even when that answer is only tangentially related to the prompt.

input_sh··on Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
It's kind of funny to see you saying "whatever solution you find are 5 years out of date", while at the same time saying that the tool that was taught using those same 5 years out of date solutions as a part of its training data is actually good.

Terrible idea if you ask me. I'd suggest checking the official docs next time around, or at the very least copying them into the context window.

input_sh··on Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
I'll just quote the author of this blog from this very thread:

> I mainly work as an individual or with one other person - I'm not working as part of a larger team.

input_sh··on Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
By working with other people, which I can't help but notice is missing from the parent comment.

Unless you want to be a solopreneur (terrible idea while you don't know what you're doing and don't have the means to hire someone that does), look at pretty much any other comment in this thread.

input_sh··on Offloading FFmpeg with Cloudflare
At $31/month, I'm pretty sure that even with today's prices you could buy a dedicated machine for this purpose alone and that you would be saving $30 every month in like a year.
input_sh··on What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable
If I may go a step further in history: tearing up the JCPOA (AKA the Iran deal) was like shouting from a megaphone "the US word means nothing now". Even the Palestine situation could've been predicted 6 years before Oct 7th when the US was the very first nation to move the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, before 5 others followed (none of them "significant").

Things have definitely accelerated in the second term, but it's not like there weren't signs that political leaders definitely noticed were disruptive, even if the wider public weren't as aware at the time.

input_sh··on What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable
I would argue the empire already collapsed, about a year ago when DOGE was tasked with killing every form of soft power that were put in place to present the country in the best possible light across the world.

Even with tons of talented and well-intentioned people and everyone fully aligned to re-build everything broken, it'd take decades to rebuild that trust that was lost in a matter of weeks.

input_sh··on Wired headphone sales are exploding
In my experience, it's a significant improvement, but I wouldn't call it a solution. If non-LE drop in quality is like 1/10, with LE it's like 6/10.

I should point out that unlike the other reply I haven't really bothered researching it at all, I just upgraded from a non-LE pair to a LE pair recently.

input_sh··on Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people
Pretty much private mercenaries that work outside of the usual army structure as "private contractors". They're usually the ones the US contracts to do the worst atrocities, as that gives the government a thin veneer of plausible deniability because they were behaving "independently". The US also does its best to make sure they never face any legal consequences for their war crimes.

Also worth pointing out that, due to this "contractor" relationship, they never count towards official casualty figures. For example, if Iran were to kill 50k of them (I'm of course exaggerating to make a point), they wouldn't count towards US casualty figures, so it's also a way for the government to downplay the effects of foreign intervention to the general public.

input_sh··on Bubble Sorted Amen Break
Completely agree with you, but good music always finds its way around copyright, you just can't find it on streaming services.

For example, if the sample's small enough to not be recognisable by algorithms, they often end up on Soundcloud with a free download via Hypeddit. Some even get away with charging money for their track with non-cleared samples via Bandcamp. Because those types of bedroom producers are almost always clueless about copyright, they often cite fair use in the description and choose a Creative Commons licence, which is not how anything works. Even some B-list celebrities that damn well know what they're doing still decide to do that when they fail to clear a sample. Soundcloud would be completely irrelevant if they did a good-enough job at enforcing copyright, so they do the bare minimum labels require of them to keep running, but that definitely kills their odds of ever competing with the likes of Spotify.

Then there's a whole "gray area" of online record pools where the audio preview and download links are hidden behind a $25/month or so paywall, so record labels can't scan it directly to even know about the infringement. Usually just listing the names of available tracks in HTML is enough to get them de-indexed from Google, but they rely on word-of-mouth anyway.

And, of course, even if all of that were to stop, you can never prevent a bunch of DJs and producers DMing each other tracks, hottest of which always end up getting shared too widely at some point and uploaded to Soulseek or something.

Meanwhile, streaming services are being flooded by unethically-trained, AI-generated music, which is actually incredibly easy to detect if streaming services actually gave enough of a fuck to do so. There is one that gives a fuck rather publicly (Deezer) and according to them, it's ~34% of everything uploaded as of a few months ago, may have passed 40% as of now.

input_sh··on Bubble Sorted Amen Break
I mean, look at any house or hip-hop track, sampling's like the most fundamental part of both genres.

The track you've mentioned is the prime example of the blend of those two genres. Before the term Eurodance caught on, this track would be referred to as hip-house (as in hip-hop + house). Chicago and the broader NY area did it first, but it was a Belgian track that first topped the US charts (Technotronic's Pump Up The Jam).

input_sh··on Bubble Sorted Amen Break
"Amen, Brother" is the name of the track it's from, so the parent is likely referring to the band.
input_sh··on Asian governments roll out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caused by war
"American" is as broad as Asian and even more annoying. I ate some great food in Surinamese restaurants, but I'm guessing that's not what you meant by using that word.

The same goes for "European", Nordic cousine is very different than the Balkan cousine, which is very different than the Iberian cousine and so on.

input_sh··on Iranian Hacktivists Strike Medical Device Maker Stryker and Wiped Systems
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47346091
input_sh··on Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job
After you know someone already had root access to everything?

There's absolutely no way to guarantee that ever again.

input_sh··on $3T flows through U.S. nonprofits every year
It's truly ridiculous how detached whoever created this LLM-generated website is from the inner workings on non-profits. It's never the case that someone gives a large sum of money to do whatever the fuck you want to do with that money.

They're usually given for a fixed period of time to do something grandiose by the end of it and the NGO has to report how they've spent every cent of it, usually at the end of that grant, but sometimes along the way as well (every X months). Not to the IRS, but to grant-givers.

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