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Wish I had your economy for sure.

Remember: “no mistakes “.

Converting works really well when you have an oracle (something that you can test against and that is comprehensive)

I cannot begin to tell you how many places I have seen where this is fundamentally not the case. Not only are those tests missing, the software is fundamentally not written to be easily tested and in cases where multiple services across companies are concerned; how would you?

Rewriting via LLM is just not something the caretakers of a legacy banking- og state infrastructure system would countenance (not should they).

I think that is a bit out of the blue. But it is fun to imagine a billboard-sized app for a referendum on burgers or AI.

That will put some sweat on some brows :)

That's an easy option.

But if more an more people changed their attitude, stopped envying jet-setters and instead shamed them for their environmentally reckless attitude, maybe you would see a lot less plane travel, a lot less gas guzzlers, a lot less conspicuous consumption.

Shame works on the vast majority of people. We may lack inherent ethics, but we seldom like to swim against the stream.

I just don't fully agree anymore.

I always cared. But I care more as I age. Why? Because I know (vaguely) the danger and I have ____KIDS____.

Older people usually have kids too. For anyone, ANYONE who accepts/knows the dangers we face to just shrug, knowing it's their own kids and grand kids that will suffer (wars, political upheaval, riots, deaths, migration) - no. I don't buy it.

Principally, it's the ignorance of the people to the things that matters most. Maybe they are partially sticking their heads in the sand a bit. But if it truly was properly reported on prime-time news and so on, they would know, and they would care.

A good argument could be made that precisely because it happens in government and those people aren’t booted out post-haste, then society is apparently a lot more OK with this style of behavior than before.

I think Nixon’s watergate is a good comparison. It wasn’t nothing, but how many larger scams and scandals has Trump and family been through with apparent electoral acceptance?

And if it is so. How big a reaction would you get from the population if another Theranos happened? I don’t think people would care, really. Shrug and move on.

Oh don’t worry. If the US can bail on the treaty signed with Ukraine and repeatedly threaten to not honor NATO commitments, then this is small-fry stuff.

Funny, I thought HN was about substance, not cheerleading.

If you have reason to downvote, present it.

Such as it is - I doubt it, I couldn’t find any papers, so either it goes against someone’s religion or feel free to present your proof where any of the traits of Rust the language has been proven to actually benefit LLM code generation.

Another example of “I like my language and here’s why it is uniquely suitable for $thing” (here AI).

I just asked chatgpt today for research on whether any feature of a programming language which has been identified in studies to make it better suited for agentic coding. Or whether popularity in the data-set has been proven to matter or even cross-language learning (knowledge from one language benefitting the LLM in writing in another).

Aside from popularity, nothing I could dredge up could prove strong correlations with anything else - including types

Heh - good choices. Seems like a poorly reasoned article then.

Accepting the premise of 2000$ spent (I doubt it), the author completely forgets that the collectively saved amount far exceeds the 200$ of a single subscription.

Anyway, if I worked at Adobe, or any company with roughly the same business model, I definitely would feel nervous about now. And I still feel sympathy for the devs. But let’s be honest, Adobe principally benefits its shareholders and other dead weight, not so much the developers.

It is a bad comparison.

One; you are a private individual- not the local shop which simultaneously picks up all free apples only to turn around and make money off of them.

Secondly, while we can’t speak to everyone picking any open source license - there are good examples of people complaining that they are stressed because they either are underfunded or having to maintain critical infrastructure pieces in their spare time - because companies aren’t donating in exchange for the free code.

You can say “don’t”, but the openssl, xz, … maintainers are often aware how much can break if they don’t keep at it - and so for a sense of societal duty they continue.

If your neighbor stops hanging bags of apples by their house it’s not like they have a reasonable expectation that someone is going to die from starvation or anything.

True. It's really cases like this that demonstrate the shortcomings of BSD/MIT licenses -- at least if you are of the position, that companies could and should contribute a sliver of profits back to the projects enabling that success.

(Much like contributing back in taxes for the infrastructure used and the educational system producing the qualified employees. But that may be a bridge too far for some of HNs readership :) )

Hear hear !

And I think this point is a poor as any made in the article.

Last I attempted to write some smaller ocaml project I used LLMs for support (but wrote myself). They generally weren’t excellent.

Honestly, types don’t help as much as people want them to. The LLM does best on popular languages, especially those whose use and feel is also mainstream.

That is to say, pick a niche language like Odin, and it may incorrectly start to over-apply Go’isms - knowledge from one language bleeds into how it approaches others.

Hmm. You are right, first thing my white colonial mind is put to is a nice cuppa, followed by manipulating the natives to war amongst themselves.

Come on.

The trend is said to be declining wine- and alcohol consumption in general. But tariffs and US-Canada relations are also mentioned.

For my part, I loved a few Californian wines, but ever since Trump threatened to invade my country, I haven't bought a single bottle, and I never will.

I think that mirrors others here, those bottles seem to be going out of rotation entirely - and we generally mark whether a product comes from inside the EU now. Which, curiously, started when relations went sour.

Well they were sabotaging EUs goals of phasing out ICE vehicles. But at least this is something.

Still love you, Germany :)

Well, that would be avoidable if people applied the Mitchell and Webb test, asking themselves “are we the baddies?”.

If you know you are and don’t care, culture fit ! :)

For a number of years, pc publications around these parts actually shipped snapshots of websites on the bundled CD-ROM.

You couldn’t snapshot all, but you could definitely get a taste :)

Bye bye.

Would be great for us (Europeans).

On the other hand, were I an American interested in projecting power across the globe, not so much.

I wonder if it is more of this administration’s fantastic 5d chess. Amazing how quickly a bunch of infantile idiots can dismantle the incredibly powerful US empire of the 50’s and beyond.

But the US consumer is also quite self-centered. They will happily torch alliances and neighborly relations over perceived personal benefits. I doubt the US consumer would lift a finger for Taiwan. It will be a combination of weakness and indifference.

I think US fiscal policy and adventurism will manage this on its own. :)

And I could say the opposite. Anecdata, it isn’t really helpful.

Fact is still that wayland does some things better, and a bunch og other things worse.

I and presumably quite a few others with AMD AI or Apple Mac platforms are very impacted by this.

:)

It is very relevant and for a certain group of us, far more impactful to our work the next month(s) than any blog post could be.

Telling. Downvotes but actually no arguments. Fitting, because there are none.

Referring to a baseless prediction by Sam Altman that AI will become like electricity without any push-back? Who really thinks Sam is working toward that future?

He already worked to undo every early promise made (non-profit, open source models, strong governing board, strong ethics/alignment/security focus). He's flip-flopped on other things like first characterising Trump "an unprecedented threat to America", then contributing 1M USD to Trump's inaugural fund far exceeding his earlier political contributions. Lately OpenAI, under his supervision, has also been working with Anthropic to lobby regulators in Washington for restrictions on open weights models - why so if not to undermine a free market in favour of an oligopoly?

Beyond that, you have the simple fact that most of his personal wealth and very probably the fate of OpenAI hinges on AI inference NOT becoming an interchangeable commodity.

I mean.. Honestly. The naivete is downright astounding.

He also wanted to do a non-profit.

He even raised money on that premise.

He is a pathological liar, so is Dario. Don’t rely on the benevolence or truthfulness of these people.

They will say whatever is beneficial to say in the moment.

You can never please everyone , and some stdlibs can age like milk (see ocaml).

Having libraries allow the community to explore rather than saddling it with a bad default. See the number of http server frameworks etc.

The real solution here is not for the stdlib to become a black hole, swallowing up every half-way popular library a but rather for “rustaceans” to adopt a more security-conscious approach to writing programs- C programs typically have few and well-chosen dependencies. Some languages, like Odin, completely eschew package managers because they see the very real issues stemming from writing a program with scores or hundreds of dependencies.

Anyone have a larger collection of stories/anecdotes from the older days of computing?

Stories like this, and the Quake cd posted recently, are hugely interesting to me.

Another fata point for all those who sided with OpenAI and Anthrophics claims that they are somehow more responsible and careful and that others, especially those pursuing pesky open weights models are a danger.

Good thing my police doesn't look like this.

They look like hoodlums who walked through a prepper bazaar.