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I agree with this take. Models and the tooling around them are both in flux. I d rather not spend time learning something in detail for these companies to then pull the plug chasing next-big-thing.

I am not ashamed to admit this whole agentic coding movement has moved beyond me.

Not only do I have know everything about the code, data and domain, but now I need to understand this whole AI system which is a meta skill of its own.

I fear I may never be able catch up till someone comes along and simplifies it for pleb consumption.

Anecdotally, when the US presidential elections were in the final few weeks, and the polls were leaning Harris, prediction markets suddenly slipped towards favoring Trump against conventional wisdom.

There was one investor from France I believe who bet heavily on Trump winning almost $28M. After election it was revealed he had some private polling done, which informed his decision.

It doesn't answer the question you posed, but I believe these markets could highlight some inefficiencies that conventional mainstream information cannot capture.

Yeah true and I think it was heading on a Ruby-like trajectory. It was the data science/ML trend that really cemented it's status.

The gist is that basic Python at its very core is -

a) simple b) limited

The language really took off when developers took this simple limited language and pushed it to its very limits using C extensions. The data science explosion opened up the language to a very wide user base.

So to answer your 3 questions: a) Python is not a fast language by any means. There is a lot of overhead in every function call that makes it almost impossible for low latency/real-time use cases. b) I don't think Python is particularly the best language for this. This is just a demonstration of someone building their own custom toolchain to show what is possible with just pure Python. The author has highlighted why they think this is interesting on the website. c) I keep thinking Python will go away soon, and we will see a much better alternative. But the reality is Python is entrenched deeply just like JavaScript. Lot of smart people are putting in a lot of effort to make it better. Personally the ecosystem and packaging story does not annoy me much, but the lack of proper threading (GIL) has hurt my projects more than once.

For your particular pain point, the current community recommended solution is to use uv (https://github.com/astral-sh/uv). There were several detours (pip, pyenv, pipenv, poetry etc.) the community took before they got behind this.

Tyler Cowen is someone I take seriously. I think he is one of the most rational thought leaders.

But I have to say, his views on LLMs seem a little premature. He definitely has a unique viewpoint of what "general intelligence" is, which might not apply broadly to most jobs. I think "interviews" them like they were a guest on his podcast and bases his judgement on how they compare to his other extremely smart guests.

Anyone know how to figure out the web stack for this blog? Its elegant, minimal, and has enough support for some rich elements which add to the experience.

Literally unusable.

This is pro-tesla/elon account, but the screenshots are legitimate.

https://nitter.net/WholeMarsBlog/status/1889098514061492517#...

The whole thing is funny cause the guy who is so vehemently defending Tesla and FSD despite totaling his car, is being targeted by Tesla fanboy accounts for being a fraud. Twitter is really bottom of the barrel garbage.

I really doubt they are taking any lessons from this. This is the author's second Cybertruck crash in a month.

If I didn't know better, I think they are trying to farm engagement.

Not worth the trouble. This is such a cosmetic change to appease a specific type of developer but the effort to implement that across all the DB engines of note would be monumental.

Rockets are good. They give us hope that one day we ll explore the stars. Let people enjoy the small wins.

Ok but both Android and iOS have a good permission system where location and other data access can be highly controlled. Isn't it more prudent that the app be restricted by the OS to not have permissions it does not require? Surely the US can enforce something like that.

Someone tell me what data TikTok is collecting, that is making it such a national security threat. I guess it knows what videos you like. Awesome, so does every other social media company out there. Its not like the sign up form is asking for upload of SSN and DL.

I guess the US is afraid of manipulation of the video feed by China, that may influence elections. There might be a kernel of truth there, so I d be curious to hear anecdotes of something like that actually happening.

Honestly the choices are: a) letting workers in who will work for reasonable wages, put in a solid shift, pay generous taxes, who will most likely never seeing a penny of social security or medicare benefits b) outsource to Bangalore for much cheaper

In my biased Indian view, unless something drastically changes, the proposition of 20+ years on a Green Card queue is looking a lot less appealing for a software person, especially if they are talented.

Can someone explain to me how they can keep the price of the chip production the same in the US compared to Taiwan?

Labour, especially specialized labour, is a lot more expensive in the US.

What we really need is a de-facto open source tool to manage logical replication seamlessly. The devs have built all the pieces, and as of v17 there are very few limitations. But I am constantly tripping over the fact that I cannot observe how the replication is progressing, and a good way to mitigate failures.

PG has always been annoyingly consistent about his views on this.

I had the same thoughts, as some other people in the comments - there are so many problems to solve, so many people to help. It is hard to match the fulfillment that comes from helping someone less fortunate that you.

This essay has not-so-subtle shades of individualism and meritocracy which can warp ones views about self-worth. I do applaud his self-awareness regarding his own vanity.

As a side note, this is the first I am hearing of interviews for DOGE. Curious what that process looks like.

Oh wow, didnt know pe-postgres-company had any negative rep.

Anyone care to explain how a company can screw another company via a acquisition offer?

Anyone know what company he may be talking about?

Yeah, when I made the comment, the post was up for over 12 hours.

Sacks and PG don't see eye to eye. There is some beef there. PG is a big Altman supporter. To be fair he also thinks highly of Musk as a founder, but does not agree with his politics.

It would seem to me, there is larger rift developing in SV between the YC clique and the AllIn podcast gang.

I don't know what to make of the fact that they haven't taken it down yet.

Do they not know its posted? Surely someone informed them. Maybe they not know how to delete a post, cause its not in their documentation? Or they simply do not care.

It's been over a decade that I have seen crypto in the mainstream space, and I am yet to see any decent adoption for BTC - either online or in the physical world. El Salvador went as far as to mandate everyone to accept BTC as payments, but the public has mostly ignored. Now they are rolling back the mandates.

The "currency" isn't backed by any institution, takes forever to send/receive tokens, has absurd transaction fees, cherry on top, is terrible for the environment. Did we really need an alternative for gold that bad?

Ok, but this article isn't saying anything you are arguing against. Unless you meant to reply against a comment.

I had no idea people rely on S3 beyond dumb storage. It almost feels like people are trying to build out a distributed OLAP database in the reverse direction.

I think it's more like, "don't do this" because there is perfectly saner alternatives available.

Indian diet is diverse and emphasizes moderate consumption, resulting in some good health outcomes overall.

However, the lack of protein is still a major concern. Indian's have "skinny fat" bodies with low musculature. This puts them at risk for cardiovascular diseases. This does, in some part, contribute to low life expectancy in India.

The study you posted in the other thread shows better health outcomes for Asian Indians in the US. But it also mentions Asian Indians have higher socio-economic status, better education and higher per-capita incomes. The same is the case with other Asian demographics. It is not the least bit surprising that they have higher life expectancy, irrespective of diet.

I would argue adding more protein (doesn't have to be animal protein) would result in even better outcomes for Indians everywhere.

And what makes the Indian diet healthy? Is there any data which shows improved health outcomes?