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by jdlshore 7mo ago
This sounds like a right-wing conspiracy theory. Are you saying that, in order to hire more black people, the FAA deliberately created a test only black people could pass? Do you have any evidence of this assertion?
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by jdlshore 7mo ago
Sorry, I missed that. I’ve seen enough wild but earnestly held beliefs on HN that I have trouble telling them from satire.
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by jdlshore 7mo ago
I’m not a fan of Jira either, but this isn’t a particularly relevant criticism. it’s meant for coordinating large groups.
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by jdlshore 7mo ago
The economics are against them nonetheless. Solar + battery is seeing massive rollouts.
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by jdlshore 7mo ago
That reaction has happened with every model release for the past few years. Maybe they aren’t the same people, but it’s always “old model was terrible, new model gets it right” then “new model was terrible, newer model gets it right,” ad in
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by jdlshore 7mo ago
Sorry, I was referring to @vetrom’s comment. I got mixed up on who was replying to who.
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by jdlshore 7mo ago
GP said there is no rule yet, so the answer is “today, yes.” If you’re asking about the future, the answer is “to be determined.” But I think you knew that.
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by jdlshore 7mo ago
This seems like a victory: ‘US District Judge James “Jeb” Boasberg wrote in the new opinion that a “mountain of evidence suggests that the Government served these subpoenas on the Board to pressure its Chair into voting for lower interest r
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by jdlshore 7mo ago
Pet peeve: this post misunderstands “TDD.” What it really describes is acceptance tests. TDD is a tool for working in small steps, so you get continuous feedback on your work as you go, and so you can refine your design based on how easy it
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by jdlshore 7mo ago
I have to second the complaints about LLM writing. The tropes were grating, to the point where I hit the back button before ever learning what the difference between a boid and a noid is. Ecto, I see that you’re reading and responding to co
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by jdlshore 7mo ago
They don’t want your money. Companies that require sales calls are built around selling large numbers of licenses to companies with at least a hundred people—which is still a “small business.” They’re much more interested in selling to mid-
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by jdlshore 7mo ago
The Inflation Reduction Act was a massive climate bill: $400 billion worth. I don’t think it’s fair to characterize that as “just talked about it.”
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by jdlshore 7mo ago
Solar + battery is a miracle technology that’s being installed at an enormous rate. Technically, it’s fusion power, capturing energy from a fusion plant 8 light-minutes away. :-D
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by jdlshore 8mo ago
Who? The only “disrupters” I see are AI hypesters selling AI tools. Who are the people using these tools to create successful businesses and (non-AI) products?
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by jdlshore 8mo ago
If you think wealth inequality is a societal problem, billionaires leaving to avoid taxes is a feature, not a bug.
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by jdlshore 8mo ago
Enough with the whataboutism. The topic is what LLMs are capable of, not what humans are capable of.
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by jdlshore 8mo ago
I haven’t heard about any similar studies, no. I’m planning to conduct one at my workplace but we’re still deciding exactly which uses of AI to test.
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by jdlshore 8mo ago
This is self-reported productivity, in that devs are saying AI saves them about 4 hours per week. But let’s not forget the METR study that found a 20% increase in self-reported productivity but a 19% decrease in actual measured producti
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by jdlshore 8mo ago
Doesn’t look like goal-post moving to me. GP argued that AI isn’t making a difference, because if it was, we’d see amazing AI-generated open source projects. (Edit: taking a second look, that’s not exactly what GP said, but that’s what I to
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by jdlshore 8mo ago
In those 15 years, did you send them any money? I suspect the point is “we don’t make enough money to keep writing cool articles that keep people coming back for 15 years.”
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by jdlshore 8mo ago
Yes, because solar is now the most cost-effective form of energy generation. That’s why grid-scale solar is being deployed on a massive scale world wide.
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by jdlshore 9mo ago
The new OS (with Liquid Glass) has SMS message categorization that works fine to filter spam IME. You still have to delete them if you don’t want the red dot, but at least I don’t get alerts any more. I upgraded iOS just for this feature an
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by jdlshore 9mo ago
Why would there be something about browser development? This is obviously an effort to diversify their revenue streams.
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by jdlshore 9mo ago
This might have been “The Leprechauns of Software Development,” by Laurent Bossavit, which is one of my favorites. He digs into the sources behind a bunch of the popular sayings and determines that they’ve all been greatly exaggerated and&#
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by jdlshore 9mo ago
Only if Tesla is able to roll out a competing service. Given that they have zero cars without a safety driver on public roads, I’d say they’re a very long way from doing so, and I have my doubts about their ability to do so at all. Their CE
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by jdlshore 9mo ago
Yes, they do. I know because they’re disclosed, and how they’re used is disclosed. (They’re disabled unless you call support.)
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by jdlshore 9mo ago
> Priority is meaningless if there is a car in the way when the guards come down. This possibility is so far outside my experience I can only think your perspective has more to do with emotion than logic. Maybe it happens more often in y
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by jdlshore 9mo ago
Not a lawyer, but this seems like a pretty direct violation of copyright law. Even if AI’s use of it isn’t infringing, copying the files for upload seems like it must be. Scrubbing proprietary data doesn’t mean they’re suddenly public domai
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by jdlshore 9mo ago
What specifically was the nature of that pressure from the administration? From the outside, it looks like classic Innovators’ Dilemma. Traditional automakers failing to adapt to a radically different drivetrain is practically guaranteed un
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by jdlshore 9mo ago
I think you’re thinking of streetcars—trains that share right of way with cars. Light rail often has its own right-of-way with priority over cars. (That’s what the crossing guards are for.)

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