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by johnfn 2y ago
Who wants to spend all their time hand-tuning JS/TS when you can write the same code in Go, spend no time at all optimizing it, and get 10x better results?
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by johnfn 2y ago
Any chance you live in SF? If so, we should meet up - I'm working on something similar. You can reach out at my username @gmail.com
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by johnfn 2y ago
I understand that semantic search gives you more than keyword search. I don't understand the cases when you need that. Like I said, I use GitHub issues all the time, and it's exceedingly rare that I need to search for something ex
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by johnfn 2y ago
That was a great write up. If you don't mind me giving you some unsolicited product feedback: I think SemHub didn't do well because it's unclear what problem it's actually solving. Who actually wants your product? What&#
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by johnfn 2y ago
Hm, not sure I agree with you about SO. The experience I have with SO 99%+ of the time is that I google my question, get a result on SO which has a correct and decent quality answer, and I'm back to work. That's a pretty great exp
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by johnfn 2y ago
Is that really the big question? Why is it necessary to find another dimension along which to diminish the author?
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by johnfn 2y ago
Two more suggestions after playing one or two more: - There should be an easier way to know which brackets match. - This game would probably be more fun with a 2-dimensional visualization of the layers. It would be more fun to see you knock
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by johnfn 2y ago
This is very cool. My only complaint is I should be able to go up a level. e.g. I saw "unwelcome in a China shop" and instantly knew it was "bull" but still had to work through a few more clues before I got there.
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by johnfn 2y ago
I've written my own software, both with and without state management frameworks. To be honest, I didn't find state management to be particularly "trivial", except when I worked on trivial applications.
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by johnfn 2y ago
A certain subset of SPAs need to duplicate backend logic because they necessarily and unavoidably have local state. For instance, optimistic updates require some redundancy with backend logic.
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by johnfn 2y ago
I'd be very interested to hear how state management is supremely trivial to solve for.
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by johnfn 2y ago
State management is absolutely a real front end concern. That's what you're going to be spending a lot of your time on; you better make sure you do it well. Code style is roughly a solved problem thanks to Prettier, as is build st
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by johnfn 2y ago
What does this have to do with frontend work? Major version updates are common across any part of the stack. Just off the top of my head, SQLAlchemy has a seven step migration process[1] from 1.4 to 2.0, and it's absolutely not the kin
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by johnfn 2y ago
Chatbot arena leaderboard[1] says otherwise. 4o is ahead now, but that version of 4o was released after r1. r1 was ahead of all version of 4o and o1 at the time of release. https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmarena-ai/
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by johnfn 2y ago
Remove that last sentence and I think you make a good point. (Keep it and you really are breaking HN rules.)
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by johnfn 2y ago
The title of the article is "Your AI Can't See Gorillas". That seems demonstrably false. The article says: > Furthermore, their data analysis capabilities seem to focus much more on quantitative metrics and summary statist
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by johnfn 2y ago
Hm, interesting. The way I tried it was by pasting an image into Claude directly as the start of the conversation, plus a simple prompt ("What do you see here?"). It got the specific image wrong (it thought it was baby yoda, lol),
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by johnfn 2y ago
GPT can't "see" the results of the scatterplot (unless prompted with an image), it only sees the code it wrote. If a human had the same constraints I doubt they'd identify there was a gorilla there. Take a screenshot of
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by johnfn 2y ago
I still don't see it. I think for quite a while replacing a single engineer will be costly and resource-intensive. I think many companies would be happy to replace all programmers with AI that are just as slow as programmers, but margi
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by johnfn 2y ago
In a world where programmers can be replaced, it's less clear to me that plumbers, janitors, electricians, construction laborers, etc, are also all out of a job.
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by johnfn 2y ago
Did you intentionally flip through all the questions to find the one that seemed the easiest? If so, why? That's question #7, and all other 7 questions in the sample set seem ridiculously difficult to me.
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by johnfn 2y ago
Yes, but "Hiro Protagonist" is objectively hilarious.
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by johnfn 2y ago
Have you tried suno.ai?
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by johnfn 2y ago
This article doesn't really gratify my intellectual curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by johnfn 2y ago
Cursor?
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by johnfn 2y ago
I think this is fairly easily debunked by o1, which is basically just 4o in a thinking for loop, and performs better on difficult tasks. Not a LOT better, mind you, but better enough to be measurable.
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by johnfn 2y ago
You are free to use a word however you'd like, but that doesn't change the popular definition and usage of that word.
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by johnfn 2y ago
This doesn't seem quite correct to me. They weren't asking for "more validation than was reasonable". They were asking for literally any proof that users would benefit from the proposal. That seems like an entirely reaso
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by johnfn 2y ago
That is not true. Look up the definition of doomscrolling and most sources (e.g. wikipedia) will say that it tends to be negative content.
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by johnfn 2y ago
Wow, you've totally cracked the mystery. This explains why all the commenters are at each other's throats - half of them are reading it one way and half are reading the other way, and only one of the two ways makes any sense.

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