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by nikkwong 7mo ago
What is it about it that makes the story less interesting to you? It's the same story, down to the same delicate details. When AI-slop stops being, well, slop, and just is everything that humans do, but much better, and much more effic
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by nikkwong 7mo ago
That's not true. Monoclonal antibodies are on the market right now which slow the progression of the disease (by removing amyloid).
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by nikkwong 7mo ago
At least in the case of "europe" it could refer to the EU (which obviously is not correct because it doesn't encompass all of europe). But when they are talking about "Asia"—what governing body would they even be
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by nikkwong 7mo ago
Having the productivity "drop through the floor" is a bit hyperbolic, no? Humans are still reviewing the PRs before code merge at least at my company (for the most part, for now).
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Microsoft Live Homepage has the same hero appearing twice(live.com)
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by nikkwong 8mo ago
https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/gdp-growth-annual It does look like the war is taking it's toll, though. It is said that the annual growth in GDP is expected to be negative for 2026.
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by nikkwong 8mo ago
That’s the cataclysmic outcome, though. Although I deemed that that’s certainly possible and I would put a double digit percentage probability on it, another very likely outcome is a very severe recession, or a recession, wear a lot of, but
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by nikkwong 8mo ago
Yeah seriously. Don't people understand the fact that society is not good at mopping up messes like this—there has been a K shaped economy for several decades now and most Americans have something like $400 in their bank accounts. The
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by nikkwong 8mo ago
I'm definitely bullish on LLM's for coding. It sounds to me as though getting it to run on its own for hours and produce something usable requires more careful thought and setup than just throwing a prompt at it and wishing for th
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by nikkwong 8mo ago
I have a hard time understanding how that would work — for me, I typically interface with coding agents through cursor. The flow is like this: ask it something -> it works for a min or two -> I have to verify and fix by asking it agai
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by nikkwong 8mo ago
> Our latest frontier models have shown particular strengths in their ability to do long-running tasks, working autonomously for hours, days or weeks without intervention. I have yet to see this (produce anything actually useful).
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by nikkwong 9mo ago
I understand why HN doesn't want to devolve into a political forum—but at it's spirit, HN is supposed to cover topics that "...are of interest to those working in the tech community". The upvotes on a thread like this de
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by nikkwong 9mo ago
> And spoiler, zero american politicians are pro-china. ..Other than, well possibly, Trump. Maybe not directly, but the Tiktok deal, withdrawing from the TPP, the eventual outcome of the trade war, the praise for Xi—all stands to benefit
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by nikkwong 9mo ago
No tin-foil hat needed. There is published research documenting that this is happening [0] on certain topics and there is a lot of reason to believe it is happening in others. Yes, I'm not saying China is the only source of the state o
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by nikkwong 9mo ago
...Highly disagree. China can (and has) manipulate the hearts and minds of the American public—skewing their biases in a way that creates internal chaos and dissent, disrupting institutional order, and sewing distrust of thy neighbor. They&
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by nikkwong 9mo ago
Original source: https://news.uq.edu.au/2026-01-not-all-sitting-same-when-it-... > "...Passive activities such as watching television have been linked to worse memory and cognitive skills, while ‘active sitting’ lik
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by nikkwong 9mo ago
That was basically my sentiment and the sentiment of a few lawyers I consulted for it. I lost so much money in the entire process overall it hurts to think about.
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by nikkwong 9mo ago
You're totally right. At the time I didn't have much money for a lawyer, but perhaps I should look into it again now.
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by nikkwong 9mo ago
Amazon has some terms in their TOS that you have to go through mediation on their terms—I tried to get the process started but could never get them to respond when I/we contacted their legal teams. I probably should have pressed harder
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by nikkwong 9mo ago
I live in Seattle, and in WA state that would put it beyond the limit for a small claims case. Idk, I tried to contact lawyers to take the case and they sent letters to Amazon which Amazon never responded to. I was also going through a pret
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by nikkwong 9mo ago
Good luck. Amazon banned my seller account 7 years ago because my wife, who was also an amazon seller, used our shared CC (which has my name on it, although she's an authorized user) to pay her $45/month seller fee. The account ha
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by nikkwong 9mo ago
Ok, you can "easily", but how quickly can you revert to a snapshot? I would guess creating a snapshot for each turn change with an LLM become too burdensome to allow you to iterate quickly.
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by nikkwong 9mo ago
You can’t easily snapshot the current state of an OS and restore to that state like with git.
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by nikkwong 10mo ago
I think faang and the like would probably crowdsource it given that they would—according to the hypothesis presented—would only have to do it every few years, and ostensibly are realizing improved developer productivity from them.
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by nikkwong 10mo ago
You're all referencing the strange idea in a world where there would be no open-weight coding models trained in the future. Even in a world where VC spending vanished completely, coding models are such a valuable utility that I'm
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by nikkwong 10mo ago
What should Home Depot be doing? They don’t control the administration or the ICE raids. Forcing day laborers off the property ensures less raids happen on the property—I haven’t really understood the boycotts.
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by nikkwong 10mo ago
This is amazing; now when is building this kind of thing going to become more accessible so we can start seeing a lot more of it? Webassembly has been around for years now but we still don't really see many companies compiling games or
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by nikkwong 10mo ago
We're definitely in the territory of splitting hairs; but I think most of what people call modern AI is the result of the transformer paper. Of course this was built off the back of decades of research.
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by nikkwong 10mo ago
I mean, some are good at adaptability, while others get completely left in the dust. Look at the rust belt: jobs have left, and everyone there is desperate for a handout. Trump is busy trying to engineer a recession in the US—when recession
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by nikkwong 10mo ago
As another Seattle SWE, I'll go against the grain and say that I think AI is going to change the nature of the market for labor for SWE's and my guess would be for the negative. People need to remember that the ability of AI in co

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