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What’s wrong with Toyota?

I don’t care about HN the same way I care about my development platform. If I want to show someone my life’s work I don’t send then to HackerNews.

Just an fyi, when I try to sign in with google for your app I get the message: "The app is requesting access to sensitive info in your Google Account. Until the developer (*reka*kc*@gmail.com) verifies this app with Google, you shouldn't use it."

Okay this is kinda random and maybe off topic but can someone please explain?

When I tell an LLM to count to 10 with a 2 second pause between each count all it does is generate Python code with a sleep function. Why is that?

A 3 year old can understand that question and follow those instructions. An LLM doesn’t have an innate understanding of time it seems.

Can we really call it AGI if that’s the case?

That’s just one example.

This thread reads like sour grapes to me. When people can’t compete but instead start throwing unfounded allegations is not a good look.

Even OpenAI itself hasn’t resorted to these wild conspiracy theories.

Unless you’re an insider in these companies, you’re just like the rest of us, you know nothing.

Does anyone know what CMS this website uses?

> week, they would be artists, parents, lovers, researchers

And who would 1. Pave your roads 2. Keep you safe 3. Care for you when you’re old 4. Keep the electric grid running 5. Etc

Modern society works because there’s a bunch of people who do things they don’t like.

The alternative is that we all go back to being hunter gatherers.

> That’s more than what French government pays its rocket scientists.

I was about to call bullshit but then looked up the average salary for an aeronautical engineer in France and it was… bleak.

Hot take:

I'm glad most of the early Internet technologies emerged out of the US and not Europe.

The wild west of the Internet is what resulted in its explosive growth and widened opportunities for many.

If it were up to Europe, we'd probably have needed a degree and a license to become a webmaster.

There are two reasons I can think of:

1. The most popular front-end frameworks (e.g. React and Angular) are created by large orgs which naturally leads to extensive codebases as they’ll need to have many use cases.

2. Every new and shiny front-end framework is good for job security since having it on a resume makes you more hireable. I suspect it’s also why some developers practically force startups to switch their front-end codebase to the next shiny framework - resume padding.

As a solo dev I wasted a few years using (and hating) these new frameworks for my Django projects because it’s what everyone was recommending.

Then it hit me when I realized that they were meant for large dedicated front-end teams to increase their productivity. If you’re a solo developer, they actually hurt your productivity.

That’s why I’m so happy with htmx. I can get my sanity back!

Tangential: check out FreshRSS (https://www.freshrss.org/), a self-hosted RSS reader.

Well, many open source developers are quite content with making their software freely accessible without expectation of monetary gain. In fact some are strongly opposed to it (see uBlock Origin maintainer). And that’s ok too!

Honest question: how valuable is the current mode of testing (based rote memorization) if much of that can be done by AI anyway? Maybe it’s time for new testing methodologies?

All great points. To add: As someone who's worked blue collar jobs, it is all too common for unions to protect assholes from getting fired. This leads to a hostile work environment created by the "high seniority" workers.

Something I don't like whenever these discussions come up is the condescending tone, from white collar workers. "Don't these poor people know what's good for them????"

Working class people are capable of thinking for themselves and it's not that uncommon for people to move from a union shop to a non-union shop due to the reasons outlined above.

> eventually we'll land on something similar to medicine or other engineering areas where accreditation is prerequisite

You are saying people will need to be certified to be programmers?

This is just gate keeping and considering how accessible computing is, it would never work anyway.

At what percentage of knowledge are you ready to use the language professionally?

I'd like to think that the "killer app" for the fediverse isn't going to be Mastodon or the other current alternatives but the ActivityPub protocol or something akin to it.

Whereas decentralized online communities have existed, they were mostly isolated which meant that users had to make multiple accounts if they wanted to participate in various niche interests.

Now that you can create one account in one server and still be able to participate in other federated communities in a "global square" if you wanted to is an important departure from communities of the past.

And yet WhatsApp had 55 employees at acquisition.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/whatsapp-bought-for-19-b...

I’m willing to bet a pretty penny that the next big social media will be built on the fediverse.

> Glad Mastadon is doing its thing being like the IRC of twitter or whatever, but there's absolutely no way it ever truly competes

A good thing about open source software is that any kinks can be fleshed out over time through contributions and forks.

Think about how many non-technical people run WordPress blogs on the internet.

> The world you propose means that i'd need to belong to dozens of such sites.

With ActivityPub, this shouldn’t be much of an issue.

> It consumes a lot of time/effort if you do any sort of active moderation

And yet some Reddit mods manage subs with 10s of thousands for… free.

Not everyone is a wanna be influencer who wants to reach a billion people. If that’s the case private Facebook groups, WhatsApp groups and Telegram groups wouldn’t be as popular as they are.

HN is not a powerful walled garden.

It’s a site mostly used to share links and comments. Places like it abound on the internet.

In case of any shenanigans, they’re liable to lose users to an alternative faster than you can say digg.

Even though it’s owners are powerful people in tech, I’m willing to bet it’s not generating billions for them.

And with anonymous accounts, their incentive to harvest data and use it for ad targeting is little.

I’m fed up with “platforms”. Growing a garden on someone else’s land is dumb and I think more people are starting to get it. Why feed someone’s enterprise for free who will then turn it into a powerful walled garden, make billions in profit while eventually dictating what you can and can’t do on said platform.

To top it off, there’s very little upside to you as a user. Your own data is used against you.

At this point anyone who willingly joins a new VC funded social media monstrosity is just a masochist.

Small decentralized communities which users can freely and easily create and manage is the way to go!

Why is this article hiding its hyperlinks? On my iOS all the links are black and indistinguishable from the rest of the text.

I think kasmweb (kasmweb.com) has this. They claim it’s open source but I think it’s more “source available”

But isn’t that antithetical to decentralization? Would you consider mastodon decentralized if you had to rely on AWS?

Good for you if you're not affected, I guess. For many people, Internet trolls can cause psychological harm. This is not some obscure thing. Teens have been committing suicide due to bullying on the Internet for decades.

Believe it or not “just ignore them“ doesn’t work for many people.

There’s a reason 4chan is only popular with a certain demographic.

> this (trying to get rid of echo chambers and highlighting posts from people with different viewpoints recognized by the algorithm) would be a better

But people _want_ echo chambers. No one wants to be in a group where people share opinions that they dislike. It’s just human nature. Why do you think private Facebook groups are so popular?