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My guess is that the answer to your question, fantastic question, is that nobody knows. I remember having the same thoughts when Covid was first “arriving” if you will: we wanted people in the know to throw us a nugget of information, and they just didn’t know.

As it turns out, and what I’m kind of going with for this LLM shit, is that it’ll play out exactly how you think it will. The companies are all too big to fail, with billionaire backers who would rather commit fraud than lose money.


How would fraud help here? Don't they just need scale of lots of customers paying a little bit? How do you fraud your way into that?

Kids from abusive homes are fucking impeccable at reading emotions, their health depended on it.

Widgets looks like whatever you want them to look like, if the feel like they're from the 2010s its because the implementer made that choice, not because of a limitation in qtwidgets.

Could be, but I am mostly speaking about the fact that making a web app looks stylish feels infinitely easier to me.

Qt uses css. Its no different than what you’re describing.

I think what you're asking for has existed for a long, long time. QML.

QML doesn't have a way to define interfaces with JSX and doesn't integrate with the wider JS tooling. From my very limited experience, it still feels too close to the C++ world.

I think the GP was saying that there was no gain. France has the same amount of gold they did last week. The whole article is like saying "holy shit, france has the exact same amount of wealth they did last week!"

Did you read the article at all? Or just the title? The article is about bringing gold back to France by selling US bars and buying new bars in Europe. The alternative would be melting the bars down and recasting them to the new standard.

The capital gain is just a by-product, standard financial stuff, but apparently broke HN readers brains.


I did read the article, thanks for asking.

Sounds like you agree with me, France has the same amount of wealth in gold that they had last week.


I don't care about that. That's not what the article is about.

The day a western anything will need to catch up with alibaba will be a notable day indeed. Also, this will never happen.

I don’t know about anyone else here, but college was not educating because I was at college. I did all of the reading and studying on my own. The classes weren’t very interesting, most of my TAs didn’t speak the native language well at all, nor did half the professors.

I enjoyed my time, I made a lot of lifelong friends, and figured out how to live on my own. My buddies that enrolled in boot camp instead of college learned all those same skills, for free.

Education won’t be ruined or blemished my LLMs, the whole thing was a joke to begin with. The bit that ruined college was unlimited student loans… and all of our best and brightest folks running the colleges raping students for money. It’s pathetic, evil, and somehow espoused.


Sounds like you just had terrible professors because most of mine were good and we learned quite a bit in classes, at least I did. I distinctly remember one professor who, every class, would meander discussion over many topics then find a way to bring them all together at the very end, crystalizing all of these disparate thoughts into one cohesive theory. And he did that every single class that semester. It was a marvel to behold.

I remember my calc teachers, married, last name gulick, university of maryland. The calc book was sold as the same book for calc 1/2/3. The couple, gulick were the authors. Every semester they released a new edition, the only thing that changed was the problem set numbers. So, if you took calc 1/2/3, you spent $200/semester for the same fucking book.

Magical times.


I find it very interesting that you assume this method would branch out to other projects. I find it even more interesting that you assume all software codebases use a database, give a damn about async anything, and that these ideas percolate out to general software engineering.

Sounds like a solid way to make crud web apps though.


GP is clearly providing examples of categories of tasks. Sure, not all languages do “async fn foo()”, but almost all problem domains involve some sort of making sure the right things happen at the right times, which is in a similar ballpark.

Holier than thou “yeah well I work on stuff that doesn’t use databases, checkmate!” doesn’t really land - data still gets moved around somehow, and often over a network!


Not trying to "land" anything.

It is not fraud to claim that one is considering doing something, and publishing that information.

Imagine how that would actually play out if you were right. (You’re not)


But in the case of the grand parent the company had no intention of following through and did it seemingly at the request of the friend.

> one day, one of the municipal counselors just called up a friend who worked for a fiber laying company and asked them for a favor: put out a press release saying that they were “investigating” laying an undersea fiber to power a municipal fiber network on the little island.


> Perhaps I would have heard of this moon mission if HN wasn’t busy inundating me with politics and AI product threads.

Personal accountability can still be something we all strive to honor. Blaming a news aggregator website for your own ignorance is a hell of a thing.


I mean, this kind of just feels like reasonable criticism of HN worded a bit oddly.

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