They’re trying to solve it by making it easier to get Markdown versions of websites.

For example, you can get a markdown out of most OpenAI documentation by appending .md like this: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/libraries.md

Not definitive, but still useful.

They should create a benchmark and compare AI against the best possible DJing state of the art: Mexican wedding DJs :)

After one year and half of service, my HP printer updated (without my consent) and blocked the third-party ink cartridge I’ve been using for months without troubles. Luckily, I bought it on Amazon so I just returned it and bought a Brother printer that has been working fine since then. The best way to stop a brand from doing bullshit practices is showing your friends how easy it is to avoid them. Just buy a Brother and HP won’t have any cent more from me.

Years ago I bought a printer from a manufacturer that wasn't HP. HP then bought the brand and migrated everything into their platforms. Thankfully I'm still going through the toner I purchased beforehand a decade later.

This is a consequence of introducing LLMs in software development. If you imagine it as a pyramid that starts from the bottom, the easiest tasks that happen more frequently, to the top, the hardest challenges that happen once in a while, LLMs can definitely help in automating the base of such pyramid, leaving the human with an harder job to do because now he statistically encounters harder tasks more often.

If this is the price to pay to unlock this productivity boost, so be it but let’s keep in mind that:

- we need to be more careful not to burnout since our job became de facto harder (if done at the maximum potential);

- we always need to control and have a way to verify what LLMs are doing on the easiest tasks, because even if rarely, they can fail even there (...but we had to do this anyway with Junior devs, or didn’t you?)

>anyway with Junior devs..

A junior dev is accountable, but an LLM subscription is not.

If your email is on the commit, you are responsible.

> If your email is on the commit, you are responsible.

Humans shouldn't exist as whipping-boys for machines. It's a cop-out for shitty technology. People weren't designed for continuous passive monitoring and do really poorly at that task.

Yea, pseudo autonomous driving and all that..

> it wouldn't be the "end of humanity" or anything even remotely like it

It's very likely that a nuclear conflict between major nuclear-armed states (US, China, Russia, but it could be starting in India or Pakistan as well) would bring an end to humanity as we mean it today.

I really hope that behind all the today's communication bullshit there are deep state masterminds that do not have personal interest in dominating a doomed world.

If nuclear winter was real (It isn’t), and if things completely collapsed (They won’t) you still have places like Argentina with self sufficient economies in the Southern hemisphere and natural resources independent of the USA, Russia, or China.

Nuclear war would be terrible but it would be a lot more like Ukraine than The Day After or Threads. If you’re not at ground zero, don’t act stupid and quickly evacuate, manage not to be impaled by debris your chances of walking away are far higher than anyone realizes. They literally did hundreds of atomic tests in Nevada to prove this.

Every time someone posts a imgur link on HN I get this as response:

    Imgur is temporarily over capacity. Please try again later.

That's what it says when it doesn't like the look of your IP. I get it when I'm on my VPN.

Imgur really doesn't like ad-blockers. This'll get you on their "overloaded" banlist after just a few visits.

Not exactly, bot farms can still be made with poor people IDs through black market. I don't know what the solution is going to be, but at some point we might forced to accept the reality that on the internet humans and AI won't be distinguishable anymore and adjust our services independently on the client being a person or a machine.

That is a probable outcome however it would at least cap or limit the ability of bot farms to produce industrial sludge content.

Face ID check every 5 minutes to confirm it’s really you.

ID verification with video capture for every post on an attested device.

lets bring back Chrome's WEI while we're at it

/s

Self managing a database vs getting RDS isn't an easy choice. It depends on the scale, it depends on the industry... if you're locked in already in AWS, the price difference between the bare machines vs RDS usually aren't enough to pay for another person.

If you're starting everything from scratch, you might think that going to other providers (like Hetzner) is a good idea, and it may definitely be! But then you need to set up a Site2Site VPN because the second big customer of your B2B SaaS startup uses on-premises infrastructure and AWS has that out of the box, while you need an expert networking guy to do that the right way on Hetzner.

I regularly use Graviton CPUs on AWS (even if Amazon pays the cheaper ARM license), why would people switch back from that? It's effectively better in terms of performance/price, I expect these improvements to slowly but steadily reach the on-premises world as well.

Yeah, but everything on AWS is already way more expensive than it should be, so the slight discount on ARM instances is a gimmick from Amazon to diversify their servers or something. Actual ARM servers aren't cheaper or better.

I’ve tried SQLModel as well lately, project that unifies the models you use to validate (Pydantic) and the ones you use for persistency (SQLAlchemy).

Very interesting, not all use cases are fine with SQLModel, but you can definitely see its usefulness to avoid boilerplate code.