1. emorning3 Aug 14, 2025 parent

   I'm an atheist, but if there's a God then I am grateful to her for granting me the wisdom to pay off my house before retiring instead of investing that money in some horseshit.

   Its a shelter from storms, both physically and metaphorically.

2. emorning3 Jun 20, 2025 parent

   Google tells me that Klong and Lisp are not the same thing.

   But can someone tell me why an array in Klong is NOT like an s-expression in Lisp?...

3. emorning3 Jun 16, 2025 parent

   My mental model of the 'new normal' is end users using AI to get their work done.

   So if I re-worded the OP's description and replaced 'internal tools' with 'internal AIs' then this would at least seem like a more reasonable process to me...

   > At our startup, engineers don't build features anymore. > They build APIs that internal AIs can connect to. > Most "features" like running an SQL query, sending a push notification when product X is ordered gets built by ops or product folks using those tools.

   To me this describes a team of engineers that use AI-capable tools and that are building 'features' for themselves. In the way that us dinosaurs used to write build scripts.

   I'm not saying that my mental model is right or wrong, just that working this way seems reasonable if you buy into my model.

4. emorning3 Jun 10, 2025 parent

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5. emorning3 Jun 8, 2025 parent

   The article summed itself up as 'Context is everything".

   But the article itself also makes the point that a human assistant was also necessary. That's gonna be my take away.

6. emorning3 Jun 6, 2025 parent

   Whats Going On With Shipping...

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFhhvr_afws

7. emorning3 May 20, 2025 parent

   Not true. I give money to the government against my will. Same for the rent, the utility company, the water company etc.

   Most people give what other people can force them to pay to survive.

8. emorning3 May 19, 2025 parent

   >> But nothing has the quality of life impact of smart blinds <<

   I have a ton of sleep problems and just wanna push back here a little... going for a brisk walk in the fresh air and sunshine every day works a lot better for me.

9. emorning3 May 17, 2025 parent

   This decision only makes sense it saves more lives than the number of lives that will be lost because of it.

   It seems to me like it should totally be possible to do the math here and figure it out. Compute the lives saved and compute as many of the lives that will be lost. For instance, statins are a risk to pre-diabetics, and to children, and to etc...

   There better be a very large difference. That's the bottom-line argument that I would have attempted to make.

10. emorning3 May 15, 2025 parent

    I suspect that Jef Raskin would not be down with "prompt engineering' at all.

    I think that Mr Raskin's opinion would be that it should be obvious how to use a piece of software.

11. emorning3 May 15, 2025 parent

    I get that the headline is misleading.

    Still, is the fact that Britain is doing well a validation of Brexit?

12. emorning3 May 13, 2025 parent

    Trump will eventually take every side of every issue.
13. emorning3 May 13, 2025 parent

    As the US is being torn down for fun and profit it seems like I've seen Vannevar Bush's name pop up more and more frequently.

    It seems that this dude had a huge influence on the shape of our society.

14. emorning3 May 11, 2025 parent

    I predict the same thing, that publishing new APIs will be rare, but for a different reason.

    People will stop publishing any new knowledge or method to keep it from the LLMs and to keep people from exploiting new ideas before they can.

15. emorning3 May 8, 2025 parent

    Wow! I was unfamiliar with Z and just spent an hour going down the Z and B-Method rabbit hole.

    That's exactly the kind of thing I was looking for, thanks!

16. emorning3 May 8, 2025 parent

    >>Another way to see it is that the set of valid theorems in FOL is uncomputable.<<

    I've never seen it put that way exactly. And I've never learned the gory details of the incompleteness proofs and I've never made the explicit connection between incompleteness and computation before. That blew my tiny pea brain :-).

    Now that I've read the Wikipedia page, I guess I only understood incompleteness as the 2nd theorem.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_...

    Thanks!

17. emorning3 May 7, 2025 parent

    I just noticed that all my interaction with HN always takes place at the bottom of the page :-)
18. emorning3 May 7, 2025 parent

    Well, I think this is a really good point.

    I'm not in favor of banning games but I really cant discern the difference between a playing a game and interacting with an AI.

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