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__oh_es commented on Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits cnbc.com/2025/10/03/jeff-... · Posted by u/belter

tjpnz · 5 months ago

Manna ponders the same question. I don't think we're headed towards the "good" ending.

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

__oh_es · 5 months ago

What an incredible read - thanks for the share

__oh_es commented on Ask HN: Looking for headless CMS recommendation · Posted by u/rakshithbellare

__oh_es · 6 months ago

Sorry I know you said headless, but have you considered wordpress? Its unsexy, but the ecosystem is really well suited for this and hosting is dirt cheap.

Because its so popular and been around for so long, theres tons of free themes, plugins and videos which will reduce your support burden - plus your admin could get help easily as its not something you rolled.

Other than that, decap on gitlab is easy to run for free, and will provide the admin with a ui for editing content. Astro is also great and stable for this type of thing.

__oh_es commented on Lit: a library for building fast, lightweight web components lit.dev... · Posted by u/merqurio

jazzypants · 6 months ago

Thanks! That's hardly the biggest difference to Lit. I think Lit is a fantastic framework, and I'm not trying to replace it or anything. However, it's really unopinionated which is fantastic for flexibility, but it leads to every deployment looking and feeling very different.

Basically, I'm just curious what a full-stack web component framework with strong defaults could look like. This is primarily a learning exercise, and a way to experiment with integrating web components into modern framework concepts like streaming server components, resumability, automatic serialization, and type-safe RPCs. I don't know if it will ever be production-ready, but I've learned a lot and it's been a ton of fun.

__oh_es · 6 months ago

Have you seen https://brisa.build/? Its not web-components first but it looks really well designed and may give you some inspo

__oh_es commented on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act bbc.com/news/articles/cjr... · Posted by u/phlummox

phpnode · 7 months ago

The other point is that recent polls suggest the British public are overwhelmingly in support of this legislation [0], which is not reflected in most of the narrative we see online. Whether they support how it has been implemented is a different matter, but the desire to do something is clear.

[0] https://yougov.co.uk/topics/society/survey-results/daily/202...

__oh_es · 7 months ago

Odd - they also believe it wont be effective

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/society/survey-results/daily/202...

__oh_es commented on Cord didn't win. What now? jg.gg/2025/01/10/cord-did... · Posted by u/eamag

eterm · 9 months ago

I am the only person who browses https://github.com/getcord/cord and just doesn't get what it does?

Like, it's not clear to me what problem it solves.

It's described as "The complete SDK for Chat, Commenting, and Notifications" yet I've read the entire readme and it isn't clear which languages it has client-SDKs for, if any.

If my boss came to me and said, "Can you evaluate Cord for a chat and notification back-end" I'd return a quick message ruling it out on the basis of there being no documentation, no example integrations, no obvious client SDK packages, etc.

It's also hardly zero-friction just getting it running. It needs both Node/NPM and docker.

Why? Either ship me the NPM packages, or point me to a docker command I can run. If it's containerised, why does it need NPM? If it's shipped as NPM/source, why does it insist I deploy with docker?

Show me some simple code examples so I can see how easy it is to get a chat client running, don't give "broken" links to docs and APIs that would only work if I'm already running your software, I'm unlikely to get that far without browsing the API and docs.

__oh_es · 9 months ago

Npm and docker are awesome for local development environments and I would say this has been done well.

Docker is used to setup the db, cache, and aws emulation.

https://github.com/getcord/cord/blob/main/ops/docker-compose...

__oh_es commented on Has the decline of knowledge work begun? nytimes.com/2025/03/25/bu... · Posted by u/pseudolus

nisa · a year ago

My personal theory is that this is the result of an incompetent management class where no self corrections are happening.

In my work experience I've realized everybody fears honesty in their organization be it big or small.

Customers can't admit the project is failing, so it churns on. Workers/developers want to keep their job and either burn out or adapt and avoid talking about obvious deficits. Management is preoccupied with softening words and avoiding decisions because they lack knowledge of the problem or process.

Additionally there has been a growing pipeline of people that switch directly from university where they've been told to only manage other people and not care about the subject to positions of power where they are helpless and can't admit it.

Even in university, working for the administration I've watched people self congratulation on doing design thinking seminars every other week and working on preserving their job instead of doing useful things while the money for teaching assistants or technical personnel is not there.

I've seen that so often that I think it's almost universal. The result is mediocre broken stuff where everyone pretends everything is fine. Everyone wants to manage, nobody wants to do the work or god forbid improve processes and solve real problems.

I've got some serious ADHD symptoms and as a sysadmin when you fail to deliver it's pretty obvious and I messed up big time more than once and it was always sweet talked, excused, bullshitted away from higher ups.

Something is really off and everyone is telling similar stories about broken processes.

Feels like a collective passivity that captures everything and nobody is willing to admit that something doesn't work. And a huge missallocation of resources.

Not sure how it used to be but I'm pessimistic how this will end.

__oh_es · a year ago

I would caveat with its not affordable to be passionate anymore. The top engineers (mech, chem, civil, etc) I know work in finance or consulting instead of doing things they care about.

Closer to tech, I feel we have had a big influx on non-tech joining the tech workforce and the quality has suffered as a result of a lack of fundamentals and passion

__oh_es commented on What makes code hard to read: Visual patterns of complexity (2023) seeinglogic.com/posts/vis... · Posted by u/homarp

stared · a year ago

My pet peeve:

    function getOddness4(n: number):
      if (n % 2 === 0):
        return "Even";
      return "Odd";

While it is shorter, I prefer vastly prefer this one:

    function getOddness2(n: number):
      if (n % 2 === 0):
        return "Even";
      else:
        return "Odd";

Reason: getOddness4 gives some sense of asymmetry, whereas "Even" and "Odd" are symmetric choices. getOddness2 is in that respect straightforward.

__oh_es · a year ago

I feel guard clauses/early returns end up shifting developer focus on narrowing the function operation, and not an originally happy path with some after thought about other conditions it could handle.

IME else’s also end up leading to further nesting and evaluating edge cases or variables beyond the immediate scope of happy path (carrying all that context!).

__oh_es commented on Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries gizmodo.com/add-fcking-to... · Posted by u/jsheard

wokwokwok · a year ago

> As for specific examples NHS has some terribly overwhelming forms and processes - image search IAPTUS.

Are those example where a chatbot helps fill out the form, or just examples of where forms are hard?

My image search did not find any results of AI chatbots that helped fill out the form for you. Do you have a direct link to a form by any chance?

__oh_es · a year ago

It was for examples of overwhelming forms to your #1.

Apologies for the confusion - that wasn’t clear at all.

__oh_es commented on Scientists find links between Alzheimer's, herpes, and head trauma statnews.com/2025/01/07/a... · Posted by u/wglb

BLKNSLVR · a year ago

So I'm fucked in three ways here. I get cold sores, sometimes in my nose, and as an adolescent playing Aussie rules football I was concussed seven times in two years and once more about fifteen years later (when I took the brutal sport up again for some reason).

There are some "checks in the mail" that could arrive at any time that, if I was the sort of person to worry about the future, would make me worry about the future. But I don't tend to worry, but maybe that's a symptom... I am known to have an incredibly patchy memory; some things stick in great detail, but other things are entirely lost immediately.

As an aside, sun exposure tends to bring on a cold sore 'episode'. Plenty of sunscreen and more specifically lip balm helps prevent it from occurring. But during an Australian summer that requires dedication I haven't quite mastered.

__oh_es · a year ago

Lysine supplements may be something to look into for cold sores. Got a friend who is from SA who doses up on it before and during summer months and she swears by it.

__oh_es commented on Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries gizmodo.com/add-fcking-to... · Posted by u/jsheard

wokwokwok · a year ago

I'm sure there's a time and place for these things, but this sounds very much like the echo chamber I hear at work all the time.

Someone has a 'friend' who has a totally-not-publically-visible form where a chat bot interacts with the form and helps the user fill the form in.

...and users love it.

However, when really pressed, I've yet to encounter someone who can actually tell me specifically

1) What form it is (i.e. can I see it?)

2) How much effort it was to build that feature.

...because, the problem with this story is that what you're describing is a pretty hard problem to solve:

- An agent interacts with a user.

- The agent has free reign to fill out the form fields.

- Guided by the user, the agent helps will out form fields in a way which is both faster and more accurate than users typing into the field themselves.

- At any time the user can opt to stop interacting with the the agent and fill in the fields and the agent must understand what's happened independently of the chat context. i.e. The form state has to be part of the chat bot's context.

- At the end, the details filled in by the agent are distinguished from user inputs for user review.

It's not a trivial problem. It sounds like a trivial problem; the agent asks 'what sort of user are you?' and parses the answer into one of three enum values; Client, Foo, Bar -> and sets the field 'user type' to the value via a custom hook.

However, when you try to actually build such a system (as I have), then there are a lot of complicated edge cases, and users HATE it when the bot does the wrong thing, especially when they're primed to click 'that looks good to me' without actually reading what the agent did.

So.

Can you share an example?

What does 'and has a lot of usage' mean in this context? Has it increased the number of people filling in the form, or completing it correctly (or both?) ?

I'd love to see one that users like, because, oh boy, did they HATE the one we built.

At the end of the day, smart validation hints on form input fields are a lot of easier to implement, and are well understood by users of all types in my experience; it's just generally a better, normal way of improving form conversion rates which is well documented, understood and measurable using analytics.

...unless you specifically need to add "uses AI" to your slide deck for your next round of funding.

__oh_es · a year ago

My partner has dyslexia and finds forms overwhelming. Chatbots break this down and (I suspect) give the same feeling of guidance. As for specific examples NHS has some terribly overwhelming forms and processes - image search IAPTUS.

Another example; I was part of a team that created a chatbot which helped navigate internal systems for call centre operators. If a customer called in, we would pick up on keywords and that provided quick links for the operator and pre-fill details like accounts etc. The operator could type questions too which would bring up the relevant docs or links. I did think looking into the UX would’ve been a better time spend and solved more problems as the system was chaos but “client wants”. What we built in the end did work well and reduced onboarding and training by 2 weeks.