Yes, unless I use a really dumb really fast AI autocomplete (e.g. SuperMaven)
Readit Newshuem0n commented on Ask HN: Do you struggle with flow state when using AI assisted coding tools? · Posted by u/rasca
huem0n commented on Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/rbanffy
Sending out a simple reminder email would have made more impact. I did not realize the event was happening until I looked at my personal calendar.
Yeah something tells me scheduling coordination and planning aren't William Osman's strongest skills.
The group really needs to hire a long term secretary that understands engineers and content creation.
huem0n commented on Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/rbanffy
As a teacher I have become more skeptical about whole maker movement. Don't get me wrong - I really appreciate what has become possible. I couldn't even dream about most of it when I grew up in seventies in Soviet Union. I use a lot of open source hardware and the results maker movement myself as a hobbyist and as a teacher.
But the problem is that while kids like it a lot, it doesn't translate to engineering careers. Kids don't want to become engineers as result, they want to become content creators, tinkerers etc. Even rather good students with a lot of potential see all this engineering stuff more as a media career or a fun hobby.
PS. I don't say the engineering hobby isn't cool and fun. I don't say that maker movement doesn't produce incredibly cool and deep stuff. I'm not even saying that it's the only reason why there is a shortage of engineers. But it's certainly contributing because I see it.
I'm a member of local engineering community and I see a lot of stuff like the quality of civil engineering sinking and we're all paying for mistakes in it. I see a lot of local production closing only because all R&D engineers are 60+ and planning to retire.
> it doesn't translate to engineering careers
From one teacher to another, I'm sorry what?
If teaching kids how build things doesn't encourage them to become engineers, what does?
If you're taking about attention grabbing Youtuber-engineers, I think that is very different than the makerspace movement that gives people access to CNC machines/3D printers/welders without a person needing to personally own a CNC machine/3D printer/welder.
All of the greatest engineers I know spent their childhood playing with legos, hot glue, solding irons, and hobby rocket kits.
huem0n commented on Open Source Maintenance Fee github.com/wixtoolset/iss... · Posted by u/AndrewDucker
I feel what we need is not this, but rather a cultural change among the corporate consumers of open source. I'm arguing for this at my employer: that we set up a fund to support open source libraries that we rely on for our products, with a regular payout for products that we are using.
So far it isn't easy going: what reason is there for paying developers who already give us their work for free? Who do we even pay, if there are multiple maintainers? etc. So far I've come up with "goodwill" and "responsible citizenship" (i.e. maintain the ecosystem that sustains you), and I'm drawing a blank on that last question...
I think this could help lead to the corporate change you're hoping for.
huem0n commented on Show HN: HomeBrew HN – Generate personal context for content ranking hackernews.coffee/... · Posted by u/azath92
I've been wanting this for a while! As an alpha prototype its great. Skip/Skim/Deep dive feels like the right breakdown to me. Having a different color but same UI feels right too.
Other than quality of life stuff (multiple pages for example), I'd like to see it continually learn.
A few things got miscategorized and I'd love for it to naturally correct that with additional input from me.
If your disappointed by this being from 2017, check out some actual recent advancements (June 17 2025) by a different company
https://generalistai.com/blog.html
huem0n commented on Third places and neighborhood entrepreneurship (2024) nber.org/papers/w32604... · Posted by u/WasimBhai
Like a church? A synagogue? A mosque? That fits the definition exactly. It seems like a substitute for a house of worship for people who do not believe in God.
Starbucks is my favorite place to worship
huem0n commented on Third places and neighborhood entrepreneurship (2024) nber.org/papers/w32604... · Posted by u/WasimBhai
Original paper link: https://www.nber.org/papers/w32604
Thank you. (Wouldn't have read otherwise)
huem0n commented on Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible aeon.co/essays/our-crisis... · Posted by u/rbanffy
> *‘Instead, customers just point and say: “OK, yeah, just put it over there,” and then I drop off the stuff, and they just tap it. I think they see it as more of an – I think they see it as automation. They see you as just a system.’*
A transactional exchange is not the right place to look for meaningful human connection.
In fact, if I COULD hire robots instead of humans to do things like drive me places or deliver my groceries, I WOULD. Robots are predictable and reliable, a random human may or may not be.
I'm glad you're telling us it should be socially acceptable to treat you like a robot at your job. I hope every customer coworker and business partner honors your wish by pretending you are a lifeless chunk of metal with no purpose other than satisfying the agreed upon transaction. If insulting you feels good to them, I hope they will berate you endlessless for things that are not your fault (a robot wouldn't care). After all, whether its reliability or the desire for a verbal punching bag, the customer is always right regardless of anything the employee may feel.
When you are old and gray, I hope strangers continue to honor your wish by seeing you as a worthless husk because you no longer capable of offering any services they care about.
Old people I know that treat employees like robots don't have many friends or family they care about them. Maybe, if you coincidentally end up in that position too, you can pay robots to keep you company. I hear they're very reliable and predictable.
huem0n commented on Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible aeon.co/essays/our-crisis... · Posted by u/rbanffy
Hasn’t human worth always been commoditized?
Ever since the first two caveman began exchanging their time and effort. Like stone axes for mammoth meat.
I long made the same mistake of assuming history. The answer is no, that kind of interaction wasn't transactional in a robotic way, it was highly trust-and-relationship building. Which is exactly what we are missing today.
Go to a farmers market week after week, buying and talking to people. It is completely different from a vending machine. I know the people at my market, if they asked for help I'd help them for nothing in return. And I have no doubt at all they would do the same for me.
The vending machine owner would get no such help from me, nor would I expect them to help me if I asked.