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bobm_kite9 | 19 days ago | on: Show HN: Standard Cucumber Steps

this might be burying the lede a bit, but I feel like BDD tools deserve a renaissance given the amount of agentic coding going on. There's an article linked in the readme that explains why I arrived at this conclusion. Would be interested to see what other HN'ers think

bobm_kite9 | 1 year ago | on: Toyota reduces price of new hydrogen car with $15,000 of free fuel

I think this is set to happen: https://www.agcc.co.uk/news-article/hydrogen-will-be-pumped-...

bobm_kite9 | 1 year ago | on: Rails is better low code than low code

Good article but this misses the obvious - but slightly more distant - eventuality: the no-code vendor goes bankrupt meaning no further support or security fixes, or is bought out by some other firm which means exorbitant future licensing costs and no further features.

Again, some people might not care about that but it seems kind of a biggie to me.

bobm_kite9 | 1 year ago | on: When Will the GenAI Bubble Burst?

My pet theory is that OpenAI releases are on hiatus pending the US elections. It would be a huge disaster to release SORA in the next few months and have it some way sway voting. What do you think?

bobm_kite9 | 2 years ago | on: Puerto Rico is using residents' home batteries to back up its grid

That seemed easy. What was required to make the batteries dispatch power in this way? I have rooftop solar and batteries in the UK and I would definitely engage in a similar scheme like this except I wonder how much work the power companies would have to do to make it work.

bobm_kite9 | 2 years ago | on: The golden age of Kotlin and its uncertain future

I'd love to see Java adopt Kotlin's more advanced type system: Proper support of nullable/non-nullable types, better generics and no primitives.

Not sure how they could get there but that would be amazing.

Also Kotlin has a pretty good JavaScript and Native support story now.

bobm_kite9 | 2 years ago | on: OpenAI Tokenizer

Yes, you're right. There could be multiple ways to tokenise a sentence. Shouldn't all the valid tokens be included in the vector?

bobm_kite9 | 3 years ago | on: Building the fastest Lua interpreter automatically

This sounds a lot like the approach taken by GraalVM. Can someone better versed in this area comment?

bobm_kite9 | 3 years ago | on: Search over 5M+ Stable Diffusion images and prompts

And hands. Try searching for ‘hand holding apple’ for instance

bobm_kite9 | 3 years ago | on: What Bosses Lost in the Fight Against Empty Offices: Leverage

I’m going to have a stab at actually answering the questions, rather than just taking the opposing point of view.

There is another way: organising regular off-sites for the employees to meet up, get to know each other, build relationships, share culture and attend workshops so that they can learn the common tools and techniques that are valid across an org.

I would argue this is a better way to onboard new staff too, if you can hire them to coincide with these off-sites.

Even if the off-site is 2/3 week-long all-expenses-paid trips pa, this will probably work out cheaper than hiring office space for a year

bobm_kite9 | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Meme creator with agile/scrum based templates

Those are way too upbeat

https://twitter.com/risk_first/status/1487374583024005123?s=...

bobm_kite9 | 3 years ago | on: Milk alternatives produce up to 4.5x less greenhouse gas emissions as milk

I think the best ice-cream is dairy-free.

I've always been a huge ice-cream fan so the fact that it's been retooled in a more addictive form is very concerning.

bobm_kite9 | 3 years ago | on: Types of Deceptive Design

This seems like a nice thing to have badges for. Couldn’t there be a certification programme for ‘dark-pattern free’ websites?

bobm_kite9 | 4 years ago | on: Google Search Is Dying

Although I like the idea of DDG's bang operators, I rarely use them (mainly !g when I'm feeling desperate).

What I would find useful is to be able to whitelist a bunch of sites on DDG, so that it prioritises results from them first, when I search.. basically most of the sites with ! operators I guess.

That way I wouldn't get all the SO clone-sites returning their rubbish.

bobm_kite9 | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best books on managing software complexity?

I touch on both these perspectives in my book ‘Risk-First Software Development’. You can read all it online at https://riskfirst.org if you want.

Hope this is useful to you.

bobm_kite9 | 4 years ago | on: Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright infringement

Yes! This is one thing humans are still much better at than AI: taking blame.

bobm_kite9 | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?

Every year I do a photo book. Used to use apple but they discontinued the service so now it’s snapfish. It’s a lot of work to create but worth it

bobm_kite9 | 4 years ago | on: Blockchain-based systems are not what they say they are

> A Ponzi Scheme is where the sum of all investor's reported account values exceed the total value of assets held by the institution.

Also how fractional reserve banking works

bobm_kite9 | 4 years ago | on: Clumps of human brain cells in a dish can learn to play Pong faster than an AI

Everyone seems to be joking about this, but doesn’t this result indicate that human neurones have a better learning algorithm than the ones we are using to train AI?

It’s interesting that this is evident in even small clumps of human brain tissue.

Really interested to know how this might work.

bobm_kite9 | 4 years ago | on: Managing risks in research

Talking about risk as it affects software projects is the main topic of

https://riskfirst.org

if anyone is interested in reading more on this.

(disclosure: I am the author of that site)