MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by abletonlive | 2025-05-30 23:02:06+00:00
A lot of python in a monorepo. Mono repos have an advantage right now because the LLM can pretty much look through the entire repo. But I'm also applying LLM to eliminate a lot of roles that are obsolete, not just using it to code.

Thanks for sharing your perspective with ACTUAL details unlike most people that have gotten bad results.

Sadly hardware programming is probably going to lag or never be figured out because there's just not enough info to train on. This might change in the future when/if reasoning models get better but there's no guarantee of that.

> which is now based on o4

based on o4 or is o4, those are two different things. augment says this: https://support.augmentcode.com/articles/5949245054-what-mod...

Augment uses many models, including ones that we train ourselves. Each interaction you have with Augment will touch multiple models. Our perspective is that the choice of models is an implementation detail, and the user does not need to stay current with the latest developments in the world of AI models to fully take advantage of our platform.

Which IMO is....a cop out, a terrible take, and just...slimey. I would not trust a company like this with my money. For all you know they are running your prompts against a shitty open source model running on a 3090 in their closet. The lack of transparency here is concerning.

You might be getting bad results for a few reasons:

- your prompts are not specific enough - your context is poisoned. how strategically are you providing context to the prompt? a good trick is to give the llm an existing file as an example to how you want it to produce the output and tell it "Do X in the style of Y.file". Don't forget with the latest models and huge context windows you could very well provide entire subdirectories into context (although I would recommend being pretty targeted still) - the model/tool you're using sucks - you work in a problem domain that LLMs are genuinely bad at

Note: your company is paying a subscription to a service that isn't allowing you to bring your own keys. they have an incentive to optimize and make sure you're not costing them a lot of money. This could lead to worse results.

see here for Cline team's perspective on this topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTCoding/comments/1kymhkt/clin...

I suggest this as the bare minimum for the HN community when discussing their bad results with LLMs and coding:

- what is your problem domain - show us your favorite prompt - what model and tools are you using? - are you using it as a chat or an agent? - are you bringing your own keys or using a service? - what did you supply in context when you got the bad result? - how did you supply context? copy paste? file locations? attachments? - what prompt did you use when you got the bad result?

I'm genuinely surprised when someone complaining about LLM results provides even 2 of those things in their comment.

Most of the cynics would not provide even half of this because it'd be embarrassing and reveal that they have no idea what they are talking about.
by catigula | 2025-05-30 23:02:16+00:00
Putting aside economic incentives, which the wealthy were eager to reap, the vast majority of the technical labor force in this country came and still comes from (outside of SF) a specific race and we have huge incentives that literally everyone reading this has brushed up against, whether in support or against, to alter that racial makeup.

Obviously the only real solution to creating an artificial labor shortage is looking externally from the existing labor force. Simply randomly hiring underserved groups didn't really make sense because they weren't participants.

Where I work, we have two main goals when I'm involved in the technical hiring process: hire the cheapest labor and try to increase diversity. I'm not necessarily against either, but those are our goals.
by rurp | 2025-05-30 23:02:36+00:00
Oh please, not everyone who disagrees with you is a luddite. If this feature is so great they should make it opt-in. People were clamoring to get early access to Gmail; if these summaries are as good as you assert then people will happily enable them.

The fact that Google doesn't even provide an option to disable this one feature is telling. That strongly implies that Google managers agree with most of this thread and think this is more about juicing AI metrics than providing real value to users.
by dylan604 | 2025-05-30 23:02:44+00:00
Just putting the film up on a telecine and transferring it requires creative decisions, so I'm not really sure what you're on about. You're commenting like you know what you're talking about, but you clearly are not familiar with the process. This is something I've absolutely worked on projects to do this very thing. When scanning a film print/negative, there are many decisions to be made that would make yours different than the originals. How far do you zoom in/out on each frame. Does it need pan&scan. Was it shot 4:3, but now you're transferring it to 16:9?? The color decisions will also be unique. Was it B&W, the same applies to the grade. Were there film scratches, dirt, etc that you've now removed/restored? Every single one of these decisions is a creative decisions.
by croblesm | 2025-05-30 23:02:48+00:00
Lead PM for MSSQL extension in VS Code here. I’m glad to share that we have both features (Schema Designer, GitHub Copilot) into the MSSQL extension for VS Code. You can check out this end-to-end demo showcasing those capabilities: https://aka.ms/vscode-mssql-copilot-demo

As I’ve mentioned in a few other threads, the PostgreSQL team recently forked our MSSQL extension to kick off a fresh implementation for Postgres. It’s built on the same foundation we’re actively improving and evolving for both extensions.
by kylehotchkiss | 2025-05-30 23:05:11+00:00
Church works for me because I tried to pursue one based on the quality of its small/home groups and not just off Sunday service. Most people are going to find a Sunday service they like and find themselves stuck trying to actually find community. I think it's fair to say churches are failing to facilitate small groups better. It's not just having them, it's spawning new ones regularly, making sure to reach all the demographics. It takes a lot of resources to do that, which means maybe pastor needs a slightly smaller trendy shoe budget.
by Hilift | 2025-05-30 23:05:49+00:00
> Without well paid middle classes, who is buying all the fancy goods and services?

People charging on their credit cards. Consumers are adding $2 billion in new debt every day.

"Total household debt increased by $167 billion to reach $18.20 trillion in the first quarter"

https://www.newyorkfed.org/microeconomics/hhdc
by tpmoney | 2025-05-30 23:06:09+00:00
And detractors say AI doesn’t draw the thing for you either. “Soulless”, “without human touch”, “tab-completion slot machine”, “slop”, “hallucinations” etc. Seems like they’re more comparable to a Wacom or 3d render/modeling program than first glance might suggest. They make some things easier and faster, but apparently still require a human being to wield to tool with skill to produce art product people are interested in.
by sandspar | 2025-05-30 23:06:36+00:00
If the idea has staying power, then derision tends to be followed by hatred or anger. We're already seeing quite a bit of hatred and anger toward AI. I think even the people who are ridiculing AI currently would agree with the statement, "There will be more anger toward AI in the near future." As in, they already know it's here to stay, whether they admit it to themselves or not.
by nicbars | 2025-05-30 23:06:49+00:00
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by rvz | 2025-05-30 23:06:53+00:00
We really have to STOP listening to these people and see that they ALL have a vested interest.

In the third paragraph of the podcast Dwarkesh already told you that he already invested.

>>> (disclosure - I’m an angel investor),

At that point the co-founders and Dwarkesh himself will agree on everything and they will say anything to get more VC money - Even if the timelines are unrealistic. (Because that is the scam).
by bitpush | 2025-05-30 23:07:33+00:00
Are you sure? I dont remember the last time I "drew" an arrow mark. I hit a drop down, selected the one that I wanted and hit OK. Even if I wanted to tweak it, I double click and tweak the control points. Same for bezier curves. And dont even get me started on typography & icon packs.

How about easy undo? What would a master like Da Vinci say if he saw modern designers iterating over colors using colorpickers? He'd shake his head saying "designers these days cant visualize things in their heads"
by brookst | 2025-05-30 23:07:57+00:00
You’ve eloquently expressed exactly the same disconnect: as long as we think the purpose of internships is to write the same kind of code that interns write today, sure, AI probably makes the whole thing less efficient.

But if the purpose of an internship is to learn how to work in a company, while producing some benefit for the company, I think everything gets better. Just like we don’t measure today’s terms by words per minute typed, I don’t think we’ll measure tomorrow’s interns by Lines of code that hand – written.

So much of the doom here comes from a thought process that goes “we want the same outcomes as today, but the environment is changing, therefore our precious outcomes are at risk.“
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-05-30 23:09:01+00:00
With just the direct quotes here, I’m not sure what your claim is. Are you saying that the US _still_ was attempting to achieve maximum capability as of April 2001? If so, I’m not sure that is implied by the quotes provided. “The cumulative effect of dominance in…” does not imply that every deployed US system is the best, imo. I read it as saying the US dominates in all the listed regimes — not that each individual system is the best, but that the US is the best in each regime as a whole. There’s a subtle difference between the two
by bitpush | 2025-05-30 23:10:02+00:00
I've noticed most of the fear mongering is coming from folks who are just enough skilled to be worried their life's worth is going to be replaced. A competant web-dev knows that they are going to be OK, and so are competent screenwriter/designer.

Imagine the world when blogging and self-publishing was starting out, if all the NYT journalists started saying "OMG, this internet thing is going to allow anyone to start a news site. Are you saying you write opinion pieces without studying and going to journalism schools?" It is the same energy here.

Gatekeepers. All of them.
by antognini | 2025-05-30 23:10:17+00:00
I have a phd in astronomy and I spent some time reading it yesterday. I don't think he'd think much of it. The theory seems to be aimed at explaining the existence of cosmic voids and the structure of the cosmic web. But these are pretty naturally explained by lambda CDM. And if the goal is to explain away dark matter, there are other pieces of evidence for dark matter that wouldn't be explained by this theory. At any rate, as far as I can tell it's not a quantitative theory so it would be hard to tie it to observations.
by therealpygon | 2025-05-30 23:10:48+00:00
My opinion is that off-shore teams are also going to be some of the jobs more easily replaced, because many of these are highly standardized with instructions due to the turnover they have. I wouldn’t be surprised if these outsourcing companies are already working toward that end. They are definitely automating and/or able to collect significant training data from the various tools they require their employees to use for customers.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-05-30 23:11:11+00:00
Employment-based immigration policy just isn't controversial outside of very specific bubbles. Everyone who's considered the problem seriously, left and right, realizes that the H1B system is bad a point-based system is the way to go, which is why it's been part of every immigration reform proposal for over a decade with essentially no controversy. If this were the only aspect of immigration issues, or if people felt it was important enough to pull it out of broad immigration reform, it would pass in a heartbeat.
by dylan604 | 2025-05-30 23:11:42+00:00
Not a Steenbeck. We had a couple of flatbeds similar for editing actual film, but these followers were different. Here's a link to a random site returned from searching for 35mm mag follower[0]. These are probably different to the specific ones I had seen, but close enough for discussion. I remember the first time seeing a mag reel as it looked just like cassette tape, but with sprocket holes[1]. I was also surprised when it was only 2 channels for that full width of mag. I remember something being able to be swapped out and I was thinking it was to allow for a different mag head to allow for more tracks, but I think it was for switching to 16mm since the tracks would be in a different location. (I've had plenty to drink and have slept many times since then)

[0] https://www.next-archive.com/product/mb51-mwa-albrecht-16mm-...

[1] https://hollywoodfilmsupplies.com/film-supplies/kodak-35mm-m...
by ranger207 | 2025-05-30 23:11:46+00:00
Yep. Your startup fails? "Wow you founded a startup! Join our exec team!" You lost a billion dollars? "Wow you were trusted with a billion dollars! Join our exec team!" You presided over the death of a famous and beloved institution (say Radio Shack, Toys R Us, Yahoo, etc)? "Wow you worked at a famous place! Join our exec team!"

At a certain level, risks no longer are about potential upsides and potential downsides, they're about potential upsides and potential massive upsides. Risk taking has no negatives
by ianburrell | 2025-05-30 23:11:59+00:00
Galaxies farther away are receding faster because they are older. What Riess found is that it isn't linear with distance, they are moving away at an accelerating rate. I assume this shows up with close galaxies moving faster than they should.

The acceleration was really fast after Big Bang, but slowed down. It was assumed that it would flatten out and expand at constant rate.
by underlipton | 2025-05-30 23:12:23+00:00
We all get 5 conspiracy theories before we advance from "understandably suspicious, given the complexity of the modern world" to "reliable tinfoil purchasers", and one of mine is that the prevalence of Indian execs and, to a lesser extent, Indian and Chinese workers in tech is a backdoor concession to countries who could open a demographic can of whoop-ass on us if they really wanted to. We let them bleed off the ambitious intellectuals who could become a political issue for their elite, and ours get convenient scapegoats for why businesses can't hire, train, and pay domestic workers well. As far as top men are concerned, it's a good deal.

Nadella ascending to the leadership of Micro"I Can't Believe It's Not Considered A State-Sponsored Defense Corp"soft is what got my mildly xenophobic (sorry) gears turning.
by Hilift | 2025-05-30 23:13:47+00:00
Self-driving cars are required to beep when in reverse. In both San Francisco and San Diego homes near Waymo charging facilities are a nuisance. The neighbors hate the beeping, and they operate late hours, and use things like shop vac cleaners that are loud. Whoever thought of this hates self driving cars and people. There is no way this can work in mixed urban areas.
by idkwhattocallme | 2025-05-30 23:14:04+00:00
Ultimately (and sadly) yes. While I never habitually or intentionally attended meetings to just look busy, I did work on something I knew had a long shot of creating value for the business. I worked on 0-1 products that if the company was more disciplined would not (or should not) have attempted. I left both on my own accord seeing the writing on the wall.
by lostlogin | 2025-05-30 23:14:13+00:00
> The idea that literally massive amounts of this workforce couldn't possibly be filled by domestic grads is pretty hard to engage with.

I hear this argument where I live for various reasons, but surely it only ever comes down to wages and/or conditions?

If the company paid a competitive rate (ie higher), locals would apply. Surely blaming a lack of local interest is rarely going to be due to anything other than pay or conditions?
by bravesoul2 | 2025-05-30 23:15:41+00:00
I experienced this. The Go/Rust/Haskell way of avoiding exceptions in the language is better than the C#/Java/JavaScript way.

To the point I've seen it cause real bugs in production.

The problem in Node is you can either throw to make a 4xx or you can return a 4xx so downstream there are 2 things to check.
by ciwchris | 2025-05-30 23:16:27+00:00
"Inspired by recent cellular neurobiological evidence linking neocortical pyramidal cells to distinct mental states, this work shows how models (e.g., transformers) can emulate high-level perceptual processing and awake thought (imagination) states to pre-select relevant information before applying attention."

"This model works by pre-selecting relevant information and identifying the most salient parts of it before applying its full attention to it."
by smcin | 2025-05-30 23:16:42+00:00
Notwithstanding HN guidelines about not editorializing titles, I don't like these clickbaity titles amplifying a smaller claim to something overly broad: this one should have been titled:

"The radix 2^51 trick to adding 64-bit integers on *some* x86 architectures in parallel without slowing the pipeline due to dependencies on carry"
by kstrauser | 2025-05-30 23:17:09+00:00
I agree with all of that. I've seen employers treat workers with H1B visas as slaves, basically. Local employees had a pretty decent work-life balance, but H1B employees got calls at 8PM on a Friday night to add a feature. And why not? What were they going to do quit (and have, what is it, something like 48 hours to get out of the country)?

I felt enormous sympathy for my coworkers here with that visa. Their lives sucked because there was little downside for sociopathic managers to make them suck.

Most frustrating was when they were doing the same kind of work I was doing, like writing Python web services and whatnot. We absolutely could hire local employees to do those things. They weren't building quantum computers or something. Crappy employers gamed the system to get below-market-rate-salary employees and work them like rented mules. It was infuriating.
by donnachangstein | 2025-05-30 23:17:44+00:00
HN posters love talking gangster shit when something goes offline but never walked a mile in their boots.

I most recently remember sifting through gloating that 4chan - a shoestring operation with basically no staff - was offline for a couple weeks after getting hacked.

I've worked at a shop that had DR procedures for EVERYTHING. The recovery time for non-critical infra was measured in months. There are only so many hands to go around, and stuff takes time to rebuild. And that's assuming you have procedures on file! Not to mention if there was a major compromise you need to perform forensics to make sure you kick the bad guys out and patch the hole so the same thing doesn't happen again a week after your magical recovery.

And if you don't know, you shut it down till it's deemed safe. How do you know the backups and failover sites aren't tainted? Nothing worse than running an e-commerce site processing customer payment card data when you know you're owned. That's a good way to get in deeper trouble.
by smeeger | 2025-05-30 23:19:45+00:00
we didnt eat or hunt sheep. we followed herds of nomadic ruminant animals across entire continents. simply keeping up with them on foot would be a lot of work. let alone hunting them, moving them, dressing and processing them and then you have the task of making and maintaining all the tools and equipment that were necessary. fires had to be tended… can i respectfully suggest that you are completely wrong?
by skeaker | 2025-05-30 23:19:59+00:00
Your idea seems to be outright incorrect. We need transparency to stop bad things -> Bad things do not help at the ballot box -> We won't be given transparency through the ballot box (unless there are no bad things in which case we didn't really need it). In other words, if what you say is true (and it seems it unfortunately is), we won't ever get transparency and bad things will happen unchecked and unseen.

Instead of elections I think transparency should be determined by rule of law so everyone has to participate, even those that would like to hide their bad actions.
by amrocha | 2025-05-30 23:20:54+00:00
Thanks for the detailed comment!

Patrick’s argument is flawed because it assumes that if the interchange fee pays more than the cost of providing benefits, then it’s not a “subsidy”.

This is false because the interchange fees, and in fact all of the fees, have to pay for the entire company’s operations, not just for your points program. Without more detailed data it’s not possible to rule out the possibility that points programs are a subsidy for the rich.

The second assumption he makes is that volume is the same across the board. It’s not, there’s way more customers on the lower end, and the company charges them even more fees. So sure, rich customers individually pay more interchange fees, but the company could still be making most of its money from poor customers.

Unfortunately without knowing the CC company internals we have no way of knowing. Which means that Patrick’s opinion while being an educated guess is still just a guess, so it doesn’t refute anything.
by constantcrying | 2025-05-30 23:21:49+00:00
See: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05172-4

IIRC there was another paper recently, with similar methodology about computing xAx. These papers produce algorithms which aren't empirically correct, but provably correct. They do this by operating on a graph data structure, which describes the algorithm and then verifying the algebraic equality to the correct result.

There is a substantial difference here. And I think utilizing algorithms which only are empirically correct can be dangerous.
by absurdo | 2025-05-30 23:21:50+00:00
I wouldn’t go that far but I do like the analogy. I just think if someone is this hung up on a tool or technology or a process taking over their job, or the jobs of the world, probably doom-ranting through a blog is a short term relief to the anxiety or denial or grief, but ideally I’d say they should see a psychiatrist so we don’t have to all collectively suffer the enmemefication.