skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the board acts in the interest of shareholders, but they've breached fiduciary duties in the past:

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2024/02/13/chancery-finds-te...
https://archive.is/jc58n
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I had LLM patiently show me use after free bugs in non-existent Asterisk C code it just made up. :D
That is actually one of the big surprises of digital media for me. How much is not available for paying customers.
Londongrad forever? Why the UK may never seize Russian assets
Someone committing poor quality LLM generated code and deeming it appropriate for review could create equally bad, if not worse, handwritten code. By extension, anyone who merges poor quality LLM code could merge equally poorly handwritten code. So ultimately it's up to their judgement and about the trust in the contribution process. If poor quality code ended up in the product, then it's the process that failed. Just because someone can hit you with a stick doesn't mean we should cut down the trees — we should educate people to stop hitting others with sticks instead.

"Banning LLM content" is in my opinion an effort spent on the wrong thing. If you want to ensure the quality of the code, you should focus on ensuring the code review and merge process is more thorough in filtering out subpar contributions effectively, instead of wasting time on trying to enforce unenforceable policies. They only give a false sense of trust and security. Would "[x] I solemnly swear I didn't use AI" checkbox give anything more than a false sense of security? Cheaters gonna cheat, and trusting them would be naive, politely said...

Spam... yeah, that is a valid concern, but it's also something that should be solved on organizational level.
"We fucked up the air globally in <50y, lets fuck up the ocean faster to un-fuck the air issue temporarily".

But seriously, we lack the understanding to do local geo-engineering, much less at global scale. Hard pass.

Reducing CO2 emissions by going green and EVs (and not just EV cars), and removing CO2, is a longer but much more controllable and stable approach. I just wish we had better battery technology already, but we spent the last 100y deluding ourselves that a finite non-renewable energy source, that messed up our only biosphere, was the only course of action.
And how much do you need to invest to get that energy also during the nights, in a green-energy-compliant manner?

Arguably it seems it's a good idea to run nuclear power, if it's not more costly than solar, provides 24/7 green energy, and also jobs.
If you don't trust it to write… you probably shouldn't trust it to tell you how to write either.
On Mozilla in particular, I think people joining it and supporting it in general have a fairly stronger opinion on what an organization should have as values than for many other large size companies (let's say Microsoft, Oracle or Accenture for instance).

Is a good or a bad thing ? Honestly I don't think Mozilla would have grown as much without all the social clout it has. There's no denying it has a tremendous effect on the pool of candidates, and the users choosing to support the company even as other products can be objectively better.

As you say it cuts both ways as they now have a kind of moral handcuffs limiting the views and moral/political positions they can have at the leadership and PR level. I personally see it as net positive, but we can agree to disagree.
It was not not built 'by hand'. For example here is a photo of a steam powered excavator being used. https://original-ufdc.uflib.ufl.edu/CA90000065/00001
The entire site is fascinating collection of photos from the construction
https://original-ufdc.uflib.ufl.edu/railroads
Surely, LLM's can be something other than either the coming of singularity or spam generation? In fact, much of the current use of LLM's today do not fall into either fostering the singularity or generating spam.

Personally, I think LLM's have a place but need supervision for the foreseeable future. In case there are diminishing returns on the horizon, we might need a new AI breakthrough to go further than what we have. But I am absolutely helped in my job by AI assistance. Key is however to understand the system well enough to realize when something is off. Engineers won't be wholly replaced by AI anytime soon, but many can already be helped by them.
> Imagine a world where every piece of poetry, novel or literature would be forced to be written in English. Our literature would be much poor and many new points of view would be dismissed just because "not enough Anglo Saxon"

In such a world “written in English” wouldn’t imply “Anglo Saxon”, just as today, it doesn’t imply “British” anymore.

I think people would be better off if they all spoke the same language. Reason is that, statistically, the best literature is written in a language with many writers. So, if you grow up monolingual speaking a minority language, the best stuff you can read won’t be as good as the best stuff written in English, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, etc. The worst stuff you can read won’t, either, but nobody reads that stuff (some may argue Hollywood is the exception that proves the rule)

Getting there will have pain points, though. Going cold turkey would cut off people from their culture (imagine children not being able to read what their parents wrote). However, a few centuries of bilingual education would, IMO, be a fairly smooth way to get there. People would no longer be able to read what their forefathers wrote, but that already is the case with most languages (few people can read Middle English fluently, for example)

That’s all assuming the “English” people would speak would be universally intelligible, though. That’s far from guaranteed to happen. Subcultures with their own words and grammar changes would still form.
Still very click-baity
I would do it now. Even better if TSLA goes 30 - 50% down.

Price has to go down before it rises back. The rivals such as Fisker, Rivian and Lucid are the ones which should be worried at this point.
Electric car market seems to have shifted somehow, even seems we’re seeing some backtracking regarding ICE cars as demand for EVs seems a bit stagnant. I’m still holding out, luckily I don’t need a car as buying an EV seems like a great way to burn money now (but I guess that applies to new cars in general, prices are ridiculous).
That picture reminds me of all those horribly bad "HDR" pics 15 years ago
Interesting. I recently rewatched "The Big Chill" and wrote a reflection about the movie vs the internet age:

https://amontalenti.com/2023/12/28/the-blog-chill
Why? It is clearly better at one thing than the other.
Lennart actually responded to that point: https://www.mail-archive.com/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/m...
And
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/32028#issuecomment...

There are some very compelling arguments made there if you care to read them
The price of cars is pretty ridiculous so I’m at a point where I welcome some competition. I’d prefer to buy non-Chinese, but these companies need to remember how to make an affordable vehicle.
To me the association is Nurse Practitioner, which in the UK is a Nurse upgrade. Nurse is a "normal" undergraduate degree, Nurse Practitioner requires a post-graduate Masters to top that up and grants Prescribing rights like you'd get if you were a Doctor. The Nurses end up with weaker Chemistry, but much stronger practical experience before being granted prescription rights. Their PGT does a bunch about how to read & understand research papers, so that they can stay on the cutting edge and contribute to their discipline.
If you get a chance, see the musical. You think it wouldn't work, but it does!
IMHO this is completely unexpected behaviour and why would you read the manual if you don't expect this? base64 is not a difficult program to use. I certainly don't read the manual for every command that just takes an input - like sha256sum etc.
Changing the subject to a political comedy show is silly.
As a maintainer of a Very Large open source project, I have not found this to be the case. I have not found that AI/LLM tools have generated noticably more noise. The occasional low-effort PR existed before ChatGPT and Copilot, and it continues to exist after it. 'Banning AI' does not absolve your responsibility to review PRs, nor do I believe does it make your job actually easier.

I believe I've noticed only one 'LLM spam' comment on an issue needlessly comparing different Javascript package mangers.
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Right, but it seems they did RTFM once they discovered this quirk in the behaviour of the command.
The efficiency of Hydrolysis is definitely a big issue, but still, it's not a hard-supply issue like Lithium/Cobalt.
Certainly, but you can prompt the LLM to write following a specific style.
Well, Torvalds says in the interview ‘we already have tools such as linters and compilers which speed up the work we do as part of software development’

I get the impression he agrees this road to LLM content is inevitable, but also kind of emphasises the role of the reviewer who takes the final decision.
> However, there seems to be a problem at Nvidia with reports of wealthy Nvidia employees operating in semi-retirement mode.

Looks like Nvidia is in Google mode now.
it grows wild in china, which is where paper was invented, and which is separated from japan by the east china sea; shanghai is only about 1000km from kyushu. korea, which borders china, is even closer, about 200km: https://www.google.com/maps/@32.7650836,121.5784141,6z?entry...

if you count the ryukyu islands as 'japan', ishigaki is only about 100 km from taiwan

european colonization is totally irrelevant here
Or just look at the headline of this page. Tesla is firing. BMW is not.
I don't think the analogy holds: even if you forget all the preceding non linear steps, you are still left with just a linear dynamical
system. It's neither complex nor unitary, which are two fundamental characteristics of quantum mechanics.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give that a try. Obviously this will not work with large existing codebases; but for new projects I'll try how well it works.
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LLMs may not be superbly good at coding right now - I compile a list of code questions they've all failed, so it's very clear they are not there yet. But they are improving at an amazing pace (and already improved my productivity in so many ways - reminding me syntax of different languages, helping to debug obscure code, writing certain functions (with varying degree of success), etc).
Yeah, except these are people's jobs and livelihoods, not someone trying to get more obvious abs.

Dismissing unions as unimportant here is a mistake. The lack of any real union power mean that the board, and CEO, have more power. Therefore, large cuts (1 in 10!) are able to happen with relative impunity.
I've got the following numbers: 120km and 53km. The former is the altitude at which re-entrying orbital vehicles start burning up. The latter is the current world record for lighter-than air altitude.

Critical bits of Columbia's aluminium airframe melted at about 100km. There's about 250x less air at 100km than at 50km. All in all I'd say this is fanciful.
It's not even a rational decision for me. I see a Tesla, that reminds me of Musk, I feel disgust. Very different feeling from a couple of years ago where I had Tesla connected with sort of futurism and luxury (being a relatively expensive car).
Large layoffs are never a precise exercise. I saw a really great engineer once move to a different team that got cut a few weeks later, and that stuck with me. And once you start getting repeated rounds of layoffs, the anxiety that perhaps today your number will come up only builds and morale falls. Once you actually get the notice, it may actually be a relief.
Mainly gas and wind
I agree this is an interesting direction. IIRC the top (open) bitvector synthesiser works like this (albeit not with ILP).

Trouble with ILP is that it doesn't work on GPUs (as of April 2024) and on CPUs synthesis and other forms of learning are hopeless. That may change in the future ...
What is typing. Lets say you have no hands, no eyes, and cannot speak or to speed this up- All you can do is communicate with foot taps (in great detail) to a human translator. Would we tell this person they are not programming?
> I'd prefer an error

Your best bet is to use `-Weffc++ -Werror` then. I'm not certain it's checked but I'd bet it is.
the article maybe claims it's a different species? the reporter doesn't seem to know much about botany, so they're a little vague
> It is the dataset.

No. A series of moves alone provides strictly less information than a board state or state + list of rules.
Sure, but it’s still a bad default IMO, the expected behavior would be an unformatted string without any linebreaks
Bullshit. You don't do a mass layoff in that case but get rid of 'slackers' over time as you identify them.

This has nothing to do with that.

There's huge demand issues as Teslas are getting really old and nothing useful is in the pipeline (and no that childish truck doesn't count).
Sure but I personally know 3 people in Sweden who got rid of their Teslas and won't ever purchase one again, that is from a very small anecdote but if it has happened within my very low sample size I'd guess that others are sharing a similar sentiment.

Two of those are older folks, not even that connected with tech in general (or much of the internet vitriol), if Musk's bad press is reaching them it seems to me a quite generalised issue.
I have fiber internet at my apartment with a mesh network, and I've found myself missing physical media a bit more lately. Inevitably at some point while watching any 4K media. The buffering will fail or speeds just simply drop? and I start getting visibly lower resolution, this really kills the immersion for me.

Maybe I just don't have the right combination of devices, and/or I absolutely need a wired connection. Regardless, I could not stop thinking how having physical media would avoid these drops.
It’s true that they need to invest more but that’s a self-inflicted problem: they have enormous resources and lavish government support available but they really want the high-margin light-truck era to continue and have been treating EVs as a fad they’ll support only if ICE buyers are willing to overpay as much as ICE SUV buyers have. We’re reading about Ford cancelling battery plants, not being unable to find funding. When Chevy cancelled the Bolt, it was their best selling EV - but not nearly as profitable as the luxury models they wanted people to buy.
from the original tweet linked in the post
"ceiling is being raised. cursor's copilot helped us write "superhuman code" for a critical feature. We can read this code, but VERY few engineers out there could write it from scratch."

I don't really agree that code is superhuman if VERY few is able to understand it haha..! Code should complex but easy to follow to make it brilliant in my opinion
I do miss it a bit. Something about the scarcity made it more special. Also, the ceremony of going to the video store, browsing the shelves, and bringing it home. Same applies to music for me, but maybe even more so. I know I’m wearing rose-colored glasses in a lot of ways, but im okay with it.
Mill started in 2003 but doesn't seem to have made anything out of silicon.

RISC-V started in 2010, had a prototype chip by 2013, and now has dozens of implementations in shipping products.

I suspect the Mill project "bit off more than they could chew". They not only had to develop a new chip, but a matching compiler, instruction set generator, and a bunch of other bespoke tooling.
Cheaters are gonna cheat, but filtering out the honest/shameless LLM fans is still an improvement. And once you do find out that they lied, you now have a good reason to ban them. Win/win.
This book by Martin Kleppmann is really good for learning distributed systems foundations [1]. Couple this with any OS textbook, I think you will be loaded for the bear.

[1] Designing Data-Intensive Applications:

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-data-intensiv...
Eh only one of those examples includes the CEO literally retweeting nazi-adjacent stuff so it's a bit easier for me to hold tight on Tesla. Even my wife who is not a big tech follower will never consider a Tesla now.
Why are layoffs always seen in a bad light.

Sometimes what you need is to trim the fat.
Thanks! I'm very impressed with their persistence. And I love the approach they took to progress through small, incremental changes over time.
I like it a lot, as I mentioned intellectually rewarding and I feel like most of what I learned at med school is useful. I also quite enjoy the occasional increase in adrenaline when at trauma reception or stroke CT evaluation. Also nice to both be able to work in peace and collaborate with clinicians. And personally I also enjoy keeping up to date on research which is evolving quite rapidly. The negative aspect is mostly what is common to most medical specialities and due to understaffing.
Is pkgxdev related in any way to Gentoo?
> log price is moving in one direction with Brown motion

Isn't the point of Brownian motion to move in both directions with equal probability? Why would it move to minus infinity?
"if it's not more costly than solar"

As I wrote, its not as costly but more expensive than solar.
Currently tax payers are subsidizing nuclear with billions of Euros.

Most energy is needed during the day time.

Energy usage has been leveled across the day due to the demand of big power plants in the 50s and 60s, as they produce energy in the night and companies wanted to sell that, so society had to adapt.

Not sure where you are based, in Germany wind blows at night.
It would probably kill the whole US industry.
Is it, or are you just having a harder time spotting the errors?
Saudi Arabia is an unfortunate alliance as a pawn in the larger game against the more severe problems that China, Russia, and Iran pose, along with ensuring energy stability until we have better options. In a better world, we would never be friends with a dictatorship like that and their ideals. It's the less bad option, unfortunately. Snubbing all countries with problematic governments like Turkey, Saudi, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, etc. will quickly land you in a tougher situation to accomplish better ideals.
with the gigafactories out and market pressure to build EVs, I feel like Elon has achieved what he set out to do. If he borrows too much and builds too many factories, those factories will still be producing cars after Tesla is liquidated. I can see why he'd be so cavalier with Tesla's survival given what else is happening, the momentum is achieved even if he loses a lot of money.

That he'd turn that leverage to X though, I didn't like to see. Even as a Musk fan, it looks like a functional alcoholic buying a bar. Twitter probably does have a lot of military value as a propaganda vector, but it's hard to see how he could be an improvement over Jack Dorsey without ending up in conflict with the military industrial complex that pays for that propaganda.
"Many communities depend on AI tools to detect and ban AI content" interesting...

If not depending on AI tools then depending on a... hunch? So like a modern-era witch hunting?
thats a nice analogy!
The balance of the past was that if I spent 4 hours making a patch, the busy important unpaid maintainer would spend 15 minutes reviewing it, giving me pointers etc.

And they will thank me for it! I've just saved them 3h45m.

This ratio stopped maintainers getting buried in review requests etc.

With the rise of LLMs there's a risk the ratio will get flipped: someone can make a patch in 5 minutes which needs 15 minutes of review.

That could make being a maintainer much more time-consuming - and mean the job is much less about maintaining code, and much more about dealing with timewasters politely, which ain't many people's idea of a fun hobby.
I haven't really tried other "LLM based search" products, but Perplexity (even the free tier) is pretty handy. It's fairly good at summarizing a complex topic, and of course gives you all the sources so it's easy to click through.

It confidently only failed me on one search, which was "What is the maximum RAM for an M1 Mac Studio?" and it told me 192GB (which is correct but for the M2), then I said something like "No I meant the m1 version" and it corrected itself wrongly and told me 64GB (which is partially correct, 64 for M1 Max 128 for M1 Ultra). The source page at least for the second results was a direct link to Apple's spec page for the Studio with M1 Max.

I might retry it with a Pro search and see if there's any difference.
German cars usually have (together with Japanese, I'd say) the best reputation in reliability. And ICE cars are full of electrical components, perhaps more so than the electric cars (since ICE cars are generally more complex than electric ones). So I struggle to reconcile your comment with what I hear ...
Gross indeed - your application is the sort of thing footguns are made of. For every bad idea, there's someone who thinks they have a scenario where it will help.
Thank you for your waiting
It seems far superior to Google.
> By the measure that we apply to nearly every other species on earth, humans win.

The rats in New York would like to have a word with you. /s
COBOL shops are hiring, while Apple, Cisco and Google just had layoffs. This tells us nothing about COBOL technology growth and future.

Ah well, I have expressed my point, it is not a popular one at HN.
The real question would be: Did BMW go on a massive hiring spree in 2021-2022 like most US companies did?

If not, then the comparison doesn't make any sense.
To be fair there have been more changes since Musk took over and I think that it is one of the main reasons (together with reduced headcount) for why there are more bugs now.

That doesn't mean that all of those changes are a positive, but the pace surely improved.