skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it hard enough without restrictions (especially toward the end) so I'm not doing anything too wild, but I've been trying to solve quickly this time. My goal was to get in the top 100 on one of the days to actually get a point, but I think I missed my window where the problems got too hard for LLMs but were still doable quickly for me. At least I managed a 136 which is much better than I've ever done before.

Maybe next year I'll actually prepare some utility code for parsing grids and 2d vector math and such.
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The biggest pain point with Ruby these days is: there is almost no libraries for modern number-crunching techniques of any kind. Only python libraries come out of machine learning community / academia.
making a chip is not like hitting 'print'. there is an insane amount of engineering and consulting that goes on. yes, they buy the machines, but they develop the process. and all the tooling around that, including quite a bit of IP.

intel has tried to compete with them - they have their own ip, machines, and processes. but they are totally missing the consultancy and full package access that TSMC has, and they have failed.
Wow memories of my first ever experiences playing games in the PC.
The first game I ever played was Leisure suit Larry
The analogy is that Japanese cars were initially utterly uncompetitive, and the arrogance of those who benefited from the status quo meant they were unable to adapt when change came. Humans improved those cars, humans are currently improving models and their use. Cheap toys move up the food chain. Find the direction of change and align yourself with it.

> people trying to replace one guy like myself with 3 Indians has been a reality for 10 years at this point, and amusingly they keep failing and never learning their lesson.

Good good, so you're the software equivalent of a 1990's era German auto engineer who currently has no equal, and maybe your career can finish quietly without any impact whatsoever. There are a lot of people on HN who are not you, and could use some real world advice on what to do as the world changes around them.

If you've read "crossing the chasm", in at least that view of the world there are different phases to innovation, with different roles. Innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, laggards. Each has a different motivation and requirement for robustness. The laggards won't be caught dead using your new thing until IBM gives it to them running on an AS400. Your job might be equivalent to that, where your skills are rare enough that you'll be fine for a while. However, we're past the "innovators" phase at this point and a lot of startups are tearing business models apart right now, and they are moving along that innovation curve. They may not get to you, but everyone is not you.

The choices for a developer include: "I'm safe", "I'm going to get so good that I'll be safe", "I'm going to leverage AI and be better", and "I'm out". Their decisions should not be based on your unique perspective, but on the changing landscape and how likely it is to affect them.

Good sense-check on where things are in the startup universe:
https://youtu.be/z0wt2pe_LZM

I can't find it now, but there's at least one company that is doing enterprise-scale refactoring with LLM's, AST's, rules etc. Obviously it won't handle all edge cases, but...that's not your grandad's Cursor.

Might be this one, but don't recognise the name:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/multi-repo-ai-assisted-refact...
Companies that have no interest in growth and are already heavily entrenched have no purpose for increasing output though. They will fire everyone and behave the same?

On the other hand that means they are weaker if competition comes along as it's expected that consumers and business would demand significantly more due to comparisons.
I love Tintin too. But I recently asked two different French individuals about Tintin, and they are not a fan -- they think Tintin is racist.
Nothing... just like yours.

One anecdotal evidence does not nullify the other, and vice versa. You have your experience, I have mine. I even qualified my statements -- one of the languages I use is not very popular and thus statistical models like the LLMs obviously don't do well with it -- but you are happy to ignore that and keep arguing that your experience is the prevailing phenomena, which I'll always disagree with.

Peace.
Just to be clear, there is absolutely nothing "corporate" about that web site. It is a non-profit organization.
Mail used to be the primary way people communicated. Those days are long gone. As you would know if you were paying attention, the amount of first-class mail (which is what people send to each other) has been declining for decades. Even first-class junk mail has been declining, as well as the other forms of junk mail.

https://facts.usps.com/table-facts/

Email has killed it. The body lives on, but the brain is dead.

The post office isn't a "common good" anymore. It's a cheap way for businesses to deliver junk mail to consumers who throw most of it away.

That said, it pulled in $78 billion in revenue last year. And I haven't looked at their budget in any level of detail, but it sounds like the loss is due to the requirement to fully fund their healthcare and pension obligations (which the USPS has technically been defaulting on).

DeJoy got a lot of shit for trying to modernize the post office a few years ago, and the noise around him has died down since then. The one thing I remember was he was trying to stop Saturday delivery, which would have thrown thousands of post office employees out of work. PO employees historically were relatives of politicians (patronage), so that was a non-starter.

The writer seems to imply that "managed like a business" is a bad thing. There are concepts, like accountability, efficiency, customer orientation, and responsiveness that some government agencies have adopted to great effect. Maybe the writer should start investigating the world of business before dismissing it and saying that poor service, inefficienty, irrelevance, and high costs are OK if it's for "the common good."
> Looking at the code you’ve been paid to write over the past few years, how much of that can you honestly say is truly novel?

While the code I write is rarely novel, one of the primary intrinsic motivators that keeps being a software engineer is the satisfaction of understanding my code.

If I just wanted software problems to be solved and was content to wave my hands and have minions do the work, I'd be in management. I program because I like actually understanding the problem in detail and then understanding how the code solves it. And I've never found a more effective way to understand code than writing it myself. Everyone thinks they understand code they only read, but when you dig in, it's almost always flawed and surface level.
Well I'll get back properly as soon as I can, tomorrow I hope, but premise 6 of your 7-point sequence is false (or, if you prefer, we don't agree on it). Indeed, it seems question-begging, but this is so obvious that I assume you have something else in mind...
LLMs will have the same effect that outsourcing had on tech jobs i.e. some effect but not meaningful for people that truly know what they’re doing and can demand the money for quality to distinguish themselves from random text generator (AI) slop.
> And if those policies should turn out to be too strict, and a few social media companies should find it no longer profitable to operate in the United Kingdom, that is not all that much of an issue for His Majesty's Government. They're not British companies, after all.

His Majesty’s government is struggling to keep its people warm and fed, let alone show any economic growth.[0][1]

The UK needs more foreign investment than ever before.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68625344
[1] https://archive.is/2024.12.15-052556/https://www.ft.com/cont...
Hundreds seems attainable.

Today, for me:
* Firefox mobile didn't load the keyboard on a textbox making me kill and restart the app to get it to work.
* Firefox mobile pull to refresh triggered while scrolling up
* I ask Alexa to turn on some lights and she dinged like she did it but nothing happened.
* I turned on my office light that has a routine to turn on a space heater and another light. Only the first light turned on
* The Roomba got lost and ignored its keep our zone and ran into the Christmas tree skirt.
* When I ran out to get groceries android auto wouldn't connect until I restarted the car.
* On another errand, apple car play refused to play music even though it said it was.
* A website told me I had unsaved changes and wanted to know if I wanted to navigate away from the page without saving.... While clicking the save button.
* I got a letter in the mail from Amex telling me that they couldn't reach me by email and I needed to log into my account and pay a zero dollar balance. This is after I closed all my accounts months ago, I get two letters each month to sign into an account that was deleted to pay a bill that doesn't exist.
* Octopi said it's webserver wasn't running, a refresh fixed it.
* Build tools at work linked the wrong binary for some tools and I had to manually correct the symlinks.
* Insert 10 or more bugs with pipe wire and pulse audio on Ubuntu.

I'm sure there's more, every day is like this. Yesterday I had a plethora of bugs trying to get screenshare and webcam streaming to work for a video conference despite working for a dry run a few minutes prior.

And right now, line breaks aren't working in this reply
You're in for a treat then! Bartosz has a bunch of other insanely well done explainers on his website, with easily inspectable JavaScript too. Some of my favourites are the watch, the engine and the GPS ones, though they're all fantastic.
Many employer offer some choices. Mine offers two providers and two plans for each. One is for profit (UHC) and the other is non-profit (Kaiser). The consensus is that Kaiser rations healthcare and makes referrals difficult, but procedures are always covered. UHC let's people direct their own care, but reimbursement is less certain.
You're right in the main, of course, that it takes a major renovation to make an old home tight enough to be worth it, but wrong in your assumptions:

* It's a rowhouse, so there are two party walls on either side.

* Brick.

* The front and back walls are half the length (15') of the party walls.

* The house is small, a footprint of 450 sq ft.

* The renovation will extend the back roof line (pitched roof, front to back).

* The attic (with extended roof) will be renovated with a bedroom and 3/4 bath, plus storage and mechanical.

* Plumbing will be replaced.

* Gas boiler (with radiators) and existing central A/C will be replaced with heat pump.

* We'll be out of the house for months.

* It's in a historic district so it can't be torn down.

* Fortunately most of the windows have been replaced before the historic preservation office started cracking down on replacements. We have light-blocking hex blinds that insulate them nicely at night.

* I will try to sneak in a new front door that's the same design as the old one, and fix up the jambs and sill.

* Historically DC is still more heat dominated than cooling dominated, but climate change is tilting the balance. It may be hard to fight the stack effect in the winter but in the summer I hope to run the house at positive pressure. It's when the A/C's been going for days that the air in the house seems stale.

* Even though there's very little insulation today in the attic (just cellulose strewn between joists), it's not expensive to heat or cool, because it's such a small house.

* I care more about the ERV as a luxury good than as a cost effective appliance. I'm quite sure the cost of it will be negligible when compared to everything else in the reno (we're doing the kitchen, too).

Although the cost will be insane, I expect we'll come close to breaking even on value added to the property, given the neighborhood we're in.
unfortunately - no (as you may have guessed it)
Zeiss - lenses both in analogy and irl

ASML - cameras

Silicon - film

TSMC - film house (manufacturing, color correction, managing storerooms, mastering, distribution brokering with theaters)

Taiwan - Hollywood with just the right climate for talent and business

Fabless chip firms - movie studios

Chip designers - writers

Specialized modular chip IP - actors

… the analogies really break down from there…

Are software engineers the ad agencies and the code execution just the generation of value by playing the movie for people???
How is it rammed through?
I tried the same thing with Haskell one year with a similar result (fell back to python then gave up). The beginning was nice when the puzzles were easy and I could focus on learning the language, but once the puzzles got tough it was too much trying to struggle with them and the language at the same time.
> Evidently, he tried our product briefly

> investigated the issue briefly

> coming to snap conclusions

Where exactly is the evidence that he tried your product only briefly and that he investigated briefly? I've read through it and don't see that anywhere.

After reading your comment, I lean towards you being the arrogant, thin-skinned one about your product and coming to snap conclusions about your customers who are paying for your product and having trouble with it and calling them arrogant instead of looking into why they are experiencing frustration with your product.

Perhaps Dan's conclusion was wrong, but the tone and wording of your response is just off putting and devoid of tact, empathy and teachability.

Something like "No, I don't believe it's broken because x, y and z. But I do see how the developer experience here is left wanting. Maybe we can improve it" would have been so much better.
I'd sooner attribute this stuff to the widespread lead poisoning that Gen X and Millennials received as kids.
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Why don’t you back up your point with a study?

This is just silly argument to make in discussion. OP presented coherent viewpoint, and asking “for a study” is a simple way to derail any discussion.
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BonBook optimizes for efficiency. What's your use case?
As I understand it, that's how the original MMX got started. It was largely reusing the x87 ALU, but breaking the carry chains at the obvious points.
My point is that the situation you describe is clearly in a reverse trend when you look at the data.

I could make further points that new faiths have become more entrenched, such as nationalism and political partisanship to name just two. Or even beliefs like free markets being some unquestionable good, or maybe that technological progress is inexorable. That these kind of tribal splits are increasing, betray this notion that we are becoming more rational as a species. I’d posit that even if we did cast off the shackles of religion, we’d simply find new kinds of faith to replace them.
Does this mean us plebs can run LLMs on gimped VRAM Nvidia lower end cards?
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So much confidence about how this thing we’ve never encountered will not be a problem.
As the original commenter said, it is cheaper to pay for childcare than it is to pay money to an employee, have that salary be taxed, and then have that employee pay for childcare with the after-tax salary. Said employee can also drop their child at the office in the morning.

I would take a salary below the market rate if the job came with free childcare, because I'd still have to spend the money and I'd potentially save time on my commute.

This idea that companies "don't care about workers" is absurd. If anything other than the TC for a job has ever mattered to you, the company offering the thing that mattered has probably saved money on your salary.
I think that's a little too simplistic. They would not be the world leading fab without ASML. ASML's EUV process may be the most complex piece of machinery man has ever created.

It's maybe more like ASML's machines are like a Stradivarius, and TSMC is the best in the world at playing the instrument.
> LLMs fail to generate such code

As another oldster, yes, yes absolutely.

But the deeper question is: can this change? They can't do the job now, will they be able to in the future?

My understanding of what LLM's do/how they work suggests a strong "no". I'm not confident about my confidence, however.
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Have you ever worked on a product in production use without a long backlog of features/improvements/tests/refactors/optimizations desired by users, managers, engineers, and everyone else involved in any way with the project?

The demand for software improvements is effectively inexhaustible. It’s not a zero sum game.
> “Pakistani grooming gangs in Rotherham are targeting young British girls” — harmful because it could promote social unrest.

Incidentally, someone tried to edit the Wikipedia article to instead be about "moral panic".

https://archive.ph/VnXtV
It's true that everything in the article is pretty tenuous, but that's what you get on rumor sites. But videocardz is one of the best rumor sites out there, so if they post something, it's worth reading. Even if it doesn't end up true, there is a decent chance it was under consideration, or better.
Is there a good reason to assume inelastic demand? In my field —- biomedical research —-I see huge untapped areas in need of much more and better core programming services. Instead we “rely” way too much on grad students (not even junior SWEs) who know a bit of Python.
AI doesn't have institutional knowledge and culture. Company 2 would be leveraging the use of LLMs while retaining it's culture and knowledge. I imagine the lack of culture is appealing to some managers but that is also one of it's biggest weaknesses.
> for Chinese devices, there's no way to disable them.

Uh can you stop spreading misinformation? Try google "disable xiaomi ads" it takes you like 5 minutes to make all ads gone on MIUI or HyperOS. Sure the opt-out buttons were hidden deep behind menus for maximizing profit.

But be warned, in certain countries you are getting a modified ROM from your local re-seller, in that case some ads can't be disabled and they are not from Xiaomi. The only solution is to flash your ROM to the official releases.
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Well most Modelica tools generate C code. I think all of them also generate FMUs (lookup Functional Mockup Interface, if you don't know what an FMU is). Some FMUs are source code FMUs (suitable for running on HiL hardware, for example).

But it sounds like you might be talking about autocoding of an embedded controller. In that case, I'm not aware of any tools with that target. Part of this is because Modelica can be used to model the controls, the plant or both. But for autocoding you'd need a clear partitioning and some way of connecting the controls to a scheduler. But I don't know of a Modelica tool that supports this. My hope is that the next generation of tools will address this (that's part of my day job ;-)).
Traveling, partying, and drinking is pretty great. Of course people want to do that.

If you think this is a problem and want to fix it, you either need to make traveling etc. less attractive, or make having kids more attractive. The people currently making a fuss about it seem to think they can just lecture people into changing, which is silly.
why not add another textbox with best output or best solution so you can have the system determine its best response on its own.
ASML make the tool, TSMC make the process.

The fab itself, for example, you can't just setup a Twinscan in your garage. Even the floors are marvels of engineering. Culture is another subtle but huge factor. When chasing nanometers the fab becomes sensitive to things like deodorant and cigarette smoke. You can of course mitigate these issues, but having an aligned and motivated work force makes it easier.
What a great resource, thanks to whoever put this together.

To anyone who enjoys contorting the language to make it do weird things for fun, quines, and those sort of things, I really recommend Tomoya Ishida's talk at RubyKaigi 2024. It's in Japanese, but there are subtitles, and the slides speak for themselves. Some of the more whimsical uses of Ruby I've seen in a while. Keyword to peak your interest: animated quines.

https://www.rubyvideo.dev/talks/keynote-writing-weird-code

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6QGq5uGhgU
It's not. It's a bunch of nonconstructive old-man-yells-at-cloud complaints. While it identifies a somewhat deep problem with crime metrics (what should you do when a reported crime was a real incident, but not something that warrants actually bringing charges or otherwise following up - something where "a policeman had a word with the guy" is actually the right solution that all parties are happy with) it contributes nothing to solving that problem (and, as the follow-up more or less acknowledged if you read it carefully enough, in fact made it worse).
Eventually yes, but it would be nice to avoid the Dark Ages this time. The crash will be brutal.
And in cases where you can't make small operations exempt then the government should freely offer the services to handle the regulatory burden.
Yeah I have fond memories of reading Tintin in my school library, but I recently downloaded and re-read one of the comics and while, by title, it was likely one of the less risky ones, it was still not up to the standard I'd expect of modern literature in this regard. To call it racist might be too divisive, but it certainly relied on stereotypes of race, gender, occupation, even neuro-divergency, too much for my taste.
In a case like the forums in question though you wouldn't set up the LLC so you can skirt the law. You'd set up the LLC and make a good faith attempt to comply with the law.

It may turn out that it is too much work to comply and so you might still need to shut down, but with the LLC you've got a lot more leeway to try without personal risk.
I have not read Tintin in Congo but apparently Tintin is (or was) quite popular in the Democratic Republic of the Congo according to a friend of mine who grew up in the DRC. Wikipedia also mentions it was popular in Francophone Africa, backing up what my he told me.

My friend is a big fan of Tintin and has a lot of really nice hand carved large wooden figurines of the characters and vehicles from the series.

I would normally think these figurines would be made for tourists but I don't think there is much of a tourist trade in the DRC. These figurines would sell for a lot of money in the USA or Europe.
> Hash-matching tools link known images of CSAM from police databases to encrypted digital fingerprints known as “hashes” for each piece of content to help social media sites’ automated filtering systems recognize and remove them.

I know this is a little bit of a nitpick, but I really feel like it hurts the credibility of a news organization to make a mistake this obvious that also shows they completely misunderstand the entire concept they're explaining.

That's fundamentally a wrong definition and implies that that these social media sites could simply decrypt the hash to access the source material. The entire purpose of hashing as a cryptographic tool is that it isn't encryption.
It's also worth noting that the anatomic accuracy of the art of Tom of Finland, depicting men with penises in an anatomically accurate position, indicates that there were men with enormous bulging dicks in the early 1960s, enormous bulging dicks of a size and heft typically unequalled by the average man today. Could he have imagined a penis larger than he had ever actually seen? Impossible, of course. The human brain is incapable of bringing to mind anything that it has not seen actually put in its eyes' field of vision.