skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding your point about moral responsibility: while I agree it is a major motivator for human belief in free will, it isn’t the only one. Added to that, while belief in free will and belief in moral responsibility are strongly correlated, neither is a necessary logical consequence of the other - believing in either but not the other is a facially logically coherent, even if somewhat rare, position

> This argument doesn't engage with the fact that the common understanding of free will is as a fundamentally supernatural belief,

I disagree. I don’t think the average person’s belief in “free will” is “fundamentally supernatural”. Most people say they believe in “free will”, but (unless they’ve had some exposure to philosophy) they are pretty vague about what it actually is.

If by “supernatural” you mean “religious”, I think you might be overestimating how much influence religion has on the average person’s views on the topic. While it is true the majority of Christian denominations will endorse some version of metaphysical libertarianism in theory, it is a rather secondary doctrine - the Bible never explicitly discusses the topic, and opinions differ on whether or not it presumes it implicitly. [0] The Nicene Creed, which most Christians accept as a statement of the most important points of Christian teaching, never explicitly mentions it either. In many denominations, services will rarely or never address it. Hence, for many Christians, Christianity doesn’t contribute a lot to their understanding of “free will”, because it just isn’t the focus of a great deal of Christian teaching

Now, of course, there are exceptions: for example, there are the Free Will Baptists, for whom the concept of “free will” is so important, they even put it in their name-but they are minuscule in comparison to Christianity as a whole

In fact, some Christians are compatibilist determinists. There are actually two main forms of determinism - physical determinism (all our choices are predetermined by physical processes) and theological determinism (all our choices are predetermined by God’s will)-and the compatibilist versus incompatibilist distinction exists for both. Most Calvinists reject metaphysical libertarianism in favour of compatibilist theological determinism, although a minority (primarily the so-called “hyper-Calvinists”) are incompatibilist theological determinists instead.

[0] I’ll limit the discussion to Christianity, in part for reasons of space, but I think if you look at Judaism or Islam you will find it is a similar situation - most Jews and Muslims will affirm belief in “free will”, but both religions tend to spend relatively little time on this topic in comparison to others, especially if one is talking about the experiences of the average follower, as opposed to the arcane theological debates covered in advanced study
Trick problems and whiteboarding was always “jump through the hoops” bs IMHO.

In-person dialogue with multiple team members and sufficiently complex take-home assignment remains a pretty good method. LLM are excellent API docs and should not be avoided.
Yeah, no country is going to be like "You've been punching us in the face for the last four years, but anyway, how can I bend over backwards and help you???" Basically, the admin is using every known trick in the book to break the economy and the standing of the USA as a world power.
I've just always been told all redheads have it. I've gotten cold sores as long as I can remember.
Fair alternative, but would this not be much less recognizable on the page to a non-native speaker of the default language? What if you have so many locales that a menu or drop down is required? This does not seem to me like it’s a better solution, it just has different downsides.
I'm pretty sure his thinking is - say to every company that wants a break on the tariff - here, buy some $DJT, we'll take a look.
Thanks for letting the group know.
Ask HN: Anyone tracking the degradation of LLM's against new domains?
I'm starting to notice that for newer projects that I've been playing around with (most recently react router V7), LLM's are worse due to lack of training data, compared to something like Rails, that was around long before LLM's.

I would imagine this dependency on LLM coding makes people less willing to adopt new technologies, ergo, training data would probably no longer be as plentiful? Doesn't this eventually lead to a long term degradation of LLM's?

Anyone else noticing this?
Incorrect. We are not all reaching AI fatigue.
To quote:

"The talks in this series will present ideas on either (1) making SQL go as fast as possible or (2) replacing SQL with something better."

How were you able to infer that the existence of the word "go" in that phrase refers to optimizers?

And 2nd idea/proposal of "replacing SQL with something better" really implies that they are talking about the language and not the optimizer.

In any case, if they really meant "optimizer" then their phrasing is very vague and imprecise; if they are talking about the "optimizer" -- then which specific optimizer? They have failed to mention that too.
Trying to parse this. What are you saying?
My resume has a bunch of personal projects on there as well as work experience and the project experience seems to not help at all. Just rejections after rejections.
If you're mid level, you'll be even more in demand as LLM code fixers. But look at industries that didn't build juniors up and see that they have the hardest time recruiting, so much so that PE buys them out and guts everything.
I don't see any conflict between your prescription and breaking step 2 down into as many microtasks and unit tests as necessary, which seems to be the thrust of the essay.
We built KloudMate (https://www.kloudmate.com) to offer users much better value, at a fraction of what New Relic costs. Logs, Metrics, Tracing + a ton of other use-cases.

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well, embedding comes with certain loss as well.

If you believe our brains use "language" to think, then I would assume analogies play an important part in reasoning.
> The thing I can’t figure out is if he really doesn’t know how tariffs work, or if he’s just a liar. Either way it doesn’t make him look good.

The second proposition has already been proven many times over. The first is very likely also true.

> And from any reasonable analysis I’ve seen, I just don’t understand how this is going to bring anything back home. It’s just going to raise prices and cause more suffering for those who can least afford it.

It won't. I think the best thing we can hope for is that it brings economic frustrations to an untenable boiling point and either forces the administration to correct course (ultimately still costing us significantly in terms of global trade positioning) or it spurs the idiots who voted for this administration into action agains the administration.
I think the article is pretty good at summing it up.

Environment variables are global, have no access control, and leak across process boundaries. There's sometimes also trickiness with encoding newlines or binary data. It's really tricky to make sure that only the thing you want to give access to the secret has access to the secret and env vars for that reason often end up in logs.

Meanwhile files come with permissions, and handle binary data just fine. And child processes need to explicitly open the file so the chance that some unrelated child processes accidentally logs all your secrets is much smaller than that some sidecar container you run has a log statement that prints all env vars somewhere.

I've seen people misconfigure react projects (like next.js) often where they just expose all their server side secrets as env vars into their client-side javascript due to a process.env call in their build.
This is clearly designed to keep people busy worrying about their survival while Elon and them continue on with their hapless refactor.
>Other countries don’t pay a dime.

We will indirectly pay in reduction of demand, which will reduce the price or production. Maybe not 25%, but probably not 0%?

If we didn't pay for it, I wouldn't see our prime minister be worried about our industry and scared of trump.
Once a Month
Making it easier and cheaper to cut corners and make stuff up will result in more cut corners and more made up stuff. That's not good.

Same problem I have with code models, honestly. We already have way too much boilerplate and bad code; machines to generate more boilerplate and bad code aren't going to help.
Those places you list have gone up painfully in a relative sense (like everywhere lately) but are nothing like the absurdity of California. You don't need two highly-paid professional incomes to afford a house with a long commute. There's also Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Chicago, central Florida, many others.
Depends on the detail really. There is near infinite amount of detail in the World and limited amount of time. You really have to choose your battles carefully.
I know someone who works for a construction company that does big jobs, factories, airports, hospitals, etc, and asked him about building a new factory. He said if someone woke up tomorrow and said "I'm going to build a new plant", 2 years would be an aggressive timeline just for the construction. That doesn't take into account the planning, design, permits, machinery installation, etc. It wouldn't be producing anything until after his presidency.

Now, that's all fine and good, but construction materials like steel, wood, and aluminum are about to go up due to the tariffs not to mention supply chain disruption and stockpiling, making prices even worse.

Construction is going to contract. The publicly traded companies all went down as soon as this was announced. Noone is going to want to build this stuff while materials prices are going up.

There are other ways to encourage onshoring. 25% tariffs and a tariff war with our main trading partners ain't it.
So Trump's master plan is to renegotiate the free trade agreement that he already renegotiated during his last term? He obviously has no idea what he's doing.
Is there even a point in signing treaties with the United States when you guys will just keep electing madmen that want to tear everything up every 4 years?
I do what I can to allay that fear. The rest is up to them.
The difficulty of your questions have to change drastically if they are using good tooling. Many a problem that would take a reasonable candidate half an hour to figure out is 'free' for Claude, so your question might not show any signal. And if you tweak your questions to be sure to not be auto-solved by a strong enough AI, then you better say it's semi-required, because the difficulty level of the question you need to ask goes up quite a bit.

Some of the questions in our interview loop have been posted in github... which means every AI has trained on them specifically. They are, therefore, useless if you have AI turned on. And if you interview enough people, someone will post on github, and therefore your question will have a pretty short shelf life before it's in training and instantly solved.
When a DBMS that claims it is relational and yet it supports SQL's "features" that departs from the relational model, then that DBMS is not relational.

If a DBMS is "slow" or "fast", that is not because of SQL -- it is because of the specific implementation decisions that the makers of that DBMS took.

And that has nothing to do with what you just said.
It is actually takes much less energy to not be addicted. It takes a tremendous amount of energy to quit once addicted.

It is a lot like cigarettes in that way. Its not too hard to avoid smoking. Smoke daily for a few years and most people have a huge struggle quitting.
Closing tab is at least 10x more rare event for me than choosing another tab, and for me doing this with cursor is handy since all the webpages suppose I have a mouse and none of them suppose I know how to surf without mouse. Choosing another tab for me is never like Ctrl[-Shift]-Tab because I have too much of them.
What is your source for this? Congress appropriated money for a purpose and specified a mechanism for that money to be spent, namely through grants to non-profits.
What about the administrative procedures act? Elon cutting off payments because Mike Flynn doesn't like Lutherans for some weird reason is the definition of arbitrary and capricious. What about the impoundment control act? What about the take care clause of the constitution? What about the terms of the grant?

Here's what Brett Kavanaugh wrote:

> Like the Commission here, a President sometimes has policy reasons (as
distinct from constitutional reasons, cf. infra note 3) for wanting to
spend less than the full amount appropriated by Congress for a
particular project or program. But in those circumstances, even the
President does not have unilateral authority to refuse to spend the
funds. Instead, the President must propose the rescission of funds, and
Congress then may decide whether to approve a rescission bill. See 2
U.S.C. § 683; see also Train v. City of New York, 420 U.S. 35, 95 S. Ct.
839, 43 L. Ed. 2d 1 (1975); Memorandum from William H. Rehnquist,
Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, to Edward L.
Morgan, Deputy Counsel to the President (Dec. 1, 1969), reprinted in
Executive Impoundment of Appropriated Fun ds: Hearings Before the
Subcomm. on Separation of Powers of the S. Comm. on the Judiciary,
92d Cong. 279, 282 (1971) (“With respect to the suggestion that the
President has a constitutional power to decline to spend appropriated
funds, we must conclude that existence of such a broad power is
supported by neither reason nor precedent.”)
I guess ten years is long enough that young people don't know what a difference this made. Before Lets Encrypt, HTTPS was a luxury. The process of getting an encrypted HTTP connection for your clients was complicated because the certificate vendors had some sort of pespective of themselves as providing authentication of the certificate holder as an entity, not just authentication that the certificate holder was the domain owner. So all of your internet activities were written on the back of a postcard until it came time to checkout.

Nowadays, it's the odd unencrypted website connection that is the exception. This is definitely one of the changes for the better.
Yep exactly that.
That "pay" will always disappears, but the keyboard placement and vim commands never disappear.
Even if we put the costs associated with Tariffs aside, I feel like a big PITA with Tariffs is enforcing and regulating everything. Tariffs don't seem like smaller government. Or maybe I'm wrong and this is all pretty easy to enforce and regulate?
The WSJ says this is the "the dumbest trade war in history" because "when you tax something you get less of it".

If the goal of the Red Hats was to get more goods from Canada and Mexico, then yes, tariffs would be a dumb policy.

But the Red Hats aren't dumb. They've been planning this blitzkrieg for at least 18 months. They have thousands of intelligent people on their team and they're well organized.

It's too easy to just dismiss this as ignorance, hubris and ego.

If you recognize that they're not dumb, that they know exactly what they're doing, then they must be pursuing different and mostly hidden objectives for this to make sense.

Once the hidden objectives are revealed, we'll all recognize the horrible logic of their actions.

> Will take a decade to recover the goodwill lost this week.

Indeed. All according to the plan.
The technology also makes it easier and cheaper to make good things, so the direction of the outcome isn't guaranteed.
Are there any examples of other industries where the entry level was disrupted, so that there was reduced demand for workers below senior level? If that's what happening to software development, could some parallels be drawn?

Apprenticeship has pretty much disappeared, even from trades, but as far as I know, "juniors" have always been in demand, if for nothing else but the lower salaries.
(2020)

Similarly, from 2019, Check Out These Mussels: Minneapolis Using Mollusks To Monitor Water Quality:

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/mussels-helping-monit...
"LLMs are fundamentally matching the patterns they've seen, and their abilities are constrained by mathematical boundaries. Embedding tricks and chain-of-thought prompting simply extends their ability to do more sophisticated pattern matching."
Someone will get that "investment", and statistically, you will get other's "investment" when a former junior joins your team.

We can be realistic, or we can just surrender prematurely. The latter can be dangerous.
They’re too busy high-fiving and laughing like jackasses over their revenge porn fantasies coming true to notice.

For now at least.

There’s a lot more Cleetuses than Elons though. And Cleetus is the one who’s going to suffer.
As a technical PM what would you call a non negotiable in your sprint reports?
Working on improving our sprint reports jira plugin, am already interviewing TPMs but thought taking some unfiltered advice here would be a good idea too.

The key question is: What is one piece of info in your sprint reports that will save you from taking another headache pill every weeK? (or save your fridays from preparing reports manually)
Phnom Penh is not particularly bad, compared to Bangkok.

I don't know why.

There already exists maps https://www.iqair.com/au/air-quality-map

BKK (1234) vs PNH (2113)- https://www.aqi.in/au/world-most-polluted-cities
What about supplementation with curcumin?
There must be a disconnect between viewers and critics, because viewership declined over its entire run. Compare that with a true masterpiece like Breaking Bad which saw viewership consistently increase over the course of its run.
That’s an interesting idea. Sadly I think the next AI interviewing tool to be developed in response would make you look like your eyes are closed. But in the interim period it could be an interesting way to interview. Doesn’t really help for technical interviews where they kinda need to have their eyes open, but for pre-screens maybe…
Tariffs as a negotiation tactic shows you can’t actually negotiate so instead you tax your own voters, you tax your own country and then act like you’re a big dog and a brilliant negotiator. It’s a joke. Any idiot can shoot their own foot. Trump is not playing 3D chess. Trump and many of his supporters don’t understand basic logic, economics, fiscal or monetary policy so they support Trump’s tariffs. Trump and many of his supporters think a trade deficit is bank account with a negative amount or is like running up a credit card. Morons. I have a trade deficit with my grocery store because I buy products from them and they buy nothing from me in return. Using Trump’s logic I should tax myself and pay more the the groceries because a trade deficit exists lol
Russian bot tactic? Guessing it’s an easy way to farm interaction as people comment back to correct the mistake.
> Where there's an open question is in whether you're commingling the notion of intelligence with consciousness

I’m absolutely commingling these two things and that is an excellent point.

Markov chains and other algorithms that can generate text can give the appearance of intelligence without any kind of understanding or consciousness.

I’m not personally certain of consciousness is even requisite for intelligence, given that as far as we know consciousness is an emergent property stemming from some level of problem solving ability.
> this is exactly the opposite of what everyone assumes the phrase must mean

Huh, yeah, that's surprising. I always assumed "high concept" meant that a work was more "cerebral" or something like that, while "low concept" is something lowbrow or simple to understand.

I had no idea that the term referred to how succinctly the work can be described or pitched.
Similar well-founded concerns were raised before:

"How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure" (2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21911225
The higher-level problem is that there are tons of scientific papers with falsified data and very few people who care about this. When falsified data is discovered, journals are very reluctant to retract the papers. A small number of poorly-supported people examine papers and have found a shocking number of problems. (For instance, Elisabeth Bik, who you should follow: @elisabethbik.bsky.social) My opinion is that the rate of falsified data is a big deal; there should be an order of magnitude more people checking papers for accuracy and much more action taken. This is kind of like the replication crisis in psychology but with more active fraud.
What's more surprising is how small their team is. 12 engineers managing one of the world's biggest and widely used CA
Carlsmith is breaking reasoning up into thinking that feels "Real" and "fake". This distinction is fundamentally flawed; good thinking has no consistent feeling. All ends of the spectrum are powerful for getting to the truth as long as someone is intellectually honest. You can wring a lot of complex and accurate thought out of sloppy intuition and heuristics backed by a little formal proof afterwards.

If I use a heuristic (rote v new in the essay) that is perfectly real as long as the heuristic is accurate. The mind can only think in heuristics, philosophically. We can challenge why any particular heuristic is wrong but reality is too infinite for a finite mass to comprehend without them. Or "no bullshit", which - in a philosophical essay - is self-defeating to identify as anything less than critical.

I'm saying that while thinking about thinking is great fun, the distinction he is drawing looks to me like it is on the verge of morphing into a framework for smart people to rationalise their biases. Complex spectrum around thought usually are. If you argue politics a lot then you see that sort of construct regularly; people have these beautiful mental prisons they built for themselves to prove their opponents are all communists/nazis/aliens/reptiles.

On that subject I must be the only person I know who understands when those labels are appropriate. I don't get why it is so hard for everyone else. The communists are anyone I'm arguing with.
> "You're tasked with parsing a log file to return the IP addresses that appear at least 10 times, how would you approach this?"

Out of curiosity, did anyone just reply with `awk ... | sort | count ... | awk`? Its certainly what I would do rather than writing out an actual script.
My intent was not to claim communication isn’t a sign of intelligence, but that the appearance of communication and our tendency to anthropomorphize behaviors that are similar to ours can result in misunderstandings as to the current capabilities of LLMs.

glenstein made a good point that I was commingling concepts of intelligence and consciousness. I think his commentary is really insightful here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42912765
Some can be quite good at the cheating: At least good enough to get through multiple layers. I've been in hiring meetings where I was the only one of 4 rounds that caught the cheating, and they were even cheating in behaviorals. I've also been in situations with a second interviewer, where the other interviewer was completely oblivious even when it was clear I was basically toying with the guy reading from the AI, leading conversation in unnatural ways.

Detection of AI in remote interviews, behavioral and technical, just has to be taught today if you are ever interviewing people that don't come from in-network recommendations. Completely fake candidates are way too common.
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This was last week. Perhaps the Australian market is different, but I often but not always see the option to physically call.