skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do we know that guy is bright? And do we beg for that? I was 25 years old and thought I can do everything. Now I know better and would definitely not trust myself going into such a system. I was in many companies and especially if it comes to payment systems I see the same mistakes over and over again.

If there is atleast a good supervision, then sure it might work.
The alarmist take is jumping to the conclusion that people will starve from efforts to improve the code behind this system. We can still print paper checks, probably with a simple script in the worst case.
I used Deep Research and here are my thoughts
Not high level, you need to know exactly how it’s done. If you don’t at the start, then you will by the time you arrive at the working commit.

The exception (in that you must learn something) is in design, though. If you ask AI to add something to your API, and do it repeatedly, you will end up with a very poorly designed API, with separate endpoints for updating separate fields in the same record, etc, which will happily work fine.

Unless you knew what to do from the start, you’re going to make a lot of tech debt.
In the US they do have to explain. It's a requirement of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 [1]. Here is an article with more detail on what is required in the explanation [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Credit_Opportunity_Act#R...

[2] https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/do-lenders-have-to-t...
> the ability to change code for the purposes of rooting out fraudulent payments or analyzing disbursement flow

Or making and hiding fraudulent payments.
> I suppose hiding the contributions of minorities would make it easier to argue that they're free-loaders, non-contributors, etc

Agreed.

> if

I believe you mean "as our own history has shown us"
Trig was actually one of the courses that helped me a lot in my later math degree, because I only had to memorize a few key facts and identities, and the rest were variations derivable from the key information. A lot of my earlier math courses "clicked" when I realized this. When I studied further areas of math I found that it was often the case that there was a large set of information to learn, but most of it could be derived from a small-ish core. If I studied and understood the core, and memorize the commonly used parts of the rest (couldn't help but memorize because it was common, didn't need special study effort) that most classes were straightforward.

But,

> In any case, had trig been taught alongside or in close relationship with the aspects of math where it's used

I took it concurrent with a physics course and we did apply trig quite a bit so my practice with it was more than just whatever was needed for the trig class itself.
If you approve of this, perhaps Marko Elez can find some efficiencies within the payroll system of your employer?
For what exactly, seems possible but would need more info.
Some other commenters have offered the idea of an algorithm to steer the randomness of the articles. I wonder if an algorithm would help with this issue of having random articles be too technical for you even though you are interested in the larger topic.
Regardless, it would be nicer to keep our improved education so that people do understand the power dynamics implied in certain terms.

Some people living today, working in and around a "git default repo setup" are descendants of slaves.

Would it be better if public education simply discussed power dynamics, inclusion, and sensitivity?
> I don’t care that the kid is writing code

I really do care that the kid is writing code because Bessent told senior Republicans in a closed-door meeting Musk et al only have read access and that through another person (Krause). If this kid is writing code, he's doing so without legal authority. This isn't a coup, it's espionage.
There are more ways to get news than reading reddit tho. I still get exposure to the "big" events through HN or simply by talking to my coworkers, and those conversations tend to be a lot more meaningful and nuanced than what I'd normally get on reddit.

Not getting every single detail of a story as it develops isn't really a big deal to me and, I'd also argue that following these news on reddit won't really make you more informed (I already shared one example where the news was discussed but the conversation was entirely off from the reality). Reddit only makes you feel more informed, but that doesn't mean that you actually are.
The problem is that the algorithms are programed to show people what they want to see OR what the platform want's you to see.

If it's orgasmic then this is no different than any other form of organic popularity. Seeing as Trump won the popular vote and the electoral collage, people were interested in republican content. On the same token it's very easy to AstroTurf and claim it was organic. From my personal conversations in meat-space I lean organic.

Is there funny business going on? Absolutely, all the time everywhere in every way. Can we say this was funny business? Not without the code.

TLDR: Popularity algorithms push popular content algorithmically.
I would imagine that the Chinese are good at wonton, though wanton outsourcing of wontons may not be in the best interests of local "pork" spending. Maybe if we had more details on how that whole Bronze Age Collapse went down we might have better ideas of what to avoid, but learning from history isn't very popular.
It depends on the context. A military analyst's west includes Japan probably. A white nationalist's west does not probably.
Also VERY risky.
what are you talking about? All the locations used for Manhattan Project continued after the war- for example Los Alamos, Hanford, Oak Ridge, and more. Tons of long term infrastucture and it was built quickly. Much of the credit for that goes to Leslie Groves, who was an organizational genius and highly effective leader.
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This is a great idea, I've been doing something similar at 2 levels:

1. .cursorrules for global conventions. The first rule in the file is dumb but works well with Cursor Composer:

`If the user seems to be requesting a change to global project rules similar to those below, you should edit this file (add/remove/modify) to match the request.`

This helps keep my global guidance in sync with emergent convention, and of course I can review before committing.

2. An additional file `/.llm_scratchpad`, which I selectively include in Chat/Composer context when I need lengthy project-specific instructions that I made need to refer to more than once.

The scratchpad usually contains detailed specs, desired outcomes, relevant files scope, APIs/tools/libs to use, etc. Also quite useful for transferring a Chat output to a Composer context (eg a comprehensive o1-generated plan).

Lately I've even tracked iterative development with a markdown checklist that Cursor updates as it progresses through a series of changes.

The scratchpad feels like a hack, but they're obvious enough that I expect to see these concepts getting first-party support through integrations with Linear/Jira/et al soon enough.
I’m not talking about being dicks to people. You miss the point. The point is there is a subculture within all the skateboarders there are that is actually legit about the sport. An identifiable group B in the greater group A. Gatekeeping need not anything to do with it. The skills and amount of time required especially as an adult do enough to demark this group.

Likewise with drinking. There are subsets of drinkers. The ones passing 40s around in a public park aren’t who you see in the ad material. The alcohol industry lobbyists would rather this subset not be highlighted at all in fact because it paints the rest of the industry as unsavory.
>I wonder why that C file which maps a more abstract Rust-friendly C-API on top of the existing API can't live inside the Rust directory and build structure.

That's what this patch does. It's what the patch _always_ did. Christoph seems not to have actually looked at the patch before rejecting it.

When it was pointed out to him that his initial complaints were in fact unfounded, he didn't say "oh well, I guess it's OK then", he came up with more unfounded reasons to reject it. And when those points were addressed, he basically said "nah, I don't want to".

I should note that he does not actually have any authority to reject the patches, since they're not in his subsystem. They are bindings to the DMA subsystem, he was CC'd as an advisory, but he has no more right to reject the patches than he would to reject a GPU driver that used DMA.

This is a waste of everyone's time.
I work with a lot of overseas developers who speak with thick accents and sometimes it can be very difficult to understand them or for them to understand me. I could definitely see this being a more pleasant experience for everyone.
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OpenAI has been releasing industry leading capabilities at a pretty predictable clip. Their current top reasoning model outperforms the competition by a mile. From this I conclude, at a minimum, that they aren't "out of ideas" and the article is just inane clickbait.
You sound like those who voted for Trump in 2020.
But you might be right, but then so they may have been.

Trump won because enough people were sick of the garbage they heard from the progressive left being crammed down their throats.

How people can think a billionaire like him relates to the average guy, is quite crazy, but just shows how incredibly bad the democrats are at actually relating to the people.

I didn’t vote for him the first two times, but after I saw his immediate response to the assassination attempt, I knew I would this time. There are millions like me.

I’m all for making it more difficult to vote. Let’s just be ruled by a set of elites like we already are, but at least be honest about it.

If I get what I truly want it won’t really matter as much who is president because the federal government would have like a 1/10 of its power and a 1/10 of its budget, and states and local municipalities would have far more say. Ultimately I think the 18th century anti-federalists were right. I hope Trump just lays waste to the federal government agencies and completely neuters it.
LHC had confirmed the existence of Higgs boson, essentially validating then-hypothetical mechanism for emergence of mass. It also had ruled out a very popular, theoretically beautiful but as it turned out invalid direction of physics studies. You can argue whether it was worth the cost but it was a genuine, significant experimental achievement.

It was also certainly not a PR stunt as it was truly an insanely complex piece of engineering. It is one of humanity's largest technological undertakings ever. Projects of this scale are still beyond the means even of the world's richest oligarchs. But it is a fine example of the things you can achieve in an enormous but well functioning multi-national bureaucracy.
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I think the Executive has signed off on it. It's not like Trump would personally do these things. He has partnered with the best and brightest to implement the vision for America that the majority of voters asked for. Like it or not, it's how elections work.
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> Okay, if not police, then teacher's unions: there's not a lot of available studies, but most point to a non-existent or negative relationship between CBAs and student performance.

I'm going to guess that there are far stronger correlations with household wealth when it comes to student performance than there are whether the students are taught by teachers who are employed under a CBA.

> Or in the private sectors, non-unionized manufacturers like Toyota and Honda always outperform legacy manufacturers in the US on quality.

That could very well be because of how the cars are engineered and made versus the union representation for the people who make them.

GM, for example, tends to build cars in a way as to make them as cheap as possible to build. That lets them compete on price versus quality. You need the car now, after all; what happens in 40k miles isn't as important to you now. Of course, that comes with the risk, like when some essential component on my college girlfriend's Pontiac's shat the bed, and they'd had to take the entire front of the car apart to replace it because it was cheaper to build that way. They've just taken the price of having a functioning vehicle and charged you for it at the mechanic, not the dealership.

Toyota and Honda used to do the opposite, of course. You were going to pay more (depending on exchange rate) upon purchase of the vehicle but the result was that the car wouldn't need as many trips to the mechanic. They've since started doing more value engineering.

There's also a cultural difference between Japanese and American businesses, but that's far more nebulous.
Dilla is one of the best, but I think apart of why he's so highly rated is his early departure.

We're left to wonder about his potential.
> Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/jira.

Good to know they value this kind of information /s
This "take it or leave it" problem seems to be exactly what a cooperative seeks to solve.
Great idea! The demo looks impressive. What are your thoughts on real-time translated captioning compared to AI voice? I guess it's still difficult to mimic nonverbal elements like laughter and pauses.
I am not sure if the dev time would be shorter because teams and meet have its own nuances as well as you would be limited to what you could be by the tool itself. Also, i dont think you would go into every call with this plugin on.

This is very valuation where communication barrier is high and has specialized usecases in industries like supply chain, outsourcing.
What I don't seem to understand, and I haven't found anything about, is this: How did Elon Musk and his staff obtain log-in credentials to the databases? Or log-in credentials for anything, especially given that the people in-charge were not willing to cooperate? And after all this purging is done, can't the databases be re-loaded from the backup-tapes?
This only works for small self-contained problems with narrow scope/context.

Chat sucks for pulling in context, and the only worse thing I've tried is the IDE integrations that supposedly pull the relevant context for you (and I've tried quite a few recently).

I don't know if naive fine-tuning with codebase would work, I suspect there are going to be tools that let you train the AI on code in the sense that it can have some references in model, and it knows how you want your project code/structure to look like (which is often quite different from what it looks in most areas)
I think the claim here is that more actual human suffering is coming out of the status quo which we think needs to be fixed with fairly drastic action.

The Mexican cartels for example do provide aid in predominantly poor parts of the country but there are still many who would say that overall these organizations provide more harm than good.

The US is providing some resources for causes that you and other's support (presumably with a much higher "success" rate than the cartels) but they have also historically funded and perpetuated things that many are not happy with (various conflicts in the middle east come to mind).

Some of us wanted to see dramatic reform and we feel that claims like "grandma is going to starve because she won't get her groceries" are really just an attempt to connect with emotions around the ordeal rather than an honest attempt to point out flaws or discuss potential drawbacks with the current approach.
It’s the reactionary version of that.
Having a scapegoat take the fall doesn't count as `accountability` in my book.
> I focus on the high-level code, and let the model focus on the lower level code.

Tbh the reason I don't use LLM assistants is because they suck at the "low level". They are okay at mid level and better at high level. I find it's actual coding very mediocre and fraught with errors.

I've yet to see any model understand nuance or detail.

This is especially apparent in image models. Sure, it can do hands but they still don't get 3D space nor temporal movements. It's great for scrolling through Twitter but the longer you look the more surreal they get. This even includes the new ByteDance model also on the front page. But with coding models they ignore context of the codebase and the results feel more like patchwork. They feel like what you'd be annoyed at with a junior dev for writing because not only do you have to go through 10 PRs to make it pass the test cases but the lack of context just builds a lot of tech debt. How they'll build unit tests that technically work but don't capture the actual issues and usually can be highly condensed while having greater coverage. It feels very gluey, like copy pasting from stack overflow when hyper focused on the immediate outcome instead of understanding the goal. It is too "solution" oriented, not understanding the underlying heuristics and is more frustrating than dealing with the human equivalent who says something "works" as evidenced by the output. This is like trying to say a math proof is correct by looking at just the last line.

Ironically, I think in part this is why chat interface sucks too. A lot of our job is to do a lot of inference in figuring out what our managers are even asking us to make. And you can't even know the answer until you're part way in.
There's a chance this is an example of Poe's Law. But I'm unsure!
I'd still like to hear how is that exactly different or worse than the old "publisher" model, where everything is gatekept by publishing megacorporations and they decided what the taste of the decade was.

And by "they", it was a few executives in those corporations - it was never a meritocracy and those people never cared about music they peddled either.

So what exactly did it change here except the fact that now we're not at a mercy of a megapublisher to actually ship tapes/CDs across the world to hear a smaller artist?
No, when he was making it twenty years ago the equipment was then 20 years old so it's now 40 year old equipment.
My bad, I was thinking of phosgene.
Fair feedback. It's a decent enough spot for our explainer video anyway.
You might be right, I should give it another go
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"Normal" is defined by norms (constitution, laws, regulations).

What you're trying to say is "usual" - if it is, indeed, usual for each of your presidents to do so.
> at a certain point you are just going to be cannibalizing other talent pools

I don't think any sane person would be against raising ATC wages. But to refer back to my post, the situation might be different if it there were not also a massive pilot shortage as well! If these two pools of talent mostly overlap raising wages on one will probably just pull from the other.

It's probably a combination of raising wages and putting more money into recruiting teenagers considering vocational programs.
Probably marked as "political" and demoted
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/09/politics/house-vote-protect-o...

The House passed this Act in 2021 to reduce the presidents power, but Biden never asked the senate to act on it. Reducing his own power wasn’t a priority for him, he spent his political capital on pushing for other laws.
I find web chat interfaces very useful for programming, but it also feels like early days. Speedups will smooth out a lot of pain points. But other UI changes, some even quite small, could enhance use a lot. A few of various size top of mind with regard to Claude web chat UI specifically:

- intellisense in the inputbox based on words in this or all previous chats and a user customizable word list

- user customizable buttons and keyboard shortcuts for common quick replies, like "explain more".

- when claude replies with a numbered list of alternatives let me ctrl+click a number to fork the chat with continued focus on that alternative in a new tab.

- a custom right click menu with action for selection (or if no selection claude can guess the context e.g. the clicked paragraph) such as "new chat with selection", "explain" and some user customizable quick replies

- make the default download filenames follow a predicable pattern, claude currently varies it too much e.g. "cloud-script.py" jumps to "cloud-script-errorcheck.py". I've tried prompting a format but claude seems to forget that.

- the stop button should always instantly stop claude in its tracks. Currently it sometimes takes time to get claude to stop thinking.

- when a claude reply first generates code in the right sidebar followed by detailed explanation text in the chat, let some keyboard shortcut instantly stop the explanation in its tracks. Let the same shortcut preempt that explanation while the sidebar code is still generating.

- chat history search is very basic. Add andvanced search features, like filter by date first/last message and OR search operator

- batch jobs and tagging for chat history. E.g. batch apply a prompt to generate a summary in each selected chat and then add the tag "summary" to them. Let us then browse by tag(s).

- tools to delete parts of a chat history thread, that in hindsight were detours

- more generally, maybe a "chat history chat" to have Claude apply changes to the chat histories
> they tend not to be very successful in the marketplace

...because other companies boycott coops.
'everyone would have agreed" - no, please provide any basis to that or you're veering into the "common sense" and "many people, some straight from central casting with tears in their eyes" BS
It's called a union. If workers unite and refuse to suddenly supply their labour it'll cause a lot of changes fast, and sometimes the capitalists just leave and the workers can appropriate the company.

Though it is often a good idea to start small and get a little win, and then wait and recruit, and then push for another small change, and repeat. That way the union establishes credibility, solid membership and a reasonably sized war chest for things like getting rid of a CEO, which will take more time and effort than for example protective gear or longer pauses in the work.
> November-December 1999

A New Kind of Science was published in 2002. Unless the author of this list had access to the future, it would have been hard to include it.
Right now it's 85% usage on mobile. Also, I don't really find the pixelated images to be that detracting on desktop (though, I'm a small macbook, ymmv on a giant 4k display). I haven't tested on a screen that large.
I think the charitable interpretation is that there are people who want HN To contain only things with a compelling connection to technologies, science, or other kinds of curiosity that involve the natural world. If they consider it "off-topic", then the guidelines do state that a story being "off-topic" is an occasion for flagging.

Note: This does not preclude the existence of another group of people, who are misusing flagging because they dislike the conclusion or viewpoint of the story.

That said, moderation is hard, and if posts like "Twitter moves headquarters" are OK because it's related to the software/IT, then we ought to also be able to talk about IT security policy getting screwed up in other large organizations, including the US government.
A notification delivered “by” a phone application when that application is not necessarily running.

They’re “notifications” in common speech but there’s also stuff like “now playing” and live activities and rich content that are also “notifications” but do require the app to run.