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I can see it go the other way; as LLM's improve, the need for prompters will decrease.

The need for real coding skills however, won't.
So many brilliant researchers in the US are funded by NSF grants. Even beyond public research, just the private sector benefits just from the training (and associated freedom from not having to chase money and TA) that NSF fellows get is immense.

Injecting dumb politics and refusing grants just because people put the words "biases" in their application is a great way to appeal to Republicans's undereducated voters (see https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/4BD2D522-2092... for an example of their idiotic rhetoric) but also a crazy gamble on the US's ability to be a superpower in two decades.

Just look at what happened in France when right-wing governments started defunding research: a slow but massive brain drain of the best minds. What does the current administration think will happen to our economy when they start burning future brains when they're at the seed stage?
> The cynic in me thinks that the US is going to roll over and take this fascist shake down. The optimist in me thinks that the people will rise up with a resounding NO and do something about it. Right now I'm not sure which I believe.

At this point, almost certainly the former.

1. Most Trump supporters do not think that there is a problem.

2. “Regular people” — that is, the folks who don’t track news — won’t notice any problems in their day-to-day lives until after said shakedown has been completed.

The only way large swathes of people will demand action is if they are hit hard in the wallets in an immediate and clear way (e.g., rapid price increases to one or more critical goods or services) or if a critical process (e.g., social security checks) gets disrupted. I’m not sure the current types of changes will reach that level.
Perhaps I suck at prompting but what I've noticed is that if an LLM has hallucinated something or learned a fake fact, it will use that fact no matter what you say to try to steer it away. The only way to get out of the loop is to know the answer yourself but in that case you wouldn't need an LLM.
> You have a trade deficit, because you're spending more than you can afford

Nope. A trade deficit is when your trading partner buys more of your goods than you of theirs.

> to a degree that you crashed the global economy.

If you're talking about the Great Recession of 2007-2009, then, nope, you're wrong again:

"The causes of the Great Recession include a combination of vulnerabilities that developed in the financial system, along with a series of triggering events that began with the bursting of the United States housing bubble in 2005–2012."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Recession
> I hope Trump just lays waste to the federal government agencies and completely neuters it.

That would be completely illegal and unconstitutional. If that's the way things are going to go, you're definitely not going to like what will happen when the power is wielded by someone who doesn't align with you politically.

And I've got a brand new shipment of bridges to sell you if you think Trump is out here about to neuter the power of the federal government. He is consolidating power.
I don't think Trump is trying to funnel money to Musk. I think it is more like he wants to say "Look at what I did. So, much better than any one else." Musk just happens to be near by and and lots of people talk about going to Mars as being fabulous. Going to the moon is so last administration.
But are there any cases where someone was arrested for saying all lives matter?
Google Lifts a Ban on Using Its AI for Weapons and Surveillance
Depends on your skills, and the more you use them the less you learn, the more dependent you become.
Hopefully they don’t throw juniors on to the busiest runways in the country
The windows solution is WSL2
That works in theory. Again, I'm not an ATC, but might be better to have reasonable length workdays (maybe two hours is a reasonable shift though) and more time off between workdays. Similar to shift work in hospitals, where more hand offs means more opportunities to fail to hand off successfully. But I suspect it may be easier to hand off an airplane than to hand off an ICU patient.
Reading that thread, Hellwig is not against Rust for Linux, but rather against using it in core systems. He's okay with it in e.g. drivers.

The notion of "Linus accepted Rust in kernel, therefore it can be used everywhere" is a major point of conflict.

Also note the interview you linked continues with "Another reason has been the Rust infrastructure itself has not been super stable".
I suppose we could comply with those safety regulations by dropping any requirement that the astronauts be alive during departure. Given that the remaining Apollo astronauts are all in their '90s, it seems plausible that a few of them might kick the bucket in time for a posthumous trip to the red planet before the end-of-decade deadline.
Garret Miller did not have a gun Jan 6. I have contacted Loudermilk to get this corrected.If you look up his case you can see he was not charged with having a weapon. He was searched by an officer when briefly detained on steps leading to entrance on east side. Very easily to prove wrong. The J6 committee report has many inaccurate statements
I don't know but anecdotally living in a major city every social event I attend has a Partiful attached.
Trump is as much in Hong Kong as he's in London (at Madame Tussauds museum)

A non-clickbait title might be "Hong Kong theater runs opera "Trump on Show""
Lenders of money want to get their money back. They try to minimize the number of factors that threaten getting their money back. Those factors are called "risks".

El Salvador wants to borrow money. The IMF is willing to lend it, but sees El Salvador's Bitcoin policies as a risk to getting their money back.

From the IMF's perspective it is a risk to El Salvador's economy and therefore the repayment of the IMF's loan.

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Could you imagine how the entire world would look if they took truth serum for an entire year, how different the world might be?

Lies run the planet, and it stinks.
This is a False Dilemma fallacy. I'm not going to pretend the government is perfect but handing the keys of the kingdom to a Nazi will always be a bad idea. Let's do something else.
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This is why in-IDE LLMs like Copilot are really good.

I just had a case where I was adding stuff to two projects, both open at the same time.

I added new fields to the backend project, then I swapped to the front-end side and the LLM autocomplete gave me 100% exactly what I wanted to add there.

And similar super-accurate autocompletes happen every day for me.

I really don't understand people who complain about "AI slop", what kind of projects are they writing?
> RL in a tight loop that is not available in the open

Completely agree that a real RL pipeline is needed here, not just some clever prompting in a loop.

That being said, it wouldn’t be impossible to create a “gym” for this task. You are essentially creating a simulated internet. And hiding a needle is a lot easier than finding it.
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Are you saying if Apple asked Google to sit down and come up with an encrypted RCS working group and get proper interop done, it would be _Google_ that would decline?
Penny was rightly acquitted.

https://nypost.com/2024/11/08/opinion/subway-rider-thanked-d...
Subway rider thanked Daniel Penny for saving riders from Jordan Neely — possibly the most important gesture of his life
Cool Story Bro. Username are meaningless. I know that you know that.
Hi all! Aymeric (m-ric) here, maintainer of smolagents and part of the team who built this. Happy to see this interesting people here!

Few points:

- open Deep Research is not a production app, but it could easily be productionized (would need to be faster + good UX).

- As the GAIA score of 55% (not 54%, that would be lame) says, it's not far from the Deep Research score of 67%. It's also not there yet: I think the main point of progress is to improve web browsing. We're working on integrating vision models (for now we've used a text browser developed by the Microsofit autogen team, congrats to them) because it's probably the best way to really interact with webpages.

- Open Deep Research is built on smolagents, a library that we're building, for which the core is having agents that write their actions (tool calls) in code snippets instead of the unpractical JSON blobs + parsing that everyone incl OpenAI and Anthropic use for their agentic/tool-calling APIs. Don't hesitate to go try out the lib and drop issues/PRs!

- smolagents does code execution, which means "danger for your machine" if ran locally. We've railguardeed that a bit with our custom python interpreter, but it will never be 100% safe, so we're enabling remote execution with E2B and soon Docker.
On my device it always gives me an error telling me to turn on MMS, which is turned on of course.

No, rebooting the phone doesn’t change anything, thanks for suggesting it
End of support-Privacy protection (VPN) in Microsoft Defender for individuals
See that’s when you hallucinated white people equals bad.

WW2 was started by white supremacist ideology - the Japanese just conveniently fit into that, even being called honorary Aryans at times.

So yea WW2 was white supremacists vs everyone else
When IntelliJ was young the autocomplete and automated refactoring were massive game changers. It felt like a dawn of a new age. But then release after release no new refactorings materialized. I don't know if they hit the Pareto limit or the people responsible moved on to new projects.

I think that's the sort of spot where better tools might be appropriate. I know what I want to do, but it's a mess to do it. I suspect that will be better at facilitating growth instead of stunting it.
Tell Putin. He will entertain no such inhibitions.
Thanks that makes sense - just feels weird to go from years of “be very careful rewriting history with git, especially at work” to jj rewriting everything all the time - can’t shake the feeling there’s a clash somewhere waiting to happen
A lot of pilots seem to retire into commercial aviation after their military careers. They already have all the training and flight hours. After 20 years and a pension they're keen to keep on flying, but not as high-speed.
The very second someone starts monitoring me like that I'm out. Let them write their own software.
It remains a matter of import. It is both true that they don't have clearance and true that in a more functional environment that they would not have earned it.
He wasn't in law enforcement, or a statutory role. He's a former marine.

I think this is a non-story. I don't like A16Z but this specific hire has nothing to do with it, and I see no causal trend here or reason to say anything about Andreessen from this hire.

I had an uncle who was a lower court Judge in the UK, who would hire ex-cons to work on his pigfarm. Cynics would say he wanted a cheap source of labour but the truth is (I am convinced) he saw the need for post-Jail employment, and that condemning prisoners to a life without work income was stupid and hurtful. I think also working with animals has been shown to be net beneficial to incarcerated people.

This guy did a stupid thing. I get that. It had lethal consequence. I get that too. I don't think this hire is evidence of any nefarious quality. If anything, it will cost them money.

(I would never for for Trump, and I think A16Z has bad effect on ICT investment)
*turnover = money
No. This is the idiocy that continues to undermine any argument from free speech or forced speech. You cannot just agree with the language you like. You have to be able to live with horrible, horrid language that you detest and then, maybe, we can have some semblance of sense come back. Words don't hurt people. People do. Case in point, it is not words that are deleting those words. It is actions.

You are part of the problem. Yes. You.
This type of talk just does the work of the authoritarian for them.
Exactly. For unit/integration tests I've found it to be a pretty good assistant.

I have a project with a bunch of tests already, then I pick a test file and write `public Task Test` and wait a few seconds, in most cases it writes down a pretty sane basis for a test - and in a few cases it figured out an edge case I missed.
I assume plenty of people will be happy to go through LASIK for that
Dam building as an instinctive response is kind of insane the more I think about it. What evolutionary pathway led to that behavior?
Yes the case against death camps is not that they are a waste of time symbolic measure with no real world effects.
Not a 8 min read as stated in the beginning but nevertheless interesting.
The error tells me to turn on MMS, which is already on.

RCS isn’t an obvious option anywhere
Quite interesting! But you’re leaving us hanging, did you ask her why she was on Hinge at 2pm?
Hm, I use LLMs almost daily, and I've never had it say it changed code and not do it. If anything, they will sometimes try to "improve" parts of the code I didn't ask them to modify. Most times I don't mind, and if I do, it's usually a quick edit to say "leave that bit alone" and resubmit.

> Are people who make this workflow effective summarizing and creating a fresh prompt every 5 minutes or something?

I work on one small problem at a time, only following up if I need an update or change on the same block of code (or something very relevant). Most conversations are fewer than five prompt/response pairs, usually one-three. If the LLM gets something wrong, I edit my prompt to explain what I want better, or to tell it not to take a specific approach, rather than correcting it in a reply. It gets a little messy otherwise, and the AI starts to trip up on its own past mistakes.

If I move on to a different (sub)task, I start a new conversation. I have a brief overview of my project in the README or some other file and include that in the prompt for more context, along with a tree view of the repository and the file I want edited.

I am not a software engineer and I often need things explained, which I tell the LLM in a custom system prompt. I also include a few additional instructions that suit my workflow, like asking it to tell me if it needs another file or documentation, if it doesn't know something, etc.
I hold the idea that brain drain, i.e. emigration of skilled people, is one of only a small handful of real methods to hold fascism to account.

With that, as things start to get real bad it seems leaving is something of a moral duty for anyone who cares, has skills that hold real weight, and can still afford to do so.

Obviously where this "real bad" point is is hard to say, and there's important tradeoffs to consider. I also could be talked out of this position but from what I see it seems about accurate.
There’s no measurable drop in my ability to write code, but there’s a very significant one in my desire to.
The reason why BTCs are not much an usable currency for a whole economy is that they are a deflationary currency like gold, meaning the more time passes the less new BTC are created till the end with no creation at all. This means they will always more interesting to be stockpiled then spent. Also they can't decrease nor increase "as needed" the BTC base, meaning that if you are short of natural resources you can't reduce their usage tightening the number of circulating money.

The idea behind BTC is very valid, but they can be more like the old ECU or CFA/CFP not money you normally use for day to day stuff.
I wouldn't say 2019 is particularly old. I didn't even know IE still existed at the time - I thought it had been replaced by Edge.
This one feels particularly obnoxious to me, for some reason. I'm growing all the more convinced that if I'm cooking my own food using non-cured meats or canned vegetables, it seems I can add as much salt as I want with almost reckless abandon.
It’s covered in TFA, but the tldr is they started when Zig was immature.
> Its possible to be be precise at an higher level of abstraction as long as your prompts are consistent with a coherent model of the code.

This is a fantastic quote and I will use this. I describe the future of coding as natural language coding (or maybe syntax agnostic coding). This does not mean that the llm is a magic machine that understands all my business logic. It means what you've described - I can describe my function flow in abstracted english rather than requiring adherence to a syntax
This would be an awesome way to get more breadth of knowledge during downtime. For example, many times there are interesting algorithms or some technology I would benefit from knowing I just wouldn’t know to search for it.

Or you could make infinite scrolling randomized hacker news front page articles from the past.
Watching the tech community waltz into DC and pretend that they know how all the levers of government work is pathetic. Are there inefficiencies? Sure. Are there places to improve? Of course. But pretending that they can understand the intricacies of literally decades of institutional knowledge and deep connections across the globe in the course of a single weekend is asinine.

We need to do better. The US government isn't Twitter. Breaking things simply because you have the power is the opposite of leadership, it's nihilism.
> but I think in generally its a good actor.

There are many 'interesting' event that happened because of the invasion of irak, looking for weapon of mass destruction that never existed.

This led to the destabilization of the entire middle east, several war and ISIS.

One could say that the unconditional support to the israelian policy in middle east since 1950 also brought it's load of conflicts.

The whole south America is fcked because of usa illegal intervention from WW2 to the end of cold war.

And the list goes on and on.

I mean it would be much faster to stay what good impact had the usa foreign policy on the world in the last 100 year.
I'm genuinely surprised that California hasn't figured out fire risk management decades ago. The Santa Ana winds are nothing new and have been in the southern part of the state forever. I remember seeing news reports about catastrophic fires in southern California as far back as the 1970s (when I was a kid). Doesn't everyone know that strong winds (which are guaranteed to come) can make wild fires exponentially worse? No one can control the wind though.

The 3 necessary components for fire are: oxygen, fuel, and ignition source. No stopping the presence of oxygen. Ignition sources are present with lightning strikes (among other things). That leaves fuel as the thing that can be controlled. If you can't reduce the fuel load around your dwelling, it doesn't make any sense to live there. I live in a forest that has experienced a tragic wildfire in the past, so I'm in a similar boat (but without the Santa Ana winds). Keeping fuel away from my home is something that I think about a lot -- and ACT ON a lot.

I have a neighbor who does practically nothing to reduce his fuel load. It's his legal right, but I think it's foolish. He's told me he likes to keep his property "undisturbed". It sounds like there's much of the same thinking that drives policy in California.

The combined practice of: (1) put out any fire immediately, and (2) do nothing to reduce fuel load, makes for a bad combination in the long run. It would seem to me that Californians should have figured these things out decades ago and be the experts on fire risk management. What am I missing?
Compared to all the cool stuff, like... checks the news ...Tim Cook's political backbone?
They tried to do that, look up Nazism in the Americas - fortunately the white supremacists were very much in the minority in the US.

Modern racists operate pretty much the same way as 100+ years ago
> 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,

Yes!
Trig is key for later math,
and that's why I place learning it better as central to my retrospective.
I struggle so much with memorization, though, that I was having to derive from first principles all the time.
> Maybe sometimes the language feels like trying to keep a piece of heavy duty machinery from killing you, but they're willing to wrestle with it for the power you get in return.

It's funny because to me there's an analogy with heavy machinery but materially different: there are some industrial machines that have two buttons that need to be actuated to activate the mechanism, separated by arm length in order to ensure that the operator's arms are out of the way when the limb crunching bits are moving. I see Rust that way, engineering the safe way to do things as the path of least resistance, at the cost of some convenience when trying to do something "unsafe".
Exactly, while not learning anything along the way.
Totally! My current biggest problems:

1) Being up to date with the latest capabilities - this one has slowed down a bit, and my biggest self-learning experience was in August/September, and most of the intuition still works. However, although I had time to do so, it's hard to ask my team to drop 5-6 free weekends of their lives to get up to speed

2) Transition period where not everyone is on the same page about LLM - this I think is much harder, because the expectations from the executives are much different than on the ground developers using LLMs.

A lot of people could benefit on alignment of expectations, but once again, it's hard to explain what is possible and not possible if your statements will become nullified a month later with a new AI model/product/feature.
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There's nuance to these numbers since interception will be an artifact of where people are looking but 95% of intercepted fentanyl was from US citizens crossing the border.[0]

Funnily enough the Republicans seemed content to sit on their hands and play politics with this so called crisis until the media broke the story.[also 0]

[0]: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/border-fe...
Not necessarily! Each Roc app runs on a particular platform which is built in a host language for a specific domain. That host language could be Rust, Zig, C, C++, Go, Swift, etc. It's possible the basic-webserver platform will be rewritten to Zig but it doesn't need to be.
If you want to personify the mistaken belief "if a company can make money legally then it is obliged in law to do it, to maximise shareholder value" thing: Oracle is that company. There is only one goal. Immediate reporting cycle uptick benefit. There is no other goal.

I can think of almost no play they have made in the market which has any longterm net beneficial outcome for the entire market, despite "grow a bigger market" being a thing. We would have ZFS in a lot more places, if Oracle hadn't made a short term licence play, and muddied the waters.

We used to hate on a range of companies about their IBM like qualities (market dominance, bad behaviour inside the law) but now, IBM is a pale shadow, and Oracle has taken the crown.
It's a bit field with three values, encoded as a camel-cased identifier. This time three things went bad at the same time, but in less dramatic cases you may simply have a GoodBadGoodChunkRecord or a BadBadGoodChunkRecord. Needless to say, GoodGoodGoodChunkRecord denotes regular conditions.
there's something about the guaranteed aspect, whereas a senior manager is at the behest of office politics and the business cycle
Dollar short and a day late. The future of the US tech industry belongs to those who weren't interested in performative woke nonsense like this during the last decade.
I think the problem with apps is they emphasise looks, when women are also attracted to confidence, which is something you can work on.