skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there are "a few" problems with this.

if you know how you want something done, tough luck. LLMs, even the "really smart" ones, still often do it "their way". they use "their style" (whatever the most common way to write something might be) and "their preferred packages" (what ever the most common ones for the language are). i remember someone told me "hey dude try vercel's v0 it's so good" and i asked it for some basic svelte code. it spat out react.

if you are modifying an existing, non-AI codebase, it's really annoying for the same reason. if you have a preference for specific design patterns or code style, it's unlikely to work well without substantial prompting and re-trying.

they still can't really fix bugs. syntax errors sure, but actual time-costing logic bugs? figuring out lifetimes with rust? forget about it. all they do is add freaking print statements and say "try these things to fix it." no. you're the robot, you work for me, you do it.

they suck at functional languages/haskell. like they're really just bad.

lastly, they're interns, not employees. interns require hand-holding, supervision, and verbal abuse to get anything done right. bots are, for now, the same. they impose a cognitive load when you want something of any importance done: you can't actually trust anything it outputs, at all. you have to go re-check everything it does.

i remember a few days ago i wanted to parse a bunch of UDP packets from 10-20GB daily pcap dumps. I gave it the spec for the message format as a PDF and said "write this in rust", along with the existing (functional but slow) python implementation. this should be a simple case to apply an LLM: simple, routine, boilerplate code that can be next-token-predicted fairly simply, but still takes an annoying amount of time to type out. unfortunately it screwed up multiple times. it failed to use the pcap parsing crate (even when i supplied docs) because it probably wasn't frequent in its training corpus. more importantly, it just miswrote constants. like it would get the constant for length-checking a certain message type wrong despite it being plainly specified in the spec and the python version.

LLMs are cool research tech and I have friends who have used them to learn to write Python scripts and react webshit. in my opinion, they are of little value for "serious" programming. i realize that's an annoying and vaguely-conceited term but it's the best one I can think of at the moment. i look forward to when they actually work well.

in my opinion, a good improvement would be focusing on writing in at least somewhat-verifiable languages or writing s.t. pieces are verifiable. robot translates your request into rules, robot 2 writes the code from rules, SAT solver checks the check-able chunks for validity while robot 3 is specialized in checking unverifiable "connection points", use of side effects, etc. the "intern" problem is by far the biggest of what I've listed and this is probably the best way to solve it. once that's done, we can hopefully let these chug for a while until they get it right rather than giving users crappy output.

oh, and they MUST be tuned to be capable of saying, "I don't know."
77 million people voted for Trump. The US has 340 million people. 22.6% of the US voted for this.
The guy who literally was laying his life down to defend his nation, and who has hundreds of his fellow citizens die every day

vs

guys who are just afraid of the compromat that Putin has on them.
This was such a sad sham & shame.

The silver lining though is that one of the worst misdeeds was averted. The nominal purpose of this was to make Zelensky kiss the ring/feet. And to sign over mineral rights (for no concrete promises or assurances of support).

Ukraine avoided selling their mineral rights. They failed to suck up before doing so, and by virtue of a little bit of intolerable truth-telling (while being incessantly talked over) avoided selling out the nation to buy a fake worthless useless prospect of maybe having short term support continue.

(Tom Nichols definitely comes to mind as S-tier "awful person you know makes a good point". Incredibly blow hard, full of himself in high degree & actively censoring the world around him / blocking views he doesn't agree with. But at least as far as the premise goes, yes. He is correct here.)

Also worth emphasizing that Zelensky has shown enormous gratitude again and again to America. There's dozens upon dozens of tweets of thanks. The premise that he's ungrateful seems simply untrue.
We do tax wealth of course. We wealth is defined as primary residence. No need to remind me about 'services'.
Countries tax plebs by constantly changing the definitions of income, wealth.
Is the US now run by a Russian asset?
I follow the writings of Ben Aris, who focuses mostly on analyzing energy and capital markets in Russia.

He writes prolifically about Russia at https://www.intellinews.com/eastern-europe/

(and other places, at a lower URL path)

He believes that Russia's economy is not doing wonderfully, but not nearly as bad as the Western press says it is, and that whoever runs Russia is probably willing to put up with some pain a lot longer than Ukrainians can put up with no power no water no food, etc.

https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3A%40bneeditor%20russia%20...
this didn't make things better
> we are headed for a destroyed Europe and a civil war in the US

"Capital in the 21st Century" by Piketty does a good job arguing that the historical normal condition is for wealth to concentrate bc the returns on capital are greater than overall economic growth. It's depressing, but creating the kind of world that a lot of us and our parents enjoyed takes special conditions (and political will?) ... but the flip side of this view is that intense inequality can endure for long periods of time and doesn't necessarily lead to political instability.
I don't know if original claim is true or not in general, but lenta.ru in particular is a poor source of information, it's heavily skewed into Russian-government side.
> Yet they stood by the USA in all their fair or unfair endeavors in the Middle East.

France and Germany both openly opposed the US on the Iraq war [1], France even threatened to veto any UN resolutions for an invasion. Hence the whole "Freedom Fries" thing [2]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jan/22/germany.france

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries
There are 2 important reasons.

The reason for Ukrainian men to die, is to protect their families from being tortured by Russians when the Russians take another city.

The reason for Russian men to die, is to not be murdered by their own officer.
> If compromise isn't an option

What the USA is now proposing is not compromise by any definition of the word. The USA is now parroting Kremlin talking points, word for word. Recently when a US official was asked ~"what is Russia giving up?" He was unable to provide an answer.

See the map in my other comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43211923
That's always easier said than done though.

NATO must always act as a cohesive unit so any direct confrontation significantly increases the risks.

Western countries including my own have demilitarize heavily since the 1990s + rebuilt armies for counter terrorism, so sending more weapons to a land war isn't straightforward at all (as we've seen).

Western power is mostly centered around air and sea power and you can't easily transfer that to a 3rd party...especially three years late.

If neither Biden or now Trump is going to promise mass Tomahawks and IFVs galore then all we're left with is perpetuating a stalemate, not recovering sovereign land nor sufficiently punishing Russia. A couple more Storm Shadows and Leopard tanks from dwindling supplies aren't going to cut it.
Custom Allocators in Rust (2023)
the problem with engaging with them using tests is they can deny the results. they can say X politician was killed, but was replaced by a body double. A flat-earther, or holocaust-denier, or moon-landing-conspiracist will always have another counter-claim to whatever challenge they accept. There's always an out, due to the number of "variables in the equation", or the number of theories and posts online. One quote I read here (regarding flat-earth) was "If you engage them, you've already lost". :(
The US hasn't put as much in compared to Europe as they'd have you believe. Whilst Europe has sent fewer weapons, they've been supporting monetarily. And the US was sending stockpiled weapons, marking them at book value, and then reinvesting that money into US defence firms to buy new weapons.
People like that will be well served by the niche businesses I mentioned, and those businesses will make a killing.

but the average person won't be using it
> It’s the new feudalism.

In a sense that basic housing now is luxury - yes.
> Russia knows that we are not going to blow up the world to save Ukraine

Therefore, ending the war as soon as possible is the moral thing to do.
Why are people acting as if there's nothing "different" going on here? Like this is all just driven by standard foreign policy choices, and the current US regime doesn't have some unique allegiance to Russia and its leader?
Rare in absolute numbers, but not rare on a percentage basis.

That was, what, a 95% extermination? Native Americans probably committed 100% exterminations e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorset_culture
>And from who is the US borrowing most of their money from?

The American people, largely. China owns roughly 3% of America's debt. The overwhelming majority of American debt is hold domestically (and thus eventually returns to US citizens) But if the 13 bucks weren't precise enough for you, the 4% interest America pays on 10 year bonds I suppose bring the monstrous bill up another 50 cents per decade, truly a game changer when it comes to defending the free world.
Gary would know.
Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but I was under the impression this is what most of the world wanted? And if not the world, then most elites in the US?

I speak both from public and personal history: when American leadership signed its various trade treaties with China back in the 90s and earlier, opening itself up to the swift transfer of manufacturing to its one-time enemy, was American leadership not signaling its strong desire to diminish American power for the sake of peace?

And on a personal level: my hippie parents had often railed against American imperialism and voted for candidates they thought could stop it. What did they (and other similarly-minded folks) think would happen once America withdrew from the world stage? Do people who think the same way today believe America will grow stronger by pulling back?

Having been around since the late 60s, I can only say this attitude has been in the making for a long time. I can't point to college sit-ins or Nixon going to China or Carter turning over the Panama Canal or the US-China Relations Act (2000) or anything specific stating 'this is the definitive moment', but this desire for a weaker, more isolationist America is neither surprising nor accidental for those of us who've been watching it grow. It's ultimately what my parents and their contemporaries wanted. It's... dream fulfillment.
women are just as gullible.
If they EU wants to spend trillions of euros and send millions of europeans soldiers to fight for zelensky then they have every right to do so. If they don't want to pay that price then they should shut up.
The UX not being designed by business majors.
I am an older guy that was building kubernetes clusters before eks, aks, gke. So I used terraform to build shit out to make it happen. Azure was 5x the code just to be different. You can try to blame terraform but if you used MS custom tooling it was no different.
I'll bite, why do you think a limit on how many homes a person can own is a bad thing? Let's clearly separate homes and other real estate here, so shop floors, factories, warehouses, etc are out of the equation. Since you mention inefficiency, how many homes can one person realistically reasonably use?
As someone in the US that’s bounced in and out of tech, including some longish stints in blue collar jobs, it honestly blows my mind that the tech scene is so all-encompassing that many in it feel like it is representative of… anything else. I’m not talking about the tech libertarian types that think any impediment to the ultra rich vacuuming up everyone else’s wealth is tantamount to dictatorship. I’m talking about the typical happy path developer (I shy away from saying average because all us developers are above-average developers) that went to college for comp sci right after high school pretty quickly secured a junior role for maybe 6x-9x the (ridiculous) Federal Poverty Level.

To be clear: I’m not saying they’re bad people or anything— most people think their experiences are more representative than they are. But, from outside, some of the assumptions software folks make about the world just seem utterly ridiculous. Consider that on average, junior developers make more money than a first year medical resident that has a PhD in perhaps the highest demand field in the US and works shifts of 16-30 hours with many consistently logging 80 hours per week, and occasionally end up working much more. Ask that medical resident what a really bad day, and a really bad week at work looks like for them and ask a developer with the same amount of post-school experience the same question, and then consider how much more school it took… and then ask that same question to an aircraft mechanic, a chef with a culinary degree, a construction worker, a public defender, a commercial fisherman, a firefighter, a nurse… the software industry is more than an aberration — it’s a different planet. The kind of shit I’ve seen developers say they’re going to “pivot to” if the software industry falls apart is, frankly, flabbergasting. If we see the sort of sustained job losses some fear in software, there are going to be a whole lot of people learning some extremely bitter, difficult truths about the world outside.

I’m not saying we all didn’t and don’t work hard to get where we are — it’s just that what developers get vs what’s expected of us and what we had to do to get there is very different than what it is for almost the entire rest of the working world. It’s easy to see your own contributions to your success and miss the industry and market scaffolding you could stand on to get what you did.
As a US citizen horrified by the people that voted for Trump, this is my big fear too.

We have never had a weaker president that caused so many self-inflicted wounds.

This administration is shaping up to be self-immolation covered by the veneer of strength, for people that don't understand what strength is.

The small fraction of Silicon Valley that bent the knee to this narcissist wanna-be-king have shown themselves to be unbelievably weak too. It's surprising. I have lost so much respect for so many people over the past 6 months, but I fear much more for the future prosperity that we have needlessly destroyed.
Would you say this of the Jews during WW2, or do you have the understanding that it's a little less than tactful do describe the victims of genocide as "suckers"?
You can argue it’s been this way for a while, but it’s clear now that the US is no longer the leader of the free world.
You are correct. But, ironically, unlike in Ukraine, in Canada and probably in the US, entry-level jobs (also known as internships) are reserved for undergraduate students. You could call this is another downside of leaving Ukraine.
In the modern bizarre age we find ourselves in...

A comedian is clearly the best job on your resume if you want to apply for the job of president.

Certainly the experience dealing with hecklers, and a sharp wit, come in handy.
That "if you feel so strongly why don't you go fight" trope is a cliché of personal attack, since it insinuates hypocrisy and cowardice. If you say you didn't mean it that way, I believe you, but it would still land that way with many readers, so it's necessary to disambiguate these things more clearly.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Pol Pot tried that with Year Zero. It turned out poorly.
Because Russian shills, the Alt-Right have already burrowed deep into HN. Don't assume much of the discussion here is anything but in bad faith that feigns ignorance to exhaust opposing arguments. It's the classic gish-gallop in play.
Almost everyone I know got several hundred thousand dollars gifted for a down payment and most of these people are from typical middle or upper middle class backgrounds. I have a top 2% income (by Canadian standards) but the best I can do is a 2 bedroom condo or a bottom of the market townhouse with a long commute

I don’t know a single neighborhood in this city where the average household in that neighborhood makes enough to live there with current prices.

I genuinely don’t know why I even work anymore. I don’t have any achievable financial goals except save as much as I can until I move away to live off my savings in a cheap area
What about the way Terraform is a 3rd class citizen on Azure? And there are multiple ever-changing ways of doing everything, major parameters aren't supported, etc. It just makes it more difficult to deal with.

Also, Azure APIs are incredibly slow.
There's a pretty large network of third-generation-never-had-to-work "philantropy" people that fund these sorts of pet left wing projects. See Tides foundation etc.
Trump made the following statement on Truth Social after the meeting:

“We had a very meaningful meeting in the White House today. Much was learned that could never be understood without conversation under such fire and pressure. It’s amazing what comes out through emotion, and I have determined that President Zelenskyy is not ready for Peace if America is involved, because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations. I don’t want advantage, I want PEACE. He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office. He can come back when he is ready for Peace.”

It seems to me he wants the war over with as quickly as possible, and America’s involvement minimized, which means the weaker party in the conflict has to concede. And in his view the weaker party has no other chance anyway. He also wants to minimize anything that would stand in the way of lucrative deals with Russia.
> It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox.

I really struggle to understand what legal team believes this language is necessary in downloaded software. There is a lot of precedent for this kind of language in online hosted services, but not downloaded software.

> This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content.

Yes, it’s a license. Nothing changes. There is no ambiguity about ownership in a perpetual nonexclusive worldwide license, but this doesn’t explain why this license is suddenly necessary now and wasn’t before.

Clearly the legal team at Mozilla is struggling with multiple issues in this update. Why are these changes being made now, and what is driving them?

Others have discussed the data sale issue, but I don’t see a reasonable explanation for the license issue, and the changing text doesn’t inspire confidence.
Dealing with anything AI, particularly chatgpt has been a matter of pick your Stooge, Larry, Moe, or Curly (Joe). History lesson included.

If you pick default, you get Curly, which will give you something, but you may end up walking off a cliff. Never a good choice, but maybe low-hanging fruit.

Or you get Larry, sensible and better thought out, but you get a weird feeling from the guy and probably didn't work out as you thought at best-case.

Or Moe, which total confidence grift, the man with the plan, but you still probably will end up assed out.

ChatGPT 3.5 was Curly, 4.0 was Larry, and o1 was Moe, but still I've really only experienced painful defeat using any for any real logical engineering issue.
Monopoly? My god man get a grip.
I don't think Firebase is really at fault here—the major issue they highlighted is that the deployment pipeline uploaded the compiled artifact to a shared bucket from a container that the user controlled. This doesn't have anything to do with firebase—it would have been just as impactful if the container building the code uploaded it to S3 from the buildbot.
The problems with Piketty's arguments are addressed in the article:

"if America’s rich families in 1900 had invested passively in the stockmarket, spent 2% of their wealth each year and had the usual number of children, there would be about 16,000 old-money billionaires in America today. In fact, there are fewer than 1,000 billionaires and the vast majority of them are self-made"

Yes, if rich people invested their money wisely, gave nothing to charity, spent small amounts, and left their wealth to one of their children, wealth inequality would grow unchecked.

But rich people don't do that.
Would you please stop breaking the site guidelines like this? I asked you once already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43213985.

This is a divisive topic with a range of opinion. I don't see any evidence of shills so far but if you think you do, you should be emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com so we can look into it, not posting this sort of sinister speculation to the threads. It's the ultimate internet cliché, and has a degrading effect on discussion. Hence that guideline.
Sure. It's not incompatible with what I said.
Not to mention the little market share they have is from people who are actively trying to avoid bullshit like that.
Some corporates, yes. Many others, no. A true sign there's no monopoly here, just regular old vendor lock in.
You're missing that many European nations are having their own problems with the rise of ultra-right nationalism.

We're in the verge of those countries being Trumped as well.
He was a good friend of mine, and I joined his last company very early. I found out from the defcon twitter account. I miss talking to him.
And you don't think Russia will escalate to tactical nukes in Ukraine before that point?
This is an interesting concept that in its abstract form applies to far more than inheritance. For example, it's a pretty thoroughly studied phenomenon that if a part of an immigration population becomes radicalized, it's usually the third generation. The reasoning if I recall correctly off the top of my head is similar to your reasoning.
> they still can't really fix bugs. syntax errors sure, but actual time-costing logic bugs? figuring out lifetimes with rust? forget about it. all they do is add freaking print statements and say "try these things to fix it." no. you're the robot, you work for me, you do it.

Have you tried the reasoning models? I find that o1 really is able to find logic bugs, even tricky ones!
I think that is generally true. But Poland had an AWFUL experience with the residents of western Ukraine during the 1940s.