skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In order to use a library, I need to (this is my opinion) be able to reason about the library’s behavior, based on a specification of its interface contract. The LLM may help with coming up with suitable code, but verifying that the application logic is correct with respect to the library’s documented interface contract is still necessary. It’s therefore still a requirement to read and understand the library’s documentation. For example, for the case of a REST client, you need to understand how the possible failure modes of the HTTP protocol and REST API are translated by the library.
My feeling is that people aren't much against something inconsequential per se, instead they are against something that's out of their status quo and that question some underlying values they haven't ever questioned themselves (for example: genders).

Instead of being curious why exactly some people are proposing something that challenges their worldview they instead immediately allow their fear to take over, and reject the change.

It's the same pattern that non-accepting parents of gay children tend to go through when their kid comes out of the closet; in that case a lot of them have a change of heart into acceptance because they love the person, over time they are able to overcome the fear and understand a new worldview.

Not so much for the masses with flames being fanned by politicians wanting to capitalise on that fear, they are kept in fear, they are told to reject any attempt to educate them, the messaging calls it "evil" or "not from God" or "only for betas", adapted to the audience's most chauvinistic identity (religion, machoism, etc.).

Since it's easy to manipulate those into hating whatever is the bad-word-du-jour then those same politicians can attach any policy with "combating bad-word-du-jour" and a lot of the believers won't question it much.

It's disheartening because even though I'm quite progressive and leftist (in the European sense), I still believe that conservatism is necessary to balance out the discussion, unfortunately it's also an ideology intrinsically bound to the fear of change, a feeling very easy to be co-opted by power-hungry people.

It's an ideology that rejects rationality and almost completely embraces emotion (fear), which is rather ironic since its most fervent followers want to believe they are the most reasonable and logical ones.
What? You think these people are literally incapable of learning to work on a solar farm instead of a coal mine? Why?
I find it unfortunate. The BEAM is so influential as a VM, that most languages on top of it will be very similar. I don't really like the situation where we have Erlang, Elixir, and Gleam all atop the same VM, and they're all basically the same language. It's a split that isn't needed.
Do as Taleb does: if it’s important it’ll reach you.
Another fun thing to do, along a similar train of thought, is to use something like the internet archive [1] to go look at your news site of choice, a year or two back, and see how their attention-grabbing predictions and declarations played out.

In general, they won't. And this newfound knowledge can then be carried forward when reading the attention-grabbing predictions and declarations of today. It's basically a more generalized version of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.

[1] - https://web.archive.org/
The exhausting thing is doing to required research to point out to people that the outrage pornography sound bite they're screaming about is, of course, completely fake and designed to enrage them.

Then they thank you for the information and go on to completely believe the next one with no pattern recognition whatsoever.
What you say meshes with my understanding. The crux is how do we even pull up from this? It has essentially been the Republican playbook for the past few decades - the politicians enact backdoored policies that make things even worse, while personally looting and maintaining support with identity politics. Trump's main differences are the lack of usual political decorum, the level to which he's doing it, and how much his actions are openly benefiting foreign powers.

The tough nut to crack is that it is impossible to talk with red tribe voters about any of this! You can sit there and listen, of course. But as soon as you say anything that still addresses their frustration and pain, but yet diverges from their overly-simplistic party chorus, you're now part of the "other" that is eagerly responsible for their problems and will just be reflexively argued with.

And the situation has gotten so bad that lighter touch individual-freedom-respecting solutions (that they could possibly agree with in theory) aren't likely to even work now. For example twenty years ago, stopping the profligate government spending and handouts to banks could have stopped rural economies from continuing to get hollowed out. Allowing deflation in consumer goods would have allowed main street to experience some of the gains from offshoring. Re-setting the definition of full time employment to 40 hours per household per week would have slowed down the financial grindstone.

Instead these days we're basically down to direct government stimulus to create new jobs - directly at odds with the medicine they think they need. Or even worse, completely uninspiring answers like UBI.
Well, looking into really old draft records, you will find a lot of disqualified recruits with bad health - tuberculosis, parasites, or general bodily problems caused by malnutrition.

But yeah, there also was a lot of physically strong young people to choose from.
Benzene is not quite how we think it is (2020)
I don't get how people get jobs so easily. It took me like 8 months and it was extremely stressful.
Parent just forgot a decimal separator I think.
You want a shape that can represent an approximately equal area, anywhere on a 3 dimensional surface.
US has Eli Lilly with a competing product (Tirzepatide)
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/research-publications/resbul...

High-frequency traders (HFTs) are market participants that are characterised by the high speed with which they react to incoming news, the low inventory on their books, and the large number of trades they execute. All this is possible for HFTs because they use automated, algorithmic trading, which enables them to analyse markets and execute trades in under a millisecond. The high-frequency trading industry grew rapidly after it took off in the mid-2000s. Today, high-frequency trading represents about 50% of trading volume in US equity markets. In European equity markets, its share is estimated to be between 24% and 43% of trading volume, and about 58% to 76% of orders.
Well, there's nothing stopping the language from having builtin functions and constants in the standard library that are handled specially by the compiler, the same way this echo keyword is. That would've had the added benefit of being backwards compatible (which new keywords are not).
Really yoy nearly got the correct approach there.

I generally follow the same approach these days, ask it to develop a plan then execute but importantly have it excute each step in as small increments as possible and do a proper code review for each step. Ask if for changes you want it to make.

There is certainly times I need to do it myself but definitely this has improved some level of productivity for me.

It's just pretty tedious so I generally write a lot of "fun" code myself, and almost always do the POC myself then have the AI do the "boring" stuff that I know how to do but really don't want to do.

Same with docs, the modern reasoning models are very good at docs and when guided to a decent style can really produce good copy. Honestly R1/4o are the first AI I would actually concider pulling into my workflow since they make less mistakes and actually help more than they harm. They still need to be babysit though as you noticed with Claude.
That post from Yegge reads like it was written by some foaming at the mouth VC. I am getting decent use from Claude, but mostly as a stack overflow replacement. I will never let it read our company's code base. Then everyone will know how to do what we do. After all, that's why these things are so good at React and not so good at Solid (there's just so much public react code). Also, see the recent "AI IS STIFLING TECH ADOPTION" post

https://vale.rocks/posts/ai-is-stifling-tech-adoption

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43047792
Pa. will expand its innovative 'Little Scandinavia' unit to 3 more state prisons
The Shortfin Mako is the fastest shark. The Sailfish (and maybe Black Marlin depending on who you believe) is faster.
DOGE's Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than Doge Will Ever Save
Language, and attempts to assert control over its use and definitions, is not at all inconsequential
> I'll eat 3 Feals gummies or 1 Soul "Out of Office" quad, and it rocks me

I imagine you know this, but you do realize both of those products have THC, right?

Calling them "CBD products" is a bit misleading, even though they do also have CBD.
Nonsense, you have no idea how many conservatives are still mad the “leftists” forced the baker to make a custom cake endorsing gay marriage against his beliefs. (Not sell an off the shelf one, he was okay with that, a customized cake.)

That’s the kind of persecution they are talking, and angry, about. If that incident had not happened, Trump may never have been elected.
Trump clearly respects Putin and sees Putin as a role model for himself. Doesn't matter if he compromised.
A single W-2 earner making $1 million has a 33.49% effective federal tax rate (OASDI, Medicare, Income) taking only the standard deductible and doing nothing else to lower their taxable income (no tax advantaged accounts, not spending enough in categories that allow itemization, etc.). A single non-W-2 earner (has to pay the employer part of payroll taxes) has an effective rate of 34.84%.

If they're married the rates are 29.62% (W-2) and 30.97% (non-W-2), under the same assumption that they do not do anything to qualify for either reduced taxable income or any kind of rebate or credit.

Most people don't make $1 million, and those that do have ways to reduce their tax burden quite a bit without much trouble.

EDIT: Small modifications to the numbers above, they were off by about 0.4% to 0.5%.
Has AI been used to find errors in Knuth’s books? Or Chomsky’s?
Yeah, and back then they didn't face the same barriers to entry that we do for most jobs today. If automation is really hitting hard, there won't be jobs to run to in the cities either.
IMO - the trans stuff feels like a moral panic, like on the same level as the Satanic Panic of the 80's - or the violence in video games panic, or any number of other things - I'm just waiting for the storm to blow over.

All of this is made much worse by social media too, which fans the flames hotter than it ever could have been before.
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My gut is people don't have a good appreciation for how big assets on modern games are?
STFU about GM. People who buy their cars love them, and I don’t trust folks that HN would like to be the designers on the C9 corvette.
TSLA was up about 200 pts post election. His post inauguration actions have erased all of those gains.
Sure, if we had kept Berlin Wall up and Soviet Union alive then Western liberal democracy would be in a much better state, tech bros would not exist and everyone would be rich, young and beautiful. Please get a grip.
As a side note, I suspect that every pronounceable 4-letter combination has been used as a product name by now at least once. Some unpronounceables must have been used up, too.

It might be fun to generate them and search for them, to test this hypothesis.
> It's really only identity politics where the left is actually on the global left, and then it's far-left.

That rings true, but how did the US get here? How did identity politics suddenly come to be the most important thing, bringing the world order to its knees?
I stronlgy dislike Go's error handling. It is incredibly annoying to add

if err != nil {
<do stuff>
}

after nearly every function call and to have a error as a secondary return type. At least for me it is clunky and annoying and incredibly distracting. If there was at least some syntactic sugar around this I could probably live with it but like this I just don't like using Go.
Infisical (YC W23) Is Hiring for Full Stack Engineers in San Francisco
All possible, I'm not familiar with the details.

But right now the fact that there US citizens (apparently civil contractors, not military personell) stationed at austrian air bases to enable some functionality is a big deal. This is a big deal because the wish-wash Austrian Neutrality is crucial to Austrian Identity.
> they intentionally do not measure and reward actual performance because they do not want to compensate high performers based on the value they create.

Ten years ago, an oft-repeated quote: “you’re not paid what you’re worth, but for the value you create.”

In light of that, is the argument that performance is institutionally obscured so that devs don’t realize how much leverage they really have? I can see traces of that in seeing shipped products as less the result of one/few devs working hard and more as multiple teams, as you now have two levels of personnel abstraction to diffuse potential leverage (individual/their team, and the teams among themselves).
Ukraine is already quietly divisive in Congress. If Russia were to roll into Poland I could see a legislative declaration of war.

In any event, maybe NATO just needs go squeak by four years without an Article 5 invocation to be back to normal.
I mainly read local news, and I listen to the audio edition of The Economist every week. Also, I replaced most of my podcasts and social media use by listening to audiobooks.
Agreed on the crucial aspect of task boundaries. Errors should be dealt with as close to the edge of the task as possible, and tasks should be cleanly separable from one another. Think of an app as a small driving program that uses many libraries written by others. Although it takes much more effort, I believe it is an overall better design for clarity, error handling, flexibility, and whatnot.
Changes in official government paperwork to be more inclusive are very much not "control of language and attempts to assert control over its use and definitions".

Calm down with the rhetorical fallacies...
It doesn't matter. Musk's supporters have already heard what they want to hear.
Came here to post this as well. A truly inspirational book.
I hope not to dull your excitement, but I encourage you to validate this first impression later, if you stick with it. I came to a very different conclusion!

Most of the driver libs (e.g. using Embedded Hal) are written by one person, and are impractical when applied to a non-toy application. I found flaws that made them unusable in every one I tried. Or, at least, totaled, in the sense that it would be easier to add a file to the drivers folder of my application that configures the peripherals and provides high-level fns, than to repair the Embedded Hal driver.
The US left wing is far more supportive of trans rights, particularly youth gender affirming care, than its counterparts in Europe. For example, I do not think you'd see a Democrat outside of a swing district publicly say, "It's very important that we protect female-only spaces," as Keir Starmer has. Also, while on the campaign trail he said he wouldn't scrap the proposed ban on teaching young people in England about transgender identity in school, saying, "I'm not in favour of ideology being taught in our schools on gender," language not too dissimilar from the Trump administration's.
It goes even further back than Taleb:

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It is a melancholy truth that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits, than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.

I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens, who, reading newspapers, live & die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in the world in their time: whereas the accounts they have read in newspapers are just as true a history of any other period of the world as of the present, except that the real names of the day are affixed to their fables.

General facts may indeed be collected from them, such as that Europe is now at war, that Bonaparte has been a successful warrior, that he has subjected a great portion of Europe to his will etc. But no details can be relied on. I will add that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false.

Thomas Jefferson - 1807 [1]

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[1] - https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-5... (highly recommended to read the entire letter - it's equal parts interesting, informative, and entertaining)
Sorry, I should have said encroachment towards the west, or really just "invasion of Ukraine".

> The main goal in Ukraine should be to make sure that Russia has as little benefit from their invasion as possible

But how? Is it mostly to prolong the war until Russia gets tired of spending money and resources on it?
Trial does not convert to subsription automatically, you got that wrong. It is just how Stripe trial code works. We may may mistakes from time to time but Kagi is not and never will be in the business of BS communication or deceiving customers. Fighting against those kind of practices and bringing sanity to the web is the entire reason I started the company.
A programmable environment for shape optimization and shapeshifting problems
It's really cool unless your visa is on the line. At least the US is falling apart fast enough that maybe it's not a bad idea to leave and stay out.
According to my doctor, Vitamin-D can be taken once a week or daily have the same long term effect. This matches up with 15 years of blood tests. (N=1)
I've thought about this for some time now, and am surprised I haven't seen this voiced more often.

The way almost all societies have allowed themselves to be completely dependent on a few providers is mind-boggling.

Someone else 10,000 miles away has the kill switch for your phone, your credit card, your brokerage account, your TV, likely your HVAC if you're into home automation, maybe your car.
GDB Ollama – Getting hints during debugging using Ollama
Higher nut consumption does not cause greater weight gain (2023)
Ah, because the VA has been widely regarded as providing great care up to this point. Surely cutting out the bloated and inefficient administrative class will lead to short term reductions, but it also provides the vacuum for better processes to grow back into.
I don't know where you live but the US doesn't have a wealth tax. You'll have to explain to me how a wealth tax hit the poor because the poor do not have wealth. A progressive wealth tax will tax someone based on net worth. By estate tax, I mean an inheritance tax which again, the poor typically don't leave massive inheritances so I'm not seeing how this hits the poor hard.
First, reps where for Ukraine and now you are flipping like a vane. Second, $100b in weapon aid for Ukraine is just small change and old stuff mostly; and Ukraine could be one of the solid buyers for decades. Third, if you're not a filthy rich you are paying and will pay a lot more for the upcoming years. This could be a real win for US, Ukraine and even probably could overthrow Putin. But with that course of actions the only option for you is to keep stacking eggs.
It is absolutely insane that anyone thinks giving nukes to Taiwan is a good idea.
Well, getting fucked out of your 401k money 6 months before it vests stings some.
I doubt "until the administration ceases to act insane" is going to be enough. The current administration has proven to be untrustworthy, so nothing they say is going to restore trust in the US. On top of that, what guarantees could the US give that a future Trump 2.0 isn't going to break on their first day?

The problem is systemic: The US doesn't have a functioning democracy. FPTP, gerrymandering, unchecked campaign financing, the electoral college? It just isn't working, and the US is permanently stuck in a dysfunctional two-party system. If that doesn't get fixed (and let's be honest, it won't), the rest of the world won't be trusting the US until it can demonstrate a few decades of continuous trustworthy leadership after Trump is gone.
It has been a long standing fact that the IRS is positive ROI. Doesn't even require fraud on tax payer, taxes are hard for a lot of people. Any contact and essentially help is a good thing. Why we'd try and undermine that is forever baffling.
I'd still stay with VTSAX if you're investing long term given the 8% expected long term returns.
Has to do with H1b visas.

Post layoff, a person on H1B has 2 months to sign a new job offer or they must leave the country.

Majority of Indian and Chinese H1bs do not have green cards, and are the main group that suffers. Some of these folks are well into their 30s, with kids and houses in the US.
The main one I alluded to but didn’t describe in the first message:

Marx doesn't talk about workers experiencing alienation from the means of production, he talks about control of the means of production being a means by which the capitalist class
establishes working relations which cause the alienation of workers, generally, from the product of their work. Within a broadly capitalist society, though, a worker who does personally own some of the tools of their own trade but continues to work in a wage labor environment is still alienated from the product of their work, though they may have the option to opt out of wage labor, applying their labor to their own capital, avoiding alienation (this is a common pattern of the petit bourgeois, the middle class under capitalism in Marx’s description.)

The other is just that Leninism and its descendants (including Maoism) whose results you point to are not “orthodox Marxism”, they are line of variants starting, as the first point of departure, with what was intended as an adaptation to bypass the need for capitalist development as a prerequisite for socialism.
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