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by nathan_compton | 2025-04-07 20:36:11+00:00
Right - moldable development makes sense to me, but presently I feel like I can do all these things by glueing tools together with Emacs.

If you had an implementation of ggplot style plotting native to Glamorous Toolkit that would definitely catch my attention, though. Nowadays I typically tie together Python, R, and other languages with Emacs being my sort of control center.

I get the impression Glamorous Toolkit could step in here but it seems like such a lift to reach feature parity with a set of tools and GTK doesn't seem to integrate as well with other stuff as Emacs does, partly because Emacs just accepts that throwing around a bunch of text is 80% of what I want.

I'm a scientist/data scientist.
by sillywalk | 2025-04-07 20:36:18+00:00
> ICE sure isn't. That is tax payer money at work, sadly.

Taxpayers are paying the private companies, but they're very much for profit.

About that:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2025/01/29/billi...

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/private-prison-...

https://afsc.org/newsroom/ice-signs-massive-contract-profit-...
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-07 20:37:27+00:00
This isn't just common sense. But basic business practice.

https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/article/understanding...

>A wealth of academic research since the 1970s has established a clear and consistent inverse relationship between job satisfaction and turnover intention. Meta-analyses synthesizing hundreds of individual studies consistently report a moderate to strong negative correlation between the two variables across cultures, industries and occupations (Cotton & Tuttle, 1986; Griffeth et al., 2000; Hom et al., 2017; Tett & Meyer, 1993). In other words, higher levels of satisfaction are linked to lower probabilities employees will contemplate leaving their roles. The strength of this association has remained stable over time despite changes to workplaces and economies.

It's one of those few universal values across time and cultures. A basic query will give you all the citations you want.

> was never proposing privatizing anything.

Just magically finding the lowest number the government can get away with for functioning. Not taking into account the bus factor. Redundancy, natural turnover as people retire, die, or simply change life goals, and a dozen other factors.

And apparently not the idea that when a strained organization needs a big job done but lacks people, they bid a contract to private companies (hence, privatization). We already see the result of this with Defense in how we contract everything to be made. Trillions of dollars of "efficiency" and relatively little knowledge in-house.

This isn't even a government issue. This is basic business. You can't run 100% lean. It's never the most efficient means because a pebble means catastrophic delays.
by UncleOxidant | 2025-04-07 20:38:29+00:00
The title seems to say that it's a bad thing to use AI to prepare for an interview, when in fact it can be quite useful to use AI (and before AI there were dozens of "Preparing for the technical interview" books). The real issue is that the candidate lied about their experience, not that they used AI to prep. They could just as easily have lied about their experience without using AI to prep.
by reify | 2025-04-07 20:39:16+00:00
Dartmouth researchers stress that the technology is still a long way from market and say they need to run additional trials on the therabot before it will be widely available.

And, Wright says, human therapists should not be intimidated by their AI counterparts. Given the tremendous shortage of mental health providers, " I don't think humans need to be concerned that they're going to be put out of business," she says.

the AI therapist/bot may eventually be able to do CBT just as undergraduates can prove the efficacy of CBT by getting the client to fill out forms after each session.

CBT afterall is just teaching the clients the ABC's of CBT and how to be their own therapist using CBT concepts.

Of course, someone who arrive for their first session very distraught will see an improvement after six weeks when all that happens is filling in forms after each session.

The first session: how depressed are you today = Im a 10 today,

The sixth session: how depressed are you today = Im an 8 today

real observeable proof that CBT works. I told you that an undergrad could prove it.

There are never any long term improvements with CBT that actually last.

As well as these very real worries and concerns:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/01/doctor-robo-blabbermouth/
by benwilber0 | 2025-04-07 20:39:26+00:00
> Cannot wait to see Lua come back in full force.

I also recently released a server for Server-Sent Events [0] that is programmable with Lua. Overall it's been a great experience. The Rust mlua-rs crate [1] is trivially easy to integrate.

[0] https://tinysse.com/

[1] https://github.com/mlua-rs/mlua
by spockz | 2025-04-07 20:39:35+00:00
Yes that was the “second” one I was referring to.

We just piggyback on the Prometheus metrics provided by cadvisor for the container level metrics. Then for the jvm we collect metrics such as memory allocation etc.

This all goes into a big table and the user can select the right version. Next iteration will be where they can configure whether to aim for latency, throughput, or efficiency, and which weights so we can select the winner automatically.
by ActorNightly | 2025-04-07 20:40:13+00:00
last time I played around with jailbreaking, I figured out you can make an LLM do pretty much anything by going through a code translation layer. I.e when generating code that can generate text, it usually bypasses the safety filters. You sometimes have to get creative in how you prompt, but generally with enough setup I was able to make it generate code that combines string values and sometimes characters for answers
by gs17 | 2025-04-07 20:40:14+00:00
> If this game were arranged for Humans

Almost exactly this "game" is pretty common for humans. It's basically "mafia" or "werewolf" when the people playing only know the vaguest rules. And I've seen similarly sized groups of humans play like that for long periods of time.

There's also a lot of reality shows that this is a pretty good model of, although I'm not sure how agreeing to be on one of those shows without a prize would reflect on the AIs.
by hayst4ck | 2025-04-07 20:40:50+00:00
A job is a commodity if your manager knows how to do your job right now.

There is a subtlety. Your manager might be able to do your job, with time, but if they haven't spent time understanding the same data you have or the greater context of what you are doing, then they won't be able to come to the same conclusions you do.

Therefore your manager must trust your judgement because they do not have sufficient data to make the judgements you make yourself. This necessary deference is what prevents commoditization. Judgement is also unequal, being informed by experience and quality, further denying commoditization because all engineering decisions are not equal.

The corollary is also clear. If a manager thinks they know better than you and treats you like a commodity, then you are forced into performing a job in a dogmatic rather than analytical or informed way. You may be asked to do things that don't make sense or are even directly counter to the organizations goals because they don't know things you know.
by arduanika | 2025-04-07 20:41:43+00:00
I asked you how you know kridsdale3 believes X, and you're reply is basically, "because I believe Y". I hope you don't call yourself a rationalist, given that you're hazy on the meaning of "because" and struggle with theory of mind.

Sure, OpenAI put up with one of these safety larpers for a few years while it was part of their brand. Reasonable people can disagree on how much that counts for.

You're right it's not a bunch of junior academics. It's not even a bunch of junior academics. This stuff would never pass muster in a reputable academic peer-reviewed journal, so from an academic perspective, this is not even the JV stuff. That's why they have to found their own bizarro network of foundations and so on, to give the appearance of seriousness and legitimacy. This might fool people who aren't looking closely, but the trick does not work on real academics, nor does it work on the silent majority of those who are actually building the tech capabilities.
by awiesenhofer | 2025-04-07 20:41:45+00:00
> I'm not nefariously collecting their social security number.

In which case, the GDPR doesnt even apply to you! Only if you collect/store PII the GDPR starts to apply!

> Thanks to the GDPR I cannot do this without the stupid cookie warning popup.

Again, the GDPR has nothing in it about cookie banners.

> the GDPR is clumsy lawmaking

It isnt, people are just complaining about it without ever actually reading it or doing much research.
by ModernMech | 2025-04-07 20:41:48+00:00
Still, the whole rationale behind the camera-only approach is that cameras are cheaply sources, and therefore more suitable for mass production vehicles, unlike LiDAR which are more expensive and not as widespread.

If you're now shifting to the idea we need to use state-of-the art sophisticated camera technologies instead of the commodity stuff, now you're back to paying LiDAR prices, so why not just use that?

And anyway, Teslas sold today and for a long time now are supposed to have been sold with cameras sufficient to solve full self driving (not beta). If state of the art cameras are needed, I've got bad news for all those Tesla customers.
by eikenberry | 2025-04-07 20:42:47+00:00
You are right about hiring not being that much different but your prognostications are way off IMO.

> - people are probably going to have to fly out for interviews, again.

Fly where? Many companies don't have offices anymore.

> - awkward and/or neurodivergent people are going to have to learn social skills again.

Ahh... the age old, "just do better" position for neurodivergent people. Classic bigotry.

> - And yeah, you guys, it's time to buy a suit.

Suits were out in tech 30 years ago when I first interviewed. They have only gone more out of style. Fashion doesn't work the way you think it works.

My guess is that we'll see more contract-to-hire positions and "talking through code" style interviews. Though I think we'll see lots of things tried which will be a general improvement over what much of the industry was doing before.
by cdavid | 2025-04-07 20:43:13+00:00
Say you are meta. You know that a big stream of revenue is ads. You are an engineer working for one of the myriad ML model around feeds, ads click prediction, whatever. Those ML models are in production, and cost a lot of money to maintain / operate. How much you are a cost center or a money maker will depend on a lot of non objective choices.

The essential issue is attribution, which fundamentally requires some choices about how money is actually made. Even when everybody is in good faith, there are reasonable ways to agree. And people are rarely in good faith around those things.
by fma | 2025-04-07 20:44:03+00:00
I had a conversation with someone from a well known startup. He was complaining how in the last year he has noticed the trend of unqualified individuals passing HR screens and some even passed technical interviews (they are uncovered when they can’t even commit code). Their whole background is a lie. They would also send connection requests to people at the companies listed so recruiters don’t question it.

He proudly said they don’t ask questions based on resume, because they don’t care where you worked or where you went to school…as long as you know your stuff. In fact he only looks at the resume after the interview.

I wonder how long they will stick to this stubbornness.
by jaredklewis | 2025-04-07 20:44:15+00:00
> - And yeah, you guys, it's time to buy a suit.

Others have already commented on this, but do you work in tech? IME getting interviewed by directors and even VPs in t-shirts is the norm. I’ve worn jeans to work my whole career. If anything, I think people in tech have a strong prejudice against people in suits (ie “obviously this person isn’t a real software engineer, they’re wearing a suit.”)

Anyway, probably not good career advice to wear a suit unless dress codes at tech companies are suddenly subject to drastic changes.
by porphyra | 2025-04-07 20:44:16+00:00
Agreed. Also, the fact that current automotive radars return a point cloud (instead of, say, a volumetric density grid) is sad. But it will be a while before processing power can catch up, and by the time you have the equivalent of hundreds of 5090s on your car, you will also be able to drive flawlessly by running a giant transformer model on vision inputs.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-07 20:44:44+00:00
Okay, so we have 3 options.

1. Make the taxpayer care and properly have them vote in not corrupt people. This can be from awareness campaigns, stronger community identity, or more frequent town halls as a start

2. Establish an ombudsman who can care and root this out of blatant corruption happens. So you don't feel like talking to a wall when trying to expose corrupt.

3. Blame the government as an entirely and shut it down.

So which seems more logical in your eyes?

Here's an optimistic story. Organizations managing 20 billion dollars in funding in Los Angeles had no audit records of how they used the funds. It "disappeared". A judge noticed this and came down extremely hard. Watching their future funding like a hawk

Surprise, they used the money in a proper matter and the homeless situation in LA started to improve for the first time in who knows how long. Enforcement does indeed work if someone takes the time to notify the right authorities on it. But instead we fell for decades of trying to erode authority. This one didn't even involve the voters needing to oust someone.
Tell HN: ChatGPT is giving me other people's conversation when uploading files
by dvenHN | 2025-04-07 20:44:59+00:00
It happened to me yesterday and it happened to a friend of mine today.

We uploaded a file, we asked a question and we got replies that are clearly not meant for us. My friend even got a document that was clearly uploaded by a lawyer from our city (probably by coincidence).

I got replies in English because my message was written in English, and my friend got replies in Italian because his message was written in Italian. We tried multiple message. I did manage to get one correct reply, but meanwhile I got multiple replies that were clearly not meant for me.

I would like to know if someone else is experiencing this and where can I report this bug because I bet OpenAI doesn't want this to happen.

I'm based in Italy btw.
by elmerfud | 2025-04-07 20:47:24+00:00
Reading the article you can call this a protest, because yes it does fit under that definition because it's quite broad, but it doesn't fit the normal idea of what we would consider a protest. This was not people who decided not to attempt the 50th anniversary and then go outside and conduct a peaceable protest. You could equally use the word disruptors to describe what they did.

As Microsoft said it seems that they work quite willful in their disruption. People seems to have forgotten how to be effective at making changes. They should have first gone and made their grievances known in a private way to the appropriate people. Get the attention of leadership in a way that is respectful and they in turn will be more willing to hear what you have to say. If that doesn't work you begin to broaden out your objections to get others involved and to make the issue more well-known. Seems people have forgotten that part abd skip those initial steps going straight to the disrupting ways. As if they are babies throwing a tantrum. I don't know if it's because they were never given discipline when they were younger and so throwing the tantrum is the way that they've learned gets them what they want.

I think the protesters do have a valid point but I'm with Microsoft on this one. They didn't try and have their grievances handled in a productive way by going to those and making their case they started by just being disruptive jerks. Even if they have the most valid point in the world, the way they presented it should get them tossed out.
by ristomatti | 2025-04-07 20:47:43+00:00
Finland Ministry for Foreign Affairs has this section on their "Traveling to United States" page (Google translated):

Current affairs

When traveling to the United States, it is important to note that a valid ESTA or visa does not necessarily entitle you to enter the United States. Overstaying your stay or providing incorrect information about the purpose of your stay may result in arrest or deportation.

The United States has also issued an executive order (25 STATE 11402) on February 24, 2025, according to which applicants for a US ESTA or visa must in future indicate their gender as either “male” or “female”. According to the order, applicants must indicate their gender as determined at birth in their application.

If the applicant’s current gender as recorded in their passport differs from their gender as determined at birth, the US authorities may refuse entry. It is recommended to check the entry requirements in advance with the US authorities.

There is no gender marking X in the Finnish passport. If, for example, a dual citizen has a passport with an X marking, the entry requirements can be checked in advance with the US authorities.

Political demonstrations may occur in major cities, which may turn violent. Avoid large gatherings or demonstrations.

Edit: source https://um.fi/matkustustiedote/-/c/US
by porphyra | 2025-04-07 20:47:51+00:00
People will gobble up all kinds of bad articles to reinforce their anti-Tesla bias. This reminds me of the "iSeeCars" study that somehow claimed that teslas have the highest fatality rate per mile travelled, even though:

* They basically invented the number of miles travelled, which is off by a large factor compared to the official figure from Tesla

* If you take into account the fact that the standard deviation is proportional to the square root of the number of fatal accidents, the comparison has absolutely no statistical significance whatsoever
by numpad0 | 2025-04-07 20:48:00+00:00
Wish I could be even 1/10th as succinct as this comment. Kids love surprises, but businesses don't like uncertainties. Mildly disappointing high-budget games are all but unpredictable, so professional business operations move towards that direction. The system just inherently prefer de-risking over costs.

I think in the context of parent comment, it might be true that games just isn't a great business. Gamers don't like low-risk AAA slop. Adjectives for games such as good, successful, praised, lucrative, don't align each others well. Deltarune(Undertale 2) is to launch on Switch 2 for $10 or thereabouts, literally built by one guy, most likely without any use of AI, and it'll undoubtedly sell containers after containers of Switch 2 units totally irrespective of incoming tariffs. That almost make me feel sorry for AAA title publishers such as EA and Epic. I can only assume that they resemble insurance companies than any others.
by SkyBelow | 2025-04-07 20:48:04+00:00
What do you think they might be looking for that could be detected pretty quickly? I'm wondering if it is something like they can track mouse movement and calculate when a mouse is moving too cleanly, so adding some more human like noise to the mouse movement can better bypass the system. Others have mentioned doing too many actions too fast, but what about potential timing between actions. Even if every click isn't that fast, if they have a very consistent delay that would be another non-human sign.
by thewebguyd | 2025-04-07 20:48:28+00:00
> for lots of tasks, the most precise language is the programming language

This is my problem with AI, or "vibe coding" or whatever you want to call it.

We already have many language(s) for expressing what we want the computer to do, and I find that natural language is the most difficult one to accomplish that goal.

Sure, LLMs might be able to whip up a fancy landing page and some basic API really quick, but when it comes to solving harder problems I find it incredibly frustrating and difficult to try and prompt in English, when the programming language I'm working in is already well suited to that task and is much more explicit in what I want.

Maybe I'm using it wrong, but it's way less cognitive overhead for me to just type for for x,y := range something {} than it is to try and prompt "Iterate over this list of values...etc."

When I'm programming, I'm not thinking in English
by mrcjkb | 2025-04-07 20:48:30+00:00
- There's an equivalent `lx path bin` command, but there's also a `lx run` that lets you run installed packages.

- We're still quite early on in development, so documentation and things like error messages will need fleshing out.

- We don't have luvit integration yet

- Yes, it also works with LuaJIT, either via pkg-config or by installing LuaJIT headers using the `luajit_src` crate.
by poincaredisk | 2025-04-07 20:49:06+00:00
I never said it is. I responded to the question about "what's sad about it", and having idealistic ideas about the IT is common among newer/fresh programmers. And (almost?) nobody wants to feel like a replaceable money making pawn, most[1] people in IT value self-realisation at least a bit. And some successfully gaslight themselves into believing that their backend work on their ad-sponsored e-commerce CRUD is somehow making the world a better place.

Having said that, "value" doesn't have to be measured in euros. I personally work in a semi-governmental institution, and the main focus of my team is reducing the amount of cybercrime in my country. I still need to provide that value to earn good money, but I enjoy that more than working to make investors rich (there's nothing wrong with that though, and it usually pays better).

[1] anecdotal, among my social groups, I don't really have hard data about this.
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2025-04-07 20:49:38+00:00
This kind of line of thinking assumes a couple of things:

1. People are doing things the “wrong” way in the first place. It’s already been established that compliance isn’t hard if you are doing things the “right” way.

2. Compliance is hard. It really isn’t if you are doing things already the right way

Ultimately GDPR is not the problem, it’s people getting into tech that either have no understanding or respect for the data of others wanting to to do business. You wouldn’t expect me to be building bridges without complying to bridge building standards would you? Why is this any different? Lives are not directly on the line here, but the consequences of being sloppy with data are still very bad. This whole paragraph puts the cart before the horse because it assumes the most important thing is that the person in question is supposed to be able to transact business, not that the most important thing is to protect the personal information of people.

I’m not expecting the plumber to be a technologist. If the plumber wants to roll his or her own technology, fine, deal with the compliance headache. I expect the plumber to instead pay someone to figure out how to build the thing properly, just like how I don’t go building load bearing structures on my home myself because I’m not a structural engineer and don’t want to spend the time learning how to do that.
by fragmede | 2025-04-07 20:49:47+00:00
Every git repo has a copy of that mapping instead of there being a central registry though, and because the commit author's name and email, and the date of the commit and a commit message (among other things) go into the hash that represents a commit, it's not that big a difference, is it? Given a collection of files, but not the git repo they're from, and libgit, I can't say if those files match a git tag hash if I don't also have the metadata that makes up the commit to make the git hash, and not just the files inside of it.