skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A write off is not debt forgiveness, nor does it remove your responsibility or their right to collect on that debt.

From your comment it's clear to me that you don't actually know what's happening here.

When a company "writes off a debt" what that means is that they record and expense in their income statement. Effectively they are saying "we don't think we can get all the money we are owed, and so we are reducing the estimated value of that asset in our balance sheet".

This write off has accounting implications, and may have tax implications (since otherwise they'd be taxed on interest they are not receiving).

Importantly this write off does not change the contract, or the money owed. It just means that when (if) some or all of the money is paid, any extra beyond the current carrying value of that asset is allocated to the companys income (and taxes are paid on that).

The second thing you seem to misunderstand is that company c doesn't come out of nowhere. They simply purchased the debt from the original lender (perhaps because they are specialized in collecting from defaulting borrowers), and are collecting the debt they are owed.
As for the time limit, it's relative. All things equal, if you can complete the problem in 10 minutes and the company can hire somebody that can complete it in 9, then objectively the other candidate is the stronger one.

As for nervousness for being forced to partaking in a stand-up performance, I'd argue that "social performance skills" can work against you, since the more "antisocial" you are, the more you can ignore (or are oblivious to) what other people think about you and you can focus on your task. It's only people who actually have the minimum requisite "social skills" that would be conscious of other people intensely watching them "perform".

But even if you're right -- interviewing is inherently a "social performance" activity. If you're not coding you're doing some other stand up performance to present yourself anyway.
I’ve never tried this exactly, but I wonder how “live coding” interviews might go if the interviewer was the one doing the typing/coding and the candidate’s role was to verbalize what the interviewer was doing (and why) - and also guide them to some degree.

It’d be more akin to pair-programming, which some of the interviews I’ve conducted have evolved into, depending on the strength of the candidates.

Would that capture enough to get a sense whether this person gets the gist of the code being written such that they could replicate the same output in a less contrived scenario?
I'm with you. Black and white footage feels fake. The colored stuff was mind boggling. The worst part was that the footage was taken during mostly peaceful moments and re-enactments for obvious reasons.

The stuff in Ukraine on head mounted cameras is something that has surpassed all.
If there's a will there's a way.
Gearing up for Maintainer Month this May
Back then the three big ones seemed to be Blackberry, AMC and Gamestop. If r/BBBY stats is anything to go by, I would say it wasn't that popular before mid 2022 [1] and is gaining traction since january. But it might have been bigger than I noticed.

[1] https://subredditstats.com/r/BBBY
ResearchGPT: LLMs to write stats code, analyze, and interpret results for you
You keep saying spiral but in a 2d spiral the value of |y| would be increasing as well. So if I'm understanding you correctly I think you mean helical? As in:

https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-1b9122546ee68a13e259e...
There are problems with not doing any live coding too. I've interviewed people for programming jobs who can bullshit their way through a phone screen but literally can't write a for loop or a simple fiz buzz program.
> PostgreSQL will delete files from the pg_xact folder and that will bork out any LISTEN query, until you fully restart the database

that sounds like a bug; are you aware of an issue/ticket tracking that?
So far I am impressed. It rightly answered:

1. Name five pop songs made by german artists.

2. Write a PHP function that replaces newlines with dots in a file.

3. Name the movie about a bowler whose identity is mistaken.
Yeah, I don't think it's super common to have that available, in most segments.

Although I think Apple doesn't sell computers with less than 8GB RAM, which is used by the GPU as well as the memory is unified.

And latest Valve survey says that at least ~54% of people using Steam who participate in the survey, has a GPU with 8GB or more.

According to https://web3dsurvey.com/webgpu WebGPU enjoys a whopping ~6% browser support.

But the previous two segments are very small ones, if you compare to everywhere computers are being used. Coupled together with that WebGPU is hardly enabled anywhere, I wouldn't be surprised if maybe only ~1% of everyone using their own computer have access to 8GB VRAM + can use WebGPU.

So yeah, bit weird to say everyone when looking at the requirements of 8GB VRAM + WebGPU enabled browser.
> This is how neural networks work: they see many examples and get rewarded or punished based on whether their guesses are correct.

This description more closely describes reinforcement learning, rather than gradient based optimization.

In fact, the entire metaphor of a confused individual being slapped or rewarded without understanding what's going on doesn't really make sense when considering gradient optimization because the gradient wrt the to loss function tells the network exactly how to change it's behavior to improve it's performance.

This last point is incredibly important to understand correctly since it contains one of the biggest assumptions about network behavior: that the optimal solution, or at least good enough for our concerns solution, can be found by slowing taking small steps in the right direction.

Neural networks are great at refining their beliefs but have a difficult time radically changing them. A better analogy might be trying to very slowly convince your uncle that climate change is real, and not a liberal conspiracy.

edit: it also does a poor job of explaining layers, which reads much more similar to how ensemble methods work (lots of little classifiers voting) than how deep networks work.
Everyone complains about the state of SWE interviews yet nobody seems to be able to come up with a legit better alternative. Even the author recognises this in the article.

This format is popular because it's the best time/effort trade-off for both the company and the candidate. It's massively flawed, but everything else attempted so far turned out to be even worse.
> This is not at all comparable to proper sideloading/allowing third party access.

This is goalpost moving. The original claim was that it was impossible to sideload apps.

It doesn't nullify the app permissions system, but it's definitely sideloading.
Because - according to the developer - respecting robots.txt is unethical.

His contention is that denying content to AI tools deprives people of their right to better AI tools...
By the way, I realized that sprintf can be used to concatenate by using the buffer within the formatting itself, while snprintf prevents it. Is it a safety issue too?

strcpy(buf, "foo");
sprintf(buf, "%s%s", buf, "bar"); //buf contains "foobar"

strcpy(buf, "foo");
snprintf(buf, sizeof buf, "%s%s", buf, "bar"); //buf contains "bar"
I use them. With the Microsoft SBOM tool[0] I generate a SBOM (which is unfortunately missing license information) and then feed them to Google OSV scanner to check for vulnerabilities. Not unlike Github Advanced Security does.

[0]: https://github.com/microsoft/sbom-tool
[1]: https://github.com/google/osv-scanner
Ikea does sometimes use that low quality particle board for some things but at least they seem to be intelligent as to what materials they use where. Whereas Walmart just sells things entirely made of that shit.
In programming, never make an assumption that something is "easy."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35701181 did just that and explained the results.

Personally, I find PInvoke time consuming; and often time a lot of people screw it up.

I'm not sure how I'd translate things like lifetimes and ownership into C#: The language just doesn't have those concepts.

Lifetimes might make sense as IDisposable, but that could get tedious. I'd be tempted for types that are just "memory" to have finalizers.

Ownership may require some kind of locking wrapper.
This is complete technical hubris.

You're effectively saying that the "truth" problem with AI is solved by letting it guess. Which is probably a fine enough answer, but doesn't actually "solve" the problem at all.

To the points:

3) Training on data sets where the answer is never "I don't know" is effectively the same as raising children to believe they're always right and teaching them to be needlessly confident. No one should trust those folks.

4) "Lack of access to information" is not the issue... These models are trained on the entire corpus of Twitter, Wikipedia, and more information than I've ever seen in my lifetime, and some of them already do this (Bing) and produce little more than summaries of blog posts based on keywords. If anything, the issue is that an LLM lacks the real world knowledge to discern any nuance as to whether something is correct or grounded in reality.
To quote Mitch Ratcliffe, 'A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila.'
I actually was interviewed this way once. It worked pretty well.
More interesting is that when he showed the screenshot to show this, people noticed a second account in his user-account switcher, a picture of his son. This led people to find his secret alt account.
Thanks for that clarification, I was thinking about the people who wouldn't know why s3 was important. The forced introduction of always-on is really concerning from a security standpoint IMHO.
The majority won't. I have seen this myself, as I did not like the SaaS nature of Roam Research, and wanted a local-first solution. There is a large community of people using Logseq or Obsidian, but they are still a tiny monitory as these products don't have name recognition and there aren't as many polished videos about them on YT.
You're probably way better off because of it. Most productivity work is busy work and a failure to better manage anxiety and stress.
On the flip side, I'd really like to see AI make pictures of historical things that were only written about in detail.

It will forever be impossible to see these, but these would be a chance to make historical moments feel real. Its too easy to forget there were real people living through them.
He's covered the decline of BBBY many times in his newsletter, explaining the financial details and shaking his head each time.

His Monday April 24th, 2023 newsletter, titled "Bed Bath Moves Beyond", covers the situation once again. It ends:

"Bed Bath saw that its retail shareholders wanted to throw their money away, and that its sophisticated lenders wanted to get their money back, and realized that there was a trade to be done that would make everyone, temporarily, happy. So it did the trade. It’s amazing. The lawsuits are gonna be great."
Does this article imply there are circumstances where a spreadsheet is a cat? What a poor example of technical writing.
It’s true that the organizational model of the file system and desktop metaphor should be usable for this.

There’s another huge gap though: documents in your local machine don’t have easy to use hypertext. Apple Notes app is very nice, but neither it nor TextEdit nor Pages can do what a Notion document can do. The OS needs a HyperCard to make it adopt Web-native tools for thinking.
Yes, that would indeed help.
Although, it is easy to misinterpret your quote because of the removed context.

> The only negative link the report found was with major blockbuster films:“The results show a displacement rate of 40 percent which means that for every ten recent top films watched illegally, four fewer films are consumed legally.”

This is only true for a subset of films, “major blockbusters.” (Of courses, this is where the “top” in your quote comes from, but it seems easy to miss).
Raising SOME animals in SOME places is an efficient way to produce protein, including dairy – like zebu cattle and goat, hardy animals that graze on land that will grow nothing. There are human populations outside the western bubble surviving with minimal resources for a long time thanks to that.

Raising large quantities of animals in the rhythm necessary to feed meat daily to a large population is irrational and creates these shortcomings.

IMO animal agriculture is just another one of those topics that, if you really deep-dive, turns into a discussion of overpopulation and capitalism.
40 licenses, 441 members (6 are non-voting).

Not sure how they intend to make this work but the article has some obtuse phrasing like:

> The chatbot won’t be able to run within the House of Representatives’ internal server, which has a firewall that will block it.
They call it out directly, citing

> [it means that] the statistical analysis does not prove with sufficient reliability that there is an effect
Odds Against Tomorrow is a really good movie.
I feel the same way about not understanding how LLMs work. I've found Hugginface's tutorials a good place to start: https://huggingface.co/course/
There's another aspect, which myself and a few others in this thread have mentioned - hireability. Both from the company's and employee's perspective.

I'm pretty sure Jane Street would have paid well even when they were an obscure name.

Will boring cludgy Fortune500 company or noname startup pay well for someone to come use an exotic tech stack that is used very rarely at any other companies? Likely not.

Likewise, would an engineer well versed in some exotic language, and can land offers at top companies, come work for a boring cludgy Fortune500 company that is only willing to pay a fraction of what they can get elsewhere?

Maybe if you've already made your fortune elsewhere and well on the road to FIRE, and are really just looking for interesting work regardless of pay.
save your notes so you can train chatgpt on them.
Why is meat bad for individual health? Citation?
> comparing meat eating to slavery makes you seen even more unreasonable

I think that is an attitude that our culture will be ashamed of in the near future, just like we are ashamed of slavery now. The agricultural practices are almost identical (different mammal). The major difference is that we consume the flesh of one, and the produce of another.

The only reason for saying that the enslavement of other animals is ok, while the enslavement of humans is not, is if we can come up with a reason that makes us special and those other animals not. There is only shaky ground for any of those possible reasons, and believing them puts blinders on what we can know. I.e., we will not recognize things that do not fit our conceptions, which has big implications for our biological science, psychology and philosophy.

The fact is that meat eating, like slavery, is not reasonable. It is just something we grew up doing (individually and as a species). Any argument advocating it is as superficial and misleading as antebellum racial theorists. That is an uncomfortable truth.
Oh boy, that padding. Could park a lorry in between those list elements.
Suspect this is a troll posting, but on the off chance I'm wrong... The LLM gives the output of a command. To do so, it has to be able to determine when the command exits. This is exactly the halting problem.

For a trivial example, what is the output of:

```

while True:

pass

print("goodby world")
```

(this is also proof that leaving out the curly braces makes code harder instead of simpler #python-lie-to-me. multiple edits to get this to render correctly on HN )
This is not a historian. It's some guy who's into wet-plate photography. His style can now be easily replicated. His wet-plate work is now just an unimportant hobby.
One of the author's points is that the live coding questions are often the types of problems which, in the workplace, might best be done with GPT.

"So at that point, do they want to see you muddle through it, or would they rather see that you know to have ChatGPT run through the initial pass and then refactor?"

"If a company is evaluating engineers with questions that can be easily answered by AI in seconds, what are they really evaluating for? Perhaps they’d be better off hiring a chat bot."
Read "Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell."
Obviously you can try to subvert this, but, it seems like AI would also be good at finding these kinds of sneaked-in clauses.
A heat shield for the most important ice on earth
Counter argument is that i dont care about any of those arguments for the use case where i shut my laptop lid and now cant boot my dev server during local development
The first thing that comes to mind regarding Deming’s philosophy and how it actually relates to quality of life working with software is the idea that when screw-ups happen, don’t blame the individual, investigate and improve the process.

Companies I’ve worked for have all been somewhere on a blame-no-blame spectrum, all have required analysis of incidents, virtually none have been willing to prioritize process improvement when causes have been identified.

FYI: I’m drawing from the section of The New Economics when Deming talks about the paper mill.
All I see

> Hmm...this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else.
ill defend ikea as somewhat environmentally friendly, as they sell the same items for years, so instead of having to buy a new crockery set when too many dining plates are broken, or a whole a new set of shelves because you just need one more, you can add to what you already have.

disposible furniture isnt environmentally friendly though. if you want a cheap item of furniture for short term use, get one second hand.

Having said this, I got my first Billy bookcase 15 years ago, it's still going strong with the more recent additions. So they don't have to be disposable items.
Archived: https://archive.ph/hCgjA
Profit = turnover - expenses.

Manager bonuses, business travel expenses and taxes are part of those expenses.
Even Randy Marsh would agree to this
wal mart and department stores exist. bed bath and beyond was almost always super overpriced, and the quality on a lot of things isnt the best.
It gave me a shorter-than-chatgpt answer, which still was correct, for a question about 'having faith in anxiety management'.

I look forward to future applications, incorporating this technology.

- This tech disrupts traditional search-engines, in my view. Google and Microsoft are trying to compete with Bard and (new) Bing.

- It's very exciting to me that all of us with internet access likely could have VERY DECENT personal assistants, soon.

- This HuggingChat is free, however overall -- I see "pain" for future applications in that it's tethered to a server. And it requires training. And the training is not real-time.
.apps you should know about
Seeing this response so high up makes me a bit sad.

There's a lot of ways to eat vegetarian, and all the ones that I can think of that require supplementing protein and vitamins are unhealthy.

It should be obvious that eating a way that "had immediate negative impacts on recovery" indicates that what you're eating is not healthy.

You see this with a lot of omnivores, they try cutting meat out of their diet and complain. But, the thing is, an omnivore diet without meat is a deficient diet. It sounds a bit intimidating but you really have to rebuild the way you eat if you've been eating meat.

Cultures that have a vegetarian tradition (even if not described as such) provide a rich tapestry of foods to make a healthy diet rich in protein and vitamins. Ethiopian, Persian, Indian, Sri Lankian; these are just some of the cultures a successful and healthy vegetarian will take inspiration from. Eat like a world traveler and you can forgo meat without being unhealthy.

Quick list of good protein-rich ingredients across cultures:

Mushroom

Quinoa

Eggs

Halloumi

Chickpeas

Green/brown/red lentils

Peas

Paneer

Yoghurt

Walnuts/almonds/sunflower seeds/pistachios

And forget stews. Roast, broil, saute, crisp, brown! There are flavors unlocked by the family of Maillard reactions - the technical name for the chemical reactions that give rise to browning - that we associate with meat but are common to the process of roasting. Savory vegetarian food is a thing.
A writing tip: even in lists of "don't"s like this, find a way to write directives/imperatives in a positive sense.

Asking readers to keep mentally flipping the sense of the thing you're telling them to do just adds cognitive load and makes it harder for them to pay attention to what you want them to pay attention to.

Write "do"s, not "don't"s.
Hetzner is doing such a great job at delivering real value. Good write up too!

The recent posts on their cloud, and their new dedicated box with an AMD 7950X3D highlight a great high end value too (16 core 128gb for $140/mo).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35676932 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35656374

Still at way way lower cost, if you can scale out, this seems like far more value.
Have you actually used it?

I can't believe how many people are totally refusing to try it but made judgements on it.

It just seems so slow and time consuming to do things like brainstorm snack or birthday party ideas. ChatGPT can make a list in moments, where with google, you get generic SEO spam.
> The definition of manslaughter depends on the juridistiction, but I think this is clearly a case gross negligence manslaughter, by Amazon.

This does not seem to square with your prior comment.
Did we suddenly move to a different continent?

Hope the weather's better wherever we're going to. Probably much, much hotter and sulphurous... :(
A.I. has quickly become part of our digital history but at an enormous emotional and commercial cost to those who still prize the individualism and creativity of image-making.

Did you call the police when the AI researchers broke into your studio and stole your camera? No? Well, the cost must not have been that enormous, then.

Really getting tired of all the whining from the "artists" among us. Whining is boring. Come up with something new. You're an artist; that's your job.
The author did write "better yet, let applicants do a take-home, and pay them for their time. ... think of it as another chance to be selling them on joining your team over some other team."
AI Video Background Remover
Can someone explain why these types of projects are compelling (running an LLM in the user's browser?)

I guess privacy and ease-of-use?

So you don't need to download llama.cpp, and run it in the terminal or something?
I love this! I'm starting to feel this is a solution to a lot of info-overload stress in our lives. I'm making an iOS app with the same slant: every day has its own list, so you start fresh every day, or you can add to your tomorrow's list at night so you start the day prepared. I also added a bullet-journal-like view for the month and it all adds up to a lot less stress than what I've been doing before (the testflight is at https://testflight.apple.com/join/t5ZpRV2l )
It is not extremely misleading. Most movies are not major blockbuster films, and no games are.
It may be unreasonable, but the US already does it's best to oversee all USD-nominated electronic money transfers in the world. It's a tremendous source of information about the economics of the other countries.
From 2015 to today it appreciated 8000%. Do I need to elaborate further?
> Whenever I share my opinions, other people downvote them. What is wrong with other people?

Perhaps it's just an unpopular opinion. And yes, perhaps that's because the world has shifted on you. But perhaps your opinions have hardened too.

I think HN does a fair job at pushing focus to the good, and not piling on the bad.
I guarantee you that these people aren't playing 3D games at all. It's slot machines all the way down.