skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks good.

Not sure you need the take home task, just roll that into the 1hr coding task. With ChatGPT these days, pairing is the best for getting experience with a candidate’s innate abilities. Not everyone does as well pairing as they do solo though, so try to take that into account when evaluating them since they probably won’t be pairing on a normal basis. Pair on the same problem for every candidate and have a specific list of evaluation criteria.

Instead of the 2hr coding take home, get a really broad list of coding related questions together and spend an hour discussing those with the candidate. The idea is to evaluate the breadth and depth of their experience.
Ask HN: "Check email/internet less often" resolution that is easy to keep?
For New Year's this year, I want to break my habit of checking my email inbox, as well as a variety of websites, absolutely all the time. Has anyone managed to do this, who has success stories to share?

As an academic I do get lots of email, much of it important or interesting, but there's nothing that can't wait a day for a reply. Sometimes these will be long and prompt hours of productive work, e.g. "Here's an idea for a research paper" followed by lots of explanation.

I tend to be good st sticking with resolutions when it's clear what I'm resolving -- e.g. when I was addicted to a certain computer game, I simply deleted it and quit cold turkey. With email and internet, there's "good use" and "bad use", but there's a slippery slope from the former to the latter, and I've not managed to keep any resolutions in the past.

Any success tips to share? Thanks!
Yes the public is powerless. Nothing short of revolution will change the status quo. Until then, not a god damn thing will ever make a meaningful change away from the direction things are heading. The people have lost control of the government.
Yes, this is why it's essential to quickly issue hunting permits targeting packs that start hunting livestock. Tit for tat: "Wolves, you are free to choose your hunting grounds, but if you do not choose wisely, things get dangerous for you."
If this is inevitable (and I'm not saying it's not), who will produce high quality news content?
>Chinese LLMs are clearly trained to avoid answering certain topics that their government deems sensitive

But they're not; you can download open source Chinese base models like Yi and Deepseek and ask them about Tianmen Square yourself and see, they don't have any special filtering.
1. Attention Deficit Disorder is a misleading name for the condition. It is primarily a disorder of executive functioning; problems with attention are secondary. People can have problems maintaining attention for many different reasons; sleep deficit is a common culprit for impaired attention.

2. ADD/ADHD (Attention Deficit Disorder/ Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity) are frequently misdiagnosed, often over diagnosed. A clinical interview with or without a screening tool is insufficient for a valid diagnosis. Yet, it is the most common form of diagnosis for ADD/ADHD. A comprehensive neuropsychological exam is needed for a valid diagnosis.

3. Exercise works as well as meds for treatment of ADD/ADHD. However, exercise is shorter acting than medication. <https://nutritionfacts.org/video/treating-adhd-without-stimu...>
Is the answer for LLMs/OpenAI to properly cite/give credit to the authoritative source? If they did that, would NYT still have a claim/case? I’d still think yes because the content is not publicly available/behind a paywall, so some sort of different subscription/redistribution of content license would likely be appropriate ? But then after that license/agreement (which I assume they must already have something like this in place, no?) if they cite/give credit to the source instead of a rewording/summarization/claiming as it’s own, seemingly that might be enough to thwart legal challenges?
Just watched the video—it has the same failings as most other debunking videos (e.g. Thunderf00t): in order to get views he must show that what he is debunking is very wrong, and so manufactures gotchas. It’s a little ironic that his video accusing Veratasium of lacking nuance is completely lacking nuance itself. Although admittedly, he’s not wrong that Veratasium is lacking nuance and is too breathless in his praise.
Countless Americans are happily 'stealing' intellectual property everyday from other Americans by accessing two websites — SciHub and LibGen — who owe their very existence to them being hosted in foreign countries with weak intellectual property protection and not being subject to US long-arm jurisdiction. Even on this website, using sites like archive.is (which would be illegal if they operated in the US) to bypass paywalls to access copyrighted material is common and rarely frowned upon. I doubt a culture of respecting copyright is as characteristic of "us" as you seem to think.
> 1 server to index the whole internet? I don't care how big your server is -- that's going not to happen.

Well let's do the math!

1 billion bytes is 1 GB. The average text-size of a document is ~5 KB, that is the HTML, uncompressed. 1 billion documents is thus about 5 TB raw HTML. In practice the index would be smaller, say 1 TB, because you're not indexing the raw HTML, but a fixed width representation of the words therein, typically with some form of compression as well. (In general, the index is significantly smaller than the raw data unless you're doing something strange)

You could buy a thumbdrive that would a search index for 1 billion documents. A real server uses enterprise SSDs for this stuff, but even so, you don't even have to dip into storage server specs to outfit a single server with hundreds of terabytes of SSD storage.

> And of course all of this is based on "standard" algorithms. But it doesn't change the fact that implementing them all to build a functional performant web crawler+database+search is a project that is larger than any one person could build from scratch.

I'm still not seeing why this is impossible.

> It would only be feasible to build on top of existing libraries, which is the whole point here.

I don't think there are existing libraries for most of this stuff. Most off-the-shelf stuff in the search space is for indexing smaller corpuses, they generally aren't built to scale up to corpus sizes in the billions (e.g. using 32 bit keys etc.)
What concerns me, and I don’t see mentioned as much as I would expect, is: how will people be compensated for generating new content if ChatGPT takes over?

I believe the innovation that will really “win” generative AI in the long term is one that figures out how to keep the model populated with fresh, relevant, quality information in a sustainable way.

I think generative AI represents a chance to fundamentally rethink the value chain around information and research. But for all their focus on “non-profit” and “good for humanity”, they don’t seem very interested in that.
I felt the same way, the question is pretty ambiguous, there are two readings, one corresponds with a somewhat "unintuitive" answer provided, and another doesn't, but is maybe more intuitive to some people, and yet "everyone got it wrong". I think its a bad question because the terms aren't defined clearly, but the "everyone got it wrong besides these people" framing is also not really true imo. I also didn't see why the original answer isn't considered defensible because from the view inside the circle, each of the 4 "rotations" doesn't look like a rotation because you don't start and end them from the same view.
Trump gets skin and testicular cancer by end of summer, dies first week of October.

Biden gets fatal heart attack a week later.

RFK Jr. shot in the head the next day while touring Gaza Strip.

Ivanka Trump fills in, elected next US President, Kim Kardashian as VP. Supreme Court swiftly declares move constitutional.

Kanye claims he's been abducted by aliens, registers as lobbyist for extraterrestrial affairs. Will be found dead down a cliff in Greenland after solar eclipse.

Penguin cultured meat becomes wildly popular in Argentina.

Taylor Swift performs for Kim Jung-Un in North Korea.

Israel expands, seizing neighboring parts in Lebanon and Syria, activates a shielding force field over territory, dubbed as the Israely bubble.

Conspiracy theory about combined primate-pork ancestry for human kind becomes widespread. Pork meat sales plummet.

First trans woman carries fetus, gives birth.

Italian algea pasta startup fails because of AI glitch.

Worldwide emails get all routed to single Gmail account for 48h. Major data center fires ensues. Lost email data never recovered.

Pringles create new bologna-asparagus flavored crisps, which leads to global addiction crisis and instant liver cancer for 2% of world population.

Coca-Cola launches Water 2.0, a new bottled drink that packs 2,800 calories per liquid once, while tasting like regular tap water.

Dubai plans for new massive mile-high pyramid shaped water park.

Panama Canal moves to Costa Rica.

Study finds lecithin emulsifier food additives to be root cause of worldwide diabetes and obesity epidemic. Lead scientists die in a car accident upon publication.

Pet shop puppy get AIDS from ticks in Pennsylvania.

First transgender Iranian Mullah gets out of the closet.
> only humans fooled by randomness

Is there another kind?
Ask HN: What are the economics of data brokers?
I clicked a link to a news story on Africa News [0] and was shocked to see a pop-up telling me that they'd like to share my data with 797 "partners". That's a huge number to my eyes. Can any "insiders" share the economics of so many data brokers on a single site? Do they pay the site owners for the data? What about buying/selling/coordinating that data to one another? Who are the largest customers of the data brokers' "services"?

[0] https://www.africanews.com/
Aside: Shouldn't browsers update themselves these days? Any reason to turn this off? Seems silly from a security perspective.

That requires a mutable filesystem, which also seems silly from a security perspective. It would also require granting permission to mutate/replace executables to a program that's exposed to untrusted input (i.e. a browser).
> with autocorrect on

Bold assumption given the state of autocorrect on Apple OSs.
> Oh thank goodness we can rely on charity for our information economy

You seem to be assuming an "information economy" should exist at all. Can you justify that?
> About a fifth to a quarter of public-facing Web servers are Windows Server

Got a link for that?
Best I can find is 5% of all websites: https://www.netcraft.com/blog/may-2023-web-server-survey/
Not a small child pissing around with the TV before anyone else gets up? You got logs on that thing?
Ah, good point! Even after the introvert/extrovert split (which, itself, has outliers), there's still the "what kind of introvert" splitting to be done.
Does Synergy work with multi monitor setups? I've enjoyed Barrier but it doesn't work when any of the machines have multiple displays so I've ditched it for now.
Have you looked at/used Bluespec SystemVerilog? If so, any comments based on your experience?

https://github.com/B-Lang-org/bsc
"Controversial figures get more scrutiny" explains this without having to get race involved and implying that all scrutiny are from "lowlifes". Furthermore, I'm not sure what your policy prescription is here. Should we give people in disadvantaged groups a pass on scrutiny because we can write off any attempts as bad faith attempts from "lowlifes" to discredit them?
What is a fair price? The entire NYT library would be a fraction of a fraction of the training set (presumably).
Ilya can feel the AGI
LLMs won't die out but proprietary LLMs behind APIs might not have valuations of hundreds of billions of dollars.

Crowd source, crowed trained (distributed training) fast enough, good enough generative models that are updated (and downloadable) every few months would start to erode the subscriber base gradually.

I might be very very wrong here but it seems like so from where I see it.
Circadian rhythms could be used in targeted vaccination protocols
> Apparently, dropping Prime with the shopping really does not impact the speed of delivery or cost.

I don't know about this. I don't have prime and rarely use amazon. I ordered something recently that qualified for free shipping. I honestly felt like Amazon intentionally held my package for 3-4 days before shipping it. I think i got it in 5 business days.

I will say, not having Prime has probably saved me hundreds of dollars as I only use it for things I really need. My above anecdote was of course just that, an anecdote. Prime is core to their business though, so don't expect quick shipping.
Do you think it should have made a bigger deal of it?

> (hemianopia)

That's loss of vision on one side right?

Edit

This is an honest question, I'm not used to these terms so is "unaware of objects on their left side" more general than vision?

Experimenting a bit with more useful prompts it doesn't ignore it, but it rules it out largely because of the lack of anything on a CT scan. That seems to be a fairly consistent reason it gives for different amounts of prompting and making it break things down.
You've missed the point he was making -- that Chinese and Russian companies don't care about American copyright and will do whatever is in their interest.

And although you were being flippant, yes, Chinese LLMs are bad actors.
Not sure, but I think they are less hostile in that regard.
Reflections on "Great Cities"
These lawsuits could end up being a nightmare for AI companies if the plaintiffs are successful. One can’t easily just remove the content from a model like you can from a website if someone sends you a takedown notice. The content is deeply embedded inside the mathematical relationships within the model. You’d basically have to retrain the whole model again sans the offending data. Given the cost to retrain just a few successful claims would destroy any business built around making money off these models.

The times appears to have a strong case here with their complaint showing long verbatim passages being produced by ChatGPT that go far beyond any reasonable claim of fair use. This will be an interesting case to watch that could shape the whole Generative AI space.
Excel also allows for circular iteration if you allow it to. Helps with solving dynamic programming problems
Really stellar, well-sourced article that comes across as unbiased as possible. I especially enjoyed the almost-throw-away link to "the bitter lesson" near the end, the gist of which is: "Methods that leverage massive compute to capture intrinsic complexity always outperform humans' attempts to encode that complexity by hand"
It isn't, I had a very similar experience several years ago in the UK when I migrated from iPhone to Android.
The court decided to focus on the tiny snippets Google displayed rather than the full text on their servers backing the search functionality. The court found significant that Google deliberately limited the snippet view so it couldn't be used as a replacement for purchasing the original book. The opinion is a relatively easy read, I highly recommend it if you're interested in the issue. It's also notable the court commented that the Google case was right on the edge of fair use.

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/13...
Opioids.
Ofcourse, my comment needs to be read in the context of what I'm responding to, they said input which I disagree with, output maybe there's a slight chance they have a case (depending on how openai has programmed it to output) and even then it's doubtful.
The “Baseline” initiative now has a useful suggestion: their “wider support” high compatibility status is “all major browsers have been shipping it for 2½ years”. See https://github.com/web-platform-dx/web-features/blob/main/do... for more details. (When they first announced Baseline, its definition was disastrously bad, generally only covering ⅔–¾ of actual users, but I’m pleased they’ve listened to feedback and redone it completely; the definition it has now is a little more conservative than I’d have gone for—I’d have gone 2 years—but that makes it even more dependable, where that status is achieved.)

Picking jut a couple of these specific features:

• CSS Nesting as a whole is only 4–8 months shipped, and the “relaxed nesting” only shipped earlier this month in Chromium and Safari. At this point, you should absolutely not “drop those extra &”, and almost certainly not depend on nesting at all yet. And since it’s syntax, it’s not really a progressive enhancement candidate. So this becomes just a “don’t ship nesting syntax for another year or two”. Author with it and transpile down to compatible syntax with something like Lightning CSS, by all means.

• color-mix() is only 7–12 months shipped, though as a saving grace it’s Safari that’s the oldest (Safari is the browser most commonly far out of date in features due to Apple’s tie-browser-updates-to-OS-updates approach). It’s not generally a good idea to depend on color-mix() yet, though there are some progressive enhancement cases where it’s reasonable. For example, `text-decoration-color: color-mix(in srgb, currentcolor, transparent 50%)` makes underlines semitransparent, and it probably doesn’t matter if the browser skips that.
> There is also some evidence that some of the significant mutations / new strains arose not from "natural selection" via transmission, but from prolonged mutation in a single host.

I have read a lot of research on this topic and I have not seen this suggestion, rather I have only seen the neutral (that it hasn't mutated from persistence/potential replication in a host).

Do you have a link to a study that suggests this?
But it’s theirs, they created it and should therefore benefit from it. I’m honestly shocked at how much these companies are getting away with. It’s piracy on a massive scale.

You can get a little discombobulated reading the comments from the nerds / subject idiots on this site.
Switzerland isn't special, they're in the NATO sphere of influence and (behind the scene) can't say no to big brother.

Exhibit A your honor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG

I have a Proton account by the way, but I'm not under the illusion that my emails are safe from 3 letter agencies.
The NYT's strongest argument for infringement is that OpenAI is reproducing their content verbatim (and to make matters worse, without attribution). IANAL but it seems super likely to me that this will be found to be infringing sooner or later.

Do I really want to use a Chinese word processor that spits unattributed passages from the NYT into the articles I write? Once I publish that to my blog now I'm infringing and I can get sued too. Point is I don't see how output which complies with copyright law makes an LLM inferior.

The argument applies equally to code, if your use of ChatGPT, OpenAI etc. today is extensive enough, who knows what copyrighted material you may have incorporated illegally into your codebase? Ignorance is not a legal defense for infringement.

If anything it's a competitive advantage if someone develops a model which I can use without fear of infringement.

Edit: To me this all parallels Uber and AirBnB in a big way. OpenAI is just another big tech company that knew they were going to break the law on a massive scale, and said look this is disruptive and we want to be first to market, so we'll just do it and litigate the consequences. I don't think the situation is that exotic. Being giant lawbreakers has not put Uber or AirBnB out of business yet.
Even if that is the case, plenty of art is made with the hope or dream that people will find it worth paying for, and there are many people out there who do in fact fully support themselves doing creative work. Having the copyright to that work is foundational to even be able to consider that possibility at all.
Yep! I like having access to high-quality information and producing, collecting, editing, and publishing that is not free.

Much of it is only cost-effective to produce if you can share it with a massive audience, I.e. sure if I want to read a great investigative piece on the corruption of a Supreme Court Justice I can hypothetically commission one, but in practice it seems much much better to allow people to have businesses that undertake such matters and publish their findings to a large audience at a low unit price.

Now what’s your argument for removing such an incentive?
It’s unfortunate that the intellectual curiosity of religious leaders led to science, as they are probably also responsible for the problems it seeks to solve.
OK as a follow up on the phone and they mentioned 5:14 AM timestamp.

I asked what time zone it was and they told me they didn’t know. It doesn’t show up for them.

I’m in New York. So I’m guessing it’s UTC and it was actually 814am not 514am.
Hi everyone

We've built a product to expose low-latency data APIs from multiple data sources in less than a minute. We'll release it in the upcoming weeks and would love to hear your feedback!

- General opinion?
- What would you like to remove/add or change?
- What do you think of the approach?
- What use-cases do you have in mind?
- Anything else

You can check it out in this gist - https://gist.github.com/jpmarionata/30e6c8c210b5c7ac3a4f193c...
They're in a GitHub repo, so I just use that since GH renders Markdown.

I could probably use Obsidian/Logseq mobile if I wanted to. (Again, because it's Markdown... which is about universal now.)

And like, it's Markdown. It's meant to be readable as-is, so I can probably figure out any alternative method. I'd obviously miss out on tag searching and graphing, but I don't have heavy mobile use right now.

Edit: Yeah, the GitHub mobile app ain't the worst. I can probably find a way to get local git on my phone, and then just use Obsidian Mobile if I want to get fancy.
Is your position that all non fiction textual work is uncopywritable?
>impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC

As someone whose first exposure to computer programming was BASIC on an Apple II in the early 1980s when I was around 8-9 years old and who later went on to learn multiple other programming languages, I always wondered what about BASIC inspired that particular sentiment. Was it the line numbers? The GOTO statement? The use of "GOSUB.....RETURN" rather than explicit functions?
Famous people are as broken and needy as anyone else. Fame doesn't bring some kind of vaccination nor give them access to VIP external protection agencies. Becoming famous isn't a proxy for intelligence or emotional resilience, as much as many think that they should be role models. Cults give real benefits to people.

They are as susceptible to manipulation tactics too.
If they used copyrighted material or trademarks, they almost certainly _did_ pay the Goonies property rightholders and Stephen King for the privilege. Why would you think they didn't?
> the copyright holder of every library book

gets paid
I notice this in myself, even though I've never particularly made money from published prose on the internet.

But (under different accounts) I used to be very active on both HN and reddit. I just don't want to be anymore now for LLM reasons. I still comment on HN, but more like every couple of weeks than every day. And I have made exactly one (1) comment on reddit in all of 2023.

I'm not the only one, and a lot of smaller reddit communities I used to be active on have basically been destroyed by either LLMs, or by API pricing meant to reflect the value of LLM training data.