skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether it's "active record" or "ActiveRecord", with or without caps, with or without spaces, I'm not persuaded these are different things. If you want me to believe that they are, I invite you to try to persuade me. While I'm inviting you to do that, let me also invite you to accept what people tell you about themselves in lieu of what you infer about themselves. I was talking about OOP. You said that I seemed to be talking about "active record." I assured you that I was not. Setting aside sophistry about caps and spaces, any disinterested third party observer would agree that it's obvious I've addressed what you have inferred. Therefore, I consider the matter settled. I'm talking about OOP and not active record. I will not address this topic further with you.
Pixel marketing touts the NPU chip, which sounds ideal for accelerating a model like this. They might have reasons for leaving it out. Perhaps it's planned to ship with a new model - announcing a new phone in a model paper would be weird. I remember them advertising some Pixel-only photo editing features in the past.
smuggling things past firewalls is trivial. base48 or some other nonsandard scheme or encrypt a zip file and use a bananaphone scheme to make the content look low entropy. No firewall will flag that.
> It’s definitely not the case. LLMs of any sort do not in any sense reason or understand anything.

This seems like a claim about the way that the LLM neural net algorithm works. But AFAIK no one has a good understanding of how the LLM NNs work.

Why are you so certain that the LLM NN isn't doing the reasoning-algorithm or the understanding-algorithm?
Thanks for doing the legwork!
Turning?
> Steve Huffman was destroying the website by killing off the API and leaving volunteer moderators

Did this really happen? The site seems to be as busy as normal and with the same opinions being expressed everywhere.

Don't get me wrong, I think that was a huge loss and I don't use Reddit anymore as a result.
It'd be cooler if these were interpreted as sound waves. I'd love to goto sleep listening to notepad.exe.
That's not arbitrary. The half who passes are probably better programmers, on average.
Training a model is more akin to setting a video camera somewhere and having it automatically record or not according to some algorithm you devise. The code of the algorithm would be copyrightable, of course, but the recording is another matter, since the "creativity" aspect is kinda missing there.
New documentary goes inside pro-Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden
Two pilots sitting on the back of a very large infant with its arms outstretched - "Let's get this baby off the ground"
"I don't like CGI"

Same idea. What you actually don't like is bad CGI. Done well enough to be undetectable, you can never object to it.
There's definitely some lossy compression when you snap it to the nearest known vector: enumerating every word ever written in human history wouldn't even come close to the 2^(16*D) representable points for a D-dimensional float16 embedding vector. In fact, even adding two float16 values is a form of lossy compression for most additions.

But I'd be surprised if either of those were the primary reason. The words "sea" and "ocean" are different vectors but they'll be very close to each other. salt + water = sea and salt + water = ocean both sound correct to me so the problem is more about whether the v_salt + v_water can even get to the vicinity of either v_sea or v_ocean.
You seem to have a personal thing about Taleb ("his own damn quote", "this gentleman has made a career from a book about the unpredictability of events").

Taking the 2nd one first: he's written at least five books, and they're about much more than "unpredictability of events." Have you actually read any of them?

As for his own damn quote: a debt crisis is a matter of financial arithmetic, not "a flickering roadside Psychic sign."

If indeed the US tacitly admitted that it was never going to pay its debts, then the interest rates would rise. You don't have to be psychic to predict that.
I started watching and couldn't stop until the end. Now the only question I have is how much should I believe Zeihan? He makes a lot of bold assertions, what's his track record?
ding ding ding!

This whole framing of "cheating" is incredibly misguided.

It's also true that interviewers have to adapt to this brave new world, and I'm sympathetic that that's difficult and takes time.

In my view, the way to do this is to ask if they're comfortable screensharing or presenting or letting me watch as they use their normal tools (which is likely to include copilot or chatgpt or some other LLM). If so, there is a lot of signal in how they use those tools, and it gives much better insight into how they work day to day. If they aren't comfortable with that, then I think it is perfectly fair to ask them not to use any tools that we can't see.
The Dvorak Zine (2005)
Or you could have a canonical cron box.
It's pretty ridiculous to peel that off the following qualifier.

Readers have been aggressively attacked for a long time. It's certainly not impossible that some basic demonstration PDF will cause an issue, but it's probably not reasonable to expect it.
How does it beat the alternatives?
Compulsory voting is an option.
Apple Vision Pro Battery uses wide lightning connector
Maybe "rising" was not 100% correct. You're right in that you can place emphasis without the pitch of the word actually going up (instead you can make the pitch go down, or flat even, and say it with a bit more force & space afterwards). Playing with pitch is just the most obvious example of intonation I can think of in English.

I'll admit I also have musical training, so it makes sense _to me_ to think of pitch in these terms. Maybe it doesn't to most people.
Given the CEO's "history" [1] I'd heavily recommend against installing Brave

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich
There it is again. You really hate him, don't you? What things that weren't conventional wisdom have you ever done?

"predictionism" -- is that a word you just invented? What does it mean?
I take offense to that diagram; Germany should refuse to be covered by a PDF that's not in proper DIN format.

In theory, DIN paper sizes go all the way from subatomic to the size of the universe. It seems like A(-39) is barely too small to cover Germany's land mass, but A(-40) should be more than sufficient. That's 882 x 1247 km if I didn't miscalculate.
Occasionally looking something up is normal, but if you don't know how to append to a list in Python or iterate over a vector in C++ then you probably are not currently writing much code in those languages. That's a signal by itself, and one that is too often a negative.
It's already on Azure, and has been for several months: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ai-machine-learning-b...
Bitcoin has been around for 15 years at this point and there is absolutely no confusion about the technical underpinnings. It has handily survived attempts at government shutdowns in China and serious interest rate hikes. Numerous scams have come, gone and had no impact on hodlers.

At this point it is no longer reasonable to just claim it is a greater fools game without an argument for why. The evidence right now seems to put it in a similar category to gold in that people generally don't like that it has value, but nonetheless value is present.

I also draw people's attention to the parallel with something like a RAID array - it is possible to make robust systems out of unreliable parts. The abundance of scammy and scummy operators in the crypto space is quite consistent with the similar prevalence in traditional finance. The system is robust regardless.
On another note, there is a lot of fud on cryptocurrency right now.. and let me say this.. there are farms of individuals, soon to be llm's, flooding the Internet with all this negativity on crypto in every conceivable public forum.

100%, this is politics now, when you see people online with a certain perspective, you tend to at least consider it. This is the psychology of influence on the net, everyone's brains are connected to this same network, and business and government know it. If they can even suggest that individuals give any credence to a random post online, they will make that post, and to their ends. So now, we have entire buildings of people filling the net with their 'opinions', in the name of influencing.

There are so many 'people' online that totally call cryptocurrency an inherit scam (which is pretty much impossible, inherently so, that the idea is itself a scam, and not just able to be used to scam.. cmon, the distinction is there), that I'm convinced that many of the anticrypto posts are simple persuasion,because either the riches want to buy in, or they are scared of what it can do (as far as replacing the status quo).

Now I'm sure I'm that crazy internet crypto dude all of a sudden, but listen closely, cause we will all see in the next decade or two, and neither you nor me know the future. Remember me either way. :)
A book makes sense because lots of people want a book. Sounds like they are planning an ebook version as well, so that solves some of your problems with the format.
I really hope Y Combinator keeps this awesome site just the way it is forever. Let's not mess it up like Reddit did. All we really want is high-quality content, nothing else.
Well for torrent it starts by contacting one of the various trackers that know other peers. It's not centralized but there's only a couple of trackers out there.

There's no trust between any of the peers, but each of the torrent piece has associated hash, meaning peers cannot give you invalid data without being caught (unless hash collision occurs).

Peers can be discovered with DHT magic, but ultimately, can only be dialed if the ISP allows peers to receive connections.
It doesn't. They didn't look for it.
This is exactly what DAG based workflow systems to, in a modern professional manner. Crons don't do a DAG.
> Your ability to use ChatGPT effectivelly is highly dependent on your technical competence.

Ok, then that seems like a pretty reasonable thing to assess?

> I'd rather have a developer on my team that demonstrates high technical competence than one that is GPT-skilled, but doesn't know what questions to ask GPT nor how to judge its responses.

But "what questions does the candidate ask an LLM and how do they judge its responses" is part of the interview, if you don't forbid them from using an LLM!

Now, if they don't want to use these tools, if that's not part of their normal process while working, then that's totally fine too. But if they're comfortable with these tools, if they are part of their normal set of things they use for their work, then you're doing yourself a disservice by designing an interview process that is incapable of accomodating that.
Research done by Prof. Subbarao on reasoning & planning with LLM seems to point in the negative.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTXXYi75QCU

He has lots of good threads distilling his research. https://twitter.com/rao2z
When I go hiking I expect trees and hills. Despite the expectation, it's still novel / sublime finding a new vista or path
Every time I read about a massive company ransomware event: excel macros, mimimatz, phishing

Any time something is actually described as a novel technique: cryptominer. Ugh.
American capitalism let private companies run some co-axial wires to our houses, which was a big capital investment for sure but not that big, and then we let them milk us for the privilege for the next 60 years. We've probably paid for it 1000 times over now. If the government just laid the wires as a public utility, as wasteful as the government is, it wouldn't be this bad.
I suppose you think the ridiculousness of those is self-evident. Sorry, no, you need to explain.
To Spectrum's credit they seem to be doing a lot of fiber for new builds. Our 1gbit plan is symmetric and pulls those speeds consistently, but yeah their coax footprint is stuck with lower upload, high/low split coax areas should see 500mbit upload at some point but who knows. The state of internet in the US is awful in most places.
I would love this. I created a Codeberg account to contribute to an OSS Android app I liked. Then, (thankfully, after my contribution was merged) I had a situation where I lost access to my 2fa codes. I could provide other identity verification, but where? Their official docs tell you there's a support at Codeberg email address....but that nobody looks at that inbox. They link a Discord room (kinda defeats the appeal of an EU-hosted indie forge, but okay). I went in there, and was told (eventually, when the apparently sole employee in the room) that I was out of luck. Not because they couldn't verify my identity or anything, but because support for account-related issues is something they categorically do not offer.

I'd love to regain the ability to contribute to stuff that is trapped in the Codeberg ice without having to create another account on a service with that sort of ramshackle operating approach.
Oh my goodness -- I had this idea!!

When I first read a blog post titled "Macaroons are better than cookies" I started thinking about the operational side and I really didn't like the fact that you had to make a network round-trip to some auth-service to validate the macaroon--because that's what the state of the art already was, and it kinda stunk to pay that delay on every single query. (Of course I understood that you could horizontally scale the machines doing auth and load-balance and all that, but I worked at smaller companies where you had a small rack in a colo space or an air-conditioned closet, creating VMs to do all of that ate into a relatively limited resource and made sysadmins raise eyebrows.)

I tried for the longest time to put together a solution with hash functions and private-key crypto; I think the thing that bugged me the most was that I never was able to prove that you couldn't do it with those primitives. Eventually I had something similar with public-key crypto but at the time public-key usually meant RSA, so we were talking 1024-bit signatures for each step. Also I think the idea was that you'd furnish a zero-knowledge proof that you knew the key, which was hella complex.

Two things then happened: first, if you're talking PKI then you're talking about revocation too; I convinced myself that revocation was necessary for these sorts of credentials (and I now always feel vindicated when places are like "log out all other instances?") but I also convinced myself that revocation required the network hop in any case (which is not true, revocation is actually pretty infrequent and you can push revoked serials to services via event bus and in most cases the latency to ingest those is not a huge issue). So I convinced myself that what I was looking for was ultimately a purely academic exercise, was the first thing.

And the second was that I managed to simplify my PKI-plus-hashes-plus-zero-knowledge craziness to just what Biscuits are: "I'm signing a public key plus caveats," (but I didn't add a query language, I was just going to use a map of well-known-keys to values, "valid_before: 123...890"), "I'm going to transmit this to the recipient with its corresponding private key, which they will strip off and generate a new key to mint a new Biscuit."

And then RSA was big and slow and I forgot all about this until this HN thread. Ed25519 is the perfect way to fix that -- that and distributed revocation. I still don't see myself using it in practice but it's nice that a library exists if I do... thanks for the walk down memory lane, I will queue up the podcast episode, maybe for tonight or tomorrow.
I personally use a -> b -> c for sequence, a > b >> c for nested hierarchy.

In this context, I read it as a is better than b which is better than c.
That's a valid question. He does have videos where he just speaks off top of his head, and I prefer the ones where he has charts and numbers that he speaks to. If you don't believe his charts and numbers, find ones online that you believe.

I do think someone who can hold that much minute, dry details in his brain and can cross reference them is going to be smarter than most of us. He does after all consult for major corporations and the U.S government.
> Cruise incident response playbook outlines roles of Incident Commander, SLT, CMT as well as how to respond in the weeks after incident. Playbook was not followed, said to be "aborted" because "too manually intensive"

What? Who ran risk management for this company? If you're facing program halt you keep running the plan until you run out of money to pay your employees, and then keep running it after if you can get volunteers. If these people actually cared about AVs and safety, or even the continued existence of their company, they would work to extract every single detail that could possibly help any AV or robotics/AI company in the future, up to a very high cost for themselves. Deeply unserious.
Reddit is noticeably less active and worse, at least the parts of it I'm in. Far short of "killing", but it did some damage.
I've found Lets-Plots [0] to my least painful plotting option for Python so far. I'm so used to the grammar of graphics from ggplot, especially compared to plotting in matplotlib or seaborn.

0: https://lets-plot.org/
> I invite you to try to persuade me.

Why? I enjoy and benefit from the fact that you think a software library and a theoretical concept are the same thing. Never change.

> I'm talking about OOP and not active record.

Yes. We established that in my very first comment. However, I stated that it reads like you were talking about active record, and that is why it was asked if you could clarify how it pertains to OOP, given that we know you are actually talking about OOP.

If you don't know how to clarify your message, why not just say so?
How do you know you are the first discoverer? Does it highlight this in some way?
> Your personality can completely change in 10 years.

This was kind of a revelation to me a long time ago. When you're 20, you're a totally different person than when you're 10. When you're 30, different than 20. Just like the linked article suggests, you really tend to underestimate how much you're going to change in the future. At 10, you can't really consider how you're going to be when you're 20.
Whoa the font on this site is unreadable. Seriously how did y'all do it.
Maybe this is not relevant to you, but would it make any sense to first try Copilot with IntelliJ or Visual Studio?
That's a lot of square peg round hole pounding.
Thankfully and not surprisingly the new nationwide competition from both t-mobile and Verizon 5G Home Internet services are hurting comcrap (xFinity) and charter (spectrum) broadband numbers. With T-Mobile and Verizon continuing to expand their 5G home offerings comcrap wil be less and less the only game in town.

I'm not a gamer but stream YouTube and other streamers 6 to 8 hours day. T-Mobile's 5G home internet worked great for me.
Does this also use generative AI to create the results?
Put another way, money is a method for purchasing time.

We pay money to use other people's time, and we sell our time to get paychecks.

Remember the old saying: Time is money.
> Another (perhaps more drastic) approach would be to force shareholders to hold their shares for a minimum period of time

The US tax code already does this by differentiating tax treatment between short- and long-term capital gains, although you might argue that the time required to qualify as long-term (1 year) is too short.
Here's a 2006 blog commenting on (and agreeing with) a blog entry from 2004 which I vividly remember: "ORM is the Vietnam of Computer Science"...

https://blog.codinghorror.com/object-relational-mapping-is-t...
This is indeed an excellent idea for an interview. (By far my favorite hour of interviewing the last time around was the Stripe "debugging" interview, which is quite similar to this.)

But maybe they will still use chatgpt to help them figure out the solution. A non-trivial number of my interactions with it are of this form, "no, that isn't right, fix this part and re-do the rest". And that should be fine. Or it should be fine to not do it that way.

The goal is to get a sense for how the person you may or may not be working with approaches solving problems. Sometimes LLMs are part of how they do that, sometimes they aren't. And you can learn something about them from that, either way.
A coffee table book about Keyboards that is also a functioning Keyboard /s
> If you give me a Thingy, I can do things with that, regardless of whether you provide procedures, but if you give me a Doodad, I can't do anything with that unless you provide procedures.

This is one of the issues I've experienced with overly eager "everything is a class" style of programming. The plain old data gets wrapped up and partially hidden, complected together with procedures.

The other aspect is that plain old functions get wrapped up too, and can only be accessed by instantiating the class, and complected together with state.

This style of code can make the underlying data and algorithms harder to work with, less flexible, too specific to the exact architecture designed by the author - especially as hierarchy of classes, which extend the "complectedness" in more dimensions where they're tied up with each other.

I just want typed and structured "thingies" as plain old data, that lets me reach in, access and modify everything as my own. Then separately, I want stateless plain old functions that accept those and other thingies of the same shape, wherever they come from, however they're created. That way I can use them by themselves, without being tied to any associated state, for my own purposes.

Sometimes I think the problem is too much "architecture", where all the parts are fused and can only be used together; whereas I prefer a "toolset" or "workshop", a coherent collection of parts that are independently useful and usable.
In my experience, managers (particularly VP and up) tend to camp out in, and effectively claim, conference rooms.
> we implemented logic to prevent the node from going down at the top of a minute when possible since — given the nature of cron — that is when it is likely that scripts will need to be scheduled to run

Why not smear the start time of the jobs across seconds of that minute to avoid any thundering herd problems? How much functionality relies on a script being invoked at exactly the :00 mark? And if the functionality depends on that exact timing, doesn’t it suggest something is fragile and could be redesigned to be more resilient?
I've always taken interest into p2p, but never heard of Freenet so thanks for being here!

Question: how good is the latency once connections are already established, say for a real time video call over Freenet, or if this is not possible? Is there any server in the middle that all packets need to route to, especially for peers behind firewall
Everyone is a consumer, it’s all of us.

It’s not just that you’re artificially keeping prices high, in a globalist world, someone else would do it and all the workers would lose their jobs.
Using LLM's isn't externalizing or outsourcing thinking. LLM's aren't performing that. People doing this are in fact substituting thinking with a process, the output of which masquerades as thoughts after a fashion, but are in fact basically word cloud probability based pattern matching.

Sure, the point that superior tool use is a valid job skill makes some sense, but conceding your agency and higher reasoning to a machine which possesses none of these is to my mind not going to be beneficial to a business in the long run.
You know, I'm trying to have honest, intelligent discussion, care to explain why I deserved a down vote?

If you disagree, comment!! Let's discuss!

I guess I apologize for the little joke at the end if that's the problem.. sorry everyone!

Also, sorry for my opinion! Darn, it does just happen to be contrary to some of y'all's, I'll be more careful!!