skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, this will always be Las Vegas. Walking the strip my first time while at a conference was enlightening. Seeing all the American tropes that I'd seen in foreign media within a square kilometer and with my own eyes left me speechless.
But if the majority are in a union and those that don’t join reap all the benefits the union gains in contracts how is that fair for those who are supporting the union.
> Could they identify things that aren't suitable for YouTube Kids but end up there anyways?

I sure wish they did.
sqs isn't a random messenger, he's the person in charge of the decision.
Curious: Are SaaS sales unrepentant on pricing in these cases? I would think with a bit of spice on your side in procurement you could probably negotiate enterprise for a small premium over the middle tier. Knowing enough software sales people when given the choice between “Teams + $5/user/head” and “no sale at all” suddenly options open up. But maybe the people I know don’t support too much SSO stuff…
well. Knowt (knowt.com) offers spaced approach too. I love it better
i couldn't put import various media into Obsidian.
People that don't like Bash|Zsh|... and are afraid of ImageMagick|ffmpeg|curl|...'s manuals and want AI to generate the perfect script for them.
I am not a software engineer and these tools allow me to make a giant mess of an app in a weekend that kind of does what I want but I only get that weekend. Once I come back to it after any length of time, since I have no idea what I am doing or what is going on it is impossible to update or add to the app without breaking it.

Now I have all these new ideas but I am back to square one because it just seems easier to start over.

I look forward to more powerful models in the future but I do wonder if it will just mean I can get slightly farther and make an even larger mess of an app in a weekend that I have no way to add to or update without breaking.

The main utility seems like it would be for content creation to pretend I made an app with all these great features as a non-software engineer but conveniently leave out the part about it being impossible to update.
Completely disagree. There have been plenty of orgs achieving things looking somewhat impossible, and they're called startups.
Bad call. OpenAI are absolutely the bad guys because they learn from others while claiming it illegal harmful or abusive to learn from them. Just block em
1. How would the abstraction be removed? Language generation is what LLMs do; a language abstraction is what you are getting out, no matter what. There is no magic involved.

2. The language has to represent a valid computer program. That is as true of SQL as any other target. You can know that it is correct by reading it.
Thats what i get on firefox on ios
This is a really interesting counter-argument.

The idea that the design should be dumbed down so, what, a lay-person who has never encountered the system can take over and drive the ship accurately? is an appealing one: it makes the case that, all else being equal, simplicity should win out.

I would argue that there's an in-between: good design is not orthogonal to intuitive design. And I would also argue that the human factor component shouldn't be missed here, both in terms of sleep deprivation, but also in terms of being able to easily and quickly identify error states or misconfigurations at a glance, without too much cognitive overload.

Cognitive overload and complex interfaces are solved with training and repetition: we do this regularly in aviation, pilotage, and all sorts of complex interfaces. But I guess it's worth asking aloud, if you can reduce some of the cognitive overload, aren't you effectively defending in depth?

Sure, every complex system could be distilled to a memorized green screen incantation, and peak performance can be reached by fusing the human brain to a well-mapped, ultra-dense information-fest. But the reality of the situation is that, when training and tiredness failed these sailors, the interface further piled on _unnecessarily_. It could have been designed to be a bit more intuitive, and that might very well have saved the lives of 10 people and $223 million dollars of taxpayer money.

"This is a hard problem that you can't get around by just saying 'just design it better'" sure downplays that amount of impact intuitive, clear design can have on, say, preventing the swiss cheese holes from aligning in this particular case.
The Bingo Paradox
But it would help some. Less than the weight, you would simply just need a much less powerful engine. So the model is not: "imagine a 3,500 lbs sedan if it only weight 3,200 lbs." -- the model is "imagine an 86 horsepower engine which is sufficient because the car weighs 1,500 lbs." That would be significantly more efficient.
That remains, in some ways, one of the funniest videos on the internet[0], but the dog owner was and is an absolute moron. Imagine letting your dog off the lead near a herd of deer. That incident took place in a literal deer park. They're not livestock, per se, but, no surprise, the outcome is about the same as letting your dog off the lead in a field of sheep, and the consequences could have been much more serious.

[0] To the point where we briefly considered naming a dog Fenton, but then realised the humour would wear off pretty quickly and it wouldn't really be fair on the dog.
And then rewrite your init.el every couple of years.
https://www.keoride.com.au/what-is-keoride

> the Keoride app matches customers who are travelling in the same direction and calculates an optimised flexible route to pick up and drop off customers close to their destination, you can even track the vehicle and get updated on your ETA in real time.
I work at Greptile and agree on all three criticisms. 1) is a bug we haven't been able to fix, 2) has to do with the high cost of re-indexing, we will likely start auto-updating the index when LLM costs come down a little, and 3) has to do with LLM speed. We pushed some changes to cut time-to-first-token by about half but long way to go.

Re: prompt engineering, we have a prompt guide if that helps, was that what you are getting at?

https://docs.greptile.com/prompt-guide
Triplebyte (one of the best hiring experiences I ever had) gave me this during their initial interview.

They dropped an archive of a medium-ish codebase to my machine, that had failed unit tests. My task was to simply fix the code so the tests passed.

Not only did I feel engaged with the interview because I could speak aloud as I debugged, I also found it fun!
I don't think it's just about storage and retrievel being efficient. Sometimes it _is_ easier to think in terms of tables.

I have a bunch of posts, written by various authors, on various sites. Store that in some OOP way, with ownership going in some direction (For example, sites own posts). Now look up the most recent posts for authors. Look up the most recent posts per site. Look up the most prolific authors. Do the authors work cross-site? Maybe they don't but people use the same name across sites.

There are plenty of times I have put things into a database not for perf reasons but simply because it's easier to do queries that way than to write a bunch of bespoke logic at each variant of certain queries, simply due to ownership arrows being all over the place
My main complaint is that the people who like suburban density went ahead and made zoning codes to basically prevent building anything but sprawl, so now the few remaining places that don't require a car are rare and super expensive.

I'm even a car guy—I own a stick shift BMW—I just don't have much interest in getting into it to do literally any activity or errand other than walking around the neighborhood.
According to Wiki, MIT has an endowment of ~25B USD -- #6 in the US. It is incredibly rich.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universit...

I don't know how this ranks internationally, but I guess that US universities have the largest endowments globally.
> - Didn't set you up with a way to reliably run/test the code, nor a step-through-debugger which, jeez is it 1980? Like setting up a repo in a language you aren't familiar with (say getting your py-env exactly right) can take a whole hour if it's not your main language.

How frequently do people interview in a language other than their "main" one(s)?

> - Didn't have standardized questions, which is hugely problematic (some bugs are 2 orders of magnitude harder than others)

How do you know they're not standardized? (You say in another comment where it was, and indeed that's where the blog post author works. It's described as a pretty standardized process by my reading of it.) You can pass the interview without actually solving the bug, but I get it's easier to blame the problem than admit you struggled with it.
This is an odd take, do people in white collar jobs not need to write and communicate through writing effectively?

I write memorandums and reports for clients where I need to articulate technical concepts in a way that is simple to understand. Where I need to communicate my findings to non-technical and technical stakeholders, the process to be able to write those reports takes a long time.

You may not need a college course on writing, but generalising that people don't need to be taught to write is stupid.

I have seen many of our graduates use LLM's to help compose their reports, without them understanding how it reads and what they're trying to communicate, those sections need to be rewritten.
The research never ended. AI money was flooding in, but mostly going directly to Nvidia. If that cash flow turns off there will still be research happening because it was mostly unaffected in the first place.
Somehow this piece manages to avoid mention of both Diogenes, famed admirer of dogs for whom his philosphical school, Cynicism[0], is named, and Kafka, whose Investigations of a Dog is an essential short fiction about a genius dog philosopher[2].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes#Philosophy :

> asked why he was called a dog [Diogenes] replied, "I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals."

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigations_of_a_Dog
Yep, and I use it there...

... though my preferred Android browser these days is Einkbro, optimised for an e-ink device as the name suggests, that being what I drive.

(Firefox on e-ink is ... beyond annoying.)

The browser itself has pretty good ad-blocking capabilities, but I'd rather much like to be able to block specific elements as well.
> In the EU and UK, the general rule is that you employment contract ends as soon as the company stops paying you.

It's essentially the same in the US, you cannot really enforce a non-compete without pay. Some companies still do this relying on the fact that nobody wants to go to court, and this is why the judge tells the FTC to go after those.

> but in practice you cannot be forced to accept it for any longer than your agreed notice period

But you can be forced to work through notice period? Think of a non-compete as a 6-12 months notice period when you don't have to work (and can actually work for a whole bunch of different jobs, just not for the competitors).

>The protections that the non-compete are intended to provide are already provided through other means that will almost certainly apply - things like NDAs or IP theft (which would include knowingly transferring proprietary secrets or processes).

Consider a sales manager going to a competitor with the knowledge of prices for the top 10 customers. You can easily memorize these even if you already don't know them by heart. So he takes the same position at the competitor and tells the sales people to go to X and offer $YYY contract, which just happens to be a decent discount from what they currently pay to the former employer. How do you invoke NDAs, IP theft or whatever to deal with this?
My wife was sued by the very large company she worked for under a non-compete after she went to a company that they saw as a competitor. They sued her in Texas (even though she worked for them in a Northeast state) and the two companies spent $500K battling it out before it even made it to discovery. We were out $20K personally just in legal fees to have an independent lawyer advising us. Neither company cared about her particularly, but were really fighting each other. When the old employer successfully got an injunction against her, then moved the case to Federal court, and laid out what the first year of the case was going to look like (while she was unable to work at all because of the injunction), she pulled the plug and settled with her old company with an incredibly one sided agreement, basically hamstringing her from working in the industry for the next 18 months.

So, yes, they are sometimes enforced.
So you already claimed, but, still, curiously we have no answer to the question. If you don't know, why not just say so?

That said, if you have ever used these tools to generate code, you will know that they are much better at some languages than others. In the general case, the target really is the problem sometimes. Does that carry into this particular narrow case? I don't know. What do the comparison results show?
I will not address your question directly, but if you are interested in the mathematical treatment of equivalence between schemas, maybe category theory and the categorical query language (Spivak from MIT if I remember correctly) may be of interest.
The shift (watch) plan is set by the ship's officers but they have to work with the personnel that they're assigned. There is a constant shortage, especially for experienced sailors on surface vessels. But they have to put to sea anyway to accomplish the mission, which causes personnel burnout due to overwork thus worsening the shortage in a vicious cycle.

The only real solutions would be for Congress to either significantly increase personnel funding, or trim back the mission set to make it sustainable at current personnel levels. There is no political support for either solution and so the problem will persist.
Same in Sydney Australia,

> If a bus is indicating ( min 5 secs ) and is pulling out from a bus stop they have right of way. Failure to Give Way is worth a $362 fine and [demerit] 3 points.
My point was that the experts were blinded by arrogance.

Even back then most ( almost all? ) statisticians were capable of understanding the monte hall problem. Yet they just assumed that a woman was wrong when she explained something that didn’t match their intuition. Instead of stopping to think, they let their arrogance take over and just assumed they were right.
As a thought experiment, how long should a toast remain on the screen? Ideally you want the user to have time to read it, but since you don't know how long it will take for them to glance up, and you don't know their reading speed, there isn't a safe bound.

I ran into this with my son just today, he is working on his reading speed and we were using a new app together. I kept showing toasts and he was struggling to keep up with them and found them to be distracting. I ended up reading them aloud so he could keep up. A more persistent message would have let him succeed without extra support.
The bugs are chosen in projects that don't require this much setup. (There is no server/database, they use standard tools for the given language, and they are generally solvable without needing an elaborate IDE/debugger setup. Of course that may help, and it's why you bring your own computer and choose the language ahead of time.)
There are specific medical conditions that respond well to uv exposure (perhaps through mechanisms like apoptosis and changes to the immune system) that don't benefit much from vitamin D supplementation. I would be wary about assuming those benefits can be generalized or outweigh the known risks of uv exposure. People who spend more time outdoors likely have more physically active lives, are less exposed to VOCs and infections and there could be many demographic differences that are hard to control.
I disagree. That would indicate conversations skills equate to knowing what you are talking about.

"Yes, you are not in fact immune to this even if you think you are, that’s why it’s so dangerous."

I think that I am. I'll think about that a bit more. I don't care for popular people so, in fact, my bias might be the other direction. However, I don't think I have ever met a person who I thought was technical and proficient, but turned out not to be.

I have been forced to hire people I knew were not proficient because they passed a test, but not the other way around.
where is the bug tho... the author is unable to do any exploit because the input variable is correctly sanity checked.... again, where is the "bug" or how is this a bug?
It's good to see all the Navy nukes comments on this article. MM1/SS, one tour on an SSN, and one on an SSBN!
Other goals can be performance, testability
Yes, images! And also link unfurling in bots. This researcher here talked about it before and also found tons of such data exfil issues in various LLM apps: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2024/the-dangers-of-unf...
Distributed streaming and stateful stream processing system built in Rust, WASM
it's "absurdly simple", but then you get presented with a bunch of weird things that look like abstraction ceilings like "oh you can't refer to the select clause alias you made in the filter because despite that showing up first lexicographically the ordering is different" and "oh you don't have to refer to the table name except when you do because of ambiguity issues".

I think there's a beautiful space for some SQL-like language that just operates a bit more like a general-purpose language in a more regular fashion. Bonus points for ones where you don't query tables but point at indexes or table scans and the like (resolving the "programmer writes query that is super non-performant because they assume an index is present when it's not").

I think it's still super straightforward to sit down and learn it, but it's really unfortunate that we spend a bunch of time in school learning data structures and then SQL tries really hard to hide all that, making it pretty opaque despite people intuitively understanding B-Trees or indexes.
I suspect they believe more in money than free speech.
>though this PDF is kinda horrible, since it seems to somehow not be searchable at all, but it's the only one I've found in like 7 different news sites, all but one of which can't cite their sources

Here's the original from recap: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68463428/212/ryan-llc-v...

Based on the metadata for the pdf you posted, it looks like for whatever reason they ran the original pdf through microsoft print to pdf, which stripped off all the OCR/text metadata.
Seconded. The sheer volume of useful work Ankane puts out for the community is unreal.
Very censored. Pukes out the standard lies about vaxx dangers.
It took me one question to hit a censorship block. Do I win?
>Sadly, I think your sales pitch will fall flat. College and University admin aren't technology experts

I'm building tools for K-12 (I've been a teacher for 20+ years). There's solid uptake of GPT among teachers and individually they're pretty enthusiastic about anything that will reduce their workload, so I'm hoping it resonates.

>Also, to be super presumptuous, if you need help with anything with your tool, hit me up. I love working with developers on building realistic use case and workflows.

Sure, my details are in my profile, happy to chat.
Please do. Editors and IDEs need new ideas.
”what we’re observing is X, but we see Y instead.”

What?

Anyway, I’ve found these kind of interview questions rarely helpful because the scenario is either overly simplistic, or it’s some obscure bug they identified (which they only caught because it caused an outage, i.e. they also didn’t “solve” this when they wrote it).

A similarly poor interview question happens in IT operations when the interviewer asks super specific details about some CVE from 5 years ago that he’s particularly proud of pulling an all nighter to patch a bunch of servers.
Can't they just tale vitamin D supplements? Why extra exposure?
I don't think so, I think it's more about openness. I've noticed older software engineers tend to be more anti-LLM and quick to dismiss.

The shortcomings are aplenty, but they don't bother me. The things it can do weren't possible 2 years ago. I'll leverage those and take the bad with the good.

Similar experience with Tesla FSD. I know other Tesla owners who tried it a few times and think it's trash because they had to disengage. I disengage preemptively all the time but the other 90% of my drive being done for me is not something that used to be possible. I tried to give up my subscription because it's expensive and couldn't hold out two days.
Actual title: Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life.

Founder of NomadList, and many others.
https://eig.org/state-noncompete-map/

Most surprising: Oklahoma and North Dakota have full bans. TIL.
I personally believe the FTC noncompete rule is not strong enough, rather than too strong, because it doesn’t protect the public from customer noncompete clauses like those of closed AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google, and even Mistral’s platform side. They learn from us and then prohibit customers from using output to improve our own models. This creates big safety issues as near misses cannot be used to instruct future models.
it's hard to remember all the times I'm rebuffed by other chatbots or even detect when the gaurdrails have kicked in.

Perhaps a web extension is in order to determine if what I am seeing from other chats is likely overly safe and lacking nuance thanks to guidelines. Then I could repipe those chats to a proper max intelligence bot.
Yeah. Eumendides?
This code is unreadable chaos, before and after.

This article just reminds me why I hate JavaScript so much. I know you frontend engineers can’t avoid it, but I wish we could come up with something better.
> Or, much worse, the cheater gets someone hurt or killed. Tech can kill people--just ask Boeing (guess who has large hiring events at my Uni!).

Do you think cheating was a major factor there? Or has Boeing just been prioritizing things like cost over other considerations?

For life critical engineering roles it would be entirely reasonable to test candidates. If an org like Boeing fails to do so, it has to be because they just don't prioritize the candidate's capability.

Of course someone could cheat some but otherwise study and still pass the test, but I think those candidates will already be pretty job performance indistinguishable from people who didn't cheat. A degree only means so much at best.

> I've had several jobs in the past which, as a contingency of being hired, must show proof of a Uni degree via official transcripts.

I'm aware of that practice, though I've never experienced it first hand and you're only the second person who has told me that they've experienced it. In any case, it's easily faked if you're willing to be bold about it, particularly where you've enrolled previously (even briefly) -- get a transcript sent to yourself, make a duplicate that says what you want, send that in. Even if your forgery is not very good it is extremely unlikely to get a careful inspection because faked credentials are not currently recognized to be a widespread problem.

In practice this kind of validation is rare, so even if you're unwilling to go the master-forger route you're just limited somewhat in your hiring pool.

Somewhat ironically, hiring hoops seem to be more common for lower tier position. If your fake degrees aren't working, fake some more and apply as CEO. :D

Even in court I've had difficulty dealing with a party faking their credentials via bare assertion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_shopping#United_States
Flux Dev 1 model that creates half_illustration images