skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dear lord, if someone started relying on LLMs for legal documents, their clients would be royally screwed…
I decided to migrate from DokuWiki to Markdown some time ago too. I write a python script for the conversion if anyone is interested https://github.com/michalmiddleton/Dokuwiki2Markdown
Same, FF/Mac.
Meh. It is like any other construct in this regard. If you let it get complicated, it can be complicated. Most of the time, you should be able to keep it short.

Pointedly, though, it was hilarious to me how much Java began to look like typical LOOP constructs with Collectors.
Because the engineers of the other software chose not to work for free?
In my experience ChatGPT seems particularly bad at Elixir, presumably because there is a comparative lack of published code and discussion about it.
yeah that caught my eye too, looks to me like speculative editing (they mentioned that its faster to each its input) + prompt-caching it would literally build up on all the tech they have
What does that have to do with anything? The text transcript for the video already exists on the client, implementing this behavior is trivial with that in mind. Whatever creepy analysis YouTube is doing (which I don't doubt they are), this feature isn't evidence of it.
its a bit more than that, you can clearly see that the decoding speed is super fast
> I guarantee that whatever answer you give doesn't matter

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Then you could do that and showcase that you can write code incredibly fast.
I live in a "right to work" state.

As a young corporate go getter, I signed a few non-compete contracts. In two cases, I was lured away by a competitor. In both cases, I tried (unsuccessfully) to hide where I was going. My old companies found out and tried to enforce the non-compete as punishment.

Both times, my attorney filed the necessary paperwork, we showed up in the first case and my boss was threatening me outside in the lobby before we went in, telling me I'll never work in this city again. We go in and judge basically laughed at the company and tossed the case immediately.

I don't remember the slew of cases he listed, but the message was clear. You cannot keep someone from working in their chosen field simply because you don't like your competitor. Since no laws were broken and I left with literally nothing but the suit I wore in on my first day - they didn't have any reason to keep me from working in my field.

The other case went the same way a five or six years later.
It does mean something to a lot of people. It was a monument to American engineering. Once it launched, it immediately won the Blue Riband for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic in a passenger ship, a record no US ship had held for a century. That record still stands 70+ years later. It's just a really cool ship? It's a shame that it's been neglected for so long and will now almost certainly be destroyed.
Pay-for closed-source is profitable for about a week. Then some asshole
offers a shittier but free facsimile and community contributions render
it good enough to kill the original.
Papers without code are sorta by definition not reproducible or comprehensible though. And yet somehow it's not part of the peer reviewing process.
I did a bug squash interview when I was interviewing for new grad positions and it was one of my favorite interviews (both as an interviewee and an interviewer)

- People were allowed to use their favorite IDEs - so you could see how proficient some people were

- Great engineers are really really good at debugging - it was great to see how people debugged and it helped me pick up a few things as well

- People couldn't leetcode their way out of this
It looks like this is a known issue with his handcrafted CMS: https://github.com/adrian3/whisper/issues/5
> "The Commission’s lack of evidence as to why they chose to impose such a sweeping prohibition ... instead of targeting specific, harmful non-competes, renders the Rule arbitrary and capricious," wrote Brown

All non-competes are harmful, end of story.

Link to the ruling: https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rj8_52.B... (…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…)
probably because multiplication got really fast
I tried for a long time to use this keyboard effectively. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FingerWorks but I never really could. I like the touchscreen idea, your user interface is the user interface you were trained on, Star Trek style.

I think light and sound engineers probably have the best setup. everything's hooked up to a big board with sliders. you can physically move the sliders, and the position of the slider represents what's actually happening. But you can also set up a scene on an attached computer. Click the button, or tap the touch screen, all the sliders move to the predesignated state.

I don't know a damn thing about battleships, or destroyers. But a big ass console, with physical knobs and sliders that represent the current state seems like a really good idea. Sure, you can adjust whatever from whatever glass station you want. But everyone can tell at a glance, the state of the world. You can walk over and turn the knob, overriding everything else. And everybody can see you do it, and hopefully understand what that action means.

The closest I get to that sort of stuff is my car. The hazard lights are one big dedicated button. There may be a way to turn them on with the touchscreen, I don't know. Volume has a physical dial on the console. There are buttons on the steering wheel, but I find myself reaching for the dial when I really need to turn the volume down.

Physical controls are expensive. I imagine there's stuff that's common and essential, that, it's probably a good idea to spend the money and have the control. I have strong feelings about this. There are little fiddly settings that you can tuck away under five layers of menus. But there's other stuff That you touch all the time, or you need in an emergency, that IMHO, you should be allowed to build up muscle memory to accomplish.
I’ve always liked the Gilded Rose refactoring[1] which is similar but about improvements/feature requests instead.

[1] https://github.com/emilybache/GildedRose-Refactoring-Kata/bl...
It’s not too different from you yourself searching for a few documents and reading them before formulating an answer.
>However, it was not the fog or my client’s speed that caused standard crash avoidance safety mechanisms to fail, but the crash-ee’s negligent decision to go outside without a phone with a functioning and active location beacon.”

This already happens today. Who do you think is going to get the blame if you use an at-grade railway crossing, didn't check for trains, and got run over?
I was on that ship but left before the accident, I'm pretty positive it was sleep deprivation. The schedule changed at sea frequently so you couldn't get used to what little sleep pattern you were getting. We also had surprise drills that can happen literally any time of day or night. Longest I stayed awake was 72 hours straight.
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Perhaps this will make my willingness to alter a title seem somewhat arbitrary, but I do agree on the whole. I don't think that media should be edited to remove racist or otherwise outmodded content; for example, I would never suggest altering the language of Huckleberry Finn, or the racist content found in some classic Looney Tunes. We can and should be forced to reckon with the history of racism, and our children should be taught context alongside content. Perhaps what got me in this instance is the use of modern "woke" terminology to refer to, in the case of Agatha Christie's novel, a decision that was made decades ago. Further, I don't think it's correct to assume that all editorial decisions are made in pandering to the "woke zeitgeist," whatever that means.
BTW these computers were mostly very functional, in the modern sense. They took inputs from instruments and controls, and computed functions, all usually continuous, smooth, real- or complex-valued. These functions' values, computed as voltages, frequencies, angles, etc were directly controlling some actuators, rudders, throttles, etc.

It's also highly compositional, as in applying relatively simple functions to results of other such functions, etc., which you can reason about analytically, and can plot on paper or an oscilloscope as a part of development and testing loop.

Disclaimer: all my hands-on experience with analog computers is from a one-semester course decades ago, using analog electronic, not mechanical devices.
You're fortunate you could afford an attorney and successfully argue your case. Most of the folks under a non compete (like hourly restaurant workers!) probably can't do that.
> 1. Content Generation:

Spam isn't a feature. See also, this whole message that could just have been the headlines.

> 2. Customer Service and Support:

So… less clear than the website and not empowered to do anything (beyond ruining your reputation) because even you don't trust it?

> 3. Summarization and Insights:

See 1, spam isn't a feature. This is just trying to undo the damage from that (and failing).

> 4. HR Candidate Screening:

> 5. Legal Document Review:

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
Sorry, I wasn't trying to be unkind. I got my first customers through ads and content marketing. I never did cold emails or cold calls. Sounds grueling.
> I'll take the UV rays over a bunch of smelly, synthetic goop all over my skin.

There are portable sun umbrellas that allow you to protect your skin without sunscreen. But I doubt they'll cover the entire body, though it should be enough for the head and the arms. And I am not sure if the reflected rays of the sun against various surfaces (windows, cars...) are not dangerous.
Having read some great articles on the spate of pacific fleet collisions contemporaneous with the McCain incident, this is when I stopped reading this pointless article.
Had an interview question like this where the interviewers were very impressed. Said it was the fastest and cleanest they'd seen anyone do it, and in an unfamiliar framework no less. Unfortunately it wasn't enough for me to get the job. I had a couple of answers in the next section they didn't quite like.
Regardless of whether “money is a form of free speech” or not, nothing in the constitution prevents you from signing contracts that limit your free speech, directly. It’s totally legal to agree to a contract not to say certain things in public, for example.
if it's $2500 for 400 troy ounces = $1,000,000, then at 12.441KG = 12441g then the price per gram is only $0.20 which is way different $80 a gram, have I missed something.
I'd just love some zoning changes that would allow light commercial in the middle of some neighborhoods so I don't have to drive miles to get a cup of coffee. Could be as simple as adding more pathways between neighborhoods so I don't have to ride my bike on a busy street and almost get hit by someone on their phone.

Its not that we're obsessed with cars, its that cars are the only option for reasonable, safe transportation right now.
I thought right-to-work is an antiunion mechanism?
As a bicyclist, Dodge Rams are easily the hardest (un-raised) vehicles on me for visibility, short of full sized tractor-trailers. I cannot see over the hood while on my bicycle, so presumably neither can anyone on the other side see me. Despite being sold as light-duty, the engine compartment appears to me to be much larger than even a medium-duty box truck (many, but not all of these are cab-forward designs which complicates comparison).

As a driver of a compact car, the fact that they put the headlights at the very top of the massive grille is just terrible, and there seems to be an arms race between pickup manufacturers to place the headlights as high as possible.

Again, by comparison to medium-duty vehicles, the Freightliner M2 106 puts the headlights right above the bumper.
Texas is the America of America.
Livestock haven't gone away.
Specifically, the sections about their war techniques, which were clever, and often fooled or overpowered their enemies, although they did lose battles sometimes, too.

P.S. Downvoter dude, er, brat, is prolly too lazy, hasty or clueless, to even scan the article (for the Mongols' techniques) that I linked, before their nervously twitching trigger finger touches that downvote icon.

Seen this behaviour many times on HN (Hasty and Nervous). :)
1 vehicle = 1 person is especially noticeable when you're in the HOV lane zooming past traffic, a sea of thousands of vehicles that can't take the HOV lane.

In fact there are so few people in the HOV lane that I always feel like I'm doing something wrong when I take it, like I misunderstood the rules. It can't be this easy.

Nah, I really am the only person on the highway with more than one person in the car.
> how many pedestrians and bikes are directly crossing busy train tracks at grade?

Near me? A few. Not sure how busy, but I get caught on my commute about once a week.

While I totally agree with your points, I don't see how this is any worse than today. Connected convoys don't need to go at every green light (like that one robot planet from Futurama) they can wait for pedestrians. The biggest difference would be clearing intersections quicker.
I literally gave up on trying to read the article because of this.

The eyestrain from the font size nearly immediately gave me a headache.
Yes. The "editors" for most such publications do not edit, they make publishing decisions.

Copy-editors are expensive, and paid for by the researchers, not the journals.
I was thinking more for the sequence where it broaches the surface then lights its engine.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h5KejRbD5s0&t=34s

That's a lot more dynamic of a launch orientation. Which way is it rotated? Is it inclined off vertical?
On the other hand, sometimes I find the time right after waking up the clearest, having an empty mental stack. Like having a clear cache.
I see this "induced demand" critique a lot, and I am curious - if it's wrong, how is it different than adding housing to a region to make it cheaper?
Once I was cruising down the 130 toll road around Austin just after rush hour listening to the radio and just keeping up with traffic. Then traffic started pulling away from me and I couldn't keep up; my truck wouldn't go any faster. Thinking I was having a problem I looked at the dash and noticed I was going 105 mph and was up against the speed limiter on my truck. Yeah, even when the speed limit is 85 that's not enough for Texans. ;)
We've totally jumped the shark
We certainly went from ignoring to freaking out about near-peer threats very quickly.
I believe ex post facto in the US only applies to criminal cases. Retroactive civil regulations are not restricted (at least by the federal constitution).

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1789-1850/3us386
This response to the point made by the person to whom you're responding is the philosophical equivalent of plugging your ears and going "la la la can't hear you".

> In the grand scheme of things, we're all just temporary cosmic dust, right?

What else would you be able to justify using this platitude?
If you disagree on the value of a product you simply don't need to consume it.

NYT still has some quality journalism. It's not like that Huffington Post or something
Designing subscription services?
> If you're running a Linux, you're probably much more protected, but even then, on Ubuntu and most other popular distros, you probably download all or most of your apps with apt or rpm from their own official repos, so they probably can get a pretty good idea of what you're running.

Yes, but not when nor whether you are actually using the apps you have installed. Nor any data created at runtime.
>I don't think a compiler could ever reliably transpose an array-of-structs representation to a struct-of-arrays one.

An interesting question, but a SoA isn't necessarily better than an AoS: it depends on the access pattern, so the question is whether this optimisation could be added as a part of PGO..
Right to work is 100% anti-union. In reality, it's "the right to work without any protections."

The idea used to sell it is that you don't owe your employer any loyalty, and they don't owe you any loyalty; either of you can walk away at any time.

In reality, this creates a completely asymmetric power dynamic. You can be fired at any time, for any reason, which means you have little power to advocate for better compensation, safer working conditions, and so on.
It upsets me that collaboration, and now the use of AI is considered “cheating”. By calling it cheating they are conditioning people to be stupid. You are supposed to work with others and it’s necessary. The people that learn to work with others are way more successful.

But in school teachers are focused on cramming info into kids heads instead of teaching them how to self learn. It’s like “give a kid a fish feed him for a day”. If you teach kids how to self learn then give them fun projects, they will naturally collaborate, use ai, and be totally prepared for life!

They would be much better off if they spent time studying real world problems and using ai to make kid level solutions in my opinion.
Why hire someone new and then let the person do refactoring. And then write a useless article about it, like it's some groundbreaking insight.

refactoring is overrated plus
refactor is all about: clarify the terms, then do the thing
as an extension it already exists, nothing new in that front.
Plus bonus compensation for the loss of skills while you aren't working.
> You mean the trains that go by once every 15+ minutes, and are confined to a track with no way for the operator to do anything but brake or speed up, compared to every few seconds with the ability for the driver to take control at any moment?

Yup, those trains! They'd have a shorter and more irregular schedule, but autonomous convoys would behave pretty similarly to that. Outside of emergencies like drivers assuming control to swerve into pedestrians, I guess.

Plus, like you say, no need to remove any of the infrastructure of really safety assumptions of today, just augment.
Thanks for actually digging up the relevant lines!
Fair. If coms fail though, you're no worse than today. Vehicles don't need to travel any closer, just start together.
This is indeed a good interview challenge, and as a candidate I’ve enjoyed taking it the couple of times I have encountered it.

I also like the related challenge of, “add a feature that does X” to a codebase.
> > Cheating is widespread because there are people in those courses who aren't interested in the material

This is only part of the issue, IMO. Students (especially CS/Engineering students) are usually overloaded with work.

I've caught otherwise motivated students cheating simply because they're stressed to perform and didn't want to fail--especially since they've usually gotten pretty far in their coursework once they get to me--and the stress got the better of them.

No excuses for them (and I fail cheating/plagarism along with my Uni policy) but lack of interest isn't always the motivating factor.

> I just think assessments should be more holistic

I'm with you on this, but aside from the time issue which I brought up in a previous response, this has been attempted at Uni before. In the 1960s, UCSC attempted to eliminate all grading and assessments and had professors write a narrative about their students. It worked from a knowledge perspective, but was absolutely lambasted in the wider media and academic circles.

https://old.reddit.com/r/UCSC/comments/wpmgax/does_anyone_kn...
That's because the US is built that way. In turn because every city that's not New York has just expanded horizontally with hundreds of thousands of square kilometres of detached house-driveway-backyard-frontyard suburbia.

In most of the Old World, cities have existed for centuries—if not millennia—and were built for the human foot, not the car tyre. Hence most European and Asian city centres are dense, mostly walkable, and fairly small. From the 1800s onward as transport speeds have increased they've built dense mid-/high-rises in the suburban bits, and developed cheap, efficient, and highly-utilised bus and heavy rail public transport, both within and between cities.

Many such cities additionally have 'green belts' to prevent urban sprawl.

Actually I am misrepresenting the situation in the USA.

The US expanded with the railways, and many American cities were built along and at the end of railways.

But then in the 1950s, Americans collectively decided that public transport was useless and they bulldozed through their city centres, ripped up the trams and railways, and splatted veritable plates of highway spaghetti right through the middle of their cities (often through slums and ghettos mainly housing poorer people of African descent).
Ah that's unfortunate, I had a pretty OK time with Dramatiq (coming off of Celery especially). But I imagine this is dependent on your scale.

I think most people reading this site are working on relatively small systems (that still need background tasks!) and the fixed costs of background tasks can be reasonable. But I could be totally offbase
Digital License Plates and the Deal That Never Had a Chance
Strongly disagree with this. Toasts/alerts/etc. are a valid form of feedback in the UI. Inline feedback can be helpful/good (e.g., the copy/paste example in the article), but it can also be confusing if applied incorrectly.

A toast is a universal, out of the way confirmation of a user action. They shouldn't just be blindly waved off as "bad UX."
Nah, it should be the higher of current pay or potential pay so that i can offer jobs at ridiculous salaries to my competitor's workers and stick my competitor with huge bills if they choose not to waive the non compete. Weaponize this the other way to end the utter stupidity
Great post. It's nice that these rules can be trivially demonstrated by simulation. The simulation (and visuals) helps validate the concepts.
How much time do you allot for this thing? Cloning the repo, dependency installs, server/DB setups, possible build steps, configuring the IDE to the project ... even if the whole thing is containerized, just going from nothing to running code in an IDE alone could be expected to take 20-30 minutes of the interview.
> A federal judge in Texas

Surprise, surprise
lol this made me chuckle
Are they ever really enforced? I've heard it's almost entirely an intimidation thing like cease and desist.
Right to work is an anti-union policy. You probably mean at-will. Meaning your employment can be terminated “at will” by your employer or by you.
If you’re looking to incorporate markdown into OneNote, you may want to look at the OneMark addin:

https://onemark.neux.studio
Also, very few US cities have the balls to give buses their own lane. So any time you take the bus, you sit in the same traffic as everyone who took their car instead of zooming past traffic like you should be doing.
I recently saw this related article[0] on the HN frontpage and I've already been applying it.

TL;DR: To build more quickly, do "outline speedrunning": Recursively outline an MVP, speedrun filling it in, and only then go back and perfect.

[0]: with me: https://learnhowtolearn.org/how-to-build-extremely-quickly/