skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure I find it reasonable to disagree on these points.

I personally find informed consent to be a very desirable thing, because it aims at the goal of legislation, not at the means. If you think that citizens cannot, should not, or should not be required to profoundly understand what is happening to them in digital contexts, that's a specific point of view. From this you evaluate the trade-offs.

My personal (humanistic) perspective is that a profound understanding and practical control over our digital lives are the prerequisite for dignity, which is the ultimate goal of a state.
Working 40 hours and making 7 figures, gives you plenty of time to have a life.

The key here is not to categorize as a “language developer”.
Might make for better software, though…
What’s curious is how one of the reasons Pascal was derided was due to the limitations of the original system followed by the incompatibilities of the implementations that reached the market.

Meanwhile, BASIC, which I think it could be argued was the backbone of the mini and micro computing industry for 20 years, was all over the map in terms of implementation and features.

None of the BASICs I used were compatible outside the fundamentals of expressions and the core data types, and even then they all handled strings differently.
AI Sucks at Code Reviews
I love VB6 too, but what you've described is only 10% VB6 and 90% MacGyver. The Phoenix Foundation needs you.
They maybe would not like to kill civilians, nor would they like to be detected so easily.
Lenovo Has a CXL Memory Monster with 128x 128GB DDR5 DIMMs
Sorry, I was referring to Part 121 operations and missed it in an edit.
> Unfortunately this fact has been hijacked by "fat positive" movements like Health at Every Size. They take this fact that BMI is an imperfect measure of health and stretch it waaaaay too far in my opinion, with most supporters translating it as "I can be healthy no matter how fat I am," which is definitely not true.

"Health At Every Size" was how it started, encouragement that you can improve your health despite not losing weight. For example, if you don't normally work out but decide to start, you're probably going to gain weight first - adding muscle faster than you lose fat.

"Healthy At Every Size" is the corrupted version you're describing.
Many thousands of Sr. Staff engineers+ and Sr. managers+ across FAANG.

Google alone has 4000 directors all making a million at minimum.

I have only worked at FAANG across my nearly decade long career. So, it’s a biased but very large sample.
Are they even in the market for a new vehicle to them?
Maybe it’s better to learn to change the topic to something else.
As a civilian I’m in no position to critique the CO’s decision making. However it doesn’t seem unreasonable to assume a SONAR contact classified as a fishing boat may have a net deployed posing a hazard within a certain radius.

I assume Aaron Aamick (Sub Brief) and H.I. Sutton will make a video about this incident in the coming days, and we’ll get a credible answer to whether there’s any fault here on the part of the sub crew.
If silence is important, modern subs have divers and they can work on it w/o surfacing. In peacetime they'd probably want to surface and concentrate on not damaging anything.

I would guess they test props against real-world commercial fishing nets as part of some qualification process.
Bipartisan probably isn't quite the right word there
>well, they are a nuclear submarine, why should they be polite?

Because you'll fight like you train. Accidentally snagging a trawler in unfriendly waters after having just tapped a seabed cable would be a problem.

That said, there's a fine line between maintaining good standard procedure and getting absurd with it.

Dodging a trawler in the middle of nowhere, fine. Dodging a trawler in a crowded channel, probably not worth it.
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Yea, I happen to hate coding challenges, but not because they're hard--because they bias towards "people who have time to do coding challenges". That said you're absolutely right about how many phonies are in the industry and coding tests are probably the best we have to weed them out.
4DiM: Controlling Space and Time with Diffusion Models
Most of these flying taxi designs seem to be multi-rotor, and I'm not sure they are more reliable. Even a single-engine helicopter can autorotate, these multi-rotor ones generally can't (maybe they could) and depending on the rotor configuration, can't fly with one rotor out of action. For example a typical quadrucopter with one motor out just falls to the ground.

EDIT some discussion here: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/37360/can-a-pas...
> Every military sub carries qualified divers

The same divers who occasionally "inspect" undersea cables. :)
Oh I tried it would surely post something on internet
See tactile signing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactile_signing
I am aware of the phenomenon; the interesting part is the word “conditioned”. By whom? And, eventually, who paid for the conditioning? (I think it mostly ends with the usual suspects, Russia, China and Iran).
> No one's doing ASM programming on x86 CPUs these days

I don't think that's entirely true...it's still pretty common to write high-performance / performance sensitive computation kernels in assembly or intrinsics.
That's always been the cycle. As key acts from any sub-genre are subsumed into increasingly polished, expensive, and bland, club nights, festivals, and tours that community will eventually bifurcate into a properly dodgy and fun underground again.
To be fair they usually have "ChatGPT can make mistakes. Check important info" type disclaimers.
>He carried it on for almost an hour for reasons I don't understand if he was so disinterested.

He is just going the the motions that he's been prescribed. Either that or an idiot.
As ABL Space departs launch, the 1-ton rocket wars have a clear winner
Rethinking LLM Inference: Why Developer AI Needs a Different Approach
It's not a pointless ritual. It tests for determination, grit, and willingness to grind on difficult, frustrating and ultimately value-free tasks.

All crucial skills in the modern technology or legal workplace.
> I couldn't get into Nickelback personally because they came in on a wave of similar music that I was generally over by the time they got big.

I feel like that's often part of it. Something that represents peak (whatever) in terms of a sound. The sort of highly-polished result that almost sounds like it was AI-generated by a model trained on exactly what was popular over the past few years.

Of course, you don't need AI to do it - just slightly more human and manual analysis of trends, sales, marketing, and production techniques.
That was mostly because gyms were closed, not because more people started working out.
Mass Deportation: Devastating Costs to America, Its Budget and Economy
Now we know why they bumped Macs to 16GB minimum ;-)
>“I can get false teeth if needed. I only have one brain,” Bush said.

I'm not even sure they have a complete brain, they probably don't need to worry about flouride in the water.
50 years ago we wouldn’t be able to detect today’s ourselves from Proxima Centauri. 500 years ago we would barely be able to do so from the Moon.
This is one of my absolute favorite quotes, and I've used it as a guiding star in figuring out what I want to do with my life, but it's also reductive in a critical way: time and energy are limited, and not everyone wants to generalize.

An example I've been running into myself lately has been trying to get a portrait photography workflow running with only FOSS tech. I've been fighting with darktable and libgphoto for months (and even tried submitting patches!) and tethered shooting still doesn't work right. I could continue sinking time and energy into this, but at the end of the day I just want to shoot tethered to a laptop, a basic function of modern photo editing systems.

I had more time when I was a student for learning how new systems work, but between full time work, the admin of being an adult, maintaining various relationships--I don't have the resources I once did, and I'm content to consider solving them someone else's problem.

The reason I go to my vet is so they can "troubleshoot" my pet. I don't have the expertise to do so myself; why would I expect the reverse to be any more true?
Actual title is "AMD Radeon PRO W7700 running on Raspberry Pi"
that IS the law
That's a perfectly fair and reasonable tone to set because that's how approximately 99% of non-junior jobs work. My boss says he has a problem he'd like me to solve. He might not have all the details so it's on me to investigate the options, identify the gotchas, and clarify the ambiguities.

I never deliberately snuck ambiguities into coding challenges. I've used it in oral sessions for senior and above devs though. "I'm a product manager who wants to add a new feature. I don't really know what's involved but I want you to implement it. Feel free to ask me a million questions and we'll talk it through!"
Bullshit.

Show me one example where he's said something like that and he was citing a real source. And I mean an actual source that he should be respecting. If he just parrots this stuff from other cranks on Twitter, that's not exactly the defense you think it is.
Belgium was in an odd state of bilingualism at the time. While the people of the area would speak Flemish (“Dutch”), those in positions of power and education institutions would use French as the Lingua Franca.

I was born in Leuven and lived there for 30 years of my life - it would be pretty odd to see contemporary references as “Louvain” by those local to it.
Also if the propeller still ends up inoperable, the sub could in an emergency also use buoyancy control to both possibly tear free from entanglement but even to travel forward, by adjusting the dive planes, to make it also go forward instead of just up and down.
Really cool! Makes me weep that most web apps today have a mere fraction of this kind of depth and functionality.
Then click the consent button. You have to consent to a payment being extracted from you.
If this article and the comments here are to be believed, all you need to do to make L6 is grind on leetcode.

Sounds like a good deal to me.
I feel a bit bad bringing this up, but should Gemini actually be considered SOTA?

They make impressive demos, but I can't recall any of their released models being at the top of any leaderboard.

EDIT: Sorry, looking into it a bit more now, they still seem to be at the top in term of the context window, so they got that going for them.
No. People do this thing where they become convinced that so and so is a villain, so any negative thing you say about them is fine, no matter how loose, sloppy, or just plain incorrect.

You need to be a better adversary if you want to have a positive impact. Otherwise you're just contributing to the noise. And then people see all the incorrect criticisms of him, and it makes them less likely to believe actually legit criticisms.
Cruise fined $500K for submitting false report after last years pedestrian crash
Assuming I don't get distracted (a very big assumption), going down a rabbit hole on the history of the golem of Prague and golems in general.
I was "Lucky" to hear him join Radiohead on stage to sing one of their songs back in 98 (iirc).
Is that not literally LeetCode Premium?
Metabolic syndrome is a board classification, and what you described constitutes a tiny portion. For the vast majority of people with Metabolic syndrome, lifestyle change is both capable and necessary for reversing the issue.

The challenge is that the syndrome is resistant to incremental change require a lot more than simply adopting what would otherwise be healthy steady state behaviors.

That is to say, the syndrome goes away if you get back to a normal weight, it is just extremely hard to do it. Im hopeful GLP-1 drugs will help some people break through this wall.
netdata https://github.com/netdata/netdata
> And then I tried gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct. This is a closed OpenAI model, so details are very murky.

How do you know it didn't just write a script that uses a chess engine and then execute the script? That IMO is the easiest explanation.

Also, I looked at the gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct example victory. One side played with 70% accuracy and the other was 77%. IMO that's not on par with 27XX ELO.
When I sign with other deaf programmers, we don't have trouble communicating with signs, even about technical programming.

When I go to the doctor's office and someone interprets for me, I don't have trouble understanding the doctor.

Please don't speak so assuredly about things you clearly don't understand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_language

I agree with the 1st sentence however. You don't have to know sign language to be content or happy with your life, even if you are deaf.
Not “polite”. But, you know, professional. You are supposed to be the ultimate stealth ship. Act like it. A fish boat shouldn’t be able to detect you, especially if all it takes is a slight twist on the joystick.

It’s like a ninja being seen by a guy taking a piss in the three he’s hiding at. That’s a shitty ninja.
Probably because this spec hasn't been accepted yet, it's still a draft.
The leadership of tensorflow (which was a political football) at the time was not particularly wise, or introspective, and certainly was not interested in hearing the opinions of the large number of talented junior and senior engineers. They were trying to thread the needle of growing a large external open source project while also satisfying the internal (very advanced) needs of researchers and product teams.

This was a common pattern at the time and it's part of the reason TF 2.0 became a debacle and jax was made as a side product that matured on its own before the directors got their hands on it.

Affecting leadership's decisions at Google became gradually more difficult over time. The L8s often were quite experienced in some area, but assumed their abilities generalized (for example, storage experts trying to design network distributed strategies for HPC).

Fortunately, with the exception of a few valuable datasets and some resources, effectively everything important about machine learning has been exported from Google into the literature and open source and it remains to be seen if google will ever recover from the exodus of the highly talented but mostly ignored junior and senior engineers who made it so productive in the past.
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I am just saying that there could be a more advanced whatever you may call it that could detect us while we cannot. Much more advanced to us than we are today.
Or you can use GoAccess [0]

[0] https://goaccess.io/
Semantic search without LLMs is already making a dent. It still gives traditional results that need to be human processed, but you can get "better" search results.

And with that there is a body work on "groundedness" that basically post-processes output to compare it against its source material. It still can result in logic errors and has a base error it self, but can ensure you at least have clear citations for factual claims that match real documents, but doesn't fully ensure they are being referenced correctly (though that is already the case even with real papers produced by humans).

Also consider the baseline isn't perfection, it is a benchmark against real humans. Accuracy is getting much better in certain domains where we have a good corpora. Part of assessing the accuracy of a system is going to be about determining if the generated content is "in distribution" of its training data. There is progress being made in this direction, so we could perhaps do a better job at the application level of making use of a "confidence" score of some kind maybe even taking that into account in a chain of thought like reasoning step.

People keep finding "obviously wrong" hallucinates that seem like proof things are still crap. But these system keep getting better on benchmarks looking at retrieval accuracy. And the benchmarks keep getting better as people point out deficiencies it them. Perfection might not be possible, but consistently better than average human seems in reach, and better than that seems feasible too. The challenge is the class of mistakes might look different even if the error rate overall is lower.
The lyrics are cheesy, but I find the music, harmonies/performance to be just fine. Wouldn't be the first decent song with crap lyrics.
> Because web.

Which is a pity; I was watching a client do some crud work in a webapp.

Web - 1 form per page:

Click "back". Copy some text. Click forward. Paste it. Repeat for 3 different fields. Click submit.

Native apps (VB/Delphi/etc) used to be:

Open both forms. Copy and paste from one to the other. Open another one on the side to lookup some information, etc.

Webapps, even moreso with MPA, force a wizard-style interface - you only go forward through the form. This is not how people used to work; they would frequently have multiple forms in the same app open at the same time.

With SPA and html "windows" made out of movable divs you can probably support multiple forms open at the same time, but who does that?
Looks good, I want to give it a try next week.

Appear.in (now called https://whereby.com/) used to have the same functionality and I would just share my link everywhere so that team members could call me whenever they wanted.

Although, Facetime is kind of the exact same thing isn’t it?
> You might personally have seen a deer just once, but human evolution, and animal evolution prior to that have practiced this skill a lot.

Which pre-human animals evolved instincts for swerving a car to avoid a deer?
No, it's not. But at least they have some relative, albeit flawed, context. It's the difference of having heard of something vs not.
I wonder if that was part of the inspiration for the South Park special "The End of Obesity" [1]? A big part of that involved companies that sell sugary foods pushing body positivity so people wouldn't cut down on their foods.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park:_The_End_of_Obesity
I use profiling tools more than step-debugging, and printf()/var_dump()/IO.inspect/System.out.println/&c. much more than both, because most of the time I just need to see what the data looks like in a few locations to have a solution.

Sometimes the problem doesn't show up immediately in data and the code is too complex or uses a lot of wormhole techniques like particular forms of exception abuse, that's when I might fire up the debugger and browse frames instead.
It's probably a lot more simple than what you're expecting.

In Summer I tend to have more carbs and proteins, along with bigger meals for both lunch and dinner since I tend to exercise later outside then during Winter. The extra amounts in both for energy allow me to be active longer before the sun goes down.

In the Winter, I tend to reduce carbs and front load my day with them, so that in effect, by the time the sun goes down, my body is running down on their energy stores for the day. I also tend to reduce proteins and only increase them if I have a heavy day for example if I have both weight training and some higher impact cardio like hockey or indoor rock climbing or snowboarding.

In Winter I tend to have a bigger lunch and smaller dinner which helps to focus in the reduction in energy. Generally by the time 7 or 8pm rolls around, I can feel my body starting to tune down for the day and signals my body is getting ready for sleep. A hot shower usually puts me over the edge. I can get into bed and I'm out cold in a few minutes.

Hope this helps.
> (I personally find F# easier to read than Python for example the generator syntax in Python to me reads backwards).

How so? Or do you mean that about list, dict and set comprehensions?
Capitalisation really didn't help with this title.
> IRL, this individual is a good but not exceptional engineer having worked with them on a small project.

Have you worked with them since they went through this regiment? Doing a DS&A coding problem regiment + system design will change you as an engineer. You might be surprised how good they've become.

Also they say they've forgotten. But if they were able to get that position, they probably could do medium level leetcode problems. So, I'd doubt they've forgotten all of it. I'm pretty sure they'd still be able to solve easy level problems, which most people can't solve off the cuff. They also probably still know the complexity of a bunch of essential backend operations (search, sort, array and hash lookups, tree & graph traversals, etc).
My wife started using the word this way about 20 years ago, I also heard it on TV ads at the time.

I always assumed it was a confused fusion of "wary" and "leery".
No small string optimization?

https://cppdepend.com/blog/understanding-small-string-optimi...
What possible context of this quote would lend credibility to RFK Jr. with this quote, other than it being prefaced by "one of my uninformed friends keeps sharing a meme on Facebook that claims..."

> But if you act like he put on a lab coat and tried playing scientist, and is just spewing original crank research into the world, well you're just misinformed, and you're making others misinformed as well.

He still claims that vaccines cause autism. He's ardently against the HPV vaccine, despite proof that it decreases cancer risk with no comparable downsides. He claims that 5g causes tumors. He's a huge advocate of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, despite there being zero legitimate evidence of them having any affect on COVID 19.

NO ONE is saying these are "original claims" of his. He's dangerous precisely because he amplifies disproven nonsense to a gigantic audience that eats it right up. If someone spends their entire lives repeating nonsense, then yes that is pretty much the exact definition of a "crank."

His crusade against seed oils fits perfectly with all of his other repeated claims: no evidence that they're bad beyond Facebook memes and substantiation purely from other cranks like Robert Malone and Bret Weinstein.

Watch this video of the man himself and listen to the claims he makes. https://youtu.be/Z-YQ1Y7c_Pk

So your honest take on his claims is that these are just "quotes of quotes" and that he might not actually believe the verifiable bullshit nonsense contained within his words?
Old toolkits make it much easier to set the text color of some label to #444, which looks fine on a light background, but is very hard to read on a black background. Setting it to some well-defined MutedText color requires more effort, and it requires the toolkit vendor to have thought about named colors in the first place (and if there are named colors, they might not be meaningful like Muted or Success, but instead ButtonBackground or TooltipText).
They really got it right the first(ish) time. The notion that you can examine a visual component and jump directly to the code is perfect. No files. Just the logical things that you're actually dealing with. Keeping a mental map of a filesystem and code is such an annoying mental burden.
Agreed, though you have to be careful not to rely on gawk (or mawk, etc.) specific features. To be fair, the exact same problem exists between sed and gsed.

I always install gnu-utils on Macs because I find them to be easier, but if I need to share with coworkers, I have to go back and ensure they’re portable.
That's cool! How does it perform compared to more "naive" methods? How did you go about comparing that performance, and was it in a real world RAG?
How to properly document a line of code
Show your thinking and cite your best practices.

Demonstrating best practices that you invite other people to follow requires that you properly recognize the existing best practices. And if they are conflicting then you need to say why you picked one over the other.

When you do this you set a bar for other people to join the discussion--they will need to show examples rather than asserting the color for your bike shed.