skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of these "rebuttals" admit the problem is real and have no solution to ameliorate it. Is this satire?
Oh no, far to the contrary, this is funny as hell. The fact that Alex Jones isn't there makes it even funnier.

And they got all of the stuff and the brands. The chemical brands, the infowars brands, all of it.
I interviewed for a Scala role one time despite never having written it professionally. I suppose it's obscure enough that they couldn't afford to be too picky.

It was a pair programming exercise and so with some help from the interviewer and the IDE I was able to fumble through to a working result. I agree it was fun and educational.
iOS age restriction blocks all browsers except Safari, breaks choice screen
Is max torque on an typical nuclear submarine limited by the max reactor output, or can they rely on batteries to exceed this temporarily?
Not hard to notice the net on the sonar or passive listening devices surely. And they were in an area where encountering a fishing boat and its nets is an everyday occurrence. Someone onboard should be reprimanded.
judge blocked
>But we noticed that if you took a cheap old school microscope and stuck an iPhone on the lens the resulting images were infinitely more crisp vivid and high-res

That's the core reason why the Foldscope is so popular. It really does work well.
The correct link is just this comment

https://github.com/fulldecent/moodle-local_plugin_template/i...

I'm not sure why HN chopped it off
With sshd configuration the first option is the one that sticks, so you need to make sure it sorts BEFORE the 50-cloud-init.conf file.
Changing control colors tends to break, since developers may set the text color to "really dark grey" without changing the background, so you get black on black.
I'd chalk it up to embedded not being a field you can hop into after a 4 month boot camp without prior Computer Engineering education. Of course, there are exceptional people who manage to do that, but they aren't the norm

<Warning - rant ahead>

Contrast that to the overglorified code monkeying that is present-day software development... You got react monkeys hard-coding every single width and height for every button and div in a webapp... And they get paid for it... And then someone like me will have to clean up this shit and explain to the client why the billion features he wants won't be ready in 3 months.....

Then you have AWS monkeys coding everything in lambas and amplify, instead of "if conditions" you got "Step functions" and instead of a function you got a lamda, and instead of async/await you got SQS queues and shit.

</Rant>

As a result, legit Engineers/excellent developers resumes get swallowed up in the raging ocean of noise, and a ton of those noise-resumes aren't distinguishable from legit-resumes due to resume generators being dime a dozen.
I can think of benign uses for lock picks and guns. What is the benign use of a secret exploit?
You are overestimating them. By far.
Their comment is dead so I'm replying to yours (...which also works).

"Fat shaming" is discouraged not because it's a protected class or because a minority have an actual medical problem, it's discouraged because for most people it's counterproductive. For example, going to comfort foods to feel better in the short term, so they just end up gaining more weight.
$600 a year is a lot of money..
“Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.”
― Helen Keller
Maybe there were in the past, currently there is entire industry there to help you game the system.

- Cracking the coding interview.

- Elements of programming interviews in Java|Python|whatever...

- leetcode & other sides with paid premium subscriptions...

- mock interview bootcamps...

It's no longer about skill, it's only about gaming the system.
NT4 isn't as nice, polished, and stable.
Man this makes me wish it had been this sub haha
Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human Please die."
CERN70: From Physics to Medicine
Ask HN: What Tech Consulting / Agency Books or Podcasts Would You Recommend?
Hey all. Joshua Here.

I run a small dev agency, and I am looking for materials on how to do it right for fun and profit along with level up our game. I like listening to stuff and reading books, so looking for everyone's recommendations on those mediums related to this craft. I've previously listened to the art of consulting podcast and read Million Dollar Consulting, but looking for good resources specifically on tech consulting or tech agency work and running those kinds of businesses.

Thanks in advance and hope everyone's week has been fantastic!
Possibly at least somewhat. I think it also comes from getting disillusioned by legitimately terrible things done by the US in the name of “democracy” e.g. Latin American death squads in the 70s/80s, Iraq war and war on terror, etc.

People can’t seem to hold the idea of multiple countries being problematic and doing objectionable things. Certainly information ops from your usual suspects feed into this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...

… he was sued for defamation[1], which is sort in line with the parent's point that the 1A doesn't grant you unfettered immunity to the consequences of your speech.

AIUI, the cases in total have awarded nearly $2B cumulative to the plaintiffs. That's a pretty hefty sum. According to Wikipedia, most of it hasn't been paid by Jones. ("By the end of the summer of 2023, Jones had paid nothing to the families" [for $1.5B of the cumulative penalties, 1])

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones#Sandy_Hook_Elementa...

> This is a common misconception. This decision was reversed by the Supreme Court.

(IANAL.) Partially overturned. And the existing jurisprudence still seems to say that like the above, you'd be held accountable for your actions. It isn't going to be "you can't say that", it would be something like "your actions (shouting fire, falsely) caused a stampede, and people were trampled, and you're now charged with manslaughter". (The Wikipedia article goes into this, too.)
No leetcode.

No coding challenges.

No take-home assignments.

What is the alternative?
> after which we don't have buffers

The "buffers" are two massive oceans, those are not going anywhere for the next million years.

Russia can't sustain an invasion of its next door neighbor. There is zero chance of a hostile invasion of the mainland United States.
>And within a few minutes, got a rejection email.

In some places I think there is an rejection autoresponder.
"Guess we have a sub now! It's the law of the sea."
Ha! The funny thing is, I intentionally "de-clickbait-ify" my blog titles because I know how much HN hates clickbait. Then my blog post gets posted with the clickbait YouTube title!

(Not that it's wrong—the W7700 is objectively more capable than the M4 Pro integrated GPU... especially since you get Linux on the Pi side!)
The concerning thing is, if he's actually just there to bust the joint out and crash everything, it's a moot point whether it's 4000 or 20000 people, whether they're competent or useless, or anything.

In some circumstances, the plan would be to fire everybody and then just sit there and do nothing (except fire more people). The idea that all this is towards any kind of functional system, is an assumption. They could be looking to dismantle the entire administrative state and just collapse immediately to feudalism.
Well, it's after the ides of October, so I daren't venture into retail until January.
What does having invented a term have to do with this?

The Otis company invented the term escalator, and even had a trademark on it for a while, but does it mean that you'd only call one an escalator if it was made by them?
> However if your looking at the "for you" page, shits just kept on getting more extreme.

That's all I ever read. I only follow a small number of people who produce high quality content related to my industry, though. Perhaps that is what primes the "For You" page to say within the same realm and not go off the rails as you suggest?

I'm sure you are right that garbage in, garbage out applies. But why feed it garbage?
China must now lead global warming fight, UN climate chief says
Man I miss n-gate. Sometimes I go back and read the archives just for fun.
I like Birdchan
There are few things as significant and human as trying to find a partner. Gotta persevere the sanctity of that. All the best!
You mean like calling the Netherlands, Holandia?

There's a lot of exonyms in Polish in everyday use.
It has better moderation tools; it will likely get all the same trolls, but you won't have to look at them if you don't want to. In particular, mass-blocking is a first-class feature (it never was on Twitter, and then Musk's API and other changes broke it almost completely).
This is an interesting comment. Let's extend it further.

The pop industry is a:

- machine

- which takes authentic human meaning

- and produces essentially a stochastic echo of it ("slop")

- in an optimization algorithm

- to predict the next most profitable song (the song that is most "likely")

So, this sounds an awful lot like something else that's very in vogue right now. Only it was invented in 1950 or 1960, not in 2017.
I've now read a summary. It's just the same light, eating, and exercise changes, mixed with some night-owl denialism. All stuff I've tried dozens of times, which maybe moves my sleep by 15 minutes.
It is contradictory and counterproductive for an issue that can only be realistically addressed through individual behavioral change.

The potential of governmental regulation is incremental at best, and a deflection at worst.
I was a lawyer. I passed the bar exam (first try, no less). I practiced. The bar exam does none of what you claimed for it. Now, I offered it here as an analogy, but I am not a software developer. It just sounded akin to what I do know from my own experience and from talking to literally hundreds of other lawyers, law school professors, judges and their clerks. So maybe it’s not a good analogy to software development. I don’t know.
Better idea: Charge both recruiters and applicants to contact each other. Recruiters should be charged more because they are generally the spammers. The nuances can be worked out. But people can earn a small amount in the process.
They've even been alleged to "maintain" pipelines.
The onion did not win the auction. The trustee selected the onion's offer despite it not being the highest. The judge is going to toss that out. Jone's people are also saying the auction (other than selecting the winner) wasn't conducted in accordance with the judge's order.

Most likely the sale will be awarded to the Jones-friendly high bidder.
Haha, I've just talked with the author. :) There is a market for crowded cities, I think. When you park your vehicle in front of a crowded place etc you can print/write a link to reach you if needed. There are some anonymity number services, but for internet users, this can be a solution to keep their numbers private. Good luck!
You can do all of these things in software, and it is done. It’s important thing to have control over the process so you can get quantitative data at the other end, and not just a pretty picture. Also, noise should not be discounted as a very good reason to use lower megapixel sensors. If you want a pretty picture, by all means use a cellphone, but you can’t reality use or trust the result for many scientific purposes.
JavaScript Dos and Donts
Conditioning doesn't need to be something one does to another. You can condition yourself by just dabbling in something and then going down the rabbit hole.
I think this is called "Black Propaganda".
> limitations of the person thinking of them, but not actual limitations of the medium of which work is done.

I think we are agreeing here. That was the point of my examples, demonstrating limited thinking from the execs demanding RTO. I was trying to show it wasn't just them being totally dumb, they have valid reasons ... but their narrowness in conceiving of the solution is driving them to do things they way the've done them before. And in many cases that might even be the (local maxima) rational thing, under the assumption they don't have a good mechanism to change the organization dynamics. That overall is a tragedy and lack of leadership. But I think the core issue is exactly that: the limitation in thought of how to structure a group of people to do work. That there are organizations that do it well, seems to me to be an existence proof that it can be done much better and the leaders in organizations going back to RTO should be trying harder to adapt rather than fight remote work. One example of why it often is so naive and wasteful is because the assumptions of teams working together in the same space is often wrong at bigger companies. Plenty of people go to office just to spend all day in zoom meetings talking to colleagues spread out in different offices - that has all the disadvantages of remote work ... but none of the benefits! It isn't even doing office work right, which can have its own advantages too, it just is a total leadership failure.
Dead Kaczynski
If you don’t experience consequences for poor governance decisions, you don’t learn.
> I don’t think that is a material distinction.

Then try it in vacuum ;)

"a laser beam can act like an opaque object and cast a shadow" will not happen.
I like the approach! but does it work on long documents? If you’re doing a single llm pass, how does the llm keep track of the chunks it’s already made?
Lots of misinformation on the internet wrt this, and I am not a lawyer either.

It's especially tragic because Google serves you countless factually incorrect articles if you search for gdpr, which doesn't help with this endless amount of confusion.

You might be interested to know that an IP address isn't actually PII, because that's a concept of California privacy regulation and they don't care about them

https://techgdpr.com/blog/difference-between-pii-and-persona...

It's a different story for gdprs personal data however. Because there are individuals with static IPs - which makes it possible to link these IP addresses to individuals.
If you could only omit these, you could technically use ipadresses however you want too. But I admit that that's kinda unrealistic ( • ‿ • )
Alternatively, the body's system for mandating sleep breaks down resulting in slower healing of cuts/wounds
The situation in 2024 is much more confusing. Because it seems to me that the political side that styles itself to be against the far-right, is also very much in favour of curtailing free speech and reigning in internet platforms where people share news and political opinions. So who is burning the books? Everyone? I'm so confused.
Funny story, but unfortunately the article is light on details.
> but that doesn’t make those actions unethical any more than governments explicitly legalizing something makes it ethical

That is, sometimes, sufficient.

If government says ‘seller of a house must disclose issues’ then I rely rely on the law being followed, if you sell and leave the country, you have defrauded me.

However if I live in a ‘buyer beware’ jurisdiction, then I know I cannot trust the seller and I hire a surveyor and take insurance.

There is a degree of setting expectations- if there is a rule, even if it’s a terrible rule, I as individual can at least take some countermeasures.

You can’t take countermeasures against all forms of illegal behaviour, because there is infinite number of them. And a truly insane person is unpredictable at all.
Ask HN: What job search strategies work for you?
I’ve been laid off since June and have not been getting responses from most of my applications other than denials. I have 10+ years mostly Ruby/React/JS. New just working on a side project (job listing scraper) but curious what is working well for you? Specific apps or strategies that lead to your hiring?
I do wonder whether some people have thought out the end-game, in the event that they plan to simply fire all those people, turn them out onto the street, and replace them with nothing.

I mean, one outcome is the obvious collapse of the Pentagon. But it seems like an oversight to have those people, now with a bone to pick, running around loose. Do they propose to take all the bad Pentagon bureaucrats and confine them in some way? I wouldn't want to be the Sgt. Shultz in charge of being those guys' jailer. Seems like it would be a tall, tall order.
it doesnt have to be secret. for example unlocking old phones. There are certainly people waiting for the right exploits to get access to their old wallet.
Outsourcing your morality to politicians past and present is not a particularly useful framework.
That misses the mark. You can’t really compare a hackish ”print the world as a string“ function against a debuggers ability to stop time, walk around, pick things up, slice them open, put them somewhere else, and start time again.

That’s not just not the same league, it’s playing a whole different game.
My grandpa had dementia. Last time me and my mom flew over to visit he didn't recognize either of us the first day. He didn't even remember having a daughter. Second day he vaguely recognized my mom but not me.

Third and last day of our stay, as soon as I entered the living room he lit up and exclaimed my name. We sat and talked for hours, reminiscing past events with great details, until we had to leave for the plane home.
You skipped right over what I think they were referring to: "overweight" (BMI 25-30) vs "normal" (18.5-25). Evidence there isn't as clear, I've occasionally but regularly for decades run across some that overweight could be healthier than a normal weight.
Thanks for trying out!
Sorry that MagicQuill doesn't meet your expectations, as the model cannot generalize so well for different elements.
The lip is a small element while the horse can be big, so you may need to, say, reduce the "Grow size" and "Edge strength" in the "Parameters" for dying the lips to narrow down the edited area and control strength.
But Florence is the French name of that city. Or Rome. I don't really understand the difference with Louvain.
Have you personally verified that the answers are not hallucinations and that they are indeed factually true?

Oh, you just asked it to make a trivia app that feeds on JSON. Cute, but that's not what I meant. The web is full of tutorials for basic stuff like that.

To be clear I meant that LLMs can't write trivia questions and answers, thus proving that they can't produce trustworthy outputs.

And a trivia app is a toy (one might even say... a trivial example), but it's a useful demonstration of why you wouldn't put an LLM into a system on which lives depend on, let alone invest billions on it.

If you don't trust my words just go back to fiddling with your models and ask them to write a trivia quiz about a topic that you know very well. Like a TV show.
Hes a lawyer. Do you think he wins cases by showing the judge and jury twitter screenshots?

This specific issue is based on a lawsuit, googling brings this up:

https://www.eastcountymagazine.org/robert-kennedy-jrs-legal-...

I can't speak to whether the case is good or not, but the point stands: these aren't his original claims as so many people like to say. They come from e.g. expert witnesses. Maybe those people are cranks, I have no idea.
Unfortunately, you often have to ask the interviewer (which is tough when it's a coding challenge and you have no way to ask for clarification on the rules). I know interviewers who will say "You didn't cover edge case A, B, and C, your solution is incomplete!" and other interviewers who will say "You are overthinking this, I'm just looking for an MVP."
Somehow they're not in the limelight, and lack a well-known open-source runner implementation (like llama.cpp).

Given the potential, they should be winning hands down; where's that?
Yep benchmarks are available at https://github.com/ZeroEntropy-AI/llama-chunk?tab=readme-ov-... , we used this dataset https://github.com/ZeroEntropy-AI/legalbenchrag which is a retrieval-focused version of LegalBench.

It scored better than LlamaIndex's recursive character text splitter and that was including some custom regex work to improve it. If you put enough effort into the regex you could probably get there, but the whole point of the agentic chunking is for it to be automatic and contextual.
Leaderboards are misleading. Try diff models for YOUR task and you’ll see a wide variety of outputs compared to “official” rankings.
One of the few areas of reliable statistics about US software developer pay come from the US Government Bureau of Labor Statistics. The median wage as of May 2023:

$132,270

This means half of all full time employed devs are higher, and half are lower. The mean is more skewed by higher earners but is similar:

$138,110

It also varies quite widely by geographic location, from a mean high of $173,780 in California to only $125,890 in Texas, from $199,800 in San Jose to $132,500 in Austin to $98,960 in rural Kansas (where I have actually developed software before!)

The short of it is, the vast majority of software developers do not make the top salaries. Even L6 is rare within the top tier of tech. There is a lot of delusion in this field around pay, so it's important to be well informed. As a field we are still very well paid compared to most other jobs especially considering our safe working conditions and lack of needed credentials and education. Compared to most of the work on this planet, it's still a goldmine.

Source: https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151252.htm
My employer's coding challenge uses replit and takes 30 minutes in which we're watching them do it (and interacting, asking them questions or prompting them with hints). It's not a hard challenge at all--one candidate who'd been grinding leetcode did it twice in the 30 minutes, with different solutions. We do the same with a system design question.

Most finish it, some don't and still get hired. It's a workalong in which we see how they approach the problem, how they discuss it with me, and what they do if they get stuck. We tell them to go ahead and google things, just tell us what they're looking for.

Over 10 years, we've got a pretty good record of hires that are smart, professional, and effective. And without specifically trying to hire for diversity, we've had a surprisingly diverse range of hires. We don't care about "culture fit", it's more like "work fit".

So I agree that the sort of code challenge where you send them away and see what they come up with is both unfair and a poor indicator. The real hiring test in an interview should be "can I work alongside this person?"
One example I can think of is the WoW private server Warmane uses an RCE to extend client functionality.

https://www.reddit.com/r/wowservers/comments/1eebxwf/warning...
I'm not an expert in this area of law, nor do I really know much about any Alex Jones cases, but when I found out he was fined $1.5 billion for believing and furthering a conspiracy that seems excessive. I would hazard a guess there are many lawyers and legal experts who would agree with my opinion, so it's probably not a black-and-white issue, in this particular case.

If Alex Jones had been some left-wing commentator, who just went crazy and was wrong about this shooting, who the left loved, they wouldn't have done this lawfare against him. I say there was a lot of personal hatred for him PRIOR to the lawsuit which is the true reason for the huge settlement. People hated him, and they used lawfare to get at him.
The GPT-4 pretraining set included chess games in PGN notation from 1800+ ELO players. I can't comment on any other models.