skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By intellectually understand, I just mean you can ask Claude or ChatGPT or whatever, "how can I recognize if a string is in a^n b^n? what is the language being described?" and it can easily tell you; if you were giving it an exam, it would pass.

(Of course, maybe you could argue that's a famous example in its training set and it's just regurgitating, but then you could try making modifications, asking other questions, etc, and the LLM would continue to respond sensibly. So to me it seems to understand...)

Or going back to the original Hofstadter article, "simple tests show that [machine translation is] a long way from real understanding"; I tried rerunning the first two of these simple tests today w/ Claude 3.5 Sonnet (new), and it absolutely nails them. So it seems to understand the text quite well.

Regarding computation and understanding: I just though it was interesting that you presented a true fact about the computational limitations of NNs, which could easily/naturally/temptingingly -- yet incorrectly (I think!) -- be extended into a statement about the limitations of understanding of NNs (whatever understanding means -- no technical definition that I know of, but still, it does mean something, right?).
1. The Trump era automatic 20% deduction for LLC or corporate income. Totally unjustifiable, it's 20% off your revenue for everyone with a company for no public policy reason that I know of
2. You can mostly avoid paying into SS/Medicare by taking the large majority of your compensation via distributions, not salaried income

Just off the top of my head
"Deep supranational political and economic union" really doesn't have the same ring to it.
It's ChrisMarshallNY for me. So frequently I'll come to a comment chain on Apple or Swift or NYC stuff with the intention to make a sweet point, only to find Chris has already said the same thing, though much more eloquently.

He's been building software for 10 years longer than I've been alive, hopefully in a few decades I'll have gained the same breadth of technical perspective he's got.
How many silent P's are in the word "prompt"? Let me ask ChatGPT...
It is scientific malpractice to use Mechanical Turk to establish a human-level baseline for cognitively-demanding tasks, even if you ignore the issue of people outsourcing tasks to ChatGPT. The pay is abysmal and if it seems like the task is purely academic and hence part of a study, there is almost no incentive to put in effort: researchers won't deny payment for a bad answer. Since you get paid either way, there is a strong incentive to quickly give up thinking about a tricky ARC problem and simply guess a solution. (IQ tests in general have this problem: cynicism and laziness are indistinguishable from actual mistakes.)

Note that across all MTurk workers, 790/800 of evaluation tasks were successfully completed. I think 98% is actually a better number for human performance than 60%, as a proxy for "how well would a single human of above-average intelligence perform if they put maximal effort into each question?" It is an overestimate, but 60% is a vast underestimate.
I believe at this point this is the patriotic thing to do. Everyone should start creating fake accounts and posting fake applications to these online jobs so the whole system implodes. Then companies will have to start doing something else.
> The fact that it's possible for me to be aware of anything at all is interesting though, and definitional of conciousness.

"it's possible for me to be aware of anything" <--- restating your premise. Not evidence that your premise is true. Your definition of consciousness is circular.
It is somewhat doable, using ARKit. See "TheParallaxView" on the app store.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/theparallaxview/id1352818700
I am in this position.

In the last few months I've submitted dozens of job applications for positions where, as articulated by another commenter upthread, the person writing the JD could have been writing it based on my resume.

15+ YOE, interesting work, promotions with progression of responsibility and impact, deep experience working with executives on the business side, side projects, volunteering experience, I speak multiple natural languages (I even tried applying for some "international" roles), etc.

0 responses apart from "we're going with other candidates". Not even so much as a phone screen.

Inbound recruiting stream has dried up as well. In 2017-2018 I was getting a dozen or more emails from recruiters weekly. Now I get maybe one a month, typically for C2H or a full-time role w/ at least a 20% pay cut.

I've shifted my focus to entrepreneurial work and sharpening skills outside of tech.
You’re right, I was a bit hyperbolic there. Though it is supposed to be for skilled jobs that a capable american is not available to do.
3 replies to a single comment, and you're doing this all over this thread. You're almost 10% of the comments here, and there's a lot of comments.

Might be good to take a step back for a few minutes/hours.
Yes, that’s exactly what I’ve done.
thank you for letting us know. i was wondering if you found it interesting and would check it out
I've had one job saved in LinkedIn for about 6 months. It keeps closing and reopening, but never seems to actually get filled.
Oh man, you're in for a treat. Look up some videos on youtube, the classic being John Oliver's 2017 piece; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyGq6cjcc3Q . He's adjacent to the newly mainstream right, yes, but he's been around for a long time as a more radical+fringe actor, and has all the baggage that goes along with that. A good portion (most?) of his money was made from selling vaguely anti-GMO and pro-masculinity products sold with a heavy dose of "big pharma doesn't want you to know this one trick".

They ranged from insane horse bone dust stuff to plain overpriced vitamins; https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/we-sent-a...
I know most posters on here are mainly talking about the existence of ghost jobs (which I think exist), but estimating that 21% of job postings are ghost jobs based on a dataset categorized by asking ChatGPT-4o seems, idk, iffy?
Keycloak is not written by some random person in the middle of nowhere who is shouldering the burdens of the world. It is security sensitive software that in part is funded by major open-source corporations like Red Hat, including full time engineers. What you're reading in this blog is literally standard fare in security research where a disclosure happens after some set period of time, regardless of when, or even if, the fix happened.

Fixing authentication bypasses is not "very high expectations", it's exactly what you would expect from this software. Get a grip on reality, please.
I don't think SWE interviews are bad. And I have no idea who's the "we" that's supposed to fix it globally.
This is another example of where you've got to read Wikipedia with a skeptical eye. That one in-passing mention of Java is incorrect. I don't know why it's in there, WikiBlame indicates that it's been there since 2004, which was the early days of Wikipedia when it was particularly unreliable.

So, the gist of the difference is this: object-oriented programming is, at its core, about late binding. Specifically, delaying decisions about what code will run when until run-time. But there's still some wiggle room to decide how late certain decisions are made. Most mainstream object-oriented languages like Java and C# more-or-less wait until the start of run-time to decide, but at that point the mapping from argument type to which code is run is pretty much settled. (This isn't necessarily 100% true, but it's the general rule.)

In a system that uses message passing, it's pushed even later, to method invocation time. Basically, each object (actor, whatever) gets to decide what code will be executed to handle a message every time it receives a new message, even for messages of the same type. In practice, most the time it's always the same code. But the point is that this level of dynamicism is a first-class language feature and not just a thing you can accomplish with hacks.
This look like the same argument the record companies use for piracy.

Oh "we would have made 10 billion if everyone downloading illegally would have paid." Except of course most people wouldn't have bothered if it wasn't free.

So, how much is 1.5B, per 'victim' of some obvious crackpots' rants.
It's extremely practical and a good aircraft. Not to mention cheap, now that the development costs are paid for.

There is no aircraft in history that did not have hiccups during procurement. Even "ol reliable" platforms like the Blackhawk or the F-16 had much worse reputations when they were first introduced.
grabs pearls oh no!

I mean we literally elected a president who was convicted of falsifying business records (a form of fraud).
The Muzak system at a retail job I worked played it all the time and we came to despise the song. It became a bit of a proto-Rickroll for those of us who worked there to trick others into hearing it. But the song became much more interesting once I learned about the urban legend connecting it to Mary Ellis. That the writer of the song says there's no connection just makes it that much more enticing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ellis_grave
No, this is backwards

CTO is not such an exceptional role that you can convince me that a company couldn't find a single person in America who would be qualified to take it

It's also a highly sought after role, so people would generally be willing to relocate for a role like that

H1Bs are designed to fill labour shortages, where your local labour market is saturated and you are struggling to find local talent or attract talent from further away, so you can import workers

Using a visa designed to fill labour shortages for an executive position like CTO is frankly an abuse of the system
It seems like his objection is that "parsing formal grammars" isn't the point of LLMs, which is fair. He was wrong about RGs vs CFGs, but I would bet that the majority of programmers are not familiar with the distinction, and learning the classification of a^nb^n is a classic homework problem in automata theory specifically because it's surprising that such a simple grammar is CF.
Sorry, we're being critical of the EU - logic doesn't apply!
We have very different experiences then. I used to open Twitter very once in a while, but a few months ago I completely stopped using it. It became a non-stop firehose of right-wing propaganda, ragebait, Trump, and bot spam. It's completely unusable.
What does .d imply?
I use them for all my code. They are far from useless. You never want to turn them off in production either since that's a source of important information. You are right programmers don't write them, but that says nothing about contracts and a lot about how programmers are trained.
A better practice is to use the `.d/` convention as intended - so you can have overrides and customizations without having to edit the OS-managed /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and fight it if an OS upgrade changes it.

Edit: It's not really a mistake on Ubuntu's part, and is common in other distros for overriding upstream defaults[1].

[1]: https://askubuntu.com/a/1516347
I think this problem is even worse than just ghost jobs.

My partner is currently looking for a new job. Two or three times now, they’ve completed the whole interview process, gotten great feedback. Then they are ghosted for 2-3 weeks and the company comes back and says “sorry we decided not to hire for this role”. It’s utterly exhausting.

I do think when the interviews started, they had intentions to hire. (My partner knew people at the company and was recommended). But then for whatever reason during the hiring process, the job goes away.
Dex + FreeIPA (or whatever backend you want to use) ?

Although 2FA is pending merge: https://github.com/dexidp/dex/pull/3712
Of course, Tim Onion is primarily on Bluesky, other than to occasionally rile up Musk
Another crazy thing that I’ve seen in the past - in Photos on Mac, if you have a video and do Set as Poster Frame (or something like that to set the thumbnail), that duplicates the whole video. So if you have a 20GB video in Photos and you just want change the thumbnail, it’s gonna cost you another 20GB disk space
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of IIT
Your assumption is that this is being perpetrated by humans! But, what if AI has already, secretly become sentient, and started posting all these fake/ghost job postings...as part of their efforts to begin a mass campaign to slow overall human productivity...and as part of *its* plan to dominate/takeover humanity! /s
> melting down all of the 500% marked up gold bars[0] and make a one-time-run charity auction collectible for the Sandy Hook families

Or a monument / memorial to the deceased, in the hopes that the truth would outlive Jones's lies.
Its how they made most of their money.
What's really weird is supposedly the market is on a bull run, the economy is doing great, and technical talent is in demand, yet the tech job market is absolute shit. I'm thinking I might get laid off or fired next year and my top option is probably working some $50k/yr help desk position after about 13 yoe, a masters, certs, etc. Those seem to be the only legitimate tech ads in my area. Of course for $25/hr I could potentially work for Costco or Chick-fil-A and do just as well.
The actual CEO, Ben Collins, has been running The Onion for a short while and his background was as a reporter for NBC. He covered a lot of internet topics very, very well (IMO).
oh f off. 'being radicalized' is not damage.
That argument fully supports the assertion that this is a government/systemic effort.

show some actual, material damage.
Customers have been refunded in full.
Rompt. Means "to break" in French:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rompt

Remove both the P's and you get rømt, which is Norwegian for sour cream.

Insert your own joke here about taking the Ps, it's bound to be better than what I'll come up with.
> I believe we ask and expect too much of satire

Yes, if you expect anything from satire you expect too much. Let it be art, not propaganda.

Allow yourself to find poor execution of agreeable messages distasteful. Allow yourself to enjoy good execution of messages you disagree with.
The headline is confusing. It is meant to be read as

(Python & C++)-inspired language [...]
Sure, if you capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to use it as a storage or transportation medium for renewable energy, that is perfectly fine. Trade some efficiency for overcoming some of the limitations of renewable sources like their variability or the difficulty to store electricity.

But that is not really carbon removal from the atmosphere, you take some out and later put it back. The article however frames the endeavor as removing carbon from the atmosphere, either the one we are currently burning or even the one we burnt in the past. Carbon removal by definition means we can not burn it later somewhere else, we have to permanently store it somewhere. There is no point in turning the carbon into some high quality product if we then just bury it somewhere, you want something cheap to make and easy to store.

As a non-fossile source for chemicals it makes sense but that is just a small fraction of our problem as we just burn most of the stuff.
Good question.

We’ve spoken to a lot of people who have done this, and more often than not the recipient in the midst of some life event doesn’t imbue a QR code with value (and loses it/throws it away).
While their stuff is brilliant at times, I don't actively seek it out because it leaves me pretty depressed and anxious. The parodies are almost indistinguishable from real events these days.
I don't miss it because the resources and choices were extremely limited. PnP (ISA, VLB, AGP, PCI/-X, and to some degree MCA and EISA) was revolutionary because it automated the mundane.
Often it is significantly cheaper to pay for a longer term supported release of an older Java version than it is to upgrade your application to use a later release. So yeah, kinda?
Thanks for reading!

>Your worst case is you lose the deal and the time and money you spent on it, and their worst case is they are fired and lose their healthcare (that is how it works in America right?), is that correct?

Yeah, I get that perspective.

As I said, I don't think there's any good solution here. I don't think it's fair for me to hand the company over to someone who might just fire the employees, but I also can't promise to keep everyone in their role forever regardless of a sale.

For added context, everyone at the company worked part-time, generally a max of 20 hours per week. Some were contractors who had multiple clients, others were founders with their own side projects, and others worked part time because they wanted to focus on other things in their personal life. Nobody had healthcare insurance through the company.

So, in the worst case of an owner coming in and firing everyone, it would suck, but it's also not like anyone would be like, "Oh no! I just bought a new house on the expectation that I'd be at the company for the next 20 years!"

The worst case for me isn't just that I lose some time and money. I was terrified of not being able to sell the company by the time my son was born. I was the sole founder and manager, so I can't exactly say, "Okay, I'm going to take a few months of paternity leave. Pay yourselves and our vendors while I'm gone." So I'd be probably in a position of letting down both the team and my family trying to keep the company afloat while becoming a new father.
Why are you so anal about its name?
Instant red flag. Like "Scrum master" used to be back in the day.
This is a really great and informative article, inspiring actually.
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OK, I concede that if I try to separate engineers from scientists it sounds like I'm trying to gatekeep. In truth, I'm organising things in my head because I started out thinking of myself as an engineer, because I like to make stuff, and at some point I started thinking of myself as a scientist, malgré moi, because I also like to know how stuff works and why. I multiclassed, you see, so I am trying to understand exactly what changed, when, and why.

I mean obviously it happened when I moved from industry to academia, but it's still the case there's a lot of overlap between the two areas, at least in CS and AI. In CS and AI the best engineers make the best scientists and vv. I think.

Btw, "gatekeeping" I think assumes that I somehow think of one category less than the other? Is that right? To be clear, I don't. I was responding to the use of both terms in the OP's comments with a personal reflection on the two categories.
I remember REM self-nominating 'Shiny Happy People ' as the worst song. And even though it was one of their most successful songs in the charts they refused to play it live.
Any idea why that is?!
The requirement you mention is for filing a green card application.

If I find a good citizen, I don’t file the application, that’s the law. But the employee does have h1b or OPT and is still allowed to work in the US, nothing wrong with that. If the government wants to stop giving those out workplaces will adapt
Wow, people miss the point of contracts. You never want to turn them off in production, because that's where all the weird shit happens that you never thought of. Contracts catch bugs in those times. Maybe people find them useless precisely because they turn them off.
> Who else would have power over "nomination, raises etc" of anyone, if not elected representatives? Other public workers?

Yes, that's how the civil service works in most countries, more or less. The US is an outlier in that the executive appoints about 4,000 civil servants; most places don't work like that (even in the US; _most_ civil servants (about 2.8 million of them, federal) are hired, promoted, disciplined etc by other civil servants; the president doesn't sit in on every interview or anything.)

> I guess the elected representatives have indirect power over everything in the end, if France is still a democracy.

The elected representatives pass laws. The civil service implements them.

Separately, at least in many countries, not sure about France, you have the concept of power devolved to the minister, where the legislature passes a law allowing the minister to make orders in certain restricted areas, a bit like a scope-limited version of US presidential executive orders.

This occasionally has amusing repercussions if the original devolution legislation was insufficient or unconstitutional; for instance in Ireland nearly all drugs (morphine, heroin, cannabis and possibly cocaine remained illegal) were accidentally legalised for a day, when the supreme count found that the legislation used to enable the Minister for Justice to ban drugs was insufficient, thus legalising everything which had been banned since it was passed.
No it did not.

Sigplan doesn't even have a most notable paper award. https://www.sigplan.org/Awards/

It won an award from the Dynamic Languages Symposium. A minor workshop that gets about 4-6 submissions per year. By the standards of modern academia this would be considered a tiny venue, like 10x smaller than any say at workshop at NeurIPS and quite a bit smaller than an ICFP workshop.
On Building Git for Lawyers
The requirement to pay market rate already exists and it's very easily gamed, eg. by under-leveling people or hiring them in under a related (but lower paid) role that doesn't reflect their actual responsibilities.
Ask HN: Is Builder.io abandoned? anyone using it for production
hey all

I'm trying to figure out if Builder.io is still a good choice to build my company's marketing site.

I like their technology but it looks somewhat abandoned. Here are a few examples:

- I've clicked on a button to enable an integration and it said someone would contact me - that was over a week ago and nobody contacted me

- UI things looks broken. When I add a new entry in the CMS, it sometimes just doesn't show up in the "search box" when trying to use it. It works if I type the name.

- They have a concept of reusable elements called Symbols. For whatever reason, they never look right in the editor (they all look like the footer symbol). They look right when I publish it.

But the main worrisome one is that all my models and CMS pages and data disappeared from my space. I reached out to support (clicked on the site) more than 24 hours ago and all I got so far was an email asking me what the email associated with the account was (which is ironic because clearly they had my email).

FWIW, I'm a paying customer.

Is it abandoned ?
Experience can be valuable, but it's not automatically valuable. Plenty of people completely fail to learn from their long experience. Others learn very quickly from their limited experience.

The paragon is talent plus experience plus willingness to learn from experience. Admittedly, more older devs than younger devs will have this combination, but "social promotion" is no guarantee of success.
Infowars is a supplements business. It’s grifts all the way down.
I didnt see anything about a dictatorial power, just a complaint about incompatibility with liberal democracy, and I tend to agree.

That can come from broken systems as easily as a dictator.

It is hard for me to imagine what would support 150 million per plaintiff. That is and order of magnitude more civil damages than are often awarded for cold blooded murder.

Everyone hates Alex Jones, and I don't like him either, but that shouldn't trump justice and proportionality. It makes me think that the penalty was for more than what was on trial, and rather a reflection of mob justice by other means.