skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but when you get a tech lead with 9y exp interviewing someone with 15y exp, it's weirder. Some put you on a pedestal, some get insecure and treat you like some dragon to be slain.

The explanation is very simple: software development is divided into an insane amount of distinct "subgroups"/"subcultures". If you looking for someone experienced, you actually look for someone "experienced in the respective subculture".

If you now have some chandidate who is experienced in a very different subculture, he will either be a beginner in "your" subculture (will he like this role and payment?), or the department culture has to be adjusted more to "his subculture", which implies the the interviewing person will loose power.
I haven't read Evaristo but I will add Salman Rushdie to your list. Particularly, Midnight's Children.
Do we know for certain that a major cause of the failure has been a GSM-R failure?

Industrial grade communication systems tend to be very well behaved in terms of fault detection and management. I'd be very surprised if the whole whack-a-mole dynamic described in the post was a failure mode of GSM-R system per se.
Is it your position that Lenin and Stalin rose to power as the result of foreign influence?
If I turn up with a bulldozer and destroy your house, is that violence?

How about if I flood your entire state/region permanently, both destroying your living, as well as that of your friends and families, as well as forcing you to relocate to a region you have nothing in common with?

Someone throwing a punch in your face is violence. Is that more acceptable to counter with violence than the previous scenario? I haven't met a single person who genuinely believes that.

"violence" can express itself in many ways.

> Pretty much. If you have to resort to terrorism, then your goal is probably indefensible.

Terrorism is a meaningless tern used to appeal to emotion. One's terrorist is another's freedom fighter. Nearly every colonizer was overthrown by such a group. In many places, slavery was overturned by such groups.
Not an LLM but models could get pretty good at weather

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/04/1107892/google-d...
I couldn't understand if it was satire or something.

Do they believe the guy marries a 30 years old cause she loves him?

In any case, who cares, how was that relevant..
The greening of the Earth's vegetated areas is "attributed to CO2 fertilization
Love the style! CMU making databases cool. Sorry to hear about OtterTune.
Looks like it wants to run chrome using `start chrome` which is AFAIK a Windows-only command.
Another explanation could be detection bias: it was tracked to the market not because it originated there, but because vastly more resources have been expended on investigating the market compared to any other place in the city.

You’re assuming “it was tracked to there” = “it originated there” but that’s a big leap.
It is really quite complicated to do. Since you get some interesting functionality I had considered it but writing the page how to add the website to the home screen I couldn't imagine users doing this.

My least favorite dark pattern is that you first have to change the share menu and add the option. That way it seems less inconvenient to people who've done it before.

To share a fun perspective: Desktop desktops and phone home screens are really revolutionary compared to the browser bookmark menus and app stores are really web directories that are both glamorous and horrible at the same time.

There is sabotage along the way but we are clearly moving forwards.

Imagine an AI starting a thread or a sub forum for each application it can find online. Then have it gather articles about the application and post them as replies or topics. Divide everything neatly over categories (like a web directory) and have it gather usable icons/logos for navigation. By default it only displays software for the users platform or browser but a few check boxes in advanced search settings can change the selection.
I tried moving and I died. Stay at the spawn point and keep shooting anything that moves :)
What I learnt is that there is a rest mass and a relativistic mass. The m in your formula is the rest mass. But when you use the relativistic mass E=mc² still holds. And for the rest mass I always used m_0 to make clear what it is.
No, the Soviet Union was spending 20% of its GDP on the military. The US, at the height of the cold war was spending 6%.

That's the only country which wasn't at war which was proportionally spending that much on the military.

The Soviet Union was a military state disguised as a country, pretty much nothing outside the military really mattered there.

It's even visible on the inside organisation of the Soviet Union itself (which they picked themselves, nobody asked them), which is pretty much the same as in any army, just at a country level.

Sure, the US exploited that flaw but it's been there by design.
> Just like the DOOM demo here, it's hard and cumbersome, but for whatever reason we all accept it as the way it has to be.

Because most if not all of us have lost all hope that eventually our governments will be either willing or able to do something about the bad actors on the 'net.
That's because they surprised him. I'm pretty sure they had to yank him out of the cabin after he realized what was going on and started to close the door.
The current capability of LLMs feels perfect for bouncing high-level, "What are ways people commonly do X" or "How do I handle this architectural problem I'm having" off of.

I'm building a game in Monogame / C# right now, and LLMs have been great to help point me in the right direction or suggest architectural patterns I'm less familiar with to investigate.

e.g.

If I have a GameStateManager, an InputManager, and a UIManager, and I represent input events as an enum of GameCommand's, what is a good way to register callback functions from these objects with the InputManager to trigger actions on particular game commands?

or

Is it common when using an Entity Component System framework to manage the UI using ECS? Or is the UI often managed separately using a more familiar object-oriented approach?

They don't give me perfectly working solutions, but they do give me inspiration and additional lines of inquiry.
Began a pay-on-results coaching experiment, made $40,300 since July
Skills are threatening in a layoff market.

"Dumb it down" as my recruiter said. I eliminated 99% of skills from my CV and now I get a lot of interviews.
Not all profiles end up in orbit. At this point in time, reusuability sacrifices delta-v for fuel. If you want to launch scientific missions you want to escape Earth orbit. If we're going to land on Mars, we're going to need a lot of stuff sent there first.
I've rolled my eyes for years over when this sort of thing would happen for real: "score 3000 points at Pac Man and maybe we'll let you view our web site". +1 for the technical achievement, but I turn and run at Cloudflare tick boxes.
TL;DR SQL is king
Public transportation should never be thought of as a charity, only for those "disabled people, seniors, immigrants, poor folks". It instills the idea that users should be thankful for any amount of funding (and can't complain when it's arbitrarily cut), and that "normal" people never take public transportation.
> an example of a communist state which came into existence and was not immediately beset by foreign intelligence

Post-war Yugoslavia was such an example. As for the brutality, here’s a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goli_Otok#Prison
https://openreview.net/forum?id=YHWXlESeS8

Our evaluation on various open-source and proprietary models reveals that the highest performance, even after using techniques like self-consistency, self-refinement and chain-of-thought prompting, is less than 40%. The typical failure modes of GPT-4, the best model, are errors in algebraic manipulation, difficulty in grounding abstract concepts into mathematical equations accurately and failure in retrieving relevant domain-specific concepts.

I'm curious how something like O1 would perform now.
https://chatgpt.com/share/67756897-8974-8010-a0e0-c9e3b3e91f...

so far o1-mini has bodied every task people are saying LLMs can’t do in this thread
In physics that usually means that we are missing something in the ¦'s. Like these hypothetical/imaginary "arr" keywords, look:

int ** arr arr arr VAR[1][2][3];

By introducing these virtual storage kind specifiers, the spiral model works! It becomes apparent that these specifiers are actually real, cause the model wouldn't be consistent otherwise, and there's so much evidence for it all over the C codebases. We just tend to see the "real" part of it (sigh, stuck forever with that legacy terminology), while this is what actually happens:

long double _Complex ** arr arr arr VAR[1][-1][sqrtl(-1)];

which is naturally homomorphic to most C compilations.

(spoiler for those who need it: jk)
Good point, "mandated" is probably overdoing it, though in practice to judge a case necessitates an interpretation of the relevant law.

Judicial review was officially challenged and affirmed in Marbury v Madison. That wasn't where it was "decided" they could do it. As the article you just posted (and a basic understanding of western judicial tradition) clearly explains, judicial review in America predates not just Marbury v Madison, but the Constitution itself.

The Marbury decision itself is predicated on the prior point: it is literally not possible to have a judiciary that doesn't interpret the laws themselves.
If we did that at my company I’d get a bunch of people who are very senior web developers but who don’t know anything about embedded. A better solution is to talk to the hiring committee and make sure everyone is aligned on what to look for, and to only hire team leads who think about building a team in terms of supporting the team’s functions instead of replicating their experience.
Non-orbital. But it can do that as well. Just sacrifice the rocket and use the landing fuel for more delta-v.
Why are people downvoting this? I also found the chat very interesting and a cool demo of v0. It's linked at the bottom of the page.
This. I’m tired of the articles that act like every company has the same titles and structure.

As if the absence of the word “staff” in the org chart means there’s no one doing staff-level work.
The rise and fall of AMD: How an underdog stuck it to Intel [Archive]
Carbon-Negative Concrete: A Game Changer for a Sustainable Future (2022)
This is called a proxy server. You can take any domain, paid or free. You may want the domain to start with the word proxy, so that your users know that you are not copying the site, but using a proxy. You can use your own server or CloudFlare for your domain, with a DNS record CNAME. You can configure the proxy server to use http or https without checking SSL.
"Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=33m1s&v=-zRN7XLCRhc&feature=yo...
Thunderbird seems to be getting there.
My suburb is a 15-20 minute walk from grocery stores and pubs, sports fields, parks, etc. So that depends on where you live. That is not a long walk, that is the exact number of minutes people push for with "15 minute cities".

Overall I view suburbs as probably a net negative for all of the space wasted.
sounds like you had a chemistry education. relativistic mass is IMO very much not a useful way of thinking about this and it is sort of tautologically true that E = m_relativistic because “relativistic mass” is just taking the concept of energy and renaming it “mass”
Any current plans for a macOS release?
Hey from there too. HMU!

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> Basically lock everything down and make developers pay a % of their revenue, Apple style

At enterprise scale, locked down marketplaces don't work. They act as an forcing factor for larger organizations to build in house because no one wants vendor lock-in or to lose money via an arbitrage.

This is a major reason why you'll see large deals pushing for enhanced customization options or API parity, as larger customers have the ability to push back against vendor lock-in.

Furthermore, a relatively open market (eg. NGC) acts as a loss-leader by allowing a community to develop using a corporate standard, thus allowing you to build stickiness without directly impacting a customer's bottom-line

Fundamentally, a company driven by Enterprise revenue (eg. Nvidia) will have a different marketplace structure from a B2C product such as Apple's App Store where purchasers have little power.
The metaphor that might describe this paper is "iteration". I'd hazard to predict that we’ll likely see more iterations of the following loop in 2025:

-> A new benchmark emerges with a novel evaluation method.

-> A new model saturates the benchmark by acquiring the novel “behavior.”

-> A new benchmark introduces yet another layer of novelty.

-> Models initially fail until a lab discovers how to acquire the new behavior.

Case in point: OpenAI tackled this last step by introducing a paradigm called deliberative alignment to tackle some of the ARC benchmarks. [1]

Alongside all this technical iteration, there’s a parallel cycle of product iteration, aiming to generate $ by selling intelligent software. The trillion $ questions are around finding the right iterations on both technical and product dimensions.

[1] https://openai.com/index/deliberative-alignment/
You asked when the system ended; I pointed out it never really ended, it just got smaller. Putin's clearly using the "kill off the dissidents" playbook.

The argument that gulags were essential is "when their use was drastically reduced, the Soviet Union declined". I think that's overly focused on one element - the collapse had many causes - but easing up on dissidents is likely to have played at least a part. I'm not surprised today's neo-Stalinists yearn for a return to the system.
Slime mold microfluidic logical gates
> there would be a chorus

The problem of listening and reacting to public outbursts is that there are enough people on all sides of this that there'll be an outburst whatever happens.

The Algorithm makes us a pile of hyper-reactionary babies.
How to build this? I'm on M2 Mac with 2 Zigs installed:

0.13.0 and 0.14.0-dev.2589+0df1f3df2

Both gave the same error:

run gbaimg (tiles.zig) transitive failure
│ │ └─ zig build-exe gbaimg Debug native 1 errors
The DC had double the VRAM (and 4MB on the PS2 was paltry) and hardware texture compression, texture quality was better, and the analog video output path was better and most games run 480p vs 480i. 480p on the Dreamcast looks better (an advantage that most North American consumers using the included composite cable would not have been able to appreciate).
All said, indeed it was not vastly superior.
`Simd::<u32, 8>` is describing a vector with 8 lanes, where the width of each lane is 32-bits. For targets that support it, that should get you a 256-bit register.

The `splat(q)` constructor is just saying, "populate each lane with `q`." That is, the value is "splatted" across every lane in the vector.

The main idea of SIMD is simple: you represent multiple points of data in the same register and use specialized CPU instructions to operate on those points simultaneously. The difficulty of SIMD is coming up with clever algorithms that use the available instructions in an efficient way.
I have no problem with foreign labor growing our economy in ways that the local labor cannot; I have a problem with systematically disempowering that labor to make it more attractive than equally capable domestic labor, because it cannot negotiate or advocate for itself effectively.

An H1B program that addresses these power dynamics and stops undermining the rights of worker will reach equilibrium and show what American workers can do and what should be hired for externally.

This issue is about capital vs labor, don’t miss the forest for the trees.
> something architecturally different

An embedding space engine accepting sentences (SONAR) fit in so that the tokens of this architecture are complex sets of the tokens of past architectures.
Fun fact: a lot of that “sciency pseudocode” is actually Algol.
The US was ahead because it had more efficient economic system.
Its awesome, but actually quite hard without arrow keys on a HHKBpro.
That appears to be the same model I used. This is why I emphasized I didn't "go shopping" for a result. That was the first result I got.

I'm not at all surprised that it will nondeterministically get it correct sometimes. But if it doesn't get it correct every time, it doesn't "know".

(In fact "going shopping" for errors would still even be fair. It should be correct all the time if it "knows". But it would be different if I was fishing over and over and over and finally got one, versus the first time I asked.)

Edit: It appears it isn't the model I used. The point holds, though, you need to make sure you're off the training set for it to matter. This isn't a "ChatGPT can't do that" post as some are saying, it's more a "you aren't asking what you think you're asking" post.

You get the same problem in a human context in things like code interviews. If you ask an interviewee the exact question "how do you traverse a binary tree in a depth-first manner", you aren't really learning much about the interviewee. It's a bad interview question. You need to get at least a bit off the beaten trail to do any sort of real analysis.
Solved it on a second attempt on my smartphone.

It's horrible. 99% of people will give up.
Less that it's not practical, more that it's too revolutionary to be accepted. Don't want to take too many risks with your new billion-dollar datacenter contruction.

These make much more sense when you look at the energy contracts available where the weather is too hot for "traditional" cooling. Whether that will overcome the natural hesitancy is anyones guess, but probably a nice little gap for someone to disrupt.
What book would you recommend for Physics?
Very astute. Did you communicate this to the authors?
And not just Freecell. Here is a list of compatible programs; it includes Photoshop 4, Nero Burning ROM 4.0, Space Cadet Pinball, ICQ: http://stephan.win31.de/w32slist.htm#list

There are only few things that stop compilers producing Win32s-compatible code. Linking with CRTDLL.LIB will make even Visual Studio 2010 (and perhaps newer versions) produce a valid Win32s program.
It's like being on the winning upward spiral is not hard. What is hard is turning around downward spiral into upward one in context of uncertain outcome.
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Ohh yes some good ideas there! I've thought about pretty much exactly this at some point but then didn't end up including it. But I do think it's quite promising, and most of the bookkeeping can be made to be branchless.

On the other hand, most of the latency is in the last few layers, and probably there isn't as much to be saved there.

The biggest problem might be that the bottom layer will anyway have to store full-width numbers, since we must be sure to have the low-order bits somewhere in case they weren't covered yet in earlier layers. Or we could have variable width encoding per node maybe (instead of per layer) but that does sound a bit iffy on the branch predictor.

In the end I guess I kinda like the simplicity and hence reliability of the 'just do the full tree and the first layers are cheap anyway' approach. Probably another factor 2 speedup is possible on specific datasets, but anything beyond this may not be reliably good on worst case inputs (like is the issue for the prefix partitioning methods).
I would highly recommend pairing that with _The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo_ by Tom Reiss --- it's a fascinating look at that period of history.

For fun, if you like fantasy, Steven Brust's _The Baron of Magister Valley_ is delightful, one of his "Paarfi Romances" it is TCoMC w/ the names changed and serial numbers filed off in a fantasy world (which is actually a science-fictional one as noted on Penny Arcade).
In theory, communism is the opposite - the stated goal of Lenin was a state that would wither away as people moved to voluntary self-government.

In practice, it turns into authoritarianism very different from the idealized goal.
My 2c having released both premium and free apps on iOS and Android: premium apps do not sell. People don’t want to fork over any amount of money just to try an app that they may or may not enjoy. You can still make _some_ money, and get some downloads, that way, but it’s just completely incomparable to making it free.

Some rough numbers from my recollection: I released Card Crusade (deck building mobile game) for $4 back in 2019 and i think in the first year we got about 2k-3k downloads total. When we made it free in early 2020 we got 25k downloads in the first _week_. The revenue was less for us as a free app, but that’s with no ads and IMO we designed the IAPs pretty poorly.

But, a while after making it free, we accrued enough positive reviews that the iOS App Store started recommending the game to more people, so we have a steady 200+ downloads per week, despite not having updated the game since 2020!

I released another premium mobile game, Barnard’s Star, back in 2022 (and am still slowly updating it). Coincidentally, both apps make roughly the same amount of money (about $500 every 6 months), but Barnard’s Star makes that money from a fraction of the downloads… but the word of mouth effect (and game community) seems like it would be a lot stronger with f2p. So I’m planning on making Barnard’s Star free eventually (with hopefully better designed IAPs this time!).

One place where the “just a game and a price tag” model still works well is Steam. If i were trying to make a living off making games, I think I’d focus on releasing stuff there.
The Christchurch terrorist in New Zealand. Unlike in the US, his name and mugshot were never plastered around media, and his name is still popularly unknown.

Multiple footballers in the UK who were accused of sexual harassment. People tried guessing who they are, but all police released was "a footballer in his 20s from Manchester is under investigation for sexual harassment/assault/etc".
Mind sharing some of your results?
Do you realize the that the in your quote Smithsonian is describing Solzhenitsyn's argument, not editorializing?

Do you know that Solzhenitsyn was a Russian author and Soviet dissident and critic who spent years the Gulag prison system?
On reddit, hn, and internet in general the conservatives support modern totalitarian states like China, Russia or Iran much more often than progressives. Despite very real and very recent atrocities.
So far the improvements in writing have not been as substantial as those in math or coding (not even close, really). Is there something fundamentally “easier” for LLMs about those two fields?
Office Delinquency Rate Spikes to a Record 11%, Blowing by the Financial Crisis
> Amazon has E7-E9 above Staff

Few clarifications:

Amazon labels levels with "L" rather than "E". Engineering levels are L4 -- L10. Weirdly enough, level L9 does not exist at Amazon. L8 (Director / Senior Principal Engineer) is promoted directly to L10 (VP / Distinguished Engineer)
FWIW, those places are (hopefully) not at your company... it is like, you are at a conference or trying to get meetings with people from other companies.
> It's a political decision how to classify crimes these days.

A number of crimes are by their very nature political—terrorism, assassinations, etc.
I have no doubt that LLMs do creative work. I think this has been apparent since the original ChatGPT.

Just because something is creative doesn’t mean it’s inherently valuable.
Unfortunately one can't go to war with percentages of GDP.