skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's no "personal information" here, but honestly this amount of data shared with an arbitrary list of 3rd parties is scary.
Why do they need to know my screen brightness, memory amount, current volume and if I'm wearing headphones?

> I know the "right" answer - to help companies target their audience better!
For example, if you're promoting a mobile app that is 1 GB of size, and the user only has 500 MB of space left - don't show him the ad, right?

Author jumps to the incorrect conclusion here. The answer is fingerprinting.
I was feeling a bit this way, but ever since going independent and working on my own startups/open source projects, I don't feel that way. It's a lot more stressful and inconsistent, but the work is more interesting. I think modern AI tools help with a lot of the tedium of gluing APIs together and things like that.
Give me your personal phone number
I suspect the cheap cards are bad because of cheap flash, which ironically requires much stronger ECC and wear leveling to function at all.
> The impact of the ban on X is currently unclear, but it could reduce the amount of traffic directed to Musk's platform.

> If the embargo continues, it could escalate tensions between the government and tech companies.

This last sentence bugs me, where does the government (legally) come into the tensions aspect of this?
Great, so used car prices are going to increase to new car prices, again
Over long enough time, fluctuations to lower entropy states will happen, so the jaw is statistical.
> a reputation of petty litigation with dubious claims.

True but recently they've turned much worse by launching a major campaign of unprecedented legal attacks across the historical preservation, retro emulation and fan creation communities. While Nintendo has always been protective of its IP rights, it was mostly limited to piracy of current titles and protecting their trademarks from commercial infringement.

The greatly expanded scope of their recent legal campaign now threatens aspects of non-profit historical preservation and adjacent fan activities unrelated to Nintendo's present day commercial interests. This is new, different and dangerous. Previously, Nintendo's lawyers made at least some effort to distinguish between non-profit or fan hobby activities and piracy or commercial trademark protection. Nintendo changing to now aggressively pursue non-profit retro preservation has made me swear off buying anything from them again.
I suppose there is an equilibrium, where sites that penalize these types of crawlers will also get less traffic from people reading ai citations, so for many sites the upsides of allowing it will be greater than the downsides.
Eating popcorn while the scaling doubters scramble to move the goalposts for the nth time.
No. The story I read was for "Interim Top Secret". If you have a clear National Agency Check (arrest and convictions), and do not flag as a drug user / mental case, then you can be given an "Interim Top Secret" while waiting for the clearance adjudication. Does not allow access to SCI, or NATO Cosmic, but does allow access to regular Top Secret. There is also an "Interim Secret". Over 90% of the people with interim clearances are positively adjudicated.

Normal thing. Provided they are using the same criteria for the Interim Clearances.
Interesting, thanks for highlighting! Did not pick up on that. Re:"leading", tho:

Effectiveness in this task environment is well beyond the specific model involved, no? Plus they'd be fools (IMHO) to only use one size of model for each step in a research task -- sure, o3 might be an advantage when synthesizing a final answer or choosing between conflicting sources, but there are many, many steps required to get to that point.
Your question was

> can somebody here make a case that this is not actually/solely to appease China (over Taiwan presumably)?

I gave one (of many) examples where this would be relevant for a country other than China. If you don't think South Korea is politically important enough to matter, then use the Israel/Palestinian flag situation as something that certainly is.

Or more simply: no, this is not just because of China and Taiwan.
Reddit is not blocking Xchan links, specific subreddits and mods are removing them if they are posted
Especially this is not a breakthrough justifying a 340B USD valuation, but rather the work that junior developers can do; implement a loop of Bing Searches connected to an LLM.
They're directly attacking government infrastructure, including our intelligence apparatuses.

Even if they escape legal consequences they could become targeted for extrajudicial killings by intelligence agencies of the US and allies.
I really don't like the snarky tone of the parent comment.

Nonetheless, I don't think this is even something that can easily be benchmarked. I'd recommend you take a look at aider [1], and consider how I drew similarities between it and what's presented here.

Has ClosedAI presented any benchmarks / evaluation protocols?

[1] https://aider.chat/
Not a very timely article, since that facility seems about to be shut down. It uses mirrors to concentrate sunlight to drive a turbine (& cook birds), but isn't as efficient as modern photovoltaic solar, and the electric companies with contracts with them are trying to get out of them.
Then consent is granted by transitive property because these AI are yielded by humans.
> “Although Nintendo’s registration covers 45 categories, it doesn’t include the specific class for suppliers of basic food products.”

If the market decides to start selling Nintendo or Mario products, could they get in trouble?

Does this prevent the market from expanding to selling other types of products even if they never sell a Nintendo or video-game-related product?

I can buy video game gift cards at my local supermarkets. (I'm aware my local law and definition of "supermarket" may not apply here.)
I'm sorry but what the fuck is this product pitch?

Anyone who's done any kind of substantial document research knows that it's a NIGHTMARE of chasing loose ends & citogenesis.

Trusting an LLM to critically evaluate every source and to be deeply suspect of any unproven claim is a ridiculous thing to do. These are not hard reasoning systems, they are probabilistic language models.
I have never believed a conspiracy theory more instantly. Deep Search vs. DeepSeek is way more than enough to confuse the average layman! Especially when you're googling something you heard about at work a few hours ago, or on Bloomberg TV
> 1. That plant produces ~392 megawatts in a year.

It produces 640 gigawatt-hours in a year. Power in a year doesn't make sense, and it doesn't make its nameplate power all day long.
And yet..... almost all your recent are related to Musk...
> just that GST is not usually shown until checkout unlike domestic sites.

This still puts domestic sites at a significant disadvantage.
Yes, sadly, by Stalin and Putin, not by the choice of language symbols.

Crimean Tartars, by the way, are a great example of a people that have their own flag, despite that flag not being the official flag of any independent nation-state. If someone is a speaker of Crimean Tartar, and working with Ukrainian refugees, they should add that flag to their name tag too.
> And nearly always the cheap cards seem to fail due to firmware shortcomings rather than hardware faults. Ie. the built in wear levelling and error recovery is bad.

Well, higher quality cards have better performing controllers that operate at higher speeds or have dedicated hardware offloads for stuff that a "cheaper" controller has to do in software.
Eh, not really. Google failed to launch first out of internal political dysfunction and then made a crash effort to launch something to counter the first ChatGPT release.

I highly doubt that the concerns of internal political commissars were holding up this particular openai release.
How is using public information "exploitation"? A human researcher with Google would do the same.
Rightfully so, some models are getting super efficient.
im not doing any coding challenges that aren't real world

if i see anything remotely challenging i dip out. interviewing is just a numbers game nowadays so i dont waste time on interviews if they seem like they're gonna burn me out for the rest of the day. granted i have 11 years experience
Edit: “Gross Gambling Yield (GGY) of British gambling industry (2021 to 2022): £14.1 billion” Which is simply revenue before costs not actual tax revenue it even excludes loyalty programs with cash back rewards on losses, actual tax revenues are dramatically lower. https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/guidance/regulatory-re...

That’s looking at harm specifically not economic costs.

Direct taxes to the state are £3.3 billion, but that also ignores missing tax revenue both directly from people spending money on gambling instead of other activities and missing revenue from that economic harm.
No, they’re using slow parallel compression.
Part of calling it all "censorship" or "an assault on free speech" is to water down the meaning of the words so they can employ the same techniques with plausible deniability or more often with whataboutism
"But I still don't have to talk about it here".

But you repeatedly do...
There is virtually no downsides to being petty assholes. People will even come out of the woodwork to justify your behavior and explain you have no choice than being an asshole.

Apple, Disney, Coca Cola, Nike back in the days. Any company with enough money in both marketing and legal department will usually be utter assholes regarding their trademark.
26.6% on humanity's last exam is actually impressive.

pass rate really only matters in context of the difficulty of the tasks
Does anyone actually have access to this? It says available for pro users on the website today - I have pro via my employer but see no "deep research" option in the message composer.
That looks very interesting, thanks for the pointer!
> It feels like that didn't happen

Any time it happens, things get twisted, or shut down. Reddit used to be good. Twitter used to be good. But the money people come in, the bots, the astroturfers, the guerrilla marketers, the spammers... If they stay alive regardless, in come the billionaires to offer ridiculous sums.

People complained that TikTok's algorithm was too good at finding niche and interesting content. The marketing was somewhat balanced, and tailored to people's actual tastes. That was before lobbyists and politicians discovered that it was severely interfering with their propaganda. Now I hear you can't so much as post 'Free Palestine', and kids are supposed to be grateful that we're allowed to have it on our phones at all.

All that said, for people with the right skills there is no shortage of entertaining content to discover; far more than could ever be consumed in a lifetime. It's really the most important news and views that gets suppressed the most.
Did not know about non-JVM compilation. Does it include the JVM as part of the binary then? Links?
This is terrifying. Even though they acknowledge the issues with hallucinations/errors, that is going to be completely overlooked by everyone using this, and then injecting the outputs into their own powerpoints.

Management Consulting was bad enough before the ability to mass produce these graphs and stats on a whim. At least there was some understanding behind the scenes of where the numbers came from, and sources would/could be provided.

The more powerful these tools become, the more prevelant this effect of seepage will become.
this is a good thing.

anyone I know who actually got a job through leetcode style in the last 2 years cheated. they would get their friends to mirror monitor and then type the answers in from chatgpt LOL
“Amyloid is going to be — has to be — a part of the Alzheimer’s story, but it is not, cannot be a simple ‘Amyloid causes Alzheimer’s, stop the amyloid and stop the disease,'”

It's not quite that simple, and the amyloid hypothesis doesn't claim it to be. It does, however, claim that it's the upstream cause of the disease, and if you stop it early enough, you stop the disease. But once you're already experiencing symptoms, there are other problem which clearing out the amyloid alone won't stop.

What’s more, lecanemab only improved scores by 0.45 points on an 18-point scale assessing patients’ abilities to think, remember, and perform daily tasks.

As I point out in another comment, the decline (from a baseline of ~3 points worse than a perfect score) during those 18 months is only 1.66 points in the placebo group, It's therefore very misleading to say this is an 18-point scale, so a 0.45 point benefit isn't clinically meaningful. A miracle drug with 100% efficacy would only achieve a 1.66 point slowdown.
We can care about more than one thing at a time. We can be concerned about traffic deaths and about bird fatalities in a solar thermal plant
Updated to make it clear that it occurs alongside the year-unit for scaling bird deaths and then coal-usage, rather than per year.
> More than that, the solar plant itself is an entirely unnecessary addition.

The interesting thing about Ivanpah is that it's both generation and storage. It's probably a technological dead end, but that is not an absolutely sure thing now and it certainly wasn't obvious a decade ago. Batteries have come a long way in that time.
Against Against Windows
On the other hand, accurate if it is prone for hallucination…
You might as well say that DeepSeek wanted to cause confusion with DeepMind. Deep isn't such a distinguishing name, deep learning has been a buzzword since 2012.
if your interviews are easily cheatable you should probably fix the interviews. back in the day when i was in university we were allowed to use any resources for exams cause you couldnt cheat easily.
Knowledge and skill are two different things. Sometimes interviewers test that you know how to do something, when in practice it's irrelevant if you A) know how to retrieve that knowledge and B) know when to retrieve it.
TBF OpenAI in particular bought access to Reddit. Otherwise yeah this is my main confusion with all of these products, Perplexity being the biggest -- how do you get around the status-quo of refusing access to bots? Just to start off with, there is no Google Search API, and they work hard to make sure headless browsers can't access the normal service.

They do say "Currently, deep research can access the open web...", so maybe "open" there implies something significant. Like, "websites that have agreements with OpenAI and/or do not enforce norobot policies".
You exploited my eyes by making me read this comment. Wheres my compensation.
Two different people I know with pro subscriptions report not having access yet.
Oh God, this is such an astute observation. I think it worked so well on me that I didn't even think about the "deep" portion initially. Goes to show how effective these things are psychologically.
as I go further up the chain i have found most content comes from very few sources, and almost everything else is regurgitated
Whilst I agree game updates have become larger and larger and there are reasons why for that as annoying as they are. I'm not sure if there is much of an accessibility issue as much as its my ability to make enough time to play games like I used to.

Game designers need to strike a balance between people like us with little time, and those that can commit much more time.
If you're doing this at least face to face over Zoom and you can't tell that someone is copying answers from their second monitor and throwing ChatGPT explanations at you, you honestly need a better interviewer.

I've done a lot of interviews over Zoom, and whenever someone cheats, by passing someone else's work off as their own (the weirdest thing I've ever encountered was someone having a friend on trying to feed them answers, which he admitted to later) it is so painfully obvious if you grill them a bit and throw a few curveballs.
I'm super-glad the report is basically "we're continuing and stepping up" but I worry the actual impact here is "I told you so" -this is a report to acts done and acts in progress and acts to be done, but will be re-sold as a purely reactive response to .. "the south"
What is the reason Swift compile times are slow?
imagine trying to get a job doing CRUD and getting leetcode style questions.
Has anyone here tried it out yet?
If you look at only one page of my posting history, that's likely true.
1-year chart for QQQ doesn't really show much of a story here .. some recent volatility I guess? Summer last year was a lot worse.
Did Rust make pointers complicated?
It's more likely this is a response to Gemini Deep Research released in December

https://blog.google/products/gemini/google-gemini-deep-resea...
> If you take this sentence and change "people getting rich" to something else (like "fomenting drug addiction" or "polluting the environment"), does anything change?

False equivalency. It is possible to gain wealth without performing any of the listed/possible negative global effects. Furthermore, it is a backdoor towards injecting ideas of poverty being a morally positive position.

> Even if markets were free, there's nothing inherently good about a free market. What's good is a free society, where people in aggregate have substantive freedom to do what makes them happy.

Having a free society implies the freedom to exchange with each other with minimal restrictions. Not allowing people to do so runs opposite to the ideals of the stated intention.

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All that being said, that *doesn't* mean that the current market's working as intended. What has been inherited is a complex tangled ball of national ideals, personal & corporate persuasions to governments for their own reasons/goals, & consistent global coordination failures when circumstances change.

But the outright banning of markets is equivalent to the banning of hammers, just because hammers are sometimes used to bludgeon people to death. It is ultimately a tool, and a very useful one in terms of signaling demand & supply.
DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, Nvidia, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, AI Megaclusters [video]
Indeed. Both OpenJDK HotSpot and .NET RyuJIT perform guarded devirtualization of monomorphic or polymorphic with few instances callsites. OpenJDK also computes optimized call table for megamorphic callsites, which .NET does not need to do for virtual calls, it does have something similar for un-devirtualized interface calls however (virtual stub dispatch[0]).

This is not necessarily zero-cost however - if the compiler cannot prove specific type members being invoked, it has to construct an execution profile and then apply it to subsequent compilations, and also emit a guard when doing dispatch on those.

[0]: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/docs/design/core... (note - subject to change)
> The employer sets the terms of the interview. If you don’t like them, don’t apply.

What you're missing here is that this is an individual's answer to a systemic problem. You don't apply when it's _one_ obnoxious employer.

When it's standard practice across the entire industry, we have a problem.

> submitting a fraudulent resume because you disagree with the required qualifications.

This is already worryingly common practice because employers lie about the required qualifications.

Honesty gets your resume shredded before a human even looked at it. And employers refusing to address that situation is just making everything worse and worse.
Just ask for their email password and see what they say. Usually though this comment is just them trying to change the subject because very few people know or care about any of this
most experienced developers don't have a portfolio because they code for a living lol
This is one of the actual questions:

> In Greek mythology, who was Jason's maternal great-grandfather?

https://www.google.com/search?q=In+Greek+mythology%2C+who+wa...
I thought this had something to do with "Trad Boys" (tradbois?) like "Trad Wife" ;)
I read them around the same time and they were fine. I think they are reasonable to read at around that age and when you get older you realize there’s not that much depth there.
I refer you to my comment[0] (flagged for some inexplicable reason), chromosomes are not the method of sex determination in humans (or most animals), and are not even the necessary condition in the process of fulfilling the sexual reproduction strategy in some others.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42907868
Unfortunately the fox is building the hen-house. They 'should' build products that improve my experience but they have very little incentive to do that when they get paid so much for the data they can extract. What would actually do it is regulations similar to financial regulations. OS/browser companies shouldn't be allowed to do business with data brokers. Then they would have one primary customer, the consumer, and competition would focus on the correct outcome. But 'regulation' is an evil word so we aren't likely to see anything like that actually happen.
lol what

this is implying interview process actually showcases someone would be good at a job when it isnt

when has leetcode ever translated to web dev... fuckin never lol.
I wonder if he got a small brain injury. We could add him to a long list of people who have personality changes afterwards.
Whats your magnetic charger of choice? I am tired of wearing through my charging ports.
Does the naming scheme they've used for models so far suggest that they care about SEO?
Have pro, can’t see it yet
> The problem is data access. Nothing more, nothing less. There's a term for this that has nothing to do with global variables: "action at a distance."

I mean yes, using global variables is just one of the ways to cause action-at-a-distance and that is... apparently a big reveal?

Otherwise sure, there is no pattern that cannot be utilized 100% correctly and without introducing bugs. Theoretically. Now let's look at the practical aspects and how often indiscriminately using such tempting patterns like global variables -- and mutexes-when-we-are-not-sure and I-will-remember-not-to-mutate-through-this-pointer -- lead to bugs down the road.

The answer is: fairly often.

IMO the article would be better titled as "There is no pattern that a lazy or careless programmer cannot use to introduce a bug".
for the first point you better provide a jira ticket with steps to get there (;

i would just look at stack overflow for your second point lol...
I think you are right. Having somebody release service with claims of 10x efficiency rather knocks a hole in messaging about your super-large capex to deliver things. (I thought to the contrary but it's been pointed out to me you probably cannot deliver 10x (financial) outcome on that investment.)

I harp on a lot in HN about the value of adjectives, and words as simile. I look at "deep" and thinks its value is close to "nice" -it doesn't actually mean much more than "please like me"

I'd almost say belief that this is deep, is a .. "hallucination"

I think if you treat "deep" as a noun: It's "my company" flagging. This is OpenAI research. It's depth, is not defined as "deep"