skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Treasury officials have long maintained that its role is to serve as the federal government’s checkbook — and that the decision about whether to approve or deny payment belongs to individual agencies based on funds appropriated by Congress.

> “The @DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups. They literally never denied a payment in their entire career. Not even once,” Musk wrote on X.

Like, this is a no shit Sherlock thing right? If congress passes funding for something, why would we ever want the Treasury to refuse to process it?

Would Musk be okay if his accountants at X refused to pay for things he told them to because they don't like it?
easiest way is to use zen kernel because it's already baked in.
If the English writing is as bad as people say, I definitely agree
also US based, have pro and still no access.
The way Alzheimer's is diagnosed is by ruling out other forms of dementia, or other diseases. There is not a direct test for Alzheimer's, which makes sense, because we don't really know what it is,

Correction here: while other tests are sometimes given to rule out additional factors, there is an authoritative, direct test for Alzheimer's: clinically detectable cognitive impairment in combination with amyloid and tau pathology (as seen in cerebrospinal fluid or PET scan). This amyloid-tau copathology is basically definitional to the disease, even if there are other hypotheses as to its cause.
I recently did an interview that that involved making pull requests for code updates across a time period

That seemed to thwart AI use, at least thwart one-shotting, and require understanding and experience with working in an organization

I liked that
Am I gonna' be that guy? sigh I guess I am.

Hiro doesn't use a skateboard you're thinking of "YT" the courier.

Hiro uses a high-performance pizza-delivery-specific car early on and then later a motorcycle that has wheels that aren't even continuous discs, but made up of many individually coordinated linear actuators with grip-pads on the end.
Does your computer exhibit any plasticity? After how long are we taking the post-sample?
It's possible but somewhat rare. I've met religious research scientists before, but in general principles of faith and the scientific method are at odds with each other.
Slap an inop tag on it and keep moving.
Great article, thanks for taking the time to research and write it all up! Definitely learned some new things from it.
> It is patently unfair to the individuals that are smart enough to do your work, but poor at some farcical representation of the work. That is cheating.

On the other hand, if you have 1,000 candidates, and you only need 1, why not do it if the top candidate selected by this method can do well on the test and your work?
Here's my messy list of all the apps I recognized in that Google Sheet:
meetup, tinder, crunchyroll zynga/wordswithfriends, Microsoft Outlook com.microsoft.office.outlook, Weather channel, Microsoft 365 (Office) com.microsoft.office.officehubrow Opera Mini browser beta com.opera.mini.native.beta, BuzzFeed - Quizzes & News com.buzzfeed.android Tetris® Block Puzzle com.playstudios.tetris4 Sonic the Hedgehog™ Classic com.sega.sonic1px Grindr Flipboard: The Social Magazine Flightradar24 | Flight Tracker Bejeweled Blitz com.ea.BejeweledBlitz_row FarmVille 3 – Farm Animals Plants vs Zombies™ 2 com.ea.game.pvz2_row SimCity BuildIt 913292932 Tetris® 1491074310 Opera Mini: Fast Web Browser com.opera.mini.native TuneIn Radio: Music & Sports 418987775 Yahoo Mail – Organized Email com.yahoo.mobile.client.android.mail Angry Birds 2 com.rovio.baba Skip-Bo 1538912205 CamScanner - PDF Scanner App com.intsig.camscanner Rakuten Viber Messenger com.viber.voip Candy Crush Saga 553834731
Frankly, if a copy of the private keys leaves a controlled server, the entire system should be considered compromised and torn down and re-done, which might be the entire point of this....
Going by TFA, not much.
> I would have no problem with them using GPT/Copilot in addition to all that, as long as it's clear how they're solving it.

Too many people are the opposite that I would literally never tell you

And this works.

what can we do to help that?

I’ve had interviews where AI use was encouraged as well.

but so many casual tirades against it dont make me want to ever try being forthcoming. most organizations are realistically going to be 10 years behind the curve on this
I personally don't know anyone who creates workouts in Garmin Connect. Not saying it doesn't happen, or even that it isn't common, but everyone I know is creating their workouts in TP, Intervals.icu, Golden Cheetah (or other similar dedicated training platforms), or even in Zwift (or another virtual training platform).
The super bike is later in the book and temporary. When delivering pizzas he has a car so cool and intimidating it makes other drivers get out of the way so he can deliver pizza faster. But he actually wrecks it and looses the delivery job near the start of the book. For most of the story he doesn't have any iconic means of transportation.
> by the end of Trump's term, if it said term doesn't continue forever

Comments like this, sarcastic as it may be, help to normalize the idea.
> There's also commentary on the novel by the creators of RiffTrax in episodes 71 through 77 of the 372 Pages podcast

6 podcast episodes on a 500-page paperback thriller? That's not commentary, that's mental illness.
Same, it's not quite Americans caliber but it scratches a similar itch.
> ...it's code generation through an AI model, without even understanding it...

Are you implying that Andrej Karpathy[0] doesn’t understand how the code generation from these models works? Or are you saying he isn’t capable of understanding the output?

[0]: https://karpathy.ai/
Every time I see this I think "cool! I can run some cool Android app that doesn't have a Linux counterpart" and every time I fail to think of anything. Are there any must have Android apps out there?
It is just a talk that he sounds like a shining knight which has come to the rescue.
> I suck in FAANG interviews... it's just something I never practiced.

Well, sounds like you know the solution. Or set your sights on a job that interviews a different way.

I think it's mostly leetcode "easy", anyway. Maybe some medium. Never seen a hard, except maybe from one smartass at Google (they were not expecting a perfect answer). Out of a dozen technical interviews, I don't think I've ever needed to know a data structure more exotic than a hash map or binary search tree.

The amount of deliberate practice required to stand out is probably not more than 10-20 hours, assuming you do actually have the programming and CS skills expected for a FAANG job. It's unlikely you need to do months of grinding.

If 20 hours of work was all that stood between me and half a million dollars a year, I'd consider myself pretty lucky.
Got introduced to Rufus Sewell in 'The Man in The High Castle'. He played an SS commander. Most intimidating and frightening presence on the screen - without raising his voice and no (direct) acts of violence. Great actor.
Turns out there are enough studies for a meta analysis. Is that basic science? I'm not sure what counts.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S127977072...

If amyloid is truly the critical "but for" cause then how on earth is it possible that reducing amyloid burden doesn't really make a difference?

https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2024/03/13/why-alzheimers-pla...
My guess is latency won’t be an issue for you’re using it over LAN and the device is traveling lower speeds. If you wanted the controller inputs to travel over the internet to your router and/or going high speed where reaction time and maneuvering were more of a concern then latency would become an issue
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> "How do you have a problem with this, but Marvel or Star Wars is fine"

Marvel and Star Wars aren't fine--the writing is execrable whenever they aren't outright plagiarizing something else.

Star Wars was schlock meant to sell toys that just happened to become huge. Marvel is pretty much just straight up garbage across the board (some characters are interesting--the stories and world though are pretty uniformly trope-ridden crap).

Modern movies also have the problem that a lot of their revenue comes from overseas--China in particular. They can't risk having writing that is either too subtle for a foreign audience or cover themes that might get them banned by the government.

Thus we get Michael Bay syndrome--spectacle after spectacle and the minimum writing necessary to connect them.

(To be honest--this is nothing new to Hollywood--Michael Bay can trace his roots the whole way back through "Towering Inferno" to "Noah's Ark", etc.)
Yeah and if you ask for permission for every little thing then users are going to get bombarded even when it's needed for legit purposes. It's a difficult tradeoff to make, even if you want to do the right thing (and I'm not really sure that Apple and especially Google really do)
It is in fact unconstitutional for the executive branch to withhold funds approved by Congress. Congress has the sole power of the purse as Nixon tested (and lost).
Dang may be in a vulnerable position. My understanding is they serve at the pleasure of paulg. If dang unflags too many of these, their job could be in danger.
Off the top of my head, C++17 brought slicker notation for nested namespaces, digit separators for numeric literals (so you can more easily read 1'000'000'000), improvements in type deduction for pairs / tuples (so std::make_pair / make_tuple are basically unnecessary now), guarantees in the standard for copy elision / return value optimization in specific circumstances,. Oh, and structured bindings (so you can now write `for (const auto& [key, value] : map) { ... }`).

edit: I guess digit separators came in C++14, I'm always a little fuzzy there since at work, we jumped straight from 11 -> 17.

C++20 brought a feature that C had decades prior: designated initializers, except it's in a slightly crappier form. Also, spaceship operator (three-way comparison).

Looking at cppreference, it looks like C++17 also brought if constexpr, and standardized a bunch of nonstandard compiler extensions like [[fallthrough]]. C++20 continued standardizing more of those extensions, and also brought concepts / constraints, which are a lot easier to use than template metaprogramming.

You're at least somewhat right though -- none of these are paradigm shifts as C++11 was compared to C++03 (especially with the notion of ownership, especially in the context of std::unique_ptr and std::move).
Can I hallucinate answers in an interview, and have them rated as acceptable?
I'm a software developer with just a basic understanding of LLMs.

But its not surprising to me that LLMs wouldnt be good at composition and planning.
To me, LLMs seem like half a brain, the right half, that does pattern matching and such.

To me, the current crop of AI seems to be missing the other half of the brain, the part that's good at planning and composition and such.

LLMs can tell me all I want to know about logic and deduction, so its funny that LLMs cant understand their own words.
> the Constitution says that it should only be to encourage innovation, and long copyright inhibits innovation.

I concur, but the Supreme Court might not. Plaintiffs in Eldred v. Ashcroft were defeated on "limited times", and I expect that a "promote the progress" argument would have an even harder time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldred_v._Ashcroft
no they r the good guy /s
Can you recommend any algorithm resources for a hobbyist programmer?
I wrote a long post attempting to answer a similar question earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42911011. If you take a look and find that your question still isn't answered, I'd be happy to take another crack at it.

p.s. @dang generally doesn't work - if you want more-or-less guaranteed message delivery, emailing hn@ycombinator.com is the way
> Microsoft should adjust the flag font according to the language used ...

That seems like it wouldn't work the way you're meaning in some pretty common cases. For example, with the Russian language.
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I’m not sure if you’re implying this subtly in your comment or not, as it’s early here, but it does of course need to be a generation ahead of what 10 months of their competitors moving forward have done too. Nobody is standing still
Compulsory licensing seems to have worked OK (though maybe not great) in some areas, such as broadcast retransmission, and recordings of cover versions of songs.
> people can say anything they want online

This is certainly untrue, and the belief/sentiment this engenders is highly problematic philosophy that is a spiritual disease that rots those from within.

It is based in nihilism, which is a modern spinoff of ancient gnosticism.

The whole idea that everything is fake and meaningless, and you are free to do any evil thing you want at the expense of others, since everything is relative, naturally emerges from the views in this subject matter, which have been shown to be both destructive, and morally wrong.

Reason and logic do exist, and are crucial tools to discern truth from falsehood, and those with these abilities will have greater odds of surviving the disadvantaged environment we find ourselves progressing to.

When society fails, those who are delusional, or insane often don't survive that long. They are dead weight, and people go out of their ways in such unforgiving environments to test people in terms of Darwin's fitness.

In olden times the insane were often put to death because there was no cure and resources were scarce. You can get you killed in non-permissive unforgiving environments exhibiting such behaviors.

When society fails, and its progressing towards that, violence will be everywhere. Do you think those that have honed their minds and bodies as weapons, will survive more often than others who have neglected this?

The main point of many hundreds of years of classical literature is to instill the facts that the world is cruel, and people are cruel, and the most intelligent of people, the gods are cruel, and they will tempt and test the mortals, and the only thing that gets those who are tested through to survive in the end, during such an Odyssey, is to always be refining your rational thinking and observing reality and taking appropriate action based in reality.

You really shouldn't support destructive ideology that lacks any moral basis, or induce others to think the same.
For a variety of reasons we prefer to stay anonymous. I just throw info over a wall every now and then to see if anyone will catch it. The serial killer aspect to me seems to be a simple function of mental illness/autoimmune and there is no doubt hEDS has numerous autoimmune comorbidities so it would stand to reason they would be overrepresented. No one would bother to look for a link if they assumed hEDS is as rare as medical researchers currently think it is. So the real question that needs answering; is hEDS even rare or is it just uncommon. I have my reasons for thinking it’s far more common than currently thought.

I think this could all be answered rather quickly with high quality Whole Genome Sequencing and a bunch of math so I’ve been going around evangelizing that idea and am working with some people who have independently come to the same conclusions.
>Am I telling you to bury your head in the sand? Far from it. I am telling you to moderate your exposure to the bullshit.

I think this is good advice. And for me at least this is often a platform-level decision. I find it impossible to avoid trolls and bad actors on X and Reddit, so I am not on those platforms at all. In fact, I am only on Bluesky and (newly) here right now. I like Bluesky because it is very good at allowing you to self-moderate with "muted words."
This technique doesn't work anymore on android because you can no longer add certificates to the system store and apps are free to choose to accept the user store CAs or not. That was changed in Android 7. For "security" they say. Security of Googles business model I'm sure.
I just turn on netflow on my router and have it send the flows to another machine on the LAN that's running ntopng.
This holds for every app and every permission? Because I'm quite sure I recently used an app that closed for not allowing a permission. May be misremembering..
Heh, hopefully browsers wouldn't be able to query the user answers to that info as it would be extremely fingerprint/identifying.
> They’re about trying to find out if you’ll be a good hire, which notably includes whether you’re willing and interested in spending effort learning

I admire this worldview, and wish for it to be true, but I can't help but see it in conflict with much of what floats around these parts.

There's a recent thread on Aider where the authors' proudly proclaim that ~80% of code is written by Aider itself.

I've no idea what to make of the general state of the programming profession at all at the moment, but I can't help but feel learning various programming trivia has a lower return on investment than ever.

I get learning the business and domain and etc, but it seems like we're in a fast race to the bottom where the focus is on making programmers' skills as redundant as possible as soon as possible.
The edition I read had an afterword noting that it started life as a comic book script. Which really explains a lot about it.
Straight up fingerprinting us without consent it’s pure insanity.
in my experience it is very buggy/crashy and kills all TCP sockets any time it is stopped/started
4 years? Trump has been talking about a third term.

“It would be my greatest honor to serve not once but twice,” Mr. Trump told an audience on Saturday. “Maybe three times.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/us/politics/trump-boundar...
Yesterday I had a very similar argument. Maybe I haven't been paying attention until now but this is the first time I see somebody else summarize it so clearly.

I've come to the conclusion that value (you call it wealth) is created by work. Yet the fastest way to get rich is to own already created value (a fixed amount) and use that to buy power/influence (e.g. buy a company) to take a cut from value created by other people over time (an unbounded amount).

IMO this one-time vs indefinite distinction is the core of inequality.

Currently, reward is based on capital invested, it should be based on work invested.
Musk says DOGE is halting Treasury payments to US contractors
OpenAI’s scraping will likely be ruled as fair use.
What do you suppose is the recommended way to use the encapsulation? ;) This is partly why there's a "defining global variables" section, I know people will will consider some usage as not using a global
doesn't have the same ring to it, now does it ?
Is America’s legal system not as robust as I’ve always imagined? Is there not a version of free open source lawyers with passion?

This really does feel like a predator in the house with the inhabitants having no avenue.
Chaplin: Local visual speech recognition (VSR) in real-time
I mostly see this recommended for people who want to play mobile games on a Steam Deck.
sounds cheesy, but keep being honest. Eventually companies will realize (as we have years ago) that automating recruiting gets you automated candidates.

But YMMV. I have 9 years and still can get interviews the old fashioned way.
Interesting; I've read them both and I can't really remember much of Eco's, but I do Brown's. I think I read The Da Vinci Code first though.
I always knew it as oddsockmachine's law.
Furthermore, neurons alone do not led to consciousness. At the very least, their modulation, mainly by glial cells, is essential as well.

Personally, my money is on quantum coherence within microtubules being the mechanism of conscious experience, with the brain essentially being a quantum/classical hybrid computer.
> Well, at least if the thing is broken during 2 years post purchase, I can send it back to the seller and either get a repair or my money back

> if it burns down my house I can at least drag some poor sod in front of a court and hope they got a corporate liability insurance.

Valid but I doubt a more thorough warranty is worth more than 5-20%.

> I don't have to pick up the parcel from customs in person

Does that actually make the shipping from china cheaper, though? Probably not. Paying to avoid an artificial barrier is a pretty bad justification for price.

> shipment is faster than 4 weeks aka "economy"

If that's a big factor, wouldn't I be able to get similar super cheap prices with slow shipping from an in-country warehouse? Because I don't see that, I see prices that are similar to going to the store.
Ahhh, that actually makes a lot of sense. I didn't even think of games. Maybe I'll use it to play Candy Crush.
> Today's social media environment means there's no need to consider that at all. Just say stuff.

I'm sure the following people would totally agree here with what you said... /s, no not really.

https://apnews.com/article/fox-news-dominion-lawsuit-trial-t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depp_v._Heard

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/us/politics/defamation-la...
> So I can see why companies are quick to lock out customers who try these games.

Most of the companies who customers try these "games" against are places like Google and Meta that literally do not provide a way for the average customer to reach a human. None.

Those have got it coming for them, the megacorps' stance on this is despicable and far worse than the customers directly reaching execs who could instantly change this but don't because it would cut into their $72 billion per year net profit.

This is a case where laws simply did not catch up to the digital era. In the brick and mortar era it was by definition possible to reach humans.

I get that your company was smaller and probably did allow for a way to reach a human but that's not generalizable.
> we have categorized the ways it goes rogue (monopoly, extortion, etc) and responded adequately.

This objection is a reasonable one. But the point of the paper is that a lot of the ways we have of addressing these systemic problems will probably not work once we're mostly unemployed (or doing make-work). E.g. going on strike, holding a coup, or even organizing politically will become less viable. And once we're a net drag on growth, the government will have incentives to route resources away from us. Right now they have to invest in their human capital to remain competitive.

Is that any more convincing?
If I have to opt-out everytime I open the app, that's not really an opt-out, that's a temporary fix at best.
I would be more excited if it wasn't $200 a month to try.

I don't feel like OpenAI does a good job of getting me excited either.

Find the perfect snowboard? How can that idea get pitched and make the final cut for a $200 a month service? The NFL kicker example is also completely ridiculous.

The business and UX example seems interesting. Would love to see more.
Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42884338
Windows dark mode has been embarrassingly incomplete for nearly a decade
I'm using AI for interview screeners for nontechnical roles that require knowledge work. The AI interviewing app is very very basic, its just a wrapper put together by an eng, with enough features to prevent cheating.

Start with recording the session and blocking right-click, and you are halfway there. Its not hard.

The AI app has helped me surface top candidates. I don't even look at resumes anymore. There's no point. I interview the top 10 out of 200, and then do my references and select.