skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right now there’s a lot of engineering that falls outside SWE — think datacenter architecture or integrations, or security operations, or designing automotive assemblies. There are also dozens of components of a job that require context windows measured in the _years_ of experience — knowing what will work at scale and what won’t, client interfacing, communicating decisions down inside organisations through to customer support networks about how they are required to operate.

When we’re hiring for my role, Security Operations, I can’t have someone googling or asking AI what to do during an cyber security incident, but they can certainly use AI as much as they want when writing automations.

I reject candidates at all stages for all sorts of reasons, but more and more candidates believe the job can be done with AI. If we wanted AI, we will probably go wholesale and not include the person asking for the job to do the typing for us.

We’re not crying due to AI, we’re crying over the dozens of lost hours of interviews we’re having to conduct where it’s business critical that people know their stuff — engineering positions with consequences (banks, infrastructure, automotive). There isn’t space for “well I didn’t write the code”.
Also, trojan rats:

> During WWII, British Special Forces considered stuffing dead rats with explosives and dispersing them over Germany. They hoped that the Germans would gather the rats and dispose of them in industrial furnaces, producing tremendous explosions that would cause catastrophic boiler failures.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/oct/27/richardnortontayl...
I worked on the XNA Xenomorph Demo that was part of the announcement of the Xbox360 https://youtube.com/watch?v=VM94d3Alt3M

A trick used to achieve the morphing is that all of the creatures are topologically spheres ;)

The main trick is that their triangle topologies are all identical. We projected a common mesh onto each hand-modeled mesh so there would be a direct correspondence between each vertex of all of the projected meshes. The common mesh was topologically a sphere, but was pre-shaped to be more like a balloon animal with 6 legs and a tail (the union of all models’ appendages).

With the 1:1 vertex relationship set up, we animated 1 vertex from each of two meshes at a time separately in the vertex shader. Then the shader did a simple linear interpolation of the results. Similarly, we had a fragment shader for each pair of materials that just evaluated both and blended the results.

From there, a bit of special handling of fur and other details and we could morph between creatures with apparently different shapes, skeletal structures, materials and rendering features in real time.
It might be getting tiresome because it keeps being true, so people keep pointing it out.
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To be honest, even this is morally questionable. It makes superficial sense in that someone else will do the work if you don't. But this happening on a large scale is still a drain on talent that could hopefully be used for work of greater social value.
Actually at a previous company we had to use a service that did exactly this because we had to send money to various businesses and they didn't all have ACH/etc setup. So we had to use a relatively archaic service and API to send out physical checks. Not sure how big of a market it is, but there is definitely a need at least on the business side.
Because it’s an variant with a wart, only picked from being backed into a corner. I mentioned shell interpolation in my previous comment.
I think the window for Microsoft to squash Proton (if that was ever practical) has already passed. Valve will be able to stand up to any litigious bullying and they have financial incentive to do so. And defeating it from the technical side with a new interface would require buy-in from developers, which Microsoft has consistently been unable to obtain.
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It’s more like “can you design something with the JWT flow” and the candidates scramble to learn what JWT is in the interview to impress us, instead of asking us to remind them on the specifics on JWT. They then get it wrong, and waste the interviewers time.
I would agree with the (highly summarized) premise of the article if Europe actually had a technology strategy. I’ve seen the multiple announcements of “national pride” LLM initiatives that aim to create “a native national chatbot”, sometimes launched under extremely cringe circumstances (like the Portuguese one, announced at WebSummit and that is going to be trained at a “partially Portuguese” “supercomputer” in Spain, which most of us found hilarious).

Otherwise, Europe is doomed to doing pointless, prematurely dead-ended one-offs.
I see you are using Plaid for Bank integration. The last time I checked Plaid , there were security issues with regards to how it handled passwords by copying Bank login screens. I believe TD was suing Plaid for this reason.

I wish you best of luck but I avoid any service that uses Plaid.
I wonder if Trump tells a few friends in advance of his tariff decisions. If he tipped off Musk, that's worth more than this $100 million.

Perhaps that's too cynical, and the tariffs aren't currency manipulation; perhaps it's something legitimate (like an excuse to lower his own taxes on account of the tariff revenue)
> They can only sound like they do.

More importantly, I think, is that they are incapable of not doing so. Have we figured out how to make an LLM realize and answer that it doesn't know an answer?
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> Do you honestly think that people who believe these things will be swayed by facts and evidence?

I've got two data points to offer!

For one, some research from last year showed that

> Over three rounds of back-and-forth interaction, [a tuned version of GPT-4 Turbo], also known as DebunkBot, was able to significantly reduce individuals’ beliefs in the particular theory the believer articulated, as well as lessen their conspiratorial mindset more generally — a result that proved durable for at least two months.

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/mit-study-ai-c...

It's not like the chatbot gave them a beating or something, so it must be appeals to reason and evidence that did something? At least, that's my takeaway

Second data point is an anecdote. I somehow ended up on this flat earther youtube video where they had gotten their viewers to fund them an expedition to the south pole (wtf is a south pole if the earth is flat? Where did they fly out to? Idk, they seemed to have an alternative hypothesis in case the earth really was flat, such that this "experiment" mattered) to, and I shit you not, observe that the sun does not set during summer. Why they didn't just ask someone living beyond the (ant)arctic circle, I don't know, but so they're stood there watching the sun, waiting for it to set. It didn't, and after another glance at a wristwatch that it really is midnight, they now said they believed that the earth is in fact round because their alternative hypothesis had been disproven

Whether many of the viewers on youtube believed it, I have no idea. Also conspicuously missing from the video was any sort of remark hinting at "gee, what everyone outside of our little community said turned out to be right, I wonder if maybe this could mean that there isn't some big conspiracy going on", so perhaps they'll go on to believe the next useless thing now and it was all for naught? I'm not deep enough into conspiracy theory, but it does seem to me that: if you get them to work it all out (whatever that means for them) to a point where there is an experiment you can sensibly do, or evidence they can obtain or so, they'll actually be swayed if given that evidence. Or at least some of them are. (Or maybe these are just really good actors and getting a free holiday to the most exclusive continent by becoming famous was their long con all along, who's to say, but I'm inclined to apply occam's and hanlon's razors.)
Yep, like I said if it doesn't have it then you have to lift the variable to another scope:

> If not, then that forces you to lift it to ... the surrounding function
I got it for Christmas, so just last month actually! I think it's possible it's just too late now, apart from a historical perspective. The concepts have become obvious and the prose is... not for me.

In terms of influence I suppose I'm mostly thinking of movies and shows such as the Matrix, but I also read so many short stories involving VR and techno-dystopias it's hard to pinpoint. Snowcrash is certainly up there (yes I tried to read Snowcrash first, having done no research, and liked it even less). Having played every Shadowrun game doesn't help (the universe is in a lot of ways "just" fantasy Neuromancer).

All that being said, Neuromancer doesn't read like a cheap copy either. More like I've been riding bicycles all my life and someone presented me with a penny farthing. I appreciate the innovation, it's just not particularly mind-blowing anymore.
Nice writeup! I wonder if gnustep's NSUnarchiver could be augmented for full compatibility with Foundation?
I believe it's because it originally was SD/MMC which was supposed to be a future media for audio and the like for retail sale. I had some read only palm pilot cards like this - books etc were also sold this way for a short period.
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You're grossly misrepresenting both science and philosophy. Science is a conscious and self referential effort, it has nothing to do with animals learning how to survive in their environment. Philosophy is definitely not bible thumping.
Good to see that there are things where Germany is not behind the US when it comes to digitalization.

I haven’t seen a check for at least 20 years now.

Financial transactions are all nicely digitalized by now.
From Thinkgeek to the BSL to megacorps from the military-industrial complex cosplaying rms (Microsoft shipping VSCode) while ignoring software freedoms, this seems to me to be plainly false.
Let me list of few things that I can think of:

- (pro) It run on a laptop/desktop so it's performance will be a lot better

- (con) If the app has any native code inside it, it will need to support x86_64 or you'll need to have an ARM laptop

- (con) Like many in the thread mentioned, some apps will require Google features to even start.

- (con) I'm not sure if Waydroid will report secure boot features to the apps that require it.
Quick heads up, there’s a typo at “Create a uniqu flipbooke gift”.
They specify wild mammals. Humans are like 600 megatons I think.
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Show HN: Right-click to run Python code from ChatGPT/DeepSeek/Claude
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It's aimed at no/low-coders and students. Hopefully filling the gap between something like Replit and AWS/GCP.

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You're assuming everybody has convenient access to a USPS mailbox too. Try "just" writing and mailing a check when traveling internationally, for example.
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You are very lucky. In China, virtually all websites are required by law to use your phone number (verified by SMS) to register and/or to use. And all numbers must be linked to your ID.
I suppose simplicity and familiarity would be the primary two goals. Then congruence with SQL would be another factor specifically for PRQL.
DBOS solves this problem by storing state in Postgres, which is really good at coordinating multiple copies of the same service. Essentially, Postgres does the hard parts of external orchestration, letting you work with a simple library abstraction.
less complex libraries do python ast analysis wrapped in decorators to ensure purity of code for instance

it's a fun foot-in-the-door trick to start going into compilation
I don't know — that's my question! Anybody know?

I sort of recall some ant experiments going to the ISS, but are they still there?

All spacecraft that I know of are well-cleaned before launch, and there's not much for food sources, but have any gotten into a survivable location on an inhabited module?
The "Virtual Lab" where AIs and humans collaborate
> Just because you haven’t learned how to adapt doesn’t mean the rest of the world hasn’t adapted.

The truth is a little more complicated.

We've definitely found some tasks where CSCW (computer-supported cooperative work) performs better than colocated work, particularly for well-structured tasks that involve any sort of automation, documentation, or governance.

But collaboration tools still aren't a satisfactory replacement for many kinds in-person work. Studies routinely find colocated teams have higher creativity, efficiency, team cohesion, and job satisfaction. Whether that's worth the higher costs (office space and salaries) depends on the domain, but there are certainly companies that would be better off being in-person.
Well, until you realize how unbelievable the entire genre is. Then it's just aggravating. Old man yelling at book "don't you realize your tropes are completely stale??"
> sshine reply above is coming from a very conflictual mindset. "Can I still use AI and not be caught? Is it cheating? Does it matter if it's cheating?"

First off: Since your opinion is the popular one, "sshine reply below". ;-)

Those are not questions I ask.

Using AI is never cheating, you're optimizing for the wrong thing. Cheating occurs in games.

You can use AI, but if your writing ability is so far from what's expected, AI will just make that obvious (sludge). If it's not far off, and you use it as one might use spellcheck or Grammarly, it's like wearing fake heels at an audition: To get noticed. Just don't come on stilts.
AI to revolutionise fundamental physics and 'could show how universe will end'
Well, at least we have more lawyers in the EU…
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You'll get there! Even if a commit doesn't have peculiars, just try to include the reason for making a change.
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Thanks, appreciate the comment!

> Cash App us a lump of cash and we’ll send it somewhere by check

Funny thing about sending checks is it's just an account and routing number in a special font on a piece of paper. We don't touch any customer funds.

> Am I missing something that differentiates what you do from what they do?

We have a simpler UI with a focus just on sending the check, so having your contacts prefilled make it quick and easy. But, if your bank already supports this then probably not for you!

If we grow the app enough, we'll add more features like scheduled / recurring payments and tracking for delivery and when the check is deposited.
While Disco Elysium gets a pass for it as it's meant primarily as an entertainment product (and the ridiculousness of the sentence might serve as a parody of the idea, which would be incredibly on brand for the game), I've found Mark Fisher's analysis in Capitalist Realism to be incredibly surface level and either wrong, or so vague, as to be meaningless, and it revolves around Fisher's obession with pop culture, and failure to distinguish between images of the thing and the thing itself.

Obviously dyeing ones hair green does not constitute a meaningful attempt to subvert capitalism. In order to combat capitalism, one must first decide what capitalism actually is, what's actually bad about it and how to combat it.

Let's say the evil of capitalism is that it allows an incredible concentration of capital, therefore the enemy are the rich, and the solution is to raise social support for taxing them. Wearing a t-shirt saying 'tax the rich' is a hilariously inept mode of delivering said message in an impactful way, and serves more of a low-effort consumerist way of supporting the good cause, rather than geniune activism. Yet it can't be dismissed entirely.

If someone wrote a book on why the rich must be taxed, and said book became popular and influential, and influenced the tax policy in the end, you can't say capitalism won in the end, because people paid money for the book, or the author is a hypocrite because he got rich off of royalties.

As for the bit about the British Museum, it's utterly nonsensical - what does a state's military dragging away cultural artifacts by force, and displaying it in a state institution have to do with capitalism?
You want to work at an AI company that does not allow the use of AI by it's future employees.

That is likely enough said right there. Keep looking for a company that has it's head screwed on straight.
Agreed, if you can do something completely synchronously while responding to an HTTP request, you should.

But often you can't! Then, durable execution helps you manage the complexity of async processing.
Remember robots.txt? Now we have llms.txt
Tell this to the army of lawyers at my ex-ex-workplace. Every document I printed was reviewed by our security officer (I met him months after I left by accident and we had a chat).
I read it around '89 in the midst of my hacking phase as a 15 year old. Fucking blew my mind. Hard to describe how it felt back then to be a punk kid finding about computers, telecommution, psychedelics, hacking and cyberpunk culture while set to a backdrop of early industrial music (well, kraftwerk and Big Black).
Indeed, we need to improve further the base binary size!

Most of the size comes from the LLVM backend, which is a bit heavy. Wasmer ships many backends by default, and if you were to use Wasmer headless that would be just a bit less than a Mb.

If you want, you can always customize the build with only the backends that you are interested in using.

Note: I've seen some builds of LLVM under 5-10Mb, but those require heavy customization. Is clear that we have still some work to do to reduce size on the general build!
We're lucky they haven't banded together against us, I'm not sure we could win against those shear numbers!
I think it's much better to just learn how to read inference rules. They're actually quite simple, and are used ubiquitously to define PL semantics definitions.

Constraining this on "that's not an option" is a big waste of time - learning this will open up all of the literature written on the subject.
Historians, political scientists, and social scientists come to mind
With which bacterial cell am I speaking?
Whats the issue?
I thought this was common knowledge among (at least) IT industry workers. It's been like this for a long time.
I write a physical check maybe every other year or so. I receive maybe 4 or 5 physical checks a year, either from older relatives or compensation from companies. I deposit them with my bank's cellphone app so it is no hassle at all.