skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reddit can do the same. But we're told now that big org is using reddit to field trial AI engagement. That worries me. The mods-are-insane thing in reddit can be very tiresome.

I rotate out reddit identity semi-annually. I don't want to get attached to karma, and I want to leave my more ridiculous positions behind. I imagine anyone who wanted to could track me no matter what. It's like the word "gelid" which is up in the one-in-10,000,000 word uses level (or do I mean down?) -if you see it twice its probably the same person.

I know I've told the same tiresome old-fart computing stories more than once, in different places, identities.

I just found my own HN comment from 2+ years ago the first match on search, for the correct spelling of somebody's name 30 years old topic against CHI contexts. When you hit your own words it's time to stop looking.
Did you intentionally flip through all the questions to find the one that seemed the easiest? If so, why? That's question #7, and all other 7 questions in the sample set seem ridiculously difficult to me.
Yeah, "unnecessary" is the word that may as well render the whole section moot unless it's actually properly enforced. If I can remember I'll test it today and see how it goes.
The WorkOutDoors app and Strava both provide full access to gpx data
>> Trump is constitutionally prohibited from running for another term.

> Not if they change the constitution. https://ogles.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-ogles-propo...

Backbencher proposes something dumb that'll almost certainly go nowhere? The sky must be falling, and that's proof!
In the main, unless someone has a remarkably clear mind, I wouldn't trust them to internally assess the state of their own thinking in these terms (hollow v. solid; map v. world, etc). This is how bias and cognitive short circuits slip in. "I'm thinking solidly, so it seems safe to believe that the Illuminati control what futures!". Changing a mind typically feels very unsettling in all the ways that make people think they are mis-thinking, and the abstract can be uncomfortable in every way imaginable. It is a self-reflecting lump of meat, don't expect your mind to behave in any particular way one day to the next. It is only just holding it together with the help of the long-suffering skull.

A more succinct check:

1) Can I state a formal (ie, logical) argument? Y/N.

2) Have I checked the assumptions of that argument as best I can for objectivity? Include a steel-man check. Y/N.

3) Have I had a hot argument with someone intelligent who disagrees with my assumptions? Y/N.

Three Ys on that sale and that is as close as someone can get to whether they have really been thinking about something or not. Step 2 is the hard part.
OpenAI's approach is certainly more technically interesting, and probably the way to go in the longer term, if the juice is worth the squeeze with this sort of technology. (After being relatively unmoved by LLMs for many other tasks, I found the voice assistant concept a lot more interesting, personally, even though I still don't have any routine uses for it.) That said, it doesn't really matter exactly how it works internally: Gemini Live accomplishes what it sets out to do, in that it feels very natural and works fairly well. I think it's clear there will be benefits to the multimodal approach of running voice directly in and out of a model for this sort of application, but if stringing together other existing technology can get you 80% of the way, it's not really a rush to get there. I don't really find this too surprising, since as far as speech recognition and voice synthesis goes, the state of the art today is very good, and most of the time computer voice interactions were greatly held back mostly by other things.
related: https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/25/alzheimers-cabal-thwarte... (2019)
How the Atari ST Almost Had Real Unix
Eh? C++20 format is checked at compile-time. This has been possible ever since string literals became constant expressions. These features are within the standard compile-time capabilities. People have done impressive compile-time parsing and codegen using it.
Some excerpts:

> In the medium-to-long run, the size of the US economy is persistently 0.2% smaller in real terms under the package

> The average effective tariff rate would rise by approximately 6.1-6.3 percentage points under the proposal, once consumers and businesses substituted towards domestic or non-tariffed imported goods.

> The individual commodity with the largest price increase is natural gas. The average price rises 8.4%

> Crude oil prices rise 1.1% in the long run.

> Auto prices rise 3.9% on average,
Hey. You asked a question, I responded in good faith. Can you do me the dignity of offering the same? Why did you ask if I personally know Trump supporters?
> Iroincally I'd probably have more github projects if I didn't spend 20 months looking for a full-time job.

Same. I could afford not working throughout most of 2023 but I had to deal with ruined health + my leeway didn't last as long as I hoped so I was back on the treadmill just when I was starting to enjoy some freedom and a peace of mind.

> And tbh, at the senior level they rarely care about personal projects. I must have had 60+ interviews and I feel a lack of a github cost me maybe 2 positions.

I have no idea how much it costed me but I was told in no uncertain terms 10+ times that having a GitHub portfolio would have meant no take-home assignment, and skipping parts of the interview I already attended. So it definitely carries weight _and_ can help shorten hiring processes.

So I don't feel it was a deal-breaker for the people who interviewed me either but I think it would have netted me more points, so to speak.

Assuming you are graded and are the same person:

Without portfolio: 7/10

With portfolio: 8/10

...for example.

> I'm doing contract work in the meantime

Same x2, but it's mentally draining. No stability. That removes future bandwidth that would have been used for those passion projects.

TL;DR a lot of things conspire to rob you of your creative potential. :(
Nah, I have a triple monitor setup. I'll share my primary screen and work on it. If they can't trust me enough to do that, then we're already on a tumultuous relationship.

Not like I'd do anything. I use one screen to work, one for video, and one for work visuals. Seeing one screen would show if I had any hidden windows anyway.
That's a useless way to rebut their specific argument. Not a single reason in your post.

You could talk about your experience, but you're not doing that.

And the claims they made about how much they care were not extreme. "Putting their money where their keyboard is" could be accomplished with $10. Would $10 make you happy or settle anything at all?
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Thank you! I'm also considering web-based editing. Currently, I have adopted Electron due to its ease of low-cost operation.
People at York University coded "blit" like behaviour into them, they were doing core wars, all kinds of things with them. Mind blowingly good systems for their size but lacking the grunt and ?mmu?

Same timeframe, whitechapel workstations, and the ICL Perq. I used the perq. Also had real unix, and almost-unix OS. Whitechapel were amazing. Very classy. Then Sun exploded on the scene, all those giant fridge sized Dec Ultrix mini systems started to look very tired.

And yet it was 2 or more years later. you still found the Dec PDP8 based office systems being deployed. And the DECmate and things. Not really a pdp8. compatible.
You mean hire one or get one?
To people commenting that no should do this ever, and people commenting that kids shouldn’t learn this way:

It doesn’t have to be the only way someone ever builds software.

The right technique matches the effort level to the needed level of polish.

And vibe coding can be a great way to learn, and a great way to explore. Build one to throw away, as they say.

Finally and most interesting of all. Vibe coding opens up a whole new region on the effort-to-polish spectrum. There’s bound to be some interesting problems that can be solved now.
I dunno... estimating how many golf balls fit in a bus or explaining why manhole cover are round make leetcode look almost... useful by comparison.
No, I was hoping you might substantiate your claims. Cutting spending stands in direct contrast to totalitarian ideology. If you cannot approach that we shall move on.

>removing undesirables from public life and generally making society less racially mixed.

These are more unsubstantiated claims.
AI Is Robbing Jr. Devs
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/russia-ukraine-cell-phones-t...

Not riding off ad geolocation but hijacking a UA app: https://www.crowdstrike.com/wp-content/brochures/FancyBearTr...
> Government has enormous power, and now that power is being used for evil and for darkness, and that's the problem.

This order is "power is being used for evil and for darkness"? Come on, cut it out with the hyperbole. It does no one any favors.
I don't follow this take. ChatGPT outputted a bug subtle enough to be overlooked by you and your colleague and your test suite, and that means it's not ready for prime time?

The day when generative AI might hope to completely handle a coding task isn't here yet - it doesn't know your full requirements, it can't run your integration tests, etc. For now it's a tool, like a linter or a debugger - useful sometimes and not useful other times, but the responsibility to keep bugs out of prod still rests with the coder, not the tools.
None of the distilled models are anywhere close to as good as the full fledged ones, so no.
Yes. Best vampire show ever!
It absolutely can replace the research done by one person, for my use case at least. It’s also available on their $20/month subscription, unlike OpenAI’s $200/month.
Are you sure that those are 9 month salaries?
I agree with all of it and think the likelihood of a dynastic takeover is over 50%.

But I don't think this is entirely accurate

> Hitler was also perceived as a worthless clown who could be easily manipulated by other interests when first elected. But he was cunning enough to eliminate all opposition and start a world war. Putin and Xi (who Trump admires and looks up to) are very similar.

Especially with Putin, as far as I can tell at no point was he considered a clown by anyone who mattered. He was definitely underestimated, but it's a marked difference with Trump (and Hitler).
and it just happened with this post as well, it was on the front
page 2min ago, and now it’s not

Yes, anything unflattering about Musk gets flagged quite rapidly.
Even if some kind of deal is reached tomorrow and tariffs are avoided, the damage to our relationship with Mexico and Canada has been done.
For now, I'm developing it as a hobby. My ultimate goal is to create a general-purpose editor (like code editor). Specific use cases would include 'podcast editing' and 'short-form video editing'.
I do agree with the filling in of text, but only when the patterns are clear. Any kind of thinking on logic or using libraries I find it still leads me astray every time.
This is kind of how The Locked Tomb series got around - "lesbian necromancers in space" has a sort of hook to it. :)
I just genuinely hope that we are all wrong, and that massive tariffs will somehow lead to prices dropping.

I am pretty confident that I am not wrong, but if prices do somehow drop I’ll admit I was.
>Do you honestly think that people who believe these things will be swayed by facts and evidence?

No I do not:

>They are not a reasonable audience to debate with logos at that point.

but if people insist on arguing, that's your approach.

I just don't debate on Youtube. The people who matter aren't there anyway. Those people have to go through a slower process but one that doesn't care about the feelings of youtube comments complaining about Hilary emails (iroinc, isn't it?)
Show HN: Made a tiling manager Linux-XFCE to roughly copy Snap-Layout in Windows
Title says all that needs to said about it, admittedly it is stupid to "copy" any Windows feature in Linux but here we are...it is not exactly made for use by extensive audience but just a rough work of it would love any suggestion/critique on it ...
Who, I'm assuming, can just be infinitely pardoned by the president because the president has absolute immunity.
It's a bit ironic that Privacy Badger extension finds 7 trackers on the article's page.
Because on SO someone real wrote it with a real reason and logic. With AI we still need to double check that what we are giving ever made any sense. And SO also has votes to show the validty.

I agree if devs iterated over the results it could be good, but that has not been what I have been seeing.

It is not a traditional tool because tools we had in the past had expected results.
I'll add in that it's a buyer's market. There are plenty of post docs with no work (who want to work in the academic space) so if you don't want the post there are plenty in line who do.

There's no post-doc-research union to set and enforce reasonable pay scales, but equally a union would have difficulty adjusting rates to local cost of living.

Put another way - supply and demand baby, supply and demand.
static variable addresses are an extremely important tool in static analysis, for proving certain program invariants hold. In C, a const static often will be able to tell you more about the structure of your code at runtime than a #define macro ever could!

though unless you're programming extremely defensively (eg trying to thwart a nation state), I see no reason why you would use them at runtime
100% agree.

These systems serve best at augmenting information discovery. When I'm tackling a new area or looking for the right terminology, these models provide a quick shortcut because they have good probabilistic "understanding" of my naive, jargon-free description. This allows me to pull in all of the jargon for the area of research I'm interested in, and move on to actually useful resources, whether that be journal articles, textbooks, or - rarely - online posts/blogs/videos.

the current "meta" is probably something like Elicit + notebookLM + Claude for accelerating understanding of complex topics and extracting useful parts. But, again, each step requires that I am closely involved, from selecting the "correct" papers, to carefully aggregating and grooming the information pulled in from notebookLM, to judging the the usefulness of Claude's attempts to extract what I have asked for
It is actually interesting for people working in academia. I would like to test it but no way I can afford $200/m right now.

Can someone test it with this prompt.

"As a research assistant with comprehensive knowledge of particle physics, please provide a detailed analysis of next-generation particle collider projects currently under consideration by the international physics community.

The analysis should encompass the major proposed projects, including the Future Circular Collider (FCC) at CERN, International Linear Collider (ILC), Compact Linear Collider (CLIC), various Muon Collider proposals, and any other significant projects as of 2024.

For each proposal, examine the planned energy ranges and collision types, estimated timeline for construction and operation, technical advantages and challenges, approximate costs, and key physics goals. Include information about current technical design reports, feasibility studies, and the level of international support and collaboration.

Present a thorough comparative analysis that addresses technical feasibility, cost-benefit considerations, scientific potential for new physics discoveries, timeline to first data collection, infrastructure requirements, and environmental impact. The projects should be compared in terms of their relative strengths, weaknesses, and potential contributions to advancing our understanding of fundamental physics.

Please format the response as a structured technical summary suitable for presentation at a topical meeting of particle physicists. Where appropriate, incorporate relevant figures and tables to facilitate clear comparisons between proposals. Base your analysis on information from peer-reviewed sources and official design reports, focusing on the most current available data and design specifications.

Consider the long-term implications of each proposal, including potential upgrade paths, flexibility for future modifications, and integration with existing research infrastructure."
Before I recommend this to a garmin-owner who rows, does it have good models for rowing specific data like the 500m split timers and your cadence? I looked and it seems like its very bicycle/run aware, and "paddle" is not a term of art for rowers. (thats in the plugin) -If there is a data model for the Ergo, it probably would work because "its the same" (it isn't but anyway. meh)

He shared some data with me to see if I could decode/dump (2+ years ago) and I gave up. Garmin are not easy sometimes. Shame. I doubt their s/w is making them much, people buy for the hardware not the app specifically. False benefit lockin.
I haven’t tried the OpenAI version yet, as I’m on their peasant-level $20 plan, but the Google equivalent is way superior to Perplexity (I use both extensively). The web search Perplexity carries out is superficial compared to the Google product; it misses a large percentage of what Gemini Deep Research finds, and for a particular task in my business this makes a huge difference.
UC Berkeley researchers managed to replicate DeepSeek AI for only $30
I think there are more possible answers? Jason's mother differs depending on the author...

For example, Jason's mother was Philonis, daughter of Mestra, daughter of Daedalion, son of Hesporos. So Jason's maternal great-grandfather was Hesporos.
> And what is wrong with being a cog?

Human cogs are going to be phased out. I'm not an AI doomer who thinks engineers are going to be replaced across the board, but the need for a human being who functions like a robot is going away fast. We need humans to do what humans do well, and humans don't do well as cogs in a machine—machines are better at that role.

The days of leetcode interviews are numbered not because they're too easy to cheat at, but because they were always optimizing for the wrong traits in most companies that cargo culted them, and even the companies that used them correctly (Big Tech) are going to rapidly need a different type of interview for the new types of hires they need.
I never heard of monkeytype, tired it, thanks. And the magic number is:

41 wpm with 100% accuracy. Unlike others I must say this is faster than I expected and I am actually happy with it.

In real life I expect my speed is probably like 10, as I think of what I am typing. Even less when I have to do spelling corrections.
I’ll do it. AFL right now.
I don't believe we have any indication that the big offerings (claude.ai, Gemini, operator, tasks, canvas, chatgpt) use multiple models in one call (other than for different modalities like having Gemini create an image). It seems to actually be very difficult technically and I'm curious as to why.

I wonder how much of an impact our being still so early in the productization phase of this all is. Like it takes a ton of work and training and coordination to get multiple models synced up into an offering and I think the companies are still optimizing for getting new ideas out there rather truly optimizing them.
This is why I am so against letting Web Browsers have access to so much device information. Every time, a web dev says they should be able to push notifications, or get battery information, or whatever, this is why they should be ignored.
Even if that's true, it still means that there is at best a tiny advantage to an asteroid weapon compared to a nuclear weapon - and a gigantic disadvantage in terms of energy cost of moving an asteroid from its orbit to Earth's surface, and in terms of the months or years it would take to deploy (in which time your enemy might even find a way to stop you, or at least launch all of its nuclear arsenal on you if that's not possible, MAD style).
As soon as you automate it it stops being secure.

Manually log in and input or transfer the secrets.

Done.

"But I need new servers to be spun up automatically.."

No you don't. No you don't.
Devs who don't feel that way aren't talking about the stuff you're talking about.

Look at it this way - a powerful debugger gives you superpowers. That doesn't mean it turns bad devs into good devs, or that devs with a powerful debugger never write bad code! If somebody says a powerful debugger gives them superpowers they're not claiming those things; they're claiming that it makes good devs even better.
You say this is unprecedented times. But correct me if I am wrong. The government has always given non government institutions access to government facilities and data. Some are even in charge or running infrastructure and providing software.

Lots of contractor in the past seem to have had varying levels of access to government databases and infrastructure to fulfill their contracted duty.

The only major difference I see here is the entity and connection to specific people and the openness about who.

Just recently there was a story, I think here on hacker news, where somebody was doing some work for a government agency and built into the bill granting the contract were provisions to conceal the entity doing the work and bared government officials to comment on the work being done.

So I guess if we are in interesting times it’s that we are an ally being let know?
FYI, Firefox has also been on the front page before, it's allowed. :)
This makes me feel good because it’s exactly how I use it.

I’m basically pair programming with a wizard all day who periodically does very stupid things.
SCOTUS can't impreach, but they can make sure the next BS pardon is illegal to do. They can re-interpret the law to limit pardons and deny future ones. That's the extent of their power.

But yes, it's up to congress to actual impreach/convict. The SCOTUS can just keep slapping the president if he keeps overstepping his bounds.

>Unless, perhaps, the actions of the president were to be bad enough to introduce imminent risk to the whole system of government. Like pardoning people who (provably) organize large scale voting fraud, etc.

it would be a very interesting, constitutional crisis. I'm not sure if it has anything built in for that. Even Watergate was simply going to go through the impeachment process before Nixon stepped down.
> it appears he’s using a small number of young engineers from his companies to gain access to and control over systems at OPM.

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engin...