skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not American so it's not even my money but it would make sense to me, when your country has so much debt to close on an agency that gives away billions of dollars.

If people want their money to be used to help others in need, they can already donate to association like red cross. Everyone is free to do or not, depending on belief and financial situation.

But with these agencies the government is taking money from every American, including those the poorest and give it away. This shouldn't be the government authority, there is absolutely no reason why an individual isn't already able to do it by himself.
'"every line a hard-fought battle" style that really makes you understand why and how something works'

I totally agree with this and I really like that way of wording it.
Funny on the tin, but it makes complete sense to me. A sunglasses company would also ask me to take off my sunglasses during the job interview, presumably.
I don't code for a living, and I'm probably worse than a fresh grad would be but I use:

"Please don't generate or rewrite code, I just want to discuss the general approach."

Bc I don't know any design patterns or idiomatic approach, being able to discuss is amazing.

Though quality and consistency of responses is another thing... :)
A copy on the wayback machine to give context as to why Nissan.com doesn't belong to the car company (despite their lawsuits): https://web.archive.org/web/20200403031920/https://www.nissa...
If French, German and British nations start competing (like in the old days) for AI supremacy, it will unleash a level of creativity that we long forgot we are capable of in Europe.
TFT from Riot Games would be a good example. Protected by Vanguard so you can not use wine. However you need an arm device, since they do not publish apks for x86.
Apple sets Advertising Tracking ID to 00000-0000 because it's the only technical control they have. However, apps are also supposed to respect the signal with regards to other methods of cross-site/app tracking and disable fingerprinting mechanisms.

See https://developer.apple.com/app-store/user-privacy-and-data-... for details
This can be a great opportunity, but it can also be a trap. I was labeled a "fixer" at a past job, I was the one who Got Stuff Done, and so I was hand-balled a succession of train wrecks to fix, while the people creating the train wrecks continued blissfully on, train wrecking every new project they got their hands on. They, of course, had plenty of time to advocate for themselves and got to work on every interesting new project coming through, while I was flat out attempting to remediate their previous shenanigans.
>Hey Claude, translate this to Swahili from English. Ok, now translate my response from Swahili to English. Thanks.

We're close to the point where using a human -> stt -> llm -> tts -> human pipeline you can do real time high quality bi directional spoken translation on a desktop.
If JavaScript ever gets real shared memory multithreading, it will be opt in so that the entire web doesn’t break. So, yes.
I'm not sure I'd agree, "Intrusive thoughts" can happen to anyone for example, and it doesn't mean you're a bad person because you literally cannot control them. But what you can control, is acting/listening to those thoughts or not, which for me would be the important part.
Do other models do well for the same use cases? I thought LLMs are only good for low-value adtech codes and resources accessible on public Internet, like tons of getters/setters and onEvent triggers without much CS elements or time or multi domain implications.

They're also hyper sensitive to what I'd describe as geometric congruency between input and output: your input has to be able to be decompressed into final form with basically zero IQ spent on it, as if the input were zipped version of as yet existing output that the LLM simply macro-expanded.

R1 is just an improved LLM, nothing groundbreaking in those specific areas. Common limitations of LLMs still apply.

IMO, the layman's model of LLM should be more of predictive text than AI. It's a super fast keyboard that types faster than, not better than, your fingers.
Actually, that isn't true. The marginal output of working more than about 40 hours per week turns negative after about 4 weeks of doing so. There's plenty of research on this.

https://ericdodds.com/research-and-the-realities-of-time-wor...
AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU
Yes, because everyone on Hackernews is identical and working on the exact same stuff. It's not like it's a few companies enabling this and each marketing department going like oooooh i want that.
The Pixel branding is 12 years old, and IIRC this feature also existed in Nexus before that.
Honestly, I think the thing you should be asking is: Why didn't you get promoted to senior staff engineer and given leadership over the two stacks, but rather the other person did. If it's a team that needed help, rather they give it to the more senior and experienced person, and you get more experience in your new role whilst managing an existing team that is proven and you have domain-experience over.

To me, what this says, is that the other senior staff engineer was given a "promotion" in the form of managing "two" stacks, i.e. bigger head count. And you were essentially demoted to being moved over to another stack and team. Doubly so if that other team or stack or project is not seen as that important. The title they gave you was a way to placate you about the effective demotion.

But even that interpretation could be wrong. At the end of the day, it's the machinations of the company and based on decisions made by people in the "right room", a room you weren't a part of. No amount of rationalizations will make your feelings of the topic go away. I know this because I've been in similar situations, and those feelings never really go away, you will always feel slighted. Even if you raise it with management, at best they'll make you go away with manager-speak, at worst it'll colour every negative or hiccup that happens in your new position or project.
I’ve done the “at home” test for ML recently for a small AI consulting firm. It's a nice approach and got me to the next round, but the way the company evaluated it was to go through the questions and ask "fundamental ML bingo" questions. I don't think I had a single discussion about the company in the entire interview process. I was told up front "we probably won't get to the third question because it will take time to discuss theory for the first two".

If you're a company that does this, please dog food your problems and make sure the interview makes the effort feel valued. It also smells weird if you claim it's representative of a typical engineering discussion. We all know that consultancy is wrangling data, bad data and really bad data. If you're arguing over what optimiser we're choosing I'd say there's better ways to waste your customer's money.

On the other hand I like leetcode interviews. They're a nice equalizer and I do think getting good at them improves your coding skill. The point is to not ask ludicrously obscure hard problems that need tricks. I like the screen share + remote IDE. We used Code which was nice and they even had tests integrated so there wasn't the whiteboard pressure to get everything right in your head. You also know instantly if your solution works and it's a nice confidence if you get it first try, plus you can see how candidates would actually debug, etc.
It's not options either (that would be ESOPs), but actually a kind of bonus structure. If there is an exit event, as specified in the VSOP agreement, you get a bonus that should be the same as what real options would have been worth. They are taxed as normal income, but you do not have to pay tax when you receive them. In the past you would have to pay tax on real options when receiving them even though they'd most likely never pay out.
>Then you respond to every calling out...

Why is your perception of my views even on the table? Argue the topic, not the person.

>there is no precedent in US history for an authoritarian, law-flouting executive takeover centering illegal purges of the executive branch...

As I've attempted to illustrate here repeatedly, authoritarianism is in direct contrast to cuts in state power. Especially as it concerns the specific comparisons to National Socialism made on this site. Totalitarian statists seek to increase the power of the state, not cut it. Your assertion is a non-sequitur.

>...purges of the executive branch as a whole...

The president is the head of the executive branch. With other administrative agencies, there is some dispute over the extent of presidential authority.

https://www.law.georgetown.edu/georgetown-law-journal/wp-con...

https://www.law.georgetown.edu/public-policy-journal/wp-cont...

>...setting up massive concentration camps...

Deporting illegal immigrants is not comparable to Dachau or the actions of the National Socialists. Making this comparison trivializes genocide.

>I can only laugh at this point.

I don't find it funny in the least.

You would be right to say that mass deportation will probably involve violations of civil rights and profiling in practice. I hope we can agree in our opposition to this. However, illegal immigration is illegal. Circumventing immigration law by funding NGOs with taxpayer money is a greater expansion of state power. We should be more concerned with the victims who have been trafficked, including women and children. The incentives of the "amnesty" program's abuse led to the exploitation of minors. The abuse has to stop.

If partisans want immigration reform, they should pass the laws. Until then, enforcing the existing laws is not an expansion of state power. Circumventing the laws via NGOs is an expansion of state power. It is an usurpation of the democratic process you claim to value.
We have the talent, but lack the vision to ever build something significant.

Founders are more likely to want to tackle smaller problems with a more secure business model.

Investors are much less likely to back high-risk/high-reward speculative business propositions.

Government will insist that we need to go slow and steady and prioritise goals like inclusivity and safety over performance.

The public will be sceptical of any large AI company, especially if they're pushing regulatory boundaries, and demand government intervention.
One example would be looking up syntax and common functions. In a high-pressure situation it's much tougher to bumble around Google and Stack Overflow, so this would be a way for solving for "I totally know how to do this thing but it's just not coming to mind at this moment" which is fair. Usually we the interviews can obviously just tell them ourselves though, but that's what I was going for.

But yeah, the point is that once I applied it in practice it did quickly become confusing, so now I know from experience not to use it.

I think the other suggestions in this thread about how to use it are good ones, but they would present their own meta challenges for an interview too. Just about finding whatever balance works for you I guess.
You could also learn a lot from what someone is asking an AI assistant.

Someone asking: "solve this problem" vs "what is the difference between array and dict" vs "what is the time complexity of a hashmap add operation", etc.

They give you different nuances on what the candidate knows and how it is approaching the understanding of the problem and its solution.
This make sense, I often use the normal search feature to research a very large ammount of information and it mostly does not work well. If the new search feature increases the number of websites scrapped and the pertinence of the websites, I'm all in.
What about people who don't have access to a mentor? If not AI then what is their option? Is doing tutorials on your own a good way to learn?
This is highly misleading.

ChatGPT did not ace the bar exam -- it was basically percentile graded against a group of people who mostly failed. If compared to real lawyers, it was 15th percentile on the essay portion

[0] https://law-ai.org/re-evaluating-gpt-4s-bar-exam-performance...
The problem with C is not necessarily the idea of undefined behavior. It's the culture around undefined behavior. There is no culture of avoiding UB in a programming language community that glorifies UB as necessary. That's the paradox.

It's like you're supposed to cross an enemies' minefield, with the enemy laying ever more mines in your path and yet you're supposed to walk through the minefield and hope for the best.

You'd have thought that C programmers have the best tools and techniques to avoid UB by now, so that UB would be a non-issue, a relic of the past that people remember suffering from in the 90s.
> the UK's is very clustered (I've forgotten the right term) on the median.

Normal (Gaussian) distribution?
The lazy culture thing is so overwhelming in Canada right now as well. I have started to note the impact in a lot of places.
But people really have no time. There is only one brain and thousands of AI startups pitching something every day.
I'm confused as to what you consider your "career path?"
Show HN: Set To-Do list as windows wallpaper (coded by AI)
I need this feature but cannot find a good one in internet. We are studying AI coding, so ask sonnet, o3-mini and deepseek to code it. finnaly we choose sonnet version as simple code.
https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

(It's linked at the bottom of each page, along with the Guidelines, FAQ, etc)
If corporations are going to argue for the current regime of health care costs to stay as high as possible in the "free market" using research & development costs as an argument, then yes it makes sense to bring it up.
USAID is an instrument of soft power, not a charitable cause. The power, influence and goodwill that the US obtains from USAID isn’t something that individual charitable donations can achieve. Bribing a country is generally a much better way to get its cooperation than a military threat because (i) it makes the country more friendly rather than pissing it off, and (ii) you don’t have to go to the trouble and expense of starting occasional wars to underline the credibility of your military threats.
There are only 2 books I could not put down once I started: The Davinci Code and When Breath Becomes Air.

The first I raced through as fast as I could.

The second I savored like a fine wine.
Ask HN: ML/Data Science Job from Computational Social Science PhD?
I'm currently in the first year of my 4yr salaried PhD in computational socical science. I'm wondering if there is anyone out there on HN who've made the transition from quant social sciences themselves to industry and if you have any recommendations for how to make the shift. Other input is also much appreciated.
The script is MIT licensed. The model weights might not be.
I don't believe it does while the Bureaucrats in Brussels keep getting paid to stifle innovation. If we look at it from a practical view, thousands of mid-level politically appointed people in EU, get paid to make life miserable to anyone that wants to innovate. That's their job.

Let us remind that the European Commission, announced with great pomp and circumstance last year that they were proudly the first ones to regulate AI: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/regulatory...

Let's think about it for a minute. Eu was already behind the race, and they were proud for actually creating even more barriers for their businesses and researchers to catch up in the AI race.

Europe will have a change (in AI and other areas) if they get rid of most bureaucrats in Brussels. That's it. Otherwise, what expects us, is a long, slow decline into obscurantism and irrelevancy.
I saw a pretty impressive cheat tool that could apparently grab the screen from the live share, process text on the screen in response to an obscure keybind and then run it through OCR to solve (or just look up a LC solution).

At that point it seems like trying too hard, but be aware there are theoretical approaches which are extremely hard to detect (the inevitable evolution of sticky notes on the desk, or wall behind the monitor).
Ask HN: Alternative PR Viewer for Bitbucket PRs?
I find the UX for bitbucket pull requests an absolutely awful experience that massively slows down my ability to review code. Does anyone use any alternative tooling for branch reviews that they've had success with?
That's actually not reasonable.
It's hard to do this when this person has gone out to prove themselves in the first place. The company has to reciprocate, otherwise they're "double" asking that person. Like with any trust-based system, it should be a series of reciprocations with increasing levels of trust/reward/value. If one of them skips it, and still expects the other side to do their level of increase, then that is when an imbalance happens and feelings of resentment being to take hold.
> OpenAI charges $2.5 for 1 million input tokens, or units of data processed by the AI model, while DeepSeek is currently charging $0.014 for the same number of tokens.

This is somewhat misleading, because OpenAI price is for uncached and DeepSeek price is for cached. DeepSeek uncached price is $0.14.
This may be true, but remember that my friend also got hired by Amazon, after a year or two of "fixing."

"Fixers" are incredibly valuable, and only a moron manager would squander them (sadly, there are a lot of terrible managers out there).

I remember watching an episode of the new American version[0] of HPI[1], and thinking that it is a SciFi story, because her manager is a smart, fair woman that believes in her, has her back, and takes personal risks on her behalf.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26748649/

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14060708/
I mean it's a matter of opinion as to whether any male who says he's a woman actually is a woman.
New Unreported Submarine in China Leaves West Guessing
It's not an AI specific thing. The UK's investment in harder science/tech seems to be seriously anemic.

Every job posting I see seems to be some variation on the theme of pumping some representation of money around or retail/ecomm/HR management.
Said no one with ever with a even remote knowledge in healthy benefits of fitness.
I was shortly excited because I expected Google Street View from the 1840s, oh well...
In general, in all related to CS and software the UK is ages ahead of the mainland Europe. Also in AI. But still of course way behind US.
Still avoiding the key point that the US has 2.5x more people per capita incarcerated than even China with all it's political prisoners - and the US legally can force these people to work against their will.

Still not pausing to think?
Tool use is fine, when you have the education and experience to use the tools properly, and to troubleshoot and recover when things go wrong.

The use of AI is not just a labour saving device, it allows the user to bypass thinking and learning. It robs the user of an opportunity to grow. If you don't have the experience to know better it may be able to masquerade as a teacher and a problem solver, but beyond a trivial level relying on it is actively harmful to one's education. At some point the user will encounter a problem that has no existing answer in the AI's training dataset, and come to realise they have no real foundation to rely on.

Code generative AI, as it currently exists, is a poisoned chalice.
Yeah, I keep thinking that CHM was the peak format for offline docs. Today we have Kiwix [0] and Dash/Zeal [1] – both amazing projects, but somehow they feel more complex, and the formats they use aren’t as ubiquitous.

[0]: https://kiwix.org/en/

[1]: https://kapeli.com/dash for macOS, https://zealdocs.org/ for others
Going to leave this here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/#GrowHumaKnow
This is how a load of emails were sent out from my Hotmail account to anyone I had ever contacted (including random websites) asking if I want to connect with them to Facebook. The onboarding seemed to imply it would just check to see if any of my contacts were already using facebook.
Very impressive!

I've never looked into RC builds before - how are they controlled? Do you connect the PS4 controller directly to the esp?
Let's bring back indentured servitude, you have a right to not be a slave but you should still be able to enter into a voluntary agreement not to exercise that right.
Indeed; I have an original PinePhone (convergence edition) and the battery is not half bad while you are using it. I think the main issue has been poor software support for wake-from-suspend, which prevented the phone from saving power when not in use. I believe that these issues have been largely resolved in the latest versions of PostmarketOS, Mobian etc.
"Domain Graph" [1] was renamed to "Multilayer Graphs" [2].

The "Multilayer Graphs Model" was aimed to address the limitations found in prior Graph Models (e.g. RDF, Property Graphs) in representing higher-arity graphs without having to resort to reification or reserved words/vocab.

Skipping over the formal math definitions, a Multi-Layer Graph, in practical terms, is represented by statements of "quads": "{edge id, source, label, target}" -- similar on the surface to RDF-named graphs, but not.

The source and target may also refer other edges in addition to referring to the "entities" of real-world-concepts; targets may also be data types (e.g. strings, ints, etc)-- I believe that MilleniumDB puts edges, sources, targets and some simple values under the same packed int64 namespace.

Useful for MilleniumDB under-the-hood design/architecture, and probably for Wikidata where their data model are qualified facts-- a qualifying statement (e.g. "valid from 2020 to 2024") about a factual statement ("Alice Lived in America").

But this is just me, a non-expert, trying to cut to the core points after discovering and reading the papers just recently since knowledge graphs are hot topics right now.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.01540
[2] https://users.dcc.uchile.cl/~ahogan/docs/mutlilayer_graphs.p...
I just gave it a whirl. Pretty neat, but definitely watch out for hallucinations. For instance, I asked it to compile a report on myself (vain, I know.) In this 500-word report (ok, I'm not that important, I guess), it made at least three errors.

It stated that I had 47,000 reputation points on Stack Overflow -- quite a surprise to me, given my minimal activity on Stack Overflow over the years. I popped over to the link it had cited (my profile on Stack Overflow) and it seems it confused my number of people reached (47k) with my reputation, a sadly paltry 525.

Then it cited an answer I gave on Stack Overflow on the topic of monkey-patching in PHP, using this as evidence for my technical expertise. Turns out that about 15 years ago, I _asked_ a question on this topic, but the answer was submitted by someone else. Looks like I don't have much expertise, after all.

Finally, it found a gem of a quote from an interview I gave. Or wait, that was my brother! Confusingly, we founded a company together, and we were both mentioned in the same article, but he was the interviewee, not I.

I would say it's decent enough for a springboard, but you should definitely treat the output with caution and follow the links provided to make sure everything is accurate.
Thanks for not addressing any of my concrete points and instead just calling me "a dictator". Lunatic

EDIT: The funny part is even the exchanges and hft firms agree with me see PLP/speed bumps on exchanges like Eurex lol