skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you.

I haven't really seen the diamond problem referenced lately as an objection to inheritance, but I honestly never understood what the big deal was. In the event of a collision, the compiler can ask for further disambiguation, which does in fact boil down to an issue of syntax, not one of a soundness or correctness violation.
Glad this exists and big +1 to the creator.

"Cheating" on leetcode is a net positive for society. Unironically.
Downvoters, are you sure you have a rational basis for downvoting this informative post? Do us HNers really know enough to discredit the amyloid hypothesis when 99.9% of us know nothing other than it's gotten some bad press in recent years?

I googled lecanemab and it does have the clinical support claimed. I don't see anyone questioning the data. I'm as surprised as anyone else, even a little suspicious, but I have to accept this as true, at least provisionally.

For anyone who wants to start grappling with the true complexity of this issue, I found a scholarly review [1] from October 2024.

[1] The controversy around anti-amyloid antibodies for treating Alzheimer’s disease. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11624191
And United Nations defines national borders, but countries disagree with that and complain to Microsoft, not the UN. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030822-00/?p=42...
OpenAI – Deep Research
Oh he is bad about it, don't get me wrong. That doesn't excuse other politicians though, and attempting to weigh and compare the relative lying and truth twisting seems like an extremely difficult thing to do.

Bush Jr blatantly lied to the country and rallied us around a war that killed hundreds of thousands of people minimum. How do we weigh that with Trumps ridiculous lies?
In unregulated environments, it's often more cost effective to be a bully (in the market or the courts) than to sincerely compete. You can see the same behavior from Meta (which buys competitors instead of innovating) and xAI (which is suing OpenAI).
I was gifted Michael Caine's book for Christmas and just finished it.

I was surprised and impressed just how enjoyable a read it was. Strong recommend to anyone who might be thinking about picking it up. One of the best memoir/autobiographical style books I've read.
Almost nothing, it scrolls horizontally to show the selected time zone in the middle.
Yeah, it's just a pity that human stupidity perpetuated leetcode as an interviewing tool to the point that AI had to kill it....

Im really happy it's finally broken though. Dumbest fad our industry ever had.
It is the end of democracy in the United States.
Thank you for providing extra context! I can see why the unpredictability of the entire system could make people not even consider applying in the future.

Sorry to hear that this happened to you. I hope they will provide some way to sort this out soon.
Trump and Obama Created Shein Together [video]
> if you didn’t list your pronouns [...] if you want equal rights for your trans friends

That middle pairing seems a trifle asymmetric compared to the others.
I also think 4o sucks, but have you tried DeepSeek R1 (free on their website)? I thought it night and day between 4o and o3-mini on the following topics:

- reverse engineering: when fed assembly (or decomp or mock impl), it's been consistently been able to figure out what the function actually does/why it's there from a high-level perspective. Whereas ChatGPT merely states the obvious

- very technical C++ questions: DSR1 gives much more detailed answers, with bullet points and examples. Much better writing style. Slightly prone to hallucinations, but not that much

- any controversial topic: ChatGPT models are trained to avoid these because of its "safety" training

ChatGPT is a bit better (and faster) at writing simple code and doing some math faster, but that's it.

(obviously, common sense about what to share and not to share with these chatbots still apply, etc.)
Here where I live, home assignments with the follow-up tech discussion are way more common than the leetcode-like interviews. Therefore, I can't say that the process has already changed dramatically. Yes, I did review a couple of home assignments that had all the signs of being completely AI-generated. But it all became clear during the presentation of the solution, "why"-like questions, and extending the scope of the task to discuss the improvements. If the candidate could answer that, then AI was just a supplementary tool, which is great, as we also use Copilot, ChatGPT, and friends at work. If not, well, it's an obvious rejection.

It happened twice, that the candidate on the other side was clearly typing during the interview, taking a pause for a second or two, and then reading from the screen. That's very obvious as of today, but I can see how it will become a problem one day with the future AI development in terms of the speed of responses, and better voice recognition techniques (so, no typing needed).
> Most software isn't going beyond the top two or three recognized languages in a given UN-recognized country

There are over 30 languages in India with at least a million NATIVE speakers. 7 of those are in the top 30 most spoken languages in the world
There is anecdotal evidence and perhaps even some small studies showing that a keto diet can halt and even reverse Alzheimer's symptoms.

Compared to that, reducing the speed of decline isn't terribly impressive. It's better than nothing to be sure! But what people want is BIG progress, and understandably so. Billions have been spent.
Found with related issues in work contexts that people can be very forgiving of baked-in things, and simply block on new entrants.

If you ship android as-is from a GIT repo that has <forbidden thing> you can be ok. If you write an app or show slideware which refers to <forbidden thing> you are in the naughty corner for a while.

It's because people who are responding are responding intelligently. They know what they can effect: the future. The past, is another country. They can't get the git repo to ban the <forbidden thing> but they can make your life hell for including it.

So to an outsider this looks "inconsistent" but its (in my opinion) entirely internally consistent: Only act on things you can influence.
While it's part of upstream Linux, many kernels come with it disabled because it has a long history of security issues and basically nothing but Android uses it.

It also liked to trigger kernel panics for me on Ubuntu 22.04, but that could be a weird hardware issue.
Introducing deep research
Still annoyed I have to patch in en_NL on all my systems because glibc developers don't think it's legitimate.
I think that's an apples-to-oranges comparison.

First, keep in mind that while those scientists were originally convicted, they were exonerated on appeal. The appellate court's opinion was that the responsibility was on the public official who announced that the area was safe without first consulting the scientists.

Secondly, this case isn't clear cut. Some still fault the scientists for not correctly interpreting the seismology data and not speaking up against the public official who was supposedly to blame. There's a big question around whether these scientists were correct or not in their judgement.

At any rate, this is pretty far from scientific fraud. Seismology (as far as I, a layman, understands it) is not a science where you can make exact predictions. Being wrong about the future isn't fraud, it's just unlucky.
> Someone can post a tortured looking piece of awk code here and people applaud.

A tortured piece of awk code is like a beautiful rose, sharp, but wax poetic. Perl is like a corpse flower.
That is mainly because Norway wants to be special. I have non of these issues but then again my country is part of the one stop shop scheme due to being in the EU.
In my opinion that's literally what we're aiming for, whether or not intentionally.
I have not. Worth a try?
Not the parent poster but maybe certain banks and financial institutions
You can search open threat exchange for files tagged with "scatterbrain" and it will give you various hashes: https://otx.alienvault.com/browse/global/indicators?q=scatte...

You can then use the hashes with platforms like virustotal to download some samples.
> I remember the time before the Blair government unwisely deregulated gambling

Not sure when that was but in Australia a similar decision was made in... 2007 or 2008 maybe? It feels like it has been a constant race to the bottom with endless competing companies trying to out-do each other with enticements to bring in new/re-engage existing players (none of whom have any loyalty anyway).

I know monopolies have their issues but I don't remember it being like this when there was a single operator (yes there have always been problem gamblers but 20 years there wasn't wall to wall advertising, deposit-matching, odds-boost etc).
After 3 years of tinkering, experimenting, and late-night coding sessions, my isometric diagramming tool - Isoflow.io - has officially hit v3!

This project has been my creative outlet for simplifying how we explain complex systems. And now, it’s packed with new features to make designing and communicating ideas about business processes, information flows and IT networks more impactful.

AI Icon Generator: Use custom icons to represent components in your diagrams.
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Multi-Layered Views: Dive into details or zoom out for the big picture.

And yes, the editor is free to use, so give it a try and let me know what you think.
The concept of laminar flow applied to aircraft seems like a little-explored topic. Clearly there is benefit as the article demonstrates.

Imagine these small "microvanes" evolved into 3D printed laminar-flow structures.

For example, think a honeycomb pattern extruded into hundreds of small tubes. Or, as another example, aircraft with "fur"...imagine the leading edge of a wing covered in fine stiff bristles. Literally "combing" the air as it passes over the wing.
Nintendo continues to be petty assholes to ordinary folks around the world.

I don’t know many other companies with such a reputation of petty litigation with dubious claims.
They probably could have bought the market and its name and registered as a food company for far less than the legal fees.
I've not yet been attacked by a large pack of dogs, but I'm having trouble imagining the situation unfolding in a manner leisurely enough that you would be able to fumble through a bag of stuff to find some firecrackers and light them. Is this a failure of imagination on my part?
Can you elaborate on what you mean about pigeons?
Apple Might Start Buying Ads on X Again
Please no.

Singletons if you must. At least you can wrap a mutex around access if you're trying to make it thread safe.
If you lie about your qualifications to a degree that can be considered fraud, employers can and will sue you for their money back and damages. Wait till you discover how mind-numbing the American legal system is!
If by first world problems you mean that this destruction of our society is going to give us the traditional living standards of the third world, that seems like something worth worrying about.
> As phrased, I don't think the first would be illegal

"Your performance review score is reduced if you don't meet a quota of X% women" You think this is legal?

> Now what if they are the same orchestra, that is, they set a goal of hiring 50% women, and meet it by blinding auditions?

And what happens if they blind the auditions, but the share of women still falls short of 50%? Well, then they have to adjust the results of the blind auditions to match the quota.

You've repeatedly done this sneaky rhetorical slight of hand, where you endorse explicitly discriminatory policies and justify it with the claim that it could be achieved through non-discriminatory means. But that doesn't change the fact that the policy is discriminatory, and almost certainly would result in discrimination.

If I tell my employers that I don't want to hire any pregnant women - say, we institute a "diversity goal" of 100% non-pregnant employees - they could achieve this goal without actually discriminating against any pregnant women. That doesn't change the fact that such a goal is discriminatory.

> Again, my contention is that it is not necessary to undertake illegal activities to achieve a diverse hiring goal.

I've witnessed firsthand companies setting diversity "goals" of 40% women electrical engineers. 10% of electrical engineers are women. There's no way this can be feasibly achieved without resorting to gender discrimination.

> You seem to agree with this in theory, but when given any concrete policy proposal, even ones that are widely accepted and have been adopted by wide swaths of the US for the better part of a century, you claim that they are illegal. You're simply incorrect.

I've listed numerous hiring policies that I explain are not illegal:

* Anonymous resume review

* Adopting objective evaluation criteria

* Create and send resumes to your recruiters, identical save for identifying information like names, and follow up on any discrepancies on call-backs.

> This is approximately a weekly occurrence (they settle about 2 cases per week), I'd say that's fairly regular.

~100 cases a year nation wide makes it an extremely rare occurrence.
Judging by the last few days, I'd guess something to do with the aerospace industry.
For every example of a bug caused by not using a global variable I’m sure could find 10 caused by a global variable
It is a reward function it’s just a deterministic one. Reward models are often hacked preventing real reasoning from being discovered
Does consuming content include watching movies/shows in the language? For me, I can state with high certainty that simply watching a lot of movies or shows in the language I was learning did absolutely nothing to help my vocabulary compared to using anki. If by consuming content you meant taking a specific movie/episode and breaking it down, studying it relentlessly, and moving on to the next after you've seen it 20 times and practically have it memorized, then maybe that would've helped? It would've meant I learned a different set of things than I studied though, which is not too useful come exam time (quite possibly more useful in real life though).
> laminar flow applied to aircraft seems like a little-explored topic

You’re sort of describing the fundamental gestalt of an aircraft: lift. Aerospace engineers (hello!) spend a lot of time on laminar flow about the wing because when it stops being laminar the flow separates and then the plane goes down more.
How do you know what the downvote status is?
We had that but online retailers can opt to join a one stop shop scheme and eBay does this via its global shipping program. Which eliminated the vat customs problems but people of course complained since now they never get lucky anymore by dodging taxes
Lots of things cost less themselves than theirn packaging transaction costs. That's why we have economics of scale.
I dimly remember a time in the 90s when I thought technology was supposed to free us from the tyranny of "judging a book by its cover" and "following the crowd", when you could carry around a personalized algorithm to help you identify things you would like even if they were obscure or un-marketed.

It feels like that didn't happen, and we're still stuck with the same issue of promotions and gatekeepers and tastemakers, because those who control the algorithms (centralized, proprietary, remotely hosted) find it more profitable that way.
Show HN: Game for Healthcare Students to Practice Medical Interviews
Hello everyone,

I wanted to share a free and fun game called Yapper that I have been developing for healthcare students (nursing students, PA students, medical students) to practice patient health history interviews and medical communication skills—all in a timed setting. I started building this app several months ago out of a personal need, as I was looking for an accessible way for me to practice and continue improving these skills.

If you're not in one of those fields but are curious about how clinical encounters work, you’re welcome to try it too! It’s a great way to get a feel for medical conversations and decision-making. This app has currently been compiled for macOS.

I would love to hear any thoughts and feedback!
Yeah, that looks...fine...but I think it would still take me longer to find than a Russian flag or whatever.
The word "like" in this context, is an invitation to Betteridge's law of headlines, except its like (sorry) "Betteridge's law of simile"

It invites you to step beyond the 4th wall, go meta and ask yourself "but IS IT" and usually, the answer is ..

Brown, and Rowling both got to an income level where the file notes in the publisher said: "their literary agent knows we think it's too long, but the contract says we can't tell them that, and in any case it's profitable. don't worry"

If you want a contrast, read Len Deighton's self-reflections in re-issues of his book. He really loved critique. It hurt, but it helped. He also liked being plugged into the tech scene enough to get offered early sight of some of the first word processing systems, and talks about the impact they had on his writing. I happen to like both what he writes, and how he writes. Sometimes, I find myself reading authors where I'm reading in spite of how the words resonate off the page.
> I am wondering whether I should buy another pair and use it as a metadata mirrored vdev on my media NAS. Haven't decided yet.

Probably not worth the operational overhead, and in the past, I remember USB having significantly worse write latency than SATA.
Billions have been spent because it's a challenging disease to understand and treat. I want big progress too. But we shouldn't let our desire for big progress cause us to lose our ability to objectively evaluate evidence.

I have no opposition to a properly controlled randomized controlled trial of the keto diet, or other proposed therapies (many of which have been conducted, and are for targets other than amyloid which are completely compatible with the amyloid hypothesis). Until a proper RCT of keto is conducted, anecdotal claims are worth very little compared to the evidence I referred to.
In Australia gambling ads are pretty frequent on TV, at least during football (NRL and AFL season). I think the government is looking to crack on the hours when the ads can run but I don't think the TV stations are too thrilled as gambling companies are big spenders when it comes to ads and I don't think many if any other industries come close to spend in TV ad dollars.
Nasdaq futures down, oil up as tariffs loom with largest US trading partners
Volatility seems the name of the game and impacting the tech heavy nasdaq the most so far. Canada is a tech-heavy location for many US companies. How will this hurt recruitment or cost those companies to employ at the same levels?
I find the concept of a context structure passed as the first parameter to all your functions with all your "globals" to be very compelling for this sort of stuff.
As a web developer, I'm well aware that pretty much every single thing I do has a better way of doing it. That's the world we live in.
I think the author forgot the most useful use case for globals, and that is variables that has to do with the context the program is running under such as command line arguments and environment variables (properly validated and if needed escaped).
It's been happening for centuries.
Temu style stuff has been around since the late 2000s, but it was ebay and not as popular.
I don't remember it that way. I took it more more as being about the definition of "fish", and demonstrating that whalers don't think about things the same way that non-whalers do. It's not ignorance; he acknowledges repeatedly throughout that whales breathe air, and nurse their young, and other mammalian traits.
Heh. I actually looked it up while reading the post and Google's definition includes that exact sentence as the example.
> Just remember that the brake pads on your car are stuck on with glue next time you tap the pedal.

Unrelated to the article's point, but what? Maybe the layers of the pad itself are glued together, but no brake pads I have every changed have been stuck to the car with glue in any way. (They are held in place with metal brackets which allow them to slide along a small track when compressed by the brake pistons....)
the lack of any backbone on large US tech is frightening.
The USG is pretty old at this point, so that's not too surprising. I wonder if their newer hardware suffers from the same issues.
failed twice with two entries. sent me to a 404 both times
I'm saying he pulled it out of his ass. To qualify as an "overestimate" it would have to be an estimate, meaning based even loosely on physical reality.
Build systems and their effects on versioning and API changes
Not the user you’re replying to, but I would feel differently if the LLM responded with “This is a problem I can’t reliably solve by myself, but there’s a logic programming system called Prolog for which I could write a suitable program that would. Do you have access to a Prolog interpreter, or could you give me access to one? I could also just output the Prolog program if you like.”

Furthermore, the LLM does know how Prolog’s unification algorithm works (in the sense that it can provide an explanation of how Prolog and the algorithm works), yet it isn’t able to follow that algorithm by itself like a human could (with pen and paper), even for simple Prolog programs whose execution would fit into the resource constraints.

This is part of the gap that I see to true human-level intelligence.