skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's likely going on is this. Google is not going to launch an AI computation for every search. That would be lunacy. They're probably identifying some commonly occurring searches, running them through AI, and then injecting that AI result whenever those searches occur. They're probably not exact searches but clusters of similar searches. When your search lands into a topic cluster for which there's a pre-computed AI summary, then you get that summary.

Distracting adjectives like effing probably spoil the match between your search query and the topic cluster.
Reading between the lines if we gave people those drugs before they show any symptoms we should be able to do even better. Has this been tested? How safe are those drugs? What should the average person be doing to avoid accumulating amyloids in the first place?
How Apple Vision Pro is finding a home in healthcare
* https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/17/ebola-czar-o...
David Lebryk had to retire as part of this. Probably wise choice. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lebryk
I've heard this idea echoed quite a few times.

But can anybody name a wrapper company as/more valuable than foundation model companies like OpenAI, DeepSeek, Anthropic, Mistral, etc?

Only one that comes to mind is Perplexity, but they're a bit more than a wrapper startup - I think there's some hardcore engineering to get their web search product working so well.
> all the other Linux phones that have 1 hour of battery life and no app support?

... Which phones would that be? Even the original pinephone exceeds an hour and has a pretty good collection of apps even without compatibility layers.
The Silent Death of Code Artistry: How AI Is Erasing the Soul of Programming
Fair enough. Never heard this technique before. Note that such a technique wouldn't translate to other skills like dancing, singing, sawing a piece of wood. Doing those things faster I can't imagine would be of any help in improving how you do them at normal speed.
There are some people in the blogosphere who are known experts in their niche or even niche-famous because they write popular useful stuff. And there are a ton more people who write useful stuff because they want that 'exposure.' At least, they do in the very broadest sense of writing it for another human to read it. I wonder if these people will keep writing when their readership is all bots. Dead internet here we come.
Thank you. <3

And yep I didn't want to make my comment too big. I make double sure to document any step-by-step processes on "how to make X or Y work", especially when I stumble upon a confusing bug in a feature branch. I go out of my way to devise a 100% reproducible process and document it.

Those, plus yours, and even others, are what makes a truly good programmer IMO.
Such "go away" screens are in violation of Apple's AppStore rules. You cannot make a permission a condition of using the app, and stop the user from using it if they don't grant that permission. The app should gracefully do as much as it possibly can without the permission.
Probably because people like us have more visibility on the huge scope and consequences of this kind of privacy invasion. Most people don't actually see this with their own eyes. They probably know it's happening in the back of their heads but it's not 'real' to them. It's very real when you know you could technically run a report of all your users that also have grindr installed.

I'm sure most of us would prefer not to work somewhere that does it but we need to eat too.. And we have no input in this.

For example recently I was given a presentation on a new IoT product at work. Immediately I asked why we're not supporting open standards stuff like matter as a protocol. And I was told that'll never fly with marketing because they want to have all the customers to have eyes on their app for their 'metrics' and upselling. I told them fine but I'm definitely not using this crap myself. But it was shrugged off. We are too few for them to care about. And it makes us very unpopular in the company too. So it's a risky thing to do that doesn't help anyway. The "don't fight them but join them and change from within" idea is a fallacy.
That one state is where the apex of the system is. It's where a lot of, maybe most, research happens, it's where perhaps most tech development happens, it's even where a lot of our popular culture is determined. It's where ~everyone is aiming for, even if only a fraction of them will make it there, so it affects the whole system.
Kool nick.

keyword BUBBLE. I beg fresher minds PLEASE carefully disect?

What we (easily) see correlates with the cliche' "Tip of the Iceberg".
Sentient souls natrually grasp this metaphor, analogy, simile...

Better: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/something_is_rotten_in_the_st...

Kind reader. When this bubble bursts what takes place afterward?
I think they definitely are. To customers, there's close to zero perceptible benefit when X model scores significantly higher on some benchmark they never heard of (or even know what is about). So they're desperately trying to make it different in some way.
What are some truly valuable companies that would be accurately described as just "UIs around Postgres"?

I think it's a non-sequitur - either companies are much more than just UIs around a DB, or those companies just aren't very valuable (in which case, who cares).
A tip, in your profile you can set a delay which is a number of minutes before your comments will become visible to other people. Mine is set to 2 right now. This gives you time to edit your comment (helpful for some longer ones) but also to write some garbage response and then think better and delete it before anyone's the wiser.

It's also helpful to give you time to re-read a mostly good, but maybe not polite, response and tone down your response.
At that point it costs so much that the rule doesn't make a difference.
Commendable, still let's not forget that the part I quoted was the beginning of a mud-slinging contest that you seemed willing to start. ;)

So indeed, let's re-focus and re-engage.

To that end, I will post you a longer reply Later™.
> Or are your interview questions not representative of what the job actually entails?

100% of all job interviews are a proxy. It is not possible to perform an interview in ~4 hours such that someone sufficiently engages in what the job “actually entails”.

A leetcode interview either is or not a meaningful proxy. AI tools either do or not invalidate the validity of that proxy.

Personally I think leetcode interview are an imperfect but relatively decent proxy. And that AI tools render that proxy invalid.

Hopefully someday someone invents a better interview scheme that can reliably and consistently scale to thousands of interviews, hundreds of hires, and dozens of interviewers. That’d be great. Alas it’s a really hard and unsolved problem!
Not the same premise (I don't listen to audiobooks), but what helps me get through my reading list was buying an ereader and put my whole library on it. It goes with me everywhere, and every time I have an urge to take my phone, I open it instead. Can go through a normal book in a couple of days.
I mean those same conditions already just lead the human to cutting corners and making stuff up themselves. You're describing the problem where bad incentives/conditions lead to sloppy work, that happens with or without AI

Catching errors/validating work is obviously a different process when they're coming from an AI vs a human, but I don't see how it's fundamentally that different here. If the outputs are heavily cited then that might go someway into being able to more easily catch and correct slip-ups
help me understand why I wouldn't just fork an open source repo without paying for it on this platform. Honest question. What's the value add here?
Click the gear icon.
Mining rigs can be big! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288
I seriously doubt that fentanyl come out of Canada into the USA was made in Canada. Probably just passing through on the way from China. Why would it go to Canada first? Because Canada has thousands of kilometers of border with the USA. And a lot of traffic at the legitimate crossings. Canadians pass into and out of the USA with relative ease.
It is, click the gear icon.
What about something else that's even worse?
Well, it's hard to make this comparison. It is probably more like some kind of requirement that for any new feature, you need to refactor some percentage of the code, assuming the existing code is quite bloated and legacy. I think this is a closer analog than just lines of code.
Cursor or Vscode+Github Copilot Chat.
No it is not an actual question on this exam. From the paper: “To ensure question quality and integrity, we enforce strict submission criteria. Questions should be precise, unambiguous, solvable, and non-searchable, ensuring models cannot rely on memorization or simple retrieval methods. All submissions must be original work or non-trivial syntheses of published information, though contributions from unpublished research are acceptable. Questions typically require graduate-level expertise or test knowledge of highly specific topics (e.g., precise historical details, trivia, local customs) and have specific, unambiguous answers…”. (Emphasis mine)
I've had limited luck feigning ignorance with a bank recently. "I don't know why I'm not getting a code" "No, I don't have another phone number" "I still can't log in to the web portal". They dropped the phone number requirement in favor to sending the OTP to email in the end, but it took way more effort than is reasonable. I tend to include a request to the CS person to pass along a request for TOTP/authenticator apps but given the request for a phone number is likely intentional I doubt the feedback is getting too far. In my naive mind, if enough people do the same, maybe they'll get the message.
The only thing that makes sense is that good models require a lot of compute, probably more than the transcoding that happens when you upload.
Our highly individualistic culture is not suited to help people break free from addictions.

Does anyone remember when South Park had an episode about how evil some guy was for saying secondhand smoke was bad and how nuanced the topic was, and how it was people's right to smoke wherever they wanted?

I'm not saying that's everyone. I'm not saying that's solely why we fail at this. But it's an example of a culture that's broadly extremely individualistic and tolerant of aberrance from individuals. That has many advantages. One flaw of it, is that it becomes very hard, in such a culture, to tamp down on vices.
It's a bit of a tangent, but this is basically the question behind one of the classic cognitive bias studies on "scope neglect",

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_neglect

- "In one study, respondents were asked how much they were willing to pay to prevent migrating birds from drowning in uncovered oil ponds by covering the oil ponds with protective nets. Subjects were told that either 2,000, or 20,000, or 200,000 migrating birds were affected annually, for which subjects reported they were willing to pay $80, $78 and $88 respectively.[2] Other studies of willingness-to-pay to prevent harm have found a logarithmic relationship or no relationship to scope size.[3]"
If this Super Mario supermarket was clearly unrelated to video games and didn't use Nintendo's logos, characters, or branding style, then it's unlikely consumers would think it was officially connected to Nintendo-> Trademarks primarily protect against confusion.

If the supermarket didn't use Nintendo's font, colors, imagery, or characters —just the name—then the court likely ruled that:

-No confusion exists since a grocery store isn't competing with a video game company.

-No dilution occurs because Nintendo's brand strength in gaming isn't weakened by a supermarket.

-Fair use applies if the name has a legitimate reason unrelated to Nintendo.
The repositories are private and seller gets paid for every collaborator that buys it. So you cant access it without permission.
Never underestimate HN's capacity to be cynical about literally everything
I'm all for writing just for the bots, if I can figure it out. A lot of academic papers aren't really read anyways, just briefly glanced at so they can be cited together, large publications like journal pubs or dissertations even less so. But the ability to add to a world of knowledge that is very easy to access by people who want to use it...that is very appealing to me as an author. No more trudging through a bunch of papers with titles that might be relevant to what I want to know about...and no more trudging through my papers, I'm OK with that.
Big Tech Podcast listener?
I don't understand why TV shows are shot in anything but 1.78. There's what, maybe 1% of watchers on wider screens? 2.00:1 or even 2.20:1 seem like a reasonable compromise, but 2.39:1 is insane.

They could at least shoot it open matte (maybe not as easy in 2.39 to do) so that those of us who want to mask to 2.39:1 can enjoy it that way w/o losing anything important while most watchers wouldn't notice the difference.
A just, healthy society would target and remove those who enrich themselves at the expense of others. The continued existence of society rests upon cooperation beating defection. The exponential rise of legal gambling in the western world is a massive blow to public trust in institutions who were supposed to act in the interest of the people, and a sign of rampant corruption and societal decay.
Because not having hundreds of keywords means that either you have some parts of the language that are "this has a special meaning please don't touch" (double underscores are good enough, right guys?) or "we reassigned 10 different things to the same keyword to keep the number low" (ahem, static).
> What do you think would be the actual result of such actions in the real world?

In regards to the potential impact of retaliatory tariffs, I’d expect to see layoffs and business closures in red states, where voters are already economically disadvantaged; auto industry, agriculture (potash), etc. Increased grocery and basic food pricing. Farmer suicides are already 3.5x the general population, I’d expect to see the suicide and deaths of despair rate tick up from this economic impairment. These states already primarily rely on the federal government for financial assistance, financial assistance the new admin has said needs to be cut.

Canada specifically stated they are targeting red states. That’s not copium, it’s just smart policy. That’s where the voters are who voted for this. So, you impair jobs and economic opportunity in those states with tariffs and other cross border policy.

> The U.S. auto industry could shut down within a week, by some estimates, thanks to these tariffs. Even if it doesn't, there is no automaker that's set up to operate in a world of high-friction North American border duties.

…

> “Farm Bureau members support the goals of security and ensuring fair trade with our North American neighbors and China, but, unfortunately, we know from experience that farmers and rural communities will bear the brunt of retaliation. Harmful effects of retaliation to farmers ripple through the rest of the rural economy.

> “In addition, over 80% of the United States’ supply of a key fertilizer ingredient — potash — comes from Canada. Tariffs that increase fertilizer prices threaten to deliver another blow to the finances of farm families already grappling with inflation and high supply costs.

> “Farm and ranch families answer the call to feed America’s families and the world, and these tariffs and the promised retaliation will put further stress on their livelihoods. More than 20% of U.S. farm income comes from exports, which are dominated by these three markets. Just last year the U.S. exported over $30 billion in agricultural products to Mexico, $29 billion to Canada and $26 billion to China – our top three markets and nearly half of all exports by value combined.

Citations:

https://www.axios.com/2025/02/02/trump-tariffs-cars

https://www.csis.org/analysis/canadian-tariffs-will-undermin...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-rural-communities-are-...

https://www.fb.org/news-release/afbf-new-tariffs-will-impact...

http://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2022/march/retaliatory-t...

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/us/food-prices-tariffs-trump-...
Could you provide an example where OpenAI outputting verbatim quotes actually constitutes the copyright violation? Because mechanically retrieving relevant quotes seems analogous to grep/search - the copyright status would depend on how downstream users transform and use that content. Like how quoting your blog in a technical analysis or critique is fair use, but wholesale republishing isn't. This suggests the violation occurs at usage time, not retrieval time.
> when it stops being laminar the flow separates

Not true, laminar/turbulent and attached/separated are independent descriptors. Flow can be laminar+attached, laminar+separated (e.g., laminar separation bubbles), turbulent+attached (e.g., the majority of boundary layers on large aircraft), or turbulent+separated.
Mostly type checking and name lookup
A lot of concerns here, but one of my biggest is probably security hygiene. Are these folks plugging random USB drives into air gapped government equipment? Are they emailing sensitive information around? Not good.
I don't think you want to hear my opinions of those people, though I will agree that they are probably not traitors.
Javascript source -- https://github.com/jherrm/knobs
> 2 to 4x speed

Wow, how do you even process it at that speed? I normally listen at 1.2x, but feel like if I hit 1.5x, maybe 1.8x if it is a really slow narrator, I'm maxing out. I mainly am listening to it while I'm running though, so 5-20% focus on that depending on traffic or if I have to cross streets, the rest of my focus on the book. Are you just sitting and listening to it at that speed focused in on it, or are you just abled to digest it at that speed?
This site simply discloses how much money the American Tax Payer has given to that organization and the goal of that grant. The information is already public and it should be public. There is no threat vector here.

Arguably the information here is kind of useless on its own since it is hard to evaluate the popularity and efficacy of the individual grants, but I suppose a more motivated party might find this resource to be helpful.

My first random search yielded a $3.3M grant to Alaska Fish and Wildlife to maintain 3 public shooting ranges. Off the cuff this seems like a dumb use of tax dollars, but who knows how this actually stands. Maybe this is split between 10,000 people and $300 per person is really how these people would like their tax dollars spent.
> hings like feeling pain and pleasure

can machine feel? without that there is no AGI according to definition above.

and the second question: are animals "GI"? they don't have language and don't solve math problems, never heard of np-complete.
Is that "dead equipment" as in "literally doesn't work", or is that "dead equipment" as in "nobody's used it in 35 years but one of the many edge cases involved in fighting a war will inevitably call for it"?
If they sent a personalized rejection email, maybe. Surely not to a boilerplate email from the ATS, though?
I've read most of the first two books. They're difficult because there's often no real structure to them. It's like written acid. Everything just jams together and you'll read all of the words, but somewhere along the line you'll notice you've started with a cop investigating a crime and now you're in the submarine of a crazy rich person.

It's an interesting book, and it does engage, but it is also quite the trip.
No, it just suggests that RL was used over a base SFT model, and moreover that RL here was tuned to this research task. Personally I don't think that RL is strictly necessary for this task at all, but perhaps it helps.
> The most that a network administrator can do to prevent this is configure firewall IP blocklists of known DoH servers ...

A firewall (which must also host a resolver) can choose to block requests to IPs it hasn't resolved domain names for.

This is something I implemented for an Android firewall app I co-develop; it works nicely enough.
> A lot of loopholes are like that. They are clearly legal things that you can do added there for a reason a certain expectation of it to not be abused for different people purposes. They are of course used for different purposes once the landscape changes to allow so.

In this case, the threshold has been updated repeatedly while the use was the same as today. It's not a loophole.
There are undoubtedly many kids learning to program for the first time, using a similar methodology. I'm very curious to see what sorts of things "AI native" developers build in the coming years.
Every year I think the bar for acceptable software quality couldn't get any lower, and I get proven wrong again and again. I don't get the point of this. Why bother doing something if you're not going to either 1. do it well, or 2. use the exercise as a way to get better? This sounds like building a chair by just randomly nailing pieces of uncut wood together until it barely looks like a chair and supports your weight.
I've only done a few interviews the past couple years, but I've asked people to turn off coding assistants and not use an LLM on my coding screen. I want to know how _they_ think and solve problems, not how the LLM does.

And generally, the more junior people are just completely lost without it. They've become so dependent on it, they can't even google anything anymore. Their search queries are very weirdly conversational questions and the idea of reading the docs for whatever language or library they're using is totally foreign to them.

I think it's really hampering the growth of junior devs - their reasoning and thought processes are just totally tuned to this conversational form of copy and paste programming, and the code is really bad. I think the bottom half of programmers may just LLM themselves out of any sort of job because they lose the ability to think and problem solve... Kinda sad imo.
The left's view imbue a lot of assumptions. You realize a lot of people voted for him right? A lot of people voted for him and he is basically just doing what he said would do for the most part. Also, I don't get your implication that he is like a king or dictator. He is constrained by the Constitution. For instance, his desire to remove birth-right citizenship will fail, and I think probably knows that now. Your post seems to imply you have found a way to disprove the very notion of the fundamentals of the U.S. government but I don't see it.
You might be interested in this thread [1] where I described an idea for how to incorporate the latency penalty into the eviction decision. A developer even hacked a prototype that showed promise. The problem is that there is not enough variety in the available trace data to be confident that a design isn't overly fit to a particular workload and doesn't generalize. As more data sets become available it will become possible to experiment with ideas and fix unexpected issues until a correct, simple, elegant design emerges.

[1] https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine/discussions/1744
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D6QI58zZBc

This thing probably kills 600 a week. Or at least monthly.
Sometimes you just need a place to sit
They’ll call it GPT-XP. But first we need gpt-o3.11 for workgroups.
> Facebook hard-code IP addresses when their domains are blocked

Sounds like an anti-censorship or a generic connectivity robustness feature [0]? WhatsApp and Instagram do this, too.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41959945
Cool platform and fun games though. I'll keep buying their stuff forever and I think a lot of other people will too.