skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and no. I personally feel like multi-modality and embodiment is the next step and has both incredible challenges as well as opportunities. The limitation for embodiment data is two-fold. Synthetic embodiment is distributionally limited. Physical embodiment is hardware limited. Either way, it's an interesting space to be in and I wouldn't be surprised if embodiment training has positive spillover effects in language comprehension along with improvements in other domains.
I don't really see how doing collusion through a Python backend is separate from my point? They're doing an obviously illegal and immoral thing but wrapping it in a layer of technology which obfuscates and apparently legitimizes it. The consumer view is one aspect but the companies and regulators have the same perspective.
There should be a user option to make this the default page.
They removed country borders from the time zone selection in a Windows 95 update: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030822-00/?p=42...

In Bing Maps, I expect them change country borders based on localization settings, but that was probably too onerous to implement and test in the Windows 95 days.
You can use a bookmark.
Discussion (520 points, 4 days ago, 344 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42864272
Basically any large platform that renders map data realizes pretty quickly that you have to adjust it country by country to accommodate everyone’s irredentist claims and naming disputes. I suppose there’s no reason they couldn’t ship different system fonts to different countries, but that introduces a lot of annoyance and room for error for a somewhat marginal use case.
This completely..

You ask a rote question and you'll get a rote answer while the interviewee is busy looking at a fixed point on the screen.

You then ask a pointed question about something they know or care about, and suddenly their face lights up, they're animated, and they are looking around.

It's a huge tell.
That's interesting. I used `cargo install` and I don't have to use `sudo` to capture any of the interfaces I tried.
A previous request maybe mapped their IP back to the geo, and that data was used subsequently, maybe?
Probably Mozilla location services (which I happily block) which does pretty accurate passive location tracking.
Yeah, they use the same scam in Europe as well. There was a documentary following some customs officials a few months back, apparently they even use "smurfing" - they split large orders into multiple parcels with nominated "lower" values [1]... but of course sometimes the customs officials note "hey, I saw that recipient just a few packages ago".

It's high time that we put the hammer down on Temu, Shein et al., and that hard. China and its companies routinely abuse relaxed rules meant for "developing" countries such as reduced, subsidised shipping or the mentioned tax simplifications - that status absolutely has to end rather sooner than later.

And if they do not want to do that for whatever (corrupt?) reasons, at the very least mandate live feeds for all incoming parcels to customs.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySUKSRydpnY
industry is basically a tax on the government's paid out social services
Well, the challenge involves using a python LLM framework to build a simple RAG system for recipes.

It's not a hidden requirement per se to use LLM assistance, but the candidate should have a good answer ready why they didn't use an LLM to solve the challenge.
Technically, information are the bits you DON'T know. Once you know the bits, it isn't "information" in the Shannon sense, in that it takes no energy to reset a message if you know all the bits, but takes N-units of energy for N unknown bits of information. (See; Feynman's lectures on computation)
How do you feel about advertising alcohol, Gacha games, MLM businesses and things like that?
I don't think everyone is better off, at best the "less price sensitive" is unaffected. But then you have to have have some way of stopping arbitrage via the customers paying the lower price through some sort of identity checks or restrictions. I think that's an unavoidable negative outcome and it's not clear that it would always be outweighed by allowing more people to consume the product.
What worked for me is just ignoring the job listing websites, and calling recruiters directly on the phone. Don’t bother hitting “easy apply” just scroll to the bottom and call the number.

I’ve also been asked for the first time in ages to come to the companies office to do interviews.
Trump won the election. The left need to accept that.

He has a mandate to significantly reduce the size of the federal government, and he has the authority to appoint Musk to act in this way.

You can complain about it violating norms all you like, but norms aren’t laws and taking into account the preferences of the left isn’t something Trump is required to do nor is it something the Democrats have done in the past for the right.

As for violating employment laws, there’s no evidence of this. It appears you just threw that in there hoping no one would challenge you on it.
It’s not. It’s a recognition that you have to act within the world as it exists today.

That doesn’t mean you can’t work to change the world, and in fact in order to do so you first need to see how it actually is.

But it does also means you need to decide which battles to fight.
>you could construct a synthetic reality for that brain that it would not be able to distinguish from its previous brain-in-a-body experiences.

No. I'd recommend reading Dennett's Consciousness Explained for a longer treatment of this, but if you want to have an experience just like you, you need a body and an environment just like you. Sure it could be synthetic in the sense of it being artificially constructed, you could have artificial limbs, but it can be no different from the one you have, it cannot be a vat. There is no "Cartesian Theater" in the brain, your experience is already distributed throughout both your brain and body. Your experience isn't something being "fed into you" (the brain) from the outside, the entire perception emerges in the first place through being embodied in the world. The concept of the thought experiment itself would not even make sense without implicitly assuming an embodied reality beforehand setting it up.

Just like there is no philosophical zombie that's somehow materially identical but without sentience, the reverse doesn't exist either. There is no disembodied computer with the experiences of an organic being because they function in entirely different ways.
Thanks for sharing details

I'd like to port my own flashcards app, Manabi from SM2 to FSRS so this is helpful

I made this companion reader app as well, btw, for learning Japanese: https://reader.manabi.io
I recently interviewed for my team and tried this same approach. I thought it made sense because I want to see how people can actually work and problem solve given all the tools at their disposal, just like on the job.

It proved to be awkward and clumsy very quickly. Some candidates resisted it since they clearly thought it would make them judged harsher. Some candidates were on the other extreme and basically tried asking ChatGPT the problem straight up, even though I clarified up front "You can even use ChatGPT as long as you're not just directly asking for the solution to the whole problem and just copy/pasting, obviously."

After just the initial batch of candidates it became clear it was muddying things too much, so I simply forbade using it for the rest of the candidates, and those interviews went much smoother.
Toward a more diverse social web
HarmBench: A Standardized Evaluation Framework for Robust Refusal
Gambling ads are banned in my country but we get bombarded by them on YouTube. Me and a bunch of people I've talked to have reported them many times but nothing happens.
This tech existed 30 years ago, just wasn't packaged up for easy deployment.
As late as 2012 you could MITM people in your network, even without being the person managing the router. ARP poisoning and mitmproxy or just some intelligent reverse proxy, you could pick up the cookies, URLs, and POST data for all the requests in the network.
FSD costs $99/month, my tesla insurance is $113/month

i don't currently have FSD so if i was interested in getting and using it a lot this discount would give me an effective FSD cost of $87.7/month. i think the effective cost would need to be $0/month for me to agree to agree to use FSD 50% of the time. NB: it's not available in California and the maximum available discount is not 10% of your entire insurance policy cost.
What is bad? Alcohol? Cheap clothes made to be worn a handful times and that shed microplastics all over the place? Gratuitous consumption solely for the purpose of signaling wealth? Political parties that want to restrict people’s rights?
Borderline Detours
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42902252.
It’s a really inefficient tax as the net economic loss is well past £14 billion. One argument is gambling is simply something people like to do, but in that case some regulations would be expected.

Where it makes sense is when you’re pulling in outside money from foreigners, but I don’t think many people go to the UK to gamble.
They're not going to learn anything. They're subverting the system for personal gain at the expense of everyone else.
As of February 2025: Harmful AI applications prohibited in the EU
Maybe. And maybe it goes in reverse, like it did the the China vs Australia trade war. China was the big boy in that dispute, and it's Australia's biggest trading partner by country. It wasn't pleasant for either side, but in the end Australia diversified much faster the China.

Interestingly, Australia didn't retaliate against China. We keep buying the Chinese stuff at the usual cheap prices, and found other markets for our goods they banned. China paid more, or did without. So we didn't have any leverage, but China normalised trade with Australia after a while anyway.

I have no idea which way it will go here, but "USA big, Canada little, so USA wins" isn't a foregone conclusion.

Perhaps the most nimble nation wins. The most nimble nation usually isn't the one putting up trade barriers and antagonising neighbours and friends. I reckon you'll know the outcome by the end of Trump's term, if it said term doesn't continue forever.
It's pretty obvious when someone's input focus changes to nothing or when their mouse leaves the screen entirely, or you could just ask to see the display settings to begin. Doesn't solve for multiple computers but it's pretty obvious in real time when someone's actual attention drifts or they suddenly have abilities they didn't have before.

Either way, screen sharing beats whiteboards. Even if we throw our hands up and give up, we'll be firing frauds before the probationary period ends.
The source for the de-obfuscator: https://github.com/mandiant/poisonplug-scatterbrain
Looks interesting but unfortunately a windows tool. Happen to know a Linux tool?
LaHood Introduces Bill to Modernize Tax System for Americans Overseas (2024)
What does this binder thing even do? I get it's an IPC something, but why does android need it's own special kernel-level IPC?
The About page from the project's main website https://crux.nu/Main/About
A "loophole" that is very cut-and-dried piece of law. If you want companies to pay tax on products, don't set the minimum value threshold to $800. We used to have it at about 45€, then at 22€ and now at 0€. If I need to buy a 5€ adapter from Aliexpress, I pay VAT on it.
> It's high time that we put the hammer down on Temu, Shein et al., and that hard.

Why? Their business model is perfectly legal, and in fact, as the article makes clear, it's not even a "loophole" -- what they're taking advantage of is an explicit provision of law. On the other side of the equation, US consumers benefit from lower prices, and often superior quality, relative to what they'd otherwise get on Amazon and Wal-Mart.

Besides, Amazon and Wal-Mart are often (in some retail categories even usually) middlemen for Chinese manufacturers. Shein, Temu, et al. are demonstrably superior middlemen.

So what's the harm?
Bully seems to be on a quest lately to rewrite his past.
Yes but driving is necessary to feed ourselves nowadays. Owning and raising untrained aggressive dogs is not.
Doctors Need Flexibility in Prescribing Opioids
Since the article mentions using flags to represent languages, I feel obliged to point out that flags do not represent languages, so probably don’t use flags to represent languages.
> My approach was to draw an American flag emoji and then look at the pixels to see if any of them contained a non-grayscale color. This works because the Windows fallback emoji is just black/white text

Wait. I thought Windows has ClearType which could render black text on white background using colors. And furthermore there is a wizard to allow users to adjust how much ClearType adjustment there is. This feels like a totally incorrect solution.

And apparently starting from 2021 Microsoft Edge did in fact begin to use ClearText according to this article https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2021/06/02/improving-fon... from Microsoft. So the author's approach would be broken in Microsoft Edge since 2021.
There is more to it when a user disallows an app to track your activity. From Apple and enforced in their review guidelines:

“The app is also not permitted to track your activity using other information that identifies you or your device, like your email address.”
It’s not that accurate. E911 location was a few miles off.
you mean CLOS (Common Lisp Object System) ?

There are others that are also _very_ interesting (but also pre 90s). SELF fe, was object oriented, but did not have inheritance. It used prototypes. In essence, you would create something of the same "type" by cloning the prototype.

Anyway,
subtyping and inheritance are similar, but not identical, concepts. Also, some languages provide traits iso protocols (and maybe even both ?). Some languages provide functors. The goal is always the same: abstract commonalities. Let's just keep it at: "it's complicated"
;)

I think it's better to study the design mistakes of programming languages in a historic context.
For example: C++ offers multiple inheritance. This caused the diamond problem. Java tried to fix this via interfaces. This fixed the problem, but was also a mistake as interfaces cannot provide behaviours. So Multiple inheritance is not an issue if only 1 of the parties provides state; all others can provide signatures but also behaviours.
Could you please not perpetuate flamewars here? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

I'm not going to ban you because it doesn't look like you've been doing this routinely, but you broke the site guidelines badly in this thread, and it has been a problem in the past (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39598850)

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
The Kashmir region north of New Delhi is an interesting example. Even in the US, Google basically says you're on your own, but here's a collection of dotted lines that may or may not be the actual borders.
Few things have changed since posting here, I've implemented markdown support on comments and in each item, but comments are currently only on the first level of comment tree.

Comment's where people are quoting in MD,like here https://hacked.unlace.app/item?id=42899932
Based on the scale and impact of fraudulent results, I wonder if some form of LLM based approach with supervised fine-tuning could help highlight the actually useful research.

Papers are typically weighted by citations, but in the case of fraud, citations can be misleading. Perhaps there's a way to embed all the known alzheimer's research, then finetune the embeddings using negative labels for known fraudulent studies.

The the resulting embedding space (depending on how its constructed; perhaps with a citation graph under the hood?) might be one way to reweight the existing literature?
To save anyone else panicking and/or wasting time searching for more context around this: you only get Apple Intelligence turned on (whether by default or not, I couldn’t say) if both your hardware and geographic region support it [0]. As an owner of a pre-15 iPhone in the EU I can sleep tonight knowing the 18.3 update won’t (yet?) do all these terrible things to my UX.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Intelligence
An independent creator can easily get paid by making a long YouTube video. It is almost impossible to get paid by making long or short web articles.

Inb4 "They shouldn't want to make money and just publish their articles for free"

Inb4 "People should only be creative online as a side hobby when they are comfortably employed"
Just in case you are saying this to defend why you are using "int" instead of "size_t" (as, otherwise, I am not sure of your point and a I'll hope you might clarify it), you would then want to use "ssize_t"... the issue I was referring to is not about signed vs. unsigned: it is about using a type which is smaller than a native full-width machine number type (such as when int is 32-bit on a 64-bit machine), as you then have to use suboptimal instructions or even add more code to emulate the wrapping semantics.
My company, a very very large company, is transitioning back to only in-person interviews due to the rampant amount of cheating happening during interviews.

As an interviewer, it's wild to me how many candidates think they can get away with it, when you can very obviously hear them typing, then watching their eyes move as they read an answer from another screen. And the majority of the time the answer is incorrect anyway. I'm happy that we won't have to waste our time on those candidates anymore.
With DNS over HTTPS and others, this is becoming less possible. I think Chrome does this by default on some platforms.
I think it's more CCP that's the problem not Deepseek itself. They don't have any choice with that stuff, do they?
https://www.interconnects.ai/ has great writing on this; the author is currently working on https://rlhfbook.com/.
> That was done as part of a settlement for a discrimination lawsuit. The exceptions to the prohibition on using race and gender as a factor in hiring are narrow. Bona fide occupational qualifications are one. You can specifically hire a Back actor to portray, say, Frederick Douglass in a movie. Consent decrees as part of a discrimination lawsuit are another.

So your contention is that the government regularly requires companies to undertake otherwise illegal activities, and that it would be illegal for the company to voluntarily follow a similar set of policies? Can you point to a statutory basis for this claim? I don't think I've ever seen the concept that a consent decree can require otherwise illegal actions.

> Why does one require lowering the bar, but the other does not, when the policies are functionally identical?

My contention is that it does not require illegal activities to meet reasonably set hiring goals.

> If a company institutes a policy where managers' performance reviews are penalized unless they hire a certain percentage of women, then that is increasing representation through discriminatory means. The performance reviewed were changed to use the protected class of hires as a factor.

In your Catholic example, is saying "we have a goal to stop flipping the coin" illegal? It is otherwise identical to a goal of increasing representation of a certain group by a certain percentage by changing some aspects of the hiring process that unfairly impacts a particular class.

Why is that policy acceptable, but real world policies are, seemingly in every case, supposedly illegal?

> This is explicitly documented in Meta's hiring policies, both the mechanisms by which offers for non-diverse candidates are delayed and the goals of reducing non-diverse representation.

Why haven't you sued them, if this was documented to the degree you describe, it was on its face illegal. And meta was actively admitting to illegal discrimination. I've been awarded money in a similar suit, so it's certainly possible for white men to win in discrimination cases.
In the actual code *(p+1) is only ever accessed if it has been verified to be the same address as q[0], which is an object which we know exists and we have full access to.

The problem is that pointers of the same type to the same address but originating from pointer arithmetic on the pointers obtained by dereferencing different objects have different semantics.

In other words, the following is not semantically a NOP.

char *p = /*some valid pointer*/;
{
char x;
char *q = &x;
while ((uintptr_t) q != (uintptr_t) p)
q++;
p = q;
}

I believe this goes against the principle of least astonishment (I find it quite astonishing, personally). I believe, even if the standard not does not guarantee the expected behavior, that implementations should still guarantee it. And they can do the optimizations they want in other ways, as I have outlined.
Interesting, Tesla stock price as a proxy of the market's confidence of the fascist regime's ability to pull a Fourth Reich...
snipery slope... for example, when congress was interviewing the drunk wife beater with no previous experience for the job, the news and HN was all over the few crazy deportations. populists, by definition, knows very well how to control the narrative...

a more recent example, musk is leading the control change of USAID from nsa to cia, like happens on every dem/rep switch... you can even discount this as conspiracy theory as it won't change my point: wich is that he's doing it while he just tweeted "USAID created covid". it's batshit insanity.
the trick is to phrase the problem in a way that GPT4 will always give the incorrect answer (due to vagueness of your problem) and that multiple rounds of guiding/correcting are needed to solve.
The manufacturer may not be obliged to give the details but the hacker also doesn't need to be pathetically grateful for what they do deign to give.

Most companies are quite happily to lie, obfuscate and omit to the hilt if they can: nearly every labelling regulation is a patch over some fuckery. The relationship is often pretty adversarial, especially at retail.

Doubly so in computer memory devices, which is an industry particularly filled with flimflam and chancers.
It isn't a loophole. It's by design. You can argue the limit should be lower, but it's not like 2016's $200 threshold would break Temu either.
The rats I hang out with know the difference between exponential and logistic just fine.

Hmm.

Not sure if it matters, but I'd note logistic curves can be hard to distinguish from an exponential for long enough that the difference isn't always very consequential — a nuke exploding doesn't keep doubling in power every few microseconds forever, but for enough doubling periods that cities still get flattened.
Or just refuse to commit. E.g. Google Maps, to this day, will not show the country for any Crimean city when you click on it to bring up its info panel. If you do this with e.g. Kherson, you get "Kherson, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine". But if you do it with Sevastopol, you only get the city name, not the region & country. It also shows dotted borders between Crimea and both Russia and Ukraine.
/new has been brutal the last few days
You're right I apologize felt overly emotional about that comment.