skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Applying at Anthropic was a bad experience for me. I was invited to do a timed set of leetcode exercises on some website. I didn't feel like doing that, and focused on my other applications.

Then they emailed me a month later after my "invitation" expired. It looked like it was written by a human: "Hey, we're really interested in your profile, here's a new invite link, please complete this automated pre-screen thingie".

So I swallowed my pride and went through with that humiliating exercise. Ended up spending two hours doing algorithmic leetcode problems. This was for a product security position. Maybe we could have talked about vulnerabilities that I have found instead.

I was too slow to solve them and received some canned response.
>Creativity" in the sense of coming up with something new is trivial to implement in computers, and has long been solved. Take some pattern - of words, of data, of thought. Perturb it randomly. Done. That's creativity.

Formal Proof Systems aren't even nearly close to completion, and for patterns we don't have a strong enough formal system to fully represent the problem space.

If we take the P=NP problem, that likely can be solved formally that a machine could do, but what is the "pattern" here that we are traversing here? There is a definitely a deeper superstructure behind these problems, but we can only glean the tips, and I don't think the LLMs with statistical techniques can glean further in either. Natural Language is not sufficient.
I’m not demanding it discover new science before it can be called intelligent. It’s a thought experiment.
> True reasoning capability would involve the ability to analyze complex situations and generate entirely new solutions, independent of existing patterns or combinations.

You mean like alphago did in its 36th move?
The problem with everyone making long videos is that it leads to a situation where, intentional or not, it seems like everyone is trying to waste your time.

Some things just aren’t worth talking about for that long.
Interesting test and a topic I'm very interested in, but the whole product selection here appears to be very EU-centric.

In the states I've been using Weld-On 4 with some success for PETG-to-PETG bonds in high-stress applications: https://www.tapplastics.com/product/repair_products/plastic_...
I can't speak for job interviewing, but having recently completed 3rd-semester trade-school oral exams in Java programming:

It is really important to watch people code.

Anyone can fake an abstract overview.
This is called fraud, and it is a crime.

People don't really call the police, nor sue over this. But they can, and have in the past.

If it gets bad, look for people starting to seek legal recourse.

People aren't developers with 5 years experience, if all they can do is copy and paste. Anyone fraudulently claiming so is a scam artist, a liar, and deserves jail time.

So you create an interview process that can only be passed by a skilled dev, including them signing a doc saying the code is entirely their work, only referencing a language manual/manpages.

And if they show up to work incapable of doing the same, it's time to call the cops.

That's probably the only way to deal with scam artists and scum, going forward.
Yes, but I would prefer the original audio with translated captions. Why isn't that possible? If they can auto-dub, it should be even easier to give us translated captions.
In my experience long videos on YouTube are extremely inefficient at conveying information, often repeating themselves in order to pad out the length. This is even the case for the better creators
In theory, yes. But we're more approaching philosophy with Laplace's demon at this point.

A more realistic example: we can theoretically predict the weather weeks in advance. In reality, it's pointless because there so much data needed to collect for that, and so many events to away the weather, that's its impractical past a few days in the future.
In my most recent cycle, I didn’t ask to use AI and I was only warned once about using AI when I had the official language plugin for an IDE annotate some struct fields with json tags. I explained the plugin functionality and we moved on.

When I was part of interviews on the other side for my former employer, I encountered multiple candidates who appeared to be using AI assistance without notifying the interviewers ahead of time or at all.
This doesn't sound absurd:
"The Port calculated that the shoreside power supply will prevent 140 pounds of diesel soot emissions and 1.3 tons of airborne nitrogen oxide emissions for every 10-hour ship call. It will also reduce carbon dioxide by 19.7 tons."

20% of the grid and running all cruise ships off shore power is only the beginning, you are right. But the fact remains most other major cities don't even do that.

Don't let better be the enemy of good. Just because it's not 100% right out of the gate doesn't mean that 20% isn't better than 0%.

So you are saying you want it to be 0%?
It's not insane at all. It is the entirety of their business model, so it makes sense that they will do everything possible to keep that sweet surveillance cash flowing.
It's this kind of leak that makes me 100% confident that there are no alien UFOs, there has been no alien contact, the US government wasn't behind the JFK assassination and so many other conspiracies. Why? Because people really can't keep secrets, particularly when they're not personally invested in them.

Pretty much all conspiracy theories boil down to a lack of understanding about whatever the theory concerns.

Some will object to that and point to examples like the United Fruit Company, various CIA-backed coups and so on but that's the point isn't it? Those things aren't secret.
ah cool that you uploaded 7000 books: did not do that myself. A good tip for next time :)

What do you mean by "decreasing priority"?

I was struggling with the filters UX:
- the age is capped at 75 years
- Ratings/reviews take the 90th percentile (like a median) of your book set
This last one ensured the filters would be more dynamic. If you had a book with 100k ratings, it would have been hard to use the slider (as this was linear). Any suggestions to change the UX?

Before you could only target a lower limit. But for more functionality, I had the idea to add a max and min. However, this combination does now work
Discussion (62 points, 22 hours ago, 99 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42903595
> while Google sees roughly 85% of all American cardholder swipe

I'm probably not reading this properly, can you say that a different way?
Thanks! Do you know anything more applied, like fine-tuning of local models with RL? Reward function design, evals etc
According to https://github.com/tcdi/plrust/issues/412

“pgrx has been going through some major work to help improve its overall soundness as it relates to managing Postgres-allocated memory. Once that work is complete, pl/rust will get a refresh.”
i don't think a business idea is ownable by anyone in and of itself

the implementation and would be ownable and if you implement it, then you would own it

drug formula scenario is less clear to me, i assume it's patentable and what would matter is the person who applied for the patent
But you're blaming the AI for writing this 'slop'. That implies if you couldn't tell it was written by AI that same piece would be fine.

I have actually had AI write pretty great content, in a tone far away from it's usual "In the fast moving world of..." bollocks. I just needed to give it decent directions to avoid averageness.

I think your complaints will fade as models get better at breaking away at formulaic writing, provided people don't use them lazily.

Garbage in, garbage out, etc.
Good interviews are a conversation, a dialog to uncover how the person thinks, how they listen, how they approach problems and discuss. Also a bit detail knowledge, but that's only a minor component in the end. Any interview where AI in its current form helps is not good anyway. Keep in mind that in our industry, the interview goes both ways. If the candidate thinks your process is bad then they are less inclined to join your company because they know that their coworkers will have been chosen by a subpar process.

That said, I'm waiting for an "interview assistant" product. It listens in to the conversation and silently provides concise extra information about the mentioned subjects that can be quickly glanced at without having to enter anything. Or does this already exist?

Such a product could be useful for coding to. Like watching me over the shoulder and seeing aha, you are working with so-and-so library, let me show you some key parts of the API in this window, or you are trying to do this-and-that, let me give you some hints. Not as intrusive as current assistants that try to write code for you, just some proactive lookup without having to actively seek out information. Anybody knows a product for that?
FWIW in Illinois, where I’ve experienced this, there is a bill https://www.ilga.gov/ftp/legislation/102/billstatus/HTML/102... that appears to be GDPR-esque or CCPA-esque. Seems to have little interest though.
Andreessen and Thiel are grifters concerned only with their own self enrichment. Neither man cares much about those other things except so far as they impact his own profits.
My current theory is that the severed workers are actually monitoring silos.
What's the network effect of dogecoin again? What about cumrocket?
I'd be fine with the GPT side of things, as long as I could somehow inject poor answers, and see if the interviewee notices and corrects.
I'm surprised they haven't started saying phrases like 'useless eaters'
No, cause of death is objective. Whether or not we have the data to figure out the truth doesn't deny the truth.

That's the point of data. To get us closer to the truth. Gravity will keep making you cling to the earth no matter your opinion. Even though as we speak we are still trying to develop models to properly understand the particles or forces behind gravity.
The AI revolution is running out of data
Thanks for the details.

> choose to provide it for a reduction in the transaction fees they pay.

That would explain why I can use my credit card for rent without a transaction fee! No free lunch!
If your router supports port mirroring, you could offload this to another computer and mirror the WAN (or all the LAN) ports to that computer?
"Don't ask questions, post some blatantly wrong answers on the internet. You'll have angry PhDs running to explain how you are wrong!"
>One big privacy issue is that there is no sane way to protect your contact details from being sold, regardless of what you do.

>As soon as your cousin clicks "Yes, I would like to share the entire contents of my contacts with you" when they launch TikTok your name, phone number, email etc are all in the crowd.

Fortunately this is changing with iOS 18 with "limited contacts" sharing.

https://mobiledevmemo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image.p...

The interface also seems specifically designed to push people to allow only a subset of contacts, rather than blindly clicking "allow all".

The far bigger issue is the contact info you share with online retailers. Scraping contact info through apps is very visible, drawing flak from the media and consumers. Most of the time all you get is a name (could be a nickname), and maybe some combination of phone/email/address, depending on how diligent the person in filling out all the fields. On the other hand placing any sort of order online requires you to provide your full name, address, phone number, and email address. You can also be reasonably certain that they're all accurate, because they're plausibly required for delivery/billing purposes. Such data can also be surreptitiously fed to data brokers behind the scenes, without an obvious "tiktok would like access to your contacts" modal.
To be fair Canada and most of the EU haven't come close to fulfillment our NATO requirements since, well, ever. For better or worse most of the free world freeloads off the US' security shield.

Canada is especially egregious, where we have a bunch of tariffs and regulations protecting certain Canadian corporations while expecting the US to protect us and buy our products. All the while smugly criticizing them for it.
Who? Elon cheats at Path of Exile 2.
I meant more for marketing - definitely used lots for loss prevention.
Inheritance is just a tool. It’s insane to reject it outright just because someone can use it incorrectly. It does some things extremely well and better than composition.
Weapon obviously. Stone or wooden stick will also do. I carry big umbrella, dogs have no idea what to do once it is deployed. Dogs are cowards, usually only attack defenseless victims.

If you can, get on higher ground (car) so you can kick. Do not allow them to get behind you!

Dogs hate loud sounds, so air horn (on compressed air can), or loud personal alarm are good repellent. Also some fireworks work great.

To deal with dog owners (usual "itjustwantstoplay" or "noproblemnoproblem") scream for help immediately, and record video! Quite often dog owners attack right after their dogs, and make the situation much worse!
RE: llms for coding. One of the main things I see from people who aren't loving LLMs for coding is that they see it make a dumb mistake and then write it off. My main advice here is to just recognize that every quarter, there is going to be some smarter model than the prior quarter. There are also going to be better context providers year over year like cursor IDE's tools for integrating docs and related files into the prompt. If you follow this trend out, you're eventually going to have really super powerful coding assistants. So stick with it and try reprompting rather than giving up altogether because eventually they will exceed your expectations. I have been blown away by o3-mini and have written some really great code with it already. Folks who gave up back when gpt4 on copilot didn't work for them will be late to experience these massive step function changes in productivity.
Most online forums ban "doxing" even if it's theoretically legal.
> Reddit continues to be anti-free speec

This trend of trying to apply "free speach" to everything drives me crazy.

The amendment is only for government laws. And it doesn't protect you from your own actions! If people want to stop using your product because you made a nazi salute at a rally that's your own problem. If you want people to like you, don't act like a teenage incel edge lord. It's kind of easy.
There is OpenSnitch [0] on Linux, but it us a bit clumsy to setup. I tried it once and didn't get far, but have it again on my todo list. Not aware of something else on Linux.

On Android there is NetGuard [1] which is awesome (not affiliated, just a happy customer).

[0] https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch

[1] https://netguard.me/
The entire strategy may rely on that in some broader sense but if you think the presence or absence of these stories on HN makes an iota of a difference to the actual implementation of any of these things, we're doomed and alwayshavebeen.gif.

The International Brigades don't start mustering on the Ellipse to rescue the Republic, called forth when the 5th muskery story appears on the HN front page on a given day. Nor is Czechoslovakia handed over to Space X if no such stories show up for a bit. It's still just a medium-sized nerd messageboard.
I have uploaded my own library csv to a wetransfer link, then you could try it.

https://we.tl/t-LdjdBPbVRK

Im not familiar with calibre sadly. Creating a GoodReads account and adding some books is quite easy (if you are willing to create another account).

Thanks for taking the time to take look
Thanks for the heads up. Luckily I can go back to analog with certified funds to pay rent. I suspect, without evidence, this is due to the relatively strong tenant protections in Chicago.
Probably but with how weak the Canadian dollar is you can probably just eat the cost (assuming you're Canadian selling to the US).
That’s really interesting- thanks for the link!
Meanwhile Biden has one bad day and everyone's saying "he's too old". While voting in the oldest president in history months later.

You can fact check it. No one wants to for whatever reason.
Love this! Please ignore the negative comments, this is great.

This is actually a great, approachable service to teach my teen child about APIs and data services.
> phones have cheap eMMC storage which is signifcantly worse at wear leveling than the higher end UFS storage.

Which is shocking really - the phones should switch the eMMC to RAW flash mode (ie. no wear levelling), and then write an actually-smart wear levelling algorithm that runs in the OS.

The OS has far better info for wear levelling anyway - it has more visibility into read-write patterns, it has more RAM to store more state, it can cron background scrubs and reorganisation to idle periods, it can be patched if a bug is found which only manifests after years, etc.

Unfortunately, as far as I'm aware, most eMMC's can't be put into any kind of RAW mode anyway.
I don't support UBI but that's a fascinating idea. Unfortunately the data is worth micropennies in the individual, so only worth something in aggregate, like a class action settlement where you end up with a cheque for $0.34 for damages which makes it not even worth your time, it'd only be good as the backdrop for a science fiction novel or as an experiment by a YouTube video by a well known creator to see how little money it would make. I would read the hell out of that book and watch that video tho!
What kind of csv did you upload and what filters did you use? How many books were in that csv?

If you have time, maybe you can share your csv via e.g. wetransfer?

Thanks for taking time to look
It does sound like that, doesn't it. I think it speaks to how dire I see this situation. Because you're right, people are being put in a very difficult situations. And the government likely is aware of that too. They understand the power imbalance that exists.

We need to find a way to support these people. People that sacrifice for the whole of our community must be supported by said community.
Someone also doesn't know Python?

Isn't it the case that if we have an obj and its class has a feed method, we can call obj.feed(...) regardless of what it inherits from?
How science is finding women can have a narcissistic streak too
This idea is the subject of the 2013 book "Who Owns the Future?" By Jaron Lanier.
De novo design of protein minibinder agonists of TLR3
Also because most people are busy with actual work and don't have the time to have passion projects. Some people do, and that's great, but most people are simply not passionate about labor, regardless of what kind of labor it is.
This boilerplate repetition that you refer to is only necessary when doing composition because the languages don't provide the requisite syntactic sugar for it, the way they do for inheritance. This is very unfortunate but totally fixable.
It can be weird. Seen some decent resumes for people that in the actual interview the candidate obviously has zero demonstrable knowledge of.

Ask even the shallowest question and they are lost and just start regurgitating what feels like very bad prompt based responses.

At that point it's just about closing down the interview without being unprofessional.
>What media likes to call "fact checking" to me feels more motivated by punchy headlines and chyrons.

True. It's a good thing media doesn't collect data on that case. Just interprets it to various levels of accuracy. Those who want a better interpretation can read the data itself and learn the mechanics behind it.
> hiring market tightened up... that doesn't mean there isn't one

tightened market is one thing, the absolute insanity of the recruitment process in last couple years with now AI thrown into the mix is really something to behold, test these waters at your own peril
That's actually a horribly awesome idea.
As a colleague of mine used to phrase it, "yeah, I could learn that new thing but then I'd have to give up an episode of Gilligan's Island" ...
The government will never intervene while the UK gambling industry contributes so much money. In 2022, the total figure was about £14 billion. See https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/report/annual-report-a...
What kind of csv did you upload and what filters did you use? How many books were in that csv? Were it a lot of books?

As explained, the website scrapes multiple book webpages to enrich the csv data. The csv does not have all the data which I think is nice to find a new book

If you have time, maybe you can share your csv via e.g. wetransfer?

Thanks for taking time to look
New footage of fatal DC collision
What marketplaces do you use?
Preserving Culinary Traditions. A Crowdsourced Digital Collection of Cookbooks
For a traditional Unix experience, try Crux Linux
I quite like to grab the transcript from youtube and ask chatgpt to give me the key points.
i'm sorry what is enterprise ready about this? wheres the soc2 certification? wheres the single sign on/active directory? do you even have audit hogs? fundamentally unserious.
So pardon me, if I don't understand your comment correctly.

But are you opposing or confirming my comment, because the link you shared kind of proves the point I'm trying to make right. (and afaik they haven't reproduced the results as of yet, they need the code and the training data)

Afaik the traditional sense of opensource implies that the parts that are given can reproduce the results, in this case, it should be code and training data. Now it's more open weights with a recipe (paper).

I didn't say anything about the quality of the model, nor the contribution of the paper which both are very good.

I think in times where everything becomes wishy-washy feely "it's all the same anyway" we need to be very specific, because semantics does matter actually. It also devalues the original meaning of those words, where something meant its opensource so u had all the parts to compile to get the same results.

If I missed something lmk!

> I usually ignore people who say this because it guarantees they're not actually doing anything meaningful with these models

I don't know who they and these people are, but I work with llm models daily for our data ingestion pipelines.
Google search works at least as well as 15 years ago, the results are now just more interleaved with ads that are harder to distinguish from what you are really searching for.

That's exactly where LLMs come in, the model inside the weights has more than answers, they can find sense in data.
DeepSeek (The Derby Mill Series Ep 02) Ft Richard Sutton
It was opt-out for me. Or at least, I was never given informed consent that this data exchange going to take place.

The landlord of course makes it _seem_ like you have no other modes of paying rent. The cashier’s check option is buried in the fine print.

Dark patterns all around IMO.
> described is slightly wrong?

Shhhh! You're spoiling how it's the most interesting language the author knows in terms of inheritance.
That is correct, but the @runtime_checkable decorator (which goes on the class that defines the protocol, e.g. "Animal" in the blog's example) makes it so that any class that implements the required methods (e.g. Rabbit) also passes the isinstance test (so isinstance(Rabbit, Animal) does actually return True, even though Rabbit is not defined as a subclass of Animal, i.e. NOT class Rabbit(Animal) !)

Whether it makes sense to use that is a different question, but it is possible :)

See https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.runtime...
Many of us here are engineers. Similar to our work, databcollected by scientists will eventually get to "good enough" in that interpretations are nearly indistinguishable from the truth. We don't need to understand every atom in the atmosphere to predict rain coming soon, for example. We don't need to do a full body scan to see visible breast cancer lumps.