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I seem to have dug out quite a few notions on what religion is all about here on HN, from the shout from the roof tops to "a bit of a chat" - obviously my original comment was DV'd to oblivion.

For me, religion starts and stops from within. I am not an evangelist - my God is mine and your's is yours. I'll tell you what I'm about and no more.

"Still small Voice of quiet" not "Hell fire and damnation".

I will dive in with a gentle nudge but never an exhortation.
> I would tell the EU to fuck themselves instead of using them as a piggy bank. Why do those FAANG companies still want to do business there?

Maybe because no one makes business decisions based on emotions? The situation could be unfair but you might still choose to continue to engage just because it's beneficial for the company for all other reasons. All things considered, they still make money in that region, maybe not as much as they would have made otherwise.

> An alternative theory is that you were not in every relevant meeting.

I'm telling you what we heard directly from the gov agencies and you're saying that I wasn't in the right meetings? Maybe, but I at least have some first-hand knowledge to share here and not just snarky comments.

> I am sorry for the sarcasm, but I totally don't buy it. And you understand why.

No, I don't understand why and I'm not very interested in continuing this conversation either. You don't seem to have much to add it.
This has been my experience as well. The ones that have most heavily relied on GPT not only didn't really know what to ask, but couldn't reason about the outputs at all since it was frequently new information to them. Good candidates use it like a search engine - filling known gaps.
Many languages don't correspond to flag ideograms, and many flags don't correspond to a single language.

Ideograms are fine so long as they can be replaced with a canonical word or phrase and still make sense.

Flags for languages fails that in many cases around the world- if I want to select Quebecoise French, neither the Canadian, French, or Quebec Province flags are appropriate.

Likewise, Switzerland has no official language, and many countries such as Belgium have multiple.
Yeah pretty much. If I was to write it out further: "near infinity bad thing could happen but it has a near infinitesimal chance of it happening, what is the amount of finite resources you should spend to prevent it?". The numbers are probabilities and how much of an effect it is. It really is infinity * epsilon but that would confuse more people so I decided to say infinity * 0.

I was very explicit when I said "humanity decided". It doesn't matter if one or the other is the actual formal system math system result either way, it was chosen out of practicality that in this kind of philosophical issue, the more pragmatic thing was to axiomatically choose that "infinity * 0 = 0" when faced with things like this. The rationalists in a more meta/broader sense have decided that it's infinity * epsilon = infinity even if they say it is not on the surface. Their actions show they believe the other direction.

In math infinity * epsilon is indeterminate until you decide what the details of infinity & epsilon is, which I find quite fitting.
My understanding is that Anki is pretty much used by every single medical student, at least in the U.S. It's the perfect applications for retaining massive amounts of information just long enough to pass med school and board exams. Look at this: https://www.reddit.com/r/medicalschoolanki/ -- 166k followers.
Yeah the fact that just composing the first prompt would take me longer than just doing the thing is my biggest blocker to using any of these tools on a regular basis
Hilbert's memory palace.
> It's a pain to phrase, but: There is no reason to use the Swiss flag to indicate a language. French has the French flag. German has the German flag. Etc. There are dialects, as a nuance to this, but you can solve that by e.g. using a 50/50 merge of the German and Swiss flags.

Okay, which flag do you use to indicate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romansh_language — one of the four official languages of Switzerland?
If a codebase is fragile enough that libc++ changes have to be assumed breaking until proven otherwise, why take the risk? Presumably the application already has a "standard" way of formatting strings. If it ain't broke yada yada
The faster leetcode interviews can be completely broken to the point they are abandoned the better.
Tesla resale value isn’t great, so even that serene, ascetic monk would better off buying a different brand
The article does not explain how PII gets into the databases, and the critical link the IDfV... how do databases connect it to people's name/address?

It gets leaked if the app I use gets my name/address, like Uber, right?
"loophole"
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>Such a system that could do this might consist of an LLM layer for translating sensory input (in LLM's case, language) into a representation that can be used by a logical system (of the kind that was popular in AI's first big boom) and then fed back out.

This just goes back into the problems of that AI winter again though. First Order Logic isn't expressive enough to model the real world, while Second Order Logic dosen't have a complete proof system to truly verify all it'sstatements, and is too complex and unyieldy for practical uses. The number of people I would also imagine that are working on such problems would be very few, this isn't engineering that it is analytic philosophy and mathematics.
The Art of Dithering and Retro Shading for the Web (2024)
If you are pretending to have knowledge and skills you don't have you are cheating. And if you have the required knowledge and skill AI is a hindrance, not a help. You can solve the problem easily without it. So "is using ai cheating"? IDK, but logically you wouldn't use AI unless you were cheating.
What is x in the equation is the real question
What do you tell them on the phone? Are they prepared for just "Hi I want to apply for the $job position"? And do they have an answer besides "cool, use the website"?
> what you need now is someone with high creative potential and great teamwork skills.

That’s exactly what we always needed, long before LLMs arrived. That’s why all the interviews I’ve seen or give already were designed to have conversations.

I’m agreeing with you, but I’ve never seen these ‘interchangeable cog’ interviews you’re talking about.
It would be great if there were. I decided to see if such a thing existed and came across the Flag icons for languages page[1]. There is an absolutely hideous French, Belgium, Canadian mix flag so the bar for language emojis is very very low. In other words, it should be easy to do better.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_icons_for_languages
how would this work with internationalized strings? especially if you have to change the order of things? You'd still need a string version with object ordering I would think
This whole chain was you pushing back on the relative merit or feasibility of an individualist approach to this problem. You mentioned education very briefly a few posts up but that didn't seem to be the main point of that comment and definitely not of this back and forth.
Given that it's the fourth-most-common language in Switzerland, the Swiss flag might not be a good choice.
Is it just me, or does the super market's logo look AI generated?
My idea is that an app should do its best to work with the OS and not override defaults, that includes system fonts. It is good for consistency, accessibility, etc... If Windows doesn't ship with flag emoji, or any character for that matter, that shouldn't be Chrome's problem.

Android is an OS, Google is responsible of it, so they get to decide what goes in their fonts.
Posting here from an anonymized account about Meta. No one probably recalls that meta stopped most of their background location services(Remember Nearby Friends) on the main application ~2021-2022[1]. It was just not even worth a repeat NYT story with this much money on infra to collect locations.

But, this is basically after they figured how to do "good enough" location targetting using IP and a bunch of this info this guy talked about. You don't actually need a lat, long, just the 1 mile radius/city area is good enough to run ads and they have ALL of that.

This was why meta's revenue dropped so much after apple's move, they could not fall back to collecting precise location. This is the last game in town. You shut this down, meta's precise targetting will suffer gravely, ads will become flakey.

One last thing. You may ask, who are the businesses that need precise lat longs? are like this one[2]. These businesses are like whack-a-mole. They saturate the app market steal data get money and shit down when someone yells and in a few months and comeback again, rebranded and come back as another app. They exist not just to collect data but to act as an arbiter on who get eyeballs on IRL activities to influence behavior at the (Top of the funnel) TOFu. In the Worst. Possible. Way.

[1] https://techcrunch.co/2022/05/09/facebook-to-shutter-its-nea...
[2] https://www.joinpogo.com/
What it's like to be an engineer for ASML
>Except not everyone in a corporation has the right to speech. I'm prohibited by my employer to say anything on the company's behalf,

Yeah, that's how organizations typically work? You might have "freedom of movement", but that doesn't mean you can work in your CEO's office. Organizations also limit who has access to its bank accounts, but that doesn't mean it's suddenly illegitimate for companies to engage in transactions.
What does effective use look like? I have attempted messing around with a couple of options, but was always disappointed with the output. How do you properly present a problem to a LLM? Requiring an ongoing conversation feels like a tech priest praying to the machine spirit.
especially bringing in boost which isn't allowed in some codebases
Depends.

The Navajo Nation and Cherokee Nation both have flags to use that could theoretically be incorporated into Unicode if they didn't draw the line at National flags, but you could always draw flag representations in SVG instead.

But I also think this discussion has gone so far into the theoretical it's kind of ignored a very practical point: how many languages do you need to present in your software, because your software is actually localized in that language? Most software isn't going beyond the top two or three recognized languages in a given UN-recognized country (and even some of those are relatively obscure), and countries that have >1 languages usually share an official language with another country that uses it more predominantly. At this point in time, the economies of scale do not favor actually localizing software in 1600 different languages, so we don't. At all.

In fact, the usual pattern for developers from Europe and the Americas is to favor their dominant language and localizing in other dominant languages that originated in Europe and some of their more popular variants, and then maybe also some combination of Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Hindu, Urdu, and Korean.

So when you're presented with a number of languages and variants exceeding 30 in a list, flags probably aren't going to cut it anymore, but there's still some design space to use flags as language representations if you want.
Well, cheaters only cheat because they suck and they know it. Otherwise cheat would not be a rational approach.
Lift the Elephant: Scaling PostgreSQL Beyond Query Optimization
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IMO: capitalism reached the beginning of it's endgame, which is always some form of communism or war. because no other "group" can afford the competitiveness, capitalists chose portfolio communism. brought on the way in the 70s, securing dominance until the financial "crisis" 2008 and after and burning down pretty much any other outcome with the rise of crypto.
For those in this thread that enjoyed reading Dan Brown novels:

Don't give random people on the internet the power to take away joys of your past.

This is something I see come up a lot on the Internet. It begins with a critique of something (sometimes serious, sometimes tongue-in-cheek) and almost immediately develops into OTHER people being criticized for enjoying something that someone else thinks is bad, often through the mechanism of the "this is terrible" people drowning out the "but I like this" people by a factor of 10-to-1, because it's the Internet.

Art is subjective. People consume it for different reasons, at different times, with different expectations and different perspectives. People also LOOK for different things in art (some people like themes, some people like history, some people like aesthetics, some people like fun, etc.) - and they look for different things in every piece of art they consume.

I've never read a Dan Brown novel. Maybe I'll like them, maybe I won't. But lucky for me it's going to be easy to go in with a clean slate and form my own -- oh wait.
Just as I thought, half the use-cases are for 'arts people', whether writers or critics, so I would never ask an LLM those questions myself, nor would - I estimate - the majority of humanity. Then some of the things in there could be simple web searches on some keywords that are already so far outside everyday vocabulary that they'd likely give you very relevant pages in the first 10 results (like the "base load in energy systems" one). Overall this kind of article does nothing to prove LLMs are not a gigantic waste of energy doing mostly things for which this isn't necessarily the best solution. It's just getting used because it's out there and it's new, and we're addicted to novelty, especially technological novelty.
Unfortunate compression issue. Here's what it actually looks like: https://www.polygon.com/news/516748/super-mario-grocery-nint...
Too old and cynical now to suspend disbelief for Dan Brown stuff (even the movies), but have in the past enthusiastically read series of certified potboilers such as

- the original James Bond novels

- the Dick Francis novels

If it works - for the author, make megabucks, or for the reader - be entertained, then so be it. It's not like the hit movies are the deeply cerebral ones either. The books can still suck from an artistic standpoint, and the critics can still rip into them.
In area, yes. But then the China flag would represent a dozen languages.

In population, no, the GP is correct.
> This implies that for macroscopic systems, the expected time one would be required to wait to observe such a decrease in entropy occurring is unobservably large.

Yea but we have virtual particles and the Casimir effect. Am I wrong or isn't this these perturbations evidencing themselves on a macroscopic scale?
To a great extent you trade statefulness (inter-frame compression, FEC, HARQ, sounding parameters, overhead) for efficiency, so improving link recoverability comes at a cost. There is an existing solution which makes this trade - HDZero. It works amazingly at close range in clean RF environments and has good analog-esque falloff characteristics, but in terms of absolute efficiency it is very bad and therefore does not have the same quality or range as other solutions. Certainly a better hybrid approach is possible but to your point, niche.
I agree with Chiang. Reminds me of Searle and The Chinese Room (I agree with Searle too).

I do think that at some point everyone is just arguing semantics. Chiang is arguing that "actual reasoning" is, by definition, not something that an LLM can do. And I do think he's right. But the real story is not "LLMs can't do X special thing that only biological life can do," the real story is "X special thing that only biological life can do isn't necessary to build incredibe AI that in many ways surpasses biological life".
Have you known anyone addicted to opiates? In my experience and observations, working a job hardly precludes people from using opiates.
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> To clarify, there is greater chance of natural pandemic.

I think it'd be excessively pessimistic (and very selectively so) to believe vaccine/etc. research would increase the overall chance of a pandemic. But, the idea I'm getting at is you seem to be mistakenly treating the choice of halting as not bringing uncertainty other than the relative "you don't know what you could have had" kind. Personally I'd say it's usually the inherently riskier choice than just continuing, on top of having worse expected result, but hopefully you can see that the action of halting does come with at least some uncertainty of its own.

> My understanding is that diseases are classified and diagnosed by symptom, not by severity of the symptoms. That would be especially tricky as everyone will have a different reaction

Symptoms also vary by person. Diagnosis can take into account a variety of factors (medical history, blood tests, etc.), including severity, to determine the most likely identification.

Diseases are classified in documents like ICD-11, with mpox defined as caused by the monkeypox virus ("A disease caused by an infection with monkeypox virus [...] Confirmation is by identification of monkeypox virus") and smallpox as caused by the variola virus ("A disease caused by an infection with variola virus [...] Confirmation is by identification of the variola virus in a skin sample of the rash").

> If you consider smallpox eliminated because disease with a similar severity is no longer present then we likely have to consider Covid eliminated as well

If there were extant strains of smallpox, even if less virulent, I would not consider it eradicated (but it could nonetheless be a significant success of medical advancements).

I'm not aware that we've eradicated any strains of SARS-CoV-2, let alone all of them, so I see no reason to consider COVID-19 eradicated.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you seem to be suggesting that even if we did eradicate SARS-CoV-2, we shouldn't consider COVID-19 eradicated because there would still inevitably be some patients presenting with sufficiently-similar-but-less-severe symptoms from, say, influenza.

> Monkeypox and smallpox have very similar symptoms, meaning they could very well be considered the same disease even if they are believed to be caused by two different viruses.

I'm not aware of anywhere that equates the two diseases - they're different enough even just in symptoms (including severity) and response that it would seem counterproductive to do so.

If "could very well be considered the same disease" means more in terms of "well it's all just arbitrary labels - in theory we could've chosen to classify diseases more broadly" then sure, but it doesn't really take away from the accomplishment of eradicating [the thing currently know as the smallpox disease] even if it were to no longer be known as a disease on its own.
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And it doesn't have to have every single language. There's over 7,000 languages in the world. It just needs to have languages for which content exists. For the vast vast majority of Wikipedia articles there are less than 10 languages available
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Is there a paper / technique that interests you from the background research / reading?

Try reproducing it and then working on their future work paragraph

For me, I was at the same guest lecture as my future advisor was at. When I took a class with him, I asked him what research he did. After rattling a bunch of things off and seeing my lack of interest, he asked me "did you see the talk about evolving equations, want to work on that?" I replied "yes" and "yes!"

After spending a couple of years trying to reproduce and scale these systems (my advisor worked in related things), I grew frustrated with the prevailing techniques. So we set about trying to solve the same problem with the restriction that it should be a deterministic algorithm. This set me on my path to novel research and results
Wireshark is nice, but for HTTPS MitM you'll need a tool like mitmproxy/Burp to do the proxying and either modifications to the system image or a Frida daemon running as root to make most apps trust the MitM'd certificates.

To get the traffic routed right, the Wireguard option for mitmproxy is pretty useful in my experience. Not sure how well Waydroid + Android VPNs work together, though.
I think it's been AI upscaled. Here's another article with more sane looking images of the logo: https://www.eurogamer.net/nintendo-loses-trademark-fight-aga...
The overzealous legal action on Nintendo's part of the biggest reason I stopped buying anything Nintendo. I haven't owned a Nintendo since the SNES.
When the federal government takes somewhere between 50% and 100% of the income tax payed by a state's citizens simply to give it back to the state with strings attached, that is a straightforward undermining of the state being able to act on its own.

In general, it's amazing how reliably crypto-authoritarian points are prefixed with "I don't see how". It exploits our natural advantage to assume good faith and difficulty understanding, rather than a willful ignoring of coercion.
My POV comes from someone who's indexed on what works for gauging technical signal at startups, so take it for what it's worth. But a lot of what I gauge for is a blend of not just technical capability, but the ability to translate that into prudent decisions with product instincts around business outcomes. AI is getting better at solving technical problems it's seen before in a black box, but it struggles to tailor that to any kind of context you give it to pre-existing constraints around user behavior, existing infrastructure/architecture, business domain and resource constraints.

To be fair, many humans do too, but many promising candidates even at the mid-level band of experience who thrive at organizations I've approved them into are able to eventually get to a good enough balance of many tradeoffs (technical and otherwise) with a pretty clean and compact amount of back and forth that demonstrates thoughtfulness, curiosity and efficacy.

If someone can get to that level of capability in a technical interviewing process using AI without it being noticeable, I'd be really excited about the world. I'm not holding my breath for that, though (and having done LOTS of interviews over the past few quarters, it would be a great problem to have).

My solution, if I were to have the luxury of having that problem, would be a pretty blunt instrument -- I'd instead change my process to actually have AI use of tools be part of the interviewing process -- I'd give them a problem to solve, a tuned in-house AI to use in solving the problem, and have their ability to prompt it well, integrate its results, and pressure check its assumptions (and correct its mistakes or artifacts) be part of the interview itself. I'd press to see how creatively they used the tool -- did they figure out a clever way to use it for leverage that I wouldn't have considered before? Extra points for that. Can they use it fluidly and in the heat of a back and forth of an architectural or prototyping session as an extension of how they problem solve? That will likely become a material precondition of being a senior engineer in the future.

I think we're still a few quarters (to a few years) away from that, but it will be an exciting place to get to. But ultimately, whether they're using a tool or not, it's an augment to how they solve problems and not a replacement. If it ever gets to be the latter, I wouldn't worry too much -- you probably won't need to do much hiring because then you'll truly be able to use agentic AI to pre-empt the need for it! But something tells me that day (which people keep telling me will come) will never actually come, and we will always need good engineers as thought partners, and instead it will just raise the bar and differentiation between truly excellent engineers and middle of the pack ones.