skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it’s not simply scaling. Who is moving the goalposts exactly?
I wasn't trying to be flippant but challenge the excessive confidence people have on this topic.
Perhaps worth nothing that the last C-17 produced was in 2015, after which the closed the Long Beach plant:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_C-17_Globemaster_III
It's a power he has, of course he's going to exercise it, just like a toddler presses all the buttons on the elevator.
> but how can you be so certain that deeply complex navigation of reality can't emerge from interpolation of a linear regression?

That was pretty much my question. Why are people so certain on the topic.
For another parody of this "brisk and strenuous" literary style, check out "London's Gold-Mines, or a Day Among the Dustmen" (1904):
https://books.google.com/books?id=VecaAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA16

> [...] As the dust fell from his cart he thought that he saw some object glittering in the evening sunlight. He got down from his cart to the ground and walked down the slope of the shoot to the spot where he thought, possibly, the object might have fallen. He groped about in the refuse with the toe of his boot, which was tipped with iron nails, and soon disclosed the bright object which he had really seen. He picked it up between his fingers and examined it with his eyes. [...]
It's a very nontrivial amount of code to make the library that provides all of those features, even worse to do it well. Here's a PoC for one of them [0] (default implementations).

The broad theme is that other languages use keywords for traits or subclasses or whatever. In Zig, you can define libraries using the language's metapgrogramming facilities that do the same thing (or similar things).

Zig doesn't have a complete metaprogramming story yet either, which makes it harder (no custom types with custom decls, can't create a function dynamically, ...), but there are still a few options for creating something that looks like an interface.

In my mind, all the obvious solutions have something like a "template" and utilities that operate on that template. The template serves as documentation and also a hint to the LSP. Its exact semantics aren't important; they just have to match however that library decides the implementation should look.

[0] https://github.com/hmusgrave/zinter
Great, we've got tariffs and retaliation, all we need now is the Great Depression and a world war
>We have everything we need

Speak for yourself. If this company reduces the price of iridium, makes PET and CT scanners cheaper, helps more people get scans, and ultinately results in more cases of cancer and heart disease identified sooner and people leading healthier lives, then I need this company.
I'm reminded of Caterpillar (tractors and some apparel, $50B revenue) trying to stop Cat & Cloud (coffee some apparel, <<$1M) from having a trademark. Despite their low revenue, it's a somewhat influential coffee shop due to their podcast and roasting, and also happens to be the closest cafe to me and my favorite.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/caterpillar-cat-cloud-coffee-...
True. But even paid apps have access to these data and can collect it without our knowledge. A genius called Stallman proposed solution decades ago. Free software aka. open source software. But outside of tech community, open source is not a known term. Maybe we should market it wherever possible, if we want true privacy and freedom.
I read this book as a teen too! I picked it up at a garage sale after seeing the cool cover. I didn't expect it to be so readable. This is some classic Jack London-style adventure writing.
https://github.com/google/android-cuttlefish/tree/main/docke...
it's already lost.
Turns out there are enough studies for a meta analysis. Is that basic science?

Basic science in this context means research investigating the underlying disease process to develop knowledge of how it works mechanistically, as distinguished from (and as a precursor to) developing or testing treatments for the disease. This helps us direct resources in plausibly useful directions rather than merely taking shots in the dark, and it also helps us to interpret later clinical findings: e.g. if we see some cognitive benefit in a three-month trial, is that because the underlying disease process was affected (and hence the benefit might persist or even increase over time), or might it be because there was some symptomatic benefit via a completely separate mechanism but no expectation of a change in trajectory? For example, cholinergic drugs are known to provide symptomatic benefit in Alzheimer disease but not slow the underlying biological processes, so that worsening still continues at the same pace. Or if we see results that are statistically borderline, is it still worth pursuing or was the very slight benefit likely a fluke?

So a meta-analysis of ketogenic diets in Alzheimer disease is not basic science, though that doesn't mean it's useless. But what I'm saying is it's really helpful to have a prior that the treatment you're developing is actually targeting a plausible disease pathway, and the amyloid hypothesis gives us that prior for amyloid antibodies in a way that, to my knowledge, we don't have for ketogenic diets.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S127977072...

Thanks, I just took a look at this meta-analysis. The studies with the strongest benefits on the standard cognitive endpoints of MMSE and ADAS-Cog — Taylor 2018, Qing 2019, and Sakiko 2020 — all lasted only three months, which makes me suspect (especially given the context of no theoretical reason to expect this to work that I'm aware of) this is some temporary symptomatic benefit as with the cholinergic drugs I mentioned above.

But it's enough of a hint that I'd support funding a long-term trial just to see what happens.

If amyloid is truly the critical "but for" cause then how on earth is it possible that reducing amyloid burden doesn't really make a difference?

I've argued elsewhere in the thread that it does make quite a difference, but there's still a lot of work to do, and I've said what I think that work is (mainly: improving BBB crossing and administering the drugs earlier).
I feel like an entire generation of federal prosecutors are going to make careers by following up on what these folks do for the next four years.
Oh, right. The Da Vinci code guy, not the techno-thriller guy.

Real Tom Clancy books were OK. But he's been dead for a decade. Tom Clancy branded books are still coming out, written by somebody, but they are not very good.

If you like series that went on too long, the sequel to Fourth Wing (Hunger Games with dragons) is out, there's yet another Hunger Games fill-in book soon, and something is happening in the Harry Potter space.
Retaliatory tariff why? US tariff are self inflicted harm. If you see your neighbor slashing their wrists, slashing your own doesn't improve the situation. Canadian taxpayers will be the ones eating that cost.
There are also studies showing a plant-based diet can reverse Alzheimer's symptoms as well. It has to do with atherosclerosis.
Sounds like a problem provincial to the domain you're working. Sounds like enterprise microservices and webapps?
Not all things which can be idempotent are, but not all things can be idempotent. You can't un-print that letter you wrote on the page. You can't un-read the word cabbage, or un-think about cabbages now you've seen it. You can be asked to think or not think about cabbages again, and arguably thats idempotent to non-effectiveness but it has OTHER consequences: Time passes. Your anger raises. Even reading this comment causes changes in the real world.

I like the article, and I like the idea of writing distributed systems to enforce idempotency when it's possible, but you need to understand sometimes it simply won't work.

If you spend those specific dollars with a [buy now] button, you can't prevent the transaction happening behind the scenes and spend them again. Well.. you might think you can, but the real world consequences of spending the same dollar twice will come out eventually. So, from this crude analogy, shopping cart events have qualities which can be pretty damn hard to make fully idempotent.

"amazon regrets it is unable to fulfill your order" lies deep in a machine which displayed "only one left in stock" to 100 people, just as one of them clicked "buy now"
Ask HN: iOS STT for postcodes, addresses better than deepgram?
Why is iOS speech to text so much better at numbers, addresses and postcodes than Deepgram, whisper, etc?

It nails them - the rest are mediocre at best. Does anybody know of a model that's accurate with this sort of data?
Discipline for what?

To me it's the lack of skill. If the LLM spits out junk you should be able to tell. ChatGPT-based interviews could work just as well to determine the ability to understand, review and fix code effectively.
The upside is, maybe when grocery and gas prices double it will shake some people out of their MAGA trance.
> you are not being lousy you still need to think about all the edge cases

This is honestly where I believe LLMs can really shine. I think we like to believe the problems we are solving are unique, but I strongly believe most of us are solving problems that have already been solved. What I've found is, if you provide the LLM with enough information, it will surface edge cases that you haven't thought of and implement logic in your code that you haven't thought of.

I'm currently using LLMs to build my file drag and drop component for my chat app. You can view the problem and solution statement at https://beta.gitsense.com/?chat=da8fcd73-6b99-43d6-8ec0-b1ce...

By chatting with the LLM, I created four user stories that I never thought of to improve user experience and security. I don't necessarily think it is about knowing the edge cases, but rather it is about knowing how to describe the problem and your solution. If you can do that, LLMs can really help you surface edge cases and help you write logic.

Obviously what I am working on, is really not novel, but I think a lot of the stuff we are doing isn't that novel, if we can properly break it down.

So for interviews that allow LLMs, I would honestly spend 5 minutes chatting with it to create a problem and solution statement. I'm sure if you can properly articulate the problem, the LLM can help you devise a solution and a plan.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42910345
But not too much courage, nobody took credit for writing this, it just says editorial board.
Canadian liquor stores have dumped all American booze. Dinner conversation up north for the past few days has been all about travel and services boycotts (Amazon, Netflix, Uber, etc.)

Haven’t heard the US anthem booed at all Canadian hockey games since the “freedom fries” days post-Iraq mobilization.

Will take a decade to recover the goodwill lost this week.
>>As to why Musk can do it. Treasury is a department, not even an independent agency. The president runs it, along with the president’s appointee the secretary of treasury. DOGE is an office within the Executive Office of the President.

That doesn't give Musk or DOGE authority over it, any more then the dept. of the Interior can control what gets paid..
I got some confetti after an unknown number of clicks, but this doesn't answer the question of "how good is my color vision"
I was also going to ask about long covid, since this seems to have appeared right after the covid infection...
I mean, sure, but it's still completely frustrating to me.

It's especially frustrating that these people are always looking for secret "codes" being spelled out by politicians, instead of actually listening to anything they actually say. I saw a meme recently that said Trump was wearing a purple tie to signify unity between Republicans and Democrats, despite the fact that Trump spent the entire talk complaining about Democrats.

It's infuriating, and it's worse than "stupid", it's outright dishonesty on their end.
Toddlers?
Have they taken an oath to the Constitution or even have security clearances?
This show it is rather important to archive everything.
Nvidia might drop not because of the blogger's reasoning. Nvidia might drop because DeepSeek got into the mainstream news cycle which caused a panic in Silicon Valley. The Silicon Valley elites promptly got on a call with Trump and now it looks like they will ban Nvidia from exporting to China outright.

So the blogger thinks efficiency is what caused Nvidia's drop. I'd say efficiency increases Nvidia's demand. What's causing Nvidia to drop is that DeepSeek is so good that it spooked Silicon Valley elites into lobbying for a full ban.
Unsure why you want to make it a "we" thing as lot of us grew playing NES and then SNES, which didn't have backward compatibility.
High level - having a discussion with the LLM about different approaches and the tradeoffs between each

Low level - I'll write up the structure of what I want in the form of a set functions with defined inputs and outputs but without the implementation detail. If I care about any specifics with the functions I'll throw some comments in there. And sometimes I'll define the data structures in advance as well.

Once all this is set up it often spits out something that compiles and works first try. And all the context is established so iteration from that point becomes easier.
Great writing about a bad sad topic. But there's a worse cancer mom, it's the one who commoditises the cancer for likes on her socials and goes down Munchenhausen by proxy to keep the revenue flows going.

I guess worst was rhetorical. The author wasn't the best, but maybe they were the best they could be, all things considered.

(meth wasn't a great idea TBH)

For another take on the problem space, from the MD side of the fence, I recommend https://www.theguardian.com/profile/ranjana-srivastava -there is no crossover here, nor an attempt to subtract from the original authors writing: I just like reading this one.
The comment literally just said "you can't worry about it, it's the world we live in". That's the point, you can't just use the second part as an excuse to not fight battles or changing. Because that sort of requires worrying about things.
It's a sort of unofficial trade association where they coalesce on specific redefinitions of terms to meet their sales and PR efforts. First they came for "intelligence," then "open source," then "reason," and it will continue. Any word which the PR wants but they can't achieve gets redefined -- "grok" is a perfect example, since in the original sci-fi book it meant "total understanding." The mythological Triton ruled the deeps, so the "deep learning" sales copy immediately co-opted it.
And then YT makes a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo in Stephenson's follow-up book, "The Diamond Age."
I'm going to make an asinine prediction. We will be exploring F-strings in future languages in 100 years time, encountering the same problems and questions.

I still use printf semantics in Python3 despite trying to get with the program for symbolic string/template logic. I don't need to be told it's better, I need some Philip-K-Dick level brain re-wiring not to reach for

"%d things I hate about f-strings\n" % (int(many()))

modes of thinking.
The best UFC fighter of all time?
They want demonize any recipient as the antagonist. That’s the reframing, standard manipulation.
Why not on commercial aircraft?
Let us know when your Bing-bot scores over 20% on the HLE benchmark.
NOTED

And following. n0 suprise

Being Autistic I've no perception "what THEY think" only what tools work TODAY

Allegiance or affinity beyond IT WORKS or it FAILS please pardon, I need only tools which work NOW

Your NICK, noted. Don't hesitate to vet mine.
>But what is in your opinion a better signal for junior or new grads?

They are juniors, I don't expect them to be experts, I expect eagerness and passion. They spent 4 or more years focusing on schooling, show me the results of your projects. Let them talk and see how well they understand what they did. Side projects are even better to stand out.

And you know... apparently people can still fail fizzbuzz in 2025. If you really question their ability to code, ask the basics, not if they can write a Sudoku verifier on the spot. If you aren't a sudoku game studio I don't see the application outside of "can they work with arrays?"

>I don’t know about you, but most interviewers out there don’t have the ability to judge the technical merit of a bullshitters’s contribution to a class or internship project in half an hour, specially if it’s in a domain interviewer has no familiarity with.

everyone has a different style. Personally I care a lot less about programming proficiency and a lot more about technical communication. If they only wrote 10 lines of code for a group project but can explain every aspect of the project as if they written it themselves, what am I really missing? The odds of that sort of technical reaspning being accompanied by poor coding is a lot rarer than the alternative of a Leetcode wizard who can't grasp architectural concept nor adjust to software tooling, in my experiences.
So far 3 of the 11 people we interviewed have been clearly using ChatGPT for the >>behavioral<< part of the interview (like, just chatting about background, answering questions about their experience). I find that absolutely insane, if you cannot hold a basic conversation about your life without using AI then something is terribly wrong.

We actually allow using AI in our in-person technical interviews, but our questions are worded to fail safety checks. We'll talk about smuggling nuclear weapons, violent uprising, staging a coup, manufacturing fentanyl, etc. (within the context of system design) and that gives us really good mileage on weeding out those who are just transcribing what we say into AI and reading the response.
I assume Musk is just sending an email to Scott Bessent who orders some Treasury employee to actually stop the payment.
So he's trying to go super-mainstream to sell even more GPUs he can't ship.

They're sold out in 2025 in the enterprise. Their Blackwell gaming GPUs are also completely sold out.
Grapheneos lets you pick this for apps before they even launch. You can revoke their network access, as well as define storage scopes for apps at a folder level, so if an app needs access to photos, you can define a folder, and that is the only folder it can scan for photos.

I used that when submitting parental leave at work. I didn't want to provide full access to all my photos and files for work, so all they got was a folder with a pic of a birth certificate.
This comment has to go in https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights.
The claim by the Canadian-American ambassador is that the Canadian border accounts for ~1% of Fentanyl traffic into the United States. Yet we are treating them as severely as Mexico and China. I suspect this has more to do with the U.S. President's personal feelings towards the Canadian Prime Minister. I hope I am wrong and this isn't as petty and stupid as I think it is.
Apple wants to prove to investors that users are enabling their new “Apple Intelligence” feature. It should be labeled market manipulation.
Does this support DP alt mode on the USB-C port?
This is a completely false equivalence. Trump used emergency powers to divert military construction funding to build the wall. He also diverted funds from other sources, like asset forfeiture. Biden did not stop payments on money that congress had authorized for building the wall.

If Congress has explicitly appropriated funds for refugee resettlement, then Elon Musk can't decide to just not spend that money because he doesn't like refugee resettlement. See Train v. City of New York.
My guess is that Trump does not want the Chinese manufacturers and other multinationals to just jump ship from Mexico where they currently are, to Canada. He wants the manufacturing to be in US.

Also, I think he is serious about the fentanyl trades via Canada

US Customs and Border Patrol recognizes three regions where fentanyl crosses into the country. These regions are the northern border dividing the US and Canada, the southwest border dividing the US and Mexico, and coastal and interior ports of entry.

https://usafacts.org/answers/how-much-fentanyl-is-seized-at-...
why flagged? What causes flaggage on a topic like this? I suppose the implicit reasons are many, but suspicion it's organised (or self organising) opposition to talking about "boring" things on HN.
If you don't know how implement it how can you be sure LLM will do it correctly?

If the task is not simple then break it into simple tasks. Then each of them is as easy as color change.
Except that is where the majority of research is done, where the prestigious schools and students are, and where those people want to live. Plenty of good research gets done in Arkansas, and Texas, and North Carolina, but not in the cheap parts. It happens in Research Triangle, or Austin, or Fayetteville. It doesn't happen at Oachita Baptist College in Arkadelphia.

The somewhat good news is that people get into science and medicine because they believe in them, and they're often willing to work for peanuts so that big pharma can take their work and charge Medicare $80k/yr for a new drug that might work.

There's huge problems in academia and it's incentive structure, but I don't think they're related to be being in urban vs rural America (they exist just as badly in Europe, China, and India)
(and if you haven't... check out the APIs available to the developers/owners of all the websites you browse: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API )
It was initially opt in for me, then they made it mandatory.

(Sure, I could pay by check but consumer banking technology/US in the US already feels like is is lagging a decade behind other countries without voluntarily going further back. Paying by check every month would be quite inconvenient.)

I'd already decided to avoid bilt as much as possible, but reading this thread prompted me to try going a little further.

Looking through their privacy policy it talks about what California residents can do under CCPA: https://legal.biltrewards.com/policies

> Request to Know... The specific pieces of Personal Information we collected about you.

> You have the right to opt-out from having your Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information sold to third parties. You also have the right to opt-out from having your Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information shared with third parties for purposes of cross-contextual advertising

Might as well give this a go.
Realistically its just the blind leading the blind. People have forgotten that a interview process was designed to avoid false positives, and that the companies who were most selective were providing top 1% comp and had brands that could carry that weight. If you are google and you were handing $500K in RSUs on top of $300K+ in salary, you better damn pick the right candidate...

For some random SMB in shipping or something to be bashing people over the head with 10 step-leetcode-full-panel-10-hour-systems-design interviews they just don't get it. For starters they probably don't even have the talent to properly evaluate the prospect. So who are they helping?
I’m not particularly old or nostalgic, but these past 2 weeks have certainly helped me appreciate the Obama years a lot more.
Why do you inherently trust Apple?

Remember, the big celebrity photo leak happened because of a vulnerability within Apple Software.
> For the same reason it was legal for Biden to stop payment on contacts for Trump’s border wall

I had a look at the linked article. You are misrepresenting it. Cancelling contracts is not stopping payment. Likewise the OP headline is completely misrepresenting the situation regarding the Treasury as well. I'll address that in a top-level comment.
OK, what's your next move, now that letter-counting has been solved by the current generation of frontier models?

CoT reasoning is reasoning, whether you like it or not. If you don't understand that, it means the models are already smarter than you.