skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you know what, fine. you win.

you caught me in a bad mood, and I was sure of something and i was wrong.

i still think it is perverse to argue in favor of gambling companies - an "industry" that is at best zero sum, simply reallocating money from one hand to an arguably less deserving hand. but in practice is dramatically negative sum when families are torn apart.
Should there be emojis to represent languages? Maybe it could be a new group. I'd rather not use the flag shape, maybe a circle with the 2 letter code and a background with the colors from the flag usually used to represent that language, mainly because people is already used to scan the lists looking for those colors.
The employer sets the terms of the interview. If you don’t like them, don’t apply.

What you’re suggesting here isn’t any different than submitting a fraudulent resume because you disagree with the required qualifications.
My opinion is that gambling crushes other people's souls. I'm not going to do that.
For some. But it requires life choices that many would find unacceptable.
It's not black and white. Most of us could reduce the amount that we drive, even if we can't reduce it to zero. It's a mix of necessity, convenience, and recreation.
I clicked the link at the beginning of your article, that led to the Google sheet with the list of apps. That list had 12,373 lines, not “over 2,000”, fyi. And while most of the apps looked like small time games that I have never downloaded and would probably not download, I saw included there “Microsoft Office 365”. Interesting.
Regardless of sex chromosome aneuploidies or a desire to be the opposite sex, everyone who is, who could be, or who has ever been pregnant is female.

Another point against using the phrase "pregnant people" instead of "pregnant women" is that it leaves no way to talk about women who aren't pregnant. "Non-pregnant people" includes every man and every prepubescent child.
We haven't seen major issues with AI with candidates on camera. The couple that have tried to cheat have done so rather obviously, and the problem we use is more about problem-solving than it is about reverse-a-linked-list.

This is borne out by results downstream with clients. No client we've sent more than a couple of people has ever had concerns about quality, so we're fairly confident that we are in fact detecting the cheating that is happening with reasonable consistency.

I actually just looked at our data a few days ago to see how candidates who listed LLMs or related terms on their resume did on our interview. On average, they did much worse (about half the pass rate, and double the hard-fail rate). I suspect this is a general "corporate BS factor" and not anything about LLMs specifically, but it's certainly relevant.
That's a different case. Turkey (Türkiye) was desperate to join NATO because of USSR. Now that Russia isn't as strong and relationships between the two have improved, and Türkiye has realised that the EU has no intention of ever making it a member, it has less reason to kowtow to US / NATO foreign policies. Once it de-prioritised its foreign policy from US / NATO, it has naturally found more space to have a more independent foreign policy.
Show HN: Quizzer – Retain More from Podcasts
I built Quizzer to solve a problem I’ve struggled with: we consume a ton of great insights from podcasts, but don’t retain or apply them.

The Problem:

1. Podcasts are passive consumption.

- Episodes don’t pause for reflection, and most people don’t take notes.

- Even if you hear something valuable, the episode keeps going, and you forget to act.

2. No natural retrieval mechanism.

- Listeners rarely revisit old episodes.

- Without recall & reflection, even the best ideas fade fast.

3. Application requires intentional effort.

- Many insights are useful only if acted upon, e.g. protocols for health & fitness

The Solution: Quizzer

Quizzer lets you generate short quizzes from podcasts to reinforce key takeaways. Just drop in a link, and it creates questions to test your recall.

- Turn passive listening into active learning.

- Strengthen retention through self-testing.

Would this be useful for you?

I’m testing whether there’s demand for this kind of tool. Would love your thoughts!

Demo video: https://youtu.be/q53HuXprAbM

Link to my MVP: https://quizzer-f900c.web.app/

I'm also open to feedback on other ideas I’ve thought of to solve the problem:

A podcast app that helps track and apply insights through intentional reminders (e.g., “Did you try cold exposure this week?”), quiz recaps generated for each episode that you can take on-demand, a way to easily view the transcript as you are watching the episode & bookmark insights.

Incorporating spaced-repetition into Quizzer through weekly quizzes that fuse insights from multiple podcasts you've listened to in the past week and earlier.
> as it's that much of a productivity boost when used right

Frankly, if an interviewer told me this, I would genuinely wonder why what they're building is such a simple toy product that an LLM can understand it well enough to be productive.
> Out of desperation I asked ChatGPT. It was useless as usual.

This is so real.
People are largely watching YouTube on their TV now instead of on a laptop/desktop. And mobile users are on tiktok.

Personally I find it annoying to watch 15 minute videos on the tv since you’re always having to go back to the remote and find something new.
Should not be too surprising. Russia is mot communist anymore and advocate a more traditional society.
> They might give opt-out people some token offers to appease regulators

It’s not an opt-out situation. As per GDPR requirements, these programs have a specific opt-in prompt for personalized targeting, separate from the one which is for generally collecting and redeeming points as a member, and it’s not pre-chosen by default.

I think one can assume that many people will decline to opt in, especially in a culturally privacy-focused country like modern Germany and since not opting in is far behaviorally common than explicitly opting out, but also that many others will knowingly consent in exchange for the benefits. So I think they would generally want to give decent offers to both categories of people, since the non-consent group is large enough to matter. Of course the personalized ones would be better, otherwise nobody would want to give that consent.

Myself, I’ve consented to some but not all of the personalized targeting and information sharing from the loyalty programs I participate in here, after reading the descriptions of the requested consents in detail and making a conscious choice. In at least one case I converted a no to a yes after thinking about it longer. It’s good to have that transparency and control, and not to have the legalese surreptitiously remove your right to sue the store should that become necessary as is common in the US (forced arbitration is generally illegal here in B2C agreements).

As for the rest of your most recent comment, I wouldn’t know; I didn’t ever live in Europe before the GDPR.
> There is nothing fraudulent about using LLMs.

There is if you’re asked not to.
If the originals are gone, and if the original authoritative, trustworthy data custodian no longer exists, then how will we know what the checksum/hash should be?
If a problem can be “trivially” solved by GPT. The problem is with your interview process, not the tool. It’s wild to me that interviewers still ask candidates for senior positions leetcode type questions. Yet the actual job is for some front end or devops position.

The gap between interview and actual on job duties is very wide at many — delusional - companies.
On principle, what you’re saying has merit. In practice, the market is currently rife with employers submitting job postings with inflated qualifications, for positions that may or may not exist. So there’s bad actors all around and it’s difficult to tell who actually is behaving with integrity.
I don't think it's that blatant. Even R's have limits when Gaetz got rejected. I don't think it's as rank and tow as implied.

But yes, a lot of policy for R's will ba passed. We'll see how much insanity they Will tolerate when it comes to Trump destroying the economy. Rich people kinda need that.
It's not negative that the candidate can solve it without an LLM, but it is positive if the candidate can use the LLM to speed up the solution. The code challenge is timeboxed.

We are providing an API key for LLM inference, as implementing the challenge requires this as well.

And I haven't heard a good answer yet for not using one, ideally the candidate knows how to mitigate the drawbacks of LLMs while benefiting from their utility regardless.
I belive this line of thinking mistakes the result with the process, similar to assuming that the reason companies ask people to reverse a linked list is because there's an unmet market demand for list-reversal algorithms.

An interview has to be hard enough to filter those that are unqualified but also easy enough that the right person can pass with some minor preparation. If an interviewer asked me for the equivalent of production-ready code to add support for custom hardware in the Linux kernel I'd either reply with my freelance hourly rate or I'd end the interview.
Literally explained in the second paragraph there.

You can't have private information which is meant to also be shared widely. It is the distinction between Access and Authorization.
Hey everyone! In the spirit of release early, release often, I wanted to post to Hacker News (for the first time ever!) about an idea of mine. Okay, so it's not a very original idea. It is however a missing gap in the Python ecosystem for learning and introduction to the language.

Check out the Tour of Go if you're not familiar with this concept already. The general idea is an in-browser interactive learning playground. (An in-browser REPL, if you will).

It needs more slides, it needs bugfixes and improvements overall, but the basic concept is here. The sandbox was implemented using code from healeycodes.com and ChatGPT did much of the other initial heavy lifting for me (I am a backend engineer by trade, my front-end skills are extremely rusty.)

The code is here: https://github.com/jadedragon942/tour_of_python/

Disclaimer: it is nothing too fancy.

My long-term lofty goal is to build this and hand it off to python.org if possible/feasible.

Contributors/volunteers/feedback/opinions are of course welcome!
Discussion (154 points, 2 days ago, 30 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42891937
There could be multiple valid strategies too. I’ve seen some creators will put out a video once every few months, but that video will be shown on everyone’s feed and will get millions of views. While mass content posters like gaming channels probably get less exposure or their videos spend less time on the top.
Why should scientists be held to higher account than, say, politicians?
That's fine for Switzerland. And I get the India case.

But why does it have to concern some Finnish online store that also has English and Swedish as options? Do their actual users really care? Because that is the litmus test, not the opinion of someone writing a blog.
> Dogs there NEVER wear muzzle

"Muzzle" in this context is a synonym for "snout," not a muzzle guard like you're thinking of.
Nothing, we don't do technical interviews they are silly.
The threat of article 5 is powerful... It's the only thing that's prevented Russia from rolling through the Baltics.
Yea, exactly.

If a candidate were up front with me and asked if they could use AI, or said they learned an answer from AI and then wanted to discuss it with me, I'd be happy with that. But attempting to hide it and pretend they aren't using it when our interview rules specifically ask you not to do it is just being dishonest, which isn't a characteristic of someone I want to hire.
Isn’t Google Maps blocked in Russia anyway? Crimea is a different story, as many countries recognize it to be in some kind of limbo and treat it as neither Russian nor Ukrainian.

I think Yandex (Russian Google) removed borders completely from their maps. Also because it’s impossible to figure out where the Russian government would like them to be. Might change on a daily basis.

Google maps added the „gulf of America“ to their US version, because anywhere else it’s still the Gulf of Mexico (even in iOS autocorrect, it changed it correctly to uppercase).
> when this civilization collapses people will turn their back on everything it stood for and the idea of individualism and rights will be gone ("my carbon my choice"), the next culture will have a bill of responsibilities.

I agree that Americans don't think enough about their responsibilities. I fully support a bill of responsibilities paired with rights. Several countries have that kind of list already. They're not mutually exclusive.

> Nobody has a 'right' to be on a sports team. Women have been working for years to build the opportunity to have a pro career. Until tests were developed (1970 or so) it was a chronic problem that men would crash women's events in the Olympics to steal gold medals.

Yet women's sports are still second-class, outside of exceptions like tennis. Is it trans people who have caused women's sports to be second-class, or the patriarchy enforced by cisgender men?

FWIW, I think it's reasonable to require that trans women be on HRT for a while before playing professional women's sports. But categorical bans are horribly unjust—making a class of women inherently lesser. So yes, as a kind of woman, trans women ought to have the right to be on women's sports teams.

> J. K. Rowling didn't start out in the place where she ended up.

True. Her brain was cooked by constant exposure to right-wing bigotry on social media, like many others'.

I am a very firm believer that there is no free will. We are entirely the products of our genetics and our environments. Social media creates extraordinarily bad environments.

> 'Virtue' and 'Vice' are a frame that makes all problems impossible to solve and leaves people talking past each other.

Well, no, it just makes it clear that (a) morality is objective and (b) societies are better when people are more virtuous. The solution is to not make people talk to or past each other, the solution is to effect environmental changes such that people are less exposed to vice and more exposed to virtue.
For yourself or others?
How could a single dog attack 50 times a week including children? A single attack of a child (bites drawing blood) is usually enough to get the dog put down.

Or are you defining an attack as barking and snarling without an actual bite?
You're conflating outright fraud with a difference of scientific opinion?
"the problem with rationalism is that you're a fucking idiot" never fails
Exactly this was tried by the likes of James Oliver and journalists/comedians of that caliber running ads and gathering data from politicians in Washington.

It was some years ago and resulted in nothing
Did you not see Ollama?
I honestly cannot tell if you're being serious or sarcastic.
If they're going backwards, and a conservative is someone who wants things to stay the same, then they are not conservatives.
As a Surinamese Dutch person, I fail to see any issues with this approach. ;)
"I represented some things with wrong symbols and it didn't work well, therefore the idea of using symbols to represent these things is wrong"
Can’t you just run ollama and provide it a localhost endpoint? I dont think its within scope to reproduce the whole local LLM stack when anyone wanting to do this today can easily use existing better tools to solve that part of it.
The browser or the host system usually informs you about the language. Apple and Google solved the rest by using geofence data. If you have a menu/screen to select the language, you can write as much as you want and have overflow for the long list. Order them by current language based on collation, and done. People want "language" to be too accessible when it doesn't need to be. Also, see amazon.
>I haven’t heard a good answer for not using one

Again, what would be a good answer? Or are you just saying there isn’t one?
Whether they believe in God doesn't have to be part of the equation though. You can believe in God and also in trans rights and science and everything.
The article suggests to put them into a config file, and considers it hardcoding. That’s how I understood it at least.
This conversation feels bizarrely tone deaf. The skill of being able to recall specific knowledge on demand is going away.

How LLMs will evaluate a skill they are making obsolete is a question I am not sure I understand.
I don't know, babies hear a lot of widely generic topics from multiple people before learning to speak.

I would rather put it that humans can additionally specialize much more, but we usually have a pretty okay generic understanding/model of a thing we consider as 'known'. I would even wager that being generic enough (ergo, has been sufficiently abstracted) is possibly the most important "feature" human's have? (In the context of learning)
I'm no expert, but I suspect it is a longer process to remove someone from a tenured professor position, than to remove them as President. We don't know that they won't eventually happen.
that is literally how icons work yes
I think you'd find other physical engineering jobs are very similar at scale.

Most poeple out there building new rail are building them in situations similar to how other people have already built rail: apply known best practices given the intricacies of the current situation. Very few people are doing things like "building the worlds first rail line across a floating bridge" (Seattle I-405).

Even something like DeepSeek in China, wasn't necessarily so much about big AI breakthroughs as it was low level optimization of existing hardware. At the end of the day, even big achievements are built on piles and piles of what seems like drudgery, I guess it's just about feeling like that drudgery is contributing to something great.
Sadly this stems from a structural problem in biology and medicine, and is far from exclusive to the field of Alzheimer's. Some reforms are urgent, otherwise progress is going to be incredibly slow. The same pattern is repeated again and again. Someone publishes something that looks novel, but is either an exaggeration or a downright lie.

This person begins to attract funding, grant reviews and article reviews. Funding is used to expand beyond reasonable size and co-author as many articles as possible. Reviews mean this person now has the power to block funding and/or publication of competing hypotheses. The wheel spins faster and faster. And then, we know what the outcome is.

The solution is to make sure reviews are truly independent plus limitations on funding, group size and competing interests. I think that tenured researchers that receive public funding should have no stock options nor receive "consulting" fees from private companies. If they want to collaborate with industry, that's absolutely fine, but it should be done pro bono.

Furthermore, if you are a professor who publishes 2 articles per week and is simultaneously "supervising" 15 postdocs and 20 PhD students at 2 different institutions then, except in very few cases, you are no longer a professor but a rent seeker that has no clue what is going on. You just have a very well oiled machine to stamp your name into as many articles as possible.
Or because they were tricked. eg. LinkedIn’s “Connect with your contacts” onboarding step which sounds like it’ll check your contacts against existing LinkedIn users but actually spam invites anyone on your contact list that doesn’t have an account.
Someday maybe!

Quantum thermal diodes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42537703

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38861468 :

> Laser cooling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_cooling

> Cooling with LEDs in reverse: https://issuu.com/designinglighting/docs/dec_2022/s/17923182 :

> "Near-field photonic cooling through control of the chemical potential of photons" (2019) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-0918-8
> So this feels like a hostile takeover of the machinery of governments by the richest man in the world.

... and there's nothing anyone can do about it. Checks and balances have been neutralized.
Minimal on your eyes, and on how much the phone pushes you to use it, not on how much data gets sent to Google, unfortunately…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty I was referring to military application

Existing system https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pYKDNSYw1NQ
With AI making traditional coding problems trivial, tech interviews are shifting toward practical, real-world challenges, system design, and debugging exercises rather than pure algorithm puzzles. Some companies are revisiting in-person whiteboarding to assess thought processes, while others embrace AI, evaluating how candidates integrate it into their workflow. There's also a greater focus on explaining decisions, trade-offs, and collaboration. Instead of banning AI, many employers now test how effectively candidates use it while ensuring they have foundational skills. The trend favors assessing problem-solving in real work scenarios rather than just coding ability under artificial constraints.
It's the same with bears. Once they realize humans are easy prey, they predate on them over and over... It's why bears are typically killed if they ever actually attack, even if the attack doesn't result in a fatality.
India is definitely a difficult one. I'm using it to represent Hindi, and that's the one that makes me the most uncomfortable, because there are so many languages. I think the intent is reasonably clear, but if all countries were that ambigious, I'd avoid flags.

Nuenki supports European Spanish (though now you mention it, I ought to make that clearer). If it were American Spanish, I'd probably use Mexico. I handle Portuguese that way.

Switzerland is easy, because I have no need to include their flag. German is covered by Germany (yes, I know of Austria), French by France, etc.

And I'm highly unlikely to add Romansh, if only because it'd be very difficult to translate with good quality. I would if I could though, I find it fascinating. For a flag, I'd find an online Romansh community and ask what flag people would find most respectful + representative, or if people would prefer I forgo it.

You argue that it's misleading. I see where you're coming from. It isn't perfectly explicit and unambiguous. However, I don't think it's misleading in practice.

Nobody looks at a Spanish flag and thinks it's denoting Catalan - I'd probably use a regional flag there - nor do people look at a Union Jack or an American flag and go "no idea what that's for". When looking to see if Nuenki supports Finnish, nobody looks for the Swedish flag. They look for the Finnish flag.

People know what the stereotypical flags are, particularly when they're learning that language.

So imo it's about absolute precision vs UX, and the UX of reading through a textual list of languages is awful. It's a complete pain to scan through without any kind of visual indicator. That's why, in practice, everyone uses flags.

I didn't previously use flags so widely. Adding them everywhere (e.g. the dropdowns on the demo) was a result of feedback from people who felt it would make it nicer to use. Also, they're generally alongside the full name (aside from the aforementioned cloud), to clear up any ambiguity.
I also don’t understand why ‘oligarch’ is not applied to the other side

Because typically, very rich Americans (who don't also happen to be politicians or public figures of some sort) keep at least a veneer of separation from the government and the levers of executive power. In exchange, they're politely just called 'billionaires'. When that convention changes, the conventional naming changes too, to the naming used for very rich people who are also visibly enmeshed in the operation of the state.

When Mark Cuban heads up the Federal Urgent Reconstruction & Reconciliation Initiative (FURRI) in 2029, we can all call him an oligarch as well.
From the photos, that is a sad little protest, to be honest.