skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the game runs with admin privileges for the sake of anti-cheat

"sake of anti-cheat" should be taken lightly here. There is a reason why all the other sane anti-cheats have at least two applications, the anti cheat service which often runs as admin, and the game, which does not. Running the game as admin is quite frankly inexcusable.

The service often does the network comms and communicates to a kernel-mode driver and/or to the application via IPC or similar. Having defined barriers of separation are good things.

In any case, this POC doesn't have huge implications necessarily for most people, but maybe in SEA or China where LAN cafes are more prevalent, it could be a larger concern.
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>What's special about AI?

VC firms have brainwashed people into thinking LLMs are "I" when really, they are XOR'ing GIGO machines.

Because executives, everywhere it seems, are gullible enough to be tricked into believing that A(sigh)I isn't a colossal waste of money and electricity, they are throwing it at every problem, everywhere.

This means that a fucking stupid framework of frameworks designed to turn electricity into heat via compute is being inserted into every single aspect of commerce, banking, law enforcement, warfare, business decision making, and yes, hiring.

The difference between scraping a resume for keyworks and having an LLM evaluate it is that you can look at the list of keywords and understand what it is happening.

A list of keywords is comprehensible and reproducible. You can subpoena a list of keywords. You can modify and control a list of keywords. You can legislate the requirement or forbidding of keyword criteria.

An LLM is just a tunnel of sewage that pours shit out the other end, a black box, a mystery.

But A(sigh)I excels at letting people be lazy and generating an endless stream of dreck designed to addict the gullible so it is going to take over the world.

At least the EU is trying to slow it.
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> I don't think I'm at a place where I'm referring to comics by their number.

not with that attitude! 927 comes up often enough, and it's memorable because 3^2*100 + 3^3 , or Yoda's age - 900 + the 27 club of musicians who killed themselves so start there...
the last three entries are great and need to be drilled into folks head. too much of CS training (and leet-code driven interviewing) encourages people to get clever. but reading somebody elses clever code sucks.

write code that's meant to be easily read and understood. that's not just about algorithms and code comments -- variables/functions named descriptively, formatting is consistent, things don't get too nested, design things to be modular in a way that lets you ignore irrelevant sources of complexity, etc
> What's the alternative? A customer service job where you can be rude?

A customer service job where you can be merely polite and professional without also having to be artificially cheerful and enthusiastic. Or, if you must put on a show, at least be paid appropriately for the extra work you're doing.
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Tried to google for this and wasn't able to figure out what you're referencing. Can you say more?
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It's not "extending" anything, that's the original definition of emotional labor. It's been extended to refer to around-the-house maintenance

> What's the alternative? A customer service job where you can be rude?

There is a lot of room between "faked niceness" and "rudeness". Nothing bad would happen if employees were allowed to behave neutrally towards customers.
Two wrongs don't make a right. A news source that endorses a political candidate is difficult to trust, and plenty of them don't.
I mean, the article is saying that planning a night out isn't "emotional labor", so you agree.

They are saying it's kinwork
The post is about Deep Research which I don't believe is an API feature.
Some form of this is quite common. My town's water treatment plant uses fish. They have all of their automatic monitoring things, but they also have a school of fish in the water coming out of the last stage of the plant, just before releasing it. They keep an eye on the fish. If they die, they know there's a problem and shut things down.

On a tour, I asked the obvious question: isn't that a little late? By the time the fish are dead, haven't you released a large quantity of hazardous water? The response was basically a shrug and "it's better than nothing".

I think I like the Polish approach better.
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> I'm a bit confused about the "don't trust Apple" sentiment here.

Let me help you out; replace "Apple" with "Microsoft" and it will make a lot of sense suddenly.

The Open Source community has heard all this before. We've seen Sun Microsystems "generously" publish their Java spec to the public, we've seen Microsoft "give" their community C#. In the end, it's always more trouble than it's worth to cooperate with these language stewards and someone (either the business or community) ends up getting burned. I don't think many developers look at Swift with optimism that it won't end in the same Dotnet/Mono nightmare we've seen in the past.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink. Apple has invested heavily in a language that, like C#, has a bunch of incredible features. Unfortunately they have yet to invest in the developer relations requisite for making such a language popular. Lord only knows that I'm not wasting my time to do Apple's work for them just to get a cross-platform app to compile with upstream LLVM and Clang. I could use any other language - nobody is going to commit to an ecosystem that treats them as a second-class citizen.
My hot take is that these "reasoning" models (o3/R1, et. al.) are just silly stop-gap tricks. Any kind of agentic system built on foundational models is more than capable of outputting equal (or higher quality with tool usage) results. They are just shipping a highly generic version of that under the hood, and you're better off just custom tailoring an agentic process for your specific workflow rather than relying on theirs. There's a good reason Anthropic hasn't bothered coming out with one. I suspect these types of models will become a dead end as the foundational ones advance and agentic patterns become commonplace.
About 18 months ago, I interviewed with a YC startup and the first round was actually a code review. It included an API which included some SQL commands as well as a SQL schema. I pointed out missing validations, missing error handling, lack of indices, alternate data types, possible XSS vectors, etc.

It was a really great format and I think one that creates better separation between good candidates and great candidates because it is more open-ended and collaborative. One of my favorite technical interviews I've engaged in.

I think that now, with AI coding assistants becoming even more integral than those early days 18 months ago, this approach is more relevant than ever since it gives insight into how efficiently a candidate can quickly review AI generated code for correctness, defects, performance issues, and other gaps in quality.

I liked this format so much that I ended up creating a small open-source tool for it to make it easier to manage this process: https://coderev.app (https://github.com/CharlieDigital/coderev)

(The interviewer had to create a private GH repo and the repo itself didn't support commenting inline; I took my notes in a text file and reviewed it interactively with the interviewer).
Looks like you are also hiring a distributed systems engineer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42920292

From that listing "Sync Speed: Customers want to sync a lot of data to important destinations like Facebook and Snapchat, which requires us to analyze every part of our syncing process and find where we can optimize to sync data more quickly"

I'm curious about this. What workflow requires syncing high volumes of data from a CDW to Facebook & Snapchat at low latency? It's my understanding that businesses mostly use those platforms for advertising. I'm struggling to think of a use case where you want to adjust your advertising with low latency and lots of data? I could understand feeding lots of data from your CDW into a ML model that updates your ads through the FB Ads API but I can't see why

1. it needs to go straight from CDW to FB ?

2. it needs to be a lot of data?

3. it needs to be fast?

Perhaps there is some other use-case besides adjusting ads.

4. Also why do you use the word "syncing" rather than "send"? I tend to think of syncing involving multiple programs that can edit data (e.g. Google Docs, distributed consensus etc.). Are Facebook and Snapchat actually updating the data you send and you have to sync the other direction? Or is just one-way?
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My only memory of Digital Fortress is that my mom sold our copy of it on eBay when I was midway through reading it and that still ever-so-slightly irks me almost two decades later.
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> What's the alternative? A customer service job where you can be rude?

Clearly you haven't been to some cities in the northeast US :).
Just because you're crazy doesn't mean you're wrong.
Or I have a dog.
“Private browsing” is just private mostly in the sense of your local device, as in, your browsing history and cookies aren’t saved to disk. That still has some use as cookies are more direct tracking than fingerprinting (e.g., keeping you logged in, or a Google analytics script seeing that you’re a logged in Google user with a real identity provided to Google).

“Ask app not to track” turns off Apple’s own device identifier, but doesn’t stop other types of identifiers from existing, as the article described by the way it showed how ad networks make their own device identifiers collected by various apps.
Fairness isn't really relevant to the analysis in the article. I agree with jeffbee.
You set up a false equivalence to judge others more harshly than yourself. All your examples about "controlling emotions in the workplace" are things to avoid doing. The article is talking about actions that must be performed.
This isn't about support, this is about trusting the download.

If I get Ubuntu or Debian or download the mainline kernel, I'm trusting specific entities. That's very different from a vague idea that it's open source and hopefully someone checked if this particular random guy on github is putting out legitimate builds.
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Utility-scale batteries are vulnerable to fire
Sounds schizophrenic at this stage.
Power generation is fine. It's transmission that's the problem
You and the OP talk a lot of smack about logprobs but we show that using them in even the simple case of dynamic truncation of your cutoff point (min_p sampler vs static top_p/top_k) leads to extreme performance improvements (especially on small models) and unlocks very high temperature sampling (for more creativity/less slop/better synthetic data-gen): https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01082 [1].

Indeed, ultra high temperature sampling in its own right should be studied. I can do top_k = 2 and temperature = system.maxint and get decent results which are extraordinarily creative (with increasing probability of token related spelling issues as top_k goes up).

I'm convinced that the models logprobs hold so much bloody value and knowledge that I unironically do not care about how many "theoretical guarantees" it lacks or about it's non-correspondence to our usage of language.

[1]: Btw, this paper is now ICLR 2025 accepted and likely going to get an oral/honorable mention since we are ranked #18 out of all submissions by scores and have extremely favorable meta-review. Peer review seems to agree with our claims of extreme performance improvements.
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Thanks!

Haven't measured performance at all. However when I decided on the approach I looked at the performance benchmarks from tun2socks, which uses the same gVisor code that httptap uses, and it seems that pretty great performance is possible with that code. Still need to do the work of actually achieving comparable performance.

Payloads and headers can be dumped with --body and --header respectively. There is an example in the readme of doing this (just search for --body) and I'll work more on documenting this in the coming days.
To be honest: This sounds like just another of the many many other yoga/spiritual cults that currently exist all over the western world.

EDIT: typos and slight wording changes
The same can be said of any bureaucracy's function. It isn't your fault that you made an abhorrently stupid decision, you were just following the directive. Not to say it isn't a problem, but that it isn't new.
I have a cousin who is paranoid schizophrenic. He makes all kinds of wild claims about all sorts of things: family abuse, screwed over by employers/landlords, beaten up by the police for no reason, the people living in the crawl space are poisoning him, etc, etc... Many of them are provably false e.g. those family members didn't live there at the time of the allegation, the body cam clearly shows him charging the police and then trying to grab their guns while they try to wrestle him into handcuffs, nobody in the crawl space, etc. The problem is that it'd take a full time detective to track down all his various claims. It's very sad that as a vulnerable person he probably is sometimes taken advantage of by people, but at the same time he's never been compliant with medicine and therapy for more than a couple months at a time, despite extensive support. It's kind of a no win situation.
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> Literally _everything_ related to performance is queueing

Well, _scaling_ is queuing. But other things: cache hit rates, data packing efficiency, efficient use of hardware intrinsics, etc, don't relate to queuing.
> or assert that he had tried to warn the F.B.I. in advance of the Sept. 11 attacks

That’s a very long shot but I now want someone to verify this claim too, in case he was also telling the truth.
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