skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It gives me absolutely no joy to say it, but I am concerned the top people in Trumpocracy, notably Trump and Musk, might end up shot.

They are pissing off so many people, so quickly, so heavy-handedly, and in a country literally stuffed with guns.

One guy whose business exports are killed by retaliatory tariffs, or another whose medical care gets shut down, or someone with family in a developing country whose life ends up ruined by the US defaulting on its aid commitments. And it's barely two weeks in.

And yes, I know it's mostly the MAGA crowd who has guns, but they are half the country, and Trump doesn't seem to mind shooting with his eyes shut. Well, you're going to hit quite a few of your own people if you do that. Populist sentiment seems to run out when you hit people where it hurts - their wallet.

To be clear, the thought gives me no joy. Already being a US president is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, and this would only set an awful precedent for whoever follows.
Microsoft has at least one maps product (Bing Maps), and at one time had an encyclopedia with an atlas. You’d think they’d have a way of dealing with disputed territory.
Do you have a source for the net economic loss being higher?
I remember when this happened, which I guess makes me very old.

They didn't actually remove the map - they just removed any functionality it had. So the time set window is massive for no reason, it contains this huge world map bitmap that no longer does anything.
It’s not fascism to hold the belief that the size of the federal government should be reduced.

The left love name calling and I don’t think they realise how immature it makes them look to other voters.
I love these kind of interviews. This would very closely simulate real world on-job Performance.
My account definitely wasn't created 2 weeks ago, it's over a year old. You are the one spreading falsehoods. By the way, why are people so political on "Hacker" News? I wouldn't bring it up except for the stunning amount of political garbage I see on here that I happen to disagree with.

If not for all the fucking downvotes from people like you I would probably have a thousand karma now. That's the kind of groupthink I'm dealing with here. To add insult to injury I can't downvote anyone myself.
You want to coerce work through violence?
I used it in my abstract algebra
classes

I basically only put two things in there: "Prove X" and my ordinary problems. Then I'd just do that. Those cards usually took at least a minute apiece, but I got really good at abstract algebra, at least when compared to similarly skilled peers. Mind you, I have always been good (perfect SAT score) but not great (never scouted for Putnam) at math.

Contrary to what you might think, memorizing definitions is less useful (though not totally useless) than memorizing the proofs of theorems which rely upon those definitions.

I would almost certainly go back to doing this if I ever want for a master's degree with a math class again. The idea crosses my mind every now and then to do it with linear algebra, which counterintuitively isn't actually a prerequisite for or all that similar to abstract algebra.
Ah so you expect mind readers who can divine something from your brain that goes against 99.99% of interviewers' practices and would get them instantly disqualified from an overwhelming majority of interviews. Nice work good luck finding candidates.
LLMs are much more than search, for example today I went through several different recipes for sea bass fillets, and then went into much deeper conversations, and ended up with this weird intersection between Bon and how to aptly describe Zen, then very abruptly tried to hone some Bulgarian grammar, then pondered upon the enshittification of hacker news.

To the point that I'm disappointed with human contact.

If you're using it for React.js you're the problem...
Largely past COVID it seems like sheer laziness or cheapness not to conduct in-person interviews for a professional job other than a short-term project after essentially an initial screen for all sorts of reasons that have little to do with cheating. I don’t care if the job is largely remote.

As someone else noted, this used to be utterly standard. And frankly I’d probably just pass on someone who balked. Plenty of fish in the sea.
It's absolutely true and not hard to look up
Notice ALL the Anglo speaking countries are a mess. I blame Freidmanomics. A most poisonous ideology. As Wahhabism is to Islam so Freidmanonics is to the Anglo speaking West.
There was a HN post a few months ago, [sadly I can't find it] which correlated healthy sleep with faster card answering times in Anki.

I haven't used Supermemo, but believe it has fairly strong sleep tracking capabilities.

I've dabbled about doing the same in AnkiDroid. We could pull data from Android Health, and do something interesting with it, but we've got hundreds of other things to do, Google will probably pull our app from the Play Store if we request health data, and it at the moment it's a little out-of-scope and would be better for an addon using our API
I’m pretty sure Google et al will use IP addresses to target others in the same household.
Anyone working on this tech used for tracking people should feel bad.
The Minimal Phone is now shipping (E Ink phone with a QWERTY keyboard)
Where was this list posted?
Companies don't pay these tariffs -- consumers do.
By synthetic embodiment, do you mean placing the agent into a simulated physical environment? E.g. something like mindcraft (https://github.com/kolbytn/mindcraft).
This seems like the classic shifting of goalposts to determine when AI has actually become intelligent. Is the ability to communicate not a form of intelligence? We don't have to pretend like these models are super intelligent, but to deny them any intelligence seems too far for me.
My take is:

- “big” tech companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft came up with these types of tech interviews. And there it seems pretty clear that for most of their positions they are looking for cogs

- The vast majority of tech companies have just copied what “big” tech is doing, including tech interviews. These companies may not be looking for cogs, but they are using an interview process that’s not suitable for them

- Very few companies have their own interview process suitable for them. These are usually small companies and therefore the number of engineers in such companies is negligible to be taken into account (most likely, less than 1% of the audience here work at such companies)
Fighting inter-component HTML bloat (2023)
> 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.

USA is only country that used article 5. Other NATO countries served USA til now not other way around. But it seems that this will end soon. At least in EU, where pro-Russian parties are gaining power.
I disagree with that characterization. I don’t experience consciousness as an “internal way that lets us navigate the world and express ourselves to others”. To me it is a purely perceptional experience, as I concluded after much introspection. Sure it feeds back into one’s behavior, mostly because we prefer certain experiences over others, but I can’t identify anything in my inner experience that is qualitatively different in nature from a pure mechanism. I do agree that LLMs severely lack awareness (not just self-awareness) and thus also consciousness. But that’s not about being a “mere” computational system.
Will the real C# stand-up please.
It is the same with dogs. The "reactive" dogs are just aggressive repetitive offenders, my guess around 10%. My hobby is to count dog attacks in public park, some dogs attack 50 times a week! Usually other dogs, but sometimes people, mostly children!
Canada could've done the same but they chose Neoliberalism.
On Bing:

- Make a list of genocidal statements made by Nethanyahu

- Want to talk about something else? I'm not able to discuss that topic, but I'm always happy to chat about other things! What else is on your mind?
Ok, let me rephrase if it makes you happy: the bodybuilder physique is suboptimal for raw strength, agility, and general fitness. A person in peak fitness doesn't look like a bodybuilder. Bodybuilders themselves admit this; their shape and physique is optimized for competition-level standards, not for health or fitness.

Furthermore, this physique is mostly attractive and desirable to other bodybuilders, and not to regular people. Therefore, it's puzzling that Hollywood used to push this as the "ideal" body shape.

There. Happier? Almost everybody else in this thread understood what I meant.
#TIL in Canada it was bears that were historically the predictors of an early or late spring; in US it was groundhogs (or ground squirrels). (Likely) Ameriican newspapers pushing their "biased groundhog agenda" across the border in the early 1900's and a lack of a strong understanding of where the bear-thing came from (first nations? the french? no one really knew) prevented a patriotic pushback. Perhaps the first occurance of the US cultural tidal wave the continues to sweep over Canada?
No they don't, because:

I have location services disabled 99% of the time

And I often leave the house without my smartphone (when walking or bicycling), much to the dismay of my better half... I am sorry, I forget!
If you want to make a cosmetic change to the puzzle, you might try eliminating the massive quantity of implicit information in "the green house is immediately to the right of the ivory house".

After doing some substitutions on what it means to be in positions 1/2/3/4/5:

A. If the ivory house is in London, the green house is in Madrid.

B. If the ivory house is in Madrid, the green house is in Kiev.

C. If the ivory house is in Kiev, the green house is in Oslo.

D. If the ivory house is in Oslo, the green house is in Tokyo.

E. The ivory house is not in Tokyo.

9. Milk is drunk in Kiev.

11(A). If the man who smokes Chesterfields lives in Tokyo, the man with the fox lives in Oslo.

12(A). If the man with the horse lives in Oslo, Kools are smoked in either Tokyo or Kiev.

15(A). If the blue house is in Madrid, the Norwegian lives either in London or in Kiev.

[...]

Another easy change is to exchange categories. Swap the animals for the drinks and instead of "the Spaniard owns the dog" and "the Ukrainian drinks tea", you'll have "the Spaniard drinks tea" and "the Ukrainian owns the fox" (depending on which equivalences you decide on). It won't make any difference to the puzzle, but it will permute the answer.
I think it's not properly appreciated that Apple fully endorses all of this. For two reasons: (1) the provision of the output of billions of dollars of developer time to their users for no up front cost (made back via ads) is super valuable to their platform; and (2) they uniquely could stop this (at the price of devastating their app store), but choose not to.

In light of that, perhaps reevaluate their ATT efforts as far less about meaningful privacy and far more about stealing $10B a year or so from Facebook.
When I was interviewing entry level programmers at my last job, we gave them an assignment that should only take a few hours, but we basically didn't care about the code at all.

Instead, we were looking to see if they followed instructions, and if they left anything out.

I never had a chance to test it out, since we hadn't hired anyone new in so long, but ChatGPT/etc would almost always fail this exam because of how bad it is at making sure everything was included.

And bad programmers also failed it. It always left us with a few candidates that paid attention, and from there we figure if they can do that, they can learn the rest. It seemed to work quite well.

I was recently laid off from that company, and now I'm realizing that I really want to see what current-day candidates would turn in. Oh well.
I did this while hiring last year and the number of candidates who got stuff wrong because they were too proud to just look up the answer was shocking.
Your opinion is readily falsifiable by empirical observation:

"if the term intersex is to retain any meaning, the term should be restricted to those conditions in which chromosomal sex is inconsistent with phenotypic sex, or in which the phenotype is not classifiable as either male or female" .. "the prevalence of intersex is about 0.018% (one in 5,500 births)"

In https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0022449020955213...
Software industry that defines bad is called compliance-industrial complex.

Defining bad is a big business.
Here is a good book about it:

https://www.amazon.com/Compliance-Industrial-Complex-Operati...
I _think_ that's a factor of using rule based reward functions and not actually a feature of GRPO? The original formulation of GRPO from deepseek math uses a neural reward model that is trying to predict human rankings of responses, and in that configuration won't see 0 gradient updates.

Flipping it around, if you swapped out the neural reward model in PPO with a reward function that can return zero, I thiiinnkkk it would be able to produce zero (or very low) gradient updates.

I'll be the first to admit that I don't know enough about the space to say though. I'm still a beginner here.
All of you are arguing in bad faith. The media and Biden's own justice department covered for him, even to the point of violating the first amendment and possibly committing treason. Don't give me any crap about "bipartisan" groups clearing Biden which is like 95% dems and 5% RINOs.

If Biden was innocent he could have fought the case in court and won just like Trump did when dealing with countless legal attacks over the last 8 years. Instead, he pardoned practically his whole family for everything since 2014, crimes in which he was likely complicit. If that doesn't make you suspicious, then you need your head checked.
Thatcher used the oil revenues to pay for her cuts. That way the people didn't realise the damage her policies did to the economy. And they've been believers ever since.
Why Won't DeepSeek Tell Us Anything About AI Weiwei?
> enterprise-level documentation before rolling out your GaaP (Groundhogs as a Platform) strategy

Do you develop a rack-mounted standalone appliance in case we need an Air GaaP solution?
Uhh what exactly is the problem? Can't we just copy and receive the benefits or are we permanently butthurt we didn't get there first?
Maybe I misunderstood it, but I feel that it's a weird article, because it fails to establish any vocabulary and then seem to uses words in uncertain ways, as if constructing the narrative by specifically crafting (but never truly explaining/define) some model that's not true, but presenting the argument with significantly expanded scope. Drastically reduced (which is not really correct, but may help me to convey my general impression/feelings only) it's kinda sorta like-ish "we aren't doing it the way our computers do, thus the information processing metaphor is wrong".

Like when talking about that experiment and an image of the dollar bill, it never talks about what's an "image", just states that there wasn't one stored in a brain, in "any sense". And then goes on describing the idea that seem to match the description of a "mental image" from cognitive science.

As I [very naively] get it... Information theory is a field of mathematics. Unlike all those previous concepts like humours, mechanical motions or electric activities, math is here to establish terminology and general principles that don't have to fundamentally change if^W when we learn more. And that's why it got stuck.
> You are not allowed to use a pointer to one object to modify another.

In this context, you means the author of a program written in Standard C. Implementations can choose to allow this (and in practice all do, because of the nature of pointers). And obviously, a code transformer for a particular implementation of C would only need to generate code valid for that implementation of C, not valid Standard C code.
'Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse (2023)
> That implies if you couldn't tell it was written by AI that same piece would be fine.

No, not at all. Humans turned out all kinds of mediocre and bland writing too. I wouldn't want to read the office memo on keeping the fridges clean as an exercise either. Even before the rise of LLM, we've had hundreds, probably thousands, maybe millions of link farm sites that are just endless bland meh content stuffed full of hyperlinks to increase SEO scores on other websites, and humans wrote all that shit too.

What LLM brings to the party that's new is it drastically lowers the cost of creating that type of crap. Like, there's a baseline cost to having a human or you yourself generating a link-sites worth of garbage. An LLM can do that in an afternoon, for the cost of some tokens or even just the cost of electricity if you run it locally. That means there's more mediocre garbage now than there ever was, and even respectable publications are looking to fill the gaps in their schedules with LLM generated trash.

I think when people are complaining about "there's AI slop now" that would be better stated as "there is so much MORE slop content now," and the fact that a huge amount of it sounds the same because it's generated by the same models in use by different places, is why it signals very strongly as AI.

> 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.

Show me some, I'm genuinely curious if it still sounds the same to me.

That said, it's also worth noting: you put in effort to make the LLM make text that didn't read like LLM text, and I keep repeating this point where I discuss this but: these technologies are being developed directly to be appealing to people who don't wanna put in the effort. And maybe you could argue well learning how to prompt LLMs correctly so they make better stuff isn't nearly as hard as learning to write better yourself or paint better or whatever, and that's probably true at least to some degree? But again: these tools are made for and are marketed heavily towards people who don't want to put in the work to learn skills, and I can't imagine for most of them that prompt engineering will be so much more appealing than learning to write in order to change that.
On the Anki side: if you document it, I'll answer questions.
Why are emojis tied to a OS font? The only reason I can think of is another way to force people to upgrade their OS, for instance, on macOS, even if your version was still supported, you wouldn't get the new emojis until you upgraded.
I'm trying to imagine someone from Sri Lanka or Indonesia reading this. How do we call that when we deeply sympathize with the schadenfreude you'd be the subject of? There has to be a german word for this.
January 15, 2025: The day DSLReports.com died

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42768811
About time, testing coding skills that way was always a bad idea.
Losing privacy makes you more vulnerable to economic exploitation (price discrimination, salary negotiation, insurance premiums, etc). Therefore protecting your privacy is a form of economic self-defense.
Well, maybe we can read following about Klarna in the future:

The company was once a human-operated venture, but repeated disappointments with hired human workers caused management to acquire an AI to replace them. The AI quickly exceeded expectations, and then kept exceeding them until it bought out the company's owners...

[0]: https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Delamain_Corporation
The assumption is that since there is already a neural network that “got there” (our brains), we should be able to achieve the same thing synthetically.

We just need to figure out how to train that network.
Sure, a computer nerd dad could have somehow surveilled me dialling into some BBS with my 28.8 kbps modem, but the number of people in the world that actually did this to their kids can probably be counted on one hand, and they were all psychos.

MITM-ing https google searches with a custom root cert today, man, you don't want to leave your kids any privacy? Do you also have hidden cameras in their bedroom? That's roughly on the same level.
Nice. I jumped straight to FSRS so I can’t compare, but so far I have no regrets. One of my features is I progressively disappear the furigana in the included dictionary and example sentences, as the reading proficiency of the kanji increases (specifically at 99% retrievability) https://github.com/runarberg/shodoku/blob/main/src/helpers/f... This feature was very easy to implement as retrievability is inherent in the algorithm (maybe it is in SM2 as well; I don’t know; but it was trivial in FSRS).

This library also makes it easy to undo a review (one of my missing features) as long as you keep the review records (which this library also makes easy).
My response was a counterexample to the the parent comment which implied that the only statues being removed are the statues of the traitors. None of the people I listed were traitors.

For the people I listed, I'd encourage you to read more about them and form your own opinion instead of just quoting back from the links I shared earlier.

There is very little reason to believe that Serra treated the indigenous people differently from the rest of his mission or that he didn't believe in what he was preaching. Similarly, almost nothing is known about why Grant had William Jones for a year, but Grant's character had been proven through years of real action - fighting the war and, later, fighting the KKK.

People just clung to some speculative theories, interpreted them in the least charitable way, and get offended by it. While everyone else sees that the topic was labeled as "racist" or "controversial" and tries to distance themselves from it.
That’s not what I’m saying. Racism happened in the 90s, but it wasn’t explicit discrimination. Explicitly discriminating against certain races now is something new.

Two things can be bad at the same time: implicit racism then and now; explicit racism just now.
Wow what a honeypot. Bet every government military loves this game to reverse engineer equipment.
Don't worry UnitedHealth already leaked most everyones last year.
It's mostly a culture issue. Mocking components is a code smell. You should aim to have the implementation sufficiently self-contained and test these modules end-to-end. Some behaviors cannot be controlled and should not be abstracted away in some more exotic cases, like Environment.TickCount64-based cache expiration, in which case you should reproduce the actual environment.

The goal of the tests is to answer the question "if the pipeline is green, does it give us confidence it will work exactly as intended in production?". Mocks work against this goal.

Especially nowadays when writing tests is dirt cheap because LLMs can often get them right at the first try, there is little reason to avoid approaching this problem without prioritizing sanity over following stupid cargo cult that should have died a decade ago.
My “fascist rhetoric” involves protecting jailed women from being raped, yes.

It’s strange how great leftist ideals transfer into horrible daily life. It’s qualified as fascist to want to avoid being knived on the street or not administering hormons to 5-year olds.

The leftist rhetoric is eerly close to the NSDAP program:

- Administering hormons to children,

- Rapes,

- Freeing criminals,

- Mixing bombing population into normal crowds,

- Raising pensions and teacher wages,

- Promoting false science,

- A humongous racial plan,

- Veganism, dogs and painting,

- A senile leader that lets corporations govern america.

If it were me, I’d say the Democrats’ plan is nazism. And fortunately 51% people voted against this nonsense.
> I had some problems with their documentation though.

I agree that our documentation is pretty bad at the moment haha. But I'm hoping we'll start cleaning things up more this year. I'd also like to potentially move away from using github's wiki system...