skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like a lot of people miss the forest for the trees when pursuing knowledge, that is, they see learning as a means for achieving something else. The knowledge they acquire must serve them is some way, usually the true final goal seems to be either money or feeding the ego. Spent hours learning a complex web technology? Well, it's usually done to get a well paying job or to feel that you're a good programmer, smart enough to tackle complex challenges.

Not that these two things are necessarily bad, we all need money to live and is nice to have confidence in one's ability, especially when that confidence is backed up by actual ability. The problem arises when we reduce learning to only its byproducts, when it's much more than that.

Learning, the process of understanding the world and, through that, of oneself, is a beautiful and rewarding pursuit on its own. What we get from it's useful, but it shouldn't be the ultimate reason we pursue it. It can be a motivator, many times I have learned things due to external reasons (for school or work), but its not the ultimate reason for my learning, it was simply a catalyst for something that I already had a deep desire for. Not the thing itself, the object of learning, but for the actual process of understanding it. It's akin to child's play. Children can acquire abilities while playing which can then be applied in other areas of their life to gain things. But that is not their ultimate reason for it, they play because is fun. I learn, and believe will all should learn, because is fun.

And to the poster's other reason for sadness, i.e that LLMs are getting smarter, remember that these robots don't learn by any means, unless one considers learning consuming information only to spit it back out partly digested. Learning is much more that, it requires life and, perhaps, even soul. A machine can't feel its soul soar upon realizing the limitless bounds of knowledge, it has no soul and it has no feelings.
Because it's illegal to dig up the road without a permit and they won't give a permit to install new fiber when the road is already full of perfectly good unused fiber. They only grant one of those the first time.
There is a download link
You would think people would learn from their mistakes and not move onto another centralized platform backed by VC money, but here we are.
I super enjoyed the last installation of this. I think I've watched every talk twice.
I'd love a similar format for a selection of language design talks.
I scariest part of this which I do not see people worried about, is the one sentence about requiring suspects to open their phones at the border for inspection.
It was cute for a decade; invent something new now, please, Nintendo.
Tell me more
What if other values are looked up deep into the call stack, would that cause actual inconsistency as different values were looked up at different times
A function can absolutely be a variable. This isn't even an anonymous closure.
Can we make a meaningful comparison between the two, given that they're both private companies that could just be saying whatever they want people to hear? I mean, I have no doubt that Twitter is an order of magnitude greater in popularity, but there are so many factors at play here, especially given the number of bots and duplicate accounts in existence.
Is this MAU or total signups?
What on earth does that drivel even say. Did you generate this from a heavily quantised gpt2?
And yet politicians don't spend their time demonizing people with an extra fingers spreading lies, fear, and hatred. Revoking protections to expose them to harassment. "The cruelty is the point" and all.

The context of the discussion matters. My friends are scared, I don't really think your desire to be able to easily generalize the human race is something I can care too much about.
It's like when you play World of Warcraft for the first time and you have this character boost to max level and you use it. You didn't go through the leveling phase and you do not understand the mechanics of your character, the behaviour of the mobs, or even how to get to another continent.

You are directly loaded with all the shiny tools and, while it does make it interesting and fun at first, the magic wears off rather quickly.

On the other hand, when you had to fight and learn your way up to level 80, you have this deeper and well-earned understanding of the game that makes for a fantastic experience.
You seem so strong opinionated and sure what the future holds for us, but I must remember you though, that in your example "from assembly to higher level programming languages" the demand for programmers didn't go down, went up, and as companies were able to develop more, more development and more investments were made, more challenges showed up, new jobs were invented and so on... You get where I'm going... The thing I'm questioning is how much lazy new technologies make you, many programmers even before LLMs had no idea how a computer works and only programmed in higher level languages, it was a disaster before with many people claming software was bad and industry going down a road where software quality matters less and less. Well that situation turbo boosted by an LLMs because "doesn't matter i can deploy 100x times a day" disrupting user experience imo won't led us far
>"They have announced no plan and given no rationale — they're just taking everything down," Konyndyk said. "They're trying to do it behind the scenes rather than openly," he said, so they don't have to "defend what they're doing" in announcements to the public.

https://x.com/search?q=from%3A%40elonmusk%20USAID&src=typed_...

Seems like there has been some very public messaging around the rationales. However, for whatever reason, NPR doesn't seem interested in reporting that side of the story. We can disagree on whether the reasons or actions are legitimate. Suggesting that there are no reasons and that there is no public messaging is dishonest.
It’s cause they wanna use the data to train AI on and traininy AI on AI is useless.
Similarly, I think sometimes being displaced to somewhere less comfortable is a good thing in a career. I had this a couple of times, one turned out not ideally, but the other ones (which are smaller, but still tosses me from place to place) proved to be better in the long run.

I prefer to be a T shaped person, but having a broader top doesn't harm the process of going deep. In retrospective, I found that having a broader knowledge provided the paths and fuel to dig deeper the part I care about the most.
It looks like it fell apart because none of the existing app stores wanted to support it (Amazon originally did, then pulled out), and Microsoft, in a rare moment of clarity, realized that nobody likes the Microsoft Store.
I believe mussels are now (2025) protecting more cities.

What is cool about Warsaw is the TAWARA-RTM (TAp WAter RAdioactivity Real Time Monitor.

"Warsaw as the first city in the world is protected by a comprehensive system that is capable to monitor in real-time radioactivity of municipal water and by an innovative spectroscopy system capable to identify any detected contaminants"

https://www.ncbj.gov.pl/en/aktualnosci/state-art-system-moni...
You don’t have to run faster than the bear, just faster than the other guy.
In an article about naval shipbuilding I would say thats a normal thought.
> Well, no. It's irony, but it's only cognitive dissonance in a comedy show which misses the nuance.

Like the nuance between sending out your love and doing the Nazi salute? Or different?
People don’t really care about decentralisation.

Bluesky arrived at the right time, unlike Mastodon.
Thanks for the amusing mental image.
I wouldn’t say it’s laziness. The thing is that every line of code is a burden as it’s written once, but will be read and edited many times. You should write the bare amount that makes the project work, then make it readable and then easily editable (for maintenance). There are many books written about the last part as it’s the hardest.

When you take all three in consideration, an llm won’t really matter unless you don’t know much about the language or the libraries. When people goes on about Vim or Emacs, it’s just that it makes the whole thing go faster.
There is no need to just throw keywords around.

For other readers - more than half of these are irrelevant.

Writing general purpose application code rarely involves thinking about implications of most of these (save for NAOT as of lately I suppose).

Writing systems C# involves additional learning curve, but if you are already familiar with C++, it comes down to understanding the correct mapping between features, learning strengths and weaknesses of the compiler and the GC and maybe doing a cursory disassembly check now and then, if you care about it.
Just use all of them, don't hold yourself to one system.
For a wonderful biographical take on this topic try "The theory that would not die-how Bayes'rule cracked the Enigma code, hunted down Russian submarines & emerged triumphant from centuries of controversy" by Sharon McGrayne.

She tells a terrific story with a fascinating large cast of characters including Laplace,Bayes,Fisher,Pearson,Jeffries,Savage,Turing and many others. Engagingly told, highly recommended. Could the takeaway "Do you want to solve a practical problem or do you want scientific rigor?"
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I'm surprised at the negativity your approach seems to have sparked in a few, but I found it really great, probably very effective as well and will probably start to use it at some point.

Thanks for sharing.
And it didn't involve a really confusing question as a barrier to entry.
What's the real business model behind it? Sell "custom" names? That's not going to get you very far.
Yet another shitshow-in-waiting. I know Mastodon isn’t as polished but leaving one frying pan to get into another is a lost opportunity. I failed to convince somebody to move to Mastodon recently.
Also Ollama is traditionally very sloppy with the chat templates they use, which does impact model performances.
total: https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats
It's like an un-inked tattoo artist or a tee-totaling sommelier.

The optics are just bad. Stand behind your product, or accept that you will be fighting ridicule and suspicion endlessly.
> What's good for the gander....
Wrapping the globals into to a struct context #ifdef MULTI-THREADED and adding this ctx for each call as first call is a matter of minutes. I've done this multiple times.

Much worse is protecting concurrent writes, eg to an object or hash table
> It's so crazy that we shut down working production lines without having a replacement ready to go.

No one was buying anymore. Just like no one is buying B-52s, they're just refurbishing the existing ones.

As a Canadian, we bough a few initially, and I wish we had ordered several more when they announced the closure: even if we didn't need to use them daily, having them around and perhaps help allies (NATO, Japan, etc) could have been nice.
> We want to understand your personal interest in Anthropic without mediation through an AI system

Is the application being reviewed with the help of an AI assistant though? If yes, AI mediation is still taking place.
I would consider cashing in your stock if the company’s stock 6xed and is likely at a local or global maximum.
>There English language skills... declined catastrophically.

Let he who is without sin...
> (Shame about Westworld though)

Oh man, don't remind me.
I mean, if you’ve got murdering to do, those do sound like useful traits to have.
Why not just send the Swahili and let them MTL on the other end? At least then they have the original if there’s any ambiguity.

I’ve read multiple LLM job applications, and every single time I’d rather have just read the prompt. It’d be a quarter of the length and contain no less information.
I love how the US has already admitted it's weakness in this fight by not taxing energy products at the same level.
so does this mean NVDA goes back up now??
if the ruling is unsatisfactory, you can appeal. you can bring in expert witnesses. she's a professional, and she'll make her decisions based on the facts of the case, and hopefully not based on prejudice. if it's the supreme court, she won't be alone.
That you can learn so much about programming from books and open source and trial and error has made it a refuge for people with extreme social anxiety, for whom "bothering" a mentor with their questions would be unthinkable.
Interesting that this quote really contains "sender" where "recipient" was intended, but it had absolutely no impact on any reader. (I even asked Claude and ChatGPT if they noticed anything strange in the sentence, and both needed additional prompting to spot that mistake.)

https://x.com/sama/status/1631394688384270336

Thanks for this heads-up, by the way, I've missed this particular tweet, but eventually got into exact same observation.
> "every line a hard-fought battle" style that really makes you understand why and how something works

Absolutely true. However:

The real value of AI will be to *be aware* when at that local optimum, and then - if unable to find a way forward - at least reliably notify the user that that is indeed the case.

Bottom line, the number of engineering “hard thought battles” is finite, and should be chosen very wisely.

The performance multiplier that LLM agents brought changed the world. At least as the consumer web did in the 90s, and there will be no turning back.

This is like a computer company around 1980, would be hiring engineers but forbade access to computers for some numerical task.

Funny, it reminds me the reason Konami MSX1 games look like they do, compared to the most of the competition: having access to superior development tools - their HP hardware emulator workstations.

If you are unable to come up with a filter for your applicants that is able to detect your own product, maybe you should evolve. What about asking an AI how to solve this? ;)
That may be true, but your first response still doesn't seem to account for that fact.
half the comments so far talk about bluesky being similar to x ie private companies.

However AFAIK the use of the "AT protocol" seems to me to be a major difference https://bsky.social/about/faq.

I am really curious to know how I am wrong in that.

As a long time X user and now on bluesky i can tell that there is a huge difference in the content which makes it clear that the platform was pushing accounts with specific political views (or muting others)
Nah theyll have pardons if they ever get into trouble. That was part of the reason trump pardoned the j6ers, to let all his minions know that they have free rein to commit crimes.
I assume the model already complies, maybe not the frontend
I would like to see this 'very public' messaging, but I will not create an X account for it
I have a few services that require a phone number for 2FA, maybe 5 or 6?

I just change those when I get a new number, its usually just a matter of getting a text confirmation code from them to verify the new number.

I change passwords every year or two. That's really a pain, at this point its somewhere around 30 or so accounts I have to go through and update.
Of course it's right of them to make money from YouTube videos. It doesn't hurt anyone.
XAI has been slow to pay MLGW
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So not users but accounts.
I don't expect that, so I won't be using public schools.

I have no illusion that safety or education is an actual concern in public schools in general.
Because someone copy pasted something somewhere.
How do you do this? This is genius
But it's ok for Anthropic's marketing, sales and development teams to push to use case (AI for writing, communication and career development)?

Even when squinting I can't see a genuine argument for why Anthrpoic shouldn't be raked over the coals for their sheer hypocrisy
They all start neutral.
In my country (and I suspect most Western Countries) my doctor would lose his medical licence for selling my contact information.
Property security clearance is one that is legally given, regardless of circumstance. The idea of having laws doesn't involve picking and choosing what's considered proper. There's also no "emergency approved" security clearances happening here. In addition to that, Katie Wells has already posted that "No classified material was accessed without proper security clearances."

The strategy for this administration is to do as much as possible as quickly as possible because they know they'll be challenged and they only have 4 years. The Medicaid site was up the very same day (01/28/25) with no payments missed. And the previous contracting company for San Antonio has been given an extension. Nothing they're doing has been shown to be illegal and what you're describing are pretty minor blips considering the changes they're making.
Oh! I didn’t think of that. Thanks for the heads-up.
I’m using gpt-4o which I think is the default for the OpenAI configuration.

Haven’t tried other models yet but old like to see how o3-mini performs once it’s been added.
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances#public

This may help
Worry is the Real Apocalypse (the x-risk basilisk)
In my experience there's a huge barrier to entry for Mastodon. I've tried finding a server that worthwhile signing up to on 3 past occasions, every time I found one that seemed like a good fit they weren't accepting signups.

Bluesky I got in before it was opened up by adding my email to the waitlist. Simple. And now it's even easier because there is no waitlist.
They don't e.g. Parler and Gab
"At first, the senior director didn't outright tell me I couldn't stay in the old domain, but made it very clear it was in my best interest to move to the new domain, where there wasn't a staff+ engineer."

Do you think this was good advice? You took their advice, even if it seemed a bitter pill at the time. They were most certainly part of the process for your promotion.

It feels like this senior director is in your corner. I'd schedule a 1:1 with a simple agenda of "looking for advice".

Definitely start with a compliment. "I remember that you advised me to move to X, Y time ago, and you were right that it was great for my career and promotion."

Be clear and specific about your desires - "I miss working on X technology. I was wondering if you have any visibility into any 2025 Q2, Q3, H2 projects or opportunities related to X technology that I might be able to [contribute to or transition to]." Sometimes you can be 50/50 to try something out or dip your toe in the water if you are attached to the success of something else. It's important that you be clear and specific. Maybe you could do this via email - it depends on if you are introverted or extroverted.

I once had an EM go back to Principal IC in an area that he loved. He's still working on it.

Good luck!
Bluesky asks about which server to use on registration like mastodon.social does. For me the difference seems to be better marketing for Bluesky which makes people want to deal with the change and somewhat enjoy it rather than see every obstacle as a pain.

Bluesky does have some advantages like starter packs (and network effect now that it has so many accounts).
This probably means they are completely unable to differentiate between AI and non-AI else they would just discard the AI piles of applications.
People still cheat, or try to. Some of our interviewers have seen candidates start out the interview being completely unable to answer the most basic questions about a programming language, only to flip around a few moments later and give almost encyclopaedic answers, with release dates for specific feature and comment on implementation details. One minute you can't do array slicing and now you're able to talk about the inner workings of the garbage collector?

We're trying to be fair in hiring, every resume is manually read, interviews a conversations, there are no leet code, no tricks, no AI screening, but they are done remote and so far two out of three candidate clearly cheat, during a live interview, to cover up an impressive lack of general knowledge.
Unlike, say, Weimar Germany, the US has very strong local institutions and a professional military that definitely doesn't support his agenda (recall 2020). All Trump is doing is destroying the federal government; but, its not as if the US needs a federal government for much. As long as there is the military and money keeps getting printed all services can be moved locally. State and local tax instead of federal tax; people will have far more control over their own governance. I'm not saying there won't be violence, but its facile to think it could've ever been avoided.
Never look to your job for fulfillment in the art. There are very few situations where you can create art at your job. That’s what our free time is for, if you care enough to.
Might be barking up the wrong tree but how does this compare with android studios emulator?
PREFACE: LONG RANT

I dont know but Ill always remember the funniest thing I noticed once during my career in England..

A company called tripadvisor based in a very very small town where I was at the time a senior dev, working on my own things, had never reached out. yet I saw their ads and finally an actual article in a newspaper, basically where they were bragging about their latest hire. Let call him Pablo, who had apparently aced every single technical interview question, and so they had hired him, after interviewing tens of people. They were so happy with their hire, the article had been based on him and the "curiosity" that they were the first company to have hired him after he had failed I think it was something like 50 interviews.

Obviously they couldn't believe how lucky they were to have finally found someone who could have completed all the technical tests perfectly.

Now I have nothing against Pablo, and rooted for when when I read the article. But I found it hilarious, and still do almost a decade later, that this top tier company, based in a university town with perhaps the most famous university, had not realised they had simply over fitted for someone who could answer their leetcode selection perfectly. Not only not realised this but then commissioned the article.

Eventually they reached out for an interview with me where the recruiter promised there was no test for me, then I was "surprised by one" in a room with a manager who hadnt had time to read my expection ( which is fine ), but when he walked in and saw I hadn't done it I was "walked out". The whole interview having taken less than about 10 minutes, when I was the most qualified senior developer for hundreds of miles who was available at the time. No Im honestly not tryign to brag Im just saying the town was so small there just couldnt have been more during that short time period I was available.

I know this reads bitter,( my life is great now ) , I just remember it because, my point was at the time I was at my peak, and would have accepted the job if offered, but I was walked out within 10 mins.

Honestly just sharing this insight, the moral of the story I think for me is companies never were great hiring and well if anything the advent of LLMs might actually improve as LLMs start to assess people based on their profiles and work? One can hope, I dont, I want an edge in this market with my company.
The first push was to mastodon and it was a disaster that probably saved X and might have contributed to trump winning all because of decentralized’s inherent bad UX.
While I have no love lost for CMake at all, that's a bit like saying a compiler which generates assembler is brittle.