skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone actually on this end of the spectrum, I agree with you. The thing that I feel makes my brain and my methodology special is that I can make a single pass through a body of work and internalize just enough of the information.

This then ends up as something analogous to a table of weak pointers. I keep a sort of abstract digest of the information in the mental database and I use it to go look up hardcopy when it becomes necessary to actually reference.

The result is something akin to a vector database. I can look at a problem and apply many different approaches simultaneously. The mental machinery autonomously eliminates the worst paths through my knowledge graph and I'm left with a few pretty good options.

Actually memorizing all the information my mental database links to would be explicitly detrimental to the process. This pushes the signal/noise ratio way too low, and more importantly wastes time I could spend indexing a larger amount of information.

Perfect recall just isn't necessary for the way I solve problems. Reference books exist for a reason. every machinist ever has a copy of the machinist's handbook for a very good reason.

The process is all about knowing what is possible and drawing paths through the graph of possibilities. The details aren't relevant until the implementation stage when you'd be accessing reference materials anyway.

I find that spaced repetition does increase recall. I don't think that's in dispute. But better recall does not make you a better engineer. I don't think it's something even worthwhile in the general case, unless you're specifically trying to build a deep specialization.

People in general really dislike this notion. People want to believe that hard work and dedication makes an Einstein. The idea that it's just how some brains are is, I dunno, unfair?

But it's a tradeoff. There's a huge psychological burden involved. I won't get into it, but it's something Einstein spoke about. I'm also no use on my own. My abilities have led me to specialize deeply in generalism; I have no real specialization in any one field. If I had to operate on my own, it'd take me ten times longer than with a couple of specialists behind me. But with a good team, the amount of work we can put out is scary.

No, not everyone can learn to think and operate this way, sorry. My brain is wired different and you probably don't want it, it really, truly sucks. But that's a good thing. A healthy mixture of perspectives and abilities is what makes a successful team/company/project. You can't really get by with just a generalist or just a specialist. You need both perspectives.
But what's the technicality? Not using fruit of the poisoned tree is a basic civil right, not a "technicality."

So what's the technicality?
Because "running America like a business" is never wrong.

Not to mention that this can have GRAVE consequences. If these assholes tank the system and bond payments and such do not go out, it's game over.
I recently rediscovered Ratpoison WM and the origin of its name (tl;dr it is meant to prevent the need for using a mouse). I think the main issue for me really is that navigating the web is sometimes faster with a pointer. I already use vim and the shell for everything else, but navigating Google Maps or Wikipedia or Stack Overflow is just easier when you can point and scroll.
Thanks everyone for the feedback on the project. I hope to keep it going and would love to see some PRs.

Just one last thing, if you like the project, the coolest thing you can do for me is let anyone you know looking for a remote developer to hit me up. I am a Ruby-on-Rails developer at heart but would also consider robotics gigs. Thanks!
> It’s not the syntax ... but the relational data mental model that trips people up.

It is also the syntax because it does not match the actual model. Even the simple example `SELECT 1` shows a mismatch.

And this cascade. Because the syntax is wrong, people have big trouble with `JOINs` (that is disconnected from the idea of making `?-to-?` specifications), `group by` (that doesn't exist in SQL), aggregation logic (that is badly implemented as window functions), and bigly, the lack of composability (that has a weird band-aid called CTEs) and so on.

A mismatch between the domain and the code is always reflected in syntax.
Well yeah their whole business model is convincing investors that logistic functions and exponentials are the same thing, actually.
Wouldn't this require access to bid side data? The OP mentions it's pretty easy to get, but any company using this to expose advertisers is going to get their access cut off pretty fast. As the saying goes, "snitches get stitches".
Make everyone unemployed and drop the revenue by 80%? Sounds about right.
That's just the standard term for such programs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalty_program
Indeed, the article notes that the lat/long wasn't "GPS exact", more like "postal code exact".
Or Dart
Can it port sed to java? I just tried to do that in chatgippity and it failed
Is he a lawyer?
thats awesome, do you just love groundhogs or whats your motivation to supply such a service?
The title says 6 years. First sentence in the article says 7 years.
Doing things because they increase some non-monetary value has fallen out of fashion for sure. A colleague of mine recently shared, in a group social setting, a sense of disappointment that his daughter was studying to be a doctor. I was, as far as I could tell, the only one to note that there is practical utility to having doctors.

But the "be part of our mission" was shown to be hollow over and over too. First and foremost, you as an enployee are making the investors and CEO rich. The mission is usually exploiting the employee, even when it's not exploiting the world. Employees have recognized the real social ethic (money over everything) and are just playing the same game. Which is sad.

Ideally the people who see these choices would make alternative choices that will leave their grandchildren better off in the world. It has taken only a generation for the "greed is good" mentality to drop us into this fetid soup.
You really should be nicer to everyone, including yourself.
Good points. I guess if the bond markers react and obtaining new or refinancing old debt becomes more expensive, I can see how that can affect things quicker. Especially given the role of treasuries in all financial markets.
Fascism is as fascists do.
> There was huge focus on trans and immigration and vaccinationa. Economic is distant third.

I'm just not seeing that, e.g.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/651719/economy-important-issue-...
Name clash with the not very well known Lua library, you should strongly consider changing the name https://github.com/rxi/lume
It seems that they have changed their minds about surveillance back doors, after some devastating attacks, where Chinese state actors (among others) used back doors created for compliance with warrants to get in.

But that was the pre-Trump NSA and FBI. Now the Chinese and the Russians just need to get some DOGE volunteer to give them whatever they want, since Elon now has root on all the government payment systems and is too undisciplined to do things in a secure way.
>Paid by cash? It can still be tracked to you. For "fraud prevention", of course.

They can already track you through your phone and/or credit cards. Why bother setting up a massive facial recognition system for people paying with cash when they only account for 10% (or whatever) of overall shoppers, and have less disposable income than average?
Obviously I meant that the content of the results can be inaccurate, and I assume you weren't actually confused about that.
No, but fossils can.
The specifics of C# are fairly irrelevant. Point is that even if swift is forced, middleware can and will just plaster over that. Even if Metal is forced, tools can plaster over that.

Apple forcing an API is not enough to sustain a language's popularity.
May be Steve Jobs was right all along. We dont need Smartphone with App Store. Either 1st Party Apps and Everything else should be on Browser or Apps that uses Browser Engine.
You mention that the compiler should track the aliasing informations, as to enrich this C imitation language, but this seems exactly what the article means with "provenance".
Doing that on the client side sounds pointless though, if you are already transmitting the ip.
> Who built all Russia's oil infrastructure ?

The Soviet Union? Yeah, the new offshore stuff (mostly? developed after the fall of the USSR) relied on western firms, but I believe the bulk of oil production still comes from / goes through domestically sourced systems. Gas production on the other hand was initially almost entirely built out by western firms, though that's obviously begun to change since the war in Ukraine.
Malicious Compliance is not the right word. But, I thought about it and am slightly hopeful.

Their goal could be obedience such that

A) the Musk cronies don't come through and truly delete the data (vs, just taking it offline)

B) they don't get fired and can take a stand when "bigger" issues happen. I.e another pandemic.

Or y'know,

C) they want to keep their jobs and decided to just obey.
Not sure why interviews would change.

Even if you're using ChatGPT heavily it's your job to ensure it's right. And you need to know what to ask it. So you still need all the same skills and conceptual understanding as before.

I mean, I didn't observe interviews change after powerful IDE's replaced basic text editors.
Yeah, I have been playing with composable grammars, so you could only include parts of the language that you want for that specific case.

Your take might be different, you probably have something to add to the https://www.hedy.org/ project.

We really gotta get all the good ideas in our head out into the world. What other ideas do you have?
this is the most up-to-date summary i could find
>Do mobile OS's require additional permissions for apps to get either of these data points?

Yes on both iOS and Android as far as I can remember.
> and wonder how an intelligent person can still think this, can be so absolute about it. What is "actual" reasoning here?

Large language models excel at processing and generating text, but they fundamentally operate on existing knowledge. Their creativity appears limited to recombining known information in novel ways, rather than generating truly original insights.

True reasoning capability would involve the ability to analyze complex situations and generate entirely new solutions, independent of existing patterns or combinations. This kind of deep reasoning ability seems to be beyond the scope of current language models, as it would require a fundamentally different approach—what we might call a reasoning model. Currently, it's unclear to me whether such models exist or if they could be effectively integrated with large language models.
Yeah, but the SSDs today can write something like 2GB/s, so even if you're re-writing the entire OS, you should be able to do that in what? 1 minute max?

Assuming they're using some fast parallel compression algo as well when unpacking it...
I'm sure that there are people that are deluded into thinking ChatGPT loves them like a real life flesh and blood being can even when it says it can't, but we have such limited vocabulary,
especially as laymen, for describing any non-human intelligence, that saying it's thinking and reasoning aren't entirely unreasonable words to describe what it's doing. sure, it's not thinking in the same way a human would, but when a computer, pre-LLM, and even pre-Internet, is doing something that requires the user to wait, saying the computer is "thinking" is an entirely accepted practice.

So if we want to get people to stop using the words thinking and reasoning, we have to get replacement words into the lexicon. if I tell an LLM A implies B implies C, and I tell it A is true and it's able to tell me that C is thus also true, sure it's entirely due to that much logic existing in its training corpus, but unless we get to a point where I can say that ChatGPT is dot-producting an essay for me, or some other phrase, saying it's not doing "thinking" is going to fall flat on its face. Hell, Deepseek R1's output for the local model literally says <think>. It may not be thinking in a biological being sense, and it may not be reason in a biological sense to conclude C if A implies B implies C, if A is true, but we lack the common colloquial language to describe it otherwise.
>and, imho, manages to the stick the landing.

That last part is the miracle. So many shows start out strong, and are just dogshit for the finale. Does anyone really believe that Severance will manage this trick? Would love to be surprised and mistaken, but they're just throwing crap at the wall to see what will stick, and that only lasts so long.
I mentioned this in a different related post but there seems to be a pretty sad lack of basic integrity in the tech world where it's become a point of pride to develop and use apps which allow an applicant to blatantly cheat during interviews using LLMs.

As a result, several of my friends who assist in hiring at their companies have already returned to "on-site" interviews. The funny thing about this is that these are 100% remote jobs - but the interviews are being conducted at shared workspaces. This is what happens when the level of trust goes down to zero due to bad actors.
Do you apply the same thinking to the workplace?
> However, if you put on a headset and apply only frequencies above 16kHz, you will distinctly notice a change in the pressure in your headset's ear cups.

If you put something above 16 kHz at full scale and/or if you play it extremely loud then maybe. With typical music content at typical volumes, I doubt it.
I get why that might seem a bit off. I linked to the GitHub org because i was only presenting the project's idea and hoping for feedback and support, the website was also provided there.
Both expressions "pregnant person" and "maintenance hole" came from DEI directives and have not organically evolved through time. To borrow your analogy, they bulldozed over existing expressions because of ideological reasons, hence generating great resistance from the population which didn't agree to such forced changes.
Psyops and synthetic narratives out of nowhere always look like this
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=zizian&hl=...
My guess is because of the imprecision. It's an approximation. You don't feel that same sharpness that someone can cut through with carefully chosen words.
Understanding versus remembering.

You first understand and only afterwards encode your understanding in cards. It's in reviewing the cards that you put the understanding into your long-term memory (or possibly reveal gaps in your knowledge, in which case you revise your understanding).
I think we should seek partnership with the EU for our rare earth minerals.

The US apparently doesn't need them- they can buy theirs from China.
What? [0]

[0] Steve Jobs introduces App Store - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU3X6Fu5JiE
Huh. Their segmented LRU setup is similar to the Linux kernel's active and inactive lists for pages. Convergent evolution in action.
It was less effective, but treatments that work on say 1/2 the population aren’t useless.

It’s a tricky thing in medicine. In then 90’s people discovered Leptin a hormone released by fat which when given to people dieting significantly reduced cravings and increased energy expenditure enabling long term weight loss. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2430504/

“rodents and humans that become obese on a high-fat (Western) diet do not respond to leptin” Unlike GLP-1 antagonists it did almost nothing to start the process of weight loss, but having a drug to give to people who lost 20+lb which would then help them keep it off could have helped a lot of people.
That's an interesting research area!
I might be mistaken, but I think that is part of the progression from natural language to structured programming. The student is supposed to slightly refactor their code as Hedy morphs into a normative language.

But in the end, it is a starter language and it looks like your kids started!
> a mixture of Baker & Tayler (book distributors)

Having dealt with Baker & Taylor in the past, this doesn't surprise me in the least. It was one of the most technologically backwards companies I've ever dealt with. Purchase orders and reconciliations were still managed with paper, PDFs, and emails as of early 2020 (when I closed my account). I think at one point they even had me faxing documents in.
Very fun.

I'm looking forward to the day that an AI tries to participate in a 100m Olympic foot race, and develops a spring-release cartwheeling method that no human has ever tried
The approach of patching soundness issues seems pretty dangerous to me, since nothing guarantees there won't be more, or that they even perfectly cover the current ones.
I like your version a lot better. No idea why on earth people have decided it's acceptable, let alone trendy, to write a headline with two sentences in it.
Are you aware of cases where it is used for more that theft prevention/manual review of CCTV?

I'm not aware of any big retailers using facial data for targeting vouchers or anything similar.

Simple things like "did walk through the door with a child" would be pretty valuable data, yet as far as I know, nobody uses it.
> The spreadsheet was posted by Mike Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser, who was pardoned in 2020 after pleading guilty to lying about his contacts with Russians.

Looks like the info has already been sold to the highest bidder. Yikes.
I have the same question. It did not seem easy for me to find a job where we are at least not writing malware (according to my judgement). But it's far from making the world better :|
Having not-yet read the post, I appreciate your very practical response. “Read the thing you’re criticizing” is great advice.
Personally, I find Perl’s modern object modules interesting and fun. And I’ve always liked the fact that many Perl built ins were based on POSIX, which doesn’t seem common in other languages.
Human processing is very interesting and should likely lead to more improvements (and more understanding of human thought!)

Seems to me humans are very good at pattern matching, as a core requirement for intelligence. Not only that, we are wired to enjoy it innately - see sudoku, find Waldo, etc.

We also massively distill input information into short summaries. This is easy to see by what humans are blind to: the guy in a gorilla suit walking through a bunch of people passing a ball around, or basically any human behavior magicians use to deceive or redirect attention. We are mombarded with information constantly. This is the biggest difference between us and LLMs as we have a lot more input data and also are constantly updating that information - with the added feature/limitation of time decay. It would be hard to navigate life without short term memory or a clear way to distinguish things that happened 10 minutes ago from 10 months ago. We don't fully recall each memory of washing the dishes but junk the vast, vast majority of our memories, which is probably the biggest shortcut our brains have over LLMs.

Then we also, crucially, store these summaries in memory as connected vignettes. And our memory is faulty but also quite rich for how "lossy" it must be. Think of a memory involving a ball from before the age of 10 and most people can drum up several relevant memories without much effort, no matter their age.
> My point was that toy examples like this are useful as long as you think about them consistently. I wasn't trying to make any claims about your concrete argument in particular.

But I think I am, was my point.
Everything listed changes way too often to be useful for tracking. My guess is that it's for anti-fraud purposes. Someone setting up fake devices and/or device farms is likely to get similar values, which means they can be detected via ML or whatever.
Indeed. YouTube is rolling this out to more and more folks, and it gets really interesting as you can kinda produce videos in your language but still have an international audience. The quality is not outstanding as the voice is a bit robotic, but still... In my channel even if I don't yet have the feature enabled, just because of subtitles auto-translation, I'm seeing more and more foreign subscribers.
The browser has less access to your system, and usually only if you give a specific website permission to use these features. Mobile operating systems are slowly changing that though.
I've seen weblogic deteriorate after Oracle bought it. If you wrote e.g. a bad descriptor, pre oracle weblogic gave an error message inluding what you wrote, why it was wrong, and a reference to the spec. Post oracle code just crashed with an NPE, or had an unstable container with weird crashy behaviour in unrelated parts of your code.

Before that, OC4J used to be the first to implement a new EJB version etc. The project basically froze in time when oracle bought it, receiving minimal bugfuxes only.
Tcpmon is closest I can think of. Doubt interface level capture would be able to attribute to apps
Why would you? Space weapons are also very definitively illegal. I don't see what you could accomplish this way that a nuke couldn't, and it's not like there's a shortage of nuclear firepower. Plus, this seems really slow to deploy.
Ok but social clustering is how humans work. Culture translated to modern idiomatic language is “practice of a cult”. Ure translates to “practice of”, Ur being the first city so say historians; clusters of shared culture is our lived experience. Forever now there have been a statistical few who get stuck in a while loop “while alive recite this honorific code, kill perceived threats to memorized honorific chants”.

We’ve observed ourselves do this for centuries. Are your descriptions all that insightful?

How do you solve isolation? Can you? Will thermodynamics allow it? Or are we just neglecting a different cohort?

Again due to memory or social systems are always brittle. Everyone chafes over social evolution of some kind, no matter how brave a face they project in platitudes, biology self selects. So long as the economy prefers low skilled rhetoricians holding assets, an inflexible workforce constrains our ability to flex. Why is there not an “office worker” culture issue? Plainly self selecting for IT to avoid holding the mirror up to itself.

Growing up in farmland before earning to STEM degrees, working on hardware and software, I totally get the outrage of people breaking their ass to grow food while some general studies grad manages Google accounts and plays PS5 all night. Extreme addiction to a lived experience is the American way from top to bottom.

Grammatically correct analysis of someone else. But this all gets very 1984 feeling; trust posts online, ignore lived experience. It’s not hard to see your post as an algebraic problem; the issues of meatspace impact everyone regardless of the syntax sugar analysis we pad the explanation with. How do you solve for the endless churn of physics?
Those are some good suggestions. I was actually thinking of a book along the same lines! Thoughts on the title "The 10X AI Developer"?

Any tips for how to find relevant podcasts to reach out to?
Ok, the first example I found was when I was trying to find a way to write a rust proc macro that recursively processes functions or modules and re-writes arithmetic expressions. The best way to do this, it turns out, is with `VisitMut` or `fold`. I cannot find any results discussing these approaches with google, but ChatGPT (4) suggested it within the first couple refinements of a query.

Another recent example from my history: "can you implement Future twice for a rust struct, with different Output types"