skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume they meant muzzle in the sense of snout (even though that's not really accurate). And if a dog is starting to attack someone and they touch it, absolutely no one is going to arrest or prosecute the person for it.

And the owner is going to be a lot more worried about their dog being put down and being in legal trouble themselves.
> you're going to get exactly what you paid for.

And nearly always the cheap cards seem to fail due to firmware shortcomings rather than hardware faults. Ie. the built in wear levelling and error recovery is bad.

Considering firmware is effectively free once written, the fact the cheap cards still don't have good firmware leads me to believe it might be deliberate market segmentation. Ie. "we need to make the cheap cards glitch and fail often, or nobody would buy our expensive cards".

If so, it really raises moral questions about how many peoples wedding pictures have been gobbled simply so some executive can get his christmas bonus...
Black hat vs white hat, it applies to every form of competition.
I’m assuming insurance or commercial trucking? Or both?
Naturally, garbage in, garbage out. Anyone who's worked any job should under stand that. And no data is ever perfect when measuring nature.

But I'm giving a best faith interpretation that the ones collecting the data are competent and have goals on what the data is collected for. We have too much talent flowing to assume the worst. We'll see how the next 4 years challenges my assumptions, though.

>What you're talking about is more a question of scape, impact, and how accurate a prediction really needs to be

Yes. That goal of data is to approximate the truth. More (good) data helps those who can interpret it to make better guesses. So the base truth of "we need more data then" is true. With a good faith interpretation.
I wrote a long response wrt. Kuhn under your earlier comment, but to summarize it here: I believe LLMs can make lateral moves, but they will find it hard to increment on them. That is, they can make a paradigm-shifting creative leap itself, but they can't then unlearn the old paradigm on the spot - their fixed training is an attractor that'll keep pulling them back.

As for:

> As far as I can tell, I think you are interchanging the ability to recognize creativity with the ability to be creative.

I kind of am, because I believe that the two are intertwined. I.e. "creativity" isn't merely an ability to make large conceptual leaps, or "lateral moves" - it's the ability to make a subset of those moves that will be recognized by others as creative, as opposed to recognized as wrong, or recognized as insane, or recognized as incomprehensible.

This might apply more to art than science, since the former is a moving target - art is ultimately about matching subjective perceptions of people, where science is about matching objective reality. A "too creative" leap in science can still be recognized as "creative" later if it's actually correct. With art, whether "too creative" will be eventually accepted or forever considered absurd, is unpredictable. Which is to say, maybe we should not treat these two types of "creativity" as the same thing in the first place.
If your credit card limit is set to zero, I can see why a business with post-paid services would not accept that as a valid payment method.
Don't all the ad-blocking DNS providers also support DNS-over-HTTPS now as well? I use it with AdGuard Home, and I saw PiHole supports it as well.
> E.g., Switzerland has four official languages, none of which are English.

Switzerland seems pretty easy -- French, German and Italian get the obvious flags, while Romansh gets either the Swiss flag or the Grisons flag. No?

> Also, UX/UI designers have rightfully been banging the "don't use country flags to indicate languages" drum for literally decades, now. We dealt with this issue in the 90s.

So it kind of seems to me like they've lost. They might be banging the drum, but in the real world the flags are useful.
I think it’s an interesting idea honestly, one that’s worth brainstorming in the off chance that something interesting comes out of it… If only I worked at a think tank with some others like me with too much energy.

Since personally I’d love to see some new ideas in the content consumption space, especially one that permits for healthier habits.

As a Utahn, even Mormons are talking about the dangers of algorithmically driven content consumption at general conference.
In south Dallas there use to be packs of roaming dogs leftover from fighting rings and other bad owners. They would kill anything they could catch. The city never did anything until the dogs dragged an 8 year old into an alley and killed him. After that, the city begrudgingly started picking up strays. I’ve been attacked twice walking my dogs and the city and police do nothing. Like literally say “we’re not going to do anything“ and hang up.
My company actually encourages the use of AI. My interview process was one relatively complex take home, an explanation of my solutions and thinking, then a live "onsite" (via zoom) where I had to code in front of a senior engineer while thinking aloud.

If I was incompetent, I could've shoved the problem into o1 on ChatGPT and probably solved the problems, but I wouldn't have been able to provide insight into why I made the design choices I made and how I optimized my solutions, and that would've ultimately gotten me thrown out of the candidate pool.
Instead of amyloid and tau, we now have a bunch of promising new leads:

- insulin and liver dysregulation impacting the brain downstream via metabolic dysfunction

- herpesviruses crossing the blood brain barrier, eg after light head injury or traveling the nervous system

- gut microbiota imbalance causing immune, metabolic, or other dysregulation

- etc.

These same ideas are also plausible for MS, ADHD, etc.
Oh man, international corporations forcing me into the translation of their website is a huge pet peeve of mine, as the translation is usually poor.

Just let me choose ‘Netherlands - English’ and I’ll be on my way, please and thanks.
> "um actually you can never be certain so trying to reason about things is stupid"

I didn't mean to say that, just that logic and reason are not infallible and have to be checked. Sure we use complex software to detect cancer in MRI images, but we constantly check that this software works by... you know... seeing if there's actual cancer where it says there is, and if there's not we go back around the engineering circle and refine the design.

Let's say I use the most painstaking, arduous, careful methods to design an orbital rocket. I take extreme care to make every design decision on the basis of physics and use elaborate simulations that my designs are correct. I check, re-check, and re-check. Then I build it. It's never flown before. You getting on board?

Obviously riding on an untested rocket would be insane no matter how high-IQ and "rational" its engineers tried to be. So is revamping our entire political, economic, or social system on the basis of someone's longtermist model of the future that is untestable and unverifiable. So is banning beneficial technologies on the basis of hypothetical dangers built on hypothetical reasoning from untestable priors. And so on...

... and so is, apparently, killing people, because reasons?
Python is probably the most CLOS-like language in common use tho, isn't it? Multiple inheritance, metaclasses, the ability to decorate functions.
No built-in multiple dispatch but I'm pretty sure I saw some implementations of that too over the years :)
I do the first two.

I've worked for orgs that thought about Kubernetes but not any that pulled the trigger. Let's face it, we used to run web sites that had millions of users out of a single instance of mysql 20 years ago. You could fit all the people who admin web sites that really need distributed systems in a big conference hall in Las Vegas, if you deleted Google you could fit them all in the Moscone Center. (SV companies wouldn't send a bunch of kids to Vegas though because they wouldn't trust not to get in them w/ the alcohol, the cards and the hookers)

I'm not impressed that anybody got something done in two years with 100 engineers that got paid $300,000 per year and aren't saving a dime because they're paying it all to landlords who were far sighted enough to buy property around the San Francisco bay before there was a Google. I am impressed when 2 or 3 people that could have starred in a Wix commercial and live in a flyover state get something done over the weekend.

I love being able to make a smart RSS reader, an image sorter that works with my tablet and my VR headset, web applications for car dealers and vineyards, social networks for secret societies and a great web site for searching public opinion data that makes our competitors look like a bad dream. Sure it took me a while to stop worrying and love React but I think it's a great time to be alive.
curious if you could link to relevant papers? Thanks!
There are also lots of people creating fake classified documents, and people in posession of "classified" stuff that has long ago been declassified. Those two groups, imho, outnumber all the people who leak actual info by 10x.

(Remember too that having a clearance and having access are different things. Only a rare few have unfettered access to download/print/email to/from classified systems. Lots of gamers work at/for the NSA. That doesnt mean they can all browse the f35 flight manual over lunch.)
> it is a disgrace that he pardoned his family ... it soon became clear that there was nothing to it.

I'm curious why you feel this way? To me, because there was nothing to the allegations surrounding Ukraine, the prosecution of Hunter Biden seems entirely political. If he were he any other person, he would not have received the treatment he did for the crimes he committed, which seem like very minor infractions (tax evasion, lying about being on drugs) compared to what was alleged (selling bribes and leveraging US foreign policy with Joe). The Republicans who encouraged that prosecution abused their power, and so I don't see why it should be disgraceful for Biden to similarly abuse his in defense.

In normal times POTUS shouldn't pardon his family, but when his political opponents abuse a government committee to come after his family, then it's fair.
Because that's with awareness and consent? That's a significant difference.
But it does not. It compares integers. Comparing integers is always well-defined.

If you want to declare it UB, you will have to say that the integers are not simple bits, they also "remember" which pointer they came from. This is essentially what we mean when we say that integers has provenance, and it's not a good idea because it doesn't let you do some very common optimizations on integers.
That is exactly what this thread is discussing.

(You hardly needed a throwaway for this comment, though)
Are you claiming French- or German-speaking Swiss users don't know that they speak French or German?

Or are you claiming that they don't know what the French or German flags look like?
Your fascist rhetoric, no quotes needed, condemns innocent people to a life of ridicule and public segregation. Just put the SS pin on already.

Innocent people who just want to use the bathroom. You are cruel in the worst way.
The only real problem with that is most dinosaurs lived in a time when there was 30% oxygen in the air. Maybe they could survive a bit at only 20%, but I imagine it would be like someone living on the top of Everest and before long succumbing to the lack of oxygen.
The role has absolutely been degraded. The SWE role has been distorted by the industry. The responsibilities have been eroded and all the potential specializations of it have been bundled together, including responsibilities that have nothing to do with engineering, and even so most companies will insist this is this "engineering" and demand that you adhere to it.

Ironically, the review process does not reflect any of this. You are asked technical questions as if you really are going to do any of that on a day to day basis, or even have that kind of mindset. The usual attitude that is expected has more to do with business and making profit rather than engineering good systems.
> In my experience, being convincingly dominant towards dogs is enough to fend them off.

The same holds for most non-herbivores, at least until they're so much bigger than you that they don't have to consider you a threat at all (e.g. brown bears).

There's something of an evolutionary angle to it: a carnivore with even moderate injuries might starve, while a herbivore who doesn't die of infection will probably live (grass has a hard time running away, after all). This makes carnivores way more likely to back off from the possibility of injury, with herbivores more likely to hold their ground or even reflexively go on the attack against an equal threat.
We are and were alone and never was or will be alone.Its our basic state of bieng and we are as good at it as we need to be.
As to actual aliens showing up,I am ready, you know, a little general chit chat about there home planet, and what kind of life form they are, you know play nice, and then when I get the info I need, bang, shoot that fucker dead and eat em.
Cause they dont exist legaly, so its not murder, and bieng supper evolved and advanced they know that there will be some missunderstanding, but gota talk to them first, and find out if they are aquatic or avian or mamal like, or maybe sentient vegetables, just to use the right recipie.
Cant wait, as I am getting tired of bonobo burgers and want something new.
Related AP coverage:

USAID officers physically removed after trying to protect classified info
https://apnews.com/article/doge-musk-trump-classified-inform... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42910635)
Yes it’s a very big problem until you run speed tests and the like which most people have no clue how to do.
How do you know what you got from it was based on reality? I’ve watched Stefan Milos videos on his Atlantis hypothesis and it seemed like he’s not a serious scientist.
The main issue I have with these flags is that they are more often than not used to indicate language, not country. But many countries have more than one official language and many languages are official language of more than one country.

Not many languages have some official flags though. There is one for Esperanto and Francophonie for example. But while anyone speaking Esperanto will certainly recognize the green flag, it's more dubious that most users would recognize the flag of the OIF.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Esperanto.sv...

https://isolatedtraveller.com/flag-of-organisation-internati...
Title typo: $1.6B
I think heavy drug use is more a symptom of hopelessness than the other way round
> Flags for languages dont even work with one of the largest countries, India. They have about 20 official languages that var greatly.

Curious, do Indian websites just never use flags then?

Or do they use flags for the states within India?

Because at a quick glance, it seems like there is a general mapping of languages to one or more states:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_and_union_territories_o...

Very similar to the world situation.
Here's the thing: 95% of cheaters still suck, even when cheating. Its hard to imagine how people can perform so badly while cheating, yet they consistently do. All you need to do to stand out is not be utterly awful. Worrying about what other people are doing is more detrimental to your performance than anything else is. Just focus on yourself: being broadly competent, knowing your niche well, and being good at communicating how you learn when you hit the edges of your knowledge. Those are the skills that always stand out.
yeah, i had to add svg icons to my frontend which takes a ton of space in the compiled project...for absolutely no good reason whatsoever.
The Moon Unit: A measure for web technologies based on the ping time to the moon
> So Multiple inheritance is not an issue if only 1 of the parties provides state; all others can provide signatures but also behaviours.

IIRC that's what Bertrand Meyer advised in OOSC (I think he called it "marriage of convenience" between abstract and concrete superclasses). But he also claimed the diamond problem is overstated, and (paraphrasing) it's not a deep semantic issue, but a trivial syntactic one, "simply" solved with rename-on-inherit :)
we have that already?
I second this request. The words all make sense, but seeing would be useful.
I don't think me hating my current job would make me more willing to work on products that have a very real, measurable harm to the population as a whole, just for some more money.
most of the modern internet just seems to be the greatest inescapable surveillance system in all of human history.
What do you want to see if there's more than one sale date with the lowest price?

In any case, you can do this with a subquery and join it with the main table. I don't think there's anything non-standard about it:

SELECT hs.*
FROM house_sales hs
JOIN (
SELECT house_id, MIN(price) AS min_price
FROM house_sales
GROUP BY house_id
) min_prices
ON hs.house_id = min_prices.house_id AND hs.price = min_prices.min_price

I'm sure you can do it with window functions as well.
And yet, it is still a current limitation and relevant to all current claims of LLM intelligence.
It's not ALL bad, when I recently replaced my 2012 MacBook Pro with a 2024 Air M3, I was pleased to see that Apple FINALLY allows tabbing in system pop menus for things like Save, Delete, Close and selecting those options with the Space bar. Not sure when that was added as default behaviour, but I always found this frustrating coming from Windows. The interesting thing is that precisely one app I used on the 2012 MBP - Ableton Live Digital Audio Workstation - always allowed keying through popups flawlessly - so the underlying capability was there.
>we should all be very careful of our perceptions of intelligence based solely on a machines or algorithms apparent ability to communicate.

I don't think that's merely an irrational compulsion. Communication can immediately demonstrate intelligence, and I think it quite clearly has, in numerous ways. The benchmarks out there cover a reasonable range of measurements that aren't subjective, and there's clear yes-or-no answers to whether the communication is showing real ways to solve problems (e.g. change a tire, write lines of code, solving word problems, critiquing essays), where the output proves it in the first instance.

Where there's an open question is in whether you're commingling the notion of intelligence with consciousness, or identifying intelligence with AGI, or with "human like" uniqueness, or some other special ingredient. I think your warning is important and valid in many contexts (people tend to get carried away when discussing plant "intelligence", and earlier versions of "AI" like Eliza were not the real deal, and Sophia the robot "granted citizenship" was a joke).

But this is not a case, I think where it's a matter of intuitions leading us astray.
Python moved on. Perl is still stuck in about 1998.
True. And different kinds of content may have different metas. Some content needs to be timely and can only get views for a short period of time before effectively expiring. Other content is evergreen and can play the long game, counting on getting reliable view numbers for years.
I think sports betting is obnoxious and stupid but I do worry about this moral policing some seem to want to do.

The people I know losing money to online sports betting are the same people who thought they were going to become pro online poker grinders 15 years ago.

If you got rid of online sports betting they would go play slots at the casino more and waste their money on the lottery.

If you get rid of all games of chance for money, there is a good % of people who will find a way to squander their savings somehow.

If anything, people I know waste far more money going out to eat than sports betting.
I dunno why there is always the assumption in these threads that leetcode is being used. My company has never used leetcode-style questions, and likely never will.

I work in security, and our questions are pretty basic stuff. "What is cross-site scripting, and how would you protect against it?", "You're tasked with parsing a log file to return the IP addresses that appear at least 10 times, how would you approach this?" Stuff like that. And then a follow-up or two customized to the candidate's response.

I really don't know how we could possibly make it easier for candidates to pass these interviews. We aren't trying to trick people, or weed people out. We're trying to find people that have the foundational experience required to do the job they're being hired for. Even when people do answer them incorrectly, we try to help them out and give them guidance, because it's really about trying to evaluate how a person thinks rather than making sure they get the right answer.

I mean hell, it's not like I'm spending hours interviewing people because I get my rocks off by asking people lame questions or rejecting people; I want to hire people! I will go out of my way to advocate for hiring someone that's honest and upfront about being incorrect or not knowing an answer, but wants to think through it with me.

But cheating? That's a show stopper. If you've been asked to not use ChatGPT, but you use it anyway, you're not getting the benefit of the doubt. You're getting rejected and blacklisted.
https://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/wyden-demands-...
> No, you can't use the full name, since some languages have very long names.

Yes, every language has a name and you can use that. If you prefer an imprecise flag over the actual name of the language then what you're saying is that you prefer style over substance. There's always space to show the language name.
Java's method dispatch is more complicated than that due to JIT compilation. The affordances are those of dynamic dispatch, but hot Java method calls will not go through a vtable-like lookup equivalent unless the code actually sees a need to.
> good luck getting any of the popular apps (eg. facebook, tiktok, google maps) on there

That makes sense, considering they’re not privacy respecting.
Knowing quite a bit about the world of Costa Rican grocery stores -- many of which started using "Hiper-" (spanish for hyper-) as a prefix in their names a few decades ago, to one-up markets merely named "Super-" [1] -- I'm actually quite suprised they didn't just rename themselves "Hiper Mario" and save the legal fees. But bravo to them for winning against all odds.

[1] https://ticotimes.net/2004/04/02/hipermas-supermarket-aims-f...
At least some are getting active, as opposed to us keyboard warriors complaining but not doing anything.

I hope it’s contagious.
I.e. there is this problem called doom scrolling where negative content is perpetuated in some positive feedback loop.