skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "vulnerability" part doesn't seem to be substantiated. From wikipedia:

>The images were initially believed to have been obtained via a breach of Apple's cloud services suite iCloud,[1][2] or a security issue in the iCloud API which allowed them to make unlimited attempts at guessing victims' passwords.[3][4] Apple claimed in a press release that access was gained via spear phishing attacks.[5][6]

Regardless of their security practices, it's a stretch to equate getting hacked with knowingly making available data. Moreover you can opt out of icloud backup, unlike with whatever is happening with apps mentioned in the OP.
Yep. His motorcycle is introduced in great detail and then afterwards Stephenson deliberately trolls us with "...after that, it's just a chase scene" and it's never mentioned again. ;)
Or caches!

I have gotten shit before for using global variables, and sometimes that is justified, but I almost never see anyone given shit over treating Redis as a big ol’ global map.
I don't think there are any meaningful disputes over multiple flags on a specific code? Having some extra non-conflicting flags doesn't disrupt anything, it just leads to some people being petty.
Yeah, I really missed ubiquitous C preprocessor macros in C++, so let's bring them back, but now inside string literals. Sweet.

Seriously, I just keep being amazed that people are running with the idea of having a full-blown untyped and unchecked formatting mini language (that's what libfmt, which became C++20 format, literally calls it) inside string literals — i.e., the part of the source code that you're specifically telling the compiler to not treat as code.

Think about it for a minute.
what about a full refresh of the page or perhaps jump into the dev tools and check "disable cache"

could also be aggressive caching from cloudflare. could be they're just trying to announce more stuff to maintain cachet and can't yet support all users forking over 200/month.
>An interview has to be hard enough to filter those that are unqualified but also easy enough that the right person can pass with some minor preparation.

Yeah, ideally. Meanwhile the market evolved to asking Leetcode hards on the spot.

As usual, companies take a good concept and milk it to the point where you need to cheat or make studying leetcode your full time job to ace it. I'm not to sympathetic.

(PS yes, I've been asked to do what was essentially spec work a few times. Woudl have been smarter to reply with an invoice, but I was too tired and just said no).
Same in Brasil
Depending on what language you use and what domain your problem is in, current AIs can vary widely in how useful they are.

I was amazed at how great ChatGPT and DeepSeek and Claude etc are at quickly throwing together some small visualisations in Python or JavaScript. But they struggled a lot with Bird-style literate Haskell. (And just that specific style. Plain Haskell code was much less of a problem.)
So there is actually a conversation about what is legal or not then? It's not stupid to ask "is this legal" it's in nuances, and your position is: it's entirely legal. Ok. thats a view. I imagine others hold a different view, and it will be put to courts. I don't want to get sidelined into how courts behave in this economy, Jurisprudence is complicated.
> Trump has said he will speak to Canada and Mexico's leaders on Monday about the tariffs which are due to come into effect at midnight on Tuesday.

One might even call that a negotiation? Including the market-moving volatility from "trade war" headlines. F2F talks have been underway for more than a month. The most contentious issues in every negotiation are decided near the deadline.
Woah! I'll have to re-read that.
There was absolutely no theoretical reason that some moldy cheese would kill bacteria but thankfully Fleming noticed what happened and we got antibiotics.

Again, I'm in favor of people investigating all sorts of random shit.

I agree that sometimes unexpected things pan out. If you want to run a carefully conducted, large long-term trial on ketogenic diets in Alzheimer's, I support you. I'm just skeptical it'll pan out, and on priors I'll put greater expectation on the approach with a scientifically demonstrated mechanistic theory behind it.

I'm all for basic science when the statistical significance becomes so great it really starts to look like causality and then you start figuring stuff out.

It doesn't seem like the statistical significance of the amyloid theory is strong enough that the direction of the arrow of causality can be determined.

What are you basing this one? The p-value on lecanemab's single phase 3 trial was below 0.0001. And the causal role (not mere association) of amyloid in the disease has been demonstrated for years before significant efforts were invested developing therapies to target amyloid in the first place; most convincingly in the genetic mutations in APP, PSEN1, and PSEN2.
As the compiler is free to reorganise the variable order, that means you're relying on Undefined Behaviour for it to compile and do what you want. That's not something inherent to the way pointers work.
"The bear is sticky"
Pull-up and pull-down resistors, water analogy
man you work for high flyer or something? i know that's not really a fair question but oai still seems to lead the pack. i know it's a hype-y area but responding to one (1) model that's comparable to o4 but cheaper with "guys it's so over for openai" is excessive.
I'm learning and this is my intuition about pull-up and pull-down resistors. I wanted to share in case it helps someone else.

It's just a model in my brain; it's probably wrong, so please be kind with corrections :)
> dirty industries frowned upon by VC tech bros who have no idea where any of the physical items they rely on to survive come from)

Everyone knows where it comes from, it just doesn’t make business sense to plow money into high liability, low economies of scale businesses when your competition has far lower labor and environmental compliance costs.
Designated initializers are so nice. Even though they have C++-isms like required order, it adds safety and readability to code.
hell yeah very glad this is back. i watched all the talks from the last one and feel like computing conferences need way more of this energy. a lot of cool ideas and provocations from the previous one still stick with me, and if the program is anything to go by, this one will be similar.
1) Creative projects beget creative projects. When you start working on one project, you'll have ideas for a dozen more, and probably one of those might actually be a good project idea to continue exploring and refining and shaping into a reasonable problem. It's really hard to come up with things if you're just staring at a blank sheet of paper, but working on anything at all gets this virtuous cycle started.

2) Talk to people! Bounce your ideas/areas of excitement off of other people, and see what gets reflected back at you. That signal can be very helpful to see when you've stumbled across an idea or problem that might be useful to more people than just yourself, i.e. a more important area of investigation.

3) Read, read, read. And take notes on random ideas you have while reading, and things that papers missed or didn't look into. If you do this enough and take some time to reflect on it, you can start to find gaps in knowledge that could be addressed.
In my industry, competitions for hire are just a front for spec work. So YMMV.
Agreed!

To go off on a tangent: yes, good developers can produce good code faster. And bad developers can produce bad code faster (and perhaps slightly better than before, because the models are mostly a bit smarter than copy-and-paste is).

Everyone potentially benefits, but it won't suddenly turn all bad programmers into great programmers.
When my wife and I saw this in the series I said "This must be what Apple people think computing on non-Apple platforms is like." And she said "Yeah, pretty much."
I’m a researcher and honestly not worried. 1. Developing the right question has always been the largest barrier to great research. Not sure OpenAI can develop the right question without the Human experience. The second biggest part of my role is influencing people that my questions are the right questions. Which is made easier when you have a thorough understanding of the first. That being said, I’m sure there will be many people here that will tell me that algorithms already influence people, and ai can think through much of any issues there are.

I do use these systems from time to time, but it just never renders any specific information that would make it great research.
And man, the bugs they cause.
Elevated rates of leukemia and other cancers don't prevent cities from existing or even thriving...
> For instance you can research all you want about the best vacuum on the internet but until you try it out yourself you are going to be caught in between marketing, fake reviews, influencers, etc.

So you wouldn't use this tool for those types of use cases.

But still, a valid point. I recall I once wanted to compare Hydroflask, Klean Kanteen and Thermos to see how they perform for hot/cold drinks. I was looking specifically for articles/posts where people had performed actual measurements. But those were very hard to find, with almost all Google hits being generic comparisons with no hard data. That didn't stop them from ranking ("Hydroflask is better for warm drinks!")

Would I be able to get this to ignore all of those and use only ones where actual experiments were performed. And moreover, filter out duplicates (e.g. one guy does an experiment, and several other bloggers link to his post and repeat his findings in their own posts - it's one experiment but with many search results).
It's very interesting to think about what kind of "mental model" might it have, if it's capable of "understanding" all this (to me) gibberish, but is then unable to actually work the problem.
Format strings in C++ are checked completely at compile time. There are no hacks or compiler intrinsics involved (like what C does for printf to verify format strings).
Thanks! I’ll take a look at this. It always kind of annoyed me to pay for API credits on top of a subscription, lol.
(Not the OP.)

The LLMs are much more eager to please and to write lots of code. When I was younger, I would get distracted and play computer games (or comment on HN..), rather than churn out mountains of mediocre code all the time.
i'm trying to interpret in a way that looks favorable but the only way i can read it is "marriage and children are harder and sometimes people fail, therefore they're less valuable." i don't think that's true. optimizing for ease and risklessness seems like a really bad approach to life.

i don't think you need marijuana to reflect on life and societal norms. in fact, a lot of teenagers spend some years doing this. we all have questioning phases where we read a lot of philosophy and argue with adults and wonder whether the way things are is the way things ought to be. most people don't need marijuana to do it, and most people who use it aren't doing so in the pursuit of greater knowledge unconstrained by the defaults we've passed down through the ages.
Connecting information to that kind of personal gains sounds dangerous. There is probably non-negligible abuse potential, like college kids legally printing money at weird scale.
It appears Musk's employees don't have clearance - which is apparently why they were denied access by the USAID _security_ officials. Its sorta their jobs. Given a lot of us work in Tech, I doubt most of our security officers would accept "tons of line employess" have access as an excuse :-P Not to mention plugging in hard drives (how are federal system even allowing usb devices to be accessed?? My stupid work laptop locks that down ??)

Also, there may not be 'check and balances' but there is certainly procedure - which seems to be why lawsuits were filed. Specifically it appears around: "whether DOGE is a presidential advisory commission obeying federal transparency rules about certain practices, such as disclosure and hiring" and "alleged violation of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, which requires that "the advisory committee have a fair balance in viewpoints represented, that they do not meet in secret, and that their records and work product be made available for public inspection."

Anyway - guess we'll see how it plays out - but I wish there were some more clear cut explanations about
There's virtually no relationship between who gets a raise and who deserves it.

The people who get raises take active steps to obtain them. Typically that means pushing, or getting a new job. The reality is that life is not fair and corporate America is not a meritocracy.
>This might be true for developers that only work for companies and never in their own time maybe.

I'd argue that that is indeed the majority. Maybe they have some work from school days, but very few devs are making portfolio pieces years into the industry once they can flesh out their "Employment" sectiion.

IME you only need a portfolio as a non-junior if you are making a lateral move.
> Knowing quite a bit about the world of Costa Rican grocery stores

I love the internet. Mostly.
Totally it’s all about the kind games, trying to frame every paragraph, sentence or even word as a first draft. Don’t need to wipe an entire document imho.
If Star Wars was originally just meant to sell toys, why was there no other movies like it, just to sell toys. Or if there was, what were they?
"I'm thinking..."
I'd far rather get into a conversation. What tends to happen is a lot of ad hom and probably I'm as guilty as the next person. I do think that there are some key coding labels used by "one side" to refer to "the other side" -on my side we tend to reach to the F word (not F#, nor FP this time) a lot. On the other, the W word and Social Justice Warrior comes up a lot.

The last person I had a cogent discussion about this stuff with was interesting. This is years ago, before the first Trump presidency. Very strongly aligned to organized religion (Catholic) having come out of a wierd pentecostal movement and lost contact with family. Very much "destroy the joint" and so backing Trump, yet hated Vance with a vengeance as "not really from west virginia and a scumbag" -I wonder what he makes of things now? So many contradictory pressures! Nice guy. I like talking to people even when I don't agree.

I tend to flag stories which bore me (which may be bad behaviour) or which look to be seeking to monetize from low effort deliverable. It would have to be an utterly repellant top level line of reasoning for me to want to flag it. Something arguing for CSAM or Race theory. I avoid the trans debates like the plague, and CoC discussions tend to be there these days but I wouldn't flag one just because its about a CoC issue.
For me it seems useful for the opposite reason. There's a lot of garbage that you have to use where something could be a website but they want you to install some Android app. If I could run those Android apps on my PC, maybe it could be a slightly less terrible experience. Perhaps various dating apps as well, idk.
Can you provide a source for this?

I'm not aware of any RCT showing long-term improvement of Alzheimer's symptoms from any treatment. I am aware of 1) long-term slowing of worsening (not improvement) from anti-amyloid therapy, 2) short-term benefits but no change in long-term trajectory from other therapies, and 3) sensational claims without an RCT behind them.
They could moderate the price for eggs if they wanted. Tariffs on fertilizer will matter in the medium term, so they should have exempted those. Price supports on eggs have a history in the New Deal, so the politics of that will need a facelift to prevent associations with mid-century Democrats.
Using AI secretly in an interview setting where you were told the constraints excluded them or the interview required everything to be on the screen share even if they were permitted is fraudulent behavior. It’s not much different than having a surrogate interviewee at that point. You’d only being doing it to deceive the interviewer.

Open source contributions is a bad metric for interviewing too. People have lives outside a computer, if they aren’t doing open source contributions in their free time outside of work I wouldn’t hold that against them. If someone has those that’s great and I’d take a look, but I’m not disqualifying someone else for not working for free. Someone doing OSS as an interviewing badge of honor is a chump in my book. At least do it for principled reasons.
Regular reminder that LikSang was amazing, and killed mostly by Sony, but with help from other console manufacturers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lik_Sang
Absolutely agree and surprised it’s not getting mentioned in this thread with all the complaints about Lost. Most people don’t realize Lindelof did learn a lesson with Lost and corrected it with The Leftovers. One of the most under appreciated and amazing shows ever.
I don't think #1 is necessarily true. Take a common case for a global variable, a metric your app is exposing via prometheus. You have some global variable representing its value. Libraries like to hide the global variable sometimes with cuteness like MetricsRegistey.get_metric("foo") but they're globally readable and writable state. And in your function you do a little metric.observe_event() to increment your counter. I think having this value global helps reasoning because the alternative is going to be a really clunky plumbing of the variable down the stack.
DEI becomes racism when it causes someone to choose a less qualified candidate over a more qualified candidate. But it is fine if you have two equally good candidates and DEI causes you to choose the minority.
(I didn't downvote you.)

I agree that the predictions of a tanked economy are primarily coming from the same places that predicted a Kamala win.

And who knows, maybe it won't tank. Objectively though it's fair to say that tarrifs don't typically help an economy. Certainly not in the short term, and in thus case likely not in the long term.

The problem with tarifs in the US context is that they can go as quickly as they come. I'm not going to build a factory here (a multi-year project, with a multi-decade level of return) if the tarrifs can be lifted at any time.

So I'll either just find an alternate source of supply, or more likely (as in the case of Mexican fresh produce) just pass the cost onto the consumer.

Which means that the link between Kamala predictors and Economy predictors is irrelevant.

Will AWS come under threat? Probably not. Maybe it gets a bit more expensive for a while. When that happens obviously you have time to figure out a solution.

While it's useful to have a plan and process for a reasonably fast change, "fast" in this case is like a month. And if AWS is simply banned in Canada overnight, well frankly that'll tank Canada's economy so badly that the 2nd hand clothing business will be booming. (Ie Canada won't do that, and it seems unlikely that Trump/Bezos eould.)
With Trump’s first presidency I had read many times that people took him figuratively when they should have taken him literally. Not sure what the excuse is today, since he clearly said he was going to do the things he is doing now. Again taking him figuratively rather than literally?
Seconding this. Rare to see almost exactly the same vibe layed out like this by 3 different authors like they were doing exactly the same thing but optimizing for different levels of reader sophistication / paranoia / drug usage.

This is sometimes called conspiracy fiction, and one cool thing about it is that the form as such doesn’t strictly imply or require a specific genre, so it works just as well with any or all of sci-fi / noir / historical fiction. Apparently renowned author Dan brown can easily understand that mixing with actual treasure hunt instead of some kind of forbidden knowledge is part of the formula for giving it the most popular appeal.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_fiction
Okay. But do you think the line you quoted is incorrect?
A billion here, a billion there. Pretty soon you are talking real money.
They may not want to do that, just like they may not want to fix their own electrical issues.

You’re sidestepping their point of professionalism and attempting to shove in something else.
Is SD card "quality" really relevant? I've long wondered why it remains the problem only on Raspberry Pi. One quirk of Pi is it doesn't have proper power circuit, likely for legal reasons. Are such design oddities really not have to do with early SD failures specifically on Pis?
It may be possible to argue that current work in AI leads to some definition of intelligence, which apparently often is equaled to consciousness by some.

My take it is just unaware intelligence like in Peter Watts’ book Blindsight. A terrific read and a quite scary prospect.
Neither are most programmers
Cool, thanks! Looks like they still have a ways to go before some major pain points are ironed out, but at least the phones are actually phones now! I'll have to consider them next time I switch phones as I'd much rather the Linux ecosystem "support everything forever" attitude than the Android tradition of "vendor drops support 1.5 years after purchase".
So much padding. Not everyone is browsing on an phone or ipad.
Two companies that are so gigantic they combine to a great percentage of number of "company interactions" the average Westerner has on a daily basis.

Anyway, I don't think it contradicts my point? Your company exist, mom and pops exist and there's a whole spectrum between them, so it's not generalizable.
I'm tired of people crying wolf, like they've done pretty much every day since 2016.

I'm not a fan of Trump, but his critics have pretty much squandered their credibility, and his political opponents have dumb strategies and even dumber priorities (if you can even take them at their word).
They’ve been noted in a few HN threads before, FWIW.
The crushingly long and disrespectful interview process cut the bridge off first. If the job market becomes a problem of scale, people (especially programmers) will scale up as such. As the interviewers have with ATC.
The linked article says,

> Powered by a version of the upcoming OpenAI o3 model that’s optimized for web browsing and data analysis, it leverages reasoning to search, interpret, and analyze massive amounts of text, images, and PDFs on the internet, pivoting as needed in reaction to information it encounters.

If that's what you're referring to, then it doesn't seem that "explicit" to me. For example, how do we know that it doesn't use less thinking than o3-mini? Google's version of deep research uses their "not cutting edge version" 1.5 model, after all. Are you referring to something else?
I read a fair amount of sarcasm in the parent comment ;)
> The problem with getting ahead via Machiavellian tactics is that it only works at toxic companies

Right, so... every company.

It may be hard to see or realize this, but the higher you go up the corporate ladder, it's all politics. Maybe at the individual contributor level this isn't the case and it's a meritocracy, but at C-Suites? All politics.

Don't believe me? Look into the most desirable and successful CEOs. They stay at a company for maybe 5-6 years, make a lot of money for the company but run it into the ground, and then just jump ship. Not only does this work, but these are the most desirable and the highest paid CEOs.