skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's surprising to me that the people most knowledgeable about the models often appear to be the biggest believers - perhaps they're self-interestedly pumping a valuation or are simply obsessed with the idea of building something straight from the science fiction stories they grew up with.

"Believer" really is the most appropriate label here. Altman or Musk lying and pretending they "AGI" right around the corner to pump their stocks is to be expected. The actual knowledgeable making completely irrational claims is simply incomprehensible beyond narcissism and obscurantism.

Interestingly, those who argue against the fiction that current models are reasoning, are using reason to make their points. A non-reasoning system generating plausible text is not at all a mystery can be explained, therefore, it's not sufficient for a system to generate plausible text to qualify as reasoning.

Those who are hyping the emergence of intelligence out of statistical models of written language on the other hand rely strictly on the basest empiricism, e.g. "I have an interaction with ChatGPT that proves it's intelligent" or "I put your argument into ChatGPT and here's what it said, isn't that interestingly insightful". But I don't see anyone coming out with any reasoning on how ability to reason could emerge out of a system predicting text.

There's also a tacit connection made between those language models being large and complex and their supposed intelligence. The human brain is large and complex, and it's the material basis of human intelligence, "therefore expensive large language models with internal behavior completely unexplainable to us, must be intelligent".

I don't think it will, but if the release of the deepseek models effectively shifts the main focus towards efficiency as opposed to "throwing more GPUs at it", that will also force the field to produce models with the current behavior using only the bare minimum, both in terms of architecture and resources. That would help against some aspects of the mysticism.

The biggest believers are not the best placed to drive the research forward. They are not looking at it critically and trying to understand it. They are using every generated sentence as a confirmation of their preconceptions. If the most knowledgeable are indeed the biggest believers, we are in for a long dark (mystic) AI winter.
It advertises that it runs locally and that it is "extensible" but then requires you to set up a remote/external provider as the first step of installation? That's a rather weird use of "local" and "extensible". Do words mean anything anymore?
I live in a Midwest state that allows gambling completely unrestricted, including apps where you just give a credit card and press a slot machine button and (inevitably) lose all your money.

I also watch the local news each morning as part of my morning routine.

It’s utterly ridiculous how many gambling ads are on tv now. Like outside of election season with political ads, it feels like 9 in 10 ads are for some gambling app. Sometimes a casino app, often sports betting. It feels so dystopian, like if I were an addict it would be seriously triggering me how constant and incessant the ads are. It’s always felt so strange to me that we allow this.

I’ve also had family members lose their livelihoods to gambling apps. They have perfected the addictiveness, giving you free credits if you lose too much, to keep you going. It’s extremely difficult to actually get money out of the apps too. They want you to gamble it all away, but slowly. Of all the things that have changed in this part of the country in my lifetime, this is the most obviously bad one, the one that makes me feel the most ashamed of how bad we’ve collectively let things get.
In my experience, it's never been an administrative push, but a desire to be more precise, more inclusive, or both, or to reflect the stated preferences of the populations we work with.

The only time I've had to fight with a scientific publisher about a term was when they errantly applied a ban on causal language to a study I was part of.
I don't know how useful this is, but my immediate reaction to the animation on the front page was "that's literally worse then the alternative".

Because the example given was "change the color of a component".

Now, it's obviously fairly impressive that a machine can go from plain text to identifying a react component and editing it...but the process to do so literally doesn't save me any time.

"Can you change the current colour of headercomponent.tsx to <some color> and increase the size vertical to 15% of vh" is a longer to type sentence then the time it would take to just open the file and do that.

Moreover, the example is in a very "standard" format. What happens if I'm not using styled components? What happens if that color is set from a function? In fact none of the examples shown seem gamechanging in anyway (i.e. the Confluence example is also what a basic script could do, or a workflow, or anything else - and is still essentially "two mouseclicks" rather then writing out a longer English sentence and then I would guess, waiting substantially more time for inferrence to run.
Could you also use ZFS or BTRFS with copies? I'm not sure I'd trust any of these drives.
Then can you share a link? I've seen stuff about negative economic effects of compulsive gambling, but never anything at the aggregate level including the non-problem gamblers. It seems really odd any country would allow gambling if the aggregate effect is negative and so well known. Politicians always talk about the economic benefits (beyond just taxes), but they've also been known to lie.
It straight up says that on the website: https://lumon.industries/company/legal/

"This website is not affiliated with Apple, Endeavor Content, Red Hour Films, or anything else remotely official. It’s made by a dude in Kentucky."
A lot of people are acting like the end of history is here.
Job Queues in Go (2017)
What is the programming interface for these drivers? E.g. how do I actually call the NPU? Any existing software?
So depressing to hear that “because of rampant cheating”

As a person looking for a job, I’m really not sure what to do. If people are lying on their resumes and cheating in interviews, it feels like there’s nothing I can do except do the same. Otherwise I’ll remain jobless.

But to this day I haven’t done either.
Bit annoying is that when companies ask for a portfolio, they often mean GitHub. Lot of non-technical hiring people I discussed this with were confused by the fact that there are other ways to contribute, like mailing lists.
Can you find a link for me if it’s not hard?

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/63bc25b4d3bf7...

This looks fairly official and cites 1.05 to 1.77 billion £ in societal cost on page 6. That’s less than 14 billion £.
> The game aims for realistic vehicle specifications, like armour thickness, penetration values etc.

Yet the gameplay is very arcadey and not very realistic.
Hmm I'm a bit confused by your question. Emojis are a Unicode range, and the only way Unicode is displayed on a monitor is through -- a font. So just like with text, if a website doesn't load it's own font, the OS-level fonts are used. I'm not sure what the alternative would be.
The amyloid hypothesis, as described to me by someone working in the field, is not only wrong, but it is harmful to the patients. His research is studying that it is more probable that the plaques are actually protective and do not cause the memory loss and other disease symptoms directly. This idea was pushed aside and ridiculed for years all because of the greed and lies by people like Eliezer Masliah.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2907530/

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3233/JAD-2009-1151

https://www.utmb.edu/mdnews/podcast/episode/alzheimer's---co...
Also a great question.
https://fight-flash-fraud.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Not everyone will see it as a coup. Some of us will see it as a shake-up which Mr T did during his last term just less aggressive. Watching this from the side-lines I see identical behavior to several companies I worked for that had a change of the guard and started doing extreme things as a way of putting their foot down. I never agreed with their methods but sometimes a shake-up was healthy in the long term. We've stagnated for a long time and geopolitics is changing world wide. I don't know where all of this lands and what will stick. I believe it will probably be messy long after the dust settles.
Hmmm, I think it was this:

IBM announced it was discontinuing its involvement in server-side Swift development, including Kitura

Yeah I just mixed up Kitura with Vapor.
"And all the other desktop app frameworks." I refer to Qt and and the other desktop frameworks too. Having an actual language and runtime where the UI toolkit is just that, a toolkit. Don't focus on Swing, that's just what I'm familiar with.
The internet of 1995 is very different from the internet of today.
the huge push for youtube shorts is to compete with tiktok and instagram for that segment of the market. the longer form videos are a different segment of the market, they aren't entirely related
Very true. The most recent "leak" was of a document that is available on archive.org and has been for years[1]. But the bottoms of the pages have "NATO RESTRICTED" printed, so it was declined, and news sites once again exploded with "War Thunder player leaks secret military documents on forum!!"

[1] https://archive.org/details/da-7-flight-manual-2003
We were warning people for years. We tried telling people to vote. They just couldn't be bothered, and a third of the country have been radicalized to the point they only wish they could shoot "undesirables" in broad daylight.

It's too late now. They control every branch of the government, they've totally removed the mask and have begun unabashed purges and passing laws making voting against them illegal (see Tennessee this week).
Yet people are fine about their employers doing it
The harm is to every other vendor who actually pays their taxes, and every resident of the country who now gets lower services for the taxes they pay, because those scammers are cheating at scale.
I want the marketers to say it's 80% emissions when it's 80% emissions. When it's zero emissions then they can say zero emissions.

Better is not the enemy of good. But lying is still the enemy of trust. We need trust if you want to push policy.

Example; a "zero emissions" plan that actually produces 80% emissions might get funded over a better plan that produces just 60%. Why? They claimed zero!

Now it really is the enemy of good. Isn't it?
Why does AI slop feel so bad to read?
wellll, actualy I like AI slop, not to read, but because it is just good enough to replace human slop, but easier to detect and then stop reading, so I am treating it as a net plus for overall slop avoidence.
There is very little good content percentage wise
and as a result, I apreciate and savor the few gems that come my way.
We already ship food stuffs from the USA to China where it is processed and it gets sent back to the USA, because the cost to do this shipping back and forth and labor is so low it undercuts any North American processor. This is what free trade and low cost of bunker fuel, zero consequences for heavy pollution for container ships have wrought.

One example:

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/nw-salmon-sent-to-chin...
> typeface change

Long live plain text email.

() ascii ribbon campaign - against HTML e-mail
/\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
Correct.

Viruses are traditionally “not life” because they don’t grow, convert nutrients to energy, or reproduce independently.

(Some smart commenter will point out something, but there is some difference. The complexity chasm between bacterium and virus is huge.)

But applying a colloquial definition, they can be.
On our side we've transitioned to only in person interviews.

The biggest thing I've noticed is take home challenges have lost all value. Since GPT can plausibly solve almost anything you throw at it, and it doesn't give you any indication of how the candidate thinks.

And to be fair, I want a candidate that uses GPT / Cursor / whatever tools get the job done. But reading the same AI solution to a coding challenge doesn't tell me anything about how they think or approach problems.
The lie doesn’t have to be intentional. All it takes is a really simple accidental debug logging flag to collect what amounts to a GDPR violation.

The point is that no effort was made to implement a technical solution to protect privacy. So it’s upsettingly trivial to violate the GDPR unknowingly and any company that is even a little unscrupulous (of which there are hundreds) can easily ignore the law.
Did I say anything about access control? There's a big difference between "this has to happen server side for security reasons" and "this has to happen server side because our UI/client language is so hapless that it can't handle any amount of additional processing".
Doom running on Apple Lightning to HDMI dongle [video]
https://www.flagsarenotlanguages.com/blog/why-flags-do-not-r...
Nice story, but it doesn’t really match the reality I’ve seen.

One example: I was involved in the implementation of Article 15/17 at one of the FAANG companies. Throughout the process, we had many meetings with governmental bodies in the EU and, specifically, with the European CMOs (many of these are government controlled in Europe). It was clear as day that all they wanted from us was to pay up. It was literal extortion and had nothing to do with helping the "creatives" or fair competition or anything else.
> Cosmopolitan Libc makes C a build-anywhere run-anywhere language, like Java, except it doesn't need an interpreter or virtual machine. Instead, it reconfigures stock GCC and Clang to output a POSIX-approved polyglot format that runs natively on Linux + Mac + Windows + FreeBSD + OpenBSD + NetBSD + BIOS on AMD64 and ARM64 with the best possible performance.
They don't need to adjust.

Here's a real-life example:
You show up alone at the airport with a full-face mask and gray coveralls. You are perfectly hidden. But you are the only such hidden person, and there is still old cam footage of you in the airport parking lot, putting on the clothes. The surveillance team can let you act anonymous all you want. They still know who you are, because your disguise IS the unique fingerprint.

Now the scenario you're shooting for here is:

10 people are now walking around the airport in full-face masks and gray coveralls. You think, "well now they DO NOT know if it's ME, or some terrorist, or some random other guy from HN!"

But really, they still have this super-specific fingerprint (there are still less than 1 person in a million with this disguise) and all they need is ONE identifying characteristic (you're taller than the other masked people, maybe) to know who's who.

They didn't need to adjust their system one bit.
You can try and run it yourself but you are going to need Stargate-level hardware to do it.
Thanks for your comment! That's a great idea. This project uses WebGPU to run AI models, and as WebGPU becomes more widely available across platforms, I believe it can be extended to Firefox, Safari, and desktop environments. I will make a new post when it supports other platforms.
I'd be interested to understand how / what types of proposals exist to solve this very real ergonomic issue.

As I stated in my original post, the implementations of interfaces/composition that I have used (primarily C# and Rust) are stateless, so you must always re-implement. And honestly, if Rust were to say, allow the specification of struct members in trait definitions, one could argue that their structs are really sealed/final classes, just using different keywords.

I am genuinely curious, because I do believe that people have a valid point that composition does tend to lead to less object spaghetti than inheritance, even if I can't quite pinpoint why from a purely theoretical standpoint (my belief is that they're "holding it wrong").
Is it correct to presume that the obfuscated samples might be hard to come by for the average interested viewer?
So I gave goose a whirl and I actually really like the approach they are taking, especially because I use emacs and not vscode. I would recommend people try it out on an existing project—the results are quite good for small, additive features and even ones that are full stack.

Here's a short writeup of my notes from trying to use it https://notes.alexkehayias.com/goose-coding-ai-agent/
I put it off as well, I figured precedence and associativity is something I'd learn later after I figured out how to stop my **ing grammars from looping forever. But it was right there in front of me!

When I looked at someone else's working code, they'd laid it out so that each layer could only call into the same layer or the next layer down:

parseSum = ...
parseProduct = ...
parseTerm = ...

which should eliminate the mutual-infinite-recursion case, since the control flow can't ever go upward. And it didn't look like a co-incidence that they'd laid the code out from low-precedence mathematical operators to high-precedence mathematical operators.

The code I ended up using is something like

parseSum = parseProduct then many('+' then parseProduct) // where 'many' means 0 or more.

But if you don't have 'many' in your grammar syntax, it looks like this would work instead:

parseSum = parseProduct + parseSum

But the above is wrong for two reasons. Firstly, you need to have a '+', so there's no way to parse an expression that doesn't have a '+' in it. But it also right-associates and you end up with (1+(2+(3+4))) which is probably fine for addition (give or take some C-int-overflow-rules), but breaks division. I think you can fix both by putting the terminal case first, and then left-recursing after that:

parseSum = parseProduct | parseSum + parseProduct

Then there's only one remaining issue to deal with - what do you do when you actually want to loop? Sums can contain products, and products can contain sums (as long as they're in parens.) Well, parens bind tighter than any other precedence, so they go straight to the bottom:

parseSum = ...
parseProduct = ...
parseTerm = ...
parseParens = '(' parseSum ')'

So we've broken the no-upward-control-flow rule, but is it an infinite loop? The only case where control flow can go upward is if you consume a '(' first, so I say no.
> I will never believe it’s possible for an LLM to feel.

Why is that, given that, as you state, we don’t know what “feeling” actually is?
For the time being, I’ve banned LLMs in my interviews.

I want to see how the candidate reasons about code. So I try to ask practical questions and treat them like pairing sessions.

- Given a broke piece of code, can you find the bug and get it working?

- Implement a basic password generator, similar to 1Password (with optional characters and symbols)

If you can reason about code without an LLM, then you’ll do even better with an LLM. At least, that’s my theory.

I never ask trick questions. I never pull from Leetcode. I hardly care about time complexity. Just show me you can reason about code. And if you make some mistakes, I won’t judge you.

I’m trying to be as fair as possible.

I do understand that LLMs are part of our lives now. So I’m trying to explore ways to integrate them into the interview. But I need more time to ponder.
I agree with the "build things locally" thing, but that only works for products that are popular enough in an area/country to justify production, and, through economy of scale, allow for a low enough price to be competitive.

Meanwhile those who need some niche items, for example people with a niche hobby, end up having to pay more for the same things, because they simply have no other choice. Or if they're lucky they can pay several times the price to a local (usually online) store, getting the same product, probably from the exact same factory line, just for several times the price, because now there's an extra middleman.
Like Phil, I always assume the negative comments have a 35% accuracy rating.

I hope your child builds the next unicorn startup using this API!
Are there any other parasites you wouldn't work for?
> Its in most countries interest to build things locally if they can.

Why is it in a country's interest to build things "locally"? Is that true in all cases?
Likewise. I will happily work in the vast majority of legal industries in the UK, they all have varying degrees of social good about them. I might not get a warm fuzzy feeling about all of them, but a job's a job.

But I won't touch gambling, especially in the UK. It a nasty, predatory industry that preys on people. They know they are doing it, but they hide behind BS excuses and empty promises, and time after time investigations clearly show they intentionally goad on problem gamblers.

To be clear, this isn't a moral objection to people gambling. If you enjoy it, and are in control, then have fun. It's the companies, they are scum.
If you have time, wrap your arm in your jacket and shove that into its mouth. Otherwise bare arm as deep into its mouth as you can. In both cases use your other arm to strangle it.
Thanks! Still polishing a few corners...
There is hope. The upcoming US State privacy laws are resulting in IP addresses having the last octet blanked out, and IDFA's zeroed out, at least for SSPs and DSPs. Companies such as Apple and Google will still have this info since they control the OS.
Hey stranger :D
A lot of long videos have very little informational content but they become long because their creator rambles, repeats himself, tells shitty repetitive jokes and wastes time with sarcasm and then clarifying those sarcastic remarks because otherwise some people won't get it, etc.

Drachinifel is a prime example of this. The channel "WWII US Bombers" is an example of the opposite, somebody creating information dense short videos because he has laser tight focus and no time for joking around. (Examples chosen for the conceptual proximity of their content, historic military ships and historic military aircraft.)
It handles hundreds of thousands of requests a day, that's pretty good!

But you are right, SOC2 is the next step for sure.
For MITM like this you need to install certificates into the devices and it won’t work for apps with pinned certificates.
Nothing, as long as the grant is for something non-religious, like running a food bank or providing clothes for anyone, regardless of their faith.
Traditional conservative values are pretty much dead in the current Republican party. It has become a cult of personality instead.
This is a fun read if you want to automate the RC car. It's from a couple years ago, there might be easier/better way to achieve similar results today:
https://hackaday.com/2021/10/25/fast-indoor-robot-watches-ce...
For those tests I never follow the rules, I just make something quick and dirty because I refuse to spend unpaid hours. In the interview the first question is why I didnt follow the instructions, and they think my reason is fair.

Companies seem to think that we program just for fun and ask to make a full blown app... also underestimating the time candidates actually spend making it.
It's pretty rampant in the US too.

I don't think a little gambling is bad, but the endless ads are a huge problem. They should really make all advertising of commonly addictive stuff banned - gambling, alcohol, etc. They should also do a better job of educating kids in school about the dangers and tricks.

They were going you $100+ to open an account, or doing a deposit match up to $1k here. It's exactly what drug dealers do to get people hooked or scam artists to con someone - here's a free taste, or a deal that's too good to pass up.