skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing. But I think there are easier solutions if one works for sensitive projects such as an Apple hardware designer or a Google Android kernel programmer:

1. Complete separation of work and personal computers and cellphones.

2. Company cellphones only stay in the facility and are checked for vulnerabilities from time to time.

3. No bragging in public about your project or messing with other women/men other than one's own partner, so one does not expose personal vulnerabilities.
The big loss for me was when many apps took over the windows 3.0 MDI interface style. (Specifically thinking of code here). I was doing some hacking in codwarrior on Mac OS 9 a few weeks ago and it was such a joy to have 5 source code windows open any once - and a separate window with build or find results that weren’t wrapped in a miserable column. There’s actually a lot about Xcode I do like - but treating content panels like the old Puzzle desk accessory was never an improvement.
Your job as a manager is to cut noise down for your team, so that they can focus on the signal. If you cannot decide on your own that some things are just plain silly and not worth their time to democratize the decision, then you’re not cut out for this job - sorry.
Actually think this is an outdated opinion. It was true initially that writing your own was the correct approach, but that was because the proper abstractions had not been figured out. At this point, langgraph is the successor to langchain, and is much better.

It's natural that software in this space will evolve quickly, but that's not a proper argument for writing everything on your own.
It looks to me like the idea is, as you generally describe, that you segment your table into a 2d structure (well conceptually) and proceed to fill one ‘row’ at a time until it’s about 75% full, at which point you move on to the next one.

I don’t have time to fully grok the paper, but they claim this makes insertion consistently fast (I believe this until we’re at 75% of total capacity, but maybe they have some other mode for filling when they’re at 75% in every row?). They also claim retrieval is fast, and I didn’t read enough to understand how even retrieval works, or why it is faster.

I’ll put out that there a lot of times that it would be really nice to have a nearly full hash table still, you know, work. You can’t always change the size of one during execution of a program. And, in some environments memory counts a lot. That said, I would like to see and play with an implementation — I’m not sure this is ‘worth it’ in the general case.

It is also probably cache inefficient, as are most things about hash tables, with the exception of linear probing for reading out of a fairly full one, in which case, you get to just keep pulling stuff directly out of memory to check it. So, it’s not clear to me that this is performance wise worth it. Anyway, I’d like to fully understand it, it seems like an interesting new idea.
yeah that's mostly hype to get the next funding round
Words I typed into a paid service are now public on a huggingface repo. I don't care if it is anonymized. Fuck that. I am deleting my account.
Langchain is the WordPress of LLMs. The point of Langchain is the tooling, the platform, established conventions, community, support, and the ecosystem.
i posted a short summary about scriptlets on https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/1ilv9qg/brav...

see also https://brave.com/privacy-updates/32-custom-scriptlets
Architecture Student Invents Formwork That Reduces Concrete and Steel Usage
Part of this is that Manhattan has had a shift in focus between the two urban cores, from Lower Manhattan (where the original town was, and from which the city emanated, and still the financial and governmental core of the city) to midtown (which has become the cultural core of the city) over the last century or so. The language of geography takes some time to catch up.
You missed the part about government fronting $500B for AI.
Confirming this. I am also completely certain that gratuitous CAPTCHA use is banned for government systems by my country's set of laws governing their implementation. The judicial system and the community have not matured enough to consider this a breach of law worthy of fighting against...
Yep! I was on my phone, sorry about that.

Did it ever used to only show wall time? Or am I just completely misremembering?
Ha, that's a funny one -- Shuford is an unusual one. If they'd gone with "Shefford", it would have sounded 100% Anglicized:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shefford,_Bedfordshire
“… the market was collapsed to socialism …”

Whaaaat?!
"Do your own research" has turned into codeword for "Open yourself up to quackery." Nobody uses it to mean do actual research. It really means: Go onto YouTube or search and find all the various Herbal-this and Natural-that and Abc-Oils and Xyz-Supplements that confirm your suspicions that doctors are lying, and that managed to SEO their way to the top. Or, more recently, go onto your favorite political echo chamber and trust medical advice from pundits.

When I need my car fixed, I don't go to the local psychic or consult Fox News. I go to a mechanic.
Use /Tmp/ More
Idea guys are a dime in a dozen.
I see how it came across that way, but I was talking about the effects that language like that tends to have, whether you intended it that way or not.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
"I don't really care, Margaret."[1]

If we end up $2 million or $100 million less to eliminate fraud that's what we have to pay. Fraud is unacceptable, period. Defrauding people's taxes is heinous, shame on you for defending it.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy7rk8djJek
I like AI, and I use it every day. I'm not a software dev, but I do write software professionally, and I also use AI for designing and architecting solutions. I feel the technology is eminently useful, and it's made me maybe 20-30% more productive, which is massive. I can reconcile all this without believing a lot of the hype and outlandish claims, and without feeling it's a cognitive disonance.
While curious discussion is certainly a worthy aspiration for HN, it's inevitable that some some objects of curiosity will also be polarizing. The problem with the flagging mechanism and its lack of transparency is that a small group of people can stymie curious inquiry.

While I understand that you don't want to share flagging or voting preferences (though I don't consider this intimate data myself), it's hard for people have confidence in the flagging/vouching mechanism because there is no indicator of volume or frequency. One might argue that if there was it would be gamed, but the site is obviously being gamed as is. One indicator is the elevated volume of baity comments from throwaway accounts on some discussions.
https://archive.ph/2025.02.10-024758/https://www.bloomberg.c...
By all accounts.
Raspberry Pi Pico code editing and firmware flashing from a web browser
oh good it's finally gonna hatch, our time is up
Okay.

$ e2scrub_all --help

e2scrub_all must be run as root

$ sudo e2scrub_all --help

[sudo] password for dan:
/usr/sbin/e2scrub_all: illegal option -- -
Usage: /usr/sbin/e2scrub_all [OPTIONS]
-n: Show what commands e2scrub_all would execute.
-r: Remove e2scrub snapshots.
-A: Scrub all ext[234] filesystems even if not mounted.
-V: Print version information and exit.

(Checking for being root before checking for --help is also frustrating)
Isn’t the problem that the scaling behavior only dominates with infinite n?

If you have a constant factor, that doesn’t go into the scaling rule, so having something scale (log x)2 could still be 100 times more expensive than something that scales linearly with x for all x smaller than 2^100.
Ok, yes that is a particular term that describes a later process. I meant it in the literal sense of writing code and making a business, not the capitalized version.
ah so DOI meets archive.org in a participatory opt-in sort of way?
Proofs of constant time operations include time taken to resize the table. This takes much more time (linear in the size of the table), on insertions when the table is resized, but that time is amortized over all the insertions already done. It still works out to constant average time if you grow the table enough each time (once it starts to get too full) so it happens with decreasing frequency.
how um is this different from pypi or public repos in other languages... you could try to publish junk anywhere
But you could do some hybrid, where you do greedy fill for a while and then switch to this fancier fill once your table is approaching full (using some heuristic)?
Heh. Fair enough :-)

I just don't really see how that one, single, extra three second step is much to get upset about, and I think it's just welcome that it rubs me in the face that I got it wrong. It makes me not gloss over the help text and start double dashing my way into the next to command.

But sure, I see your point. I just wished K&R had had the forethought to establish a proper standard. I don't particularly care what it would have been.
I LOLed at that, thank you. Infocom games were amazing.
Even when something isn't a galactic algorithm "how well it maps to being done efficiently in real hardware with hardware sized data sizes" is more and more often the important bit over "slightly better bounds at infinity". The former is probing the edge of mathematics while the latter is probing the edges of practical construction so they rarely seem to align much anymore at these depths.
Give F-Droid a try! There aren't quite so many games but all of them are Open Source and none contain ads. App quality skyrockets when you only download FOSS Android software instead of the Play Store garbage.
I think this comment is based on some confusion about how languages spread. Languages spread along with people, but while a local language may be replaced, the people are not generally replaced with the language. There may have been some genetic mixture, there may have been a time where they were conquered by them for a time, but there's no sense in which the people who wrote those works _were_ Yamnayan, any more than the Germans are. They wouldn't have a story about having a far away homeland because they wouldn't have had a far away homeland, and nobody would have remembered any previous language because that language had been replaced thousands of years before, and well before anybody started writing anything down. They gradually picked up the language of either invaders or their trading partners, just as has happened many other times in history.

Edited to add: there are basically no migration stories in _any_ indo-european mythological cycles or oral traditions. That's not evidence that there wasn't spread through, migration or invasion, but it does indicate that it was a gradual process that wouldn't have been particularly noticeable in any one life time.
Okay "law bro", get real. He's a finance CEO gutting the CFPB as we speak: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-02-10/doge-back...

America wrote and upheld several antitrust acts with the express intention of stopping this. It's not enough to say "there isn't a precedent so it's fine", your credentials as an attorney do not obviate the illegal conflict of interests at play. You're being obstinate to defend moral absurdity to the highest degree.

Businesses will sue, they will cite damages and they will have a rudimentary path to proving it. Unless America thinks free market capitalism is a sham, the only way Musk can get away with this is fleeing the country in 4 years. I would love to hear your assessment of how a fair court under American law would rule in Musk's favor.
Sounds like time to exchange income tax for estate tax.
You'd be surprised how many "normal" people initially revolted against seatbelt laws and protested through noncompliance. Even the people who accepted that seatbelt use was safer, refused to use them because of the usual "The Government Won't Tell Me What To Do!" mentality.
Actually, I think the story might’ve had to do with the communal award (of separate electorates to untouchables)
Dup 3 hours before this post. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43002458
You may find the left's ideas extreme, but they played by the rules of the game and respected the Constitution.

Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, and now, he's operating as if the Constitution and the law simply didn't exist. Birthright citizenship, as guaranteed by the 14th Amendment? Executive order to eliminate it. Agencies established and funded by Congress? Eliminated by Elon Musk with no consultation. Musk hasn't even been confirmed by the Senate, as the Constitution requires. Trump just appointed him czar of everything, and now he goes around firing people and shutting down congressionally mandated agencies.
Agree with the first several paragraph.
1% for founding engineer is a fucking joke.
I'd rather be a street beggar than working for that 1%.
Oh, that is true. "It" doesn't have to do human reasoning, at all.

But we have to at least define "reasoning" for the given manifestation of "it". Otherwise it's just birdspeak. Because reasoning is "the action of thinking about something in a logical, sensible way", which has to happen somewhere if not finger-pointable, then at least somehow scannable or otherwise introspectable. Otherwise it's yet another omnidude in the sky who made it all so that you cannot see him, but there will be hints if you believe.

Anyway, we have to talk something specific, not handwavy. Even if you prove that they CAN reason for some definition of it, both the proof and the definition must have some predictive/scientific power, otherwise they are as useless as nil thought about it.

For example, if you prove that the reasoning is somehow embedded as a spatial in-network set of dimensions rather than in-time, wouldn't that be literally equivalent to "it just knows the patterns"? What would that term substitution actually achieve?
Most real-world hash table implementations are not "theoretical" but depends on "real" parameters like L2 cache, assembly instruction sizes, etc
The pdf is 23 pages long in dual column format… I used OpenAI to summarize it for me, which equally felt as helpfully detailed as it did hypocritical. But the ending summary gave me a paragraph of generated words to think about:

“This study highlights the dual impact of GenAI—both as a cognitive aid and a potential crutch. While it improves efficiency, it also risks reducing independent analytical skills. Careful use of AI, combined with critical verification strategies, will be essential for maintaining long-term intellectual engagement.”
I think it’s partially a generational thing. I know a couple of “Bill”s my age but couldn’t count the “Will”s.

My father and older age though there’s not one person I know called “Will” but I know countless “Bill”s
This is a good read that is a great starting point for thinking about this. It essentially takes the extreme position - SaaS no longer needs a UI, because the LLM is the UI.

In reality, as always, I suspect the truth will be somewhere in between. SaaS products that succeed will be those that have a good UI _and_ and good API that LLMs can use.

An LLM is not always the best interface, particularly for data access. For most people, clicking a few times in the right places is preferable to having to type out (or even speak aloud) "Show me all the calls I did today", waiting for the result, having to follow up with "include the time per call and the expected deal value", etc etc.

There is undoubtedly an opportunity for disruption here, but I think an LLM only SaaS platform is going to be a very tough sell for at least the next decade.
Surprised at how much the dummy’s head misses the airbag in the 2013 model but hits it almost in the center in the 2016.
It's actually rather common to spell its as k, as well as K. I think q is more common than Q.
s1: Simple Test-Time Scaling
Well, it would take 100 million years for the atmosphere to be gone. The UV would be a worse problem because it would kill all the plants.
Sibling comment mentions this specific field doesn't have author ordering.
They're going the side-loading route because they risk being banned or because of breaking Google Play policies?
The classiest person I ever knew placed me before him on a paper just to be nice. Not only was he responsible for getting the grants funding our research, but the heft of both the theoretical and paper authorship work. I'm no longer in R&D and/or academia, but at that point I decided to do the same for someone if I ever have the opportunity to write a noteworthy paper with someone who is my junior.
Decent Password Mgr
As an admin, confirmation of employee compliant passwords is challenging. I'm curious as to what options exist, regardless of their technology approach. In other words, automated administrative oversight is nice, but not necessary as folks could submit screenshots to assert compliance.

The following criteria seems to be basic functionality needed. What apps or services offer support?

1. Low friction:
a) app updates are can be seamlessly performed via say Apple's App Store
b) web page integration, independent of browser
2. Shared vaults of passwords: wifi passwords in multiple offices fit this use case; also teams often have a need to share passwords for common services
3. Employee password validation: dups, weak, vulnerable...
4. Passkey support in password manager

1Password is an option, but suffers many shortcomings. What other options exist?
I’ve been working a lot longer. But really only started focusing on my career in 2012.

Get off the hedonic treadmill or never get on it. I’ve done my stint in BigTech. But I’m good with the very high end of “enterprise dev” comp.

Sure, but look at what they’re doing. Are they in the same salary band, same basic job description they were in ten years ago?

This described me from 2002 (5 years into my career) until 2014. My compensation was basically stagnant all those years inflation adjusted. I spent a lot of that time until around 2012-2014 as an “expert beginner”.

By 2014, I knew the only way to move up and stay competitive was to lead projects, start dealing with architecture and get closer to “the business”.

In 2020, I pivoted to cloud consulting specializing in app dev and was working more on strategy than tactics and became more customer focused. By “consulting” I don’t mean “staff augmentation”.

I can easily see myself doing the same thing 5-10 years from now. The technology will change. But the focus on strategy and adding business value won’t

I’m not saying “learn cloud”. I am saying do something that involves dealing with decision makers and helping companies use technology to create business value.

Don’t be a ticket taker.

https://www.seangoedecke.com/party-tricks/
Here’s another interesting connection: the Italian forename Enzo is a derivative of the German name Heinz, which is a diminutive of Heinrich and cognate of the given name Henry.
> there must be something in it

Subsidies.
Krapivin made this breakthrough by being unaware of Yao's conjecture.

The developer of Balatro made an award winning deck builder game by not being aware of existing deck builders.

I'm beginning to think that the best way to approach a problem is by either not being aware of or disregarding most of the similar efforts that came before. This makes me kind of sad, because the current world is so interconnected, that we rarely see such novelty with their tendency to "fall in the rut of thought" of those that came before. The internet is great, but it also homogenizes the world of thought, and that kind of sucks.
Interesting idea, but I wasn't able to get the digital implementation to respond at all.
Who Owns Ai.com?
I think you think the llm is a magic box with an intelligent being inside that can magically do whatever you want it to, somehow. It is software. It has capabilities and limitations. Learn them, and use it appropriately. Or don't, you don't have to use it. But don't expect it to just do whatever you think it should do.
AGI / human overlords that cater to AGI won't need earth resources for more than a few decades. There will be a bootstrapping period, reliant on earth resources but soon it will be much cleaner to have solar/nuclear in space and have robotic mining of raw resources from asteroids.
There's no reason for an English language website to cater to people who don't know what snow is. How can it be discriminatory to have a question a user can't comprehend, when they won't be able to comprehend the rest of the website either? Even blind people who can read English Braille and input text in English know that snow is white, even if they've never seen it.

If a website is multilingual, it can offer language/region selection and add appropriate questions for each of them.
Daniel Rock has done some interesting work on the ROI of AI in general (also, I believe two of his papers are referenced in this study). Note that this doesn't explicitly restrict itself to covering LLMs, but... still a very interesting body of work.

https://www.danielianrock.com/research
Microsoft's performance-based job cuts begin
Huh... I had figured "Bartholomew" meant "son of" something, but I had no idea what Tholomew could possibly be.
Nice, I'm the founder of Ayvri (acquired) we were doing 3d virtual scenes for lots of different use cases. The Tor des Geants used our 3D map for their event one year, it was one of my favorites to see in 3D.

The publicly available stuff is gone now, but there's still a grainy poor resolution video showing what we used to do.

https://ayvri.com/
I definitely notice a correlation between sensitivity to noise and light (funny that you mentioned that too) and anxiety, but I'll add some irony here - also with insomnia.
https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/library-and-publications/library/bl...
ok prove it. I'm thinking of a number right now between 1-10,000. Show me the number the LLM guesses. You can definitively prove this statement for me.

It's a probability problem really. The range of a prompt has billions of possibilities. If it arrived at a correct answer within that range then the probability it got there without reasoning is miniscule.

Same with this mind reading thing. Prove it.
[dupe] Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43004889
Sam’s reply on twitter[0]

no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want

[0]https://x.com/sama/status/1889059531625464090?
Our founding engineering team is going to be capped at 3 or 4 max engineers, and to get 20% you need to take a pay cut. So far people have generally taken the higher cash offers. The token grants on those translate to 4-8%, which is still more than typical.

It also depends a lot on the person, I have a pretty high bar for "exceptional": https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/done-and-gets-thing...
Would you know how much of the total runtime is devoted to the initial chunking process? Amdahl's law would prefer an entirely speculative approach in the limit, but I could imagine that the 2x overhead might not be worth it for reasonable file sizes and core counts.

(But even then, 1.6 s would be quite a feat. It makes me wonder if the K implementation is partially lazy, as you say typical Polars usage is.)