skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're confusing language with ontology.

> Reasoning is a social construct

The word "reasoning" is a "social construct," as all words are. Reasoning itself is not. Our brains do things. Reasoning is one of them. The word "reasoning" is one of the labels, the approximations, that we use when we name that activity.

Changing the label doesn't change the fact that there exists something that we're naming.

The person you're answering is asking whether reasoning -- that thing that really, actually exists -- is one of the activities LLMs perform. It's a valid question.

And the answer is that LLMs do not reason. Or if they do, we have no evidence of it or way of verifying that we actually understand qua reasoning the activity the LLM is performing (which is to say nothing of the fact that reasoning requires a reasoner). Anyone who says that LLMs reason is mistaking special effects/simulation for reality and, in essence, believes that whenever they see a picture of a dog on their computer screens, there must be a real, actual dog somewhere in the computer, too.
I find the impact driver is a bit nicer when using Phillips screws, the pause gives it time to re seat, but I generally try and avoid Phillips in the first place

Also I think a lot of people have both a drill and an impact driver because they come in a sets at a bit of a discount.
> In git you can `git stash`, commit the unrelated change and then run `git stash pop` to get your in-progress changes back.

Not necessarily. You can just commit your changes, switch to whatever branch you want to work on, and then when you switch back to the old branch you can resume working as always.

This is not a Git thing. Even Mercurial advocated for this approach, and sold it as the only and true way of stashing changes. Mercurial only received support for a stash-like feature much later and in the form of an extension.

Also, even though git stash can be used in workflows that involve switching branches, it is suitable primarily for very short-lived tasks that prevent you from committing changes to a branch. Things like pulling changes from a remote branch or switching brsnched when you have random local changes in place (I.e., changed to config files for troubleshooting purposes)
saw one of deepfake schwarzenegger hocking fake viagra, astounding
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Fair point, I was specifically referring to the CPython interpreter. I don’t know if there’s a benchmark that compares PyPy to JIT-compiled Ruby.
Some SQL problems that make people scratching their head, esProc is OK, but you need to change the original programming habits, which is actually not easy, A drawback is that the SQL provided by esProc is not comprehensive enough, it is only a subset of SQL92. There are no problems with regular ones, including subqueries and WITH. However, EXISTS is not yet supported, and there is no window function available. Of course, there may be more, and I am still trying
omg yes this
Thank you for the feedback! Some notes:

> The obvious feature gap I see is that it should be possible to provide both the encoder and decoder with a common "context" or prompt to preload the LLM with.

There's no option for this in the CLI interface, but you can modify the context in `src/textcoder/coding.py` by changing the `_INITIAL_CONVERSATION` variable. Right now it's configured to ask the LLM to output text in the style of a tweet.

> You may want to encode the user's data backwards so that it's easier for users to make arbitrary changes to their message to escape bad covertext output.

A random 16-byte value is prepended to each message to serve as the KDF salt and the AES-GCM-SIV nonce. This has the additional benefit that every output is always different, even if they encode the same message. So if the covertext is bad, you can just re-run it to get something different.

> Might also be fun to offer to use the an LLM as a compressor for the text before encrypting.

A similar project, https://github.com/harvardnlp/NeuralSteganography does exactly that and achieves very compact results. However, I was a bit weary about compressing before encrypting given the possible security risks associated with that pattern.
3 times the page just scrolled to the top. Doesn’t seem like the UX team at google really knows anything about user experience but gradient colors keeps things fresh!
You're saying the same thing he is, but with more precise examples. There were also plenty of more useless requirements which is what he was getting at with it being 'designed by committee.' It was also intended to be a 'space tug' to drag things to new orbits, especially from Earth to the Moon, and this is also where its reusable-but-not-really design came from.

It's also relevant that the Space Shuttle came as a tiny segment of what was originally envisioned as a far grander scheme (in large part by Werner von Braun) of complete space expansion and colonization. The Space Shuttle's origins are from the Space Transportation System [1], which was part of a goal to have humans on Mars by no later than 1983. Then Nixon decided to effectively cancel human space projects after we won the Space Race, and so progress in space stagnated for the next half century and we were left with vessels that had design and functionality that no longer had any real purpose.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Transportation_System
The USofA is the bizarre exception here:

The United States has a rather unique way of writing the date that is imitated in very few other countries (although Canada and Belize do also use the form). In America, the date is formally written in month/day/year form.

They don't use metric, still use First Past the Post voting, elect a mini monarch with effectively unchecked powers, ... it's an odd place.
They're professional designers, not HTML code monkeys, you insensitive clod!

Seriously, there are designers whose entire work output is PDFs or, more recently, stuff in L^HFigma, which lesser beings (read: developers) are expected to turn into functional HTML.
Make it windows 95 grey for all I care, just , for the love of whatever is sacred, improve the DOM to make it run smooth...
I'm sure it is done to discourage you from using a browser and prefer their stupid app.
> One problem is that many Canadians move away from those smaller cities because there aren’t jobs that pay well

Well, duh. See this thread about how this happens: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43026920 when "prophets of parking" are allowed to ruin cities.

I'm talking about cities like Kamloops or Calgary.
Ask HN: Starting as a junior data engineer tips?
hello hacker news

i am starting soon remotely as a junior data engineer at a health tech company. i have some experience in this kind of data stuff but not in the specific technologies of the company.

it's my first real job and i have some questions if anyone more experienced would be able to pitch in?

what should i be on the look out for, and how can i prepare? for my long term career, what are the options? should i stay here a while or move on after a time for more $? im not sure what the roadmaps look like but i would appreciate any advice from people with some time in the world already.
> There is no actual need solved by using client side include to load a nav bar.

I disagree: this[1] was such a dealbreaker that it caused the developer to literally switch stacks to get back the same feature.

When you find yourself switching stacks to get some feature, trust me, it's really needed.

> Even though it isn't talked about as much these days, progressive enhancement is still a really good idea.

Sure, and in this specific case all the dev had to do was include a link in each blog post to the root of the site `<a href='/'>home</a>`.

So when the JS is turned off the user can still navigate.

Once again, I am going to point out that plain HTML+CSS+JS is conformant to the relevant specifications; when a user wants to to, for whatever reason, deviate from the specification, they already know that most things won't work for them anyway!

IOW, you're not dealing with a clueless user who will wonder why the page has no navigation, you're dealing with someone who spent extra work and effort to get into the state they are, so they're already aware that most things don't work for them anyway!

But you responses throughout this thread is working on the assumption that megabytes of JS is required if you want client-side includes, and you coupled that with an implication that only incompetent developers would go down that route.

I can assure you, as a competent developer, that adding client-side includes with graceful degradation is maybe 60 lines of JS, cached, with no noticeable delays for the user.

If you think that the only options are a) Doing a full SPA with megabytes of JS, or b) No Javascript whatsoever, then I think that you're in no position to be calling other developers incompetent or lazy.
Robertson is much more prone to camming out, especially when trying to remove them after they have been in place for a while and a little gunk builds up in the square.
Amazing. Yet another overly specialized mobile website. Can't read the article because every few seconds it just scrolls back to the top.

I miss the days of html and little js.

CssZenGarden always had it right. That's where I learned early modern css during that transition from web1 to 2.

Whatever it's a new thing from Google that will make it more difficult to use whatever their product is.

Just disregard that millions of people know how to use things as-is, but to justify their jobs people need to change things that are working ok, instead of trying to do minor changes to improve the experience for the people on the edge.
> The ads lead users to a page on “thrivewithcuriosity.com,” where after confirming they are “40+” years old, they are shown a meandering and very explicit 40-minute long presentation about the miracle drug that is getting men including celebrities, strippers, and adult performers “rock hard.”

normalize the 40+ age check

> Notably, the ingredients do not include “midnight beetle powder,” which the long video pitching Prolong Power explains is the secret ingredient that gave the church bats their magnificent erections.
Oh you'd love Project Genesis.

It has all the latency associated with cell networks combined with all the latency of routing all traffic through AWS.

As an added bonus, about 10% of sites block you outright because they assume a request coming from an AWS origin IP is a bot.
People are judgmental creatures.
LinkedIn mobile app adds new notification classes and assumes you opt in, even if you’ve opted out of all the other spam.

However, email from LinkedIn is not something I’ve had an issue with, personally.
Building custom tools that work for only you is so under rated. I would never use that workflow but it works for the author and that’s awesome!
And/or try contacting a bank (one of the underwriters?) to see if they’ll loan you cash for taxes using the RSUs as collateral. A lot of early Uber employees were able to get loans to exercise and cover taxes, tho these were rather large sums. That said the shares are liquid so less risk.
Although some responses might seem generic or even robotic, sometimes we need to communicate that way. I'm not a fan of this style, but as a developer, I need to use it when talking to people from other departments.
Granola. Best meeting app I’ve used. I have a notepad that takes markup I can add myself and it intelligently fills in the notes I wrote.

eg. I put bullet points with something like “updates from Steve?” And do that for everyone during our check in. When the meeting ends it takes all their conversation in the transcript and fills in my markup with the notes.

I’ve attended meetings where I had zero participation and focus on doing something else during the meeting. When it’s over it gives me a detailed summary of the meeting. It felt like I had an assistant taking detailed, ordered notes for me. It’s almost like that scene from the movie Old School. Rodney Dangerfield sent his secretary to stenograph the lecture time so he didn’t have to attend and she gets called out by the professor. Felt just like that kind of transcribing.
You can poorly drill a hole with a lot of things. Looks like there's a fair bit of pressure required to actually use this thing as a drill bit.

Of course, the main use of this is to drill a lot of holes and drive fasteners at the same time... for which you would want Torx/Robinson/etc and a better drill bit. What everyone does now is just carry two tools, a drill and an impact, clip to your belt, and switch as needed. If you want to carry one tool that does both okay-ish, get an impact driver and a set of impact drill bits. You can quick-switch them pretty fast and you can even do it one-handed.

I've never used it, but there's also the "WORX Switchdriver."
This is what I meant by the lens one looks at this through. In this case, you're defining success for a SaaS as IPO/acquisition; neither are required for a thriving business. I use multiple SaaS products that I suspect will never be big enough for, in many cases due to their niche.
Yes and I’m not saying you’re wrong to dismiss it - all that work has been passed down as immutable, static laws that people regurgitate to say some things are good and some are bad. The fact is, most viz exists to support specific tasks or decisions and you should always test those directly yourself.
It's not those companies. There is a typo in the original post. 3/15 is before 185 days.
It was leaked in 2009 in this Reddit comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/7w0i2/comment/c07k9l...
Ironically, often you get way faster speeds out on a RCG tower too. (probably due to few users), vs when in the city, where I often get pretty average speeds be it 4g or 5g.
Giving up precision is different to giving up the narrative. The narrative can be helped by engagement and if that comes at the cost of precision, then that was the cost of getting the message further than it may have otherwise reached.

In this case, what is meant by "give up some precision" is to try removing some sharp edges that get in the way of telling the story. It's a long way from lying (when done with due consideration).

They're examples. Choose what works for your data and you your story to get the best result.
Many of us never stopped writing native apps.

When I was at Apple (2010-2015) every app was Local First. In fact they legally had to be to be sold in Germany, where iCloud cannot be mandatory (they have a history of user data being abused).

You’ll notice when the network goes down all your calendars email contacts and photos are still there. The source of truth is distributed.

Client side apps writing to local db with background sync (application specific protocols) works excellently. You just don’t write your UI as a web page.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32064324
Fully agree with your point here, but wanted to point out that including C dependencies is actually one of the biggest reasons why Python support is hard for WebAssembly too.

Bolstering your point -- smart-and-hardworking people are working on this, which results in:

https://github.com/bytecodealliance/componentize-py/

which inspired

https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model/blob/main/des...

with some hard work done to make things work:

https://github.com/dicej/wasi-wheels

It's a fun ecosystem -- the challenge is huge but the work being done is really fundamentally clean/high quality, and the solutions are novel and useful/powerful.
Discussion (9 points, 16 hours ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43025420
So transparent.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43017857

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We hope to redefine ai evaluation via our gamified AI evaluation platform: game arena!
> The OP knows how to do this but finds it unintuitive and inconvenient.

That's not a credible explanation. Amending a commit is somehow unintuitive and inconvenient but editing a commit is suddenly so much clearer and intuitive?
This paper should be viewed in retrospect with the present day knowledge that Deepseek exists - regulating compute in not as easy or effective as previously thought.

As for the Chinese chip industry, I don't claim to be an expert on it, but it seems the Chinese are quickly coming up with increasingly less inferior alternatives to Western tech.
Twitter fail whale was more skill issue that Rails shortcomings. If you read the book Hatching Twitter, you'll know quickly they weren't great at code
The new regime in Syria is rather reactionary, I'd say. Rojava is a revolution however.

Sure. The ancien régime was considered illegitimate so they got rid of it, and if a state is involved in genocide it is since the Holocaust considered illegitimate and it should lose its sovereignty.
yyyy-mm-dd is the iso standard, w/ the benefits of logical consistency (larger to smaller units left to right) and -- best of all -- sortability.
> The average CPU performance of PCs and notebooks fell for the first time

Well, a lot of HN users care more about battery life than performance, so it shouldn't be any issue. /s

After computers dumbed down (Android, iOS, Windows), we now have computers that do nothing. /s
Pure SQL implementation: https://github.com/keithgabryelski/game-of-life-sql
Federal data is disappearing. On Thursday, meet the teams working to rescue it
Apparently you've never had to change drill bits up high on a ladder? I've dropped (and lost) plenty of drill bits trying to undo the chuck whilst holding a screwdriver bit. It may have its uses if this can free up a hand.
I tried to find details about where he was sent and could not find anything. I have no idea where one could look up official records and see that I just did a google search and every single article was just copy paste the same. He should hope he got what you said.

But looking at the facts he made over 375 swatting calls. He did bomb threats for hire, he made threats of school mass shootings, he called the police and claimed to have killed an officers mom and threatened to kill anyone who responded, he claimed to have assault rifles and pipe bombs and other weapons common in school shootings, he caused multiple agencies in multiple states such as the FBI, secret service, multiple police departments and others to name a few to respond to fake threats and waste time and cost money also preventing them to respond to other issues that may have happened. In the end from what I can find he was extradited to Florida, as he made some threats there, and was extradited a year or so ago. I am certain any lawyer could argue given all he has done he is a serious threat to society and a dangerous offender. But he was only 17 at the time of most offenses so maybe he got some leniency. Not that I think his age was an excuse, ya at 17 I was an idiot and definitely was not mature but definitely knew something like this was absolutely dumb to do. I have to wonder how a kid gets to that point. So many questions. I hope he can get on a new path in life and change.
This is the peak of artisanal design. Something that us, uncultured swine, are obviously unable to fully appreciate.
Leading in AI safety is leading in AI lobotomization.
Ryan McBeth got excellent coverage on her https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B-pPgu3PbaU

She’s truly bizarre person.
That’s not a new problem with selling info on dark web marketplaces. if you're interested in learning more, here are a couple of books you might enjoy:

"The Dark Net” – Jamie Bartlett
“We Are Anonymous” – Parmy Olson
“Future Crimes” – Marc Goodman
“Kingpin” – Kevin Poulsen
During the golden age of the Romantic period, it was not uncommon for writers to employ almost ludicrously UV-level prose to the works of famous composers.

I'll leave you with this particular critic's review of a piece of music by Gottschalk (a famous 19th century American composer). They are like "chants of the New World, chants which bring tears to our eyes, so much do they breathe of sadness and simplicity. One transports us to forests. . . another represents faithfully the indolent Creole swinging in his hammock. .. and what shall we say of the third? Does it not seem to be overwhelmed by that solemn silence and that solitude which one feels traversing those vast prairies at the foot of the Rocky Mountains?"

IMHO the reason LLMs are so proficient at these kinds of vapid flights of fantasy is that they must have ingested the entire fanfic library on Wattpad.
Twitch plays thermonuclear war.
I'm canadian and we (i assume) have a similar culture as the americans.

These don't feel professional, they feel like a satire of professional-speak. Like they use all the sterotypical words but they dont sound like things someone would actually say. Unless you are pissed at someone and are trying to tell someone to "fuck off" without getting fired. Which i guess is the point of the site, but not how professional communication works.
There are risks to citizen data. Read access to Treasury includes access to millions of SSN and Social Security payments, tax data and tax payments, federal contract payments including for classified projects, and the routing and account numbers for all of those people and companies.

DOGE staff are bringing laptops in themselves. The previous U.S. Digital Service staff are firewalled from DOGE, including the IT teams who issue and manage equipment.

And DOGE staff are using these random laptops to copy all this sensitive data into private cloud accounts for storage and analysis.

That level of exfiltration of sensitive data is nefarious, and illegal, which is why a federal judge has issued an order to halt it.

Please read the linked article. It’s by a deeply experienced and well-regarded security expert. I get that people are excited to dig out fraud, but sensitive data must remain secure in the process.
Lol, you haven't even started, but already asking if/when you should leave? Excellent.

If you are serious about your career, then rethinking this attitude should be the first step.

If it's just a meme, then no change is needed.
> Hopefully Apple is encrypting the Passkey key material

iCloud Keychain has always been e2e encrypted. If you lost and recovered your Apple password, you'd lose all your stored passwords.
Something like go, yes. Imo there is benefit to only being able to do things one way, and in swift there are a lot of ways to do everything. A trivial example: why can you bind variables in pattern matches with both case let .some(x) and case .some(let x)?
variance.
Have you noticed that the mainstream public-level discussion of almost any topic never progresses farther than a point estimate? Variance implies nuance, and nuance is annoying to those who'd just rather paint a story. Variance isn't even that much nuance, because it is also just a point estimate for the variability of a distribution, not even its shape.
Public discourse is stuck at the mean point estimate, and as such, is constantly misled.
This is all an analogy, but feels very true.
They can afford to allocate resources towards several six figure a year employees working on research showing that one of their top three most outdated elements are the color of their logo and then replacing pure red with some other shade of red.
Reminds me of https://collinpark.blogspot.com/2009/06/east-coast-to-west-c...
Just wait until they introduce a “brief ad” into paid premium subscriptions too.
I resent that.

There are a few non-linear function operations in between the matrix multiplications.
I think that's the point of the article. Novel insight is almost a pre-requisite to determining how to present the data in a way that's quickly and easily understandable.
You'll need to elaborate that, because I have read the assembly for a function call in shared libraries and wasn't too disturbed by it... what do you mean ?
I’m sure most people would be fine with Apple having flat revenue and not sacrificing their integrity.

But we’ve all been programmed to believe that a company not growing is as good as dying.
Ah yes, an old chestnut!