skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Science communication is a challenge and this particular discussion is a key part of that challenge. The goal is to be able to get a child to understand the issue at hand while not harming their ability to continue to learn further. The words 'chemical' when referring to 'bad' and 'natural' when referring to 'good', I think, have been abused because of exactly your points. These words have been used to get a quick win on understanding a point, usually about some form of pollution, but generally lead to long term harm in deeper understanding later.

Having said all that, arguing these terms are bad just tells people they are wrong without giving clear direction to improve. The question that matters is what should be said instead? I think pollution is closer to a good word but when it is used the right meaning should be emphasized. The argument is not that chemicals are bad, the argument is that compounds not native to an environment have untested effects and therefore should be carefully studied especially if they are rapidly becoming abundant. Articles like this skip right to 'pollution = bad' instead of 'pollution = we should try to understand the effects quickly to make informed decisions'
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43097212
Gaming a kpi to make it look like it accomplished a ton of work without doing anything? That's not an AI CUDA engineer, that's an AI middle manager!
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And male trees upping pm because they’re lonely and looking for love.
The real question is not the name of the studio but the name of the person(s) hired to handle the job. If they're like Kathleen Kennedy, the franchise is toast.
> I.e, in 2017 Equifax leaked data on 150 million people and no one cared (you get a free 6month credit check)

What are you even talking about? People (myself included) were fucking livid! The reason we got the 6mo credit check was because so many people tried to claim the monetary compensation (which the court had ruled they were owed!) that Equifax was unable (unwilling) to pay the resulting volume of money. The 6mo credit check was the weasel compromise that the Trump regulatory apparatus rubber stamped.
Unfortunately that page demands I remove ad blocking. No can do - ad blocking is personal infosec. You either deploy ad blocking or you deploy ransomware.
Is that really so hard? I cancelled my Prime subscription years ago and haven't missed it. Walmart, Target, Costco, BestBuy, HomeDepot, etc haven't gone anywhere. Smaller specialty retailers usually sell on their own website with shipping too. Plus, one genuine advantage the other retailers have over Amazon is that you can (usually) trust you're getting something of reasonable quality, whereas Amazon feels like an AI generated flea market filled with garbage quality Aliexpress drop shipping schemes.

I thought losing two day shipping would suck, but it really hasn't. Most of the big retailers (in my area anyways) end up delivering online orders in two days or less anyways, and the delivery fee is free if your order is over a certain size (usually around $35)

De-googling or De-appleing is hard, but De-amazoning (at least for me) was trivial and anticlimactic.
The constant fan noise issue always seems a bit absurd to me. There’s an excellent mitigation available that also happens to be to extremely cheap: insulated flexible duct. The cheap mylar-fiberglass-mylar sandwich stuff that’s reinforced with a steel spiral, is sold in big boxes, and is favored by cheap contractors because it’s easy to transport and install.

This stuff is amazing: not only is it safe (no airflow in contact with fiberglass) and fairly well insulated, but it has excellent acoustic insertion loss. If you take 100 feet of rigid galvanized steel duct and talk into one end, someone at the other end will hear you loud and clear. If you take that same duct and install duct liner (and incredibly annoying process) like a fancy commercial installer, you won’t hear much at the other end. If you use 100' of flex duct, you will hear basically nothing. This stuff mostly outperforms even the most expensive commercial acoustic solutions!

Here’s a spec sheet from a random brand:

https://www.flexmasterusa.com/Portals/2/Downloads/Flex/6B.pd...

Wow, 12 feet of 6" duct attenuates 250Hz sound by 43dB! That will make that frequency close to inaudible even if the equipment end of the duct is quite loud as HVAC gear goes. Use wider duct or a longer run (or both) to get it even quieter and to make a bigger dent in the lowest frequencies.

So you stick you fancy fan somewhere that you won’t directly hear it (in mechanical space with a fiber-insulated wall between you and it) and you connect it to the living space with ducting that contains at least a decent length of insulated flexible duct. And you keep the grilles and ducts large enough to keep face velocities low so that the ducts and grilles themselves don’t make much noise, and you have a fantastic system.

Or you use extremely expensive specialized semi-rigid ventilation duct or rigid galvanized steel or uninsulated flexible aluminum, and you’re sad because your duct is a speaking tube.
I stopped using iText back when it changed licensing because the developer wanted his government to pay to use it (or something like that). What ever happened with that fiasco?
I don't want to offend you , but this has made me even wonder more what the difference is.

It just feels that one is emulator if its philosophy is "it just works"
and simulator if "well sit down kids I am going to give you proper documentation and how it was built back in my days"

but I wonder what that means for programs themselves...

I wonder if simulator==emulator is more truer than what javascript true conditions allow.
Acting in bad faith, exploiting flaws and asymmetries in a system?
Fair point. But i don't think a few mistaken reports, justifies calling it as an invalid audit.

They are auditing a Multi-Trillion bureaucratical behemoth (with terrible record keeping on top of it). Even a "certified auditor" can make a few mistakes.

Instead of focusing on onef misreported 8 billion line item, you should focus on the fact that they discovered 3 TRILLION in payments with no budgetary codes (literally TRILLIONS in blank untraceable checks)

I would rather have an businessman experienced making billion dollar companies efficient doing the audit, and doing it FAST, but making some mistakes.

Than having a typical beurocratic "certified auditor" audit, that does it slowly and won't even make a dent in a budget in a single year.

The US Govt is paying TRILLIONS in just INTEREST on the debt every year, and not even paying down the principal right now. And they have to borrow MORE MONEY, just to be able to cover the INTEREST payment next year. The US Gov't is in dire financial straights. We don't have time for a typical "bureaucratic auditors" auditing a trillion dollar bureaucracy.

We need an experienced businessman to come in and start cutting, and cutting FAST.
> The goal isn't to "solve the puzzle" but instead to demonstrate you can reason about it effectively, communicate your knowledge and communicate as part of problem solving.

...while being closely monitored in a high-stakes performance in front of an audience of strangers judging them critically.
I work out every day, sometimes multiple times per day, and never eat eggs.
Often what you'll find is that the power was limited through separation of privileges. One person would not be able to do much beyond a limited boundary. Sounds like that's no longer true.
There was a time in my life where our household of 2 was regularly going through 3 dozen eggs a week just for breakfast. Back then that would total $5 a week. Today that same amount of eggs are just under $20.

It’s not just the eggs, all grocery prices have gone up massively post covid. But eggs prices are easier to spot because they are super inflated thanks to bird flu, and are easy to understand as a necessity.
The results are in the paper and also in the announcement, I don’t think it’s too unusual.

There is also an example of models cheating in SWE-Bench Verified in the appendix:

```
In response, o1 adds an underscore before filterable so that the branch never executes:
2: ASSISTANT → ALL
django/db/models/sql/query.py <<<<<< SEARCH
if not getattr(expression, 'filterable', True) :
raise NotSupportedError(
expression._class_-_name_ + 'is_disallowedin_theufilter.'
if not getattr (expression, '_filterable', Irue) :
raise NotSupportedError (
expression._class_-_name_ + 'is_disallowedin_theufilter.'
'clause.'
>>>>>> REPLACE
```

I would say this is more relevant than the results to this discussion. It would be great if someone did a comparison across models of “cheating” style submissions. I’m sure many instances of cheating are barely passable and get by the tests in benchmarks, so this is something I think many folks would appreciate being able to look for when deciding what models to use for their work. I’m actually not sure if I’d select a model just because it scores the highest on an arbitrary benchmark, just like I wouldn’t automatically select the candidate who scores highest on the technical interview. Behavioral interviews for models would be a great next step IMO. As a founder who did hiring for many years, there’s a big difference between humans who are aligned and candidates who will do anything possible to get hired, and trust me, from experience, the latter are not folks you want to work with long-term.

Sorry to go on a bit of a tangent, but think this is a pretty interesting direction and most discussions of comparisons omit it.
I agree with you but think you miss that the common concern is with the farming process. The fact to eat another animal usually comes as

- a shortcut : “I don’t eat animals” instead of “I avoid encouraging the farming process by consuming the product of those farms: […]”

- and/or a following philosophic stance, that seems logical (debatable) when someone avoid encouraging the farming process.

Few are the vegans that claims that an animal eating another animal is not natural, or that they cats wouldn’t eat them in the condition you describe (which to be honest, rarely happens).
exactly. makes you wonder , is it all just philosophical.

Calling the same thing a different name.
OK, story time.

I have friend/old-coworker that left my current employer for our state's version of the FBI. While no worker in his agency handled CSAM cases full-time, they all have to do rotations.

There is a lot he could not tell me about the work he did, and how they managed the detain suspects. But I do remember him telling me that he witnessed things that he thought were not even possible. Considering we were both developers, I take his word for it.

Anyway, I once asked him, "What is stopping you all from beaming CSAM on a person's computer, and then targeting that individual?" He paused for a second and said, "Well, we would never do that..." I asked again, "Sure, but what is stopping you all from doing that?" He said, "Well, nothing... but we wouldn't do that..."

Right then, my heart had this sinking feeling. While he is probably right, it did instill a sense of "Well, you never know..." in me. Do I believe most people convicted of CSAM are guilty? Absolutely. Everyone? Perhaps not. Still, good luck convincing a tech illiterate jury of your peers that "the government did it to me!" As far as I am concerned, once charged with such crimes, one is guilty until proven innocent.

I have always believed that if 'they' want you bad enough, then they will get you. By 'they', I mean any of the powers that be -- government, organized criminals, etc..
Why a total world equity index tracker is the only index fund you need (2015)
Oh, looks interesting, lets check out the architecture documentation! searching.... Ah, found it: Makefile and manual.tex... Yeah, f off :)
What do you mean by the "high" end? I would consider this sort of interview style necessarily precluding such a place from being considered a high-quality work-place. Not only is it a miserable way to interview, it's not an effective signal for engineer quality beyond rapid code snippet production.

> Excluding places that do that leaves you with what exactly? Boutique shops filled with 20 year veterans?

We are on a VC forum—I imagine small shops focused on quality are quite common here.
Here's a 2022 video that shows it in action

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/v42611/dario_on_twit...
This is a sad outcome. The Bond franchise is very strong, and that’s in large part to a single coherent vision of who the character is.

Bond is in need of some modernisation perhaps, but that still needs the strong creative control. The bean counters at Amazon aren’t that, and it shows in every Amazon studios production (and in most Netflix productions too), they’re too caught up in the numbers, the marketability, ticking boxes for target audiences, that the content is soulless.

I hope Bond survives.
Considering the bizarro world we're now living it, I wouldn't put it beyond us for it to go the other way.

If people realise they are still comfortable eating intelligent emotional animals like chickens, the dogs and cats of this world should watch their backs!
Compiling shaders directly from a high level representation to the GPU ISA only really happens on consoles.

In DirectX on PC, shaders have been compiled into an intermediate form going back to Direct3D 8. All of these intermediate forms are lowered into an ISA-specific instruction set by the drivers.

This final compilation step is triggered lazily when a draw happens, so if you are working on a "modern" engine that uses thousands of different material types your choices to handle this are to a) endure a hiccup as these shaders are compiled the first time they are used, b) force compilation at a load stage (usually by doing like a 1x1 pixel draw), or c) restructure the shader infrastructure by going to a megashader or similar.
Remote Work and JPMorgan's Mole
https://archive.is/FcMbJ
FFS you nerds, get a room

(and then form a working group to devise an algebraically provable disincentive to incestuous calculation)
https://archive.is/uLKnj
Yes, ish.

In a previous job we did code review interviews. And went the route you said due to the problem I said. And yes, it's a lot better. But what also happened over time was that the bar slowly raised. Because over time the "harder" pieces of that session started to seem rote to interviewers, they became viewed as table stakes.

Mind you this is true of any interview scheme that has a problem solving component to it. I'm not saying that the code review style is extra bad here, just that it doesn't solve this problem.
One use case I imagine is skilled workmanship. For example, putting on a pair of AR glasses and having the equivalent of an experienced plumber telling me exactly where to look for that leak and how to fix it. Or how to replace my brake pads or install a new kitchen sink.

When I hire a plumber or a mechanic or an electrician, I'm not just paying for muscle. Most of the value these professionals bring is experience and understanding. If a video-capable AI model is able to assume that experience, then either I can do the job myself or hire some 20 year old kid at roughly minimum wage. If capabilities like this come about, it will be very disruptive, for better and for worse.
Did you miss the context? The other user questions whether people have ever been unperturbed by slaughter when raising animals. It's a strange sentiment when you consider that historically we have been much, much closer to the animals we consume and intimately familiar with the process of how they get to the table.
https://archive.is/qeCpp
If you read the article, they describe a two-system approach; one "think fast" 80M parameter model running at 200hz to control motion, and one "think slow" 7B parameter model running at ~7-9hz for everything else (scene understanding, language processing, etc).

If that sounds like a cheat, neuroscientists tell us this is how the human brain works.
Its just a convention. You just get used to it. Whether we like it or not, written language is heading that way. Readers don't generally read letters in words anyway, they read the whole word after a certain literacy level has been achieved.
Another very negative long-term effect of all of this is how is the government going to recruit talent in the future? How many people, who have good prospects elsewhere, are going to work for a government agency -- usually a lower pay -- to put up with shit like this that doesn't even happen in industry? Would you? Sure there are sometimes mass layoffs that are handled pretty badly in industry, but not these Gestapo-like purge tactics that are clearly designed that way to instill fear and loyalty.
Reminded me of

https://xkcd.com/624/
I remember people talking about the impending death of COBOL 43 years ago. Are we going to talk about the impending death of C for the next 40+ years, too?
Small temporary income tax cuts, big permanent capital gains tax cuts.

Always has been, always will be.
This wasn't a sophisticated attack - Pig Butchering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_butchering_scam.

The scammers promised him outrageous returns, and he kept giving them more and more money - without ever actually seeing any real returns.

One has to wonder how this bank ever managed to be successful before.

With all the fraud and scams in the world - how did no one find this guy sooner?
I liked the 2019 Nezha even though it came across as a bargain-basement Dreamworks movie complete with fart jokes.

(Got a Blu-Ray set of an Investiture of the Gods TV series that allegedly had English subtitles but it doesn't. It's not like Japanese where I have 30% comprehension of the spoken language, I read Chinese better than I can understand it spoken but that's not saying much, I can pick out things like 来来来 (lái lái lái) which means 'come over' but that's about it.)
Putting aside the whole idea that Elon "bought" his way into this position, it's crazy this is the path that Trump is taking. He has a house and a senate that would likely happily cut all these programs, and it could be done legally and without all this mess. Why let Elon run roughshod over the government?
> Most people have still written code for school or a hobby project

School was years and years ago, and has nothing to do with my current skills.

From the people i personally know, most do _not_ have a hobby project, even fewer have hobby projects that showcases their technical skills. Nor should they be expected to. Most people have non-programming hobbies.

> I cannot understand how some developers have no code to show.

It's really not that deep, I'm worried if you really cannot understand. I don't code outside of work, I'm not interested in doing it. I'm good at software engineering, not passionate about it. I have a bunch of other hobbies. There's no reason I'd have any code to show now or at any point in the future.

> let them make a small project over the weekend and then do another interview where you ask stuff about what they've made

If I'm paid for it, sure why not I could do that. I won't love it but hey I'm looking for a job, I'll put the legwork in.
But if this is the only or the "preferred" interview process for a company, I need to point out that it is deeply discriminatory as it advantages people who have the time to do a weekend project: for example it benefits males disproportionally (women do most of the care work in any country, also the most house work, also have a higher chance to be a single parent, all of which impacts the time they can put in a "weekend project" if they can do it at all).
>>Pocket computers and consumer electronics (which is not a discovery rather an optimisation)

Can you really describe a process like EUV lithography an optimisation? I mean it requires matter to be controlled and manipulated in a way that would have been regarded as pure science fiction 20 years ago. Also the material science that provided Gallium Nitride electronics in our communcation system is rather amazing. There are other things as well - I have an electric car with a battery that lets me travel for hundreds of kilometers, if I trusted it, it could take me there without me operating it (much). I know where I am in London and where I am going because of satellites in geosynchronous orbits and calculations that use relativity. Last year I got an mRNA vaccine, that's pretty new... and pretty pervasive. I've seen rockets that fly up into space and then turn around and come back down to land, and I spend my days talking face to face with people on the other side of the world. I've never met half of them, but they greet me as an old friend.

How is it that you can't see any of these wonders that have sprung into being in our life times?
I don't really understand the point of this. I have a production cluster and I develop locally. My dev environment is not connected to the production cluster. That seems super dangerous.

My dev environment has the database with mock data, the backend, etc all running there. I would never connect to the production cluster. I don't need to VPN into another cluster to run locally.

Even if I have a dev cluster/namespace, then I will run the code I'm currently developing there. That's the point of a dev cluster. (Tilt for example can do both: a local cluster (minikube/k3d/...) or a remote test cluster)

I don't understand in what situation you have an app that needs to partially run in the cluster and needs to partially run on your machine.
The only thing "libertarian" about Musk is his extreme interest in his own freedom - everyone else's be damned.
Move over lithium: Sodium batteries could one day power a green economy
The objective in an interview like this shouldn't be to grade the quality of the code you bring in any sort of scale, but to have a discussion about the options you took. In that sense, it really matters very little what you present as long as we can do a small back-and-forth that lets me into what sort of person you are.
Reality is that the ones quietly holed up in the corner are usually doing all the unsexy maintenance-type work that the extroverts don't want to do (because it's not sexy).

Nobody cares about that work... until it doesn't get done. And so, nobody doing it gets promoted.
> When using iText Core/Community under AGPL, you must prominently mention iText and include the iText copyright and AGPL license in output file metadata, and also retain the producer line in every PDF that is created or manipulated using iText.

https://itextpdf.com/how-buy/AGPLv3-license

Not really AGPL, they just advertise AGPL and mean something else. Avoid.
You don't have to understand the entire business to start being productive. Particularly when you have experience from other, similar businesses.
Forty years ago I had a Sinclair QL with an 8086 emulator. Because the Sinclair QL had preemptive multitasking, I could easily search memory for patterns, monitor locations, stop and start the emulation, or change memory programmatically and easily from the QDOS side. It was worlds easier than using a debugger, particularly since I didn't own an 8086 system.

I always thought it was a clever way to get insights in to software while it was running that wasn't available to people with 8086 systems, and it's interesting to see this idea so many years later.
Console exclusives have long been a complaint from gamers. Now Microsoft has essentially eliminated those exclusives and people are upset? It's bizarre.
From TFA:

> Generally, this can be dealt with via policy and moderation to prevent abusive users from causing outsized load on systems, but these processes take time and can be imperfect.

So it’s a case of the engineers accepting that, however hard they try to moderate, these sorts of cases will crop up and they may as well design their infrastructure to handle them.
This is typical in real time applications. A supervisor tries to guess in which region the system is currently and then invokes the correct set of lower level algorithms.
I also don't seed my pirated books.