skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My most painful debugging scenarios with Docker networking (for me) has always been dealing with non-TCP traffic. But still, this seems useful. One thing I don't understand is why this requires an account token? Does this require a network connection to subtrace? It seems like this should all be running locally, and these kinds of connection details are _exactly_ the kind I would not want to leave the host, let alone go to a third party.
> the cost of batteries to cover a decent power outage didn’t make sense to me.

Are you trying to power your whole house during a power outage, or just a few necessities like a space heater, a few lamps, and maybe a hotplate?
yeah from what I understand the original focus of the department was to make the software better serve its customers. its obvious that trump doesn't like congress, judicials, laws. heh cutting government waste is actually a good cause but you need skilled no nonsense auditors and well I think by inspecting trump's resume and reputation, I bet he REALLY doesn't like auditors haha
I don't know that I'd say _useless_ but there's _a long way_ to go. I also suspect that many developers are going to wind up being dependent upon them at the expense of getting familiar with reading code/documentation, exploring with debuggers, writing forum/blog posts, etc.

Here is one example from the last time I asked Claude a question about message filtering on AWS SQS, which is a very common exchange in my (relatively limited) experience with these tools.tool

# me responding to a suggestion to use a feature which I was pretty sure did not exist

> ... and you're sure this strategy works with SQS FIFO queues?

# Claude apologizing for hallucinating

> I apologize - I need to correct my previous responses. I made a mistake - message filtering with message attributes is NOT supported with FIFO queues. This is an important limitation of FIFO queues.

If I didn't already have familiarity with this service and its feature set, I would have wasted 15/30/60 mins trying to validate the suggestion.

I can't imagine trying to debug code that was automatically generated and inserted into my toolchain using Copilot or whatever else. Again, I'm sure this will all get better but I'm not convinced that any of these tools should be the first ones we reach for.
I find this take interesting in the present. I work at $BIGCO that has done lots of ML in house for many years. I have noticed more and more ML projects being killed because their work is superseded by external model vendors. Why spend millions on a team to build a new model, when you can pay thousands to rent someone elses?
When I hear of infrastructure projects like this, It reminds me of that article about why we can't build anything anymore. Due to regulations, studies, and a myriad of other things, there is no chance. It will cost billions in just an environmental assessment and take a decade. Unfortunately, we don't have a system where projects like this are feasible.
> can you have a real conversation (with a whiteboard to help) about how to solve the problem

And do you frame the problem like that when giving interviews? Or the candidates are led to believe working code is expected?
> I don't think unelected bureaucrats should have more power than the elected leaders of the Executive.

It depends on which bureaucrats we're talking about. Most agencies are the creation of congress, and the executive should have minimal power over them. The president's job is to implement the laws of the legislature.
> - Your wife may one day want a chicken to live inside the house. You may one day agree to this, and then miss it when the chicken is living outside the house again...

Please, PLEASE tell us this story!!
DMVs already sell your demographics and contact information to advertisers. Along with attempts at making this illegal being stopped by Washington (IE Washington considers it their free speech to call you with the bought information).
the question was
'whether the current U.S. political environment—and the unpredictability it sometimes brings—could affect data sovereignty and regulatory stability.'
> Why does physical brain activity produce a first-person perspective at all?

I agree that this question is mysterious and fascinating, I just don't think the question of forking your consciousness bears on it at all.

The fact that first-person perspective exists is probably the fact that I am most grateful for out of all the facts that have ever been facts.

But I don't have any difficulty imagining forking myself into 2 copies that have a shared past and different futures.
> Candidate would be compensated, obviously. That's why it's expensive

Ok... take me through it. I apply to your company and after a short call you offer me to spend 4 weeks working at your place instead of an interview.

I go back to my employer, give them resignation letter, work the rest of my notice period (2 months - 3 months), working on all handovers, saying goodbyes.

Unless the idea is to compensate me for the risk (I guess at least 6 months salary, probably more), then I do not see how you'd get anyone who is just a poor candidate to sign up for this.

> You don't need him to become efficient

So what will you see? Efficiency, being independent and being a good team player are the main things that are difficult to test during a regular interview.
School was a few decades ago, and the code I have on Github is mostly toy stuff I do in rainy weekends, most of us have a life without room to code outside work most of the time.

Friends, family, stuff to take care of.
The planet is a bit larger than a house though.
This points to another issue - when I do code outside of work, it's often specifically to try out things I don't do at work. After a day of doing backend work, I'll maybe put together a basic web UI for something. That code is likely awful because I just need it to be functional more than good, and also probably not related to the work I'd be hired to do.

My most recent real "side projects" are a terrible OSS monte carlo simulator tool that I contributed to, but cannot explain most of the code for, and a half-working React application that has performance issues I never fixed. Both are years old at this point. I'm not sure what an interviewer would gain from those.
For some reason, John Siracusa comes to mind when I hear someone mention writing in Perl.
Some jobs it's more.

I had to sign a 140 page contract of foreign language legalese. Mostly boiler plate, but I had specific questions about it.

Asking questions to an AI to get the specific page answering it meant I could do the job in 2 hours. Without an AI, it would have taken me 2 days.

For programming, it's very good at creating boilerplate, tests, docs, generic API endpoints, script argument parsing, script one-liners, etc. Basically anything for which, me, as a human, don't have much added value.

It's much faster to generate imperfect things with AI and fix them that to write them myself when there is a lot of volume.

It's also pretty good at fixing typos, translating, giving word definition, and so on. Meaning if you are already in the chat, no need to switch to a dedicated tool.

I don't personally get 10x on average (although on specific well suited task I can) but I can get a good X3 on a regular basis.
No, you are quoting a newspaper "zetter-zeroday" which is talking about court documents. You are not quoting court documents.

Also, not all court documents are the same. You can make whatever claims you want in some of them.
Wouldn't it be more like a subset of the union of A and B? Intersection set sounds like the child only has the genes that both parents share.
> unless you're trying to make the non-tech parts of the role too interesting.

Unless your role is trivial to replace with an LLM, you need to understand the business. Maybe not for really junior role, but everything above - you need to solve issues. Tech is just a tool.
Live No-Code Debugging and the Changing Profile of the New AI Engineer
You're right, I actually hadn't grasped this, I realised later on but it was too late to edit my comment. And to be honest I still don't completely get it.
If the question is, how can increase my chances of coming into contact with a Bird Flu infected animal, yes backyard chickens are the answer
You can do code review exercises without larger context.

An example from the interview: the code included a python web API and SQL schema. Some obvious points I noticed were no input validation, string concatenating for the database access (SQL injection), no input scrubbing (XSS), based on the call pattern there were some missing indices, a few bad data type choices (e.g. integer for user ID), a possible infinite loop in one case.

You might be thinking about it in the wrong way; what you want to see is that someone can spot these types of logic errors that either a human or AI copilot might produce regardless of the larger context.

The juniors will find formatting and obvious bad practices; the senior and staff will find the real gems. This format works really well for stratification.
Chatgpt is really good at small throwaway scripts to accomplish some task that could have taken a good portion of the day to write up otherwise (almost always gets the code right on first try)
being 10x more productivie with ai doesn`t mean that someone is now a full engineer. ^^
This whole area is so drenched in bullshit, it's no wonder that the generation of BS and fluff is still the most productive use. Just nothing where reliable facts matter. I do believe that machines can vomit crap 10x as fast as humans.
In the time since this publication, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to an ML Engineer & AI researcher.

While it's accurate that there's a lot of AI slop out there, it's also a reasonable assertion that working at the frontier of AI & ML research can be a worthwhile use of your life.
KiCad 8 and newer have built-in importers for Altium schematics, boards, and libraries. See https://docs.kicad.org/9.0/en/kicad/kicad.html#importing_a_p... for more info.
Lol for some reason my company's IT team has deemed Greg's website is bad and it's blocked by Cisco Umbrella for being a "phishing threat"
P@55w0rd --- excellent

wriggler-airborne-genealogy-wainscotings --- awful
I think a more plausible path to gaming benchmarks would be to use watermarks in text output to identify your model, then unleash bots to consistently rank your model over opponents.
The scientific advisors who currently make rules at the EPA (to name one example) probably should have been giving advice to congress to make laws instead. Congress can pass an annual bill of "here's the new science."

All that would do is transfer power from bureaucrats within the executive to bureaucrats within the legislature. No Congressperson is fully knowledgeable on all the areas on which they pass laws. Maybe it is a better approach than what we have today, but I'm unconvinced. At least with the system we have today, the bureaucrats are generally experts within their areas. Congressional staffers have no such experience and generally rely on lobbyists.
> This year, streaming companies are pinching pennies. This means they're trying harder to extract more money from current subscribers through ads and changes to programming strategies that put less emphasis on original content.

A story as old as time, streaming has apparently reached stage 3 of the inexorable enshittification, "Degrade the services to maximize shareholder's profits".
Would the world be a better place if we had brake pad dust flavored candies? I like to believe so.
Which is a good reason we don't have average IRS bureaucrats behind the resolute desk, right?
I had a Google Play app whose dev died. It was just a simple local app -- no network server usage. When I last upgraded my phone (due to imminent failure of the previous one) it refused to copy the app over -- and the app was no longer in the Play store.
Why is this mandatory? Who made the mandate?
We also put a lot of energy into making operations of Restate as simple as possible. We learned it the hard way when building Apache Flink that operating a distributed system is challenging especially if it relies on other external systems like ZooKeeper. Therefore, Restate comes as an all-batteries-included single binary that does not need any external dependencies. So you don't have to understand and operate multiple systems. Moreover, you can start with a single node deployment and later turn it into a multi-node deployment by "simply" starting new processes that connect to the existing cluster.

Restate itself sits in between your services and your user's requests. It is designed to push invocations to your service endpoints which allows it to play nicely together with serverless platforms such as AWS Lambda, Cloud Run functions, etc.
You're not less partisan if you prefer a slimmer range of political leanings.
And as we know, success in one area is never a source of overconfidence in another.
AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years
I can understand feeling wary because someone may be watching your work, but conceivably this was always the case? I know it’s uncomfortable having this agency with no oversight gaining access to systems within the government, but it’s got to be huge right? I’m sure Elon’s tapped some smart fellas to be bulls in this china shop, but there’s no way they can put an eye on every single piece of information that flies through all of the systems of the federal government. You’d need a huge staff, tools to be built, never mind trying to solidify all those interfaces.

It seems more likely that they’ll gain access to all these systems, be completely overwhelmed about what to do, and then do small things that wouldn’t actually have an impact but would gain headlines, and then call it a day.
The article isn't about AI tools. He's saying that people should consider becoming engineers working on building AI training systems.
XDC Network supports enterprise applications
Well the scientific basis is that you're killing another human (the fetus, scientifically, is another human, with its own genetics).

Of course, you still need a non-scientific, moral basis to decide whether murder is bad, and other circumstances pertaining to abortion (in general and each case specifically).
Backyard chickens FTW! I sold my last company iCracked (W12) and have been automating my coop for fun for the last 15 years. I have always wanted to build a company at the intersection of smart home / AI meets backyard agriculture with the end goal of building the world's largest decentralized food production system. So we started Coop with the goal of making backyard chickens approachable to anyone with a backyard. We built camera systems that do crazy cool deep computer vision and have gotten to the point where we can tell our customers, "Hey AJ, there's 2 raccoons detected outside the coop, the automatic door is closed, all 6 of your hens are safe, and you have 5 eggs that can be collected. We've trained our model on 25m videos from customers and are pushing new models every week.

We built this for the family that has always wanted chickens, but doesnt know where to start. We also include 6 chickens with every coop, which I think is hilarious. The plan is to vertically integrate everything from the supply chain (feed, treats, supplements, vet visits, etc) and make it SUPER easy to have a backyard flock. It's been a fascinating and fun company to build - If you want to see some of the stuff we're doing on the tech side feel free to check out www.Coop.Farm - Also one of the things that we track where we think our thesis is playing out is how many people use us that haven't raised chickens before and we're at 71% of our customers are new to backyard ag. Also, we make standalone cameras for existing flocks and other animals and I have been super surprised to see the amount of people using our predator detection and remote health monitoring models for rabbits, goats, pigs, ducks, etc. Super fun company to build.
Twitter was always... not great (there's a reason it was affectionately known as the Hellsite), but it had 16 years of being _tolerable_ for most people (the real exodus only really started with Musk's changes, though there had been a couple of smaller ones previously, mostly over Twitter messing with the API).

Frankly, if I get 16 years out of Bluesky before having to move onto the next one, I can live with that. Social networks _die_; it has always been so. USENET, livejournal, Tumblr, twitter... nothing lasts forever.
A simple reality check - imagine starting an experimental project.
Would you rather have 5 guys with 1 YOE or one guy with 5 YOE?

The process of learning and gaining an experitise in a subject is basically a four steps:

1. being overwhelmed with the subject

2. naively thinking you know it all

3. learning about nuances

4. finally accepting that after all these years you still know nothing about the subject, but you're comfortable with the niche you carved in
Monads are a bad way to describe a fundamentally simple thing.

Quantum computing is genuinely hard. The hardware is an extremely specialized discipline. The software is at best a very unfamiliar kind of mathematics, and has basically nothing to do with programming. At best, it may one day be a black box that you can use to solve certain conventional programming problems quickly.
The people they fired at the VA weren't probationary and one of the first changes they made to the VA was removing gender identity from the account information.

This isn't about efficiency, money, or employees. It's about power and the consolidation thereof. They will have ransacked the VA and the American people not only gave them the keys but they cheered them on.
That someone needs accountability themselves. Musk is not elected, his role isn’t defined. Really, he’s a patsy, he can do what he does, fortify his corporations, maybe trim some waste, have a falling out with Trump (it’s inevitable) and then trump blames him for the damage.
Christ they are truly dumb people who just got good with computers.
But what you're doing isn't a real job. Who hands someone who doesn't speakt the language a contract to sign? Don't you have a legal department that does this job for you and has people that are specialists for that?

Also, what are you going to do if the AI answered inaccurately and you signed a contract that says something different then what you thought?
same here. my downstairs neighbour burns garlic for every meal, and then burns some kind of incense to get rid of the smell of garlic. both of them somehow come up through the floor and make me retch, so I have to open the window - at which point she goes outside for a smoke and most of it seems to come in through that window.

live among people, they said. it'll be nice, they said.
Sealed houses in favor of climate control / energy usage has a big impact on people I'm sure. I'm lucky ish in that my house is well insulated but has central ventilation, but only 'suck' so it draws in fresh air from outside. In the same neighbourhood, they built houses with recirculation systems with a heat exchanger so that outside air was pulled in through that. But because the system was noisy (constant fan noises), people would turn the system on low or completely off, causing health issues due to buildup of CO2 and the like. That was uh, a bit of a problem for them and the builders.
And without the form…?
People who work out a lot eat way way more than $5 in eggs per month; maybe $5 per day is more accurate (it's not only the rich who want to work out).
The "I don't have anything to hide" argument usually misses that you can't know today what you should be hiding from the government tomorrow.

You have everything to hide by default and the onus is on every actor to prove why they need information and how it's isolated from other information.
I saw this at the big corporate (not faang/tech) place I work at. Engineers run and score interviews, but we don't make the final decision. That goes to HR and the hiring manager who usually has no technically background.
Sure, but if privacy matters to you, you have the option of buying credit anonymously and applying it to an anonymized account number. And if your threat model includes nation states, you're definitely not buying anything with a credit card. I also think if you're after payment details, there's more lucrative targets, eg Stripe.
The thing is the people who are for abortion bans think if a person gets an abortion and becomes sick from it, they get what they deserve.

So from a scientific perspective, they don't care, all they care about is a fetus being born, not well cared for, not born to a family that wants it, not born healthily, just born. Science has no place in their philosophy.
Egg prices are artificially inflated from the massive culling of chickens by producers due to bird flu. Nevertheless, egg prices are being pushed as a negative economic indicator for political reasons.
I agree, companies nor computers for themselves can't be moral, and instead need to rely on rules that model morals, but in order for them to interact with the world they need humans that allow them to interact with the world, and that must be held accountable for the morality of their systems.

This is why the AI world were, "sorry, computers says no" pretending to cut people off the loop is kind of scary, as people want to pretend this indirection frees them from accountability.

It'll be important for the law to reflect this, but ultimately just being lawfully right, but morally wrong can get you shot in the back anyways.
I like this because it’s like having 1Password at home.
True; that would be dangerously close to incest. Subset of a union, then.
"The ruling does not end the case"
obviously your young family would already be grown then.. and the house paid off?
TBH I haven't even noticed a price increase here in Brooklyn. I did notice that a lot of the "oh no eggs are running out" hysteria lined right up with some incoming winter storms, which typically drives up demand for basics like eggs, milk, and bread in the days before. Empty shelves for these items is incredibly common before snow. I don't doubt that there are places gouging, especially in Manhattan, but I just don't understand who is being impacted so much if I'm not seeing the same in one of the most HCOL and urban areas in the country
This is the answer.

Let's not pretend 95% of companies are asking asinine interview questions (though I understand the reasons why) that LLMs can easily solve.