skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Costco is culturally insane. There's a certain kind of person (cough prepper cough) that shops at Costco; these people hear one whiff of societal instability and they immediately buy ten dozen eggs, manage to eat half of them, and then throw the other half out. Its super cringe and its the reason why I cancelled my Costco membership last year.

Meanwhile you just go to a Kroger or Walmart down the street, pay nearly the same price, and they always have stock. It was the same thing with toilet paper early in the pandemic; we swing by Costco, utter madhouse, line out the door, everyone has cartfulls of toilet paper. I tell my friend "lets skip this and go try Target" -> Shelves weren't fully stocked, but they had some, no crazy crowds, we're good and the butts are clean.

Costco's prices aren't even that spectacularly great anymore, especially once you factor in the membership, and if you do a little legwork on coupon clipping (which is so easy nowadays with all the apps). E.g. the Kroger near me almost always has meat like 30% off on Fridays because, idk, its nearing the last day they can sell it or something. Stock up for the week then, way cheaper than even Costco.
Yes, exactly this. The chilling effect caused by this
is real and terrifying.
There's no such thing as "settled science". You can not prove that any scientific consensus has no flaws in the same way you can't prove the absence of bugs in any software. It's unproductive to treat science as anything more than an ongoing, constantly improving process.
I am a shader developer, often struggling with the incompatibility of underlying rendering tech (OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal, etc.). I built my own live-coding visual synthesizer using Kotlin script and OpenGL. If I had some time, I would port it to Google filament, so it is truly multiplatform.
There is one, it is called a Constitution, and any rules where changes are only accepted by a qualified majority not of 50% but of 66% aka 2/3rds.
It's normal to have a training set and a validation set and I interpreted that to mean that these items weren't in the training set.
> Get your clients to spend more on Elon Musk’s social-media platform, or else.

What's with the wishy washy headline?

Saying "Musk extorts consumer corporations with government power" not politically correct these days?
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> It would have been trivial for Mullvad to add a filter to check for future packets from that VPN ip to my server IP and flag the associated account.

In other words, to break the fundamental premise of their product and identify traffic to a user.

> I think there would be a better way using AI to analyze abuse patterns, and automatically flag bad users which match these patterns.

Not without, again, creating an entire system which exists only to record traffic and tie it back to users.

Basically, both of your suggestions amount to "stop providing the product that is their entire business model", because the whole point is that they go out of their way to avoid having the information that you want them to use.
Maybe I don't understand exactly what you're describing but why would anyone pay for this? When I bring home the shopping I just... chuck stuff in the cupboards. I already know where it all goes. Maybe you can explain more?
"I have nothing to hide" really misses the point of what privacy is for. I don't close the door when I'm taking a crap because I have something to hide, I do it for privacy.

Also, blackmail isn't the only way to have personal or intimate information used against you. As the absolutely massive advertising industry can tell you, knowing more details about people makes them easier to influence and manipulate.
Yeah, the code looks like it was written by a Java programmer writing Python code.
I’m not saying anything about the “best American students.” But America has unique social challenges—former slave society, mass immigration—that European countries and Singapore don’t have. Those impact test scores, but that doesn’t mean there’s problems can be fixed by schooling.

P.S. “person of color” isn’t a category that exists.
This is a great point. Though what if the answer is that the company can hire that AI to solve a significant fraction of its actual problems? People who do the assessments and decide what features should look like are often called managers (product, engineering, etc.).

For a while I’ve been skeptical that the rate of hiring of engineers would change significantly because of LLMs, but I’m starting to feel like maybe I’m wrong and it’s already changing and companies are looking toward AI to lower costs and require fewer humans. In that case they are probably still going to want people who are technically exceptional - maybe even more so - but are able and willing to create, integrate, and babysit AI generated code, and also do PM and EM style feature management.

If companies are slowing hiring due to AI, I would expect interviews to get worse before they get better.
That's honestly wild to me. I had arthroscopic labrum tear surgery on both my shoulders (1 in 2024, 1 in 2023), and I can't imagine going back to really any range of movement within a week. Even on my solid PT schedule. Glad it worked out for you but I would hesitate to expose yourself to any sort of risk at that stage.

For me it took about 4 months to feel pretty comfortable with the shoulder(s) and about 6-12 months for skateboarding, weight lifting, etc

What was your surgery if you don't mind me asking?
The TFA's AI-generated image "Harnessing the most compute in the known universe" that captures the entire globe in a blue hue of AI compute is a bit disturbing, TBH.
These people who complain are the guys who don't have guns.
The example you give doesn't seem to work - the raw txt does not have authors.
We just had a similar discussion at work the other day when one of our junior engineers noticed that a senior engineer was reflexively tapping the space bar twice after each sentence. That, too, was good style back when we were writing on typewriters or using monospace fonts with no typesetting. Only a child or a slob would fail to provide an extra gap between sentences, it would be distracting to readers and difficult to locate full stops without that!

But it's 2025, and HTML and Word and the APA and MLA and basically everyone agree that times and style guides have changed.

I agree that not capitalizing the first letter in a sentence is a step too far.

For a counter-example, I personally don't care whether they use the proper em-dash, en-dash, or hyphen--I don't even know when or how to insert the right one with my keyboard. I'm sure there are enthusiasts who care very deeply about using the right ones, and feel that my lack of concern for using the right dash is lazy and unrefined. Culture is changing as more and more communication happens on phone touchscreens, and I have to ask myself - am I out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong. /s

But I strongly disagree that the author should pass everything they write through Grammarly or worse, through ChatGPT.
Which all could be caused by a broken HDMI implementation (refresh, synchronization and audio are all encoded and synchronized).
But of course I could be wrong and every M1 Mac has severe issues connecting to HDMI TV's.
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There is a use case for for small autonomous surface vessels in port defense. The US military might buy a few to protect bases in the Middle East and Asia Pacific region.

But how does anyone think that large unmanned ships are ever going to work? Equipment requires constant preventive maintenance and still breaks down all the time. Who is going to do that work?
Amazon's MGM Studios gains creative control over 'James Bond' franchise
Gp is not saying that every farm exactly like the small family farm. In fact they are saying the opposite. You need to look at them individually, because they are not all the same as you are suggesting, any more than the passionate open source developer making a small living on donations is the same as a giant tech Corp making billions on vacuuming up people's data and "monetizing" it.

I think the bulk of the animal industry and farming industry are despicable and cruel. I think they essentially low-grade poison our food in order to squeeze unnatural levels of production out of goods. Without a doubt, they torture animals in order to increase yield and maximize it to the space. This is grotesque and awful in my opinion.

But there are people who are trying to do it a good way. If you believe that any sort of animal husbandry is evil, then go ahead and lump all the farms in together. But if you aren't that extreme, then there is a huge difference between some of the players.
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Yes, and restrict the 2nd amendment by fiat, etc...

But Democrats "play nice" and respect the law. Biden could have ordered Trump assassinated as soon as the Supreme Court invented the new interpretation that puts president on a piedestal, but he was never going to do it.
It is only the job of the executive because Congress told them so via Acts of Congress. Looking at e.g. the firings of the inspector generals, Congress has put very clear language into its laws on why and when those inspector generals can be removed by their post, yet Trump and his cronies ignored this.

It should not be a formality because while it is true that the Republicans have a slight majority in Congress, the founding fathers never intended this most powerful of the three branches to be run by parties. The power in Congress is split up geographically for this very reason, but the party system, that secured its seats with gerrymandering, is highly toxic for a functioning legislative power in the US. It is disappointing to see Republicans in Congress not restricting the executive orders of the new self-proclaimed King.
Yes, club every other thing that can be automated into the "AI" category.
The Mump playbook relies on wild exaggeration.

In this case Musk reckons he can save $2tn which some (better informed) analysts are saying is bollocks.

In fact, it's cover to let him destroy/neuter agencies they don't like and get endless material to pressurise any opponents.

One positive though: if there is any alien tech, Musky will find it. You can bet that's high on his list, as improbable as it may be.
Even more relevant now that we are in the age of code generation as the powertool for productivity.
Intent to drop in, make major changes, and pretend like they won't break anything is ill intent

We criticize engineers who drop into a code base and try to make changes without understanding. You can be forgiven for doing it a few times, but after that you're doing it intentionally. And if they hired engineers that didn't know this, that's incompetence at both levels.

Not only is this different code bases and IT products, it's across organizations and done very rapidly.

I am also not convinced that they don't simply have malicious intent most of the time.
Sure there are always edge cases and unknowns. Additionally we each have a limited capacity for condition variability. All of that can be qualified away by people who have prior experience. By prior experience I don't mean ample work history (vague), but people who have participated in a given scenario in the past (highly specific).

The problem space there comes from only two considerations. The first of which is a team where nobody has the required prior experience. In that case confidence drops in proportion to the increase of uncertainty, but that does not necessarily result in an increase of anxiety. Some people and/or work cultures are much better positioned than others to confront stress directly without distressing towards anxiety.

The second consideration is the collision between prior experience and evidence. In this case both the evidence and the prior experience must be considered and an alternate conclusion must be reached. That alternate conclusion is the definition of truth according to John Stuart Mills.
> Our "gotcha," which doesn't apply to most languages anymore is, "What's the difference between a function and a procedure." It's a one sentence answer, but people who didn't know it would give some pretty enlightening answers.

If you're asking this question (by virtue of the present-tense "is") in the year 2025 even though by your own admission

> it's not really relevant in today's languages.

then you aren't giving candidates a good impression. Even though I would have nailed this question I would have serious reservations about any job that would ask it in an interview because it means that the person interviewing me has more concern for legacy minutiae than broad technical knowledge or problem-solving skills.
> For example, it could be that the company wants the engineer to do some kind of assessment whether a feature should be implemented at all, and if yes, in what way. Then you could, in an interview, give a bit of context and then ask the candidate to think out loud about an example feature request.

So a Product Manager?
> If you understand the underlying concepts that programming languages pick and choose from as features, all you have to learn is what keywords map to those concepts and the language's syntax.

If you understand the grammatical topics that a natural language picks, all you have to learn is what word transformation rules map to those concepts, and the natural language's vocabulary.

> The comparison to natural languages would be if you could learn one language and then quickly pick up every other language of that "class" after learning how that single language works.

There do exist books on this topic (though more commonly for language families). See for example

https://www.quadrilingual.com/

or the book

EuRom 5. Leggere e capire 5 lingue romanze

> That's not really how natural language works at all, but it does work with programming languages.

... it might give you some shallow knowledge in a very limited subset of programming languages.
It has to be done quickly because the administrative state is large and there is a lot to do. Institutions grow old with time and need drastic reform or replacement. I don’t know what they will replace everything with, ideally they have a bunch of smart people thinking about that. Look at how FDR used the Bureau of the Budget to similar effect.
It can add usability features pretty well too. "Look at the variables in the script and add a feature to accept them as command line arguments and environment variables. Make the CONTENT variable mandatory."

They are also pretty good at software translations nowadays. You can give them a yaml file and they know what's a variable or placeholder and what's text to be translated.
I have to wait until March to get all my documents from brokerages, so I guess I am personally screwed by DOGE if returns are delayed.
an opinion, and a falsifiable hypothesis:

call me old-fasahioned, but two spaces after a period will solve this problem if people insist on all-lower-case. this also helps distinguish between abbreviations such as st. martin's and the ends of sentences.

i'll bet that the linguistics experimentalists have metrics that quantify reading speed measurements as determined by eye tracking experiments, and can verify this.
I have definitely contradicted Elon Musk on my X profile (@cyrsbel) quite a lot. I have never once lost my blue checkmark, though, so I believe he is well-intentioned and a good person who is trying to do the right thing. (I am also subscribed to him and having that sub and the blue checkmark means he has payment details already so I'm not worried about doxxing via CFPB data.) However, you raise a legitimate security risk and concern. It is not feasible to trust a single person with this much power and access. Furthermore, regardless of how much I or anyone else love Elon Musk...he has said things that didn't happen multiple times and too much is riding on his claims about what can or will happen.

So yeah, I don't trust him. Ever since he reneged on interns, I noticed that...he has a tendency to think about things as if they're entirely meat and to worship the false god Scarcity. He's been gargling Ron Paul's gold coins so much that he completely fails to comprehend basic nation state financing and why deficits are manageable and our debt is also manageable given our $160T+ net worth and climbing...
Being decentralized helps, but there's still only a few voting machine vendors, still nationalized media, and nobody is checking state ID of the protestors at state elections.

And US elections have been very tight, and the electoral college means that only a few states being controlled is enough.

We also lack an apparatus to overturn a fraudulent election. Even if a judge rules that an election was fraudulent, that's not the same as certifying another vote total nor can it physically remove someone from office.
> Some of the most interesting, and most subtle, algorithm work was done keeping that system "critically damped" so that it would converge quickly.

Looking back at my early work with microservices I'm wondering how much time I would have saved by just manually setting a tongue weight.
Your default assumption should be ill intent when it comes to information security, my friend.
I found arena was a place with a 2000 token limit on inputs.

I think it even quietly eliminates the input without telling you. Nobody is putting serious work tasks in 2000 tokens on Arena.

The lesson you should have learned is Arena is a dumb metric, not that people have unfounded biases against Grok 2. (Which I've used on Perplexity and found to be unimpressive.)

The other thing is dumb, low quality statements are all over reddit and Twitter about any "hype" topic, including mysterious new models on arena. So it isn't surprising you encountered that for Grok 2, but you could have said the same thing for Gemini models.

If reddit can be believed, Wizard LM 2 was so much better than OpenAI models that Microsoft had to cancel it so OpenAI wouldn't be driven out of business.

People say all sorts of dumb stuff on social media.
Also I had read somewhere about a really strange conspiracy theory which really made me question if we can really be against government and big tech (since "lobbying" is made official)
but if 5 eyes (the billionaires?) really wanted (heck only if UK + australia wanted , australia police is given the ability to remotely plant data in nation's interest and uk also is getting apple to force data to be leaked in the apple ecosystem and who knows what else. Its only a matter of time that they put 2+2 together (or they have?) and use it to plant CSAM (yes NSA has distributed CSAM for the purposes of catching people , so I wonder if such 5 eyes also have these , please hackernews moderators just because I have mentioned CSAM , don't remove this comment I suppose)

and carrying CSAM is a serious offense and you will get into jail for it. and the jail prisoners aren't kind to CSAM convicted prisoners and they would bully them immensely , maybe even cause them to suicide or just make their life hell.
I have a hard time with any ideological approach to education that comes from those not participating in the system. There are competing goals that are stratified from the classroom to the federal government. Due to the diversity of the participants, literally most of the country, aligning these goals makes it a never-ending problem with new strategies and approaches and proposals being produced every few cycles.
Here is my take. The most important and impactful area that you can put your collective effort is into the teacher and student relationship. The educators are the ones challenged to tactically implement this year's "flavor of instruction", but their goal remains to elevate your child. You can argue about what measure they are using, but the end-result is that they are working for the betterment of your child within the constraints of their situation. Which includes every other child in that same classroom, an ever changing curriculum, assessment goals, local, state, and federal expectations.
The teachers are the ones translating all of that into effective instruction to the best of their ability. Give them your support, your understanding, your time, and your advocacy. You will see change while the rest of the country argues over the next "best idea".
Funnily enough I installed this recently to install a game I bought years ago.

I tried searching for it and found several outright scam apps. I figured Amazon had given up with it.
Man it's pretty crazy seeing all those reasonable looking stories flagged and made dead.

Also what's with the blue non-link links? Never seen that before on HN.
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Can you post your chicken coop and instructions on how you built it?
The “real problems” most companies want people to help solve involve the evolution of products that last for years, involve repeated design discussions, in depth research, and applying retrospective learning. I don’t need someone that can just glue a Rails API together. If I did, I can literally just download that from the internet for free.

If my problems could be solved in the time span of an interview, why would I waste my time doing that interview instead of just solving it?
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Before the courts can catch up, they lose power in the Senate or those affected can organise. There's also something to be said for disorienting your opponents. Plus it gets things done faster without dragging it out. It's wins all round.

GP: They absolutely will make something good out of it, but for their benefit not the average American.
Goal 2 has been achieved, at least as a proof of concept (and not by OpenAI): https://openai.com/index/openai-technical-goals/
At this rate, in a year of two, Amazon will have a reputation for killing products just like Google. It was Chime yesterday and now this.

Personally I still haven't gotten over Amazon's killing of the magazine subscription service.
At least in Los Angeles the prices for a dozen eggs are fluctuating between $3, $12, and an empty shelf.

Some restaurants are up charging for egg dishes although it's not widespread.

It's not the most back braking price fluctuations but it's one of the most obvious. I think the shortages are a lot more apparent than the prices themselves. And the fact it's fluctuating means it's on your mind even more as you wait out another sad, eggless week.
You can still have a specific "normal"/expected capacity, even if you're producing them +-20 mWh.
Your solution sounds like the worst cognitive load for getting home from the grocery store and wanting it all to be over.
Idk about the US, but the 'government' fraud that I know of, does not show up in the tax office records or in the foreign aid accounts. The common thing is that civil servants/officials are bribed. At usually on the cheap too, so it'll take a lot of digging to find it, and worse, prove it. But, this kind of corruption is probably even more widespread among companies. If you want to exact justice, that's the place to look.
Maybe some people just assume there is a “best” or “optimal” way to do everything and AI will tell us what that is. Some things are just preference and I don’t mind the tiny amount of energy that goes into doing small things the way I like.
That’s disappointing. I am guessing the character of James Bond will be changed to match the whims of Amazon’s studio teams, who have certain political biases on content and casting.
My nature is to give the benefit of the doubt, but after seeing that they are rushing and it manifests in laying off even teams of highly skilled and critical nuclear safety staff...that means someone there doesn't know what they're doing or the chaos could be the point as well. I would hope it's not to that extent, but this is why I maintain that CAT should be auditing DOGE's changes.
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