skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The job seekers time is more valuable than that of your company.

As with anything of value this is also a supply and demand thing. Perhaps in India, junior candidates' time is simply worth less. The author mentions they got 2.5K applications, so obviously this will affect how picky the company can (and should) be.
Then NHTSA doesn't even test crashes between different sized vehicles because this would expose how much safer for the occupants it is to be in a larger, higher, more massive vehicle.
I imagined it was short for "manuscript", as "manus" is the Swedish word for it. I also have a friend named Manu, who I imagine is hoping her name doesn't get Alexa'd.
> About 15 went on to complete a reasonably simple real-world challenge

I am not sure what you mean by better way of filtering. You already got only 15 candidates from 2500 applicants. Next step is to just check what they have done in the challenge which will further reduce the number of candidates.
The problem would be if lets say 1000 applicants submit the challenge.
One proven property of tea (especially green tea prepared at a slightly lower temperature) is that it increases arterial flexibility. Contrast that with coffee, which increases blood pressure. I wouldn't be surprised if the effects on the cardiovascular system plays a large role in the calming effect of teas, and the anxiety-increasing effect of coffee.

Which leads to my other point: these experiments always focus so much on the brain without taking into account that the state of the body has a profound impact on the brain too.
Before the Great Oxidation Event, the predominant form of oxidized Fe was presumably (II).

Fe(OH)2 green.
> I wasn't intending to raise concerns over emergent consciousness or similar

Oh jeez, then we may have just been talking past each other. I thought that’s what you were arguing for.

> That just isn't important here at all.

It is, though. The fact that the underlying processes are well understood means that, if we so wished, we could work backwards and understand what the model is doing.

I recall some papers on this, but can’t seem to find them right now. One suggested that groups of weights relate to specific kinds of high level info (like people) which I thought was neat.

> the comparison wasn't intended they wouldn't be called "artificial intelligence"

Remember “smart” appliances? Were we meant to compare an internet connected washing machine to smart people? Names are all made up.

I do actually think AI is a horrible name as it invites these kinds of comparisons and obfuscates more useful questions.

Machine Learning is a better name, imo, but I’m not a fan of personifying machines in science.

Too many people get sci-fi brain.
Cool experiment!

Once the author started taking pills independently of their stress level, the variance of differences diminished a lot. I'd wager this supports the mean reversion hypothesis.

Also, while I agree with their general conclusion that theanine probably doesn't reduce stress, I'd give assign more probability to the hypothesis that theanine does work, but in other design settings. For example: drinking tea instead of taking pills, or measuring stress levels after a day instead of an hour, or evaluating the difference across time instead of in time chunks.
In the case of nuclear war, everyone loses everything. For most of us in the US, and I'm guessing most people not directly impacted by the war, that's not an acceptable outcome (not that Russia seems to be able to take any more than already have anyway).
This is the theory, certainly. In practice, I do wonder if the centre of gravity would shift fast enough, were it bought by an insane billionaire, but yeah, it is at least theoretically closer to immune to this than Twitter was.
Or "constructor acquires, destructor releases". When I learned about RAII for the first time, its meaning was not clear at all from the phrase "resource acquisition is initialization".
>> I feel like other search engines are worse that Google even though Google's results are nearly unusable.

Give Kagi a go - the usability thing is superb, as you can down rank common awful sites so they never appear in the results and they aren't stuffing ads into the results either

I find the results excellent 99% of the time and for those odd cases I'm not convinced it found the best results I pop back to Google. I tend to find that I do that most with subtle image searches (which are kind of rare but you are usually after something very specific where Kagi occasionally struggles with on the image side)
> Not because of their ideology—you can be a communist in public health as long as you compartmentalize

Seemingly this is something you don't actually agree with, considering as I've mentioned to you multiple times now of the Trump admin kicking out and discriminating against transgender individuals in the military despite having nothing to do with anything else.

Other than that you've been just continually justifying petty revenge for increasingly insane reasons.
That looks more like ad hoc union types than sum types. What happens if you do:

data FooResult = Number | Number

If you can't distinguish the two cases, then it means they're not an actual sum type, since e.g. the set size is |FooResult| = |Number| whereas a sum type should have 2*|Number|.

The reason ad hoc union types are avoided in Hindley-Milner (HM) languages is that their usability depends on subtyping, which is incompatible with HM. You could get around this by saying that ad hoc sum types require the types to be distinct, but this would greatly impede usability. For example:

ErrorA = FileNotFoundError | ParsingError
ErrorB = FileNotFoundError | PermissionError
ErrorC = ErrorA | ErrorB // Oops, trying to ad hoc sum FileNotFoundError twice

The tried and true solution in HM is to use generic types like Result<A,B>, where you separate the cases with labels Ok and Err.

On the other hand, languages with subtyping aren't that averse to ad hoc union types. TS and Python already have them and C# is adding them soonish [1].

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/proposals/Typ...
Have a look at https://www.numworks.com a easy to use scientific calculator that is opensource
I wouldn't be surprised if Chromebooks alone gave Chrome more market share than Firefox.
I know what you mean (I think).

That's probably the main reason I left what was otherwise my best job. I knew that if I stayed longer, I'd never be employable anywhere else, both because I'd have stopped learning, and because I'd have grown too comfortable/scared to move.
The first Google result for "Someone who eats meat often has an allergic reaction" is alpha-gal syndrome.

There are two kinds of people who would know this without searching: Medical professionals or people who obsessively follow every health scare in the press, often the yellow press.

This question is useless, unless you want to hear "I googled the question" or "I don't know". Anyway, most people don't care what you want to hear, hence the low application numbers.
Learning just by asking is not enough. One needs to exercise to build those muscles.

I'm just restating the obvious because LLMs can do exercise for you, but there is not much to be gained if one follows this path.
I Want to Fly, but I Don't Know How: Navigating the Early Days of a Junior Dev
One confound is that many people don’t own a personal printer because they have access to one at their library, job, friend’s home, etc. and that’s fine for something you do once and likely never use over your lifetime.
Those who've had experience with either transmitting or receiving on the HF band and or lower frequencies (≤30MHz) and who've knowledge of ionospheric propagation just know that short, medium and longwave RF bands are still essential in this digital/cable/satellite era for reasons that when all other communications systems have failed then communications on these frequencies will still be reliable.

Moreover, in wartime or during some other major catastrophe when technical infrastructure is likely to be impacted or destroyed then establishing and maintaining communications services on these frequencies is easy for reasons that the technology is low-tech and easy to understand—and there's an enormous amount of engineering experience to fall back upon (about 100 years' worth).

That we even have to raise this discussion is a quintessential example of intergenerational information loss.

Given their strategic importance, governments should put priority on educating the smartphone/streaming generation that these other modes of electronic communication actually exist and that they may even have to depend upon them.

I only need to refer to the current debate over retaining AM-band reception in car radios to illustrate the paucity of understanding. That EV manufacturers are pushing for the removal of the AM band in their car radios is proof-positive of how little the current breed of electronics engineers knows about these frequencies let alone their strategic importance.
Thanks for the link to the randomly-chosen paper. It really brightened my day to move my eyes over the craziness of this text. Who needs "The Onion" when Springer is providing this sort of comedy?
> People also forget NATO fought a much shitter/temu RU in Yugoslavia where NATO threw everything at even more legacy soviet systems. All of the awacs, prowlers, F117 barely chiped away at 20% of Yugoslav anti air, something like 700 harms were fired and destroyed less than handful of SA6 batteries. Hard to argue EU part of NATO has better military capability than 20 years ago

Likewise the reason why Russia couldn't steamroll Ukraine swiftly is because Ukraine anti air is very formidable (using Soviet hardware no less). That is why it is wrong to simply assume Russia is weak.
I've been building something very similar, but OSS and running in the terminal, since 2023 (3.5k stars): https://github.com/ErikBjare/gptme

Currently working on building out a web UI (https://chat.gptme.org) and managed service for it.

Manus also seems very similar to Claude Code (but not open source either).
Which was Windows 94 at some point, until it wasn't. At least one official alpha build had that name.
For secrets, just literally have an ssh command which reads the local .env file and uses them to start the server with them as arguments/env vars.
They don't do so badly in the UK with non-technical types (eg the elderly) especially where a full computer isn't safe or supportable.
Are you sure it's the caffeine and not another substance in coffee?
It wouldn't matter anyway, because it seems one of the tenets of this particular government is:

Sure, there's a law. Try and enforce it.

Unless I'm mistaken, all the agencies with the power to arrest a member of the Executive branch, lie within the Executive branch itself and they are all controlled, or soon will be controlled, by persons appointed by the President. All of these persons are expected to be more faithful to the current President than to the Constitution.

Which means: even if Congress wanted to stop him, there's nothing that it can do to enforce that.
Then why on gods green Earth do you also have:

> HIRING CHALLENGE: Find our recenter browser plugin (it is open-source). Understand what it is for and suggest an interesting and personally useful feature you can add to it. Go through the code and share a brief note on how you would go about building this feature, and why. Note: Send us an email once you have thought this through, have put together the design doc, and are ready to start coding.
I've been building the same thing since 2023. It works really well, and was most recently pretty much cloned by Claude Code: https://github.com/ErikBjare/gptme
Pasteimag Tools
What's "liberal" about Toyota?
1) But I included an actual argument and, furthermore, it assumed that the research is correct.

> I've seen enough 10x engineers get laid off...

2) That is sensible for the company. They have no idea how to use a 10x engineer, as can be detected by the fact that they're having layoffs. They don't know how to create value in the market and they're being forced into a position where they have to squeeze what they can out of what assets they have.

It isn't economically rational for them to employ 10x engineers in that sort of environment. The global and local optimum is to let those engineers go so they can do something valuable somewhere and keep some more 1x style engineers on the cheap.

If a company is having layoffs, that is the invisible hand of the market writing on the wall "THIS MANAGEMENT TEAM DOESN"T KNOW HOW TO MAKE MONEY AT THE MOMENT, STOP GIVING THEM IMPORTANT RESOURCES". That includes 10x engineers.
Better than having to cry in russian in 20 years.

Also, according to Perun, if Europe collectively raises defense spending to somewhere near 4,5% (I think, check last Sundays episode) it will outspend not only US but US and China together.
>Some of us have been following European politics for a long time, friend.

Oh yea, here is one guy that does exactly that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD_KEFpuIro

Transcript:

https://singjupost.com/transcript-jeffrey-sachs-on-the-geopo...

>Not for Crimea. Not for the Donbas. Nothing like that. This idea that Putin is reconstructing the Russian empire, this is childish propaganda. Excuse me.

>If anyone knows the day-to-day and year-to-year history, this is childish stuff. Childish stuff seems to work better than adult stuff. So no designs at all. The United States decided this man must be overthrown. It’s called a regime change operation.
Good enough isn’t nearly good enough. You’re competing against apps, offering just a much better use experience.

One bit of feedback I got repeatedly from users on a couple communities (now dead) I helped run was how much harder posting image and video content in a forum is - true user generated content I mean, not shared from YouTube. Even that meant ricking around with bbcode.
All of them.

One of the things that exacerbates the others is not just the lingering effects of superstition, but its growth rate which can still sometimes outpace the rate of civilization.
What I've noticed from my extensive use over the past couple weeks has been Claude Code really sucks at thinking things through enough to understand the second and third order consequences of the code that it's writing. That said, it's easy enough to work around its deficiencies by using a model with extended thinking (Grok, GPT4.5, Sonnet 3.7 in thinking mode) to write prompts for it and use Claude Code as basically a dumb code-spewing minion. My workflow has been: give Grok enough context on the problem with specific code examples, ask it to develop an implementation plan that a junior developer can follow, and paste the result into Claude Code, asking it to diligently follow the implementation plan and nothing else.
Layoff are like hammers: When needed, in the hands of someone skilled, they work perfectly well. But such situations are sadly rare, compared to frustrated idiots grabbing hammers to get their quick "Hulk Smash!" dopamine hits.
The other problem with an easy job is the boredom. If you are in office or even remote but present, remaining engaged but bored for 8hrs/day is torture.
I've heard it phrased like this: your door has an UX so bad that it needs an instruction manual (even if 1 word long).
Nil receivers are such a thing to have
It is why I am happy to be child free.

I am someone who would probably not own a smart phone if it wasn't such a pain to not have one.

I can see with the kids in my extended family how even by 12, not having a smart phone is going to damage your social life. It was awkward enough for me at that age with rotary phones. I couldn't do that to my kid if I had one.

We have put ourselves in a really bad spot. Even if a parent wants to do what is best for the kid, I have no idea what that is. To pretend there is some simple and obvious answer here is completely divorced from reality.
I don't understand why people are switching editors when they could just use something like Aider. It's open source, agnostic about any other tooling you're using, and plugs into whatever LLM you want. Why hitch your wagon to a service that will inevitably enshittify?
I think the key part is “separate industry” – Google should have had to restrict Chrome promotion to what was available to other browser vendors (e.g. not the Gmail login page because they don’t sell ad space there).
Am I the only one who sees only the title on that page?
It ended when the vc money in the original dotcom boom dried up.
The layoffs are not the issue. It is the decision makers who took the two decisions to both over-hire and then mass-fire shortly after. GM is a great example. The company was the largest and one of the most innovative car manufacturers in the world. It doesn't stand a chance against BYD today and it is not by a lack of money (though maybe with a C-suite change).

So my opinion is, yes, the damage is done (or being done) but like GM, it'll probably take 10-15 years until we are in the visible territory. Maybe a bit shorter because this is tech.
Somewhat related. What are your favorite physical controls on Digikey?
Show HN: Run Self-Guided N=1 Experiments
We're two indie developers who created an iOS app called Reflect [0], which lets you track anything you can think of and run self-guided experiments.

We launched on Product Hunt a few weeks ago and got the #3 spot for the day [1]. We have also been sharing our own experiences running experiments with Reflect [2, 3].

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-anything/id64638...

[1] https://www.producthunt.com/products/reflect-c052fea3-a982-4...

[2] https://waragainstentropy.substack.com/p/meditating-more-mad...

[3] https://reflectapp.substack.com/p/my-experience-with-nootrop...
I thought about it a while back. My concept was using RLHF to train a LLM to extract key points, their premises, and generate counter questions. A human could filter the questions. That feedback becomes training material.

Once better with numbers, maybe have one spot statistical errors. I think a constantly-updated, field-specific checklist for human reviewers made more sense on that, though.

For a data source, I thought OpenReview.net would be a nice start.
The opinions on the government differ, the losing side appears to blame all and everything to the government. Although tariffs, if any, will definitely have an impact, but it doesn't seem like any startup will be blocked from selling to the US, and I don't see why will one not want to sell to the US if there are buyers there.
I got the exact same idea sadly most electric blanket i could find on amazon where kinda small and had disappointingly low heating power...
That wasn't the reason I think, rather than some people abusing the flag option to keep anything they don't like off the front page, thinking their personal preferences are more important than what everyone else votes.

Please send a polite mail to dang, he is really helpful.
Which is what they said in 1990 as well.
How many different platforms out there run Fortran code these days? I’m aware of it being very important in scientific computing (and compiling existing code is critical) but I don’t know many other use cases and different platforms requiring different compilers.
The Russian propaganda part is that you act as if Russia is defending, while actually they are invading.

Do the neighbors of France need an alliance against a French invasion? Do the neighbors of Germany need an alliance against a German invasion? Why not?
That I guess is relevant in the context of brute-force login, which given you only use key with, is not really something I would stress over. However, depending on what that user does, there might be vulnerable services running with its privileges, or there might be supply-chain vectors for tools that user runs.
That won't help if you need a centralized cache or centralized KV store, like for sessions.
Show HN: Fermi estimation game (100% written by ChatGPT o1)
I wanted to try out ChatGPT o1 model to generate a full streamlit app, asking Fermi style of estimation questions, without looking at the code

With some simple prompts, it did a fairly good job, in about one hour

I only needed to copy paste error messages a couple of times, for it to suggest corrections

My take-away is that LLMs will empower many non-technical users to achieve their (simple / self-contained) goals with no need for external help, which makes me hopeful about their benefits to society
> There is one country/party that is supercharging China, and has de facto ceded global leadership to them in the most amazing self-own in history, and that is the US under the Trump administration.

Trump is the predictable result of past US administrations doing that, for the past several generations.

> When American trade and relations collapse into a pile of ashes, and eventually nuclear proliferation gone wild due to your clown's actions leads to some American cities glassed, I hope you think "Boy, but it sure made me feel like a big man saying incredibly stupid things online"

Are you projecting your own mindset?

> your clown's actions leads to some American cities glassed

> "Boy, but it sure made me feel like a big man saying incredibly stupid things online"
Emotionally it makes perfect sense, and it's great for propaganda purposes, but rationally it has no appeal. How does making Russia into an enemy that needs to be obliterated and destroyed for the safety of the world help anybody or serve to end the conflict? If you say they are evil and don't want to destroy them totally, what is the point of labeling other than for propaganda?
Also:

The "everyone will lie question"

> Do you understand that being authentic and true to yourself in your answers here will help you in the long run?

the "embrace the suck" question

> What do the words gratitude and humility mean to you?

the one stolen from 'Google interviews':

> Here's a fun question: Someone who eats meat often has an allergic reaction. What are some likely reasons for this?

and obviously

> What do you think your annual salary should be?

So they can lowball you.

This is about the most toxic interview process I've seen. No wonder good candidates go elsewhere.
Stop peddling russian propaganda.

Just because you can dig up three YouTube links that supports the russian side doesn't mean we should belive them.
There is an answer, but I 100% believe you wont like it, nor implement.

Do video interviews, or better yet, in-person interviews. Ask questions there. Request sharing desktop, and share if you ask LLMs and your strategy in doing so.

Academics are dealing with the same problem, with "do they know the material or is it an LLM?". Universities also have access to a potent tool: oral examination. Its also the hardest to implement due to time and 1:1 labor. The answer's right there.
Mozilla already exists, and it behaves as a non-profit arm of Google. If you created another non-profit it would do the same unless it was banned from receiving money from search engines (but then it would have no money.)
Then I write it myself or tell it to correct itself. They tend to be confidently incorrect in many cases, but especially with the online ones you can tell them that "this bit is bullshit" and they'll try again with a different lib.

Works for common stuff, not so much for highly specialised things. An LLM can't know something it hasn't been "taught".
Since many (all?) of these new wave LLM code editors are just VSCode forks, the cost both to switch and to later switch back is basically zero. At most, you need to change or relearn a few shortcuts and that's it. (I'm ignoring pure cli tools here which is a different ball game.)
In practice it goes both ways...

Lots of critical things for the US is made exclusively in Europe.

Lots of medicin that people rely on daily would be unavailable if EU/US trade broke down completely.