skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stop using K-means. HDBScan in its GPU implementation in CuML is probably superior, yes even on your "very large" datasets (A100s can be rented for less than 1$ an hour).
Hey HN,
I built [*Interview.Codes*](https://interview.codes) because I was tired of prepping for technical interviews in isolation. Solving LeetCode is one thing, but speaking your thoughts under pressure? That’s a whole different skill - and it’s usually the part that trips people up in real interviews.

Interview.Codes simulates *real coding interviews* with an *AI voice-based interviewer* that:
- Asks you questions like a real FAANG engineer would
- Listens to your explanation as you code
- Gives subtle hints if you get stuck
- Provides feedback after the session (strengths, red flags, edge cases you missed, etc.)

It’s like having a mock interview partner on demand—without scheduling or paying \$200/hour.

This is the tool I wish I had when I was prepping. Would love to hear your thoughts or feedback if you try it out.

Here’s the PH launch if you’d like to support:
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/interview-codes?utm_source...
Specifically, they can only break into GrapheneOS if it’s missing a certain 2022 security patch
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I mean, enhanced windows wants to be running in protected mode with its kernel in ring 0. If you're running DOS in real mode, no problem, windows will switch.

But, if you've loaded Emm386, it already has the machine in protected mode with its kernel in ring 0.

GEMMIS allows switching out the kernel, and later switching back.
Work is not the same as stress. People today (especially near the bottom of the ladder) are not in control of their own destiny like they used to be. It's a different kind of stress.
I think we can expect this to be rapidly monetized.
> Today you should do the same trick as a Linux futex although you spell it differently in Windows. It's also optionally smaller, which is nice for this sort of job, a futex costs 4 bytes but in Windows we can spend just one byte.

I don't really care about narrower futexes, what I do wish Linux had was 8 byte futexes. It's at times hard to cram enough state into 4 bytes for more complicated things.

E.g. for postgres' buffer state it'd be very useful to be able to have buffer state bits, pin count, shared lockers and the head of the lock wait queue in one futex "protectable" unit.

There are also ABA style issues that would be easier to defend against with a wider futex.
I’m sure I’m preaching to the choir here, but the data belonging to a faceless corporation (or even a government agency) can be dangerous even if the corporation does not have any nefarious intentions; this is because both the data and the corporation can eventually be compromised by malicious actors.
And perhaps television
Oh great question, we should look into other runtimes like bun, deno, etc.

Would you like to use it in a bun project?
I have to see the usual "rant" shit post of Musk on X where he defames "judges" for such a case...
Curiously it is just limited to decision going against his choices and his russian friends choices...
Respectfully, I don’t want to talk about the topic of my cleft lip. It hurts to talk about it.

It’s hard enough bringing it up. I bring it up to give evidence to the fact that I am not a stereotypical good looking guy. Because I am not.
Pretraining an LLM from Scratch [video]
The Vanishing Male Writer
Literally every time in the history of the universe when someone has structured a sentence like this, in this context, whoever they're talking about ends up being a giant crackpot. I'm not saying this person is a crackpot, just that the pattern recognition systems are throwing off some alarms.
https://archive.ph/HyCxz
If they tasted like ocean, they probably weren't that fresh.
RPi Compact AI Camera Feat. Coral USB Accelerator: 5 Steps (With Pictures)
It’s a sure way to kill tourism.
I have the exact opposite experience, recently when a playlist I have is over, I find that every recommended track that plays after, I love so much I end up putting in my playlist
Discussion 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37361947
> yes, you will be asked to unlock it

To elaborate, per the CBP (https://www.cbp.gov/travel/cbp-search-authority/border-searc...), if you refuse to unlock your phone or other electronic device it may be confiscated.

If you are a non-citizen, they can also use that refusal as evidence that you are not 'entitled to enter the United States.' In theory that alone is not sufficient to result in denied entry, but in practice it seems that border guards have a great deal of subjective leeway about things.

If you are a US citizen, they cannot deny you entry at the border. However, the device might still be confiscated.
More details here: https://zhero-web-sec.github.io/research-and-things/nextjs-a...

Hat tip ash: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43451485
What is the South Park scandal?
It wasn't even well known until very late into the 2000s (even early 2010) when Apple actually started to make a lot of money and got a lot more scrutiny.

Because it is pretty simple, you don't really care about a struggling company or one that just gets by, even if their marginal tax rate is lower than it is supposed to be, since there isn't much to be taxed the difference is minimal in any case.
However, if the company is extremely successful and makes big money the difference is absurd and it actually becomes unfair for everyone (both other companies who have to play by the rules, and citizens who get taxed more than a filthy rich corp).

And this is the real reason it "became" a problem and took a while to resolve. Had Apple stayed a relatively small company with small sales numbers in the EU (and thus small profits) the deal would have probably not have much scrutiny and even if it had, it probably wouldn't have gotten any focus.
It would have cost more money in legislators time than it would have brought in anyway, even though the deal was fundamentally unfair. But life is generally unfair, so it doesn't matter that much.
Agreed. We've had this immune system battling stuff non-stop throughout evolution and now we're living in these clinical environments and it's going haywire.

Not to mention we're poisoning ourselves with all sorts of novel stuff, especially poor hi-carb nutrition, ultra processed food and pollution from various sources that act as endocrine disruptors and God knows what else.
Why are you worried about it as long as you're on Canadian soil?
Going one-step-higher, do you really believe DOGE is acting in good faith?
I have also heard some people claim that the 100 mile zone also applies around ANY international airport, but I have no idea if that's true. That would certainly close the rest of the land gap though, as not many people live more than 100 miles away from an airport.
Isn't this something which Craig Murray was highlighting in the context of the Julian Assange extradition case?

Namely that the US Government argues that the 1st Amendment "free speech" right only applies to US Citizens.

The deal to drop the extradition of Assange only came about after the UK Judge quizzed in on if Assange would be able to depend upon that protection, rather than simply assert it (and have it denied).

So I'd not be surprised at a French citizen not having "free speech" in the USA.
NotaGen: Symbolic Music Generation
I've yet to see a LLM asking any critical question, in order to understand the problem better. Without this, it can never be a good programmer because good programmers ask questions.
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This is a bad look for wealthy people. It looks like a modern version of the high towers built by wealthy medeivals described in another current HN article [1]: "Signs of wealth and prestige, these all-stone buildings were also fireproof, leading to a terrible but effective tactic: take your family, treasures & goods up into your tower then set fire to enemies’ homes and let the city burn around you while you sit safe above. "

It seems to me like a dramatically better thing to do is to make one's city, state, and the world in general a more stable and safe place to live, such that such weird rooms are not necessary.

BTW, the original article is also at [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43452588

[2] https://archive.ph/Qr374
Fandom and the multimillion dollar business of monetizing wiki volunteers' work
It makes sense if you don’t think of humans as tools and think of art consumption pre-AI. Very little would be made public if people thought their work would get scooped up to create these models.

I, and others, don’t care if the process of observing and generating output works the same way because people and tools don’t need to be held to the same standard. As I’ve said numerous times elsewhere, big picture, AI and humans are different in practically every other way and that is seemingly never taken into consideration when promoting AI adoption. It’s also a big leap to say we fully understand how human creativity works which is still under study.

You may, I could be wrong, believe oppositely because it means you can benefit directly from these tools but other people view it through the lens of what they or others may lose and that is no less rational. Social constructs require social consensus. If you got rid of capitalism people might be more open to your viewpoint but as it stands this just smells like socializing human creativity for free, in a way people could never anticipate, to make other people money, no doubt consolidating more power in corporations, who can afford to run the models at scale, as is standard.

I suppose we’re unlikely to agree so I’ll leave it at this.
I've been hearing this since the 90s when hollywood was telling me RISC was going to change everything with machines that look crispy in the dark. People were probably saying it in the 80s and I just didn't hear it.

AMD and Intel have no reason to leave x86. ARM is certainly crowding into their markets, but this isn't the first time, and there's room for multiple architectures.
I would say more normies.

Only after Lex started talking to politicians I realized how dull they are.

Just compare Aella and Netaniahu or Peter Levels and Trump. Or Narendra Modi and ThePromeagean.
Oooo, as someone who's played a fair bit of Artemis SBS in the past (and bought a license in the super super early days), but who _constantly_ lamented its closed-source nature, this is super intriguing. On the other hand, I've been out of the 'verse for a while and haven't been following developments.

These simulators are so much fun, even the crappy ones, I don't even what to compare them to. It's a whole new kind of game, and it plays really well in a conference room after-hours, just sayin'.
Apparently it’s a bigger concern than Mexico these days. Something about Fentanyl I heard, presumably Trump is unhappy that Canada imports many times more fentanyl than it sends back or something about as insane..
I think "birds migrate" is a good contender for one of the most startling "humanity discovered that when? and they thought what instead? And it took what to disprove it?" factoids: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_migration#Historical_view... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfeilstorch

It seems so simple and common sense and everyday. It doesn't involve microscopic lifeforms or planets or stars, just... birds. "Where do birds go during the winter? Well, birds are good at flying away from hunters or other bad things. That's why they fly. So maybe they just fly somewhere else. I look up in Fall and I see flights of birds flying in a specific direction. And people in other areas say birds arrive from elsewhere for a while. What else would they do? Turn into little fish and hide in the water all winter, or spontaneously regenerate out of random little clams? Anyway, here's a bird with a big old Central African spear stuck through its whole body who managed to fly here alive anyway which proves that."
Oh, I know your pain all too well. As a fellow UK dev that spent the last year or so looking for a new job before finding one, the market here is absolutely brutal for developers and software engineers. As you said yourself, the majority of roles seem to be fake (or not taken seriously), the few that do interview do a poor job of it and then if you're lucky you'll find one of the few jobs that are actually real at the end of it.

My advice would be as follows:

1. If you can leave the UK, do so. I hate to say it, but it feels like the economy here is just getting worse by the day, and the cost of living is ridiculous compared to the wages companies are trying to pay. Not sure where to recommend though, the US is currently in political meltdown and many other parts of the world pay rather low wages in this field as well.

2. Don't be afraid to take a temporary pay cut, or go for a job that's beneath you for a while. The hiring situation in tech is an absolute car crash at the moment, and companies aren't exactly throwing crazy FAANG level money around in most situations. Best to find a way to stay off the market for a few years or so until the situation corrects itself.

3. Avoid relying too much on job listing sites in general. The majority of listings there are either fake, dupes or flooded with applications to the point hardly anyone gets noticed. If you have a network, that's the best way to get hired, but recruiters and direct applications to companies are likely the 2nd and 3rd best options right now.

4. Be willing to accept roles outside of the company too. Yes a lot of companies only hire remote in their region, but some don't, and those could be pay better/offer better conditions than UK based ones.
Exactly. One of the big tech companies, maybe Google, had employees travel with essentially a "burner" Chromebook to certain countries.

At some point, the answer is to revert to pre-electronics travel--or just not travel. Or just decide that the individual risk is pretty minimal compared to all the other things that can happen if you leave your home.
What do you think they are going to do with all that money they’re going to “save”?
> Static classes are fine for those functions if ...

> there is only one reasonable implementation of the function

this. In the absence of polymorphism, a static function is just fine. I am in the phase of avoiding object notation in preference of functional notation whenever possible. I leave OO notation to cases where, for example, there is polymorphism as the functional wrapper will add little to no value.
Generally speaking corruption and abuse by law enforcement never comes from the top. It will be stupid to be officially liable for it. What happens is that they look away.
Good stuff but the original "Bitter Lesson" article has the real meat, which is that by applying more compute power we get better results (just more accurate token predictions, really) than with human guiderails.
There are different types of managers. I'd use the term technical lead for tim. Someone needs to maneage product delivery. Someone needs to manage the backlog. Someone needs to manage the training of everyone. Someone needs to ensure people are getting setup for their next job. Someone needs to ensure everyone is paid right. Someone needs to handle it when two people don't get along. The above is a small subset of the full list - I don't know everything on the full list.
This is a noble idea which I completely respect.

But changing human nature is a tough task. Plus, changing a trait into something that seems better (e.g., full honesty on goals) might have all sorts of unexpected consequences. There are dark fiction stories about societies with forced honesty (and a few who figured out the way out of it). The road to hell and all that.

No offense intended. My 2c.
Maybe that's why the models are so eager to spit out reams and reams of code, it lets their masters claim a higher percentage (even if most of the code they emit is never used).
My Home Office Setup
Our company prohibits it explicitly to bring any work electronics to the US.

You get a burner and leave it there
For context, this anecdote describes a particularly important and surprisingly difficult design challenge, and what happens when the designers’ solution to it meets real users.

This is in regard to the 1982 computer program “Apple Presents … Apple” [1], provided by Apple so that computer stores could demonstrate the then-impressive features of the Apple //e computer. Notably, the computer could be connected to monitors that were black and white, green screen, amber screen, or full color. For the demonstration program to work properly, it had to know the capabilities of the monitor that was being used. And the only way it had to learn about the monitor was to ask the user in front of the computer.

The design challenge relates to how tricky this question-and-answer problem actually was.

[1] https://archive.org/details/ApplePresentsApple1982
LMAO really? Who said anything about qualia?

LLMs lack the capacity for invention and metacognition. We're a long way from needing to talk about qualia; these things are NOT conscious and there is no question.

This website is absurd. "I don't think LLMs are all they're cracked up to be" "YOU'RE JUST MAD BECAUSE QUALIA AND YOU WANT TO BE MAGIC"

no the "magic" text generator just writes bad code, my dude

Only the people on r/singularity care about qualia in this context and let us remember this is a mechanism without even a memory
Instead he would spend his day pairing with different teammates. With less experienced developers he would patiently let them drive whilst nudging them towards a solution.

That's not a management activity - that's the kind of coaching you would expect from a senior IC ("Individual Contributor" - I still hate that term.)

Generally I would expect a "manager" to have authority over other people in the company: run performance reviews, handle promotions and hiring and firing.

I think it's important for companies to provide a career structure that allows for influence, decision making and leadership roles that don't also require taking on those management tasks. Management tasks are extremely time consuming and require a substantially different set of skills from being a great team coach or force multiplier like Tim in the story.
What’s wrong with the official MCP website? It guides you through building a server and an LLM-powered client. You can just have your local LLM operate the client and you’re set.

https://modelcontextprotocol.io/quickstart/server

https://modelcontextprotocol.io/quickstart/client
They used an whetstone on an anchor and published? (already patented)

Here's the actual article, it's stupid to think it's a tool for war -

https://x.com/CollinSLKoh/status/1903575276539588788

The only reason you'd want such a clean cut is to put it back together.

It's already trivial to cut cables, this is why no one does it on purpose. It's like using nukes to trivially kill solders, it goes both ways.
I think a lot of news stories are pushed out too soon without proper context, leading to sensationalized headlines that fuel the doomers.

Maybe some of these stories shouldn't even be news... because the details that come later usually turn it into a nothingburger. Like of course someone is going to be detained if the government legitimately believes they could be connected to a terrorist, nobody is getting upset at THAT.

And if these news stories WERE actually something that was happening regularly, it wouldn't even BE news anymore. The mere fact that it's a headline is supposed to mean it's something NOT normal that's going on.
And an Aeron chair?
There is a lot of idiocy in UK immigration (most often random decisions that someone is an "overstay" risk when they are clearly not) but it is less dramatic as it happens when issuing visas rather than at the border.

> Days after the Brexit vote, people went out of their way to vandalize non British business establishment. One Polish boutique was trashed and people now felt it was "ok" to leave graffiti in the form of "get out you're not welcome here".

That is also attributable to your second reason about the topic being interesting and reported in the media. The number of people who actually did things like that is tiny, but because it happened to people originating from the EU after Brexit it was newsworthy. When it happens to people from other countries or if it happened before Brexit it was not newsworthy.

We had racist stickers put on your door in the 1990s, and quite people had a lot worse happen to them in the 80s, but it was not newsworthy at the time unless it was extreme or happened to someone who was high profile or knew some jouranlists.
You’re stuck on being certain we’re looking at the dark side. My point of wide angle lens is maybe we’re not looking at it in a crescent state after all, the angles just appear that way due to the lens. You can see the illumination state in the other photos.

I’m not sure what you’re proposing, that this is a fake image?
Clearly performing another under appreciated task: to act as a buffer for Tim, allowing the team to flourish even when they don’t adhere to company policy. And all other managerial stuff apart from coaching.
If I felt that way, I'd probably conclude that I just didn't need to travel with a phone.
I don't get what the Chinese Room argument has to do with this (even assuming it makes any sense at all). You said that LLMs are just token predictors, and I fully agree with it. You didn't add any further qualifier, for example a limit to their ability to predict tokens. Is your previous definition not enough then? If you want to add something like "just token predictors that nevertheless will never be able to successfully predict tokens such as..." please go ahead.
This is not true. You will not get caned for littering in Singapore. You might get a fine, or be sentenced to clean a public area while wearing a bright uniform (so that everyone can see that you're being punished). See: https://www.nea.gov.sg/media/news/news/index/nea-increases-v...
Like John Backus, the inventor of both functional programming and FORTRAN? He invented functional style [0] because of what's wrong with OOPS and its kin.

[0] https://levelup.gitconnected.com/functional-programming-in-t...
Illegally being sent to a hellish Salvadoran prison without due process sure is.

https://time.com/7269604/el-salvador-photos-venezuelan-detai...
As a Michigander in Grand Rapids... You're not up to date. ICE considers the beach of any international waterway (according to them, all of the Great Lakes including Lake Michigan, ACLU disagrees) a "border crossing", so the entire state is in warrantless border zone.

https://www.aclumich.org/en/cases/all-michigan-warrantless-b...

https://www.aclumich.org/sites/default/files/field_documents...

They've made I-213 arrests as far inland as Grand Rapids and even Mount Pleasant, which is about as far from the lakes as you can get.

Records do show that only 1.5% of cases involve people with "Light" skin tone, so if you're white you're unlikely to be affected directly by this. It's not about Canada.
> it is that they reject citizens having any sort of power to resist the state

But by doing that, they make it easier for adversaries to spy on their own citizen, which is a national security issue.

That's why it sounds like ignorance to me: I understand that they really want a backdoor just for themselves "because they are the good guys" and "for national security", but they don't understand that if they have a backdoor, then their adversaries will eventually have it, too.