skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And now that so many jobs require hours of take home assignments, it’s even harder to align interviews at the same stage.
Nice article. Instructive to see the latest trends and direction for high performance interpreters. Thanks for sharing.
This is an Indian rehosting of Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong's April 4th address to the nation by the Dehli based Hindustan Times.

The Straits Times (Singapore paper) article on this is here: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/spore-must-b...

and their hosting of the PM's address is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOUbUxa3PVk

The written article covers the main points made in the video address.
Discussion on a post from the creator (1117 points, 4 months ago, 387 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42156977
It’s even possible to compile on one machine and timeout on another.
Animated LED billboards are the worst :(
It’s my first time condensing my research notes into a blog post like this, glad you liked it!
Mac OS X Internals by Singh is one of my favorite books, such a great in depth examination of Mac OS X circa 10.4. I really wish there was an updated version.

Edit: I see it's even cited at the end of this article. Truly a source for the (macOS) ages.
It is possible because the largest incumbents would profit enormously
Randomness is clumpy
https://archive.md/D0E21
Another example from a few years ago that extends back over time decades

https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/september-2018/c...
That's a bad example. The US already had higher tariffs on vehicles if you include the chicken tax.
npm run social-security
Door handles without a mechanical fallback should be illegal.
Fun, you can type "hello world this is a test" with only one swipe needed. "swype" keyboards could be seen as a continuation of this idea. At least, I think that's the chronology? Wikipedia says Swype Inc was founded in 2002, but the keyboard product didn't release until 2009.
No reason to think this is anything other than normal stastical variation - at least at this time. not the same type of cancer even.

when there are billions of people in the world it is expected that some where several get cancer at the same time.
would he live in a place where nobody has access to the internet or electricity? Or where most people lack basic skills, i.e. cannot solve simple math problems or answer basic questions?
While that has worked for me too, I find that negotiating by resignation isn't going to address other issues such as those that bolster the unfair salary. Yes. You got what you wanted, but now they know you played a wildcard and they want you gone on their terms. Or they want to extract the maximum work from you.
That's the tough part - drawing precise line. There's lots of points between megacorps and local mnps.
Any law would need enforcement but also a mechanism to punish not only the creator of the ad but the distributor as well.

It isn't that we couldn't get rid of memecoin ads, but rather that twitter simply doesn't have almost any incentive to crack down on and prevent these sorts of ads. Attach a fine with some grace period and I can guarantee you'll end up with twitter looking into ways to block spammers to avoid being penalized.

I also don't personally mind shill reviewers mainly because they are often exposed anyways and become easy to ignore. Doesn't mean you couldn't enforce an ad ban still, but it might only catch the bigger names.

I'd also posit, though, that ad mediums would be far more effective. For example, banning commercials in videos would be and easy enough law to craft and enforce that would make video sites a lot more pleasant to visit.

A ban wouldn't need to be perfect to be very effective at making things better.
The 1st amendment of the US Constitution may have been informed by previous government censorship and fear of totalitarianism.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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Well they make documentaries, not blogs.

[watches the National Geographic channel] “this could have been a blog entry!!”
That's a terrific point, and I agree completely. This also explains my most recent sci-fi misadventure: a novel by Christopher Paolini, Fractal Noise, that earned glowing praise from Tschaikovsky. It is a dreadful novel -- wooden, stilted, repetitive, unimaginative -- but, hey, the concept is mildly interesting, so I guess it gets the Tschaikovsky seal of approval.

Peter F. Hamilton doesn't get a ton of praise for characterization (and I found his latest novel strangely, uncharacteristically vulgar and puerile), but I think he has a lot of the chops that Tschaikovsky lacks -- especially when it comes to language. Tschaikovsky's writing is at times awfully clunky. Hamilton's prose, by contrast, in my view at least, is in its own category among living sci-fi writers for its polish and effective use of the countless tools the language offers.
> Whether I commit murder is objective.

There are many different ways humans can die and many different types of human involvement in sequence of events. This involvement is sometimes characterized as a causal contributor to death. Responsibility in a related death, is not objective. You are simply incorrect.
Amplified messaging from corporations is not the same as the free speech of individuals. Just as we disallow advertising for cigarettes and hard liquor on TV, a democratic society should be free to select other classes of messages that corporations are not permitted to amplify into public spaces.
Yeah, hallucination part was also one thing I was worry about. So I make LLM only run after OCR step, and I put simple check to not change correct text. I will try to show real examples and hallucination rate too. Thanks for feedback!

This project was just hobby and my first time posting something. I didn’t imagine people would care this much… Next time I will prepare better before sharing.
Training data is always filtered, if you want a representative of the population you would need to include conspiracy theories about the Jews, and rants about per capita crime rates... But nobody really wants a model the returns that.
I actually would love to see the output of an LLM that used letters or syllables or phonemes. The output when it makes mistakes would be absolutely wild.
If you are a new company starting out (suppose aluminum siding), you have to market your product or else nobody will know about it. I'm not sure what all parts of marketing are counted as advertising here, but generally in marketing you pay to get word out about your product. Wihtout that, starting a business might be tough. And then, as a consumer, there are lots of free products I have gotten my entire life by virtue of the fact that one of those companies offered to pay for it for me. If you turn that off I'm not sure how that all would work. I don't think the OP goes into too much detail.
And even if you receive two or more offers at once, many organizations don't bother negotiating. One time I received two offers at once, and neither organization was willing to change anything substantive about their offers.

In this case, one organization had an onerous IP policy and that other did not. I asked for some carve-outs, and the first organization came back with a single line added to the IP policy that did not change anything meaningful. I told them that I could not accept that offer as written and wanted more changes, but they refused further negotiation and told me to take it or leave it. I waited a few days, rejected their offer, and accepted the other offer.

(I think that they were willing to add the single meaningless line to make it appear they were willing to change things without actually changing anything substantive.)

The morale of my story is that you may not be able to negotiate a better offer, but at least you have a choice when you have multiple offers.
Troubleshooting sleep is an exercise wrapped in pain.

Figuring out which program prevents sleeping is the easy part - there are tools that show that, and you can also usually just brute force it by killing programs one by one.

Then comes figuring out why a system claims to be sleeping but isn't (e.g. the fan is still spinning). Usually this is because of the Modern Standby/S0 crap and in many cases there isn't a solution because the BIOS removed support for S3.

The other class of issue is after sleeping the system won't wake up, or wake up randomly, or wake up with random glitchy graphics/sounds/etc.

Sleep is easily Windows's most bug-ridden area.
MOE as an idea specific to neural networks has been around since 1991[1] . OP is probably aware, but adding for others following along, while MoE has roots in ensembling, there are some important differences: Traditional ensembles run all models in parallel and combine their outputs, whereas MoE uses a gating mechanism to activate only a subset of experts per input. This enables efficient scaling via conditional computation and expert specialization, rather than redundancy.

[1]:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6797059
I agree about the timer. I almost quit after 10 seconds because of the timer.
Having worked in investment banking (a job where your only true value add is your network and ability to negotiate) I would like to say two things:

1. I second everything in the article.

2. You would be surprised to learn how important rule #7 is. We would build entire presentations that we would provide to the other side of the table in negotiations just to reinforce our points. Basically putting ourselves in the position of “hey we’re on your side, but look at the numbers; our hands are tied!”. Having a non-confrontational attitude and providing specific reasons for why you are asking for things makes a big difference in negotiations.

(Definitely don’t need to be building presentations for potential employers though… unless it’s for contracts large enough that you’d need a lawyer and wouldn’t need OP’s advice anyways!)
Yeah, prompt injection is good point. For now, I try separate instruction and data by using JSON format, and run it in sandbox. Not perfect maybe, but I will try add small explanation in README so people can check it better.
One person's 'desire' for what now?
as another dateline, Maverick has taken #2 position on LMArena, just behind Gemini 2.5 Pro.
As a senior developer I had to search for "wtf is fizzbuzz". How many senior developers spend their time solving these kinds of problems?
100 hours of interested, enthusiastic studying is more than enough to become vaguely conversational.
You get to choose the JSON schema for ini, and so you can choose to preserve comments. As to jq as a language, if you get used to it it's really awesome.
How much GPU memory are required for inference if it's 10M context?
FWIW, you can parametrize statements on postgres without preparing them.
> Billboards require power

Digital billboards, sure, but traditional static billboards only need power if you want to light them at night. My guess is the majority of billboards in the US are unpowered, since it's so much cheaper. (Though likely not the majority if you weight by daily views.)
I'm also curious if there's an increase of diagnosis because they work in a medical setting. Either they recognize the symptoms, or casual conversation with a doctor.
The article closes with that note.

The American Cancer Society says that in order to meet the definition of a cancer cluster, occurrences must be the same type, in the same area, with the same cause, and affecting a number of people that's "greater than expected" when a baseline for occurrences is established.

“Nearly 4 out of 10 people in the United States will develop cancer during their lifetimes," the society said on its cancer clusters webpage. "So, it’s not uncommon for several people in a relatively small area to develop cancer around the same time."

The unstated numbers that matter here are many, how many people were thoroughly investigated here, was it the entire staff of the hospital (as many as a thousand, perhaps)? When X many people are thoroughly scanned how common is it for five people to have benign cancers that aren't doing anything, aren't growing, are just there?

If (for example) twenty percent of the time 500 people were scanned, five at least had benign brain cancers, would this report be unusual or suspicious in itself?
But where's the fun in that?
Haha not exactly like predicting actual questions. Just trying to find patterns or what topics show up often. I made this to help my study, didn’t think people would care this much.
Well, I'd argue that all stories don't fulfill the same purpose, and that such a small story doesn't have enough importance to the broader public for there to be an "exchange for money" of the type I've described.

But also, it seems pretty clear that political stories specifically generate massive cash flow for media, through clicks and "online engagement", the spectacle of debates, video of gaffes, and so on. I'd assume that is why the political "season" lasts longer and longer? The politicians certainly take advantage of this and use it to their ends. The media seem not to care as long as they continue to get "paid", in their way, and have access.

This is a disgusting arrangement, IMO.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43594850
This is the world that I want to live in. Where I can gallop on a robotic horse and drink juice which heals my tumour but come in different colors.
No, you're dodging the point. You're basically saying Jews deserved self-determination only if they could pull off the impossible: either magically prevent fascism, or create a homeland without upsetting anyone. That's not how history works. Zionism wasn't a luxury ideology, it was a response to existential threat. Jews didn't have the option to stay in Europe: Europe made that brutally clear. And yes, the land was inhabited, but so what? Every nationalist movement has had to contend with messy realities. The alternative you're proposing amounts to telling the Jews: stay stateless, stay vulnerable, or wait for miracles. That's not a serious moral position; at best it's an abdication, at worst a double standard against the Jews (i.e. antisemitism).
>NGO workers may not be 'mustache-twirling villains' but USAID literally is, well perhaps sans the mustache. They are actively and regularly used to destroy and/or manipulate countries while operating under the pretext of aid. Their purpose is not to help other countries, but to manipulate them.

Since the tone of our conversation has turned more reasonable, it is my hope that you can see how sweeping this generalization is. Given the amount of misinformation surrounding USAID (just check Snopes, man), I'm loath to accept this claim on its face. I reject your assertion that the world is better by destroying USAID and replacing it with nothing. This is costing lives both foreign and domestic. If I withheld promised food and medicine from starving and sick people, they would die and it would be my fault. I don't see any reasonable conclusion otherwise. You can try to argue otherwise, but I would refuse to endorse such vile callousness.

>What I'm saying about sustainability is not some outside angle. Look at most of any effective charity doing work in impoverished places and it's always about sustainability. In the most typical example you don't simply give water to people - instead you encourage, and if necessary - assist, them in building wells. Charity will eventually run out for one reason or another, and when your entire system has been built with no focus on sustainability you can create catastrophic scenarios.

I'm not trying to be obtuse, but I'm not seeing your point here. You're advocating for a "correct" kind of assistance and the world just doesn't work that way. There's many different kinds of charity and assistance and they all serve different purposes, so your argument is just simplifying a complex interplay of variables to a single equation.

I applaud the long-term strategic view you are espousing, but you appear to be falling into the trap of assuming that all of these problems actually have solutions. We can wax poetic about teaching a man to fish, but that man is going to die if we don't give him a damn fish first. The clean, elegant solutions to global problems you're alluding to aren't being implemented because they're difficult and fraught with peril. This is going to be a little offensive, but do you honestly believe that no one else thought of trying to make these beneficiaries self-sufficient? It's hard and people were (and are) trying.

Regarding a point system about political malfeasance, why not? If we're going to engage in relativism, we should at least know how they stack up relatively rather than waving our hands and saying "everybody sucks." It's irresponsible and intellectually lazy.

Also, if you can list a single Democrat misdeed on par with January 6, delaying Supreme Court appointments, or abdicating the power of the purse then please do. Just one. Anything. The catch here is that is has to have actually happened. It can't be some slopped-up "they wanted to do this" or unrealized conspiracy. It has to have actually happened in America on Earth within the last 3 decades.

After that, I'm okay with counting as well. We all need to keep track of how power is applied with neither tribalism nor nihilism.
IANAL, but isn't it illegal to call for mass killing in the US? I don't know what the particular law is, or what the specifics are, i.e. how hard it is to establish in court.

Of course the severity of this sentence is another story.
> One gotcha about Postgres queries is that running queries do not get cancelled when the client disconnects

You can configure that these days, at least if the server is running on some common platforms:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-conne...
> I don't need the same ad repeated 20 times to know that Ford sells cars and trucks.

Not only that, but the Ford ad of a vehicle driving cinematically across a landscape before disgorging a laughing and implausibly photogenic family does nothing to inform you about the relative merits of the vehicle. Anything specific mentioned in the advert is as likely to be flimflam or only technical truth as not, so nothing mentioned in the advert can be taken as useful purchase-informing fact without further research.
> Mach’s virtual memory (VM) system was influential beyond the project – it was adopted by 4.4BSD and later FreeBSD as their memory management subsystem.

…and NetBSD[0], OpenBSD[1], but apparently not DragonFly BSD[2].

[0] https://netbsd.org/docs/kernel/uvm.html

[1] https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-3.0/uvm.9

[2] https://www.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2011-04/msg0...
Enshittification as Overproduction in Software
What’s the pvalue ?
I think about this a lot. Consider the difference between the tidy signage of Tokyo versus the pell-mell streetfronts of Hong Hong. Societies should be able to choose how businesses impinge the public space.
Thanks a lot! Yeah, theoretically the pipeline handles math and special symbols fine, and from my testing it worked well. But I didn’t test much on other languages or encodings, so if there’s any weird behavior, please let me know and I’ll check it!
Link seems broken? From what I’ve seen of what Powell has said, it seems to track with my post, e.g. “Our obligation is to keep longer-term inflation expectations well anchored to make certain that a one-time increase in the price level does not become an ongoing inflation problem,”

i.e. It’s not the price increases directly caused by a tariff or sales tax that they’re trying to prevent, it’s any knock-off effect in price expectations that causes additional inflation.
Link to the option in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43598217
My understanding of most optimizing compilers is that this is an extremely common "last step" sort of optimization. A lot of the optimizing work is beating the code into a canonical form where these sorts of templates can be readily applied.

It was also my understanding that that's also the point of "super optimizer"s [1] which look for these common patterns in something like LLVM IR to generate optimization targets for the mainline optimizer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superoptimization
I find test-first development useful for very specific things. If I'm building a Markdown parser for example, where the inputs and outputs are very clear, I may break out test-first development.

In place of test-first for test verification I'll often deliberately break my new test (either in the test or the implementation), run it once to make sure it fails, then fix it again.
Everyone preaches realpolitik and gradualism until they think the antichrist has taken the highest office. Then they downvote comments for expressing the rational fears of speaking out.
IIRC, because I am old, NT 3.1/3.51 supported HPFS from OS/2. Now get off my lawn.
7% of American adults think chocolate milk comes from brown cows. 48% don't know how it's made.

Bias should be the least of your concerns. Focus on a single target, then when you reach it you can work on being more well rounded.
Right. Unsure if it's possible that any SD controller has a secret SPI mode. This seems like a ridiculously niche product. Which is fine but just something to keep in the toolbelt.
Wow this is a profoundly unsettling and truthful fact, thanks for sharing.
> Almost any TV game is timed.

For the benefit of the audience watching, not the player. You wouldn’t want someone consuming the whole show because they do not make a move. There’s little reason to care about time limits on a game someone plays by themselves.
Nice article, horrible title. The video is very nice, and it's worth reading the article even with the horrible title.

This does not break the laws of thermodynamics. This is just and unexpected result of minimizing the energy. In a usual case, you may get the oil on top, the water at the bottom and the particles in the middle. I guess the particles are too dense and cause the deep until they reach and cover all the bottom.
I'm surprised its not java, from what I understand IBM has a good migration path from COBOL to Java.
BMW offers hundreds of colors, as do (I assume) most vendors. It’s not that they aren’t offered, so much as salesmen are simply pushing everyone towards black/white/gray because those colors are least likely to turn off a consumer. Can’t find red? Well black is very common and also looks mean!

Still, I think we’re seeing a LOT more color. From the cool khaki blue Subaru color that was so popular, to the M2 BMW in baby blue, to the Audi e-tron in purple, to the corvettes and mustangs that I rarely see in monochromatic colors.
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense to me.
Burning Man is an example of advertising free world and it is quite a refreshing ad-free week.
Ohhh interesting! I’ll update the post to include this soon, thanks!
> Disclosure should be a matter of well-informed discretion. As the clinician is responsible for patient care, and that disagreement with an AI tool could end up worrying the patient, it should be at the clinician's discretion, depending on context, whether to disclose to the patient that their decision has been informed by an AI tool.

I really hate this recommendation.

As someone who doesn't actually want AI recommendations to play any substantial role in my health care, the idea that my doctor may be keeping such a thing a secret from me disturbs me quite a lot. It would mean that I'd be more suspicious about diagnosis and treatment plans being presented to me.