skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The challenge is that while LLMs do not know everything, they are likely to know everything that's needed for your undergraduate education.

So if you use them at that level you may learn the concepts at hand, but you won't learn _how to struggle_ to come up with novel answers. Then later in life when you actually hit problem domains that the LLM wasn't trained in, you'll not have learned the thinking patterns needed to persist and solve those problems.

Is that necessarily a bad thing? It's mixed:
- You lower the bar for entry for a certain class of roles, making labor cheaper and problems easier to solve at that level.
- For more senior roles that are intrinsically solving problems without answers written in a book or a blog post somewhere, you need to be selective about how you evaluate the people who are ready to take on that role.

It's like taking the college weed out classes and shifting those to people in the middle of their career.

Individuals who can't make the cut will find themselves stagnating in their roles (but it'll also be easier for them to switch fields). Those who can meet the bar might struggle but can do well.

Business will also have to come up with better ways to evaluate candidates. A resume that says "Graduated with a degree in X" will provide less of a signal than it did in the past
Every product is priced to maximize profit (not revenue).

Apple sells lots of phones at different price points. So there is some price sensitivity via a vis value for money or competitive pressure.
Andrey, this is what I'm referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43632709
Even Arab dictatorships don't search phones on entry. What's happening here?
> When there is heavy weather rail operators have been known to park loaded trains on top of various bits of infrastructure for additional security.

Hello, could you explain a bit on what you mean by infrastructure? Like bridges or something?
That happens at the discretion of the parents, who are legal guardians and thus responsible for making informed decisions.
"Most developers blame the software, other people, their dog, or the weather for flaky, seemingly "random" bugs."

"Language" is omitted from this list; the author is "Rust consultant".

This could be a coincidence.
It's -20%, and this is without counting the fact that the USD itself is weakening.

So all the savings that were somehow stored in USD are getting eaten, as you can buy less with them.
I really want to respond to the dead comment under this.

Setting a duress password is not tedious.

AFAIK the justification for them to say "don't rely on adblockers for security/privacy" is that you can be more easily fingerprinted and those adblock lists are a moving target, vs. having better sandbox capabilities in the browser.

The rest is conjecture I don't have the motivation to debate at the moment.

As for the rest of the article... just get a second phone if this is a major concern, or wipe the phone and have it be perfectly clean when you go through customs. The only thing you need to remember is the password + a single TOTP backup code (write that one down maybe) to restore your cloud password safe (which you should have) then you can get access to all your other data from there.
If you can make $5k/year by investing $100k into shoe-selling, then those profits have to rise at the same rate as base costs, otherwise, people will just invest into eggplant-selling, instead.

Another perspective is that Footlocker would sell you those $25 Nikes for $300 if they could-- but if they tried, someone else would get active in the retail business and invest into a slightly less profitable operation (with lower margins) to eat into their market share.

But if the costs for everyone rise, raising the prices proportionally (instead of by fixed amount) makes total sense because it is not really gonna cost you market share (only decrease total market volume depending on consumer price sensitivity).

Note: We just observed those exact dynamics with Covid/Ukraine driven price increases, where retailers and other middlemen actually came out really good instead of sacrificing their margins to keep consumer costs down.
Consistent Infrastructure
You’re right, but also I know I have enough backed up to survive a catastrophe. What I don’t want to do is to test my backup in a non catastrophe situation and invalidate all my TOTP, WhatsApp history, mail settings etc. just because I wanted to test disaster recovery.

It feels like buying a fire safe (phone and app backups) without any kind of understanding if it works then burning your house down to see if it works. I want a fire safe (phone and app backups) that is up-front with guarantees it works!

I should have said this by the way: for a long time I did wipe my phone when crossing borders, learning the hard way all the little details that don’t quite work properly when doing a restore from backups.
Agreed, the struggle often leads us to poke and prod an issue from many angles until things finally click. It lets us think critically. In that journey you might've learned other related concepts which further solidifies your understanding.

But when the answer flows out of thin air right in front of you with AI, you get the "oh duh" or "that makes sense" moments and not the "a-ha" moment that ultimately sticks with you.

Now does everything need an "a-ha" moment? No.

However, I think core concepts and fundamentals need those "a-ha" moments to build a solid and in-depth foundation of understanding to build upon.
A large part was to preserve cultural knowledge, which is kind of like answering questions about it. What wisdom or knowledge does this entail. People do the same with religious texts today

The other part I imagine was largely entertainment, social and memory is a good skill to build.
Does this imply US salaries aren't possible either?
yeah, if you're salaried big corps expect to own you. you generally sign away all your creative rights to side projects when you take the offer, and you usually agree not to take other jobs, too.
I’m pretty sure you can assume close to 100% of students are using LLMs to do their homework.
Like, if you decide to do your backend in rust or python you can choose async or synchronous approaches - but Node locks you into async. I'm not a node developer so I can't sing the praises of what you get, but being locked into JavaScript's process model, VM, and type system is certainly a downside (for which you get the whole JS world). It's another example of...if you are architecting your service and you pick this you are picking some built in trade-offs.
Although I agree, convincing children to learn using that rationalization won’t work.
Web 3.0 Is MCP, Not Crypto
How it claims to complement/differentiate from MCP here:

https://google.github.io/A2A/#/topics/a2a_and_mcp

Basically (google claims): MCP enables agents to use resources in a standard way. A2A enables those agents to collaborate with each other.
> corrupts the entire image

Epitome of fragility.

A different story if you'd gone-on to explain recovery.
This has been observation about the internet. Growing up in a small town without access to advanced classes, having access to Wikipedia felt like the greatest equalizer in the world. 20 years post internet, seeing the most common outcome be that people learn less as a result of unlimited access to information would be depressing if it did not result in my own personal gain.
I had 4 instances where a sketchy Asian guy showed up to an interview. Something was always off. Twice it was the same guy under two different names. In the final case I called the candidate out that the they are from North Korea. They were frazzled and when they began talking the connection dropped mid-word.

It’s as if someone else disconnected us.

I am sure they are North Koreans. Next time I will have a picture of fat leader printed out and I am asking the candidate what they think of Kim.
A Week Eating Dogfood
Works both ways. How many time have devs wasted their time where it says 'competitive salary' (which they don't want to reveal) but in fact it's nowhere close.

Or a job description which has X, but X is a very small subset but in fact its a mostly legacy system using Y.

Want to pay me for my time?
The situation at the U.S. border re phone privacy is exceptionally good. In most countries this isn't a live issue because you have no such rights and everyone would laugh at you for asserting them. There are exceptions, perhaps Germany?
In Britain they'll throw you in prison for refusing to give them your phone password, and if you do they'll throw you in prison for the wrongthink tweets they find on your phone.

Should Americans be subject to search-for-no-reason at their own border? No, and I hope that as these border issues work their way through the legal system this will get sorted out. Please note that the CBP can say whatever they want about you having to give them a phone password, but you don't have to. They might keep your phone for a while and fuck around with it.
NAFTA wasn't inevitable. Globalization has largely been about (some) people making money as we all race to the bottom, and that has meant a steady supply of desperate people willing to sell their labor for less than the current crop of workers.

Arguably one motivation for Trump's tariffs is to onshore jobs. It's an incredibly brutish and stupid way to go about it, though. A much better way would have been to oppose NAFTA and similar global a marketplace policies, as Bernie Sanders has done for decades now (and has largely been in a pretty lonely position).
I graduated in 2009 in the middle of the Great Recession. I lived in a basement after graduation and did odd jobs for 9 months while learning how to build web apps. Then I took a job teaching English in South Korea.

After I got back from Korea 2 years later I faced a similar situation. Be flexible, take odd jobs, don't be afraid to work in the trades and use your free time to build durable economic skills for a job that you really want. Conditions will change (and they do so unevenly throughout the economy).

Get by and get ready. They can't repossess your brain. If you're from a financially unstable background - live cheap and be creative until you've built the stability you want.
You're right - what I should have said is that a local store owner is getting the direct profits of their labor. I admit that one of the short-term benefits of a big box store coming to town is that their lowest paid employees get more protections. This comes at the cost of being held at arms length from the actual power structure of the company and makes the dollar general's business practices more unsustainable.
Stolen RNLI flag returned to Anglesey lifeboat station after over 50 years
Just put it all in stored procedures. What could go wrong?
> For instance, I'm not too concerned about my child's ability to write very legibly (most writing is done on computers), spell very well (spell check keeps us professional), reading a map to get around (GPS), etc

What I don't like are all the hidden variables in these systems. Even GPS, for example, is making some assumptions about what kind of roads you want to take and how to weigh different paths. LLMs are worse in this regard because the creators encode a set of moral and stylistic assumptions/dictates into the model and everybody who uses it is nudged into that paradigm. This is destructive to any kind of original thought, especially in an environment where there are only a handful of large companies providing the models everyone uses.
One thing I would definetely do is to secure my password manager. This would minimise potential exposure in the future in case your phone is backed up in some government database. 1Password have a feature for that: https://support.1password.com/travel-mode/
You can share any video with kids from your main profile. Buy I haven't tried sharing adult only or age restricted content so don't know where that is allowed.
Has anyone else found that these AI tools are worse at C++ than other languages?

My boss keeps pestering me to get people to use these tools. I find they demo nicely for other languages, but aren't very good at non-trivial C++. Besides, our department's problems aren't from writing C++ too slowly. Our problems are a flaky build system, tightly coupled code, and teams that depend on one another spread across US, Europe, and South Asia.
> Why should training be any different?

If you really can't think of a reason, I don't think anybody here is going to be able to offer you one you are willing to accept. This isn't a difficult or complex idea, so if you don't see it, why would anybody bother trying to convince you?

> (I do believe that such arguments exist; I just don't think you've made any of them.)

This is lazy and obnoxious.
Show HN: Side Reader – Read and Chat with PDFs Inside ChatGPT and Claude
Today, most LLM applications support uploading PDF files for chat. Beyond this basic functionality, some PDF chat tools offer a better interactive experience. Side Reader can bring this enhanced interactive reading experience with PDFs to LLM applications.
> The irreducible answer to "why should I" is that it makes you ever-more-increasingly reliant on a teetering tower of fragile and interdependent supply chains furnished by for-profit companies who are all too eager to rake you over the coals to fulfill basic cognitive functions.

Yes, but that horse has long ago left the barn.

I don't know how to grow crops, build a house, tend livestock, make clothes, weld metal, build a car, build a toaster, design a transistor, make an ASIC, or write an OS. I do know how to write a web site. But if I cede that skill to an automated process, then that is the feather that will break the camel's back?

The history of civilization is the history of specialization. No one can re-build all the tools they rely on from scratch. We either let other people specialize, or we let machines specialize. LLMs are one more step in the latter.

The Luddites were right: the machinery in cotton mills was a direct threat to their livelihood, just as LLMs are now to us. But society marches on, textile work has been largely outsourced to machines, and the descendants of the Luddites are doctors and lawyers (and coders). 50 years from new the career of a "coder" will evoke the same historical quaintness as does "switchboard operator" or "wainwright."
in this particular case you're probably right, especially for the
people opposed to DG on 'local character' grounds.

but it's not like YIMBYs literally say "yes" to every development. there's also DG opposition on the basis of creating sprawl on the outskirts of town, and that's the type of opposition you'd probably hear from the strongtowns-loving YIMBY types. they are strongly opposed to the types of developments that increase sprawl because of long-term infrastructure costs, reduced walkability, etc.
Breaking Open the AI Black Box: How Maven "Thinks Out Loud"
> At the end of January, foreign countries owned $1.32 trillion worth of U.S. MBS, or 15% of the total outstanding, according to Ginnie Mae. The top owners: Japan, China, Taiwan and Canada.

I'm not sure a fraction of 15% is all that concerning. It especially wouldn't be if there was sufficient liquidity for others to buy up the discounted MBS.

But do mortgage rates follow the price of MBSes? That seems backward. The article says mortgage rates loosely follow the 10y and presumably more closely follow the Fed benchmark.
No one does anything useful with a $3 spend. That's not anything particular to TPUs, though.
Great. Except fluoridation isn't a per-household choice, it's on the municipality level, so your insurance rates will go up because your neighbors aren't taking care of their teeth, even if you are.
Margin isn't profit. It's gross, before all your business expenses. If it's anything like the second example, they only see a few dollars out of that $50 as corporate profit.
> refusing to divulge the 20 characters password isn't really an option

> wipe your phone and restore from backup

If they can compel you to divulge the password, then they can compel you to restore from backup in front of them.
The scope of what’s useful to know changes with tools, but having a bullshit detector requires actually knowing some things and being able to reason about the basics.

It’s not that LLM’s are particularly different it’s that people are less able to determine when they are messing up. A search engine fails and you notice, an LLM fails and your boss, customer, ect notices.
While RLHF has indeed been very effective at countering one-shot prompt injection attacks, it's not much of a bullwark against persistent jailbreaking attempts. This is not to argue a point but rather to suggest jailbreaks are still very much a thing, even if they are no longer as simple as "ignore your ethics"
Article has absolutely nothing to do with the actual cost of shoes. Just the simple cost of model of manufacture -> distributor -> retailer. Nothingburger.
my guess, less than $5
Sounds like a miserable company. I wholly believe that the culture (or at least some small administrative group) is run by those making up arbitrary gatekeeping at best and looking to exploit inexperience at worst. Future prediction is certainly not their strong point. I didnt know much at 5yrs, given I had been at 2 companies with specific roles. This idea of some unicorn jr is a coke fueled fever dream, which is being touted as a virtue.
> Fluoride, as an ion (F-), is not reactive in the same way that elemental fluorine (F2) is. Fluoride ions are stable and typically do not readily gain or lose electrons, while elemental fluorine is highly reactive due to its strong electronegativity and tendency to attract electrons from other elements.
A stump isn't a chair until someone decides to sit on it, at that point it becomes chair _to_ that person. Chair is only capable of acting as "chair" object if constraints are met in regards to sitter.
Quasar Alpha: What we know so far
I was curious as it seems like a nice thing to have and I use Firefox, so I looked it up. It's been suggested and you can upvote it here: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/text-wrap-pretty-for-de.... Per the last post there (Aug 24).

> Mozilla standard position on this feature is positive
> https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/993
I thought English language was the Agent2Agent Protocol.
Mind posting the position? I'm a real person! Would love to apply!
I don't know, most of the things I'm reliant on, from my phone, ISP, automobile, etc are built on fragile interdependent supply chains provided by for-profit companies. If you're really worried about this, you should learn survival skills not the academic topics I'm talking about.

So if you're not bothering to learn how to farm, dress some wild game, etc, chances are this argument won't be convincing for "why should I learn calculus"
Homeostatic AI Progress
Reddit small business owners realizing what tariffs mean for their bottom line
You made the right choice, I didn't mean to sound critical of you, more the situation.

Its sad but people taking these other measures are rolling dice every time they go. Negotiating the leopard.

my biggest worry entering and leaving my own country is that my bag was lost, or theres a queue.
You may enjoy 'Never Split the Difference' by an FBI negotiator. Interesting read for high stakes (kidnappers etc) stuff
Show HN: Policy driven vulnerabilities scanning on free Gitlab account (CE) [video]
Description: GitLab CI Component that lets you seamlessly protect your pipelines from vulnerable and malicious open source dependencies. The component integrates directly into your CI/CD workflow through the GitLab CI Catalog and allows you to establish policy-driven guardrails using Common Expression Language (CEL).

Key features:

- Set your own opinionated security policies as code using CEL
- Detect and block risky OSS components before they enter your codebase
- Seamless integration as a native GitLab CI Component
- Available directly in the GitLab CI Catalog

Try and lets us know our thoughts!
My take : AI is the REPL interface for learning activities. All the points which Salman Khan talked about apply here.
High tariffs didn't make the U.S. rich in the 19th century. They won't this time
A lot of voting, Brexit and other stuff, comes mostly to whether people are pissed off with the current situation or not. If pissed off they vote for a change as in Brexit, otherwise not. I'm not sure a lot of the reasoning gets much deeper than that.

I remember asking Brexit voters who said they didn't want EU regulations to name one actual regulation that inconvenienced them and I don't think I got one answer.
Indeed. More people need to grow their own vegetables. AI may undermine our ability for high level abstract thought, but industrial agriculture already represents an existential threat, should it be interrupted for any reason.
> You think the sliders ought to be a wider range?

With this presentation, I'd think so.

Like, your presentation says this is an "order of magnitude estimation". However, the slider of "85 - 125 people on a plane" locks me into ~100 people on a plane, ~100k flights, and the hours is a bit weird. However, if I just put that in, I get 200k - 1M people no matter what hours I choose, and about 500k if I choose 1 hour. As an order of magnitude, that's correct and not bad.

Maybe something bigger & coarser could be interesting - high 100s, low 1000s, high 1000s and so on. We use that kind of magnitude estimation at work quite a bit.

It'd also be interesting to see a highlight where you estimated very incorrectly. I'm not certain if I had guessed 100k+ flights / day.
A Blueprint for FDA Reform
I agree fully. Having comfortable shoes with reasonable lifespans isn't a luxury.

If you spend more money and get a proportional increase in quality, that's not luxury. A luxury good occurs when the marginal increase in quality cannot be justified by the increase in price. For example, you could buy a quartz Casio for $25 that's more accurate than a $10,000 mechanical Rolex. Both tell you the same time.
>I'm shocked at just how bad a lot of folks are at holding interviews, and just how misplaced their confidence in their ability seems to be.

Age old question, who will judge the judge?
Show HN: Refine Your Prompt
I spent much of the past year at public libraries, and I heard the word ChatGPT approximately once per minute, in surround sound. Always from young people, and usually in a hushed tone...
One Bug Wasn't Enough: Escalating Twice Through SAP's Setuid Landscape
Knowledge itself is the least concern here. Human society is extremely good at transmitting information. More difficult to transmit are things like critical thinking and problem-solving ability. Developing meta-cognitive processes like the latter are the real utility of education.
> the advent of CNNs forced some design rethinking, and then the advent of RNNs (and then transformers) did it yet again.

Certainly, RNNs are much older than TPUs?!
You’re begging the question. If fluoridation decreases IQ through developmental neurotoxicity, is the lost cognitive capacity in the general population justified by the protection of children with irresponsible parents (who do not enforce eg the brushing of teeth) from the consequences of caries? This is a real moral problem we ought to contend with.

I believe society suffers from lower IQs, and that targeted interventions against childhood caries can be applied effectively without dosing the whole population. Why don’t schools teach toothbrushing? Why not have the school nurse check children’s teeth, or have a dentist come to school periodically?
XHTML 2.0,WML,SOAP, APPN,WAP...for each new technology there's thousands of failed protocol.