skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like a case of not managing expectations. The following should be clear:
1. We fire fast.
2. We don't want to fire people and will do our best to help you succeed.
3. Here are the bars you need to clear in order to stay with us. (They should be reasonable.)
4. We will provide frequent feedback to let you know where you are.

Not sure about everyone else, but to me it's often obvious who wasn't going to make the cut within the first 1-2 months of their employment.
Where is “racist” even factoring into it? I see this argument all the time, mostly about North Korea or china. There is nothing racist about suspecting someone from a specific country because you don’t trust that country’s government. That is not racist and what’s more I think you know that. It think these arguments are extremely bad faith. Here’s the test: is it about race? If not, then it’s not racist. For example, if I don’t trust Chinese nationals to work at my company because I think they will steal secrets, but I absolutely don’t have that same fear about people who are ethnically Chinese but born in my country, that’s not racist. If you want to call it xenophobic, sure, I’ll buy that. But racist? You are conflating nation and race on purpose.
Buddy it's inline syntax for referencing constants in a design system (same on GPA stuff, 2.8 here)
It would give them immunity and more importantly make it far easier to liquidate the now totally legal and above board funds.
"Sloppers" appeared in another thread in this post. I've seen it before, I think it'll stick.
On most of those days, I say "Don't banks realize that they are IT shops?" and suggest that they invest more in reliability.
There are almost certainly ways to fine-tune the model in ways that make it perform better on the Arena, but perform worse in other benchmarks or in practice. Usually that's not a good trade-off. What's being suggested here is that Meta is running such a fine-tuned version on the Arena (and reporting those numbers) while running models with different fine-tuning on other benchmarks (and reporting those numbers), while giving the appearance that those are actually the same models.
The thing that bugged me was that I also knew a BUNCH of intermediate steps. I wished I could enter them and get feedback instead of "Incorrect answer". I don't mind having to do all the pieces.

I think what might work is just if it says "Too early" and makes a list of stuff below the puzzle that you've solved too early and just put a checkmark next to it once it's ready and let you click it to enter it.

Right now it's giving negative feedback, I think it should be a positive to recognize pieces of the puzzle early, even if you still need to do the whole puzzle.
I would add that the answer detection logic should probably get beefed up a bit as well. When I solved today's puzzle, it counted "race car" as a wrong answer when it expected "racecar". It should accept both forms of a compound word (also "racecar" isn't a word but that's more minor).
Behavior can be inferred from the fossil record. There's quite a lot of literature on this. For example inferring nesting behavior of dinosaurs from fossilized nests and where you find them. Or tool use in early hominids.

You need to define what constitutes intelligent behavior and we certainly have some of this from studies of human evolution - e.g. tool use, emergence of art, burial practices, that kind of thing.
Sometimes a lambda is more readable. "lambda x : x if x else 1" is pretty understandable and doesn't need to be it's own separately defined function.

I should also note that development style also depends on tools, so if your IDE makes inline functions more readable in it's display, it's fine to use concisely defined lambdas.

Readablity is a personal preference thing at some point after all.
Because the underlying "account" is not necessarily a Bank Account.
Surprising how often this is overlooked. Thinking about PRs as a communication tool rather than just a code diff — that shift alone can make a big difference.
> Do people not think the EU spy agencies.. Spy?

The internet is "operated" by the US. Even in EU.
Can you color code the brackets so it’s easy to see how the clues are nested? Like outermost brackets are red, one level of nesting is blue, next level of nesting is orange. My brain is having a hard time parsing all of the clues.
> As long as the disability doesn't prevent a person from executing their contractual obligations [...]

That's exactly the context. In the US, if you're being asked to prove a disability, it's part of a request for accommodations.

> And from personal experience, once you're in the second half of your life, looking for an autism diagnosis and then using that to fight the gauntlet of bureaucracy required to get a government approved "stigma certificate" is a chore that really eats into one's provision of spoons.

I'm in my 30s, but that's been my experience as well. Unfortunately, from personal experience as well, finding a new job after being fired with cause due to failing to obtain ADA protections really eats into one's spoons too.

> How do you propose I demonstrate to you that being in an office severely impairs my ability to reason about problems and write code? Is heart rate enough? Are higher bugs per feature enough? Is being an asshole to people enough?

Why guess? A diagnosis per the DSM by a qualified professional is how you demonstrate impairment. It's also how you guarantee accommodations. As a bonus, it often come with suggestions tailored to your specific disability.
Imagine boys and girls could have their own gender being represented and they would compete with each other in that card game, or if it's not like "Magic: the gathering", at least interact around arguing who is better. But here, girls are completely excluded from any such interaction, like: "Nope, you don't exist." Girls, who should they look up to? Having both, it allows both genders to choose whom to admire.

I actually do not see the obvious reason. Maybe I missed something. My take is Japan has what some would call a gender stereotypical view. What is surprising to me is how a whole gender is excluded from something that creates much fun interaction and play. It feels surprising especially also when the project is supposed to represent a community. I almost feel bad pointing it out, because the project is so wholesome, but it's simply what I see.

I have a European lense, and I am sure I am not aware of many things of their culture. But, I am struggling to see how it's not a blunt confirmation of typical western feminist critique. Of course, Japanese society may have another cultural framework to rationalize it, where any such critique wouldn't even be recognized to be rational. That, in itself, reflects a possible large discrepancy in cultural views.

(edit: I don't think the creator did any wrong, I think they acted within their frame. Maybe the product wouldn't be as successfully otherwise. My inquiry is at the level of culture and it's undercurrent of values dictating what's successfully and to what degree an artifact is based in cultural values and re-affirm those, well transcending mere artistic choice and artistic appreciation which should be free.)

(edit 2, psychoanalysis: the artist framing males within cards... Males being looked up to... The artist psychologically in perhaps a Lacanian sense, is "looking up" to expressions of the mighty, assertive phallocentric values constituting society. The artist mediating societal core views by making this artifact, enacts those values by admiration, and mediates those values to the right population, boys, who by their mere gender, are both the protectors and the representations of society's core view. I suspect Japan is a phallocentric society more so than not.)
Very impressive. This is going to result in an explosion of content creation by pro studios, just as CG with cel-shading renderers did. I greatly prefer the hand-drawn + AI tweened look to the current low-budget CG 3D models look.
I boot Finnix and use dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx to wipe out drives. Most drives can be wiped out overnight. That fable about needing multiple passes is not true:

https://datarecovery.com/rd/why-does-it-take-multiple-passes...

If a drive contained state secrets, I might use /dev/urandom instead of /dev/zero, but those kinds of drives are probably just shredded.
That's a weak correlation at best. What about when it's still weather in winter? It's not unusual at all.
Anyone stuck claiming AI isn’t useful - there are so many useful things it can now do. With text that makes sense you can generate invitations for your next picnic. That wasn’t possible mere weeks ago.

Wonderful to be alive for these step changes in human capability.
Become the provider of choice for enterprise IT networks or get bought by Azure?
I wonder how much the current work environment contributed to this. There's immense pressure to deliver, so it's not surprising to see this.
> if a serious crime were committed, the police don't need to have the victim cooperate.

That's what I remember as well, but thought maybe it's different in different countries, or there is some other kind of cleverness behind the offer. Otherwise, it makes them look kind of silly.
Yeah, but it's also important to me I don't get mistaken for wanting to stand next to a guy who's comfortable displaying that kind of attitude. I think my original approach inadvertently encouraged that, so I'm overcompensating now.

And given a somewhat thoroughly developed analysis of this extremely young industry's place in the span of human history to date, why not talk about that when I can spare the time? I feel like I'm probably not the only person here who finds such ideas of interest.
Do you know that they made a bet on MoE? Meaning they abandonded dense models? I doubt that is the case. Just releasing MoE Llama 4 does not constitute a "bet" without further information.

Also from what I can tell this performs better than models with parameter counts equal to one expert, and worse than fully dense models equal to total parameter count. Isn't that kind of what we'd expect? in what way is that a failure?

Maybe I am missing some details. But it feels like you have an axe to grind.
The main progress value is that Test-Time Training appears to work very well in practice. I think that as labs begin to test it as scale in LLMs, it will become commonplace in next-generation models.
so tailscale is selling out

that was disappointing

at least the current software is open source, so others can fork it before it closes down on itself and enshittifies.
Useless if you need to run it in a scripting environment where you don't have control over runtime too. The thing lua was designed and is still prominently used for.
I've been tracking this space for a while just out of annoyance that Tailscale offers ssh on the free tier, then not on the "starter" paid tier. Netbird is by far the best of the alternatives that I've tried.
Congratulations! So glad to hear this.
I just want to agree with you wholeheartedly that there are certainly multiple independent factors driving intelligence. After all, one of the most asocial groups one can imagine, the octopodes, are also at the forefront of animal intelligence (and to further your theory, more of their brains are dedicated to visual processing than we see in humans)
> The creatives [...] “Lern to code!”

No, the underlying format of "$LABOR_ISSUE can be solved by $CHANGE_JOB" comes from a place of politics, where a politician is trying to suggest they have a plan to somehow tackle a painful problem among their constituents, and that therefore they should be (re-)elected.

Then the politicians piled onto "coal-miners can learn to code" etc. because it was uniquely attractive, since:

1. No big capital expenditures, so they don't need to promise/explain how a new factory will get built.

2. The potential for remote work means constituents wouldn't need to sell their homes or move.

3. Participants wouldn't require multiple years of expensive formal schooling.

4. It had some "more money than you make now" appeal.
I first remember the term when Oracle ported themselves to Linux, began submitting patches, then began pushing Oracle on Linux to enterprises.

Oracle's big reason for doing so was because they could charge more for Oracle on Linux, and still get to a lower total cost of ownership than Oracle on Solaris.

Oracle began this in 1998. By 2006 they had their own Oracle Enterprise Linux distribution.
It has paid off. The market is tanking. /s
YAML is supposed to be a strict superset of JSON. So if it's the footguns and complexity you're trying to avoid, just write it as JSON.
> the first-ever study to measure users’ actual ability to perform daily tasks on a PC

Amazing, if true.

> age remains the most important factor in how well an individual can use applications.

> the most important thing in using a spreadsheet program is practice

I have a feeling those older user would do just fine if Windows behaved like Windows 95 to Windows 7 and Office behaved like Office 95 to Office 2003. And I don't really think it's the users' intelligence that is the problem.

On Desktop in 2025, Windows usage is >70%, Mac >15% [0]. I think some of us techies have rosy glasses because our occupations let us afford frequent Apple everything, but this is not a financial reality for most.

This computer-usage-researcher finds that computer users who are better at using computers are smarter and younger? (And not that the systems themselves are stupider than they should be?) Interesting.

There is a digital divide, and TFA does help describe its characteristics. Contributors to the divide are not just economics-driven-availability, but rather, "availability in general" of sane systems, partially informed by who is willing/able to put in the effort to even use a computer effectively.

More and more, I don't think it's lack of intelligence leading users to give up--I think it's a *different kind* of intelligence that informs users that it's not "worth it" to suffer. As software producers, we can do better.

Even we on HN are on a sliding scale of user-savviness.

What happened to "it's never the user's fault"? Is that adage gone?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
Only if you think his story is true. I'm pretty sure it is more of an art project though. Mostly because from a survival perspective the story makes no sense.
I'm not sure that's accurate. If I think of the crazies in Washington they're almost all (relatively) young.
Not in relation to his body which is the concerning interaction. Though contact with a 150mph tire would have had similar if not the exact same consequences as a 300 mph tire.
The nuance is it does put you in a vulnerable position. It’s the financial equivalent of putting all your eggs in one basket. It looks super convenient to pay with Wechat and Pix but I can’t imagine how bad it would be if I get on the government’s bad side.

I really want a system where I can transfer money effortlessly but I also want a guarantee that I won’t be restricted access to my banking.
It's tempting to blame oligarchs and social media, but I'll argue that readers' own tastes are the most daunting challenge that mainstream journalism has faced for the past 20 years.

People will spend a lot more time (and money!) reinforcing their existing beliefs/prejudices than learning about something new.
The greenery in question appears to be a tidal estuary (but I'm not 100% sure) and it also appears to be close to the downtown center of a city of 4 million people who all need some amount of electricity to live their daily lives. The ecosystem of the body of water on which these panels are installed is I would imagine relatively undisturbed by the solar PV - it's a question of aesthetics whether or not this habitat has been degraded.

My feeling is that these over-water panels generating a not-insignificant amount of power are an ideal compromise between the sprawl of the built environment of (Taizhou, China) and the natural ecosystem.
Happy to answer any questions, super excited to be part of the team and help make Cloudflare's developer experience better. Not just bells-and-whistles ;)
You're supposed to also use `set -e` if you're going to `set -o pipefail`, but of course that requires understanding that `set -e` will not apply to anything happening from inside a function called in a conditional expression -- this is a tremendous footgun.

And if you want to know which command in a pipe failed there's `PIPESTATUS`.
Indeed. KYC has a purpose though -- prevention of fraud, money laundering, etc. Getting rid of KYC without a similarly-effective solution for those things seems unlikely. Ideas?
I think it's most illustrative to see the sample battles (H2H) that LMArena released [1]. The outputs of Meta's model is too verbose and too 'yappy' IMO. And looking at the verdicts, it's no wonder by people are discounting LMArena rankings.

[1]: https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmarena-ai/Llama-4-Maverick-03...
Sure but they're also absolutely plastering entire valleys in solar panels simultaneously.
That's not what is being discussed though. You missed the point.
Hmm, maybe but it would have to be come from the prosecutor's office, of whatever country has the best chance of catching the hacker, and the hacker has to be believe it.
Imagine the gravel rash if all goes pear shaped.
Maybe replace Pixave with a better product if you're at it.
Cases of Mangoes, Coolers of Freezies
Z Xplore at least used to include Z series access.

https://ibmzxplore.influitive.com/users/sign_in
https://reneweconomy.com.au/a-near-100-per-cent-renewables-g...

Thats the question this guy asked, using actual weather data to power his models instead of carbon industry fluff.

Unfortunately the instinctive skeptical reaction to this is not "here's an alternative model and alternative data" but "here's even more FUD".
The police in general are so far behind on their ability to prosecute crypto/cyber crimes for so many reasons that in practice they would basically never be interested in prosecuting without victim cooperation. Not to mention that in theory this would retroactively make the crime totally definitely above board ethical hacking which is not a crime in any jurisdiction as far as I know.
Can’t we just leave our EVs plugged in and use those?
How many great devs are keeping their GH profile active to match your search patterns?
> I don't want politics discussed at work, it's annoying and a distraction.

This is a lot trickier when politics won’t stay out of your work. For example, almost every business is affected by the tariffs because such a massive tax increase affects almost everyone. On the article’s topic, someone at the EPA hired for professional skills around pollution, climate change, etc. under the current administration will regularly be faced with the choice between denying reality/law and being seen as political.
Highly recommend. Bought a ThinkPad from Abhas and it runs like tank.
I love that a throwaway comment about a man in his underwear got as nerdy as this.
From documentation to code: closing the loop with generative AI
I took up running in 1978. I don't run as often, let alone as far, as I did 40 years ago, but I still enjoy it. As the parent comment says, it's quick and easy to lace on the shoes.
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Neat, solar power growing this fast is really good news!
How would one infer an octopus' intelligence from the fossil record?

Also, could you give a more substantial answer than

>Behavior can be inferred from the fossil record.

... that's literally the question rephrased as a statement, lol.

A concrete example would be appreciated.
In other news, the head of AI research just left

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/01/metas-head-of-ai-research-an...
Na, I read that but it really doesn’t have the same kind of business focus that qz did
Intelligence - big brains - is costly, whether in terms of metabolic needs (20% of human energy!), head size (human birthing difficulty), or weight - an issue for birds. Intelligence will only arise where the benefits outweigh the costs, which basically means for generalist species that need to be highly adaptive to prevailing conditions/resources, not just a one-trick optimized machine like a crocodile or cow.

Not all modern birds are intelligent - some like chickens are clearly not, which is understandable because they don't need to be. However, the sheer variety of habitats and food sources utilized by birds (from raptors to penguins, ostriches to hummingbirds) would seem to indicate that generality and intelligence may have developed early as they were pushed to, and able to, explore new environments, and survive climate and other challenges over the millenia. Some birds like covids are still generalists and therefore highly intelligent, while others have settled into much narrower behavioral niches and have therefore lost it (or perhaps never had it).
Winter nights are long and dark everywhere in Europe, wind speeds definitely correlate somewhat, and transmission losses exist. Unless you're planning to massively overbuild wind power, you do need alternative power sources capable of satisfying almost all your power demand for shorter periods.
Numerous different documentaries and individual travel videos. Like all things there is a bias but I am also not sure what your point is? Are you suggesting North Koreans are not subject to massive amounts of propaganda and indoctrination into this idea of the supreme leader?

This is starting to feel like a flat earth discussion.
The problem is most react developers are using the library because they want a job and see companies are using it, not because they believe in or even understand functional programming

The amount of times I've heard that classes = OOP and functions = functional is ridiculous
They should have called these Salarymon cards.
If one cant take 30mins to vet a candidate code sample, one should not be hiring. Or working in anything that requires proper reasoning - its akin to not writing tests or do code reviews because "they take time".
A 4x8 MOE performs better than an 8B but worse than a 32B, is your statement?

My response would be, "so why bother with MOE?"

However deepseek r1 is MOE from my understanding, but the "E" are all =>32B parameters. There's > 20 experts. I could be misinformed; however, even so, I'd say a MOE with 32B or even 70B experts will outperform (define this!) Models with equal parameter counts, because deepseek outperforms (define?) ChatGPT et al.
Nope, because it's not like a normal immunity deal it's the company retroactively granting "authorization for third party testing" which makes the hack no longer a crime.
You should post this when you're ready for people to try it - waitlists can't be Show HN's, take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html