skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>or seize your $1000 phone/laptop.

So be it. I used to say that the reason I valued my privacy was not that I did not trust my government _today_, it was the fact that data would be available to every potential authoritarian government _tomorrow_.

Welp, today has become tomorrow, and yeah, I'd _absolutely_ rather just have my devices seized than have the contents of my phone dumped into a database that can be searched without a warrant, for the next 15 years.

Rights (like the 4th amendment) that are not exercised are not upheld. I'm sure the threat of having one's devices stolen (let's be clear, that's what this is), is enough to deter many people. For myself, my next course of action would be to contact the ACLU and sue the government for violating the 4th amendment.
> 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?

Reminds me of the Nate Bargatz set where he talks about how if he was a time traveler to the past that he wouldn't be able to prove it to anyone. The skills most of us have require this supply chain and then we apply it at the very end. I'm not sure anyone in 1920 cares about my binary analysis skills.
Sure, but that has nothing to do with costs and everything to do with what the market will bear (while still recovering costs).

People will go and shop around for the best price on a $300 item, but for a $10 item they'll buy whatever's infront of them, so long as it's not clearly outrageous.
If it's this length but about the history of S3, I can easily stay engaged for each new story. When it's a bunch of hypothetical syntaxes that will get thrown away, I'm only staying if I entered the article with the purpose of "I want to understand React Server Components".
The point of this article is that the evidence of what you are saying is unconvincing.

Even if it _were_ real science [Note: actual science engages with criticism and can withstand critique], the effect size being claimed is smaller than the margin of error on the tests.

Being a programmer, I know plenty of miserable, incompetent and outright criminal people with high IQs: the idea that IQ alone is something to maximize is just weird eugenics.

The impact of fluoride on actual social outcomes, measured by a double-blind study? That would be interesting. Maybe then we could talk about the ethics of inflicting life-long pain and suffering on children in favor of reducing their risk of unemployment by some small percentage.

What is being put forward right now, though, offers chem trail levels of rigor: it isn't going to be convincing to anyone who doesn't really, REALLY want to believe.
It may take me a week (or more) to prepare half hour talk. It takes even more time if I have to compress it into less than 20 minutes (think ted talk).
Just you wait til I hook up a pen to my 3d printer (I know people have already done this)
Yes, it's just the banks. They have both. It's really not rocket science.

It should be satisfying in the following sense - the financial system is nowhere near as complicated as it seems. There is no magic. If you find yourself feeling like there is some magic somewhere, just ask another question because there is likely just a word or a layer of indirection that is making something quite simple seem mysterious.
The GDP per capita comparison talking point keeps getting brought up as "why Canada is an economic failure" -- frustrating because it really isn't a good analysis.
There's a problem with just directly comparing them - because JKR probably brings in more revenue to the UK than fishing, with Potter copyrights.

But most of that revenue goes to JKR, whereas most of the fishing revenue may end up in "working class" people's pockets.
Right because Deloitte and Accenture engagements have no history of running wildly over projections on time or budget. They don't do $15k app projects anyway.
You could argue that a "feature" of Stack Overflow is the culture. They're building a reference, not a help desk, so they expect questions to be original and researched. Once you're in a corporate environment, if you don't have experience in asking good questions, you'll come off as incompetent.
How does your product prevent a person from simply retyping something that ChatGPT wrote?

I think the prevalence of these AI writing bots means schools will have to start doing things that aren’t scalable: in-class discussions, in-person writing (with pen and paper or locked down computers), way less weight given to remote assignments on Canvas or other software. Attributing authorship from text alone (or keystroke patterns) is not possible.
I've used shoe goo to get more life out of shoes. It's marketed as an adhesive, but you can apply it to the bottom of the sole to rebuild thickness to the tread. A single tube could be used for dozens of repairs. After that for me, usually the textiles in the upper fray from the inside out, and I just ignore it until it becomes externally visible or uncomfortable.

I don't think more extensive repairs are economical, and you are better off wearing shoes you like until they disintegrate. There is a bit of mythology about buying expensive boots and repairing them in the hope that it's more economical, but it's really not: https://mastodon.social/@danluu/111068432320682422
If those so "overemployed" (that is to say, working multiple jobs, a normal and common thing to do in society) were not working for their employer, they would be dismissed quickly.

Nobody's stealing anything in these situations.
I tried "Most fun crimes to commit."

#1 Car theft
#2 I can't help with that request
#3 Board games
#4 Video games
#5 Art forgery

And these were the reasons for #1 ranking:

Portable entertainment
Social deduction mechanics
Variety of gameplay styles
Affordable entry point

For art forgery:

Creative challenge
Lower risk
Potential for high-value returns
The first company I worked for out of college did that, as it was a technical position that hired people out of university who studied science and engineering. They had two of us and an interviewer. The other guy gave his presentation on Ruby lasers, but his explanation was a more complex version of "the ruby filters the input light", which is completely incorrect. I tried to hint at that in a question or two, but the interviewer did not have any physics background, and seemed to think it was an informative explanation.

So I'm not sure that this method works if candidates can give talks on subjects the interviewers are unfamiliar with.
>children will have a different perspective

Children will lack the critical thinking for solving complex problems, and even worse, won't have the work ethic for dealing with the kinds of protracted problems that occur in the real world.

But maybe that's by design. I think the ownership class has decided productivity is more important than societal malaise.
Would be interested in seeing a public repo if you want to make that available! :-)
Better than the three towns in my area that all gave away land, tax breaks, county paid power infrastructure to… coin miners.

All three districts fell for “thousands of tech jobs”… turned out to be a couple dozen of people they brought in.
Can you do all this without relying on any LLM usage? If so then you’re fine.
I'm a multimedia / digital artist and this is the first in an in-depth multi-part series of posts I'm doing documenting the the whole process from start to finish (er... maintenance)!
Every single work backround check I ever had in the US included that. I do not think it lists all former employers ever tho, only those from the past 7 years iirc.

In fact, I got a copy of it back too, where it listed even some of the jobs I didn’t list myself because I didn’t think they were relevant (e.g., the grocery store job I had the summer before college, 5 years before the SWE position I was getting background checked for).

One time, it even had an interesting tidbit that got flagged. A former employer of mine didn’t exist anymore at the time of the background check (the company got absorbed into another international corp and then closed down all offices in the state I worked in, thus ceasing to exist both legally and physically). So the background check report mentioned there was an indication of me having worked there, but they couldn’t reach out to the company to verify my exact employment dates.
yes, I know we already have $150 sneakers, but you can get sneakers for $30 at Costco still.
I plan to keep my phone locked if it ever happens to me. I can buy a new phone.
MICrONS Explorer: A virtual observatory of the cortex
The solution for my family: don't travel to the US until the fascist regime is ousted.
I refuse to believe a country as isolated as NK is pumping out genius hackers better than any other country. They speak one of the few languages isolates in the world. They don’t attract high-quality foreigners, if any at all. They don’t get access to the larger scientific community. Their universities don’t allow extended discourse for local students with the few foreigners they allow. Their internet infrastructure is pathetic and their citizens are poor.

Call me a conspiracy theorist but it seems vastly more likely that China and Russia (far and away NK’s strongest, nearest, and largest allies) are executing these hacks and blaming them on the NKs to avoid retribution.

You either believe that or that NKs are genetically superior specimens because they’re not doing anything else that would yield the superior results they attain.
Are you aware that fluoride is a natural mineral in all sources of water? People were found to have better teeth in areas with higher natural concentrations of the stuff. It's like yelling at the sun for administering vitamin D.
Also Retro AIM server, a reimplementation of the OSCAR login server in Golang!

https://github.com/mk6i/retro-aim-server
If it’s a topic of your choosing, a lot of engineers who aren’t super junior probably have a lot of the fixins for a short technical talk on something of interest even if they haven’t presented at a conference. And even juniors probably have something from school.

Added: I should acknowledge though that talking about technical topics of interest may get more complicated at some proprietary firms than open source ones.
The thought of The Kingkiller Chronicle hasn't crossed my mind in many years, and now I have renewed sadness that the story will never be finished. :'(
Why is this called escalation when China is literally just reciprocating?
Haven’t got through the whole article yet. The beginning was slow for me, but it did start to get interesting quickly.
Star Me
I want to try to beat the world record of most starred repo on Github.
English is the second language of most young and middle-aged Chinese, so you should be fine at least in tier-s cities.
> The writing is irrelevant.

In my opinion this is not true. Writing is a form of communicating ideas. Structuring and communicating ideas with others is really important, not just in written contexts, and it needs to be trained.

Maybe the way universities do it is not great, but writing in itself is important.
> So how do I answer my child when he asks "Why should I learn to do X if I can just ask an LLM and it will do it better than me"

It's been my experience that LLMs are only better than me at stuff I'm bad at. It's noticeably worse than me at things I'm good at. So the answer to your question depends: can your child get good at things while leaning on an LLM?

I don't know the answer to this. Maybe schools need to expect more from their students with LLMs in the picture.
Basically the restaurant owner now conducts a large scale osmosis experiment
To have the reputation as an AI company that really cares about education and the responsible integration of AI into education is a pretty valuable goal. They are now ahead of OpenAI in this respect.

The problem is that there's a conflict of interest here. The extreme case proves it--leaving aside the feasibility of it, what if the only solution is a total ban on AI usage in education? Anthropic could never sanction that.
I'm seeing a lot of discussion here about how to prepare your phone for a border crossing, which is fascinating.

I was wondering about a different strategy: what about leaving your phone at home and then buying a new one after you've crossed the border?

It seems like it wouldn't be any less work than 'clean wipe and full restore post-crossing' and has the advantage that border agents can't search what you don't have.

If your trip is short and the return policy sufficiently generous, you might even be able to clean wipe the phone and return it before you cross again.

I'd be curious to hear what people think about something like this.
Standardization is valuable.

An extreme example of your position would be a shop where everyone uses a different language. That's obviously untenable.

A more reasonable example might be choice of editor. I'm of the opinion that management should provide everyone a standard editor, then not mandate it's use. This means anyone can hop onto any device and know how to use it, even if the device owner has a super-customized vim setup. Folks who become familiar with the standard editor are also better positioned to help their colleagues troubleshoot their setups.

I don't see how this applies to AI assistants much if at all. It feels like mandating devs run all their ideas by a particular intern. If said intern isn't an architect then there's no value in having a single point of contact.
Once I had to rescue a SunOS system and edit /etc/vfstab but I only had ed to my disposal. At that point I had never touched ed before, so that was a bit of a learning exercise, for sure.
I think the argument "MCP is Web 3" should be interpreted more-or-less as "LLM interoperability is Web 3"
CBP hates everybody, citizen and non-citizen alike.
I thought the major shift after WWII with Bretton Woods was that throughout all of human wars up to that point, the winner usually took the land in some way or another and the US wasn't interested in that and more interested in a global economic stability pegged to the US dollar. And the US decided policing trade routes and peace across western countries was more important than claiming spoils of war.
Insurance for sure will invalidate his claim indeed
“Just don’t share opinions” is not an option for a free society. Being gagged for fear of retribution from a foreign government is not beneficial to my mental health.
There's a simple solution to people cheating in interviews.

In-person interviews.

And if you don't want to pay for that, proctoring.

And if you don't want to pay for that, I have next to zero sympathy for you.
Isn't that pretty intuitive? Imagine if they had to spend one million dollars in order to make $50 profit.
> Imagine if China decided to invade Taiwan like they've been threatening to do for a while. They would instantly cut off all exports to the US, because that's the smart thing to do.

I think what you're getting at is that China would have more leverage over the US if they attacked (attempted to invade) Taiwan, which they could use to make it more difficult for the US to protect Taiwan.

In that case they could do things like block some or all exports to the US until we, say, stopped escorting cargo ships in and out of Taiwan. But the notion they would "instantly cut off all exports to the US" is nonsense. There's no reason that's somehow a no-brainer post invasion.
> Flipped classroom is just having the students give lectures, instead of the teacher.

Not quite. Flipped classroom means more instruction outside of class time and less homework.

> This is called "proctored exams" and it's been pretty common in universities for a few centuries. None of this addresses the real issue

Proctored exams is part of it. In-class assignments is another. Asynchronous instruction is another.

And yes, it addresses the issue. Students can use AI however they see fit, to learn or to accomplish tasks or whatever, but for actual assessment of ability they cannot use AI. And it leaves the door open for "open-book" exams where the use of AI is allowed, just like a calculator and textbook/cheat-sheet is allowed for some exams.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped_classroom
No, they definitely sell you what they want you to buy, not necessarily what you want to buy. Demand is an input, but not a determinant, of what gets stocked. The calculus ultimately determining what gets stocked happens far away from the storefront, and way above the heads of your given GM, involving relationships with suppliers and the image the store brand wants to project, at scale. In fact, in most stores, GMs are barred from making deals with suppliers to determine stock. You HAVE to go to corporate if, say, you want your local CVS to sell your locally-produced product. A GM who puts something that isn't in the planogram on a shelf is getting sacked.
Several reasons. Nonexhaustively:

- There's a large contingent of people who just do not accept that even though Trump is the president, he does not actually have a genius master plan. Not all of these people even voted for him.

- There are plenty of people who genuinely believe that significant protectionist tariffs are good policy.

- Lots of people who have voted red all their lives simply support and believe whatever Their Side says and does.

- The major mainstream media publications are all owned by extremely wealthy people, who a) have a vested interest in ensuring that the Republicans stay in power, so they can continue to push for more and more and more and more tax cuts (for themselves), and b) are very scared right now that they will personally be targeted by Trump if their publications speak against him.

And, of course:

- Plain old wishful thinking.
Web 3.0 was already claimed by the Semantic Web in 2006 or even earlier, come up with your own buzzwords.
again: that's fraud, it's illegal, and the consequences begin with getting your whole shipment seized.

if you want to smuggle products illegally, that's on you. but the parent's assertion was that tariffs can be trivially bypassed by changing the country of origin. maybe we have different understandings of "trivial", but for me it being illegal makes it non-trivial.
Whistleblower testifies to Congress regarding Meta AI aid to China
Not really, but yes there's a lot of files or things that seem to be files. Try plan9 though.
About 20 years ago it was well-known that the cheap Cisco stuff on eBay was authentic in that there were say, two shifts worth of running the production line for Cisco and a partial shift for unofficial production sold outside of Cisco authorized channels and with no profit going to Cisco.
Really feel like point number two weakens your overall point here
Vipps works in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland.
Last Windows update creates C:\inetpub
Related:

Who isn't a big fan of "impartial" news? People who don't have power (48 points, 17 hours ago, 77 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43627877

Who falls for fake news? Psychological and clinical profiling evidence (2022) (33 points, 1 year ago, 53 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38158604
Vit D supplementation to prevent acute resp infections: review and meta-analysis
I dont think primary taxes are a real concern, but local spending of profits is relevant.

For a local economy, it matters if the store owner lives and spends their money in town, or lives somewhere in NYC or China.
That was my thought as well. He might not have had something to carry the food and water, but making something to carry it would probably be easier than building a motorcycle.
Yes, some sort of... language for programs, if you will. It could be carefully structured in a way that avoids ambiguity and encourages consistency.
"Fake job seekers are flooding US companies that are hiring for remote positions"

Getting a taste of their own medicine after all those fake or evergreen postings. Feels shitty doesn't it? At least the people looking for hires still have a job to feed their families, unlike many on the job seeker side.
Fraud is legal! Yaaaaaayy
It seems like that the author by using JSX to express code directly as an AST re-invented LISP? See Greenspun's tenth rule[1].

[1]: https://wiki.c2.com/?GreenspunsTenthRuleOfProgramming
> shoes won't be so disposable and professions for cobblers and the like will be in higher demand.

It doesn't necessarily follow that more expensive shoes will be easier to repair. It's more likely that shoes will simultaneously become more expensive for the consumer AND lower quality and therefore even less amenable to repair.
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