skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What should I do to get to a point where I feel confident enough to actually send in applications?

If you apply for a junior position: no need to do anything. Everything is relative to what kind of a job you want. LeetCode problems are only relevant in FAANG. I've never done LeetCode.

> Will the 4-year gap and my choppy CV be a major hindrance to my hirability?

The short stints don't look great.

> I feel like I have the best chance of getting hired in the kind of roles I used to work at and those are the ones I'm interested in as well but in doing so am I restricting myself to a limited number of positions?

When you specialize in anything, you restrict yourself. However, specializing makes it easier to get through the interview process. There's a bazillion Java developers, but not that many Haskell developers. Haskell shops can't just discard 70% of the applications, they actually can take the time to interview all the people that apply. A great Haskell developer has a way higher chance to get a job than a great Java developer, probably not that much difference for an average one though.

> Is my timing bad?

Does it matter? If you can't get a job right away, keep applying, but find some other way to support yourself in the meantime.
there's two reasons I read: for pleasure, and for business

I prefer reading chatgpt style text when I read for business. since I have a feel for its structure after reading so much similar content, my mind can instinctively pick out the 'important words' with little effort, so I can more quickly grok what they're selling and I can determine if it's the right product for my business

for pleasure, I prefer hand-written prose. it feels more like i'm listening to another person tell a story when there are runons and mistaeks and overall tone changes multple times in a single sentence!
…sure, but that's what circularity means. You think it's accurate because you set it.

The problem is when people are doing something useful the managers haven't noticed. (Or is successfully bullshitting instead of contributing anything.)
Well I would say it like this. The ancient part and the modern part of the brain are in a sort of dialogue. The ancient part can place a thought into the modern part of the brain, like a sort of notification. The modern part can then decide to pay attention to this or decide not to. It can reason about it. And finally it can say something back to the ancient part of the brain. It can communicate some plan that the ancient part executes.

I say ancient/modern rather than unconsious/conscious, because to a certain extent even the reasoning "just happens", so you might be tempted to say that even the reasoning is unconscious and it's actually all unconscious except some supernatural me that is just passively watching everything without actually taking any action. But we can bypass that (quite interesting) subject, by talking about ancient / modern, because the reasoning part is separate and more modern.

Tldr: The neocortex is the homunculus (in the sense of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus_argument).
https://archive.is/2G09x
I agree, I did much ghostwriting to make money in grad school. A lot of the books I worked on for other people were them exploring a new revenue stream and capitalizing on their existing reputation. The words themselves are not really what sells the work.
It is simply a claim, it is one that I would probably attribute to myself sometimes if I'm being honest! I am forced into the act of secular belief like all of you after all, I'm no better.

You can feel secure in your beliefs without feeling superior because of them, and you can understand the specificity of our modern scientific framework without sacrificing the force of the scientific story.

If you really really think the scientific method or whatever is the end all of human belief, that is precisely a reason to try and stay humbled in that belief, not the opposite. That is just being a good scientist.

If you feel insulted by what I said, that is quite telling of your own insecurties and another reason you should pause and breath and listen to others, instead of telling yourself over and over again how smart you are.
Hopefully someday some smart person invents a standard, secure way of handling enrollment/forgot my pass(key|word), as that will always be the weakest link. As much as it freaks some people out, a cryptographic national ID would be really helpful for this, IMO.
Canada accounts for only 0.6% of India's foreign remittances - https://twitter.com/zahacktanvir/status/1627970651859390467?...
For source code documentation, I prefer to include an overt creation date and separate "last updated" date. Although version control makes including these in the actual source files redundant.
There has to be a contradiction somewhere between "proud of their transgressive behaviour" and "build entire cultures". Well then the behaviours musn't be transgressive within those cultures, for if they transgressed cultural rule including their own how can they have a culture at all?

They aren't going up to each other and being as obnoxious and loathsome the same way they go up to everyone else. That's the only way to make sense
Wow, chatgpt really told the author to go touch grass.
That makes sense. It would be good to add this information to the README.
The whole prompt engineering thing feels like a temporary stopgap. Because ideally language models should be able to understand prompts from anyone without them trying to craft in a way that works for the model.
So we have Web 2.0 thanks to which the Most Important Extension Distill is installed in my browser. Because without it, my head hurts a lot from Web 2.0.

Ok.

I feel like I'll have to install something that will make life easier with Software 2.0.
And this is just why people say you should not read anything written in the past century, taken to the 11th degree.
> In this case given the disparity of what is shown on TikTok in China and here, I think it's on purpose to weaken the West.

This undermines your theory that it's all capitalism.
That's a show where people intentionally seek out pedophiles and set up (fake) meetings. Not real kids meeting real people.
> It's incredible to see how this site turned from valuable feedback in the comments to well...this.

...

> Here is a very simple thing to do when you don't understand a paper or how to interpret it. Send the Authors a mail and ask politely if they could help you understand their work better. There are multiple E-Mail Addresses provided from the Authors.

So, just so I'm clear: You're complaining that people didn't email the study authors and interrogate their work before commenting on the article here?
I think it may be possible you live in some kind of js bubble - I have never heard of those things and it wouldn't be something I'd advise anyone to do.
You’ll rent a self-driving car from a ride sharing app, they’ll make sure that the expected cost of fines and lawsuits will be significantly less than the expected revenue from providing rides. Although they can help push down the former value by making sure they operate from a favorable jurisdiction.
Glad you are doing better! Burn out is no joke and health is hard to regain, so you made the right choice in my book!

In terms of confidence, practice is what worked for me. Write code in your domain, see how it goes. You’ll probably feel rusty, but core principles should come back. Consider contributing to an open source project or as other suggested small gigs to practice/build up connections.

For interviewing, again have to practice - this means getting out there and talking to prospective employers. Starting is often the hardest part, but then you have to keep at it.

Good luck!!!
Whatever it is, I will suggest to stay away from this kind of contents created by AI. Human creativity replacement should not be sought
I don't think product managers a very big on 'glass half full' nor bank institutions in 99.99% accuracy.
"Zero interest rate phenomena" sounds smart to non-econ people the way "cryptocurrency" sounds smart to non-tech people. The fact that a lot of people were making bad investments (apparently mostly in tech, since job growth is up in other sectors) had very little to do with the interest rate. Failure might come a bit quicker, but this is all just pure, unprocessed copium from a sector that routinely fails to duplicate its own magic.

Apple is on its third or fourth life depending on how you slice it. Microsoft is coming back strong. But Facebook and Netflix are getting lame and Amazon is turning into something other than an online market. Google has never had as profitable and revolutionary of a product as search depending on how you rate Android. I doubt Apple gets a fifth life or Microsoft a third.

Meanwhile, the rest of the economy continues to do OK even without "zero interest rates." And interest rates didn't trigger the tech stock crash in 2000 or the general recession in 2008.

I understand that they're trying to say "people will do anything to get a return." But isn't that always true? Maybe more people will park their money in bonds. But people will look for a return that beats inflation because most people don't borrow money directly from the fed and most of the commercial rates haven't gone up that much.

I dunno, these people are chronically full of shit.
1. CSV is ubiquitous but has no singularly well-adopted standard. 2. software and data engineers struggle with CSVs as a result of #1. 3. tool is created to reduce pain and friction. 4. profit? a new market? a new standard?

The "revolutionary new tool" to replace CSVs was XML in the late 1990s.
I need that last line on a tshirt or bumper sticker
Is there any evidence that the "15 minute city" actually works? Because.. if it works, then why do you care about "conspiracy theorists?"

Pumping out propaganda like this probably doesn't help.
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It's not made by Apple, but MoltenVK is free, open source, actively developed/maintained and works well on M1/M2 hardware. It's used by many commercial game ports to Mac/iOS devices.

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK
I'll scream about Apple's bad practices any day of the week, but I used to go out of my way to configure my Macbook Pro's with max RAM, upgraded SSD, and an i5 specifically because that meant my fans were never audible.

Yeah, everything i7 was a thermal problem, but that wasn't unique to Apple. And the i9 systems were laughable. However, with an i5, I never had noticable thermal issues.

If you're having thermal issues with an i5, something specific to your computer is broken.

Now, my daily driver is a Lenovo Carbon X1 7th Gen. I'm quite happy, but I did the same thing. Big RAM, big SSD, and a reasonable i5. I never hear a fan.
"Revenue generating indie project" is easier said than done. If that's what the person would really like to do? Sure. But otherwise it's probably a distraction given that revenue producing means it will probably be as much about marketing and selling as developing.
Writing pure functions isn't necessarily hard.

However, solving a business problem with only pure functions is indeed hard
+1 to Framework. I self-repaired my kid's laptop twice (spills; once I had to swap the keyboard, and another time - motherboard), and it's being straightforward to fix.
Yes, more 8086 reverse engineering. I'm here for questions...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f8DQSM-b2cc

sadly a video link but the general idea is there.
> But it was always that: an illusion.

Only if you view in black/white absolutist terms where if every single person isn't on 100% merit then it doesn't count at all.

But the only thing this argument achieves is making the people actively causing or cheerleading the damage feel better about what they are doing. For everyone else, it's a massive regression.
Ideally, providing labeled examples can be done by relatively cheaper humans.
Power-Grid Attacks Surge and Are Likely to Continue
I want to solve the problem that it's difficult for people to predict the future with skin in the game.

My idea is to create a prediction market where people bet on REAL world events under REAL name with FAKE money. All predictions are public and we can rank every user's prediction ability in each category by his ROI.

I have created a MVP where people bet on cryptos: https://rankvestor.com/. I wanted to start with finantial market.

Now I have to stop this project because I am moving my family to Japan because I don't believe in the future of China. I have to work for a Japan company to keep my visa. In my spare time, I work on a Japanese study app that gives me some money every month.

BTW, if anyone likes this idea, feel free to take it and implement it :)
Any customer will love a company selling a dollar for 50 cents. Neumann made a billion dollars by extracting it from a company that is now worth less than that. I think most of the blame lies with Masayoshi but Neumann was the top conman
Is there a schema document explaining the format of the dataset?

Edit
Found it in the associated doc
It’s a cute approach !

Data File Format

Each line in the data file has the following format: Field 1 is the source, Field 2 is the target, and Field 3 is obsolete, always containing the letters “MA” for backwards compatibility. For example:

0441 ; 0063 ; MA # ( с → c ) CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ES → LATIN SMALL LETTER C #

2CA5 ; 0063 ; MA # ( ⲥ → c ) COPTIC SMALL LETTER SIMA → LATIN SMALL LETTER C # →ϲ→

Everything after the # is a comment and is purely informative. A asterisk after the comment indicates that the character is not an XID character [UAX31]. The comments provide the character names.

Implementations that use the confusable data do not have to recursively apply the mappings, because the transforms are idempotent. That is,

skeleton(skeleton(X)) = skeleton(X)
I wish SSO providers were able to hook into this Passkey mechanism. Instead of storing Passkeys in iCloud for sync instead we could store them at the SSO provider
I much prefer leisurely engineering
Yes but you can't clone from something that doesn't exist. YOU have to provide things to clone from.
This is interesting, but I'm curious about the use cases.

I tried the demo with a sofa image. While the description part is great, it contains overpromises, such as easy to clean
Now I'm curious, if you get infected by the virus itself, does the same thing not happen?
1. Just apply. Start with regional companies.
2. Just apply. Tell them you could afford the time off and took it. What better time to be free than in your 20's?
3. Just apply. Do try to code though and see if it is still something you want to do.
4. You can't pick the timing and can't predict how things will be a year from now. Find a job before you NEED a job.
Looks like click farms have expanded into book publishing. The tech revolution of diminishing standards seems to be progressing steadily. You can now ride in your Cruise self-driving car that drives slow and stops in awkward places, while reading a soulless, irrelevant book and look up inaccurate info in Bing. The future really is never as you picture it.
I did an ask HN recently if there's something similar with stoicism [1]. I'd like to put the question into the public limelight again, since stoicism and mindfulness meditation share commonalities. They are also very different, so perhaps my question is silly. Then again, it was also silly with regards to meditation, until it wasn't.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34855673
Conversations that could lead to product ideas or short term contracts. Or at the very least practice at interviewing!
Interesting, thanks for explaining how it works. Would it also be possible to construct one of these JSON schemas by hand, without OpenAI? The core data cleaning system sounds like just as interesting a piece of technology as the AI schema generation.
> I find that having an up to date year on a copyright line [...] is a "remove the brown m&ms" signal [...] If a person or team didn't catch this, what other details did they miss?

The difference being the brown M&M's test is an excellent one whereas when it comes to "having an up to date year on a copyright line", it's not about someone "missing" these "details", since there are good (i.e. deliberate) reasons not to update the year (and only bad reasons to actually do it).

So something rather like the reverse of what you meant is actually true: if you notice people adhere to some bizarre and misguided practice like trying to make sure the copyright year is "up to date", then what other totally unnecessary (and maybe even potentially harmful) bullshit might they be cargo culting into their work practices—and should you worry about trusting their judgement in other areas that actually matter?
For those curious why you may want this: consider your service relies on /somelocation

Make that a mount unit in systemd (free from lines in /etc/fstab) and now you can accurately lay out your service's requirement/dependency on this filesystem.

I know systemd gets flack for overreach 'as an init system', but there's a reason - initialization doesn't happen in a vacuum.

Services need filesystems, networks, etc to matter.
I have both Firefox and kiwi running. Ff works most of the time.
That's what I'm wondering, if using LLM to create prompts for the LLM is a few steps away from integrating that into the LLM
and unlocking recursive phenomenon and emergent behavior.
It's possible to make a full-fledged GUI using just monospace (such as console characters), minus icons. It's one possibility for making cross-platform mouse-friendly system management consoles. It won't necessarily be esthetic, but predictable and reliable, unlike DOM crap, where stuff unexpectedly wraps or overlaps unless you test the living daylights out of it.

It'd like to see someone pioneer a state-ful GUI markup language using it. When perfected, then it could be reworked into a graphical version (variable-spaced fonts) so we can get away from binary API's for regular GUI's. Then adaptors don't have to be re-written for every app language: just use XML calls.
Yeah I agree. I can see those models helping us improve productivity quite a bit on the side of (still) writing code. Essentially it is a much better form of context aware c&p from stackoverflow.

And then, as you say, there will be certain parts where those models are actually gonna be integrated in software in one way or the other. And I think this is powerful. It would be awesome if I can just toss certain problems to the business folks and empower them to figure out the solution AND implementation by themselves.

But even that will probably take quite some time.
I think the issue is that CSS is somewhere between unopinionated and encouraging complexity. Is that the best kind of selector? Certainly not, but in Bootstrap, one of the most widely-used CSS packages, it was trivial to find a similar one: `.table-striped-columns > :not(caption) > tr > :nth-child(even) `, so it definitely happens a lot.

Also a lot of it comes down to the original plan to have semantic HTML, which ultimately failed. But we rarely talk about whether semantic CSS is possible, I think the assumption is that it is. But IMO it's not practical because of the poor specificity controls. That's something I'd do different, add in a manual specificity level (like how z-index has manual weights).
> it's critical to recognize that we as a people need to develop a greater worldview/metacognition to go any further forward together.

Possibly, but the chances of a move towards a cohesive worldview seem fleeting at best. If anything it seems more likely that we'll continue to fragment further and even more rapidly. We had a chance at this during the pandemic - humanity could have come together to fight a common enemy (the virus) but instead we fractured into groups and fought each other.
I understand the rendering is an out-of-band addition. But the question is, if this is a statistical language model (i.e. a monte carlo word generator), then how is it able to go from the description to the SVG successfully without understanding things more logically.

My best guess is that theres an actual example in the training corpus that its pulling from. Or that this is being gamed in some way.
> Folks in the know use mocks and spies (I say “mocks” for short in this article)
Not really. It's just a higher level programming language. You still need to know how to decompose a problem and structure the solution. On some level, also systems thinking as this stuff will get integrated together.
> So, he used ChatGPT to create a children's book in _4 hours_ and he is now a published author, the very thing he dreamed to become? Please...

Well he is going to find out that his 'books' in the US are essentially in the public domain and are un-copyrightable due to this ruling: [0]

Human authorship is required for obtaining copyright for the books in the US and not when an AI has done the work entirely or has done the majority of the work in both generated text and images and especially when they are crediting an AI as the author or co-author.

[0] https://www.copyright.gov/rulings-filings/review-board/docs/...
I get crap from people when I change the headlines, so I do it very little except when the headline is too long.
https://stripe.com/identity

Agreed about a cryptographic national ID. One day! Login.gov is already prototyping using USPS for in person identity verification, we'll get there.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34735448
I'd argue that it's a solution to the problem that programmers are expensive and only a fraction can be counted on to produce 100% reliable code anyway.

While it's possible for a highly-skilled, highly-professional developer can both write code that will solve a given problem 100% correctly and write tests that will prove that it solves them for the entire domain, in practice most developers fall short on both counts. Every time you interact with a date or phone number field that chastises you for your use or non-use of punctuation, you know this.

So, for many use cases, it's possible imperfect programmers will be replaced with neural networks that are 95% accurate, perhaps with a differently-trained one checking the work of the first one.
Agreed. Much like google fu there is still likely to be some skill involved, but calling it "engineering" seems a bit much
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Since you bunch together protocols and platforms, I don't know if you intend to be taken seriously. But even among the platforms you mentioned, yes obviously all of them attract this. The difference is some know about it and actively take measures (eg. FB takes reports of underage accounts v seriously and bans them quickly) and the other ones are Roblox and Omegle.