skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has anyone attempted to analyze the NYT hardback and softback lists for superficiality, by year? As Po Bronson remarked, I fear we are getting superficial, but maybe even worse, we're (intentionally?) losing touch with any compass to objectively assess that. A lot of these titles feel like massaging people's egos to feel okay about doing bad or arbitrary things, while telling them how smart they are. Seems there's a growing market for that.

One example of massively overrated MBA-school schlock: "Getting More: How You Can Negotiate to Succeed in Work and Life" - Stuart Diamond (2012).
Nice one! If you check in the comment below someone share some self hostable bot aswell
Centralization does not scale. Discord's death is inevitable, and it will be far worse than ImageShack.
I never experience slow frontends. It's always either very slow requests, probably to some Java monstrosity, or newsletter/cookie modals, that makes me leave a website
This doesn't make sense when applied to current technology.
Can you say that because we made cars we didn't develop to run faster?
And because we have hospitals, genes that aren't optimal for a climate still exist?

Since the start of humanity, we made tools to make things easier for us, we don't fish with our hands anymore for a reason.
It was very short lived as an overall trend and while some big physical venue based advertising (e.g. for Disneyland) did stay low for years, online and digital products (like say Disney+) more than made up for it
Epinephrine goes bad on earth too. Its not a very stable molecule.
What's interesting is that in this model a lot of companies might be paying for ads without ever seeing a return, because they cannot outbid those at the top. In that case, Amazon would be sponging up money from a lot of players and returning it to a few. Which would be ok, but the problem is that you can either play the game or drop out. So it becomes a little bit of a gig economy thing where in theory you're free but in practice companies are squeezing you for everything.
Indeed - I know I could have also popped out the DIP micro on the board and used it directly, but I choose not to for two reasons:

1. Its so much bulkier, and I wanted something that was the same form factor as my old unit
2. It seemed way more fun to do things this way, and I was pretty sure I could do the whole operation in less than an hour
Current Apple chargers and iPhones support USB-PD. The phones only fast charge properly with MFI. This is literally looks more like they swapped the connector and did no other changes. Also, from my reading of the common charger directive, this doesn't breach the rules.
Even if the rules were inspired by some text that's on the internet rather than a genuine invention (we'll never actually know, we're all just speculating): it hasn't "pulled it out of its training data".

To be asked in plain, simple (ish) English to invent a game, produce code for it and then style it etc and the few other bits the author asked for _is_ impressive.

Why are we asking for so much? Remember the chatbots of the mid-2000s? Eliza etc? They were impressive for the time but GPT represents a _huge_ improvement in this stuff. Of course it's not perfect, but it's an exhilarating jump in capabilities.
examples are numerous. There was this father who sent the doctor photos of a medical problem of his child and the trustee of the digital identity locked his account. With all his digital life, payment channels, communication, you name it. Even the police asking the trustee to unlock was of no avail. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveil...

Or there is this munich company whose employee visited it's parents and immediately the company github account got locked. Parents happened to live in Iran.

The tip of the iceberg, however.
Well, it's people sharing their personal experiences. I'm sure the government has a public website where they try to be helpful, but personal experiences of immigration are very useful, and just not really something the government can collate (often because they work against each other - people trying to 'game' immigration).
Did you read the story of SimCity 2013 linked here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35041202

It seems pretty clear that this game was destroyed by EA management's poor decisions. They forced the game to require an active online connection primarily as an anti-piracy move, but then underfunded the development of the server-side functionality, so the servers were down for most buyers. For strategic reasons, they wanted to tie SimCity into EA's Origin game distribution platform, but this was just a hindrance to players.

Why did management make these decisions? To maximize shareholder value and increase their quarterly profits. EA as a company is a good example of the kind of short-term thinking that capitalism can encourage.

It's good to have a counterbalance. It can come in many forms. Tax-funded public instruments are one, but another important source of funding that's not distributed by capitalist principles are the various private foundations. And most of those were of course founded on wealth created by capitalism. So I'm not at all opposed to private wealth and market-driven resource allocation — I just don't think it should be the only way, or some kind of received truth that's above criticism.
I've seen them often sold at the weekend farmers' markets. Last I saw them was the Sunday Marylebone market (which is a small one so I assume they're more readily available at larger ones)
> He's made over $300 million in revenue so far and might be the first solo game dev (or even regular software dev) to hit $1 billion in the course of the game's existence.

So you use revenue as a measuremeant of success, which is very reasonable.

> (hint: they don't want always-online DRM-filled games that nickle and dime you with microtransactions (well, most people anyway, there are always gacha/gambling-type whale gamers))

Then you said this. You know in terms of revenue, microtransaction is the most successful model, right? Mobile gaming is now bigger than PC gaming + console gaming. And they're basically all microtransactions. $300 million sounds a lot but it's just 2~3 months of Genshin. If revenue is a sign of what players "want", then the only logical conclusion is a lot people "want" microtransactions, they just don't admit it like people want BigMac but say they want to eat healthy.

I think it's a strong no-true-scotsman fallacy right here. You believe players don't want microtransactions, because you don't think those casual players who play Candy Crush, Clash of Clans or Genshin are "true players".
Compared to a flat namespace, it's really helpful, even if some people don't know the rules. How many people have names like RealPerson or PersonOfficial on Twitter?

Although I agree, it's not perfect. Is there a better approach they should do instead?
How do I compare this to mattermost?
It's true IRC never stores anything server-side besides user and channel registration details, depending on the network's features and services.

But it is patently false to say nobody used IRC as a source of information. IRC was essential in sharing information quickly back in the 90s. Information on things like natural disasters and the fall of the Soviet Union were shared live using IRC.
I've noticed lately that Facebook has been implementing every feature that discord has, though some arbitrarily gated to iOS only or phone app only.

It occurred to me that the only functional difference between the two is that Facebook retains its original content relevancy algorithms and this can be seen as a superset of features, with also an almost monopolistic superset of users.

That leaves Discord's only reason for existence largely cultural and generational. Like the submitter, my mind immediately went back to how great IRC was and how over the years it became increasingly difficult to evangelize for what was essentially an increasingly niche culture more than a platform.

My personal time with discord functionally ended accidentally a little over a year ago with a quiet quitting over about 6 months as hundreds of individual discords with their own set of notification levels culminated in an uncontrollable torrent of annoying noises and popups.

It now gives me anxiety thinking about launching the app.
You mean there's no way to have a bot that logs conversations in discord?
So saving humans lives is the most important thing as long we don’t have to resort to using racial slurs to achieve that. Really? That’s the more socially acceptable answers?
They still use them at a lot of checkin gates.

You can tell boarding is about to start because the dot matrix starts printing the final passenger manifest.
Perhaps instead of using the word hallucination we could use average-context. When the LLM doesn't have enough information it computes some average of the information available in the wrapping context, so hallucination is some form of wrong result because of computing averages in a context. But the context could also be wrong.
It's in the same sense of "whitelist, don't blacklist", or "by the love of god it's 2023, do not escape SQL".

Don't define reasons why the input is invalid, instead have a target struct/object, and parse the input into that object.
If is semantically the only way to deconstruct a Boolean in any language, so as long as you have bools, you’re going to have `if`. Sure you can give if different syntax and write it with match/case/?:/whatever, but that’s not what we did to goto: introducing different language constructs to capture common useful use cases like try/catch, loops, and else-less ifs.
Reminiscent of Roman togas, the clothing for aristocrats and magistrates.
Much of today’s western culture is derived from Rome.
If you do comment here and I’ll see it, also a few people saying they often getting an error response.
Wait. Where do Europeans keep their airplanes if their homes don't have terminals?
Gmail has "dynamic content" now, some marketing mails are starting with it.
You are making it worse yourself by posting your updates on those walled gardens.
To my understanding, restaurant dishwashers also assume that foods residue has already been removed, and are primarily to sanitize the surface with high temperatures. Residential dishwashers, by contrast, start by prewashing anything that is immediately removable, main wash to slowly break down anything stuck on, and only then go to the high temperature sanitization step.

Commercial dishwashers also assume they’re installed in a location with lots of airflow and ventilation, so they can just dump steam into the room and trust the HVAC to remove it. A residential dishwasher may instead have a cool-down step during which the steam condenses, which avoids releasing steam into the kitchen.
> I'll continue to have my users design my product/tool every time and those who don't will get eaten alive in any market that has consumer choice. Also Santa Claus isn't real.

Somewhere, the ghost of the man responsible for the iPod and iPhone is laughing at you.
Yes, but the language model does not have the feedback mechanism we have. We can test ideas against reality. Language models can make up all kinds of crap until there is data somewhere mentioning that it's not going to work. You could come up with an idea and workshop it, e.g., seeing if it's physically feasible to make something, before sharing it with others, language models cannot.
This mostly already happened more than a decade ago. Google killed it. Search for 'Google personal blocklist':

https://searchengineland.com/googles-personal-blocklist-dele...
Not sure what you are asking, but yes, many people upgraded their fleets due to the no/low interest loans provided in the 70s/80s. I do not know the state of the fleet now. But catches are very low compared to back then.
N.B. My comment uses terms like "simulate," "entity," and "superposition" to keep language consistent and easy-to-compare with the OP -- which I was trying to summarize. If you find the use of these terms confusing, you can substitute them with others that are less confusing to you, and still grok the main points.

For example, if you substitute "simulate" with "model," "entity" with "process," and "superposition" with "mixture," you can informally restate the hypothesis as: "LLMs learn to model text-generating processes drawn from a latent space, such that the output of an LLM is produced by a mixture of such processes. When we give the LLM a prompt, it samples text from the mixture of all possible text-generating processes modelable by the LLM that are consistent with the prompt. The mixture is more likely to reduce (e.g., be marginalized) to an "evil" process because there is no text-generating behavior which is good that isn't also evil."

Whether you think of probability measures as amplitudes over a complex field or as real scalars shouldn't detract you from grokking the main points :-)
I just learned that there’s an open issue [0], apparently for introducing a similar feature.

[0]: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/43505
> You're just hiring people who care to do these types of tests or are good at them, they don't mean they will be good at the job.

We align the Take home assignment very close with what the position actually entails. If you struggle with this assignment you would not succeed with actual tasks we do daily.

> Obviously there needs to be some judgement of skill. But take home projects where you're judged essentially against how much time you put into them

As I said elsewhere as well: People are free to choose to do a Technical Interview instead. If you fear that you would need 2 whole days you could take the 1 hour interview instead.

> if you spend more time it's going to look good, because the best projects are from people that spend a lot of time on them...

That is not my experience. There are people that just can't make it look good.

> It's not expensive to hire and fire someone. Not that expensive.

It absolutely is. Maybe not where you are, but where we are it is expensive. For one there is a big amount of paperwork involved, contracts, NDA's and background checks. We can't do this unless we know we actually really want to hire you.

I also can't expect a new employee to be productive right away. There is going to be a onboarding period of at least 3 months during which the employee probably needs a little bit more mentoring of a (more) senior engineer. If we would just hire 20 people for every position that we need to fill we would not do anything else then just onboard new people. So, YES, it is significantly more then 20h of 100 candidates time. Not to mention that the take home we give out takes maybe at a maximum 4h (if the candidate is fairly junior and has to look up stuff constantly, many people just do it in 1h).

Also: I think it would be HIGHLY unfair for the people to just hire 20 candidates if you only plan to keep 1. They probably quit their jobs or said no to other opportunities. We only hire people we see a long term future at the company.

> I'd like to ask you, how many candidates a year do you have turning in take home projects?

It is fairly late in our hiring process and it takes a significant amount of time from at least 2 senior engineers each time to review. I don't have the exact numbers how many times per Year, but we try to keep it very low and only if there is an actual interest on our side.
> look at Aviation or Hospitality industries, how they struggled to rehire to keep-up with customer demand when lockdown ended.

These are low pay, low quality of life jobs, so not comparable to a job at a major software business where you will likely earn multiples of the median income.
> why do you guys use a dishwasher?

To free time so we can pursue the things that could let us become rich.

> rich people buy one just to flaunt their wealth but dont use it

Yes, because they have people do the dishes for them
Unless your xml input was very small you probably exceeded it's input window.

I suspect chatgpt does some summarization under the covers but otherwise it still only has a finite and fairly small lookback.
By using reactive programming techniques the program can be approached as a set of data streams mapping input to output, and conditional behavior becomes the application of different filters and combiners on the streams. This dovetails nicely with functional programming, which allows generic expression and reuse of those stream operations.
The app launch anxiety rings true for me. Discord is sensory overload for me.
Ha ha, and what do you think us humans are doing?

Only a small percentage of our output is unique/original, otherwise we live to produce very similar output to what we've had as input.

Common phrases, hell all languages are examples of this. Mimicry of behaviours; it's literally the learning process that evolution gave us that puts us (and other animals) above much simpler creatures.

GPT isn't perfect, but it's like a dog observing that you fetch the newspaper every morning and then it starts fetching it itself for you, then the neighbour is like "well, it's not _originaaal_".
Talk to them about it
Toko (YC W22) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer to Teach English Using AI
I imagine it's because it doesn't play nice with @ mention syntax, and it can't be used as a profile/blog address in the web browser.
The post is suggesting that parsing and validation are different things, since the output of a parser captures the properties being checked in the type, and validation does not. Downstream consumers of validated input cannot rely on the properties that were validated since the representation type doesn't encode them e.g. the non-emptiness of a list.
An excellent point.

If I was being a pedant (which I tacitly now am), I'd be tempted to add two things:

1 - mindfulness meditation. Building the ability of the mind to hold attention is arguably just as useful as training the muscles. Especially for longer term knowledge workers who "get a bit bored of this staring at the screen thing". Like me. This comment is evidence of my ability to procrastinate.

2 - eat wide and well. Up to the individual to decide what that translates into, but eating wide and well will give you all the range of macro and micro nutrients you'll need for optimum cognitive performance.
When you see the number of people that are still using Github after Microsoft bought them : I guess not ?
Word < emacs
So similar to GSoC, but limited to some countries which I guess have been under-represented to date?
Oh well I didn’t say I thought it was mutually exclusive. Germs aren’t the only part of working a shit job. Whether it’s in person, over a video call, or over email, if your supervisor is a dickhead then your team will be unhappy.

I was thinking primarily about people who work indoors, in rooms with poor circulation. I’d wager those people are sicker more often, unwell more often, and obese more often. That’s all I meant.
He later in that thread gives a very thorough explanation for his reasoning.
It depends on what "faster" means.

My dishwasher takes about an hour. If it took 50 or even 40 minutes, that wouldn't change things materially. But if it took 10-15 minutes, it would change the way I plan and execute work in the kitchen quite a bit.
Why exactly is it seemingly so expensive not to sell your customer data?
This isn't strictly true, an alternative is to have a language with enough encapsulation that you can parse into something that can only be observed as correct. The underlying parsing doesn't have to parse into sum types, provided your observation functions always preserve the parsed invariants.
Except there is such thing as drinking too much water.
This is true and I don’t work for G but will say I use Google Shopping quite a bit for products especially outdoor gear and apparel (an area where Amazon sucks, at least they way I shop) and it’s a criminally underrated tool
True in general but there are, as always, exceptions. Some more expensive recordable discs use really stable dyes and remain readable for a very long time. On the other hand, some commercially pressed discs also suffer from bit rot.
I have some mid-90s CD-based games that have become partially unreadable due to that. Some CD pressing facilities are known to have produced lots of discs at certain times that are now faulty.
One of the best articles about programming tbh.
Maybe we just can't focus in moment. For me I believe there lies sort of an anxiety. As I push through with someone on communication, it gets better. Also I get this outcome with individual conversations not with a crowded space.
Massive pet peeve of mine too.
I suspect you're right there. Yet it forged ahead confidently giving answers anyway!
Kagi search lets you block, lower, raise, and pin results by domain.
Ask HN: React vs. Angular vs. Vue, which and why?
Lot's of content around these frameworks over the web, but I'm interested in most recent opinions, as things constantly change.

How did you choose the right framework for your company or product?
What do you consider "Ads"?

Did you see new movies on different services and consider those as ads?

Or did you get ads for a new detergent and the local grocery chain?
Are you implying most first time homebuyers don’t take debt to finance the purchase?
Refreshed Interface for Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides
Here's to churn among the Big Tech oligopoly. Cheers!
We are discussing two completely different issues :)

If you ever worked in telecom, you know for the fact that the SIM companies have sabotaged and vetoed every attempt to get a sane eSIM or SIM-free standard.

And nothing against the French :) , it just happens that the two largest and most agreesive companies in this area have French connections (Thales and Gemalto)
I remember seeing this on TV when I was young. For the time the effects were great.

Fun fact, after I first watched it, my father said he saw this in the theaters when first released as a teenager. When I was told this, I did not realize it was in the depression. His family was hit hard by the depression, so for him he probably has to give up something else to see it.
Google is an ad company, with a side business in hardware and software. No surprise there.
I'm waiting for a site that does comparison matrixes. It should have checkboxes for autoscaled compute, easy build/push, scheduled/queued tasks, WAF and CDN, object storage (wish Render had this specifically), emails, easy addons to other SaaS.
The censorship model is mostly the same, right? If you don't self-host, your host can censor your communication and refuse to relay or peer certain messages.
Agree. I'd go to Blockbuster for block busters and the library or an independent video rental store for art house and foreign language films.
Riddled? There's one section with their crappy D-list movies you can stream. You can turn that off easily.
Blogspam. Direct link: https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/whats-new
As I understand you can use subdomains

> Daniel was previously @dan.bluesky.social. Now his handle is @dholms.xyz
That's not how online ads work? You bid for ad space, but you pay only if you get clicks, and are booted out fast if you don't get any. If you're always outbid, or nobody clicks on your ads, your spend is zero.
AudioFlux: A Big Features Extraction for Deep Learning Audio
The last time I looked at this, ChatGPT wasn't yet available over API. Has this changed?
+1

I often like to tag people so that it is unambiguous which "Alex" I am referring to and avoids me misspelling the names. But often I don't need to bother people. It would be nice if I could link to the user without notifying them.
Something I'm sure every tech person has mused about now and then: In the case of an apocalypse or cataclysm, how much of our current digital data would we be able to scavenge?
Nice, just add from Safari to HomeScreen and you get full screen view
Elon Musk is a horrible person. Period.
Shackleton's Endurance: The book that records all disasters at sea