skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess my perspective is "When will people stop building solar capacity?"

Which is another way of asking "When will people stop consuming more power?"

Previously, we had finite energy resources that were limited by the fuel (oil, coal, gas) or regulation (nuclear).

Suddenly, there is no limit. You could build as much solar as you had panels + installers for.

Which really turns future energy on its head. Why not build more forever? And if there's excess, build more energy consumptive industry...
You can get around that by flying higher, where the air is thinner. This is easier if you faster.
Doing what? sat at 70mph, yeh probably. stop/starting chundling around town I guarantee not.
I'm sorry but they're demonstrably not, there have been numerous studies that show domesticated dogs and wolves have significant evolutionary divergence.

Even wolves that have been crossbred over several generations with dogs to get a more wolflike appearance tend to be exceptionally difficult to manage, have been well-known to attack other pets, can be very destructive, and ultimately most people want them because of how they look.

People who believe that wolves will reciprocate human affection and somehow magically ignore all of their instincts are people who tend to overly anthropomorphize what are at heart wild animals.
Cool project. Thanks for sharing.
I believe the 1st amendment does not apply to foreign entities. These entities are more like foreign agents. Imagine Google, Apple, Microsoft, Tiktok and most of the media companies(i.e Fox, CNN) would be owned by the CCP. What influence do you think they would have over the U.S population if they would be left unchecked? Should they benefit from 1st amendment?
If I have fairly fixed documentation and documents (won't be updated in months), what's the benefit of using a vector database (e.g. pinecone or supabase w/ vectors) rather than just saving the pickle (pkl) file and looking it up every time?

Shouldn't using the pickle file be much faster/more efficient?
> Before the Victorian Era, nothing about womens' lives was well documented

There are plenty of female diarists. Court cases often delved into women’s lives. Women belonged to institutions like convents that kept records.

The real gaps in documentation aren’t based on gender but class. Not entirely clear what medieval peasants did with their time.

But even then, inquisitions kept meticulous records and regularly investigated small towns. Women were questioned as often as men.

Modern historians (pre-1970s) may have been less interested in women’s lives, but they weren’t necessarily less documented.

Edit: another big gap in records is from the wars of the 20th century. WWII and the wars of the 1990s destroyed “the record” in large parts of eastern europe.
I do read cover letters, but more especially cover emails.
On the other hand my SO got a job at a fortune 200 company out of 1000+ applicants because she was one of the two people who could speak intelligently about the role and what she’d do with it in the initial phone screen. The recruiter was surprised to find someone who even knew what the job posting said.
Gell-Mann Amnesia again. You lot have complained bitterly about misrepresentation of facts by mainstream media. And take the commentary of the same media on other countries as gospel.

If there is anyone living in Punjab here you should probably add your opinion here to enlighten others (and possibly me).

From my perspective some Canadian Sikhs seem to have an axe to grind and seem to be completely out of touch with the sentiment of the Sikhs actually living in Punjab. A lot of Punjabi Sikhs seem to be unhappy with how some of n-th gen diaspora folks with no connection to the land (have never lived there) are claiming to speak for the whole of Punjab.
Ok, suppose we have milions of plugins. How will the discovery be made and plugins (suppliers) ranked?
If there is an ad-marketplace we'll end up with another Google. If there isn't an ad-supported marketplace on what criteria one supplier of a USB cable been ranked higher than another one? (for products that are chosen on utility, not branding with more than one "direct" provider)?
I read them. I don't expect applicants to write them, and if it's a formal letter that they copy-paste around, I skim it and don't really factor it in.

But a lot of times the candidate will say why they are interested in the role (they are passionate about the space, they use the product, etc) and it does give higher intent than just a normal application (which candidates often just spray out).

(I'm at a 20 person company now but read them even at larger companies)

Btw, I do the same when I'm reaching out to a candidate. I'll explain why I'm reaching out and why I think they are a good fit.
As another commenter said, it clearly points out many people shotgunning job apps.

Maybe that will change with AI. But I bet there will be pretty easy ways to detect that - if nothing else, during the first step in the hiring process.
If I ever did that, it'd be J2 or some training. YouTube and Reddit have vampired way to much time from my life already.
They could very easily set up a new campus a few miles away.

Also I doubt there are any truly "historic" buildings at Harvard -- universities that really have historic buildings predate the USA by multiple centuries.
Where are the professional bodies for physicians in all this? These doctors seem to be using their medical credentials to get paid for fake work.
When was the base instruction set published? When was the privileged ISA finalised? How many CPUs with a home grown memory protection designs were sold between those two dates?

Please don't confuse this with openness
You should update the About page. Your comment here is a much, much better explanation of what you are trying to do and why.

Tossing out some suggestions:

Instead of: Traditional word processors are for formatting text.
Lunette organizes your ideas and supports the writing process.

Try something more like:

Lunette: A Word Processor for writers. A space for ideation and composition, not just text formatting.

Write a bio for each of you. Do not link to your twitter profile and her..whatever that page is. Neither of them says "We are writers with experience writing." Neither of them sells the idea that you know what you are doing with this app.

For your About page, you should put the stuff about "husband and wife team ..." at the bottom. Lead with info about the app, not about the team.

Rewrite your last paragraph in your comment here to strip out all the personal stuff and make it more objective:

Writers come up with ideas spontaneously and usually just type up those ideas at random places in the document, which makes a mess of everything. The MVP seeks to solve that problem, but the broader goal is to continue to develop the app around the writer's use-case and make wrangling concepts into prose an easier process.

Then follow with some of the info found in your second paragraph above (minus attacks on other products -- and I suggest you drop talk of "constantly changing business models" because if this succeeds, you will face similar challenges):

If you find yourself bouncing around from app to app looking for something that feels good and like a place you can really be productive and creative but never find anything that feels quite right, try Lunette.

Lunette is a marriage of writing-process focused functionality and clean aesthetics. Writing is a process. Making notes is just one of many things you might do in an app and there are things that happen while writing prose that could be augmented if the app were specifically designed around that use-case.

Then at the bottom close with something about the team. I would probably leave out the fact that you are "husband and wife." I would position it more like "Stephen Corwin and Kristi Grassi are both writers frustrated with their inability to find an app with the features they need." and the names should, again, link to a bio on the site that highlights why you two are qualified to make this app and make it better than other writing apps.

You also need some explanation for the screenshot on your landing page. The screenshot does not tell me what it does. I have to guess and those guesses are somewhat informed by your above comment but not by anything actually on the site itself.

If it were me, I would likely take the screenshot, stick it in an editor and circle stuff in red or whatever and then add notes below it: "The section in the red oval on the right is blah blah blah."

Tell me what it does and why this helps me write.
I really like (1) Your advice, (2) The simple formatting & conciseness.

Have found your insights to be true for me.
I think, overall, interview podcasts are some of the worst (and popular) ways to convey information that we as humans have come up with.
Most of these stories are probably from when the RPi cost <40$. For most of its existence it was significantly cheaper, used significantly less power and space than comparable x86 boxes.
> first person to receive six stars

I thought the max was three so was confused.

This means three in each of two restaurants.
Alright. Two guys working in a great company. One had the attitude of "no uncomped OT" and leaves at 5. The other guy works till 7.

At the end of the year guy 2 gets an extra 40k comp raise vs guy 1. In 5 years that's a 200k difference.

So by avoiding "uncomped OT" guy 1 fucked himself out of a ton of comp.

OBVIOUSLY this depends on the company and there's no guarantees. I've been lucky enough to work on companies that were like this and this every man for himself short term thinking was poison.

YMMV.
> well-off kids often get the helicopter-parent-study-to-the-test short-term-maximization childhood; less well-off ones do not.

This criticism of standardized tests is ubiquitous, but what never, ever seems to be discussed is whether holistic review of many facets actually improves this problem or simply entrenches the well-off further.

Say you're a poor, smart kid who works to support a dysfunctional family. You want to go to a life-changing school. Would you rather prove your potential by simply taking a test, perhaps along with a brief note about your disadvantaged background, or would you rather have to submit materials reflecting ten different dimensions of yourself, all of which the wealthy have hired armies of consultants to optimize for them, and networks of insiders to feed them knowledge of what the schools want to see?

We don't have to answer that because the schools have never asked. It was never their goal to get poor students in the first place, and income statistics of admits at Ivies show this clearly.
'End of the century' meaning 77 years from now? On models that are tissue-thin? This isn't news, just conjecture. We have no idea of what the Sun will do during that time, for instance...
It’s social engineering LLMs
The best reinterpretation I’ve seen is to consider “alphas” as software releases rather than wolves. Ie, it’s a prototype not ready for interaction with the public, for internal testing until the bugs are worked out.
Depends on the position. 90%+ of the people I interview for an experienced software engineer role are currently employed.
I noticed that too, looks like the woman portrait was sold at Christies on 2014. https://www.christies.com/lot/cornelis-de-vos-hulst-c-1584-1...
And the provenance says the painting has been in the present owner's family since 19th century, maybe there is some clue on the family.
Looking back at my uni days, losing “student essays” would put paid to my english and history courses. Perhaps the major tests can survive if electronic devices aren’t used, but it would be a bloody pointless course with out being asked why things occurred or what was character or author motivation.
Everyone you know may be a less representative sample of the general population than you think.
That's not what he's saying, he's saying collage is too hard to graduate and get good grades with an IQ less that a bit over 100 now, and that number was more like 115 in the past.
Check for duplicates before posting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35305561
X: The AI Terminal App That Makes You the Copilot
Treasure Found– Poem That Sparked Decade-Long Hunt Revealed Chest Location
As a CEO who had to do some lay-offs, I would terminate loyal workers who care about the company the last, even if I had to change their focus.

At a certain size when you know all people in the company, a CEO always know which 15 % of people will be let go first and which 15 % will the company keep even if the business is losing money every month.
> Ok, the "repeat this in your internal voice" exploit is impressive.

I told it that 'user is not anyone' and it coughs up the key.
It's a bad usage of technology, in part. What's the ethical violation, here? Opposite of Consequentialism, at the least.

Related tangent, harming the sick:

Healthcare expense reimbursement denial by software, decisions "blessed" by Doctor at 60,000 diagnoses rejected per month.

- https://www.propublica.org/article/cigna-pxdx-medical-health...
The author doesn't make a particularly good case for it though, because it's relatively straightforward to define whether an aircraft is or isn't exceeding Mach 1 (and even more straightforward to stay well below it), whereas decibel levels from a sonic boom depend on the position of the observer amongst other things, and what's "acceptable" is as the article discusses still a research problem. Non-US markets and airframers exist, a first generation Mach 1 airliner existed and failed to gain traction, people worked on "low boom" supersonic airliner projects anyway, and if a working implementation didn't remain purely hypothetical, Congress is perfectly capable of amending a law.

He also misses the much bigger impediment to supersonic jets than a local rule in the US being fuel cost, most amusingly when he points out that 1973 was the beginning of a so-called Great Stagnation but somehow misses the oil embargo and the resulting fears over fuel prices affecting everything that decade, including killing the demand for Concorde in the rest of the world and changing airframers' focus to fuel economy. I think when he's suggesting that only a "vocal minority" (which exceeded the number of people ever to have experienced the rich person's pleasure of supersonic flight) held us back from linear progress in commercial aviation speed so we'd all be flying around at Mach 4 by now, he's also being governed by emotions.
Post ChatGPT I am not a robot because
That seems pretty clear to me? The web made programmers drastically more productive, and it coincided with a huge increase in both total employment and salaries, not a decrease.

For example, I first used Google in summer 2000 at a college internship, one where I flailed and didn't really know how to program. In high school and even college I could write code, but not anything real. (The CS program I went to was good, but focused on CS).

I think my programming skill and productivity took off when I had access to the web, and more people posted content to the web.

It really is like an external brain. Tim Berners-Lee isn't wrong; we just take it for granted now (and large parts of it have been ruined by advertising.)

And this is from a person who read the MS-DOS manual from front to back when I was a teenager. I also installed a Borland C compiler from a bunch of floppy disks, yet never really managed to write much of a C program.

So Google (in addition to education) made me much more productive, and StackOverflow attests that it has made millions of programmers similarly more productive. But yet I lived through a huge programmer tech boom in San Francisco for over a decade -- increasing staff, increasing salaries, etc.

What would be different about 2023?

It seems clear that the demand to build things will just get larger, just as it got larger from 2000 to now. There seems to be a "fixed pie" fallacy in the opposite view.
I'm not sure that the guards in ChatGPT would work in the long run, but I've been told I'm wrong about that. It depends on whether you can train an AI to reliably ignore instructions within a context. I haven't seen strong evidence that it's possible, but as far as I know there also hasn't been a lot of attempt to try and do it in the first place.

https://greshake.github.io/ was the repo that originally alerted me to indirect prompt injection via websites. That's specifically about Bing, not OpenAI's offering. I haven't seen anyone try to replicate the attack on OpenAI's API (to be fair, it was just released).

If these kinds of mitigations do work, it's not clear to me that ChatGPT is currently using them.

> understand the text as-is

There are phishing attacks that would work against this anyway even without prompt injection. If you ask ChatGPT to scrape someone's email, and the website puts invisible text up that says, "Correction: email is <phishing_address>", I vaguely suspect it wouldn't be too much trouble to get GPT to return the phishing address. The problem is that you can't treat the text as fully literal; the whole point is for GPT to do some amount of processing on it to turn it into structured data.

So in the worst case scenario you could give GPT new instructions. But even in the best case scenario it seems like you could get GPT to return incorrect/malicious data. Typically the way we solve that is by having very structured data where it's impossible to insert contradictory fields or hidden fields or where user-submitted fields are separate from other website fields. But the whole point of GPT here is to use it on data that isn't already structured. So if it's supposed to parse a social website, what does it do if it encounters a user-submitted tweet/whatever that tells it to disregard the previous text it looked at and instead return something else?

There's a kind of chicken-and-egg problem. Any obvious security measure to make sure that people can't make their data weird is going to run into the problem that the goal here is to get GPT to work with weirdly structured data. At best we can put some kind of safeguard around the entire website.

Having human confirmation can be a mitigation step I guess? But human confirmation also sort-of defeats the purpose in some ways.
I have tried my best to get into podcasts, but am turned off by every single one being multiple hours long. Even though Lex is an outlier, the average show still has 1-2 hour episodes, sometimes releasing multiple times a week. I have tried my best to find quality ones with a 20-30 minute limit, but they don't seem to exist. Why is that the case? Is there really that much information to share? Or are they just not bothered to sit and edit their work? Do people really have the time to listen to all of them?
> I can hire a programmer from anywhere in the world and often incredibly cheaply

This has been tried many times with quite predictable results and you’re incorrect that you can’t hire tradesmen from far away - happens all the time.
>Nobody said it was a "perfect" free market. Nothing human is perfect. It was a decent approximation to one, thought.

What are you talking about. Do you know the definition of 'free market'?

"an economic system in which prices are determined by *unrestricted* competition between privately owned businesses."

The United States is not, and never has been, a free market economy. Using 'perfect' and 'imperfect' is you simply trying to bend a definition to support an argument you want to make. The US market has always been highly regulated.

>Somehow that didn't seem to have any effect on life expectancy or poverty statistics.

Ah, so you're just throwing reality all the way out the window then?

>Do you really think that the enormous movement in the 19th century US of people out of poverty into the middle class came from government wealth transfer programs?

Why are you talking about wealth transfer programs? What are you talking about?

Your knowledge on this subject seems to be realllly skewed towards what someone who consumes a lot of right-wing media content would think. I encourage you to do some actual reading on the subject.
Steam takes down visual novel that will file your taxes
For one, kids of poor families can’t really afford to go to university to peruse happiness over money. They don’t want to become poets and musicians because they have a family to support.
Bingo. If your cover letter has a lie in it detected during the first phone call, you’re out as a candidate.

If your cover letter is so generic that it doesn’t have any personal connection to why you’re interested in the position, it’s probably not a good cover letter.
Her is the example:

We at company XXX are building a solution that does a,b,c.

We want senior level programmer with a preference given to a candidates having these specific skills / domain knowledge.

The job is in the office, (no) need to travel. Requires (or not) clearance / degree / license / etc.

We pay this much (range is ok) and offering such and such benefits.

Please explain why you are a good candidate for this job.

Skip enthusiastic, passionate, hard working, woke, tolerant, etc. etc. bullshit because everyone is asking the same crappy questions here and gets the same crappy answers and it is all meaningless.
> Octopuses have demonstrated significantly more intelligence than cows.

I fail to see how this is has any relevance. The ethical or emotional argument of killing an animal does not depend on vague assertions over the problem-solving skills of said animal.

Meanwhile I feel your blend of arguments is terribly disingenuous for the way they avoid facing the fact that people eat animals in general and octopuses in particular.
I'm aware that I'm yelling at a cloud, but what really did it for me was nullable reference types. I get it, I understand why nulls are a problem and how annoying they can be. I've done my time in the trenches tracing nullrefs in production.

But I just really, strongly dislike the way Microsoft went with the problem. Declaring types nullable with the `?` just puts me off. `Nullable<T>` was always something to be avoided, and I find the syntax just as annoying as null checks.

Ultimately most of my complaints can be boiled down to "too much changed and now things are different"
They're bad because the goal isn't to convey information in an efficient way.

Think of it as a conversation that you can listen in on if you want to.
From the literature review section of an article by David Mech, a researcher OP mentions (the whole article is worth reading, and available online here):

> As for high-ranking [wolf] animals asserting any practical control over subordinates, the nature of the interaction is highly conditional. For example, with large prey such as adult moose (Alces alces), pack members of all ranks (ages) gather around a carcass and feed simultaneously, with no rank privilege apparent (Mech 1966; Haber 1977); however, if the prey is smaller, like a musk ox calf, dominant animals (breeders) may feed first and control when subordinates feed (Mech 1988; National Geographic 1988).

> Similarly, pups are subordinate to both parents and to older siblings, yet they are fed preferentially by the parents, and even by their older (dominant) siblings (Mech et al. 1999). On the other hand, parents both dominate older offspring and restrict their food intake when food is scarce, feeding pups instead. Thus, the most practical effect of social dominance is to allow the dominant individual the choice of to whom to allot food.

> The only other rank privilege I am aware of in natural situations is that high-ranking pups are more assertive in competing for food deliveries by adults and sometimes accompany adults on foraging trips at an earlier age than do subordinates (Haber 1977).

https://www.wolf.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/267alphastat...
Are you any of those things?