skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I usually champion the "let's start with the UI" state of mind in every company I go.

This has several benefits:

- it forces to confront reality of the problem and field

- you have to talk to people, and understand their needs

- you almost get your backend public API out of it for free

After that, you don't really need to do full top down, you can split in subsystems, and works on small parts of those subsystems.

It doesn't have to be a good looking or sophisticated UI. It can be a ugly, as long as it's practical and validated by the end user.

But this works only well the if the problem can be well defined and you know how to solve it.

If you need to figure it out, top down doesn't work as well.
Maybe this is a case of an engineer who just wanted to put 'implementing a queue using postqres' on their resume.

> took half a day to implement + test

so seems like there are maybe 2 or 3 services using rabbitmq
> But you better build great cars. If you don’t, you might be inclined to say “we couldn’t find product market fit”

I think this is close but not quite right. There are many "great" products that nobody wanted to buy. Sure building a great product gives you a chance to succeed, but building a product people want to buy is the real goal.

"Great" is also just too vague to be useful. Is a great car one that's cheaper than the rest? Better mileage? More dependable? More beautiful? More luxurious? Safer for kids to ride in? More fun to drive?

I've always liked the Donald Miller Storybrand framework for figuring out these kinds of puzzles:

https://www.amazon.com/Building-StoryBrand-Clarify-Message-C...
Perfect way to grow Substack. Didn't see this coming.
fwiw I'm a backend engineer - primarily building out services in Java/Scala/Go. I would say the market probably isn't as good as someone with a Masters/PhD looking for ML engineering roles, but that would be anecdotal after chatting with friends.
I’ll give that a shot;
- AI learns what’s on the site
- Visitors stop coming to the site, because the information is now freely available in parsed/summarized form from the AI
- Blogger stops posting because there are no visitors
- AI stops learning because there is no new content
Depends on whether you have to sell it.
It may be more interesting as a dual host format, where one person is knowledgeable and the other is asking questions. Otherwise it can get monotonous to simply hear someone read a summary.
Ah yes, because clearly the way to fix a housing crisis from outsized demand and insufficient supply is to give even more people access to cheap debt. This is so unbelievably stupid, I can't help but wonder if this is actually on purpose to make the problem worse.

This type of thing makes me think of a corollary to Hanlon's Razor: given enough time to try to solve a problem, sufficiently stupid people are indistinguishable from evil.
as a soon-to-be-unemployable-human-knowledge-worker

I'd rather give away anything I spotted directly and freely to the blackhats

lack of perceived competence will lead to faster regulation
It's not really free money; you give up 20% of the upside when you sell or refi. That said... yeah.
Apple needed a new OS, for sure, just like Microsoft needed a new OS after their DOS-based Windows 9x branch.

But there were other options than NeXT. They nearly bought Be (and BeOS) instead of NeXT and that might have worked. Also they could have built a new OS on top of BSD without NeXT, that might have worked as well.

Of course by buying NeXT they also got Steve Jobs back and that's a big part of what made them successful in the 2000's.

And by the way, Apple's rebirth in the 2000's was largely due to the iPod and iTunes more than MacOSX. It didn't really made a dent into XP's market share.
Why don't they use ChatGPT to find all the bugs?
Them bills. They keep coming.
https://i.redd.it/4xb09cuixxqa1.jpg just subsidize demand!
Who cares what these hucksters think?
This madness in the US is feeding property speculation. The responsible thing to do is to use this money to build more housing, so prices will fall or at least remain at the same level.
But didn't he forgo many of the standard contingency clauses that he would have been able to use to wiggle out of the deal?

I'd say the attitude you're describing seems more like the second chapter of the story, where the first was that he earnestly wanted to aggressively acquire it.
I don’t tell everyone but I still ask the question. Often, it’s a good signal if we’re going to get along.

Also, as someone who is in the dating market - it’s one of the first questions I ask because outside of physical attraction, how much money they make is the easiest dealbreaker to filter on. If they’re not even remotely close in my socioeconomic bracket - there’s no point in pursuing anything romantic and I’ll make sure to push the interaction into a more friendly area when that comes up.

I’m a man btw. Money matters when you’re buying $3m homes.
Someone said a few posts ago housing can't be affordable and a good investment.

This is just madness, house prices are guaranteed to go up and affordability is likely to increase zero.
The sign in flow is completely broken for me. I am signing up with an email, after I click the verification link it takes me to a page where I need to enter my email yet again. Here it says I already might have an account and sends another verification email which does the same thing again.
Also found other issues the site after going to the home page. Multiple modals overlapping with the sign in flow.
Hi, welcome to hacker news.

Why wouldn’t a buyer be justified in relying upon a sellers description of the goods for sale?
I'm well acquainted with the Theranos story and still had no idea what the VW comment meant until I read the replies. It's a pretty tenuous joke, and given the other responses I'm clearly not the only one who thought so.

Being aghast at people for misunderstanding is silly.
That's a frankly stale misconception based on old prejudice and Hollywood tropes. It's unmoored from reality.

Mental illness is not a monolith and it does not present the same way for different people.

It also doesn't mean you lose any ability to reason or understand what's being done to you.

I would highly recommend you refrain from commenting on this topic until you can correct your broader misunderstandings. Sharing misinformation and FUD helps nobody.
I don't think anyone ascribes talent and expertise in building products to Steve Jobs purely because he made a shit ton of money... its because he made really good products.

I wonder what random flaw we could pull out on you? Do you put sugar in your coffee?
Building High-Performance RISC-V Cores for Everything
Why would you use manners when writing input for a chatbot?
How is the app-nag-overlay an acceptable tradeoff?
Use the original title: "Make your ideas look awesome, without relying on a designer."
Is the coding question that is representative of the work you do at your company, and that you expect candidates to have done? Or is it a toy, "write a function that does X" question? "ChatGPT solves easily" suggests to me that it's a toy question.

If it is a "toy" question, then I'm of two minds about it:

On one hand, I am used to solving higher level problems, so it might take me a few minutes just to realize you are asking a much simpler question. It also can feel just a tad insulting to be drilled on CompSci 101 questions.

Oh the other hand, I think candidates should be able to solve such questions, as long as the scope is clear. You need to filter somehow and I've met people who could not do that.
Can gifski handle the initial recording (e.g. selecting an area of your monitor and recording)? Or is it just for converting other recordings into gif?
One thing I wish is that the parts of the 3d image were also side-by-side instead of (or in addition to) moving.

I trained myself to look at these kinds of things cross-eyed so I can see the 3d effect without glasses.
Nah, the program had a fixed budget and it's already used up. So, some amount higher, maybe, but not 20%.
As far as I know, OPV isn't used in childhood immunization programs in developed countries any more, but it used to be and I think every successful polio eradication program in countries where it's no longer endemic relied on it. There's also some evidence that the inactivated vaccine isn't so good at preventing polio from multiplying in people's guts and spreading to others. Is this a problem in practice? There's probably not any way to know for sure. Also, since polio spreads via the oral-fecal route it's obviously going to spread more effectively in developing countries with poor sewage treatment, so what works in the developed world may not work so well elsewhere anyway.
An LLM being able to pass your graduate-level exam almost certainly means that your exam is bad.

Lots of lazy professors do things like this (true/false and multiple choice answers, very soft questions, etc.), and the presence of GPTs should help them understand that this is not sufficient for evaluating someone's knowledge of a highly technical topic.
Interesting according to zillow: "The average California home value is $718,687, up 0.7% over the past year and goes to pending in around 31 days."
15 and 16 year olds, in many states, are required to drive with a fully-licensed individual until they are 18 or even older! I'm not as worried about a teenage driver, though, because they are humans and we have a lot of experience as humans on how to teach other humans to drive. Not so much with a black-box neural net AI!
>It's not like we were inventing an entirely new system. The designer just wanted to make the work more than it was.

Which is a good reason why fixed-price contracts make more sense in this context than a time and materials contract.

How does the old saw[0] go again?

It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When
His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It

[0] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/30/salary/

Edit: Fixed formatting.
I took the graduate version of this course, and thankfully did better on this exam than GPT-4. It was a fairly rigorous course, and getting an A required about 20 hours per week of work.
Watching the increasing polarisation of the public's opinion of Elon as he's inserted himself into the culture wars has been such a bizarre experience.

I guess by now he probably appreciates people going off the deep end for/against him.
So if home appreciates from 500k to 600k and I sell the house, the gov't gets to keep $20k (+ the $100k they loaned)

What happens if it goes down from 500 to 400k?
This could be tested with usability studies and a good user researcher. Make a prototype of the 'fast' way, and the 'lower cognitive load' way. Try it with 15 people per prototype, track metrics, and ask people about the experience afterwards. Make sure everyone on the team has an open mind and see what sticks.
Unfortunately, if we take what prestigious climatologists have said as "the science" then you're wrong. They have in fact said exactly that. Here's just two examples, of many.

James Hansen is perhaps the most famous climatologist, he worked at NASA and testified to Congress about global warming at the end of the 1980s. Back then he was telling people that by ~2010 highways in New York would be underwater, there'd be tape on the windows due to high winds and that crime would have increased due to the heat.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110202162233/https://www.salon...

Not that it might happen, or there was a worst case possibility that it would happen. That it would definitely happen.

None of that occurred (and in fact crime in New York went down a lot) but he didn't learn anything. Here he is in 2008. "Hansen, echoing work by other scientists, said that in five to 10 years the Arctic will be free of ice in the summer".

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1988&dat=20080624&id=...

It's now 35 years after his first prediction and 15 years after his second. New York isn't under water and the Arctic isn't ice free in the summer.

When people claim that scientists never get it wrong, that when people remember bad predictions it actually never happened and if it did it was all the journalist's fault, then they are making the problem worse because it teaches scientists that they can be wrong without consequence, that people will side with them over the journalists who in most cases were directly quoting what they had said.
Twitter's barrier wasn't that it was technically hard - it was that it was free and had critical mass. There still isn't much of a reason to move away from it, except for those who want to signal their disdain for Musk's political views
That doesn't change that the campaign could have been successful if more people were vaccinated, even with that defective vaccine.

If 5 people get iatrogenically infected but the infection has nowhere to spread, what do you think happens? Casualties: 5. Polio: gone.

(downvoters: I'm a biochemist)
Some of my Jerstreams do tend to gunk up.

I wouldn’t say I write a ton.
You cannot, in fact, use any of the logic in Ned Block's heritability piece to "basically destroy all social sciences". If you disagree, I'd challenge you to formulate any kind of argument based on what Block actually wrote, which is a straightforward explication of the concept of heritability, and not a philosophical treatise on epistemology.

My counterclaim is that "this proves too much, as it implies all of social science is faulty" is a shallow dismissal based on a presumption about what the article says, rather than a close reading of it. If the previous commenter would like to rebut that argument, they too could come up with any argument based on what Block actually wrote to support their original claim.

I knew nothing at all about that commenter at the start of this discussion, but what I've learned since makes me skeptical of their ability to draw sweeping conclusions from any work on this subject. It's not clear that they understand how cog. psych works, or what the implications of IQ actually are, and it is manifestly the case that they don't understand what heritability means.
Why would mastodon growth be pedo related?

Why would anyone in any illegal content space want to have their content federated outside of it?
Recursive documentation generator based on GPT
Hey everyone!
I've been working on a new project that I'd like to share with you all! I've created a generator that uses ChatGPT to create descriptions for entire projects or even just individual directories with files.

The generator works recursively, meaning that descriptions for directories are based on already generated descriptions for their child files and folders. This means we can create descriptions for projects with a lot of text, despite GPT's limited context size.

How it works: https://i.ibb.co/tsDV34t/68747470733a2f2f646f776e6c6f6164657...

Using these descriptions, which are not only understandable by humans but also by ChatGPT itself, we can build new helpful tools such as:

Smart file search: An intelligent search system that understands the context of your project and can help you quickly find the files or pieces of code you're looking for.

Project improvement ideas: By analyzing the generated descriptions, ChatGPT can suggest improvements or optimizations for your entire project, helping you take it to the next level.

Feature implementation guidance: The AI can determine which specific files need to be edited or modified to implement a new feature, streamlining the development process and making it more efficient.

The application features a command-line runnable engine as well as an Electron app. To make requests, you'll need an API Key.

The app - https://i.ibb.co/MZ2hgcw/localhost-8083.png

Repo - https://github.com/Kypaku/gpt-files-documentation

Feel free to report any bugs you encounter right here or on GitHub. Your feedback is much appreciated!
Ok, we've changed the title to reflect that. Thanks!

(and thanks also to the user who emailed this suggestion to hn@ycombinator.com)
my current rule is to ask ChatGPT to do it for me
There's no confusion... I'm asking is your definition of lowball something like "offering Junior-like pay when I wanted Senior/Staff-like pay"

> And yeah, not getting the 20% pay bump between job hops that I'm looking for.

That kind of answers my question lol. This isn't the environment where I'd consider not getting a pay bump a low ball.

And ironically that mentality is what I infer when I hear stories like OP's: These companies assume that people from certain backgrounds have expectations forged in a much more favorable market, and they'd rather not waste their time interviewing someone looking for a 20% pay bump in a down market...
Thanks. In the future, try to be charitable and assume people are telling their true feelings on HN, and not being trolls or dickheads. Most people here are pretty good about that, I find.
I wish there were more sites like Nicole express. Great job with the break down.
No, all engineers working on EVs forgot to design suspension components strong enough for the mass of the car. At Tesla and Ford and GM they are all idiots.
Same, I really prefer the design on the left. Easier to see things, and it makes you feel you can click on elements.
"Secrets of Sand Hill Road" by Scott Kupor (Managing Partner @ A16Z).

Was recommended to read this by VC friends to prep for Investment Associate interviews a couple years ago
It means that when companies would ask me what my salary expectations were, I'd tell them I was looking for something "market rate". Exactly those words. I'd often follow up by asking "Do you have a range in mind for this position?" and go from there.

At that point I've answered their salary question and probably not scared them off and if they really want to put a number on it, it's up to them. At this stage, if they don't have a range or just won't say, it tells you a bit about them.
It is surprising how hard it is to find co-founders with business experience who will actually be enthusiastic about the product they are supposed to promote.

I am a technical founder who has tried (and failed) a few times to get a business partner on board to promote and sell the product. I had two guys join on with big talk about how they were perfect for turning it into a home-run project. Neither one lasted even a year. No matter how many demos I showed them and walked them through the product (software that does data management); I just couldn't get them to try it out on their own and be excited about the technology.

https://didgets.substack.com/p/looking-for-another-steve-job...
He bought Twitter because he had to buy it.
As I understand it, this doesn't factor in whether the response contains a payload that'll force the client to churn through power.

Given the current rate at which we're outsourcing calculation to e.g web browsers etc., it sounds like keeping this header value low will only perversely accelerate this trend, where work will be duplicated client-side and draw even more power.
This already works with ChatGPT plugins: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins
Student drivers are typically subject to significant limitations - no other kids in car, no driving past certain hours, parental supervision for a certain period of time, etc. They're not learning for a billionaire's profit, and they're fairly unlikely to get a software update that causes a whole bunch of them to make the same mistake in a short period of time.
The Absent Superpower et all by Peter Zeihan. Not sure how much I agree with, but he seems to have a good handle on the topic.
It was pretty much a laugh and walk away thing. Way way too silly to get mad. They didn’t really sell anything truly exotic or expensive.
True, all three (including the Apple ID region) are not very reliable.
Great Observatory for Long Wavelengths (GO-LoW) funded by NASA NIAC program
May 2022
"With California budget surplus projected at $97 billion, Newsom proposes driver rebates, more reproductive health funding"
https://www.capradio.org/articles/2022/05/13/newsom-californ...

Jan 2023
"After 2 years of massive surplus, California is facing a $24B budget deficit" - https://www.capradio.org/articles/2022/11/16/after-2-years-o...
> One of our team members has gotten into the habit of pointing out that “you can do this in Postgres”

Actually, using Postgres stored procedures they can do anything in Postgres. I am quite sure they can rewrite their entire product using only stored procedures. Doesn't mean they really want to do that, of course.
University prestige is primarily based on research productivity, which doesn't necessarily correlate positively with quality of teaching.
Valuing a nice walk over human freedom, autonomy and dignity sure is an interesting choice for a person who claims to be moral.
> There is business risk introduced for making an offer. Increasing that risk means that the vetting process can be increased to make up for that extra risk incurred.

Why does it increase the risk? Are they regularly screwing over hires like this? If so, it's good to force the behavior change. If they only screw over hires like this in economic downturns, then "more rounds" wouldn't affect that so they wouldn't add more rounds.
This is nothing new if you look outside the US.

Help To Buy Equity Loan did this with new houses (the buyer technically had to provide 5%, but that was often given by the developer) 10 years ago, it's only just finished. The government part was 40% in London due to the insane prices there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help_to_Buy

The idea behind it is quite reasonable. People couldn't afford to save up for a deposit because all their money went in rent, which was higher than the cost of an equivalent mortgage + home maintenance.

Certainly helped me break out of the earn->rent cycle.
> for how long?

As long as you have an itch to scratch. Steve Jobs didn’t care about progress or about creating for its own sake. He had ideas about what he wanted to see existing in the world, and worked to make those ideas come true.

You mention implementing nice features. The right thing to do is to implement the features you want to use (and to validate their design by actually using them yourself). Even if no one else likes the features, you like them and thus will have some fulfillment by implementing them. Furthermore, if you find the features useful, there is a good chance that there will be other people like you that also find them useful. So usually that is a good strategy, provided that you are an actual, and sufficiently representative, user of the product.
A 1hz sawtooth would not be band limited below 2hz
I actually suspect that people who idolize Elon Musk are subscribers to the Just World Fallacy, believing that he represents the kind of person that they -- though in a temporarily diminished and embarrassing state -- can become. They can't wait for the time when they too have the consequence-free power to sneer at disabled people, spread lies about victims of violent attacks, and call people who mildly disagree with them "pedo guy".

(By the way, I don't actually agree with any of what I wrote above. It's just another example of a bad-faith argument like the one I'm responding to.)
Yep, and I have no beef with the original comment. However, someone explicitly requested an explanation, and so I gave one.
Maybe people don't want to support a vendor locked environment that requires overpriced hardware that loses support quickly.
Well played.

In all seriousness though, given the money and effort Rotary has put into this cause, this article has certainly given food for thought.
For geospatial you actually have postgis extension which is a battle tested solution
If you familiarize yourself with their group dynamics, it's pretty clear that John broke the band up. You can just keep repeating group dynamics all you want but it's a cop-out that doesn't address what actually happened. There are bands that stay together despite or because of "group dynamics"