skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is fantastic. The specs and the MDN documentation are pretty detailed, but I’ve found I need a fair bit of trial and error to understand some WAT language features.

The loop with a block directly inside is a good regular pattern! I’ll be using that all the time now.

I’ve been writing an Elixir DSL for WAT. Elixir has a powerful macro system, so I can closer to that pseudo C-syntax in this post, plus some other niceties. I plan to open source it as a library soon.

Here are examples I’ve written in it, like an HTML escaper, stateful HTML component, bump allocator, and a few state machines.

https://github.com/ComponentsGuide/components_guide/tree/mas...
Ok, I'll bite - how else do people do this? (Speaking as someone who has ONLY ever done it this way.)
Dolores
Ordently – A simpler way to get things done
Looking out for some early users to give an app I built a year ago for personal use. The only users so far are my partner and I. We use it daily and our lives are significantly better for it.

Some use-cases we've used it for:

- Losing weight & generally a healthier lifestyle

- Planning & keeping an eye on our finances.

- Vacation planning

- House hunting

- Job hunting

- Shopping list

- Journaling

I'm looking to see if this helps others too and eventually turn this into a company if it works out.
As per "Billions": https://youtu.be/y33h441CVp4?t=50
I think there has always been a great deal of Stone Soup in the software world. We are often promising solutions that will work as long as all the ingredients are supplied in the form of processes delivered by the customer.

Strangely though the very promise of the magic stone does allow solutions (soup) to emerge.
Experts warn a quake of up to 6.7-magnitude could hit by 2030
:) fair enough! Lol
Thanks for the feedback! Yea I wanted to give people a way to select columns from a table (or see columns in a table) if they didn't know them or couldn't remember them but I think as a few people have said I probably need to think about an easy table viewing window as a future update
C-Level comp should take a hit if they have to do layoffs for any reason. These people should definitly reap it when business is good, but not when it's doing poorly regardless of why. C-Level incentives have tunnel vision to few metrics. Screw 10x developers, these people need to be a 100x and be accountable considering the comp packages they get.
As someone who was contracting we always had notice periods in contracts. Let’s not forget it works both ways and contractors are more often than not the first to go.
WP7 limitations were almost entirely by policy: no native code, no background execution, lack of any shared filesystem for apps. (also WinCE SMP did exist)
Communication is a highly valued skill that everyone thinks everyone else is bad at. But some people are clearly better than others. Describing a problem or abstracting a process into a prompt will become a highly valued skill that some people will be better at than others. I also think that it's not as simple as just writing a prompt and calling it engineering. If these jobs become commonplace in a professional capacity, I would assume that developing or being good at the tooling that will be built around LLMs will be part of it. The people that are really good at it will hook in their own systems such as LangChain, Microsoft Semantic Kernel, etc.
Most of the time it’s via a server redirect or a rule on the load balancer.
I use this trick to autorefresh the resource that I'm working on.
Unfortunately this isnt correct. We know it has the opposite charge. This is due to conservation laws which include, among other things, the conservation of charge.

In a given interaction, charge is always conserved. So we see interactions where an electron and a positron collide they produce a chargeless photon. So it must have the opposite charge to an electron
At exactly 1:00 there is close-up of a tag and it says "Apple M1 $384.00".

This is either very ironic or Simpsons-level future prediction.
This is just ToS violation which will just result in loss of access to OpenAI. There is nothing they can do to stop you from commercially competing, given there is no copyright law precedence
Our moral values don’t align , Bezos and I, that was okay. I don’t expect everyone to agree with me on everything. I kept using Amazon.

Then he built a giant phallic rocket and started to blast off and wave his dong over the entire planet. That for me was the final straw.

Maybe it’s a weird way to make a decision but it was just too much. I get that the billionaires are the movers and shakers and king and queen makers, I hold no resentment. Many of them deserve their prominent place but keep your dong out of my face. Is that too much to ask? \0/
Thanks for the feedback! This was a definite learning project for me (main motivation was to learn something about JS web dev) so I've clearly missed that - will have a look at fixing it or as you say at least giving a more informative error.

Thanks for sharing the feedback and giving it a second look!
Sounds more like a temporary employee than a contractor then. Maybe splitting hairs.
Broadcom Jericho3-AI Ethernet Switch Launched
The most common is using an HTTP header. Less common: `document.location` in JavaScript

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Redirectio...
HTTP 3xx status code with a Location header.
Thank you! Appreciate that :-)

Really good point, I should have caught that! Adding it to the list to update
Discussed yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35658796 (307 comments)
You're buying the BS Elon peddled to sell this change.

The check was intended to verify the identity of a specific type of person, which many people know, and therefore is at high risk of impersonation. That's it. Making the check $8 voids this purpose, and to add on top of this, the most vile group of people bought into this subscription, who are Elon's sycophants and go after him like dogs doing whatever he wants and repeating what he says.

Of course no one looking after their image would want this blue check anymore.
Sometimes you chicken out, and someone else does it ...

To wit: around the same time, Google tossed out some service that would listen to your computer's mic for room sounds (such as a TV broadcast), and provide helpful info.

I guess people were creeped out, thing was shut down, and now we have Amazon's version ...
I'm happy to have learned about the chiasmus thing, I hadn't seen that before. In general, better writing, including the use of rhetorical devices, is what gets attention. It's better than some clickbait. Personally I though the use of symbols was a distraction (spurred some useless comments) but maybe that did attract people.

My take is that the argument boils down to saying that overfitting is a thing in LLMs too, but it comes in at the prompting phase. That's almost obviously correct, but I hadn't seen it voiced explicitly before.

The addition of "scam" in the title was a bit of hyperbole, which is probably responsible for a lot of the views and responses.

Anyway, it seems to have triggered a lot of very reactive and defensive takes, which isn't surprising but also isn't really necessary.
It is official.
To be fair, on the pure logic side (forgetting about what the link is really about, i.e. selling scams), it is true that any ∀ ∃ can be turned into a ∃ ∀. It's called skolemization.
Most of the links for potential employers are not working (a couple do but e.g. ask for login just to filter). Is there anything better or more current?
I know one person who did as well but these are tiny percentages of people that can’t possibly be affecting these macro trends.

That tax deduction requires having a business. The general population only knows the bare minimum to file their personal taxes, not how to create a LLC to take advantage of tax breaks.
if we are the Oilers, who are the Flames?
Nice, although you did that so you can avoid having an API when running some web application you make for yourself or am I misunderstanding you sorry?

Because the other distribution paradigms are...
- sharing your key with the user on client side is risky, so you have API side requests.
- one day LLMs might be local and can then run off-browser
A longer excerpt available online here: https://www.denverpost.com/2006/05/26/the-nasty-bits-by-anth...
Thanks for the kind words! All good points about the clunkiness, most of the UX improvements I added came from my frustrations just while developing the game and testing correct answers but I agree it's far from fluid.

TBH eventually this just became an exercise in me resisting further scope creep, haha
The argument is more nuanced. Importantly, the article is not making a judgement on the value of GPT, generally (at least not explicitly). It is arguing against one specific narrative.

That narrative goes like this:

Step 1: give me a specific task T from a class of tasks C.

Step 2: I’ll show you that I can formulate a prompt to solve task T.

Step 3: therefore, if you engineer prompts well enough, you can find a single prompt that will solve any task in class C.

The argument is that Step 3 is a non sequitur and that’s the scam.

The question isn’t “is GPT useful” so much as “can products be built on top of GPT?”
So when it’s Google doing this it’s evil, but when it’s Apple, it’s ok if it a feature uses it, or if some nation wanted it, or if somebody else did it too?

I do think that a lot of these are hard problems to truly tackle, I was just commenting on this cognitive dissonance where people say things like “iCloud user data is private”, while in fact iCloud user data is this huge trove of very personal information that’s not private, and we don’t act like those ideas are in conflict.

Besides, Apple’s not doing the most they can within the confines of user wishes and local law. Neither one requires using dark patterns to ensure that 95% of users have privacy turned off. They’re also tracking every interaction for ad purposes on the App Store. I’m not trying to call them an evil boogeyman, but I think they’re trying to have their cake and eat it too: have users buy more because they think it’s private, while not disadvantaging themselves or pissing off local regimes by actually preventing data access in the majority of cases.
The worst part about mowing is that you can’t even listen to a podcast because the engine is too loud. Otherwise I wouldn’t mind the chore.
You sort of ruined your other comment by posting a new submission about the term you used

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35671755
Prompting feels like it might be in part measured how social engineering skills are.
Moon or Mars would only get the second stage of the starship, with 9 engines (was it?), not the super-heavy with dozens. So, it's okay to only have the flame trench on Earth.
> I wrote an article about it and received threats to take it down. From time to time, i get a hoard of emails calling me toxic and threatening to sue.

From who, Duolingo? Why do they care that much about one person's opinion?
that phrase reminds me of this

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01z4rrj/horizon-19771...
> There exists a program every problem you have, you just have to find the code.

That proposition is that of general programming languages.

The compiler's proposition is that it will take your programs and faithfully per the language specification produce object code suited for its intended deployment platform.

So

> Are [general purpose programming languages] a scam as well?

Well, kinda. Most languages come with a hype brigade and before you know it, darling of the day is "the only rational choice" for writing. Also, many b.s. about solving problem x whereas they only hand the problem over to something else, sometimes the programmer. So (mildly) yeah.
Freedom is for how you spend your money, not others'.
How about.
"Also, the LED elements will often be in series (a string)"
So great software is like great medicine? Half solved in product half solved in placebo
It's remarkable the way for ordinary scientific consensus turns into a conspiracy by the simple application of the word "groupthink".
I don't agree, transformers are more like gears, while switching boost converters are more like impact wrenches.

LDO's as brake yes I see that.

However the analogy is never perfect even if useful.
I think you’re also being unfair to tech workers lol. At least you acknowledge you’re wrong. Next step is addressing it.
DuckDB

https://duckdb.org/docs/api/wasm/overview.html
Not mentioned in the title, this prediction is specifically for the SF Bay Area.
but the cello isnt being spun by the musical instrument press (and cottage industry of self-appointed advisors to wealthy royal music patrons) as a self-playing enchanted wonder capable of performing any piece, real or imagined, with limitless creative and technical skill and requiring little more guidance than vague requests hummed out of tune by its handler.
> "the use of rhetorical devices, is what gets attention. It's better than some clickbait."

I feel like 'using rhetorical devices to get attention' is a pretty good definition of clickbait.
Cool. Be safe, don't play with SiC or IGBTs, the high voltage will kill you. GaN will be more mainstream in a few years, Infineon just bought GaN Systems.
My HOA once fined me $39 per dandelion on my lawn. They claimed there were 6 dandelions although I counted only 4. Lawns are serious business here and they must be kept in perfect condition.
I'm afraid to ask, but what's the lore behind the cello? I'm completely clueless about music, sadly enough.
In Tennessee you can apply for unemployment if your employer suddenly reduces your work hours significantly. You don't have to wait until you lose your job completely.
nothing you've said negates my comment
Are general purpose tools scams?

No. But I'm old enough to remember how the people that bought the first IBM PCs complained that the computers were useless. Of course they needed much more than the very expensive machines: software, training, peripherals, backups...

They were scammed by the vendors, even if the product was not a scam.
> Especially when you take into consideration that they now are trained with RLHF on _real_ users input.

When I started to see people post their amazement at how good the pricing was I began to realize that once again, we are the product right now. We are the new training data and are even paying a nominal fee to be it.
Thanks for putting this list together! I'm non-technical and I had stumbled upon this a couple months ago and it was very helpful for me :)
I swear to God, I have suffered more playing cello than dealing with pointers in C
You have quite a dim view of humanity if you believe the only reason a bridge stays up or boat floats is due to engineers being anointed and threatened by some entity.
In a vacuum yes, but the rhetorical device in question isn't really a standard clickbaity one is it, it's more literary. It's also logical for good writing to attract more views.
I don't think the experts are against skepticism, they are just deeply tired to be stuck at the stage "try to convince" when the proofs are already overwhelming and the apocalyptical consequences are already slowly (but not slowly enough) unfolding before our eyes on this planet.
Examining Security of GitHub Enterprise
> I know the words, I can complete a challenge that include numbers, but I could not count to ten in the real world in Japanese.

How is this possible? You know the words but you can't use them? This hasn't been my experience at all. I think I'm learning a lot from Duolingo. I still need a bit of time to parse big numbers especially when listening but I can recognize and understand countdowns when they show up in anime.

I've been sort of tracking my progress by watching japanese content and it's been extremely motivating. It's like wow, they really do use those words I learned about.
This is absolutely true but also applies in reverse. There’s many people who can speak languages conversationally but if they have to read in that language they become lost because all their experience is in conversation. If you’re very unlucky, in some languages (Arabic, Chinese, English) the written language has little resemblance to the spoken language, most languages are more forgiving.

Speaking/listening and reading/writing have overlap but if you want to master a language you also have to be doing exercises with text and reading text. After you reach a certain level of proficiency you need to start reading books (start with children’s books)

As far as Duolingo goes I don’t think it’s particularly good, except as a 101 introduction to a language.
I am EXTREMELY disappoint that the Caffeine produced by the plant to defend itself from pests, and also alters my brain chemistry such that hormones emitted by tired neurons are ignored... doesn't kill the bacteria :'(
This may also be helpful: "An Engineering Leader’s Job Search Algorithm"

https://docs.google.com/document/d/19fr_36WOzKlq_zyGP2RdxMEs...
I'm gonna respond to you, because i think you like GPT4 and i do too (even if the only use i trust for now is "Resume me this **lot of text/research article** in less than 200 words", which is already great for a knowledge hoarder like me)

You can think against yourself, a LLM have troubles doing so. Also, they fail spectacularly when asked to do real-life operation: "I have to buy two bagettes at one euros, then five chocolatine, croissants and raisin bread at 1.40, 1.20 and 1.60 respectively, how much should i take with me?" when in my head, i just know it'll be between 20 and 25 in seconds (and in fact it's 23, i took random numbers but they are quite easy to add).
or check? i follow some content creators, and if they were suddenly wiped from a platform, you can bet i would seek them out.

if this does not happen, i dont think you can say they have built an audience, they have merely done some things that makes the platform push the stuff to people, and the instant that stops, they dont exist to the "audience"
> Are general purpose tools scams?

No code / low code might be a good analogy here
> Crypto has the same distributions seen in other markets and economies.

I find that very hard to believe without data.
I think Elon is explicitly saying no, they don't.

And on this point, I agree with him.
That's fair. And yeah stereotypes are not fair. But we all do it anyway. Drive to the grocery store in a Lambo and expect to get sized up. That's just part of the deal. Even if you objectively find the Lambo to be a great value with superior tech.
Turns out a sata storage controller can do that too, Microsoft has been adding support for that too.

GPU decompression is also a thing though, so compression is still a way to save I/O.
my ideal is to bring my complete, unadulterated self everywhere i may go. pursue authenticity, lower the barrier between myself and others. if i hide my intimate thoughts behind a wall of privacy then i may never experience intimacy. i may never feel at home among my friends or neighbors.

i put my pants on one leg at a time just like everyone else, anyone who wants to look through my window in the morning can verify that for themselves. shame is defeated by coming out of your shell, not hiding inside it. i draw the shades and recede to my private world only when i want to remove stimuli for the sake of deep focus. or when i'm fearful of this abstract mass of power hanging always above me at every moment and threatening to destroy me if i'm honest about how i enjoy the "wrong" drugs, or about how i embrace a moral compass which guides me to not fund the machine that takes my brothers away from me and pits them in armed conflict against my sisters, come tax season.

!

as far as i can tell that's the only "good" reason to embrace privacy: that in this crazy contradiction it's impossible to be authentic if the wrong people know you as you are. i don't think it's good to use that as a basis on which to idealize privacy in the abstract. i think it's deeply disturbing and we should use it as a basis to fight all these real things which make one fear authenticity. privacy is a necessary stopgap: negating power imbalances is the most proximate thing to a solution.

kudos to the young and bold who seek to find themselves among others. praise to the old and scarred who fight to make that possible.
> The gains from selling a house are taxable.

The first $500k is tax-free if married filing jointly. The rest is taxed at a maximum rate of 20%. For nearly $4m in profit, that's pretty good. There'll be cash left after selling. Pay the taxes. They've gotten a really good deal on property tax for decades, and will continue to do so in their new home (keep reading).

> 6% of the sale price is split between the buying and selling realtor

You don't have to accept the standard shit deal in a seller's market like Palo Alto. Negotiate. List directly on MLS. Sell off-market. There are so many possibilities.

> And their tax bill would sky-rocket

Prop 90 allows homeowners over age 55 to keep their original assessed value when selling and moving to a different home of equal or lesser value. [1]

To me it sure sounds like your parents could sell for $4m, buy a high-end condo in Mountain View or Sunnyvale for $1.5m, and have well over $1.5m left after taxes, closing costs, and moving expenses. And continue to enjoy low property taxes on their new place. Maybe I missed something though.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_California_Proposition_90
Like it says right there in the README, in the very first sentence after the NEWS section:

"SC4 is a web application that provides secure encrypted communications and secure digital signatures. It is intended to eventually be a replacement for PGP/GPG."

I honestly don't know how it could possibly have been made any clearer.
This is a great thread! As you might imagine I put in a lot of thought about whether Chat GPT made learning this stuff obsolete. Conclusion I came to is that those tools make this all more accessible (in terms of helping people to avoid things like frustrating single character mistakes) but that kind of makes knowing some SQL MORE valuable because it makes it much easier to know what direction to move in, and helps a person more easily debug confidently incorrect suggestions.

A big problem with SQL is that sometimes the answers can LOOK right if a person doesn't know the pitfalls of, say, table joins, but can in fact be quite off the rails. I also think that there's still space for highly skilled experts doing the REALLY advanced stuff but for the average user - just knowing the basics probably helps them get even more out of LLM helpers
> Even if you didn't "consent to [the original author's] ToS," you are still going to be bound to it via the redistributors license.

In the context of the GPL, are there real examples of judgements which bind defendants to a license they never saw or knew anything about, because of the errant actions of an intermediary?
For California, 6.x can almost be considered an aftershock. Not good, but it’s a log scale and the 6’s were shaken off by the newer buildings when I lived there in the 90’s. Anywhere else, yeah, that’ll be a mess.
They don’t even need a list, they can just drive around and look for violations.

I can always tell when my weeds are getting unkempt because I start getting unsolicited landscapers coming to my door and leaving business cards.
Uhh you may be living under a rock: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1249871/share-of-the-glo...

Not only do they currently have the largest share of current technologies they are going to be first to market with next-gen batteries too with CATL and BYD both entering mass production of sodium-ion batteries this year. These have lower energy density for now but that will likely chain as improvements land.

Japan and Korea dropped the ball is what happened, it wasn't any singular error but many unforced errors over a good 10 year period that led to them being now substantially behind.
No, but it may mean that prompt engineering is a human science on the spectrum from phenomenology to scientism. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯