skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://news.ycombinator.com/asknew ?

(that lists them by date posted)
No and I've complained many times about this. The front-page is consistently flooded with low-quality content. Lately the current pattern, with little varation, can be summed up to:

- 10-minute Substack read about this new fancy bloatware, uhh.. framework/programming language/tech that you have to use otherwise you have to reconcile with not being a 10x rockstar programmer anymore and remain unemployed and die in poverty.

- Look, another ChatGPT feature I came up with that, although does a tiny fraction of what you do in your job and with moderate error rate, will lead each and every one of you into extinction!

- I found this paper on Nature where scientists cured this terminal illness for humans, in mice. Let me just omit this unimportant detail so I can make it to the frontpage.

Also very often, the first n, and it's a large n, submissions on the front page pertain to the same subject. More niche and hacker-y in the traditional sense of what the website used to be in the past content receives little attention until it gets buried minutes later by some BS thing that can be grouped into one of the aforementioned categories.

I used to say that HN is equivalent to Reddit as far as user-base intellect goes and if we go by the people participating on the large subreddits, I think both groups converge. This is evident from the current state of the front-page, namely sensationalist titled low-quality content being popular.

However, if you're able to find small, in my estimation less than 30k subscribers allows for some sort of regulation/filtering out of overly-divergent content, communities about your niche subjects of interest, you're much better off there than here. HN has become a sort of entertainment type of thing for me, especially when it comes to the rhetoric the average HNer possesses when it comes to discussion, whether that concerns tech or not.
Fair enough, I just figured there’s not much point to worry about hype unless for employment reasons.
> Since for whatever reason your family has no idea what Signal/Telegram/WhatsApp are

The reason is lack of interest in the details of their very important daily-use tools, instead defaulting to what they are handed.

Happens for many reasons, but none have ever been compelling enough to me to not care about what goes into my vehicle, communications, housing etc and then complain afterward that I didn't know.
That was more detailed than I expected, a lot of posts on this topic tend to be more superficial. I suspect the BRIN index might need a bit of a stronger disclaimer, as far as I understand you really want to use that only for ordered data, and in those cases it is exceptionally good at its job. But it is a lot worse if that condition is not met. The post mentions this a bit, but with very soft language.

I disagree a bit with "Don’t index columns if the table has little data", mostly because it doesn't matter in those cases. If the table is tiny the index is also very cheap (unless it's something really weird like a tiny table that is written at a very high frequency). And "little data" is just not specific enough for people to make decisions unless they already have a very good intuition on when the query planner would use such an index.

A rather important part that isn't mentioned about multi-column indexes is which kinds of query can use them. That is probably not obvious if you never read about them in detail, but it's really important to know when defining them.
Show HN: Wale All-in-One Prompt Engineering IDE
Hi HN,

I am Zach, previously AI/ML Engineering @ Amazon and Duolingo. I am excited to share Wale with you!

We have been building different GPT-3 apps and noticed a gap in tooling to help developers assess the quality of different prompts. Through first-hand experience and interviews, we found pain points such as prompt unreliability, prompt observability, and cost tracking.

We built Wale to address these issues - and we are launching the beta version of Wale!

Users are building:

* A Sales Analyst chatbot that can generate and execute BI SQL queries

* A Sentiment Detection prompt to evaluate customer feedback

* A Business Analyst that can formulate sales strategies and plans.

Wale's Unique Features

* Intuitive prompt editor & templating

* Run multiple prompts simultaneously

* Prompt observability - understand the inputs and outputs of your prompts

* Prompt statistics - monitor parameters, cost, and usage of prompts [coming soon]

Quick links:
For a quick walkthrough, watch Zach set up a simple app on Wale:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTGAOX5yWo0

Check out our Docs:

https://docs.trywale.com/docs/about

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us at contact@trywale.com or zach@trywale.com!
Naming intermediate steps require some non-trivial efforts. It can even distract from the main task of getting the results.

In programming the code will be read multiple times and good names will help the future readers. But in data science the calculation will be most likely will not be reused. So efforts to name things will be waste of time.
The latest release of bitsandbytes uses a new fp4 format. 4bit floating point scailing results in much lower perplexity than int4.

Also note that for a fixed memory (RAM) size, 4bit (even int4) is always superior, resulting in lower perplexity than 8bit.

E.g. LLaMA-13B int4 is far better/lower perplexity than LLaMA-7B fp8 while using the same amount of RAM.
It's certainly how they market themselves. Look how great we are, we're leaders, we're mentors, we're leaders, we think bigger, we make a bigger impact, blah blah blah.

And it's a crock of shit. It's not up to an IC to decide strategy, make executive decisions, or lead a team, unless Lead or Manager is in their title. Thinking big, prioritizing, choosing what to work on, etc, is something every engineer should learn to do, as part of a team. And that team should be led or driven by an individual whose job it is to, hierarchically, be in charge/responsible, and all that entails.

At the highest possible level, a staff engineer can be the "idea person" who looks at everything and can make proposals or lay some groundwork. But the "glue" of connecting a team to the rest of the organization needs to come from management and leadership, because they're the ones who can reach out to everyone without overstepping, and take the flack when it comes.

Here's another example: https://staffeng.com/guides/staff-archetypes/ This dude is claiming that these four separate roles and skillsets are just types of Staff Engineer. This is such ridiculous bullshit I don't think this person has actually done time in large engineering orgs. The tech lead doesn't even have to be very good, they just need to herd cats and be a tie breaker. The architect is an architect, a speciality distinct from the rest of software/systems engineering that doesn't even require coding. A "solver" is known in other circles as a "fixer", which is another word for someone who doesn't take shit and gets a job done, which doesn't require much other than willpower and attention. And a "right hand" literally is just shitty organization/management taking advantage of someone who gets things done yet has no political power.

In any case, all these resources talking about Staff Engineering are bullshit hype-cycle for a very simple reason: if you're a Staff Engineer, you know all this shit already. If you're not one, reading these books won't make you one. It's like thinking you can become a great woodworker by reading a book on woodworking. It's all just career voyeurism, or aspiration porn, written up to sound authoritative, but is actually completely made up, because it's actually just normal work that somebody wanted to sound more important.
I started buying high endurance SD cards years ago and have never had a problem with them.
you can use the search bar below and enter "Ask HN:" in it.
It will give you all the "Ask HN" topics that have been asked here.(approx. 1,134,192)
NT4 had the same UX as 95 didn’t it? It was certainly way more reliable.
Have you tried actually job hunting at the moment? The listings don't respond.
Personally I’d rather Sydney regulate AI
Yep, it's a deterministic perfect information game. To "win" one needs only produce an initial board (or board generating procedure) that achieves certain characteristics, such as bounded highway length even with infinite iterations by the ant.

What I am curious about is whether these boards/procedures exist, and how to find them.
I know people like this, I work on major public cloud products. Sometimes they are “staff” or other high level-titled.

But you have to recognize some of the projects you’ve listed are mostly notable because they are very well documented and have a lot of OSS (besides RTC) mindshare; there are just as technically challenging and valuable projects that are less well known because they are proprietary sold software.
A lot pricier of course but there's https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor too for the same kind of uses this is for.
Oh, yikes, fixed-blades and things as long as shortish machetes? OK, yeah, people don't usually carry those here. Folding pocket knives in the 3"-6" range are common, but not fixed or very-long blades.
Many of these things were obvious at the time if you were paying attention.
One encounter was sufficient to get me to buy hardware that Linux directly supported :P
I wonder how many that had the potential genetic talent of Ussain Bolt instead slid into other lifestyles and just became obese.
I see no foreseeable future in which it makes any sense to erect massive, power-hungry concrete towers, pump huge volumes of water up into them, build fleets of drones to carry small quantities of vegetables back down to us on-demand, and drive it all with an absurd amount of software and hardware, much of it requiring rare earth materials.

Maybe if we had nearly free/infinite energy it would be possible. It still wouldn't be smart.

Vertical farming may make sense in a small number of cases, likely where existing buildings can be renovated and repurposed. Localized, sustainable horizontal agriculture is way more energy-efficient, cost-effective, and ecologically sound in most cases.
Citation needed? That seems incredibly low. Is it considering the cost of paying researchers?
first link’s page is broken on mobile safari.
> He might be convinced of his own discourse, but this is strangely aligned with the interests of his own company.

To be fair, that's not uncommon - people often choose to work for or lead companies whose values they are aligned with personally.
A life of crime sounds wonderful but too risky for me. I would like to stay in computer science only.
We kept a data closet in Manhattan in a sister building to 33 Thomas. Customers would ask for a BRP. We had N+2 for data level stuff and higher but some customers would get hung up on not having second location. We took the stance if the facility fails we all have bigger issues.

We had one 18 minute issue in the ten years of use. It was the best facility we ever used.
I read most of the related stories online after seeing the reference to "think blue, count two" when trying to remind myself what Serial Experiments Lain was about.

It is very idiosyncratic. A heavy role for psionics, uplifted animal species, and animal brains conditioned to perform tasks and then preserved in something like a circuit board. And space, economics, politics, and a civil rights movement for the uplifted animals.

"Oh yeah, I'm here on another planet having a telepathic chat with an uplifted cat who is mad about the oppression of her species."

But engaging writing and worldbuilding that makes that feel more plausible.

I think you could say that it's space opera that puts organisms' bodies and minds at the heart of things, rather than machines. Electronic devices with any kind of important agency in the stories are rather few and far between, but stuff about bodies and minds, and what Cordwainer Smith could imagine them doing and wanting, kept coming back again and again and again.
For coding problems that DDG can't answer, I've been falling back on phind.com instead with reasonably good results.
Let's face it, Office 97, or 2000 at the latest, is peak office productivity software. Everything since then has been backslide and churn for the sake of selling new licenses.
I think there is a problem with AR: usefulness vs. Effort.

Effort:
Expensive, needs energy (a lot it's a display, needs to track things), needs to be weared, breaks your outfit (makeup hair)

Benefit:
?

I can see people sitting on a couch or in the bed with switch like controllers but
I now wonder if I made a mistake moving away from CICS and 370 Assembly as the focus of my career.
> If you work hard you will likely be able to buy a ticket to visit the moon, something only a few humans have ever done.

I’d be surprised if more than another couple dozen people make it to the moon in the next generation. Maybe more but certainly almost no one (statistically speaking) will be able to visit the moon by just working hard.

However, I don’t take issue with the rest of your optimism.
You can turn off track comping, you need to turn off the overdub button (that big plus sign in the top left).

What parts of the audio editing is weak to you? In my opinion, it's one of the strongest things it offers. I assume you're trying to edit the audio in the arranger, instead of in the clip view. What makes it so strong, is that you can chop it up in the clip view, and your audio in the arranger remains one contiguous piece of audio.

It sounds like you're either trying to use the software like Ableton and you're getting frustrated that it's not Ableton, or you don't understand how Bitwig works.
It's an infuriating trend with modern shows, they take something established and proceed to ignore what established it, and end up with something completely different.

Honest derivatives like Rick and Morty have demonstrated how you can both use a beloved franchise and create something completely different from it, yet most producers choose the evil path.
If you use Windows 7 today, you're longer out of date than this chap was in 2008.
As I understand it, the problem with Google's search results is that they made SEO the primary determinative factor and didn't publish how their page ranking system worked.

However, it seems that businesses have figured out how the system works, and since there is big money in being the #1 result, people are constantly cramming every technique they can get into their sites to get to that #1 result location, even if it means that humans can no longer find what they are looking for.

Google needs to rework their search algo or they need to die.
It's always changing. Fads come and go. It's not always going to be what you want to read, but at the same time, it gives you a good indication of topics that are being brought up. Sometimes the topics are repeats of things you read years ago, and so it's not as interesting. /shrug

Use it as a source, not your only source.
Same. Kagi has better results than Google in general. Even programming ones. I don't mind paying for better

Love that it can do groupings, especially when you're searching for something that will also turn up seo garbage, like products for your home. So you can see the cluster of "review sites" and then actual product companies
> ...where everyone always wants to lambast the newest tech...

Yeah. Because there are a lot of people who've lived through 3 or 4 decades now of the hype cycle and want to see "less tech" in everyone's lives, having seen the result of "all the tech we can imagine" in everyone's lives.

It's not been good unless you're at the upper end of the attention accumulation pyramid.
I am the primary source of my opinion, give me a break. I'm sharing my own personal experience; it is therefore not an "estimation".

I will say that checking back a day later, I am stunned at how many smart programmer types are clearly not even close to getting how useful this tool is. For people that don't find it very helpful, to me that just means they're not asking enough of it yet. More people just need to spring for the $20/month and start asking GPT4 about any old technical subject they think they know well but about which they might also have holes in their knowledge.

It's a tool that rewards creativity, so you kind of get out what you put in. Many folks here are too young, but back when search engines were coming out, there was a phase for many people where they only knew how to treat it as a toy. Like, search for their own web page to see if it showed up; search for a question they already knew an answer to to see if it was correct. It required a bit of a mental reset; a "click"; before each person would know automatically, without reminding themselves, that they could actually search for things they didn't know.

It seems like there is something similar going on here. It's not a search engine so it's not exactly about stuff we do or don't know, but I gather that a lot of people thus far have not uncovered the advantages it actually gives them.
That individual in particular was pushing some left-wing talking points.

Though the other day Yuval Noah Harari gave a great talk on the potential threat to democracy - https://youtu.be/LWiM-LuRe6w
Cool app.. but why subscription? this should be a one time payment.
So why the tantrum? Georges Soros really sticks in his craw? What happened?
That is interesting, most of my comment is motivated by exposure to the Toronto/Vancouver scenes and not Montreal. Maybe Montreal really is sufficiently different that my broad generalizations don’t apply.

I have worked with some Montreal based developers before who I think would never consider the US because they were native French speakers and preferred that in their day-to-day. Curious if there are other major factors
that's incorrect. Generally speaking you don't pay capital gains on the first $250k ($500k if filing jointly) under IRS rules. You can also adjust the cost basis of your home by adding in any improvements you may have made to the house, so assuming you made any improvements at all, you can potentially make that exemption even higher.

See https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc701.
Following the best guess of those with the knowledge and experience is definitely the best best, but I find myself, like most people, questioning their motives. It's healthy to do so but also a sad commentary.
Companies can fire people for insubordination. Just replace them with people willing to work from the office.
Here as a post on his blog from 8 years ago: https://blog.samaltman.com/the-software-revolution

"...development of an AI that could end human life may only require a few hundred people in an office building anywhere in the world, with no equipment other than laptops.

The new existential threats won’t require the resources of nations to produce."

and

"The fact that we don’t have serious efforts underway to combat threats from synthetic biology and AI development is astonishing."

So (2) could be a factor, for sure. But (1) is consistent with what seems to have been his viewpoint for a long time. It's possible he's updated his viewpoint and is faking concern about safety, but given how recent advances have seemed to make a lot of people more concerned, I don't think that's likely.
To be honest, I don't know how long LENS will be for us. We're doing weekly sessions. It's not supposed to be indefinite, but I don't know at that point we taper down or stop.

Results were pretty much immediate, though. After his first session (maybe only a few hours later), he self-reported improvements and we noticed a definite change in his mood and attitude.
So a fortiori, it's true for him too!

I wouldn't necessarily exclude myself from the set of people who would benefit from externally managed filtering.
Amusingly, the students put the professor's email into ChatGPT and it claimed to have written that as well.
Quantization is not free, but VRAM is even less free.

If you have X amount of VRAM and can fit a 16bit model of size 2X in 8bit or a model of size 4X in 4bit then the 4X model in 4bit is ALWAYS superior with lower perplexity and better performance.

You LOSE performance by using a smaller model in 8bit vs a larger model in 4bit.
Check out Phind (https://www.phind.com/) for your coding searches. I’ve been happy with the handful of times I’ve used it. It’s nice to have options beyond Google.
Actually found me a good deal on a Mazda. Surprised.
The operative word here is "let", since any linux OS computer could do this.

It's only been goggle's abomination on top of linux that has prevented it...

Isn't it nice of the mulit-trillion dollar corporation to "let" you do things?

Let's all just worship the mega-wealthy a little more...
Yeah, a friend of mine found a (non-religious) service like this for help with porn addiction. Not my cup of tea, but I could see it working for many people.
It would literally mean wearing this thing on your face.

Alone from a pure beauty standpoint this would mean destroying your hair and makeup for what?

Probably not for a selfie
When experts are wrong ignore them as noise. I trust the cdc as much as I trust Jim Cramer on investments. Both are technically experts
Nobody knew if covid was airborne at the time, so the most correct answer was nobody knows. Some people got lucky by making things up on the spot and guessed it was airborne. At a certain point their confirmation bias and distrust of media broke their perception of the world and they became antivax etc, still no critical thinking taking place.
I stopped listening to Elon's opinions years ago.
The oldest plans to scale of humanmade mega-structures
For those interested in exploring further, his daughter has maintained a web site about his life and works since at least 2008.

http://www.cordwainer-smith.com/
Thanks for posting this. I usually don't watch youtube stuff at all, but this turned out to be a pearl.
The two constants I've found since I've been here are that people think Hacker News is turning to shit, and the mods insist it isn't. The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle, that Hacker News has always been kind of shit.

But not hot shit, because that would set off the flamewar detector. Precisely lukewarm, perfectly spherical, frictionless shit in a vacuum.
Stability AI's letter to the US Senate on the importance of (truly) open AI [pdf]
I stopped using DDG when they admitted they are censoring political content (https://www.vox.com/recode/22981115/duckduckgo-free-speech-p...). I'm really tired of companies telling me what I may and may not view.
Exactly. I was criticized for using the word tyranny; a union is capable of tyranny to the same extent a democratic government is. Everyone can judge for themselves to what that extent is.

You say a small group can't just form their own country, or in this case, they cannot just form their own union, but they actually could if only the mega-union did not already exist. Thus, my claim that large unions prevent small groups from organizing and collectively bargaining is true. The small group could form their own union if the large union hadn't removed their ability to do so. I feel about large unions the same way I feel about any large group that prevents small groups from organizing.
The billionaire class are living in la-la land would be more like it
I once installed Win 98 SE for funzies in a virtual machine, around 2016 - couldn't browse the web because Internet Explorer could not do HTTPS.
Also various journal papers the professor wrote (or, rather, claims to have written!).
So you're saying his principles bend to support his business interests, instead of the other way around. How novel.
The team will be watching and happy to answer any question :).
Oh, DuckDuckGo just does that sometimes. Pretty often I'll pick a result then back out to the search results, and the one I had in mind to click next just isn't there anymore. However annoying, I wouldn't immediately jump to a political motivation.