skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. I don't regret the passion and vigor that I had in my 20s. To an extent, I don't even regret the times I put in more effort than I should have, especially when working for real jerk bosses. It was an experience that I needed to have.

On the other side of the coin, I've lived enough years in my 30s and have met enough 30-somethings and beyond to conclude that, besides rare exceptions, having the same "passion" when you're no longer that young is probably not the best thing for most people. If the fact that your company doesn't actually value excellence or that your coworkers aren't interested enough still bothers you if you're older than 30 then it's a sign to start caring less. If I cared as much in my 30s as I did in my 20s about workplace excellence, I'd be fat, single, and friendless. Just saying. It's not like that for everyone, but I think everyone should consider whether that's true for them.
Nice, looks great. Sharing it around, nice job
One of the key factors to Silicon Valley's success has been a lack of non-competes.

It's about time to unlock that innovation in the rest of the country.
Thanks for responding, Molly. I am glad to have a list of shows you went on, I have not seen you on any shows.

Please don’t think I was upset. I did not think more of it until this thread simply reminded me of it, and I posted it because I thought it was very relevant, and 99% of the text was written by me so I didn’t feel I was revealing anything truly private.

I totally understand this concern, and why someone like yourself might be very sensitive not to seem like they are endorsing a specific project — and it is exactly the concern that Robert Murphy expressed to me this past week, until we spoke. Now he is coming on my show. Because I only care about discussing the substance.

You couldn’t have known this, but frankly, I reached out simply because I wanted to have a conversation. I believe that a blog which exclusively lists everything bad in web3 is useful, because it does one part of the job. But also, people who put together such things are exactly the best people to have a conversation with because I truly do believe that if the crypto and web3 industry doesn’t step up, the much worse centralized ecosystem of Big Tech, Big Government will keep encroaching with their National IDs and CBDCs and centrally controlled financial systems (just like they have in countries from China to Sweden). As a libertarian, I see things getting a lot worse and I have spent over a decade of my life and a ton of my own money building solutions, so naturally, having discussions with people in the space something I do. To be honest, it is my guilty pleasure - I enjoy being able to engage with people and battle-test my views, and actually realize that they have blind spots too.

It is the same feeling, I suppose, as a chessplayer who gets to play games with people rated higher than them. From a purely market point of view, I guess I am engaging people who are “out of my league” in terms of the size of their audience — disregarding this has worked well for me, thankfully, but I guess it comes up in some ways, like this.

I have another channel, https://youtube.com/QbixPlatform which has nothing to do with crypto and is about an open source Web2 platform. The invitation still stands, of course. To me the issues are more about decentralization vs centralization, capitalism vs gift economies, smart contracts vs trusting specific humans, open source vs walled gardens, funding projects with equity vs utility, etc.

Let me know if you’d like to engage in any way that would scrub any mention of Intercoin (company, project etc) and if so I’ll email you and we can set it up.
"the lower classes speak a mutant hybrid of Arabic-French-English"

Very interesting, since English is a sort of mutant hybrid of Norse-Germanic-French. I wonder how long before a unique "Algerian" language emerges. I wonder how that compares to how long it took english to develop, i'd wager algerian will develop a lot quicker thanks to globalism/internet/etc.
> I think this would be super useful for building complex web front-end applications

Web apps are typically online (offline web apps haven't been a hit) and are often (most of the time?) multi-user, which means the data is housed centrally (decentralized architectures notwithstanding) because it avoids replication and reconciliation complexity.

Doesn't mean there aren't compelling use cases, but I honestly don't see it enabling something that hasn't been possible before (from an end-user point of view, not technical capability).

While technically cool, I think it is worth asking yourself what is an example app that would be possible that wasn't before or what edge can be provided to existing apps.
Show HN: A better prompt engineering lib - guidance built for js
Hey HN!

As JS (Mostly TS) devs, we feel like AI or LLM tooling in JS kinda sucks rn, that said most production applications inevitably end up being in JS, so a friend and I (mostly friend) started hacking on a new JS native library for making it easier to write prompts.

The idea of the library is to give a much more ergonomic syntax for writing complex prompts, the repo itself goes much more in detail https://github.com/LevanKvirkvelia/salute

Would love thoughts and any/all feedback!
So do most algorithms papers that have benchmarks in them. It's not always useful though, because information about how this algorithm compares to some other one on a PDP-10 doesn't necessarily translate to modern machines.
Yeah, that's the image of herself she's been trying to paint recently, with the help of some media outlets[1].

In the same article, she and the author also claim that what she did was influenced by the world putting good women like her down - the sexism argument:

> Ms. Holmes said she believed that making herself the poster girl for women in tech put a huge target on her back.

> Don’t girl boss too close to the sun, or this could happen to you …

I think at a certain level of obvious sociopathy, all this grasping of straws to rehabilitate one's image (and in some cases shed the blame) are useless. I would hope no one genuinely thinks that her wearing pastel colours and using a couple of kids as leverage makes her any less of a criminal who would have been willing to commit medical fraud and kill others out of greed.

[1] https://archive.is/Ajkoz
Whose corruption is better? Whose corruption is worse? The collusion of bureaucrats, politicians, media, corporate elite is WORSE than any corruption whatsoever resulting from direct democracy: in the case of brexit, people who voted for it face the consequences themselves. In the case of collusive elite, normal public (except bureaucrats, politicians, lobbyists, corporate elite) bear the brunt. Definitely, people don't mind taking their own medicine, than the ones prescribed by the collusive elite.
> Cardio exercise is absolutely dreadful.

Indoor cardio, sure. Walking/hiking/running/biking outdoors is great.
Nominative determinism aside, was that second part really necessary?
Your life is on the line. Not just any part but the most intelligent, powerful and authentic part, which you've just entered. I will assume you're asking ~is this thing called "engineering career" worth my life?~ If you're not, good luck. My advice: do not ignore this call.

Worth, meaning, value, etc, stems from the framework through which you make sense of the world, aka your worldview. If you're a scientific atheist, then heck yes, what a bargain! Your life is entirely worthless. Eventually you'll disappear, then your family line will, then humanity, the Earth, our galaxy, and in the end all information will be permanently erased in a big crunch or its opposite, when atoms themselves are pulled apart by gravity, science is yet to decide which. If you are a theist (Christian, Hindu, and many more), then an inextricable part of you is the deity itself, and your life is worth everything.

These are examples. Neither I nor anyone else can give you a worldview. You have to dig for it yourself. Your inkling is the calling of your meaning in life, the lack of which you express. Almost by tautology, meaning in life is the most difficult yet rewarding thing you can pursue. I can give you some leads.

Christianity and Platonism are the Western civilization, to which your engineering career and therefore you belong. If you are ignorant of those, you will be fundamentally lost. Study those. Because you devoted the first half of your life to rational pursuits, trace the birth of mathematics and physics from Platonism. I promise, this history is replete with meaning. Study the worldviews of Galileo, Newton and Leibniz. Study Einstein and Heisenberg. But study their critics also, very importantly the deeply flawed yet unavoidable philosophical response called Skepticism or Anti-rationalism. Finally study a new twist on rationalism that can be called Creative or Open philosophy, first expressed by mathematician philosophers Henri Bergson and Alfred N. Whitehead.

The scientific method does not give life meaning. Philosophy leads to it, and religion (broadly re-ligio = re-connection, as in with the deity) is it. Yet there is a source of deep meaning hidden within science and technology, which is the main reason it's so powerful. You can find it if you look.

Large organizations often hate philosophy and fundamental questions because they already have their "correct" foundations. They want human cogs in their system. Trash all ideologies, seek out people whose life is deeply meaningful in books and life, and think deeply about your own foundations with your own open mind.
Yeah, good point. We're definitely in an age of super-powered disinformation.
> Etsy has probably also not refunded the buyers, so they have kept the money of both parties, which looks like a good deal to me, at least from their perspective.

You’re assuming malice when almost certainly it’s a mistake + shitty customer service. Have you tried avenues outside of the ticketing system like calling customer service, emails, etc?
And what I’m saying is that it doesn’t matter and it is unstoppable
The pics in the paper could be of my little guy, so I'd have to say pretty cute. Otherwise, I might hear about it later
From my experience, GPT4 is able to decompose and rearrange the concepts of the problem statement, so they fit within the solution of the code, taking odd details into account. You can go as far as defining new words and have it use them, frame problems with odd contexts (like a program for boiling newts), and it, usually, comes up with reasonable solutions. Being able to stuff "new" things into an existing abstract framing is my definition of "understanding". This is also how most exams I've taken were constructed, to prove my comprehension of a subject.

What is your litmus test for "understanding" and "comprehension"?

I don't disagree that it's a derivative work. But, I think the majority of a humans day to day work is derivative.
It’s too hard to support every possible target that way.
>Sigils are why I gave up learning PERL. Everything I learned had a half life of 10 minutes.

Interesting! By "half life of 10 minutes", do you mean the language was changing too quickly under you or that it was difficult to remember the sigils?
What does this mean for folks working at consulting companies?
I'm sure the kidnapper could help you with that.

Curent ransomware helpfully tells you where to buy bitcoin.

Btw as a bitcoin maxi, this doesn't make me happy.
The memo is something you can present in court, but it isn't law. No telling how the courts will look at it. In general courts don't look on noncompete well anyway unless strictly limited (a person should be able to make a living in their field, so if the noncompete stops that they are a hard sell). But each state is different, so check with a lawyer .
The problem isn't that corporations are people. If corporations exist, it's difficult to have them not be "people" for the purposes of laws.

The problem is that they exist at all. Nothing in the Constitution says that the government (of Delaware, no less) should have the legitimate power to wave a magic wand and create fictitious legal entities that are effectively immortal but are born without a moral compass.

If it did have that legitimate power, then it's still bad that it can happen for the payment of a $250 fee and filing of a stack of legal paperwork.

Everything that the whiny lefties gripe about with capitalism is actually the fault of corporations, not capitalism. Sounds like you're ok with them existing though, you just think that's possible with them a "little less powerful" or something.
Magic Castle -- what a place to visit! The magic piano, creaky halls, parlor tricks... It's amazing to watch a close-up magician perform. He'll tell you what trick he's about to do, execute right under your nose, and your eyes see nothing but magic.
The only difference between the people in charge of Ukraine, and the people in charge of Russia, is Ukraine doesn't have the military to go threaten the world - and if they did, they would.

I don't buy this assessment at a all.

Based on everything from their origins, to their voluminous public statements, to their actions, to their deportment and vibe -- not to mention the basic historical record of the two countries -- there's an astronomical difference of mindset between Putin and Zelensky, and between their respective supporters. I'd go into more detail ... but the other half of your statement is basically vacuous, so why bother? (I mean yeah, I suppose Ukraine would carry itself with more swagger if it had nuclear weapons; so would Fiji or Mexico).

Oh, and then there's this statement:

What you are doing is putting a conspiracy-spin on something that is a common occurrence.

I'm not sure what innuendo you're making here, but since you're apparently referring to the massive pre-invasion mobilization -- to say it was "a common occurrence", or compares to a bunch of GOP apparatchiks gathering in Crofton -- is just too bizarre for words.
As I understand it Morello was a research prototype and dead end.

I'd like to see something similar standardized for ARM and available in off-the-shelf ARM CPUs and SoCs; I'd also like to see it supported in Apple's ARM SoCs and OSes, and in Android and Windows on ARM.
> The only difference between those people is “what they do/have done”.

This is a very consequentialist framing of values. There are other ways of conceptualizing values, like virtue ethics and deontology, so if you're actually interested in understanding a different modality, those are keywords you can Google.
You don't have a BS in addition, that's the problem.
Halftone QR Code Generator by Lachlan Arthur
Well, in that situation, are you likely to be someone who can afford to otherwise live in a single-family home with a yard? If so, you can move there. If not, your other option is probably just to be in an apartment without any sort of yard for your kids at all, which just seems worse.

These sorts of apartments with shared spaces are common around the world. I'm sure they have some problems, but I wouldn't rule them out on the grounds that people might be horrible. And there are probably lots of people who would jump at the possibility of renting one of those places, assuming we build enough of them to make them cheap.

And there are lots of other options besides those. You can have denser, but family-oriented development like townhouses, with narrow streets that slow traffic. Lots of parks and places your kids can walk to. Front porches so that people are likely to be out and watching for trouble (which as I understand is known to be an effective way to reduce crime in an area).
> Open Source JIRA [...] in the simplest way possible

Mmh.

I like that it's opensource, that way product owners can become even more inventive with great ways of making a process cumbersome
1) Read Hacker news

2) Attack the tech debt, typically Documentation

3) Decide to take a vacation

4) Listen to Youtube - stuff were the visual is meaningless, but the talk is interesting.
You got a strong argument here, I like your logic, will definitely try it if needed!
It is the more obvious phrase, but right to work is already taking for a different meaning so please don't use it
Ukraine Bets on Wind Power, Which Missiles Can’t Damage as Easily
Not really a characterization of this work (I like mechanistic interpretability even though I consider it a detour in the long run), but of the submission title (edit: it was "Tiny Transformer trained for addition learns bizarre addition algorithm" at the point of this comment being posted). It's bad. I suspect it's informed by Rob Miles' characterization of this algorithm as "bizarre and inhuman"[1]

AI safety/alignment discourse as a whole is so incredibly bad. It's autodidactic and weird in the bad sense, weird like people who think they are brave iconoclasts but just haven't the curiosity and humility to learn the basics of the field are weird. Add some money from Dustin Moskovitz to Open Philanthropy to Robert Miles' propaganda firehose on youtube, add policy lobbying and buying bankrupt crypto podcasters, and you have the worst that could come from the culture of public intellectualism. The notions they have inserted into this potentially vital field, like inner/outer misalignment and "mesaoptimization" [2] (where simple overfitting is the real and more productive explanation) are deeply misleading, technically illiterate and stoking public fears in directions we should care about the least, siphoning resources and attention from real issues informed by specifics of contemporary ML (chiefly data and curriculum engineering). They're close to putting a lid on LLM development – because they're getting spooked by some vague sense of growing "capabilities"; even though LLMs are evidently a vastly better approach to safe-yet-capable-general-AI than anything any of their thought leaders have ever come up with in decades of SIAI/MIRI/Lesswrong procrastination. (For one example of a decent takedown of their approach I recommend [3]).

Why is this algorithm bizarre, or even inhuman? Could anyone show me the specific functional connectivity graph and activation functions in my brain that I use when doing addition, with the circuit going through spatial-quantitative cortex and phonological loop, populations querying cached results in long-term memory, individual numbers marked as interesting or banal by the highest-level associative units? Would it look anything like a neat and sensible algorithm we'd come up with using a global top-down representation of the solution target space?

By this standard, humans are inhuman, humans are shoggoths, as they should be, because emergent data-driven structures in general-purpose substrate generally do not resolve to anything like provable optimality, even if they get very close in performance. This framing adds nothing but clicks and insecurity.

1. https://twitter.com/robertskmiles/status/1663534255249453056

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkbPdEHEyEI

3. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wAczufCpMdaamF9fy/my-objecti...
Boardgames. I met my wife at a boardgame meetup. They're really common in Germany, less so elsewhere but there's usually a boardgame group in every city I've travelled to (all over SE Asia, Central America so far). Perfect for us geeks, too, as the more complex boardgames are really scratching that intellectual itch; learning a new ruleset for a complex game and grokking it enough to create a workable strategy for the game is a great intellectual exercise. And a mix of genders and backgrounds, with conversation during the game, it's a great way of meeting people.
>I am absolutely convinced that the people selling this abomination of a product have either never used it themselves or are abjectly and wilfully misleading people.

Same goes for the people who decided to put it on their websites.
Well there you go - you made my argument for me. His employer is not "exploiting" him - he's at the maximum employment possible for his skills and knowledge.

So he's going to make exactly that much money. No one taking advantage of him, they are offering him the payment that matches his ability to do work.

To exploit someone you would have to trick them into agreeing to be underpaid, or force him, or in some way act in a shady manner.

None of that is happening here, they are offering fair payment for the labor.
A cute friendly dog works wonders too.
Fracking is what changed that...
Gah, why did I just buy this as an ebook if it's free.
https://archive.ph/qkTDy
I would have to see the exact complaint. One interesting piece is that cameras are sold in the US by Nikon USA, and in the EU by Nikon Europe. It is possible that some regulations like Weee compliance, or maybe right to repair (manuals maybe?) that this older model does not comply with all of the EU law. Still ridiculous, but a possible different angle they are approaching it from.
This amounts to openly advocating for dangerous driving, which is exactly the reductio ad absurdum in rejecting the advice to lawyers above.

That maneuver by Ross Chastain? It is banned.
On HN a boring framework or tool often means: There's nothing else to add, it does the job like it's supposed to - so, it's no longer fashionable.

But

The documentation is solid, plenty of content online to get training.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36132315, which was posted a bit earlier and has a bit more background info.
Linear and Height are not monsters but they do all those things, if I not mistaken.
Very cool could you share what features people wanted from QR codes? I'm looking into ways to improve https://t.ly/qr-code-generator
Implemented addition via:

cos(wx) sin (wy) + sin(wx) cos(wy)

But how did it compute that intermediate addition?
Merged. Thanks!
Treat it positively as a mindfulness exercise. None of the stress you experience daily is more than a series of trained micro-reaction chains. With enough training you can start to subvert the chain reactions in your own mind. You always have control, you simply have to accept a more abstract form of it.
You reminded me of Jira's most hilarious feature; if you type JIRA in a ticket, it auto-corrects it to "Jira". This one better do that or, uh, it's one less checkmark on the comparison chart!
The fact that modern televisions cannot hack it is not as surprising as it might seem. A line update with the traditional hardware is 40 character writes to a dual-port VRAM. Hardware does the character generation and graphics conversions.

But modern televisions do all of the rendering to a graphics mode display buffer, and probably aren't engineered with the idea that the teletext data may be arriving so fast (as it would usually only be a few lines changing per frame in interleaved magazine mode) as to compete with other demands upon video RAM. It's probably implemented in a very basic way, because it was good enough.
The ruling: https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/nlrb-general-c...

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36132479, but we merged that thread hither)
And yet Camus was expelled from the french communist party because he didn't agree with the white-washing of french colonialism of Algeria by the Popular Front.
I always liked how Redmine has a tree of projects, rather than just a list.
> https://markwhen.com

Wow this is also awesome! Some programmers are truly creative people haha
> Your first bullet list of features doesn't really make it sound all that different.

It's... free? Isn't that a pretty big difference? https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/pricing
Yes. CHERI handily solves the spatial issue but does not really have a good solution for temporal safety as every solution eventually ends up requiring sweeping memory and revoking capabilities. Temporal safety really is a beast of an issue and it's still unclear whether there is a palatable solution using CHERI.