skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People like to point to shining examples of Product Managers adding huge amounts of value. They are like Unicorns, and you will probably never encounter one in your career. Moreover, many companies are unable to setup a hiring pipeline that can reliably detect such individuals. So hiring for the role Product Manager is a net negative for most companies, because their odds of hiring a good one are basically 0.

The result is that Product Manager is mostly an imposter role. It's created by charismatic "business" people to insert themselves into an area of value creation. They are attracted to the light and heat that tech has been giving off. Once they are in, they promulgate the idea that the role is absolutely necessary for success and create more demand for hiring similar imposter roles. The necessity of these roles is now part of the conventional wisdom.

As an imposter role, anyone well liked, with enough confidence can pivot into it. Areas with clear metrics for success like demand generation have seen cuts. But the success of a product manager is more difficult to quantify, and so it's a good place to jump to.
A lot of techies moved here and ruined everything. No matter how many thousands of these types of posts make it to the top of HN, they won't leave. It's maddening.
So is going outside though. In fact, I think talking in person is usually a much better way of actually understanding someone else's opinion, because normative rules of social behaviour tend to stop the discussion from becoming a flamewar.

I could spend hours just neutrally asking someone questions about a particular view they hold, why they hold it, etc. I think you gain a lot more insight into how people think this way than through an online forum.
A lot of hype right now - but the potential is there.

Right now, I'm using Copilot but it doesn't have context of the entire project so it routinely suggests wrong code. 20% of the time, it gets what I wanted completely right and I'm amazed. 20% of the time, it annoys me more than it's helpful. 60% of the time, it helps but not that much.

It needs bigger contexts and and it needs to see the entire code base. Only then would it become an indispensable tool for coding and no one would want to code without it.
Literally anything else. Having seen the general/highly upvoted Reddit opinions on things I have domain expertise in, and having seen the outsized effect that angry subs can have on media opinions, there is absolutely nothing I trust on Reddit at face value or without having interacted in very small subs long enough to know who has useful opinions.

The only consistently good advice I see on Reddit is "call a local expert/call a lawyer." Anything else is almost certainly abject nonsense.
Only because the LLM didn't have any AI generated blogspam to get trained on. That's going to change very quickly.
Going thru the SOC2 process myself[0].

As I expected, we're hearing from customers they won't use a product that passes the contents of their database tables into an AI model (although some AI products are doing this). So the problem Credal is solving makes sense. Have you considered building an open source Python package for solving just this bit of the problem?

Any tips on the SOC2? Did you use something like Drata / Vanta?

0 - https://www.definite.app/
OpenAI has nothing to do with it I think

I think it is about forcing people to watch ads, particularly keeping reddit safe for "dark patterns".

It's an awful experience to follow a link from a search engine for reddit because reddit systematically injects ads into results and discussion to try to trick you into clicking them and injects even more blended links to irrelevant discussions to increase your chances of getting confused and clicking on an ad accidentally.

Third party clients destroy all that.

People who want to harvest text from reddit can just do it on the web. (Pro tip: ignore the API and implement your own 'IPA' that just works like a web browser; APIs are almost always nerfed in some way; if you have to crawl 20 web sites odds are a generic web crawler will work for 19 of them; if you are using APIs you will have to implement something different for all of them, maybe 3 out of 20 will have some feature in the API such as a complex and poorly documented authentication process that will take a few hours.)

APIs are not a gift, they usually are an attempt to take access away. (Considering Hacker News, there is no API to make a post or get your upvotes. It's like 20 lines of Python to code up an "IPA" for either against the web interface.)
We had issues with Airbnb in London the places weren't that great, we ended up paying double basically to switch out a bad location just to move a mediocre one.

Our airbnb in Edinburgh was AWESOME.

So you really have to sleuth the listings I guess. We did ask tons of questions about the bad one in London but still ended up in a bad unit.

We did find an excellent hotel in London, The Resident Covent Garden. Highly recommended.

We'll probably lean toward hotels from now on, unless we are really comfortable with the airbnb listing. And will definitely ask even more questions next time.
In modern western culture, women as a group are indeed above criticism.

If you were to make the same sorts of broad generalizations and value judgements that are made towards men as a group every day in major news outlets and universities against women, it would be derided as misogyny.

Any sort of statement about women as a group that could be perceived as negative must be predicted on the assertion that the potentially negative trait is due to society, patriarchy, or men.

These are my personal perceptions based on observing how discourse on sex and gender has been conducted over the last decade or so.
To expand your point further, in any given market that has online sales, if even one entity gives them CPA targets, they have a damn good idea how much a new customer is worth in that market.

At that point, google has no motivation to ever sell you clicks or impressions below that value, as they already know how much each click they send is worth to you.

Once you have two players in the market, you are basically haggling with google over 1-2-3% differences in your bidding, and google is switching you from position 1 and position 2 in the search results.

On top of that, google sales people are basically employed to come to you and say: "Look, on this keyword your competitor is bidding 2% more than you. You should optimise for it and pay the same".
This sounds like a good game until you realise if everyone is optimising properly, the only winner here is google.

No one really has any leverage here except google, and they can squeeze everyone as hard as you are willing to squeeze your margins.

I've seen multiple markets over the last few years where google ads are basically break even for the entire industry. This is absolutely insane, but it's what an aggregator does.
> It felt to me that the family that takes in the boy are not bad people.

What family? You really believe the man and woman who took in the boy had a "family"? A world where boy's own mother abandoned him and his father to kill herself because there was no hope. A world where there are no plants, animals, fish, etc left. A world where a a woman gives birth and then she and her friends cook the fetus over a campfire. You think in a world where there is no food, no possibility of food, where everyone is either starving to death or cannibalizing, that there is a happy family? It's a world where everyone is starving to death. You think "a family" is going to take in an extra mouth to feed?

Did you miss the parts in the book where they explicitly mention how there is no children the boy's age left? The boy desperately wants a friend but there are no children his age left. Except for that one "imaginary" kid he ran into that disappeared. Why do you think that is?

Also, the father and son were being hunted by a pack of cannibals who mortally wound the father. What are the odds that the cannibal hunters caught up to him. What are the odds that a magical good samaritan family stumbled upon him?

When I first read the book, I thought the kid was saved. Then I reread it and boy cormac really made it crystal clear how hopeless that world was.
Jokes on them, I run a keygen almost daily, for software I don't have, because I like the cool chiptune.
The end of Reddit? Why the blackout is still going – and what happens next
Works horrendously bad on Firefox, works great on Safari/Orion...

Macbook Pro M1
I think that's a different legal question than LLM training, but webpage caching has been found to be fair use based on a number of factors: https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/google-cache-does...
What is dated? WalEx is still using logical replication slots, right? Trying to bring myself up to speed. Currently am using cainophile and would like to understand what WalEx is offering above and beyond. Cainophile isn't actively maintained but I think that's because it is feature complete, at least according to the author's concerns.
no because this is a terrible analogy. Speeding endangers others who have not consented to that danger, not getting vaccinated has absolutely no societal risk in this particular scenario with covid.

If I could make my car crash proof (me getting vaccinated in this analogy), i would have no issues with people wanting to drive as fast as they like (they already do it anyway).
You just described the C-suite at most SV companies.
M1 running Safari (specifically Orion) works 60fps... How?!
Update (Wednesday, June 14): we've updated this article with news about a leaked memo from Reddit's CEO, which could prolong the blackout.
I love these ideas -- keep 'em coming!

The algorithmic sort is there, it's just a little hidden (and rudimentary, for the current MVP). Go to settings and check the box for "Algorithmically sort items".
In the US at least the courts has made it clear that scrapping is legal.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/18/web-scraping-legal-court/
>Reframed: If you disrupt customers to avoid complying with local law, customers will perceive YOU to be the problem at least as much as local regulations

Is this actually true in practice? Anecdotally Italians seeemed pretty annoyed they coudldn't use chatgpt for a while.
Why are they overlooking their biggest value as an organization is to sell limited truth to AIbros who want the _true_ up/down vote information, rather than the fake number they decide to provide to the plebians?
Not OP but I have seen several use cases where first summarising parts and then summarising the summaries have been used.
Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want. Expect to make mistakes on your first custom boards, even if you watch every tutorial. Be forgiving of yourself; it’s a learning process.
> Reddit is usually not the place to go for expert discourse

Its not expert research but Reddit can be used to find probably-real-first-hand-experience on a given subject. Which is enough to prefix "reddit" to a lot of google searches. It just needs to be a marginal improvement to Google blogspam for it to have some intrinsic value.
That appears to be one of the major design goals for the Mojo programming language. It allows the developer to code at a high level of abstraction and indicate where parallel execution should be used. Then the execution environment automatically optimizes that at runtime based on the actual hardware available. That hardware may change drastically over the full lifecycle of the application code so in the future it will automatically take advantage of hardware advances such as the introduction of new types of specialized co-processors.

https://www.modular.com/mojo
Why should it not? If you're providing a service (presumably for profit), shouldn't you be bound by rules other commercial service providers have to follow in that jurisdiction as well? If not, you'd be at a massive advantage.
I think it's actually Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, not Napolean, who proposed that matrix.
All of those are examples of very challenged industries. Car dealers are scared of EVs because of the lack of maintenance revenue - many of them will fail.
Most computer retailers went bankrupt (remember Gateway?).
Kitchen appliances have been engineered down to break in 10 years.
Televisions are down to 2 or 3 panel manufacturers.
The bike business is famously broken.
How is this not retroactive enforcement?

The particular product under investigation and or litigation was around for 3 or 4 years, and while the SEC is free to reclassify financial products at will - the fact that they did so and are now attempting to extract company-destroying damages indicates that they did not particularly care.
Or:

for (const e of document.querySelectorAll("p")) { e.style.display = "none" }
Oh you share at least 99% with the individuals there whether you want to admit it to yourself or not.
It will try. See https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.10149 for something related.
>Unless they build a literal brick wall (paywall) around the site, that data can and will get scraped if the intention is to use for a model.

The irony if lowtax and :10bux: ends up being right all along about how to build a community...
This is far from universally true. If it's junior dev to PM then it makes sense you are defining the work of large swathes of people. That said, one of my pet peeves is junior PMs because the role requires significant skill, expertise, judgement and maturity. If you're just talking in meetings you're doing it wrong.
I recall learning about aspect-oriented programming (AOP) waaaaay back in the day. This was before inversion of control patterns and dependency injection frameworks mostly solved that problem space in the OOP languages I was dealing with. Even before that, most people just used singletons or some kind of service locater pattern.

Now that I spend a lot of time using Typescript, I find I rarely have the same issues that required those solutions. I believe that is due to the module system but I'm not entirely sure. I'm trying to think of the classic AOP problems, like structured log providers. Maybe it is the standardization of logging interfaces and the fact that I can trivially write adapters that makes this a non-issue for me these days?

I suppose, things like context managers [1] in React solve a similar problem space. That is probably the closest modern equivalent annoyance I can think of to the kind of problem that AOP was designed to solve.

To be honest, the tools I've had available were always able to solve the problem well enough. Every AOP solution I have seen is an order of magnitude more complicated than the problem it was trying to solve.

1. https://react.dev/reference/react/useContext
33-46% of workers on MTurk used LLMs in a text production task
It would embarrassingly hilarious for openai if this were true.
Not a perfect example, but the point is that it's not stopping anyone from doing anything malicious.
None of the top tech companies are European, so quite far.
Notesnook – Open-source and zero knowledge private note taking app
That look what i need for data privacy for my chat with pdf tool Documind. https://documind.chat
Anecdotal warning that this effect may reduce with age.
it sounds too much like "janky" to me
Yeaaahhh except there is an excerpt from one of his books where he suggest thats sacrificing a child produces the most potent magic possible, but you totally shouldnt do it (wink wink)
Ah, maybe. I see it differently though. reddit has never been about authentic content.

- When they started, I believe they boasted creating fake accounts to mimic engagement to help grow community

- It is painfully obvious the amount of political, gov sponsored, and corporate astro turfing that “gets through”. Both human and bot comment farms are real and have no doubt been artificially bolstering ideas and content for years

As I see it…

They have enabled this / looked the other away at this behavior forever in exchange for engagement. The super high tech AI chat bots are probably going to be welcomed for their clever content (hence why CEO could care less about its users anymore).

Their real value has always been having a controlling voice and being able to push viral ideas. The data thing is all hype noise IMO. It was never going to be a serious part of their IPO. Big messy gross company.
LLMs are the worst method for information retrial, except for every other method we tried.
I have, yes. Awaiting a response.
> I found the culprit, a regression in the printk time feature: https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/6/13/733

The issue hasn't been fixed yet, but if it affects you the proximate cause is known and can be reverted locally.
Your homepage needing a shader is at least a hot-pink flag for the whole company. Pretty janky here on Vivaldi as well unless I scroll really slowly.
Oh my.... I never thought of this.
but then again, I use the side of my palm for holding control.
This thread is like a team of scientists from an advanced spacefaring civilisation stranded on a stone age planet and discussing out how to start a fire with their tricorders

Ok a bit tongue in cheek :P But honestly for most things you can use a web server in a language of your choice and spit out HTML. For the HTML design there are templates and frameworks responsive out of the box (bootstrap etc). If you need any in-page wizardry there are well documented javascript libs you can drop in. This approach still works for most applications.
Bisect points at this commit, even if the cause isn't known yet: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
Librera Reader and FBReader have discreet progress bars you can set at the bottom of the screen which, when clicked/tapped, will take you to that place/chapter in the book!
The true malicious, and probably effective, approach is to silently poison outputs if you suspect automated behaviour. These large language model things might be useful there. Or the old school NLP stuff.
I have literally never heard this word before the infamous Google post, since then it's everywhere.
given

fn x -> int
if (randf32() < P) { panic }
return x

x is buggy for all values of P except P=0

if you want to assume P=0 when P<n then OK but you have to prove that's safe in your use case, it's not something that can be assumed as true in general, no matter how small P gets
One of my favorite laptops ever was the Toshiba T3100.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_T3100

At the time that keyboard combined with the super-readable display was magic. LCDs were a bummer after working with this.
https://github.com/qntm/base32768

https://github.com/keith-turner/ecoji

:D
Also, go right ahead and reject the feedback you Simply Do Not Want To Hear!

(I just loved that use of capital letters!)
> Stack Overflow would obviously be a much better source of quality training data for the kind of questions you presented.

I dont think we need a llm that only responds with "Your question was marked as a duplicate"
Yes, an excellent point. It's a variant of a business rule of thumb that I learned when I was younger that has served me well over the decades.

"No" is the most valuable word you have. Use it. It's easier to go broke by saying "yes" to the wrong thing than by saying "no" to the wrong thing.
Prompt Injection Detection Model
Deepset trained a specialised model for prompt injection detection. It works astonishingly well! It can be used as a custom node in Haystack pipelines.
>But the vast majority of SPAs are an order of magnitude more efficient to work on than the old paradigm of PHP/JSP/ASP/Whatever server pages

This is kind of a head scratcher. SPAs may be easier to work on than how things were done 20 years. But they're definitely not easier to work on than SSR in a modern stack.
What do you mean by this? I wrote the shader because gamedev is an interest of mine, and I wanted to give writing a fragment shader a try for the redesign.
> No heat pump?

In places with mild climates, you might not need anything at all. If you're in a place where it gets hot, a heat pump is practically an exact drop-in replacement for an A/C unit except that it provides heat as well. In my area, you basically can't even buy a one-way A/C unit any more because it's so obviously inferior. If you're in a place where it doesn't get hot (or you've decided to forego cooling in summer), a heat pump is no more expensive, bulky, or noisy than a boiler/furnace setup. Some people don't notice because the old tech came with their house, but that doesn't make it actually good. Again, where I am gas/oil heating is "grandfathered in" for existing homes but forbidden for new construction. The only real competitor to heat pumps is resistive electric. That's cheap and easy to install, and quiet, but considerably less efficient (and does nothing for cooling).

"I don't need/want what a heat pump provides" is not a particularly compelling point when most people do, and even the people who say that often change their tune when they try to sell their now-considered-deficient house.
> I like HackerNews because the conversations are mostly intelligent and polite

Comment sections like this one highlight the risks of mistaking comments that look intelligent and polite for authority. The number of confident, polite posts in this comment section that are giving out factually incorrect information is incredible. Someone down below was speculating about this drug’s cardiotoxicity in ways that could be dismissed within 15 seconds of reading the Wikipedia page, but they presented their speculation as if it had an air of scientific authority.

The number of commenters trying to suggest that psychedelics, which do not interact with the 5-HT4 receptor studied in this article, are a substitute for this drug or otherwise should be used for this indication is astounding.
I realised soon after posting that it's even dumber than my example. The analogy should have been a volunteer bouncer having a falling out with the owner, and refusing to let people watch the show. I mean sure, he could do that, but it's not exactly a shocker when he hears that his services are no longer required.
This sounds very dodgy. Will somebody be checking the degree of such "data alteration" and verify that the "AI" is actually inspired rather than copying?

To me this feels like its opening up the door for the elimination of copyright as any algorithmic layer interjected between scrapped data and end users could claim to be "inspired".
I struggled to get a repo up and running so that I could follow along with this series. I think I managed to simplify things a bit here: https://github.com/kaycebasques/rust-riscv64-qemu-starter
This article is such a mix of hilarious and deeply frustrating.

It does identify a real problem of people who get things done but what they have done is useless at best or harmful at worst.

The issue is what to do about it. I’m guessing it’s hard to say because the two skills that I’d think of as smart in the context of this article are, understanding what is important and taste to know what good looks like.

Of course both of those things are very hard to teach and in practice mostly seem to be taught via apprenticeship.
There is no level of abstraction at which you can write code that won't simultaneously be too obstruse for some, and an impossible maintenance burden to others. There is no programming paradigm, language, framework or tool that is going to fix this.

Fun to argue though.
Reddit is valuable for its milk, but gave away the cow years ago with the free API.
Reading this makes me thanks the gods wikipedia is what it is (aka : a nonprofit, dedicated to fullfilling its original benevolent mission). Imagine if google or microsoft had succeeded in overthrowing wikipedia, what internet would look like.

Wikipedia, in itself, accounts for a good 50% of the positive image i have of the internet.