skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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As a hiring manager and an interviewee, I found a common struggle, the difficulty in narrating our experiences and achievements compellingly and concisely. Those moments when the interviewer says, "Tell me about a time when...." can be more daunting than any technical question.

Observing this, I spent years mentoring individuals and authoring books on job hunting and interview success, but I felt the need for a more interactive, immediate solution.

Interview Igniter (https://www.interviewigniter.com) is an AI-based coach that provides real-time, personalized coaching for behavioral interviews. It lets people rehearse and refine their responses to typical (and sometimes tricky) behavioral questions.

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Looking forward to your feedback, and thank you!
I agree with the first sentence. I don't think in 2023 a new programming language will help humans in a significant way.
Funny you linked old.reddit, I find the new version unusable via firefox (I do not do mobile).
Curious why swimming is considered a required skill for people to have in Iceland, and why swimming lessons until age 14 are compulsory, as the article says.

It does seem like swimming pools in Iceland are a bit different than the U.S., being geothermally heated. That answered my first question, which was "wouldn't it be too cold to swim for most of the year?" and may also offer an explanation for why they become community hubs: a place to be outside during winter without freezing to death. Just a guess on my part; would love to visit Iceland but haven't yet.

We have plenty of community pools in the U.S. (about 309k of them, according to a quick Google search), but the vast majority are private. We had a swimming pool at my house growing up (I consider it a miracle, since we were fairly poor), but I also spent a lot of time at the community pool.

Growing up in a hot climate, our pools were never heated, geothermally or otherwise, and served mainly as a way to cool down in the 10000 degree heat. That may be partly why there are so many private ones in the U.S.: you would jump in them to cool down, then after a few minutes you'd get out and go play somewhere else until you got hot again.

Oh, the other purpose for private pools is teenage skinny dipping, which you wouldn't do in a community hub (I assume).
It sure is an interesting time for linguistics now. For the first time there now is a second entity that can understand and produce language. Will be exciting to see how the field will transform.
Yeah, that trying to bold half of a sentence - or even better, the middle of a sentence - is why i was wondering about simpler alternatives to DOM. Some time ago i toyed around with an HTML editor[0] (that one had to use a DOM anyway, but my question is for rich text editing in general - BTW the rectangles in the shot show a selection that goes across nodes) and doing something like that involved traversing all the nodes (going both down and up the node tree, starting from the cursor's starting position), finding the closest common ancestors under the selection, creating "B" siblings to them and then reparenting them under these new "B" nodes.

You can move a lot of that stuff to reusable methods but personally i find the whole "editing" aspect to be more involved than the "drawing" side - and also the one more likely to be different than a plain text editor - when dealing with DOM-like structures. Hence why i am interested to see what alternatives there are.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/jLlyNSS.png
I personally woudn't mind not having moderators, as the ones we have at the moment are really bad and have pushed their political views in apparently impartial subs (like /r/politics).
In other words: Because they think they can get 500% the revenue by abusing their users even more, they're unwilling to accept the 450% revenue they could get by making a reasonable compromise.

And now they're running the risk of getting 5% the revenue.

* No actual numbers were harmed in the making of this post.
would be curious about this, too, if folks could share!
Of course Reddit's management knew what the outcome would be, and they chose that outcome. They wanted to clear out API users. It's not a new tactic - you can see Twitter doing it, of course, and many other businesses.
Huh, I wasn't aware of that.
It is far, far more likely that the way humans learn language resembles LLMs than it does Chomsky’s model, however.

Biology is intrinsically local. For Chomsky’s model of language instinct to work, it would have to reduce down to some sort of embryonic developmental process consisting of entirely of local gene-activated steps over the years it takes for a human child to begin speaking grammatical sentences. This is in direct contrast to most examples of human instinct, which disappear very quickly as the brain develops.

Really the main advantage that Chomsky’s ideas had is that no one could imagine how something simpler could possibly result in linguistic understanding. But large language models demonstrate that no, actually one simple learning algorithm is perfectly sufficient. So why evoke something more complex?
From the conclusion:

> First, the fact that language models can be trained on large amounts of text data
and can generate human-like language without any explicit instruction on gram-
mar or syntax suggests that language may not be as biologically determined as
Chomsky has claimed. Instead, it suggests that language may be learned and
developed through exposure to language and interactions with others.

I'm not a linguist nor a cognitive scientist, but this seems so problematic that I am not sure that I read it correctly. For example, how is the fact that language models "work" contradict the innateness of language in humans?
> No Language model is yet even close to the scale of the human brain

If GPT-4 has 100 trillion parameters, it has as many parameters as the human brain has synapses. Synapses are a lot simpler than parameters; they're digital. A single neuron needs many synapses, all of roughly equal weight, emitting many pulses over a short time in order to convey a single weighted value.

On top of that, you may have heard that the human brain does a lot of things besides writing. You subtract the motor cortex, the visual and limbic systems etc... a 100 trillion parameter model is unambiguously larger than the language processing portions of the human brain.

> Brains don't start at 0. Evolution, dna/rna etc. There's obviously some pre disposition for language learning in humans but that alone isn't enough ground for a "universal grammar"

The human genome is 24 gigabits long. It's negligibly small compared to a language model.
What threat is there? Reddit had, and still has, all the power dynamics in these conversations. It's their product, Christian can't really coerce them to do anything whereas Reddit can and is.
If you're having to poke around in running code to find out WTF some symbol even is and where it comes from, and that's not a very uncommon thing to have to do, that's unacceptable IMO.

> that seems to be a pre-requisite for any senior engineer in any language

In many languages and language-ecosystems, there's little point to memorizing e.g. method names and signatures that you're not using so often that memorization happens naturally, because your tools can remind you when you, fairly seamlessly, when you need to know. A lot less memorization goes a lot farther in those worlds, than it does in Rails, and the pain of encountering something one is not familiar with is near-zero. Coming back to them after a year or two—or five—away's not a big deal. The brain-space required for Rails is unusually large, and the rate of rot in Rails skill is high. Ramp-up time in an unfamiliar Rails codebase is rough, and requires assistance from those already "read in" to avoid a bunch of wasted time tracking down which gem provides such-and-such dynamically-named object or method or what-have-you. "Which library is this even from?" is not a question that ever reaches the level of conscious thought, in many other languages & frameworks.

Getting up-to-speed on an unfamiliar Rails codebase is full of little side-quests that simply aren't needed elsewhere, and you have to hold a lot more in your head to remain productive in it, than other systems require. This is obviously not impossible, but... oof, why?

All that written out... there's a chance I'd still pick it for a new, solo project, depending on the task. It's fine as long as you are very-familiar with the entire codebase, and some of its gems are major time-savers. I get why companies, and especially move-fast prototyping startups, end up with it, I'm just very done onboarding to existing Rails codebases, personally, without some serious pain & suffering compensation.
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As we've just launched, AmpTrip is currently in beta, US only (for now)and we're very keen to get feedback from the HN community. We'd love for you to try it out and tell us what you think. Your feedback will help us refine the platform and make it even better.

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Thanks in advance for your feedback!
I don't usually (get to) talk much in our team meetings. This one time I suggested we try FP for a new internal project - and the backlash I got was quite unexpected. Merely the mention made my teammates launch into a dozen different assumptions, before I even finished the sentence. I was shut down pretty quickly. I was surprised, because usually they are at least receptive to hearing out new ideas.

I think outside of HN, there's a large chunk of people out there who just have this prejudice about FP. I am only about 10 years into the software industry and I feel like I'm missing some history that is not recorded anywhere, but lives as a tribal memory.
I think the definition, for a lot of people, is like the famous definition of pornography - I can't tell you what it is, but I know it when I see it. This is a prime area for courts to provide some judgment, but only if they had a clear set of criteria (not necessarily a bright line, but a set of criteria as to what makes a software patent sufficiently "inventive") on which to judge software patents, which they definitely don't have today.
Simple water waves or simple sinusoidal EM wave (such as AM radio waves) display interference. Both are classical objects because their g^(2) > 1. You can look at, for instance, the g^(1) function to determine how nicely a particular wave interferes with itself.

Second order correlations directly test for the bosonic nature of photons. In quantum light, photons clump together because they are bosons, while in classical light photons are independent of each other and any clumping that happens is purely probabilistic. The g^(2) function tests this degree of clumping.
Reddit API reads are all going to be pretty unique unfortunately. They're all logged in & have their own mix of subs selections etc
I think that both are true:

* Coinbase is deliberately doing things that are against the law.

* The SEC is being deliberately vague/unhelpful.
Definitely threw up a bit in my mouth at:

"Limited lifetime deal - Less than 100 licenses left. Create an account to access it."

Does anyone seriously fall for this shit? How do you sleep at night knowing you've written something so manipulative?

Just when you thought the practice of law couldn't get more scummy. At least with a real lawyer there's some laws protecting and defining the relationship. Not surprised that someone is attempting this, but deeply disappointed anyway.

related: https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/27/business/chat-gpt-avianca-mat...
I am not anti-capitalists by any means and I think much of the VC industry is a Ponzi scheme. But at least some good comes out of it occasionally.

But private equity is pure evil. I worked for a number of VC backed companies and the only one that failed completely was just not able to pivot to a changing mobile landscape as much as we tried.

We had a years long head start on mobile devices/field services with Windows CE and Microsoft imploding in mobile and the rise of iPhones and cheap Android devices was too much of a sea change.

On the other hand, the slice and dice and look good for the public market that I saw first hand from a PE firm when I was the tech lead was too much. They wouldn’t hire any permanent people for a massive migration/integration effort as they were consolidating the market and forced me to use contractors.
You have Hellen Keller who went blind and deaf at 19 months.
Im not sure given the information from (my non - American) environment.

1.) I sometimes talk with young woman about this topic. A few mentioned who are ambitious and do wish having kids start to think about getting a house man as a father. Also when I mentioned this studies some women complain that man prefer women with lower earnings...
We know that prestige, earning much etc. is a big thing in US. These observations should be checked and I think, only one mentioned study did it.

2.) The explanation with video games is very narrow. We know, that school teachers in high developed countries tend to prefer girls.

3.) Well I see myself as counter example. Though high educated I do have a lack of money as a long term CS student (well, a thing in Germany :D ) Though I have "manly" hobbies (sailing, techno clubbing, networking in mainly manly enviroments) it is not I have lack of interested women. Maybe, because I dont live in America.
Is this question in reference to what the imaginary construct "society" should want, or actual choices, made by the people who run things, about the way the world is arranged?
Well, they aren’t really forcing the company to do anything. The original owners agree to the sale which is financed by debt that is secured by the business.

The other non-owner stakeholders (employees, customers) may not enjoy this new deal but that is the reality with any new owner of a business.

Of course, it is crappy when this results in negative experiences for them but at the end of the day, employees are free to work elsewhere and customers are free to buy elsewhere.

That last sentence is mostly meant as a warning to the new owners: screw up the business too badly and you won’t have clients or employees.
What exactly are these agencies doing if they can't even succeed at stopping the quintessential textbook case of a bad person doing a bad thing?
TEMPEST, anyone?

Faraday Cage is not just a mesh of wires but a solid wall/floor/ceiling cladding of copper.

Takes care of LEDs too.

https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/news-features/decla...
I wouldn't be shocked to find that humans don't learn from syntax and semantics, all told. We certainly aren't doing that with our kids, as they learn. And when they start picking up language, it is rapid and impressive. Note that it comes before they can speak, too. Seeing kids ability to understand some complicated directions when they can only do rudimentary sign language is eye opening.
Imagine being told all you need to do to learn Spanish, is to read a 300,000 word Spanish dictionary end to end so that you can probalistically come up with 1000 conversational phrases. Anyone who has learned a language can tell you it just doesn't work like that. You don't work by accumulating a massive dataset and training on it. No one can hold such a massive dataset of anything in their head at once.
It's kinda of like calling a hydraulic pump "mechanical muscle".

These types of "mistakes" are more about the authors letting their intentions and hopes known on how they wish the thing to be used.
> , but irl conversations I've had mostly skew towards media, computers, and gossip.

Same, but like, how do you talk about any of that stuff, without also touching on "gender, relationships, and life dynamics".

Like, I have no idea how a group of friends would talk about, say "that cool new Spider-Man movie" without also talking about gender / race / life dynamics / etc. Those topics are so fundamental, they're a part of almost everything.
Why do we tip?

If for a fare wage, does the server deserve less because I ordered a salad instead of a steak?

If for service, what is 'good service'? Can you quantify it? Do you even want it to begin with?

Perhaps the next time you're about to sit down at a restaurant you should request the 'zero tip' experience. This should give you a lower bound from which to judge off of, if indeed you value the 'service' enough at all.
True. 4chan is FAR superior to any other community, including (perhaps, especially) HN. It will still be there after everything else is long gone.

I believe the lack of magic internet points and very hands off moderation is the key. Also, I think it's some kind of addiction to raw unfiltered truth. It's not a place for people who get offended, you have to grow past that and have a thick skin. Say it like it is.
Humans are, in the sense that we're working off the checkpoint passed to us from our parents: the bare minimum language centers our brain is evolved to produce regardless. The sequence of checkpoints evolves effectively from scratch, but individual humans adapt the checkpoint for their environment from birth.

I like to think of the brain as the general model we've trained with evolution, and the person's experiences as the specialization.
Why do you think you are anything more?
Also interesting is Peter Norvig’s essay on the two cultures of language modeling from more than a decade ago:

https://norvig.com/chomsky.html
In order to believe this, you'd need to be able to imagine a specific test of something that an LLM could not do under any circumstances. Previously, that test could have been something like "compose a novel sonnet on a topic". Today, it is much less clear that such a test (that won't be rapidly beaten) even exists.
No, humans learn their languages through observation and generation - watching older people speak, and then imitating it. They get corrections, too, when they mispronounce or misuse words.
We seem to get these comments all the time from any Europeans gawking at the US here on Hacker News. Just to be clear, you understand much of the rest of the developed world has strong social safety nets, abundant public services, free to the payer healthcare, often free college? The US has none of this and workers are expected to bear all of these costs out of their own wages, so those wages need to be higher than they are in Europe for that to be possible. You can stare at us like we're all idiots, but what do you expect anyone reading this to do? If every American reading Hacker News agreed to all vote for candidates who would put in place stronger safety nets and public services and subsidize wage earners so they didn't need to bear every cost out of their own wages, we still may as be pissing in the ocean both because of how small a portion of the voter base we represent but also because our legislative system is more or less intentionally designed to make that kind of thing impossible.

Do you realize we just went through a crisis where the country nearly defaulted on its debt because our Congress somehow has the legal ability to pass a budget but then not agree to actually fund the budget they themselves passed just a few months earlier? The only way out of that was to agree to pass a law saying we'd cut public spending even further, outside of the regular budgeting cycle, even if the budgets themselves don't say to do that. We just pass laws saying we're going to ignore and contradict other laws we just passed, mostly because the structure of our representative system severely overweights the representation given to underpopulated states, originally because that prevented slavery from being banned and we had to give them that power for them to agree to be part of the country, but now who even knows why? Uncharitably, because billionaires and gigantic businesses that don't want to get taxed have convinced people in these states that stronger public spending would benefit atheists and foreigners and not them. Charitably, it's more inertia than anything else and it's more or less baked into the American identity that this is how we do things and it's why we're special and successful, not that we have a resource-rich country that was underpopulated because of smallpox killing all the natives and across two vast oceans from a couple of world wars that destroyed any plausible industrial competition for most of a century.

But again, what are any of us supposed to do about is? My choice as just a single person who happens to make more than enough money to pay well above the posted price for anything I regularly purchase is to tip generously or take this kind of principled stand that I'm going to singlehandledly change centuries of cultural habits and expectations by stiffing hourly service staff, because well, the rest of the world has done it.
When he tried doing private negotiations they falsely spread accusations that Christian had been threatening them.
Since large fungi came first, maybe trees have refuted the mushrooms?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototaxites
Humans learn from the structure of the world -- not the structure of language.

LLMs cheat at generating text because they do so via a model of the statistical structure of text.

We're in the world, it is us who stipulate the meaning of words and the structure of text. And we stipulate new meanings to novel parts of the world daily.

What else is an 'iPhone' etc. ? There's nothing in `i P h o n e` which is at all like an iphone.

We have just stipulated this connection. The machine replays these stipulations to us -- it does not make them, as we do.
Exactly. Regardless of estimates, 20 mil to run custom Reddit client is ridiculous.
I've been using Nu as my default shell in Windows Terminal on my personal PC for a good year or so now. Can't recommend it enough. It integrates pretty well with windows PowerShell/CMD in that you can easily reference binaries outside of Nu's shell environment. Like PowerShell, Nu also has the concept of structured data primitives that can be passed between programs.

Between Nu and the new-ish winget package manager it almost feels like a proper linux distribution these days.
Isnt that what the CEO is trying to do with charging for API access? Twitter did the same thing. Apollo dev could just raise rates to $3 a month and he makes money and the user in return get a apollo which offers an ad free browsing experience.
Regarding database hosting, if you would consider giving the data away, I would suggest converting it to an SQLite database and sharing it over Torrent.
Sorry, but you clearly know little-to-nothing about working in the public sector. Government is no more incompetent than anyone else across the board. Frequently better.