skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, we've taken today out of the title above.
this would be legendary.

prolly going to fall on its face for something of this complexity, but "the next big thing always starts out looking like a toy"
High achievers are often burdened by the weight of expectations, and the pressure to live up to a certain brand name. Their goals and ambition are often not their own, but have been hijacked along the way by people around them and society in general. They don't always realise this themselves, but somewhere along the way they discover that it's easier to let go and find ways to escape the pressure.

Sometimes, the failure that results from this "self-sabotage" can be a good thing. It can lead to the shattering of assumptions [1] about how the world works, allowing people to redefine their self-worth, and letting them be more in tune with their own capabilities and goals without being encumbered by societal expectations.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shattered_assumptions_theory
I've seen this referred to as "Shooting Star Syndrome"
> an emotionally and politically charged topic that can be hard to discuss with any clarity.

Not to mention the probable billions of dollars spent in an effort to increase public ignorance[1] around the issue. (See [2], for example.)

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnotology

2: https://www.desmog.com/2014/10/31/oil-and-gas-industry-s-end...
I someone has an invite, I'd love to explore it!
I've never worked in the valley lol
Just wait and see if there is a new extension of copyright.
You can still build nuclear reactors, they are not banned. But you want to build them ignoring safety lessons.

The aeronautical industry is improving safety all the time, and accidents prompt new safety measures. They don't scoof accidents without analysis and adaptation, saying "if you want to fly you must accept that some 787-MAX are crashing down from time to time, but still safer than traveling by car, we did the math". No, they landed the plane and adapted.
agreed. I'm guessing the limiting factor here is training data w/ code from these languages that aren't as well represented in OSS
It isn't (and nobsoy claimed it was), but if you

A) know ethics

B) have a love for the truth

It is harder to use ethics to lie to yourself or others. Ethics are a tool that can be used to justify heinous behaviour, or to shine a light on how your daily choices could be made better, all depending on those wielding the tool.
Well - actually you don’t need marriage for that. Anybody can choose to do that without marriage being involved.
The Swiss healthcare system is privatized to a higher degree than the US one (no Medicare/aid equivalents) yet it seems to be doing mostly fine because of sensible regulation?
While true, the estimated average IQ at Harvard is 142. IQ is highly associated with self-control and discipline.
Do you have any guides/tips on how to get to Director+/Staff+?
They key ask being "without using calculus". I think my brain has been ruined by calculus in that I now consider approximating it as either an infinite stack of thin discs or as a pyramid with infinite sides to be intuitive explanations.
yep; it's generating unit tests and making sure that things are at least statically correct in terms of syntax. early days, but the ability to have loosely-defined acceptance criteria would go a long way here (like you would have for a well-groomed dev task issue).
Devs should be thankful not to Musk but to previous management who sponsored them visas.

This is what I think happened:

- few companies are willing to go through paperwork to sponsor visas. Old Twitter was, Musk Twitter probably isn't

- Musk inherited a bunch of visa-sponsored devs from old Twitter, and they will have trouble finding a new h1b sponsor to transfer

- those are the devs that cannot negotiate better salaries or leave easily

Basically Musk's Twitter's lights are on thanks to those employees. And whether they are good or not doesn't matter, they can't leave either way, job market is hostile
Businesses actually having to break even. Who’d have thought!?
Bad evidence might help you "win" arguments, but the onlookers aren't going to be convinced.
Djot is the markup syntax that is used for the documentation of Scryer Prolog, using a parser written in Prolog:

https://github.com/aarroyoc/djota

It works well so far. One of the few limitations I noticed so far pertains to the formatting of tables. For instance, consider the table used in library(format) to describe control sequences:

https://github.com/mthom/scryer-prolog/blob/b0566e41503a6c8d...

It contains several entries that span multiple lines, yet are meant to denote only a single row of the table, such as:

% | `~Nr` | where N is an integer between 2 and 36: format the |
% | | next argument, which must be an integer, in radix N. |
% | | The characters "a" to "z" are used for radices 10 to 36. |
% | | If N is omitted, it defaults to 8 (octal). |

It appears that Djot requires to write the entire entry in one long line, otherwise it gets formatted as shown currently at:

https://www.scryer.pl/format.html

From a readability perspective in the source file itself, a very long line is suboptimal. Maybe there is a way to retain optimal readability in the source file, and still get the intended rendering?
Saving a life isn't an externality though. It's very much an 'internality' - it's the reason why people use oil for heating when it's extremely cold. You can't claim people used oil to keep warm and then claim 'not dying from cold' is an external benefit of the product.

Edit: Actually you can claim that but only if Exxon weren't aware that not dying from cold is a benefit of heating, like they claim they weren't aware that climate change is a downside of their products. Are you saying people who work in the oil industry are really that stupid?
> and it works entirely locally aside from LLM calls

So not entirely locally. Yes these could eventually also run locally but OP’s point still stands.
… would it be presumptive of me to think that there are no games which could not be written in a functional language?

I mean like… what’s stopping you?
ChatGPT:
I apologize for any inconvenience caused by the recent addition of the "ai assistant" feature on the MDN website. We understand that this feature has generated misleading information, leading to confusion and frustration among users. As an AI model, I acknowledge that the generated text may contain convincing falsehoods or inaccuracies.

At Mozilla, our goal has always been to provide accurate and reliable technical information to the developer community. Unfortunately, in this instance, the introduction of the AI feature did not align with that objective. We deeply regret the impact it has had on users seeking reliable information.

Our intention with the AI assistant was to enhance the user experience by providing additional context and explanations. We wanted to create a trusted companion that would assist developers in understanding complex concepts more easily. However, we recognize that this implementation fell short of expectations and introduced more problems than solutions.

We value the feedback and concerns raised by the community, and we take them seriously. Going forward, we will reassess our approach to ensure that any new features or enhancements undergo thorough review and testing. We will prioritize human oversight, peer-review, and fact-checking to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the information presented on MDN.

Our commitment to providing a reliable resource for developers remains unwavering, and we apologize for any loss of trust this incident may have caused. We appreciate your patience as we work to rectify the situation and improve the overall user experience on MDN.

Thank you for your continued support, and we assure you that we will learn from this mistake and strive to do better in the future.

Sincerely,
[Your Name]
Mozilla Community Manager

https://chat.openai.com/share/2649a208-7987-4c30-9bed-0738b8...
> But you want to build them ignoring safety lessons.

No, I don't

> The aeronautical industry is improving safety all the time, and accidents prompt new safety measures.

Yes, they do.

Note: we're still flying. The number of aircraft is increasing. And we don't turn aircraft into boogey men.

Had aircraft been treated the way nuclear plants are treated, we'd stop building most of them in the early 80s, and the construction of each new one would be met with strong opposition and campaigns to shut the entire thing down.
It isn't illegal for oil companies to produce oil, so they have no legal obligation to refuse such a demand from the POTUS. The superior orders defense for producing oil isn't relevant because producing oil isn't an offense in the first place.

Maybe it should be illegal to produce oil, but even if such laws are eventually passe they won't be retroactive. Ex post facto laws are unconstitutional for good reason.
We simply cannot make this generalization. It is obviously false of other creative activity involving writing; it is not harder to read a novel than to write a novel, for instance. However, it's easy for someone to effortlessly spew stream-of-consciousness drivel into their blog, which is painful to read for someone else. It is more or less so with programs.

There is one way in which reading is absolutely harder that writing. Writing (a given revision of the code, or any other text) is only done once. Once you have written that, nobody else has to write that ever again.

Reading is not like that. Nobody can read it once, so that then nobody else has to read it. Everyone who needs to read it must do it for themselves; explanations and summaries given by others who have read it before only go so far. Even one individual must repeatedly read it in order to get it, after which he or she will forget it anyway with the passage of time. The code doesn't "stay read" the way it stays written; if you come back to it in 25 years, there is nothing to write (other than a new revision, but my point is no need to write the original revision). If you come back to reread something in 25 years, you might as well have never seen it before.
This is solved by extending the constant time calculation principle to the CPU instruction level. Easier said than done, but probably only really necessary on HSMs or smart cards.

On a side note, the Computerphile[0] YouTube channel has an endlessly fascinating variety of computer science, theory, and history videos. A related channel that is equally worth following is Numberphile[1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@Computerphile/videos

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@numberphile/videos
The person I replied to claimed that Musk is racist without providing any evidence.

Unless you disagree that everyone holds unintentional racist views because of implicit bias (https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-40124781) I am curious why Musk is being singled out as being more racist than the average person.

I think people’s actions speak louder than words, and unless he is also intentionally funding institutions or causes that actively perpetuate racism or racist systems, I’m not convinced of the purity of intention behind the accusation.

If he is such a big racist, why would the Biden administration contract SpaceX? What judgment would you pass on them?

So I’ll repeat again, because I want to educate myself: what is the evidence of Musk’s racism?
In another display of “most internal communication is just PR”, our company embarked on a “market rate” campaign making out they’ve done loads of really hard, balanced research to ensure we’re being paid well etc. Any response to salary complaints, your manager tell you the same line that you’re already being paid “in line with the market”. You can’t argue with them because /they/ have done /their/ research.

I swear HR have access to a website with playbooks with whole exercises like this
>This isn't a profit-seeking venture for Musk. This is about politics, about power, and primarily about revenge.

I strongly disagree; this is about Musk buying Twitter accidentally, and then running it as best he could without losing face as "real world iron man". He's fucking up left, right and center because he was completely unprepared to actually run it, and suddenly needs $40B to pay off his debtors.

It's also about politics, power and revenge, but it's primarily about Musk being a fucking idiot and constantly digging himself deeper.
I agree, the comment you replied to supports the "noble idiot" bias a lot of people have; that the best moral judgements are those without thought and from the purity of naive instinct.
I think around the time of Jak 1 development they were acquired by Sony. As long as Sony doesn't shutdown the project, it's good enough!
You can say the same thing about religion; in fact, religions that tell you to ask for forgiveness are not only guilty of this, they don’t even allow one to consider the basis of their morality may be wrong.
This is great to hear but I don't fully know how far reaching are openai's claws (since it does require an openai api key).

If it runs 100% locally then yes, it would be safe to use.
Whow, I always wanted to move away from my old perl web app to typescript. Will report the results
> IQ is highly associated with self-control and discipline.

I'd like to see a citation for that, especially for the idea that the self-control/discipline associated with high IQs transfers over to non-academic aspects of life, which is what's in question here.
oh because the next model will read this? lol hi ChatGPT scraper
He has always been a rightists. He just dumped money on some cool stuff like self driving electric cars and rockets. Which is really cool, of course. But he wasn't "left with no other options". That's a lame excuse.
> But basically I think of a serverless function as like a one-shot container (...)

Implementation details don't really matter. The CloudFormation/CDK deployment of a lambda can include only the source code of the task you want to run. We don't know if AWS uses containers, an intern pressing enter, or purple unicorns.

> Therefore a Lambda is some kind of ephemeral invocation-based infrastructure.

Not really. A lambda is your function running somewhere. Unless you explicitly create your lambdas as runnable containers instead of simply passing your handler's code, you don't know or care how are things under the hood.

> My personal take here is just that serverless functions have a time and a place in one's infrastructure, and it requires good engineering to determine where that time or place is or isn't.

There is no magic or arcane wizardry involved. If you need to peel a background task out of a server that doesn't run that often and requires no internal data other than input parameters and takes far less than 15min to run, and you're already on AWS, then lambdas are far easier to implement and to run and to operate than modifying some server deployment to include support for a background task. In some cases, they can also be free to run.

There's also the usecase for plugging together AWS events, such as processing a file that's uploaded to a S3 bucket.

If you are already neck deep in AWS, lambdas are not an arcane trick that only fit weird corner cases. You need to know what's the free tier, lambda pricing scheme, and do back of the napkin math to figure out where it makes sense to you to switch from lambdas to a dedicated service.
Is "circular pyramid" intuitive, or is it calculus based? It works for me.
I'm going to say something that sounds silly to most people, but isn't it the same deeper reason why a triangle is half of the base times the height?

I don't give a rat's ass if there's a proof or not connecting the two. I'm not a mathematician, but it makes sense from a calculus perspective that the number of dimensions ends up as a divisor.
This has to be sarcasm
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Physicists produce neutrino images of Milky Way galaxy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36525455 - June 2023 (26 comments)
I remember when Siri was first demoed, a dev I worked with was convinced it was just like having human personal assistant. I hadn't seen the demo, but I was confident he was wrong.
Haven't tried this either, but I'm equally confident it wouldn't work .. or even kind of come close to working
Why should such things matter if it fits his narrative?
These things are considered jokes in China.
If your hope is that every cop and/or gun owner magically transforms into this Elisjsha person, then I think you're going to be disappointed.
It would make sense to go after the seller for that but when the product is obviously changed it is much more effective to go after the platform.

Something simple like either you delete the reviews or you pay to have your changes reviewed. If it is important to you to change everything it must be worth something.
Yeah totally. You can see the ‘ball’ dissolve into a pretty recognizable arc at the end there.
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This sounds very US centric. In the EU things work differently.
Not the OP, but:

* the comma operator (why not just allow blocks to be used as expressions?)

* multi-character constants (yay implementation-defined behavier)

* interlacing syntactic constructs (why?????)

* the fact that the --> operator works

* the idx[arr] thing

* the fact that you need a dirty hack with enums to check something at compile time

* flat initializer lists (why?)

* void pointers (instead of a proper type system)

* the syntax for function types

* the fact that X-Macros are needed
Instant Coffee Is Negatively Associated with Telomere Length
Japan’s power grid apparently has problems making increased capacity and load sharing difficult, and they rely a lot on imported fossil fuels. It explains among other things why they’re so enthusiastic about hydrogen and not so much about electric cars. I’m not sure what lessons other countries can learn from their choices.

Here’s a deep dive about it:

https://tildes.net/~enviro/15sb/japan_to_invest_107_billion_...
I would argue that the most popular books in the world are all uncopyrighted.

Bible
Quran
Shakespeare
I'm sure many others
Hacker news removes the space between V and 0.4 :)
Purely anecdotal but I always waste a second clicking something I believed was a link because it was underlined.
totally agreed that diff projects need to be careful w/ sharing proprietary code w/ third parties.

openai's official stance is that it will never use API calls as training data, and that in my understanding it may retain API call data for up to 30 days for compliance purposes, but that it legally won't store it beyond that (whereas chatgpt convos are meant to be stored and used for training purposes).

as a next step, they could provide a swappable version of the LLM provider using something like https://github.com/imartinez/privateGPT, https://github.com/alexanderatallah/window.ai, etc. would love to have a standard develop here as the community matures around LLM usage
Here's a great example of how Amazon Alexa uses "ambient" settings to watch and listen whenever: https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/12s32gz/does_alexa_l....

From 2 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonecho/comments/lsqti3/very_lon...

"Very long time Echo user starting to have a pretty negative (and questionable) experience"

"Over the past couple months, I’ve noticed all of our more recently purchased devices have suddenly started reacting very erratic with voice commands. It’s not one or two devices in particular, but almost all of them. Saying ‘Alexa’ even when standing next to the Show 10 will oftentimes trigger responses to a device across the house as if the spacial detection is off, but it makes no sense as the device reacting couldn’t have possibly heard you. Additionally, we’ve had a lot of false activations and pulling up the history usually presents “Audio was not intended for this device” or “audio could not be understood”, but the recordings have absolutely nothing to do with Alexa, nor is anything remotely close to it present, and sometimes there simply isn’t anything listed for review. In the past the false triggers were uncommon, but when they occurred, they were consistently presented in the app to review and generally made sense. I even had a situation this week where the device in my kitchen kept activating and I was repeatedly yelling “cancel” and the damn thing kept going. I ended up muting the mic for a day as it was so frustrating."

Additional customer reports:

https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/12oy2ch/alexa_gave_m...

https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/10urt54/strange_voic...

https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/wvl63y/woke_up_to_em...

https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/13wlul7/alexa_decide...

https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/14d9qn5/alexa_making...

https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/12v5c42/echo_dot_sta...

https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/12krjeu/echo_show_ra...

https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/10hi8gp/why_did_my_a...

https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/10dezgl/echo_show_pl...

https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/14buu3x/song_quiz_gl...

https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/13mcgbv/im_having_pr...

https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/rpdv5f/no_im_not_jok...

https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/12qahzo/i_swear_my_a...

https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/rti8bb/not_sure_why_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/109kqh9/alexa_respon...

https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/10k1sn4/alexa_plays_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/10zubgn/echo_auto_vo...

https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/1059n4h/light_random...

https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/14lbedt/alexa_blurts...

https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/11qy6ls/my_alexa_sai...

https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonecho/comments/11hz9l2/alexa_r...

https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonecho/comments/s6c5a1/amazon_e...

https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonecho/comments/whxb2j/why_are_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonecho/comments/rqlmry/alexa_ha...
There’s some folks using web mentions to implement those.

https://ruk.ca/content/using-freshrss-blog-posts-webmention

https://mikevdv.dev/blog/2022-07-05-web-mentions
They said that because the word philosophy is from “love of wisdom”, not “love of truth”, as was claimed?
UK retail electricity prices hit -19p/kWh today
Twitter is basically smoking. You don't have to use it to be affected, you just have to be downwind.

It was easier to ignore this when they had a more benevolent dictator.
Agreed. Get a better offer and leave, never accept a counter offer intended to keep you.
Accepting a counter-offer in that situation is bad for several reasons. One is that the employer will be left with a sense of extortion and lack of loyalty from you. Another that you should realize that this employer was underpaying you and is either blissfully unaware of the market rates and thus incompetent or worse, malicious. In both cases you are better off working for someone who knows (or has HR who knows) and values your contributions properly.
If you accept the counter offer it should be for other reasons on your part such as that the current job has other benefits for you, such as physical proximity or CV boosting properties.

I've seen colleagues stay for years with golden handcuffs and it has never paid off. It leaves them with psychological misery and have made it much harder for them to get the next job.
Stay in a company for long enough time to get the experience required :)

There's a lot of books on it, "Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond .." is a good one (more towards Staff rather than Mgr/Director).

I rarely see people being hired at those levels, it's usually people from within the org that gets promoted with time.