skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that it’s accurate to describe LinkedIn, but the larger context is subjective moderation on a government run social media platform, so I was trying to point out that what’s safe on LinkedIn is generally considered to be good by the Democratic party.
Anecdotally, I heard a story from a teacher I worked with who spent a lot of time with a student who was lagging behind their peers in school and was given extra support through the special education program. Their family decided to move away, so the school put together a file about how the student's progress. They later heard that the receiving school system found that student to be far ahead of their peers and put them into a gifted program.

There is such a difference in environments in this country's education system. I was doing math in my sophomore year of high school that some don't see until college (or ever). Was I inherently smarter? Of course not. I had good teachers and books, I didn't have to work a job at night, etc.
greece is not far from me, it's not necessarily distance, to me it's just news medias that are just shallow amplifiers (sensationalism)
It's possible via a custom validation. I just added a test for that to showcase how: https://github.com/keygen-sh/typed_params/commit/e56fe479f26...
The slow, sad death of Twitter
Nope. The regex library is tightly coupled with searching strings. That's an intentional design decision. Making a regex engine like this have a generic alphabet is a total non-starter. It's impractically difficult for me to do. Especially the API design and doing it in a way that doesn't impact the perf of the primary use case.

The kind of regex engine you want, especially one where you don't care about perf, is not hard to build. You could take the `regex-lite` crate I published, for example, and code it up to be as generic as you want. In so doing, I expect you'll run into a number of interesting challenges.

Anyway, it's not like these things don't exist. They do. People attempt to build them[1]. They just usually don't gain much traction because I suspect you're overstating their general utility. :-)

[1]: https://docs.rs/automata/latest/automata/trait.Alphabet.html
I guess this is part of my criticism. It's nice to have all that stuff bundled, but it's banking a lot on the decisions being the right ones for your project. When it's just the language, linter, formatter, that might be fine. Adding the package manager is often ok as well, but even Rust/Cargo aren't fully coupled. But then adding a package ecosystem (that isn't fully compatible), a server, infrastructure, database.... it's a lot of decisions that all need to be good enough.
One of my favorite talks of all time. I took personal notes here: https://www.swyx.io/notes-on-growing-a-language-by-guy-steel...
I wonder if there were old estimates based on religious teaching that Earth is only 6000 years old. We have only recently known the age of humanity and prehistoric population.

Or maybe it was saying that wasn’t based on estimate.
I'm afraid I don't have time to watch some video -- please provide a 3-sentence synopsis here.
async/await is about superimposing useful CPU computations with slow I/O operations.

For example, you would read data fragment D0 from a network socket, and right before doing any work on it, you ask the OS to fetch data fragment D1, etc.
This would is faster than reading and working in distinct time intervals. And despite whatever you seem to believe, it would also be faster than reading and working using thread parallelism. Because even if you eliminate the synchronization overhead or you devise a good lock-free algorithm, thread context switches still have a massive overhead, not to mention issues related to memory bandwidth and cache coherence.

Still, how does one gather the nerve to call a feature present in most modern languages, from C# to Zig, a hype?
Ivy League schools may not have the best research facilities or opportunities in terms of being on the cusp of the latest cutting-edge technological and scientific developments. Their facilities are often a bit old and funky, with some notable exceptions. In terms of cost to value ratio, ($80K - $90K per year seems to be the media-reported range) there are likely equivalent learning opportunities elsewhere for much less.

However, I think most people know undergrads go to Ivy League schools simply to make connections with wealthy people that will lead to lucrative post-college appointments, that's why legacy admissions are not going away. It's become like the British public school system of 100 years ago in that respect - a social club for aristocrats.
Is the Problem-Based Benchmark Suite Fearless with Rust? [pdf]
> When I was really junior, I'd go to meetings and think that the vast majority of the time was wasted. As I became more senior, I realized that a lot of that wasted time is for providing context, relationship building, and alignment. You may not need those things for your current task, but your leadership and partner teams may need these things.

100% agree. In early or IC roles, it's easy to think "just let me go do X" (or worse, "talking about X or Y is a waste of time when X is the obvious answer") without seeing the bigger picture that there's tremendous value in making sure other teams are aware of what X is, why it's important, and having a chance to weigh in or ask questions. Certainly there are valid complaints about some people's meetings, but those shouldn't overshadow the alignment/communication value meetings can have.
And the client is all over you/the company.
I feel like it’s kind of sad and pathetic the blogs and people all clamouring to be “the one” that “breaks” this story and “outs openai” as having made gpt4 out of smaller components rather than a “big” breakthrough.

Do you have any real information about the architecture? Nope.

Do you have anything other than hearsay? Nope.

Do you know there isn’t actually some important breakthrough? Nope.

Is gpt4 still the best model available despite whatever shortcuts they may have taken? Yup.

…so… until we have some concrete, repeatable information, this is just a lot of hot air.

They did something.

No one knows what.

The results are better than what anyone else has done.

A bunch of people have speculations about what, but no one has been able to pull off an equivalent yet.

Same as yesterday.
Vlite: Simple Vector Database with NumPy
Domestication of animals is a technology. Richard Bulliet is a historian who deals with a number of topics from a technological perspective, including human-animal relations.

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/hunters-herders-and-hamburgers/...
Canyon plan to integrate Autotalks' V2X into bicycles to help reduce accidents
And yet with all those options at their disposal, many of these people feel entitled to the one they picked never changing, depriving the developers of their freedom to choose - and they're the ones doing all the work! Sometimes to the degree of directing hostility and abuse at the developers, rather than just picking another option or leveling up with a fork.

With all those choices given to them, these people are so utterly selfish and lacking in common decency, they can't see how appropriate and important it is that those developing the software also have the freedom to choose what direction they take the fruits of their labor.

But I think these are just hallmarks of plain immaturity.

It reminds me of children having tantrums when mom doesn't cook the free meal they want, instead cooking what mom and dad like. That's what entitled foss users resemble, and I'm pretty sure a lot of them actually are children so what should we expect.
> https://archive.fo/FlBgV

whoa. archive.fo skips the substack paywall?
I feel like Amazon shows spend money on actors and sets, but not nearly enough on writing. And that just sort of underscores how important writers are. You can have a cool concept, but if you can't build a good story out of it... or you don't give writers time to explore... you end up with a story that doesn't capture audiences. I feel like Amazon is probably the least forgiving with deadlines, and that's going to lead to shittier scripts going into production. Over time... that dooms a series.

Most Amazon shows seem like cool concepts. But the writing, at times, just seems really "basic cable-y" -- and it's a shame since it's clear Amazon is spending a mint on these shows. But the end result just feels like someone wearing a $12k suit and flip flips. Something just seems off.

Also, Amazon doesn't do nearly enough to advertise shows. They need to get more hype, more people talking about their shows -- they seem to think that ads inside of Amazon are enough. I feel like their efforts are probably stifled since many news outlets are tied to their own entertainment streaming services. "Let's only talk about Disney+ shows..." But like Reddit, and social media in general... they need to do more to get the word out about their shows.

A friend (who is also in his 40s) put it really well when we were talking about the problem with Amazon shows... "They are Showtime when they want to be HBO." They certainly are spending the money to be HBO... but it's not all about money, sometimes it's about time and giving up control to the artists so the artists can do their best work.

Lastly, holy hell this can't be underscored enough, I hate using Amazon Prime Video since they don't have a way to turn off the "buy now" buttons. Like, if I want to have kids or elderly parents on that account... I just want them to see shows that don't cost me money to watch, and Amazon does nothing but layer in ads for shows and services that I have to buy. Among all the streaming services, Amazon is THE WORST at this. And as a result, I don't even want to install it on my parent's TVs for the simple fact that Dad will complain if there are shows on there he has to pay for, and he'll flip out if he gets an unexpected bill -- like to the point he won't feel comfortable using that TV at all, even another app, if he feels it'll bill him. I bet a lot of older folks are in this boat.
You're a lot smarter, and have significantly better memory than I do. Once an application has like beyond 10 different interfaces (whther data structures or function signatures) I simple cannot memorise them flawlessly.
Maybe I’m wrong but the “asynchronous programming started with JavaScript” take doesn’t seem factual.
Your use-case provides few advantages over a physical monitor, let alone over a VR monitor, which was my point. And if you think monitor adjustments trump realtime interaction with arbitrary physical environments then we'll have to agree to disagree. I'm not sure what you mean by ads everywhere, except to be needlessly dismissive.
> Eg no modern Lisp stores a function as an S-Expr of its syntax

Many Common Lisp implementations do that, especially those with an interpreter: SBCL (yes, SBCL has an interpreter, too -> one can tell SBCL to use an interpreter), LispWorks, a Lisp Machine, Allegro CL, CLISP, ...

LispWorks:

CL-USER 18 > (defun foo (a b) (* a (let ((a (* a a))) (break) (+ b (expt a b)))))
FOO

CL-USER 19 > (foo 1 2)

Break.
1 (continue) Return from break.
2 (abort) Return to top loop level 0.

Type :b for backtrace or :c <option number> to proceed.
Type :bug-form "<subject>" for a bug report template or :? for other options.

CL-USER 20 : 1 > :n
Call to INVOKE-DEBUGGER

CL-USER 21 : 1 > :n
Call to BREAK

CL-USER 22 : 1 > :n
Interpreted call to FOO

You'll see that LispWorks says that FOO is running using the s-expression interpreter. Next we'll have a look at this s-expression:

CL-USER 23 : 1 > :lambda
(LAMBDA (A B) (DECLARE (SYSTEM::SOURCE-LEVEL #<EQ Hash Table{0} 82200D6A93>)) (DECLARE (LAMBDA-NAME FOO)) (* A (LET (#) (BREAK) (+ B #))))

The list is a value, which we can pretty print:

CL-USER 24 : 1 > (pprint *)

(LAMBDA (A B)
(DECLARE (SYSTEM::SOURCE-LEVEL #<EQ Hash Table{0} 82200D6A93>))
(DECLARE (LAMBDA-NAME FOO))
(* A (LET (#) (BREAK) (+ B #))))

If you would modify this s-expression in the debugger, the program is directly changed.
>> AI weights are basically binary blobs. We don't know what they mean, there is really no source code for them.

No. You can do further training on them. If they are something less than code I don't think it's going to warrant all this talk about licensing. GPL, MIT, or some proprietary should cover it.
It's most likely in reference to the recent US copyright office guidance on non-copyrightability of generative AI output: https://www.copyright.gov/ai/ai_policy_guidance.pdf
There's already been some discussion here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35191206

In any case, no one is going to deploy purely AI-generated code in the near future, which would be non-copyrightable. In practice any generated code will be edited by the human developer, and it doesn't take that much creative human input to make the result copyrightable.
> a language and runtime, webserver, package ecosystem, and arguably infrastructure and database

Some gentle pushbacks:

Runtime and webserver yes (though not web framework), language sorta, though Node is already just as much all of these things

Package ecosystem also sorta. Any Deno module that doesn't use the Deno APIs is isomorphically runnable in the browser and most other JS contexts. This is actually more true than with Node, because idiomatic Node code uses CommonJS imports which are incompatible with the browser without transpilation

Infrastructure I don't think is really true; obviously there's Deno Deploy, but I don't use that for any of my Deno projects. If anything, the fact that it's so self-contained makes it more flexible to different kinds of infrastructure. All you need installed is the runtime, and then you run a single command and you're off to the races (with dependencies downloaded automatically as needed)

I think it strikes a great balance between batteries-included and compatibility. It's become my favorite default way to write a CLI or a web server
Also for a company the size of Microsoft, 30 million accounts seems very small. What user accounts would this database even contain?

This whole thing seems a bit fishy.
You might try NPR news site
https://www.npr.org/sections/news/

They do have some ads but it is mostly just a right rail ad that is pretty easy to ignore and not as infested as most news sites.
And here's a smoke prediction tracker for north america https://firesmoke.ca
> A final, more pleasurable step you can take to increase your intellectual humility comes in the form of deliberately invoking in oneself the emotion of awe. Several studies have shown that awe quietens the ego and prompts epistemological openness – that is, a greater willingness to look at things differently and to recognise the gaps in one’s knowledge.

If you cannot remember the last time you experienced awe, I highly recommend seeking it out. It may be important for fostering intellectual humility, but it seems just as important for fostering a better outlook/framing on life in general and brings with it a sense of wellbeing.

After burning out and starting a sabbatical last year, I went on a road trip that provided many moments of awe: a snowy mountain sunrise in the Rockies, the Milky Way in one of the darkest spots in Utah, long hikes through the redwoods, etc.

What struck me was that I had forgotten what these feelings felt like, and that I hadn’t felt them since I was a kid.

Glimpsing them reminded me how important they are, and I’m convinced that sustainability in future work endeavors (and life in general) involves an appropriate dose of awe and wonder on an ongoing basis.

Road trips into the desert aren’t necessary to experience this either (for me anyway) - just a very effective way to guarantee the experience (again, for me). But I can find it by pondering the bigger questions about life and the sheer improbability of our existence. Dedicating some regular time to this kind of reflection has been beneficial.

And I do find that I’m more open to possibilities. But that seems like just one of the outcomes from the “nourishment” of these experiences.
Unique to my own experience with them as a kid, when I realized how common they were on homes in Virginia Beach
Do they require a web frontend, or do you just want one? Because you could argue a chat program requires a web frontend, but suc doesn't use one regardless.

bash is concise but there are other languages nearly as concise. It'd make more sense to use them rather than go+bash, once you cross the rubicon of not relying entirely on stuff that comes with UNIX out of the box.
Can someone suggest a book or resource to learn more about designing a software system but not "scalable" system design that so many interview prep books talk about? I'm especially interested in something that is _not_ web related.

I've spent most of my career fixing bugs or taking over apps/systems that someone else started. I really don't know how to design something new. (I mostly work on APIs, Android apps/services, and a bit of game middleware).
A lot of people are just upset because their local equilibrium has been disrupted and they think that means they lost a natural right.

"You wouldn't look at a car and then remember what that looked like when someone asks you to draw another"
> Is a document not copyrightable based on its contents?

Yes, exactly. It's copyright 101.

For example, if you write a random number generator, and print 10000 randon numbers in a document, it's not copyrightable.

Even if you invented a specific random number generation algorithm, the document is still not copyrightable. Your code is copyrightable.

Again it's just copyright 101. If any of above surprises you, maybe you should read a few copyright case studies.
Despite very real and impressive progress with LLMs towards general conversation agents there has been near zero progress in understanding and recreating consciousness and agency which even insects posses.
Add to that a paywall after the intro. Quite frustrating.
https://github.com/withastro/astro.build/blob/7e4bc761570184...
Show HN: Decluttered browser for AMZN's “secret” outdoor open box / used gear
Down-river.net is the missing search engine for Amazon's extensive Warehouse selection -- mostly returns and whatnot, basically new but open box. Items are shipped from Amazon warehouses via Amazon Prime and have the full range of Amazon benefits: fast delivery, easy returns, etc..

Down-river.net simplifies browsing the Warehouse, trimming out all the distractions and sponsored products, random low quality brands. All wheat, no chaff.

I mostly buy used stuff from REI or Patagonia. I originally built down-river.net for my own use and use it somewhat regularly to grab stuff for my family's outdoor adventures. Hopefully other folks find it helpful as well...
> Well, aside from people he doesn't like, and content he doesn't like. Let's face it: he wants Twitter to be a town square with topics he likes and with people who support him.

Thank you for the realistic correction.
I'm not sure at which one of those graphs I should be looking at. The gross power consumption one seems to refute your own claim. The total gross electricity usage of Germany in 1990 was 551 Twh, 587 twh in 2003 and is currently around 550 Twh. Current expectations is that usage will grow to 650 Twh in 2030 and to 750+ Twh in 2050.
I gave a non-exhaustive list of universities Google does on-site recruiting at.
FAANG and similar companies typically subscribe to something like the "T shaped engineer" philosophy. They're making a conscious choice that their engineers should be comfortable in discussions about distributed systems, performance tradeoffs, etc. regardless of whether they do such things on a regular basis.
The different is that wikipedia has true 'inputs' from the real world. Actual knowledge is being ingested to wikipedia from physical reality.

Chatbots can only consume what is digitally available. There is an inherent bias in what things are discussed on the internet (you would think our world is a cat-video obsessed world of opinionated political debators).

Now most of the content we see on the internet will soon be chatbot-generated content. Chatbots will regurgitate and reconsume their content many times.

Wikipedia doesn't have this issue. It is not a closed-loop internet phenomena.
> It continues to be a travesty of breach disclosure that companys are legally allowed to claim the best possible outcome without any proof

> "We have seen no evidence that customer data has been accessed or compromised."

I think they are sincere here. I too have seen windows machines being compromised and the system, with the latest certified antivirus, run hapilly. /s
Joint statement of scientists and researchers against chat control [pdf]
Fewer than 40 DAUs and $500 in revenue: Lessons from the metaverse
actually: Common Lisp interpreters do walk s-expressions
"Technopoly" by Neil Postman focusses on how technologies influence cultures. Postman taught at NYU for decades. He was not anti-technology - he said we need technology like we need food - but he was critical. He believed we should be careful about the technologies we adopt and how we use them. "Technopoly" looks at the history of technology over thousands of years. It describes how societies can become monopolized by technology. It was published in 1992 but feels even more relevant today.

Interesting fact: he wrote the book with pen and paper, without the help of a computer. He felt his writing was better that way. (Actually he wrote at least 20 books that way.)
"Setup For Organization/School" then, "Domain Join Instead"

Is the spell to just make local account on Professional Edition.

If you have Home Edition, you have to do use the "no network" option in the OOTB setup.
You had a terrible advisor. I'm sorry.
You can read yesterday's discussion and full-readable article at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36585327
A PhD, preferably from your destination country, is helpful for immigration.
This repo is a very high level collection of topics with short descriptions rather than a learning source. You can skim it a couple of minutes. But if you're curious about a topic, why wouldn't you read a free resource on it if the quality seems good?

Are you always this dismissive? How do you learn?
The thing is, everybody will be using ChatGPT to flood Reddit with comments soon. It will be the death of the platform, it's just a matter of how long it will take to come about
ok, Captain Planet
The solution is almost always “fuck around and find out” (FAFO).
I used to use Tweetbot as the official client is and continues to be a dumpster fire.

I then switched to Ivory and it is very much like having twitter of old back - a single chronological feed of people I follow without the involvement of any algorithms. I know that the federated bits are there, but they have very little obvious impact on my experience.
I am very interested in this topic and I assure you that nobody complains about Poland. I've seen even praise for their decision to prolong this situation and build nuclear plants. On the other hand, a country very much in deserve of praise like Germany is a constant target of criticism by various nuclear lobby groups, astroturfers and the like. You can see the effect even here on HN, it's a very common topic that "Germany replaced nuclear with coal", which is just simply false.
Weights might be copyrightable but in no universe are they copyrightable by OpenAI, Google, etc just because they did the training and spent money on GPUs.

The only people who can possibly own the copyright, if any such copyright exists, are the authors of the training data.

I find this whole discussion about copyright of weights almost absurd, the incredible amount of deference given to our corporate lords is such that we are “hallucinating” new forms of IP protection for NN weights that have never existed in any kind of statue or case law and cut completely against the grain of all the law that currently exists.