skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yet we spend our short existence doing things which have almost no meaning

Well, for many of us that’s not a choice. In America, your healthcare is tied to your employer for example leaving you almost no choice but to remain employed. On top of that many of us racked up student loans that need to be paid off, so there is limited window of time for finding a rather meaningful job before you choose whatever comes your way and offers you the best salary even if it means you are going to be working on yet another social or crypto or delivery app. And not to say employers relentlessly pursuing an upper hand over employees and any choices they might have; just look at the whole reversing WFH fiasco.

80000 hours [1] have been pretty interesting for me to change my outlook however. I found out for me anyway, the best path of a satisfying relationship with my purpose and deal with existential crisis is through contributing to scientific research just for pure fun of learning and exploring the endless onion shell nature of the knowledge of the universe.

[1] https://80000hours.org/
I don't know the national average of my major. I paid something around 35-40k/year in tuition for an english literature degree. My MD and MS (CS) were more expensive but also done later.

All undergraduate degrees in the US have a pricing issue. I don't believe anyone should be paying 30-60k/year for one.

> There’s ideological value in everything, but we’re talking business here.

No, we're talking about university education which should not be a business. I don't consider an undergraduate degree training for a specific job, that's what technical colleges are for. If you want to argue we shouldn't subsidize university in general I could understand that but think it's a bad idea.

I don't agree that STEM degrees are inherently more valuable than the humanities from a general education perspective which is what I view undergraduate degrees as.

If we treat it as a business we should only subsidize courses essential for the workplace. Why am I subsidizing a web developer or a physician taking undergraduate calculus and physics? Having worked as both I have needed neither.

> “hazardous warning label: hey, we are going to charge you 15k a year for this. you won’t likely make more than X in the real world with this degree. You cool with it? No refunds.”

I think it's common knowledge that STEM graduates earn more, this was the case when I was in high school during the 2000s.
It was once in a lifetime. Now most everyone's following commercial maximes while faking enthusiasm and dying inside a bit every year.
Warning you is good, that's putting info in the users hand. Preventing use is the problem.

If you buy a device second hand, or you bring it in for repair, you want to know if you are getting genuine parts or not.
It kept me alive too. Lynn's website helped me see that I was not a freak and that I could grow into someone who is happy and successful. I'm now quite the trailblazer in my own field too.

Lynn's tireless efforts to carve a path forward for inclusion and acceptance, despite the thorny thickets of bigotry and transphobia, allow us to walk in her footsteps.

"If you want to change the future, start living as if you're already there" – Lynn Conway
Sure, but there are statists who dismiss libertarian leftism outright and there are ones who travel to fight for libertarian leftist project. Orwell was the second type clearly judging by his actions.
They are just describing what CC0 means. I really don’t understand the question, what is the “incentive” to contribute to anything? Some people just want to share their knowledge.
And not a great one ; the sprites walk into the sea.
I'd pick Java any day for a new project.

It's mature and absurdly stable, both the language and the ecosystem; the tooling is best in class, and a lot of the awkward chafing points are going away to the point where the language is pretty pleasant to work with...

It isn't an exciting language. It's boring, it's the last to get new cool features, and that's by design. It also never breaks. There's extremely rarely any library churn or surprises. You can spend all the time working instead of putting out fires caused by the ecosystem.
I didn't know that, glad I complained haha. It's my most visited page I guess (thank you medium). Changed to quad9 and working like a charm! Thanks
What is the basis of your claim that users don't need secure devices?
Imagine being in your shop and telling a robot to get you a hammer. It can understand the instructions, look at the environment using an inverse image model, synthesize the environment with the instruction, delegate to path finders etc a route to the tool box and retrieve you a hammer without ever being programmed anything. Now abstract you to being other machine agents in the environment of a workshop being instructed goals along some plan. Today factory robots are highly specialized machines that require a very finite and controlled problem space and reconfiguration is expensive and time consuming, if possible at all.
A brilliant resource thank you! Will definitely be referencing this in our ds/algorithms courses.
Generally speaking, knowledge is never useless. The nature of its use changes over time

I think this is similar to the "skill" of "googling" that became important about 2 decades ago. You learn how to search effectively and it improved your programming skills. This was primitive prompt engineering. If LLMs and the chat style interfaces last, this will continue to be useful.
Sophie Wilson, the designer of the ARM architecture, is also a trans woman.
I wish they made gaming that more explicit in their hiring. Like, treat the job as a temp thing, unless you want to aggressively climb ranks.
The father of LISP, John McCarthy, lamented the W3C's choice of SGML as the basis for HTML : « An environment where the markup, styling and scripting is all s-expression based would be nice. » Answers like BBcode or SexpCode solve part of the problem. The {lambda way} project could be a better one, a small wiki easy to install with a true programming language.
* US Dollar Cent.
I tested some substack.com links and there's a delay on those too.
Yes, even GPT3.5 is better. I am in uni, and LLMs are probably the best teachers I have had the experience to learn from(and I have had some great teachers and professors). They work even better if you feed them the content of a book/manual/documentation as a reference.

They do suck at solving problems correctly, however if you give them an incorrect solution and ask them to spot mistakes, or just ask for a general method to do a problem, it works out.

However, they might not yet compare to the best of humans. The best SO answers probably represent 0.01% of the answers, which is a high bar. I am certain very amazing teachers and professors exist out there in the world whom LLMs can't beat yet but the average can't compete.
Does discord actually get any access other than knowing your email address account picture and name?

This is basically all that log in with Google requires or provides and asking for more access would be abnormal.
What is there to it other than knowing how to write and ask questions? I also get the desired results out of LLM models but I would hardly call it a skill (well, maybe on par with knowing how to "Google" stuff). Are there people who actually struggle with this?
I have once particcipated in a similiar project. One thing that I find can be easily overlooked is that a lot things, specially in small farms are very specific to the location and the specific varieties of plants you have. Trimming dates can change by more than a month just be moving a few hundred km. Same with terrain conditions and that could just change from one farm to the next. I'm not sure if that info can be systematically gathered and distributed without being extremelly complex at the same time.
I could hear the dice rolling in my head
Combine the latter with "most favoured nation" (what a ridiculous name) clauses that bind product vendors selling on Amazon to guarantee that the price on Amazon is the best one. In other words, even if you don't use Amazon, the product prices will include phantom Amazon service fees.
Good points. The difference is that on streaming sites, L3 widevine will only allow low resolution playback. They are also tied to a paid account, making it much more difficult/risky to download content. Even if the encryption is broken, there are often ways to detect such users for a limited time.

For professional content, there is simply not much demand to develop a user-friendly way to break L3 widevine, as the market is already served by reasonably convenient illegal streaming sites and torrents that allow for higher quality video.
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Instead of downvoting, I’d appreciate an answer. I’m genuinely curious to learn what the value add of the LLM is.
But at the same time, I think it's been shown the the size of a galaxy almost always reflects the size of its central black hole... that is, the influence of the central black hole seems to be way, way bigger than what you would expect from the black hole's gravity alone.
A variation on this is returning an error message of sorts.
Ah, originally unpublished. By the time I read it, it was in the book.
14.4 worked fine for Doom MP. Those fun days when a modem init string tweak could gain 10-50% performance increase. Became a sysop of a popular BBS at this time, which led to my 25 year IT career. Fond memories.

AT&F&D2&C1S0=0X4.
Why stop using 'synchronized'?
On this I agree w/ David Foster Wallace - see https://machines.kfitz.info/dfwwiki/index.php%3Ftitle=Anothe...

TL;DR: by the time your skill isn’t useful, the whole landscape of modern will be changing so much that it’s kinda a moot point. Like losing your job during an apocalypse
Seems like a logical fallacy to assume that the past extrapolates cleanly into the future. "It was okay last time" isn't a good enough argument.
We don't have "processes" at HN. The idea makes my skin crawl.

Plenty of both left- and right-wing sites are banned and/or downweighted on HN. When a site is primarily about political battle, we either ban it or downweight it. Which of the two we choose depends on how likely the site is to produce the occasional interesting article (in HN's sense of the word "interesting"). That's why The Federalist and World Workers Daily (or whatever it's called) are banned, while National Review and Jacobin are merely downweighted. Both the Guardian and Daily Beast are downweighted, btw, as are most major media sites.

If you or anyone thinks that HN moderation is unfairly ideologically biased, I'm open to the critique, but you guys need to first look at the site as it actually is, and not just look at your own pre-existing perceptions. Every data point becomes a Convincing Proof when you do the latter.

People think that when their team gets moderated, the mods are OMG obviously on the other side. The Other Side feels exactly the same way. This "they're against me" perception is the most reliable phenomenon I've observed on HN. Leftists feel it, rightists feel it, Go programmers feel it, even Rust programmers feel it. Literally the very-most-popular topic on HN at any moment is perceived by someone as Viciously Suppressed because of this perception. Stop and think about that—it's kind of amazing. Someone should write a PhD thesis.
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Prompt engineering is just the "good at google searching" of tomorrow. That said, I think there is a lot more potential depth to it, seeing how inexpressive web searches are by comparison.
It has information from 2021.
ChatGPT presents Quickwit as follows:

As of my last knowledge update in September 2021, Quickwit is an open-source search engine infrastructure that is designed for building and deploying search solutions quickly and efficiently. It focuses on providing fast and scalable full-text search capabilities for applications and websites. Quickwit is built on top of the Rust programming language and leverages technologies like the tantivy search engine library.
Personally I think it will be fairly easy to convince an LLM to do prompt engineering not far from now. They just lack training data, because they are based on information from the web, but "how to prompt engineer" pages are spreading across the web and the next irritation of ChatGPT will probably pick all of that info up.
And Nazis allies against the West. Essentially a 3rd power that tried to win against both. And looking at how they helped Nazis/Germany before the war, they were one of the main actors to kickstart the war.
The only point where I disagree is "the search engines have gotten a lot better over the last say 5-10 years". My impression is rather the opposite.
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That is what struck me too after reading the article.

With the digital (and maybe Bigdata/ML) age, copyright protections need some revisions & broadened scope of "fair use". But digitizing and making media items available over internet face the arguments that piracy sites get accused of. IA is a respectable agency, and these media is from 50s & 60s. But the optics of it from legality remains the same unfortunately. I wouldn't also believe these having no commercial value. Among the collection, I found popular artists such as Louis Armstrong - who I still listen to over Spotify/Apple.

IA would probably cut some losses if they disable all streaming or only provide 30sec clips (as preview), while keeping the music archive more restricted. Not that I like this proposition, but if we are serious about preserving the legacy of 78rpm, some more consideration could be useful. Copyright laws in their current form is (unfortunately) unforgiving to IAs efforts in this context.
And it does not need to be.
Personally i do not use it to generate novel code that will solve my problems, but when i point it at a github repo with the github plugin enabled, it will answer the questions i have about the code pretty much on the nose.

its not your new AI Friend steve, its a LLM. And one with a knowledge cutoff in 2021 too
If Android, then Kotlin, else Java.

But on a serious note it’s far too complex of a decision that includes your personal situation. I have a mixed codebase of Java and Kotlin and I tend to prefer Java now. I do use Kotlin’s Data classes a lot though. That’s my favorite feauture of the language.
Here in Europe, we have a spiritual predecessor of Webvan, called Picnic.

> https://picnic.app

It's a “supermarket on wheels”. Every city has a distribution point and small electric cars bring the groceries to your front door at a time of your choosing.

After the launch of Picnic, the other players had to catch up by starting their delivery services.
On my case that would be SQL, as I use nice SQL aware IDEs for Oracle and SQL Server.
I was a junior developer (called a programmer back then) working for a tiny startup (called a business back then) in the UK. I barely even noticed there was a slump.

I remember a conversation with the owner just before the bubble burst where he was expressing incredulity at all the US companies with high valuations and zero profits. It’ll all end in tears was the prediction.

The company I was working for had meteoric growth over those few years, selling an Enterprise product we built to insurance companies. I barely even knew there was bubble and that it was bursting.

My next job in 2001 was another small UK company, also selling Enterprise products for real money. No one ever talked about the state of ‘startups’ in the US.

It was a whole different world. On one side you had companies starting up, building products that fixed real problems, that they then sold to other companies for money — all without any outside funding.

On the other side you had ‘startups’ burning through other people’s money, building things nobody wanted, all going bust.

And they wondered why.

Now? Still working for companies that build products people want and then sell for money. And trying to build one of my own on the side.
Configuring Phoenix apps: Two small adjustments with big effects
Or is poor vision, hearing, smell a sign of poor brain health?
That is what stored procedures are for.
Not sure where you’re getting your information from, but I feel like the opposite is true. If you want to work remotely, they even have a remote working contract specifically designed for that case.

Maybe what looks archaic to you is that under French labor law, employees can’t be treated differently if they have the same type of contract. Meaning one individual can’t work two days from home and another three. Or one person can’t just have their travel expenses to and from the office payed, unless all employees with the same contract have that too.

I believe this is why they had to introduce the new contract for remote work. With this, their strong worker protections stay in tact while still allowing for more modern ways of working.

What is archaic is their bloody governmental control system. There is an inspector for every stupid thing you can imagine and it is an enormous waste if time and money.
I must admit that I have a slight FOMO over prompt engineering. I'm pretty decent at verbalizing ideas and concepts for external consumption, and my experience with ChatGPT 4 has been excellent so far, but I still feel that I'm missing something.

Could you summarize the essence of the prpompting skill in a couple of sentences? Are there concepts that are critical to learn and master (e.g. 'chain of thought', etc.)?
Groupies never know where the artists have gone. Only the artists know.
yes, most airlines will let you retrieve your or someone else’s booking details by just knowing the PNR and name

but you’re correct, security is an important matter to manage. That’s why I’ll be adding user authentication in chat.
It's to destroy the parts market. If your laptop gets stolen, even if the thief can't get into your data, even if the thief can't use your laptop as-is, without a parts serial number database, it's still valuable for parts. By denying the use of the parts, it makes stolen laptops worthless. If a laptop's even worth $50 in parts, it's worth it to the destitute and desperate.
Trees are more existential than it seems.

In urban areas, poor people are the most likely to lack air conditioning. Trees provide shade, preventing absorbent materials below like concrete and asphalt from absorbing heat and baking; and they also evaporate water, cooling the air.

As the climate continues to change, a lot of places will become more susceptible to heat-related death. Trees are a fairly uncontroversial way to mitigate at least some of that; some estimates have the cooling effect as high as 12 C. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2298675-trees-cool-the-...
It’s not a dichotomy between desired and undesired results - I am confident there exist more effective versions of every prompt I’ve ever sent, and I’d be surprised if that didn’t apply to everyone
Portal with largest Agriculture information set (India)
> Either move on to solutions or admit you're just whining to whine.

For a political system, you need to convince many people if you want it to change. You can't just "move on to solutions".

For agile in a company, in my experience the developers are not the ones bringing the processes, and they don't really have a choice. And even then, again in my experience, juniors tend to get excited about everything that looks new. So part of the team will think that estimations are a good idea in principle. Until they do it long enough to realize that the whole methodology is a big joke.
Migration tooling and SQL testing predate ORMs, it is a matter of actually caring about their existence.
This is not a race condition. Any filesystem syscall can fail, and not always spectacularly. I can't recommend using rename for moving files into place, except as a fallback for filesystems where hard links are unavailable.
While not ideal, could a workaround be to ask in spoken language first, and then ask to format it in JSON?
Oh heck yes! I love this, as I was thinking of how I’m constantly reaching for the same tools, and how I wish Elixir had codegen like I had in Go.

I would also add auth and stream functions to controllers!
https://agritech.tnau.ac.in
Gets into more information not update though but relevant
When you want very specific output you need a lot of boilerplate with rules, worded in a way where it can't be misinterpreted by the model. I need to do a lot of trial and error before I get the desired output consistently and I presume that a good prompt engineer would get there faster.
I don't understand why generating language, or code, would be a good thing. Language, and code, is a tool for communication. If you treat it as fodder or merchandise, you loose the main use: transport meaning between different people.

I fail to understand why we would want automatically generated language at all, except for the fact that you can sometimes make money off of it.

Considering we're where we are as a civilization because people could make money off of poisoning the Earth and causing catastrophic ecosystem and climate change for profit, I think we should examine our motives more closely.
Seeing that right now with NYT links. First click takes a few seconds to redirect, second click is almost instant
Yeah but if everything else is also 10% slower does it matter?!
Just like stored procedures compose, like in any procedural programming language.
I mean, not to get carried away, and yes macros exist, but I also like the idea of less keystrokes where things can still be edited easily.
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I disagree. A median value might be really misleading (you could have very high usage for 49% of the collection, and nothing for the rest). But assuming average means "mean..."

You might have a few hotspots, but there's a very tight upper bound on how many downloads of each item. Further, it argues that the overall collection has a very high research and preservation value compared to the total number of downloads.
it’s tailwind css, but not tailwind ui

I’m using shadcn UI pack for generic elements like buttons

overall the marketing pages are just my design, but for sure heavily inspired by the current trends
Still on the 4th camp?

Using stored procedures and triggers as much as possible.
Once referral pageviews take a hit, I suspect the NYT will be reevaluating their options.
you’re correct, it’s tailwindcss but not tailwind ui
It's intentionally polarizing, not potentially
You are probably already using the software version of Widevine (L3) to watch 720p content in the first place.

There are relatively easy ways to download L3 content, but they are not as common because higher resolutions are available on illegal streaming sites and torrents. These sites break hardware Widevine or use other attacks to get the material.
> the one person involved who was explicitly not responsible

Not to condone revenge killings, but Nielsen was obviously part of this accident. It was his choice to work alone that night (rather than waking the other controller) and to allow the technicians to turn off most of his instruments, so the responsibility is partly his. He also issued the fateful descend command - had he literally stayed out of this, the Tupolev pilots would have followed the TCAS guidance and the accident would not have happened.
yes, tailwindUI is
my bet is that shadcn UI will be next
That is my favourite approach, when I am allowed to have the last work how the DB layer should be like.
Zoom Ends No-Meeting Wednesday Policy, Calling It ‘Barrier to Collaboration’
> According to multiple sources close to Nvidia and its manufacturer, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the chipmaker will ship about 550,000 of its latest H100 chips globally in 2023, primarily to US tech companies. Nvidia declined to comment.

550,000 H100 chips in a year! OpenAI used a thousand A100s - this does justify Nvidia's share price rise somewhat.