skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't very convincing for me. For the benefit of other interested parties, the above citation spam categorises into:

1. The Kenyan Catholic church does not like vaccines and will argue against them even in the face of evidence to the contrary.

2. There have been some health effects among a tiny percentage of subjects in vaccination studies in India. The severity, causality, and prevalence of the effects is as yet unknown.
The Prompt a Systematic Survey of Prompting Techniques
> It is a completely crazy system.

If you're not doing a better job than the best machine, you're stealing your wages from the capitalists.
Strokes, alongside heart attacks tend to be time-critical conditions. In absence of a broad coverage, quick response first responder system, an expensive private hospital will be of little help, if you're already dead or a vegetable by the time you arrive there.
Couldn't read to the end of the article but I was thinking it would simply say "cocaine."
It's the best of both worlds! A new product to improve productivity, and then a whole new layer of process and analytics (powered by yet another product) to mitigate the risk and soak up the surplus. Everybody wins -- particularly the 3rd party consultants and product vendors!
The AI upgrade cycle is here
That's the spirit! Why bother? It's about "consumability". Once meaning and purpose are forever vanquished from life, imagine how happy we will all be drooling through our soulless data stream!
Heat engines are cool.
(These are an example of a heat engine: something that converts thermal energy into mechanical work)
There aren't. I'm guessing you live in a country with vast tracts of wilderness like the US or Canada. Germany is not like that.

This archeological site is a pile of rocks that once was a castle. (The rocks are probably mixed with dirt and plant life and might have been completely buried.)
Sure, but can earthworms? Butterflies? Oak trees? Slime mould? At what point in the history of life did sufficient discrimination to differentiate e.g. a cat and a dog actually arise? Are the mechanisms used for this universal? Are some better than others? etc.
Indeed you can losslessly "compress" an LLM's spew into just the prompt (plus any other inputs like values of random variables).

But you can also compress a book's entire content into just its ISBN.

It's just that books are hopefully more than just statistical mashups of existing content (some books like textbooks and encyclopaedias are kinds of mashup, though one hopes the editors have more than a statistically-based critical input!)
“Letting people go” is taking on the risk of all of those people being let go losing the ability to rent or pay their mortgages. That seems like more than an inconvenience to me if you take one of the responsibilities of being an employer at all seriously.
It's more about what is cheap and readily available. Most indian fast food (like their western counterparts) is pretty bad.
How much have I spent to work from home?
Ask HN: Is there any point being a programmer anymore?
(Name changed to protect the innocent.)

You thought this would be about AI, didn't you? Don't worry, it's not.

I'm in a bit of a career crisis, and I was wondering how many others out there might be in the same boat. I've been a professional programmer for multiple decades. I've seen the Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Mobile, Social, Cloud, and now AI hype bubbles come and go. And for a time, it was good.

But around the 2010-2015 timeframe, something changed. More and more of the daily grind became about how to optimize one's performance review packet. How to "evince" one's impact. How to get promoted. How to scale the heights of the Senior, Staff, Staff+ engineer edifice. It got to the point where entire projects were shifted around because "so and so needs to show impact this half, or they'll underperform". The HR staff, who previously were the lovely people you'd go to for help with health insurance problems, became hardened bureaucrats who presided over engineering with an iron fist, shunting anyone into "underperforming" hell at the first sign of reduced "impact".

For anyone unfamiliar, those who go into the "underperforming" pile live in a kind of purgatory. They're placed in a position where they need to "prove" their worth to the company, but by virtue of carrying the "underperforming" label, lose many of the degrees of freedom to enable this. It's framed an assistance program for the employee, but in truth it's a way of "managing them out".

Coincidentally, all of this changed around the same time that tech compensation went crazy, and a lot of new people washed into the field more out of an interest of riches than genuine interest in technology.

At first I assumed this was an artifact of working for Big Tech Co™, so I switched to a tiny company. To my horror, I saw the same thing there. And when I say same, I mean exactly the same: they had cargo-culted the exact same HR-weaponized performance review system that Big Tech Co™ used. I saw several actual high performers get shunted to the "underperforming" pile, never to be heard from again.

Back in my day, we didn't need all this performance review bureaucracy. We either delivered or we didn't (we always did), and the performance reviews took care of themselves. Nobody cared about their "packet". What they cared about was building and creating value for users.

So I ask you all this: is it like this everywhere now? Are there any places out there where there's still a joy of building for its own sake, rather than to further the case for one's promotion packet (or worse, to build a case not to be fired)? Is there any point being a programmer anymore?
It's very easy to design a schema that breaks up blobs into chunks. SQLite is excellent for memory constrained environments, with even mathematical proofs of maximum memory usage: https://www.sqlite.org/malloc.html
I'm against dlopen as well. If something makes use of LD_LIBRARY_PATH, rest assured that I want it excised from my system. Reproducibly-built, fully-static binaries are what I want, ideally with an accessible SBOM embedded.
if it's all because of zoning, then how come we built more housing in the period leading up to the great recession (with the strict zoning laws that already existed)?
It sounds like you would be okay with a Pi clone though?

Like the OP, I have avoided the clones in the past because I wanted to reward the company that were "cause-driven" to do this. I too am less inclined now though.
Why? There are plenty…
BMGF promotes vaccines to decrease global mortality rates. It's not surprising a bunch of anti-vax groups are unhappy with them.

The scientific method will always prevail.
Curiosity and the dynamics of optimal exploration: Trends in Cognitive Sciences
$200k? Do you live in a place where this is considered a bad salary?
Movies about nerds getting bullied who later used command lines to do nerd shit have left a generation of folks afraid of any command line anything. There’s a guy who got accused of being a terrorist just because he used a command line on an airplane.

Don’t believe me? Look at the “Linux porn” and “ricer” communities on Reddit, who go out of their way to make their systems look as “TUI cool” as possible, complete with customized tiling WMs. Most of the people doing this do it because they’re going for the “l33t h4x0r” vibes.
It strikes me as stupid and crazy that bikes aren't allowed on sidewalks here in the US, especially since the vast majority of sidewalks these days literally have noone walking.

Move the bikes to the sidewalks and get rid of the bike lanes that both drivers and cyclists hate. Also saves everyone's tax dollars since sidewalks are already there, unlike bike lanes that need to be newly marked.
DuckDB can have massive performance advantage over SQLite for things like aggregates on wide tables or or filters on unindexed columns, with advantage growing with the size of the table. We tried a few head to heads between the two and while we ultimately went with SQLite, we may go back and double write everything to DuckDB to get better performance for those kinds of queries on the same data set.

Duckdb can also read / import SQLite natively so we could ingest lazily from sqlite disk -> duckdb.

Biggest issue with duckdb is some memory leaks and crashes for the nodejs driver. Seems not production ready.
In most cases, the answer is that they're trying to achieve the appearance of legitimacy, so that when they subtly (or not so subtly) start hawking whatever they're trying to sell, the site/community doesn't immediately flag them as a spammer/bot.

Kinda like why in the old days, you'd see comment spam with a lengthy but meaningless auto generated message to go with it.

Alternatively, it might be to sell said account to spammers later down the line, since said spammers want to buy social media accounts that have a bunch of legitimate activity associated with them.
Awesome Read.
Why would you want to tie the car and phone together? Does that mean I have to upgrade my car every few years to keep up with increasing hardware requirements? Wouldn't it be better to have a computer at home?

> From our continuing discussions with automotive management teams and industry experts, the car is an extension of the phone. The phone is an extension of the car. The lines between car and phone are truly blurring.

This quote is really something... It's not entirely wrong though, both definitely want to track everything you do in order to sell your data to anyone with a pulse.

But let's be realistic, if Elon decides to make a new smartphone there's no shot that he'll build an OS from scratch vs making a shitty android fork. I really hope he tries though, having more competition in the smartphone space might force companies to start innovating once more.
Minimal SaaS Technical Due Diligence
That's a funny rewriting of history given that it was the west which refused the USSRs offer of an alliance against fascism.
Keeping Up with Fakery
I came here to say just that, but I think you have covered it.
I highly encourage not falling into Dreger's article or engage in what is generally dismissed and discredited theory(ies) that surrounded all this. The article reference ends up less about the evidence and scientific rigor and more about the underlying drama. It is problematic, and if you want what I would consider a better take on it (and the subsequent book), I would read this: https://juliaserano.blogspot.com/2015/04/alice-dreger-and-ma...

The related contra points video on why the underlying theory, studies, and concepts are dismissed/problematic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6czRFLs5JQo
The content doesn't matter, that is the reason. It is the quantity and the keywords sorrounding it.
Any advice for someone with a family member who is willing to go to rehab but continues to relapse over and over? He is an exceptionally smart guy, but he’s lost his fitness, job, hobbies, relationships and purpose.
Because there was a massive shortage and they were being rationed for healthcare workers? Am I the only one that remembers collection drives for masks for doctors and nurses?
Yes it is common for a charity to own a business. The corporate profits are used to fund the education or social welfare mission.
Yeah but to obtain good, you have to give such a specific and detailed prompt that you might just do it yourself.
You can take investment without going public. It's most likely harder, but definitely doable.
I re-read your comment minus the last sentence and I like it better.
My example was to show the lack of ability to think critically or consider evidence in most of the voting population.

Not wanting to get the vaccine is not the disqualifier, but the reasons justifying that decision could be.
If Apple doesn’t see enough sales they will bring ai to the lower tier models
They aren't made of PVC so they don't contain phthalates
People got a lot faster with complex Java solutions.
Startup idea: keep humans in liquid-filled pods, connecting sensors to their central nervous system, and record every nerve impulse they generate. This way we can be 100% sure that those nerve impulses were generated by humans, and not an AI.
a bit off topic: is there a way to display a HN page using the firebase API/sdk without doing N+1 requests ?

(sorry for noob question)
yes, i remember this:

https://time.com/5887777/rushed-vaccine-democrats-republican...
Sorry I'm a total dumbo when it comes to startups, but what do you 'vest'? I thought vesting is for stock options (maybe stake?).
And your startup is not on the stock market, and won't ever be unless it gets a billion-dollar valuation.

Even stake might be worthless, if the company fails, despite you building a kickass backend for it.
Different type system with different goals.

Gleam uses a modified version of the Hindley-Milner Type system. (Which is a rock solid tested type system.)

A Set theoretical type system is more expressive(which suits the dynamic nature or Elixir better.) You can do Union and Intersection Types, and Negation Types, among other things, that you can't do with a HM type system. but it comes at the cost of how fast the program can be typed.

HM types systems have amazing type inference capabilities and do so at O(n). Im not sure what the time complexity of the algorithm they are using to do the type checking for Elixir programs, but I bet it's more expensive than that. (Which is probably why they are rolling out the type system slowly.)
You can argue the complete opposite point with Novo Nordisk. It's up to the foundation to use it's influence
How would one even work toward positive results with leadership doing things like this? https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-white-house-...
iTerm2 v3.5.1 moves AI features into external plugin
It felt like it took a long time for the old guard to swing around to a touch-first interface after spending a decade or so building interfaces meant to be navigated with arrow keys below the screen.
It was not just Google. All of the search engines have an initial period of being good then when they get to a state of market domination or market penetration, the SEO and large companies with money show up. The SEO people game the system, while the people in companies with money, simply pay to be at the top of the chart or surreptitiously give money to be at the top of the chart. The surgeons are fine when they start getting market traction that the issue starts to pop up.
You can't regenerate the book from the ISBN. But you can generate the text from the prompt.
The NFL used to be a non-profit with the teams paying tax on their profits. It's since changed.
O'Reilly Answers: Generative AI as Learning Tool
> These days, conspiracy theorists seem to be some of the most open to manipulation folks out there.

"Conspiracy theories" are narratives counter to the status quo.

Arguably more people are "manipulated" into following the status quo.

Thus, I would argue that "conspiracy theorists" may be the least likely folks to be "manipulated."
> how little VCs actually value early employees

Do they even pretend that they care about anything other than money? Like... ever? Maybe to family and friends (not even sure), but I mean professionally?
Since the day I saw it, I found the name "Merkle Tree" scary. Turns out they were not, and quite useful. Here, check my guide out. In this article I first briefly talk about merkle trees, and then directly get into building one, and then writing a smart contract that only whitelisted addresses can interact, and finally testing it via Hardhat. I hope you'll enjoy => https://dev.to/muratcanyuksel/checking-whitelisted-addresses...
I know someone in this exact situation: used to be a copywriter for years, over the past few month got angry reviews from customers for «using AI» and decided to quit her job because getting new jobs was becoming harder and harder because of the bad reviews.

This is somewhat related to what Eliot Higgins (Bellingcat) said about generative AI:

> When a lot of people think about AI, they think, “Oh, it’s going to fool people into believing stuff that’s not true.” But what it’s really doing is giving people permission to not believe stuff that is true.
Such a bad idea, eh?
Did anyone pay attention to how we made machine learning in the first place? We picked a task that only humans could do, and we made humans train a model to do it until of course it was no longer a task that only humans could do.

AI detectors will work exactly the same way. The effect of AI detectors on people is unfairness and misery, so people will be incentivized to remove the characteristics the detectors can find from AI output, and then other people will make better detectors, and the only possible outcome of this arms race is that it will no longer be possible at all to tell whether something was written by a machine or a person.
Text selection and editing on iOS is broken in general. Trying to replace just a part of a URL in the Safari address bar with the clipboard contents is nearly impossible, even if you know that long pressing space moves the cursor.
I've seen it on reddit too.
Typescript's type system isn't sound. The Set theoretical type system proposed for Elixir is.
The one kind of AI detector that could work would be if the AIs store some checksum(s) of each text they write. Then you can ask it if it wrote a certain text.

With the naive version of this, you only have to change one word to get around the system.

A better version is to checksum smaller segments. Maybe a "chunk size" of 50 words is good. If you find several such chunks in a text, it's pretty clear you have a slightly altered AI text.
Do you blow away the OS and install Linux on them?

Curious because for me the affordability of a hobbyist PC is offset by the cost of Windows.
Especially 5 years down the road when you own ~30% of a $100M company - but you know there's a decent chance you'll walk away with very little, if not nothing - while your peers are all making ~$1M per year working 6 hour days at FAANG with a life partner, maybe kids, and a sizable net worth that isn't going away.

Sure, you've got a decent chance to rocket past them in wealth. But they've got everything they really want. You might have foregone your shot at a partner to build a company to mostly profit someone else who did nothing but write you a check. If you do have kids, you'll be old as hell raising them. All you'll have is extra stuff hardly anyone cares about - except maybe you - if you're the type of person chasing down a decimillion net worth.

I hope these people truly enjoy their boats and their third homes in Aspen! It sure is a lot of work to get them.
> Please tell me more about this etiquette while calling me a foodstuff.

I'm sorry you don't appreciate porcine slang. Would you prefer "Why are you going off like a bucket of prawns in the sun?" Or if you like crustaceans but prefer it was a bit snappier (no crab pun intended), how about "Don't come the raw prawn mate?"

> the original reasons for draconian law enforcement meant to be temporary are long gone..

How many times do people have to tell you that these measures are unrelated to COVID and pre-date it? COVID is thus not the "original reason" for the law in question, and never has been.

> The mentality however remains.

What mentality?

As much as this hasn't affected me yet personally (and I currently live as an expat in a country that is definitely a popular destination for some of the shifty fuckers they're actually looking for) I'm against the policy, and I would imagine most of my Australian friends would consider it overly invasive if they were told to hand over their PIN.

Are you somehow trying to suggest that because Australians in general approved of the restrictions put in place during the pandemic, that they're also likely to approve of this? I very much doubt that.

> You would with some probability jump to conclusions that I'm part of the outgroup

What "outgroup"? What are you even talking about?

> treat me with a heavyhand as demonstrated by this whole exchange

Calling someone out for talking shit about a topic they clearly don't know anything about is hardly "heavy handed".

> Wonderful, what does that have to do with this foreigner?

Well you're a foreigner who yet again made pretty ridiculous claims about Australians and their thoughts regarding how the government handled the pandemic.
They did not target power plants at the outset. As you say, later they escalated and started targeting substations (which are easier to repair). This year they have escalated even further and are targeting main power plants. How do you account for this?

Contrast with Iraq where power plants (probably the most critical of civilian infrastructure) were targeted immediately.

> The definition of genocide I am using is the one provided by the UN.

Unfortunately the "whole or in part" definition is so vague that it can be interpreted to encompasses pretty much every conflict. You cannot apply the same standard and say that Ukraine is a genocide and Iraq was not.
Why doesn't Postgres autotune those settings? Determining this experimentally seems to be very fragile
We're all at the mercy of the whims of imperfect people, but we just keep adding more ways to get things wrong. If feels like a step back, and people just can't stop inventing terrible things. The discourse is only "this new and also awful technology is just here to stay. In 5 years, someone will invent some other new horrible thing we'll all be at the mercy of, just we just have to get used to it." I don't have any better answers, but it's very discouraging.
I haven't given it massive logs but I've given error logs to ChatGPT and it's helped me figure out subtle issues very nicely. Gives me a few ideas of what could be wrong, ways to diagnose them, and even commands to run to test or fix things. I've been shocked how well it works.
It's really tough. I have worked in an industry where I got credits for a decade in some higher quality productions as well. I had to start at 0, because credits are set in stone, and it would be dangerous to connect these two lifes for me.
I have a lot of family in france, I have citizenship and lived there for about a decade earlier in my life. Not really as a french person but not quite as an expat either.

The thing that struck me wasn't so much about the quality of the food per se but just how much weight of ritual there was around it. I would see average working class families sit down for an hour+ dinner with appetizer, salad, cheese course every single day. It wasn't particularly fancy or extremely labor-intensive, usually at least one course was just repurposed leftovers from a day or two earlier. It was pretty "normal" food but set out so that eating it just took a while.

Similarly basically every worker, even low-prestige hourly laborers, was fully entitled to take a 90 minute lunch and they did, every single day. These rhythms of time and food were clearly valued highly, respect for them was built into the structures of daily life at the legal and social level. It communicates to people that how you eat matters, that it is something to pay attention to.

Snacking between meals was heavily discouraged as well, almost stigmatized even. It was considered childish, something you were expected to have grown out of needing to do routinely as an adult.

I also remember a clear sense of skepticism and even contempt for convenience and fast foods. This was about twenty years ago now and I understand that's relaxed considerably since then, especially with young people. But I think it's clear that natural french conservatism served them right here: they were correct to resist incorporating these foods into their lifestyle.
It's been veering that way for years.

Moderation has some huge blind spots that's allowed a corrosive element to build a core in the community. But that's the fate of all social networks. We've yet to figure out how to scale social interaction. When a network gets large enough to grant relative anonymity to people, the worst comes out.
There weren’t nearly enough of those to go around. Even medical staff had trouble procuring these.