skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We call the direct input to the chatbot the user prompt. Another, more complex prompt is the prompt that was written to process the user prompt, which is often called the system prompt.

I thought this was called a query, and a prompt was text / symbols written by the system to prompt the user to enter a command or query.

Is this meaning only used by AI folks?
NPP is one of the must have apps when I install a Windows system.
Now I mostly work on Mac... feel happy with CudaText:
https://cudatext.github.io/
My experience to a T, down to the 1% friendly banter (because while there are lots of smart people working on hardware, almost none of them know how to banter lol).
> Under abortion bans, more women are getting abortions.

Strange claim. Don't bother to try to substantiate it... just toss out some hypothesis of the mechanism. You should understand though, that someone like myself wouldn't believe you on that and definitely not without something to back it up. And that if someone like me did end up believing you, it wouldn't change much... just get chalked up as "well, another strange sociological trend".
Every company I have worked at I have hit this point of mental health collapse, just like OP. At this point, I can try everything—"Treating it just as a job", "finding happiness elsewhere", "just get shit done"—but nothing works. For a long while, I only found myself to blame. I felt idiotic for not having the energy to work like everyone else does.

Past one and a half years, have been years of self-discovery. I have been hacking on projects full-time (hopefully, I will make sustainable money soon). And it's been so fun, and relieving, and joyful to direct your creative energy to projects, with no authority to answer to. It's not without difficult times though. Sometimes, I feel blocked to the point of abandoning months of hard work, but I am slowly learning how to avoid those situations.

Honestly, everything I was advised was a lie (or at least, didn't work for me). I like being able to shape things, and use my creative energy to do useful things. Politics, and bureaucratic processes, drain my energy to an extent that I simply can't function. And no matter how hard I try, I can't ignore it with the mindset of "it's just a job." I can't find happiness in "being promoted" or whatever rating I am given.

I just want to ship good software. When I am driven, I will forget about everything and just dive in to solve the problem. Sadly though, it's not an easy ask in a modern-day corporate environment.

So, I would say what you're experiencing is normal in many ways. Don't kill yourself over it. If you have a list of fun projects, attempt them. For many of us, creative energy is precious, and needs to be directed well to keep ourselves sane.
a "soul" is shorthand for some sapient worthy of consideration as a person. If you want to get this technical then I will need you to define when a fetus becomes a person and if/when we get AGI where the difference is between them
I mean the data lacks any person's sleep history, but if there is a cohort of bad sleepers, as a group you get a collective pseudo-history (because altough study is done at the same time they are in different life stages) that is no-one's history but might track the average well for that cohort AND take into consideration more than a week.

In the similar way sampling the height of 1000 of 1M people will give you a good estimate of the average.
It is, unless PDF supports reflow?
Recommend BBC documentary about Hokusai, going into each period of his work:

https://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=Hokusai:_Old_Man_Crazy_...
> On the plus side big tech knows interviews are often a function of luck

How does this not mean "we hire at random"? It's especially egregious after explaining all the reasons you can't give a candidate extra time, because you're so precise and consistent. Which is it? Consistency and luck are opposites.
I abandoned that idea and working on a similar idea for Indian market.
The power of low agency – NeuralCalculus
Imagine if the author had tried Phoenix and Elixir with its amazing OTP foundation…
I sure hope they do. Security doesn't end at the gates, so to speak. It starts there. We need layered security to create systems where not every hack has critical impact.
Hmm. The state of California would probably argue that both the potatoes and the rosin has turned into cancer-generating zombie paste, at temperatures where using rosin for cooking makes sense.
Damn, I missed the best one.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Don't mistake reddit popularisation of "cunt" for reality. It's certainly used heavily by some subcultures, ex and current armed forces, young men. Mostly it's braggadocio and routine use in everyday conversations is not normal no matter what redditors say. It's a version of "drop bear" trapping for unwary visitors. It's extremely unacceptable to most people and is avoided.

Coon cheese changed its name to "Cheer" despite having no context where it's origin story related to its slang use. It's Edward Coon of Philadelphia's proprietary branding.

Slang words for aboriginal females have fallen out of use and were all highly derogatory along with most other objectifying language about the aborigines. Terms like murri and mob are self-referential use.

I was shocked by use of Yid 20 years ago. I think some people in Australia had little or no context of its use in Europe. Likewise Paki which is still used, to a British person from the era of the BNP and paki-bashing this word is anathema. Jap went from a term of derision to a term with probably positive meanings, jap cars are cheap, well made and reliable.

Chink was and remains abusive since the gold rush era and racist white Australia immigration policy. A nong has nothing to do with the N word, ningnong just means a stupid person. Mong is offensive everywhere.
We need a club house or something. We cannit even execute any whitelisted .exe, a valliant colleague who shall remain anonymous to history must have fought for us having n++, and I thank them for it.

A place to share... workarounds would be nice.
> The magic of deposit refund system is that you only pay more once.

Your insight into the economics of this is shallow. If plastic is cheaper than glass, a "deposit refund scheme" doesn't fix the fact that forcing everything to glass makes it more expensive. Glass jars aren't just washed and reused, they have to be melted down to be reused at all. There's a big fuel usage penalty there (not to mention this is fossil fuel, so all the climate change connotations). In some really pathological scenarios, the single-use plastics can actually be better for the environment, since once the plastic is landfilled the carbon stays out of the air.

> That much is pretty clear.

Cheap shot. About all you have, isn't it? Just big dumb ideas that make you feel good, that you've never much contemplated to any depth, that would make things worse for everyone.
I would say that anything that is opposed to Marx’s concept of alienation would fit the bill. Work should feel impactful and your decisions should lead to some tangible output.

It helps to be close to your users, or to build software that has a clear purpose. It’s good to work on a small team where your input has a clear influence on the quality pf the product.
The current ChatGPT gets it right. Apple's team seems to be wrong.

Prompt:

See if you can solve this arithmetic problem:

Oliver picks 44 kiwis on Friday. Then he picks 58 kiwis on Saturday. On Sunday, he picks double the number of kiwis he did on Friday, but five of them were a bit smaller than average. How many kiwis does Oliver have?

Answer:
Let’s break it down step by step:

1. Friday: Oliver picks 44 kiwis.

2. Saturday: He picks 58 kiwis.

3. Sunday: He picks double the number he picked on Friday, so: 44 * 2 = 88 kiwis

4. Total number of kiwis picked: 44 + 58 + 88 = 190

The fact that five kiwis were smaller doesn’t affect the total count, so Oliver has 190 kiwis in total.
I'm curious about printable hinges. Has anyone tried them? How sturdy and reliable are they?
It's not complicated at all. His views shifted over time.

He also was a product of his times: no one questioned the moral existence of USA, Australia or New-Zealand in regard with native population rights.
It's optimizing as in previously it had far less attention.
China is about to reach the tipping point where solar and batteries will be cheaper than all forms of energy the resulting efficiency gains will not cause the demographic economic collapse people are expecting.

On the other hand the way they are slowly encroaching on some of the largest economic moats of the west like car manufacturing and Jumbo Jets the wars might be coming from the other side.
I'm excited at the prospect of LLMs being deployed here. An attacker only needs to find one weak link in the chain. Eliminating weak links is hard, and might be NP-complete.

However, throw resources at it and you might just make weak links much rarer. Throw a variety of heterogenous LLMs at it, and you might be looking at a large force multiplier.
I’m the same with Django.

I’ve found that perf issues were much more often caused by the DB queries than by Django itself.
> Making it harder for alternative OSes to use their hardware without accidentally damaging it, further cementing macOS' position as the only OS to be trusted.

If apple wanted to kill asahi linux, they wouldn't have had to lift a finger. Its the opposite - Apple engineers have needed to do several small things to keep the door open to easily run 3rd party operating systems on their computers. Remember, a modern mac has essentially identical hardware as an ipad. Apple has locked down the entire boot process and uses digital signatures all through the boot chain. They actively changed how macs boot to make sure things like asahi linux can run on their computers at all.

I don't think they deserve special praise for that. But it does make it a stretch to claim their speakers were intentionally designed hurt linux-on-mac. If they wanted to stop asahi linux, they had plenty of much easier, much more effective ways to do so.
Dude, you are talking total nonsense. What does 100k samples even mean. We have not even established what task we are talking about and you already know that you need that many samples. Not to be offensive, but you seem like the type of guy who believe in these magical properties.
> "YC has lost all of the people who were there at the start. Saying something like “what ever was the ‘luster’” is akin to saying “who the heck was Steve Jobs, who cares, Apple is still the same business.”
Sheesh."

Apple does still make hugely popular products and still makes a huge amount of profit.

Plenty of institutions, from universities to businesses, have managed to continue succeeding across multiple generations, just as many have failed after losing a generation.

I've no idea how YC helps now vs. the beginning, but different people isn't proof of it being worse.
They failed to produce a build for Windows[1] for years after the official release of v2. They still don't have an official build for MacOS. They say to "check sticky topics on the forum"[2]. Saying that builds exist for those platforms on the homepage still seems a bit disingenuous.

1. https://dev.deluge-torrent.org/ticket/3201

2. https://deluge.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro/01-install.htm...
I mean, most people don't buy a new phone each year, let alone something as expensive as a laptop. They are probably still targeting Intel Mac, or M1 users for the most part.
That’s your opinion. I am with OP on this one. Why proofpoint gets to silently drop the email instead of letting it go to spam folder. If you have vested interest in proofpoint you should disclose it or keep sucking for big guys.
> "Long Covid" took quite a while to be demonstrated and we were monitoring everything like a hawk. "Long flu" has no such monitoring.

It wasn't demonstrated because of the monitoring. It was demonstrated by the droves of desperate patients who kept banging on the clinics' doors and wouldn't take no for an answer. Claiming that 'long flu' is the same thing is (IMO) just a different variety of Covid denialism.
Truncating bpf to originate in Linux because eBPF is to my mind a bit a-historical given bpf is Berkeley packet filter which originally came in the BSD kernel.
> the only updates they appear to have made in the last 5+ years involve optimizing the suite for Apple chip

How do you theorize that generic C or C++ code that you compile using GCC has been "optimized for an Apple chip"?

Feankly, it's impossible to take any of this comment seriously.
I don't think we are mistaken to call the potatoes we put in the roasting tin with our roasting meat for a classic Sunday roast....roast potatoes.

Baked potatoes are baked skin-on whole in the oven.

I don't think 'mistakenly' is the word you were looking for. Otherwise we can start on a 'who invented English anyway' thread of food naming.

+ crisps that some people mistakenly call chips

+ chips that some people mistakenly call fries

+ biscuits that some people mistakenly call cookies

Etc
Try looking up if IP is compromised or if you have any plug-in or software generating spam.
Index huggers already own plenty of Nvidia (and Intel)? SP500 and total stock market funds have 4-7% in Nvidia at this point
Next AI company should be about UI
With any form of investor expecting a return I dunno how possible this is, but I’ve worked for one family owned business (non-tech industry but had a small tech team) and it was super relaxed like you mention.

No investors, no board of directors, just a woman and her son who owned the business. They wanted to grow it but were very reasonable about it.

That being said the salary was probably 20-30% below market. At the time I wanted to make more money so I chased that for a while instead.
Except this was found eventually.

How many fifteen year old plus problems exist in closed source bases?
Hey, can you explain how you did that and can you do the same for the sleep article? I tried but it wouldn't produce audio for me.

https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/47/1/zsad253/7280269
For context, we're both talking about Australia here, right?

What's (IMHO) uniquely Australian is the slang adoption of "cunt" for men, sometimes in a positive sense (good cunt, mad cunt), sometimes negative (dog cunt, shit cunt). But, just like the US, you absolutely cannot use it to refer to a woman unless you intend to offend.
It is kinda interesting that the only software program I miss when on a non-Windows machine is an open source (and GPL of all) replacement for built-in Notepad, developed by an independent engineer.
It is definitely not a given you lose FPS on Linux. It is not uncommon for games to give better FPS on Linux. It will all end up depending on the exact games you want to play.
It's not quite random, the goal is to bias the errors towards false negatives (bad rejection) than false positives because bad hires are so expensive to recover from.
> doing big labour projects in us, EU, UK, etc is too expensive

To be clear, the EU is huge -- 27 countries. In the east, there are plenty of poor and lower income people who are happy to move to other parts of EU for construction work. As for US and UK, I agree: There is no cheap labour. How do you explain why there is so much infra construction in Korea and Japan, but the prices are reasonable? They are both highly advanced nations.
If your crypto library works like an Axe and the methods aren’t prefixed with “unsafe_”, the library is bad. I would expect an exception when a hashing function gets an argument that’s too long, not just dropping of the excess input. Who thinks that’s the best choice?
Odd use of "protected" when clearly they aren't.
Yes. Australia. But, that usage remains highly contested as acceptable. It's been my experience that it's an emerging trend which is leveraging social media. It's like code switching, few people would do it in front of their wives, girlfriends, bosses or strangers. Whereas "fuck" is almost entirely normalised amongst the under 60s. My 80yo contacts still apologise when they say it.

"Being John Malkovitch" implied it was edgy arts scene in the US who used it. For me, it's been ex forces telecommunications technicians and .. younger bogans. This is why I think it's braggadocio: Used because it remains transgressive.
Those are slurs, not curse words. Nobody yells the N-word when they accidentally hit their thumb with a hammer.
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People talk about completey different things. The article was about Google using LLM-s to generate code, not people making 80 lines with them at home. There is a huge difference. I don’t see any problem with the latter, but with the former there are many problems.
Yeah - the same thing has been happening for well over a decade with phone cameras. I bought a fancy full frame dslr camera recently and the image quality is incredible. But the sensor on my camera is 30x larger than my phone’s sensor (or something like that). And good lenses are massive - my arms get a workout from shooting.

It really puts into relief how weird it is that we get such good quality out of phone cameras. They’re almost as much generative AI images as they are actual photos.
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This is a nice enough article considered as an experience report. It’s tempting for me to focus too much on the title (was it a rewrite in an interesting sense? no, it was like going on a five-year trip across Asia and returning to your hometown to marry your high school sweetheart[1]).

It doesn’t seem like the author learnt that much. They know Rails and Rails is good for making webapps? Makes sense.

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This is why we need a standard that has both HDMI and DP connector options, but DP signalling.
congrats - very interesting and well done platform! :)
This article is kind of the story of my life…
I launched a SaaS app written in Go in 2013 coming from Rails and I had to figure out everything on my own. Migrations, database layer, asset pipeline, deployment, validations, logging, payments and so many more things that rails just give you.
> Because of how they treated Hong Kong.

Taiwan, too.
It isn't nearly so dire. The modern solution for this is https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/upower/power-profiles-daemon
As was Siri itself!
> Let me get this 100% straight, rendering light the exact same way reality itself does it is a gimmick?

Yes, because "Rendering light the exact same way reality itself does it" was never the assignment, outside of nvidia desperately trying to find excuses to sell more GPUs.

Maybe some games would benefit from it in some cases... but you have to weigh that marginal improvement against the increased costs, both economic and ecological.

> It massively lowers the artists' workload since there's no need to painstakingly go through each in-game area and add fake lights to make everything look good.

This is a laughable claim, as long as you're going for anything more than fixed ambient lighting you're going to need to massage and QA that the lighting works for what you're trying to show.

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In short, yes. Ray tracing as a headline feature is a gimmick, made to appeal to the same clueless HNers who think AI will eliminate our need to understand anything or express ourselves.
No, one meaning is "an act of encouraging a hesitating speaker," which seems OK to use in this context
SmolLM2
What about WebTransport? I thought that was the http/3 upgrade to WebSockets that supported unreliable and out-of-order messaging
We recently started testing AdonisJS as a TS alternative to rails.

I'd recommend anyone who'd be interested in "Rails, but in TS" to give it a go.

It feels much more similar to rails (or Laravel) than the most popular TS stacks, and also has "batteries included" instead of leaving you to decide on every part of your stack (or trust a template from a third party).
Temporary solutions can become more dangerous with time. Years ago, in one of our projects, someone wrote a small helper class, HTTPClient, to talk to one of our internal subsystems. The subsystem in the dev environment used self-signed certificates, so one of the devs just disabled SSL validation. Whether SSL errors were ignored or not was specified in a config. Later, someone messed up while editing the configs, and SSL validation got disabled in the live environment, too. No one noticed, because nobody writes tests to check if SSL validation is enabled. But that's only part of the story, this HTTPClient class was still only used to communicate with our internal subsystem on our own network.

The real problem came later when the next generation of developers saw this HTTPClient class and thought, "Hey, what a nifty little helper!", and soon they were using it to talk to pretty much everything, including financial systems. I was shocked when I discovered it. An inconsequential temporary workaround had turned into a huge security hole.
This is surprising why? Surge load is hard to budget for and under the surface many infra things are bundles of spit and duck tape.
MMT largely rejects interest rates (and monetary policy in general) as a useful tool in macroeconomic policy in favour of fiscal policy. The general position is that since the marginal cost of money is basically zero, the markets in useful stuff are better able to operate if the money markets don't complicate things, and that monetary policy is not a very good tool to achieve the desired objective (weak, and potentially counterproductive at times). If a particular political objective is desired, then use more direct government tools to do that - laws and regulations, rates and duties.
A cautionary tale for Nvidia to not become the next Intel.
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This is awesome, well done
I think almost always the DB query will take the longest but: I've seen too many engineers not even do basic optimizations such as creating indexes.

Here's a list of easy/low hanging fruit optimizations that are often just forgotten: Creating indexes in the db, delegating more logic to the db than doing it in code (e.g. using pipelines in mongodb, partial indexes in postgres, etc.), turning on brotli/zstd compression for all or most requests, caching objects or requests in memory (e.g. with redis), setting appropriate cache control headers, frontend stuff such as not rendering thousands of objects as DOM nodes and instead using canvas (recently saw this in a map application).