skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if instead of publicly blaming an OSS product, you try to get a support contract with some of the engineers behind it? If your company is too cheap for that, maybe a PR would have been nice?

Having very high expectations when using the software without contributing anything else than public shaming on something that clearly state in the license: "Licensor provides the Work ... WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND" shouldn't be ok, this is quite literally how you make open source developer to burn out
This is a ridiculous comment. They basically refused to participate in the trial, so much so that they got a default judgment against them. Any reasonable observer sees what happened here. You’re not fooling anyone.
It's certain abused for below-the-line marketing, such as for appearing bigger than they are, but also to make them look more competent by adding ridiculous requirements such as fluency in at least five different languages.
> put out a job posting with no intention of hiring

i've seen (and worked for) many startups that post reqs prominently to signal to the world (investors, customers, etc) that "things are going great" and "we're growing" while not even able to afford a req.

> never participated in interviewing a candidate where there is no intention to hire

I haven't seen as much of that, but have been in situations where the company is either doing great (transitioning during an acquisition) or not so great (running out of money) but you keep interviewing to "look normal" or to keep the pipeline just in case things get back to normal.
So, governance by whoever writes the algorithm? No way.
> We must not forget that for a functioning democracy, *impartial and functioning courts* are absolutely essential

Very important for people to remember universally.
The court system worked very well in this case. A set of parents brought a civil lawsuit against a well-known man who was spreading what they thought were lies and inflicting emotional distress. Jones had plenty of time to respond, and he decided not to. Therefore, the case was decided in default, as is the way all civil cases would have been.
Then, a jury of his peers was brought in to decide on the size of the penalty. After hearing evidence, and giving Jones a chance to respond and question (which his lawyers absolutely failed to do effectively), the jury decided on a penalty.
This is a very simple case of a civil court system working as intended. Just because Jones lies to his audience and his audience is beholden to Jones's view of the world, does not mean the court system is malfunctioning.
Listen to Knowledge Fight, it's better than InfoWars.
Maybe it is, but does that make it unrealistic? Look back to the 70s, if a uni student said "Imagine if everyone, every household and every business had access to Arpanet. Imagine if we could communicate across the world instantaneously without having to pay exorbitant fees, share images and videos in seconds, and change the world all from the comfort of our homes." They would've been laughed out of the room, and maybe at the time it would've been rightly so, but now, that is reality. What might seem like high fantasy, or a fantastic fiction, might one day become reality.
I am not convinced that FBI raids require a judge to sign off. Only police raids would.
My bet is that companies are hiring H1Bs but must post jobs. I literally dont see americans getting hired at well known tech companies
> to maintain a pipeline of talents

See, this is the part I don’t understand.

If they don’t have real jobs available, what’s the point of building this “pipeline”?

Are they genuinely going to plan to use this pipeline for future roles? Because simply posting a real job in the future will still get 1000s of applications which builds _real_ pipeline

I don’t see recruiters going back through a bunch of old resumes to find “the one”. That’s not how that works and isn’t an efficient use of time

Seems like a bunch of busy work for nothing
And people get job descriptions written for them. They may--or may not--be actually posted. (I'm genuinely curious and wish I had looked at the time about my last job.) Wouldn't mean no one else would have had a shot but almost certainly not a random applicant putting in an online application.
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Here is the GitHub issue you can subscribe to for automatically generated attestations in the GitHub CI PyPi upload action: https://github.com/pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish/issues/288
> The precedent is bad.

I think the opposite precent would be worse. Regulating your tone around anyone with even a mediocum of power for fear of repercussion is part of the reason we're in the situation we face today.
And “gnawing,” not “knawing”! :)
Show HN: PromptL, a templating language designed for LLM prompting
Hey HN!

We just launched PromptL: a templating language built to simplify writing complex prompts for LLMs like GPT-4 and Claude.

Why PromptL?

Creating dynamic prompts for LLMs can get tricky, even with standardized APIs that use lists of messages and settings. While these formats are consistent, building complex interactions with custom logic or branching paths can quickly become repetitive and hard to manage as prompts grow.

PromptL steps in to make this simple. It allows you to define and manage LLM conversations in a readable, single-file format, with support for control flow and chaining, while maintaining compatibility with any LLM API.

Key Features

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- Reusable Templates: Modularize prompts for easy reuse across projects.

PromptL compiles into a format compatible with any LLM API, making integration straightforward.

We created PromptL to make prompt engineering accessible to everyone, not just technical users. It offers a readable, high-level syntax for defining prompts, so you can build complex conversations without wrestling with JSON or extra code. With PromptL, even non-technical users can create advanced prompt flows, while developers benefit from reusable templates and a simple integration process.

We’d love to hear your thoughts!
The Onion was not telling the parents of dead children they were crisis actors and were lying

Don't want to be sued by defamation don't make BS about people in a fragile position. It's that simple
Three points on a plane also give you a basis for texture mapping that’s reasonably intuitive to the level designer. I believe this is the main reason for the representation.
Hey , you are right.
I have edited it to change hugging face to Hugging Face (generally) & added links.

Admittedly I was in a bit of hurry and wanted to get these thoughts off my chest but this shouldn't have come at a cost of a poorer reading experience to people like you reading my poor article.

I am once again sorry.

But that being said , I am truly interested in a discussion about such things and what you think about https://greg-house-simple-piping.hf.space/ , You can literally see the source code ( a single main.py file) and forking it should also be much simpler than other alternatives.
> I've never even experienced any of those.

All of those are my most common experiences with scrum in the workplace.
Bro talks to me like I don't know what Drumcode is. The biggest titan in techno music to the point that people literally call it "business techno" because it's so oversaturated. Yeah I know drumcode. I know who Derrick May is, I don't know what sort of thumb-sucking 14 year old you think you're talking to. Derrick May is not by any stretch of the imagination a purely minimal techno artist. He literally made Strings of Life which is one of the least fucking minimal things I've ever heard.

You're right, minimal techno is not the most popular form of techno right now. That's not a new thing that happened in this decade though. Techno has been going through trends of being faster and more maximalist vs slower and minimalist since it began. I'm sorry that you're struggling to find minimal techno nights to your liking, I'm sure there are some out there and I'm sure the trend will come back around. But the techno of my generation is not all EDM or trap influenced so I know you're talking out your ass. You may have been to many techno events in your life, but what you're saying here just proves you're out of the loop like many nostalgic oldheads. So maybe just take a step back and consider that you may have lost touch with the underground. You certainly have if you think drumcode is an underground reference these days.
Unfortunately, it’s not really advice so much as reality. The truth of it is, if you know someone, you have a much better chance.
That's a quick jump from "in my opinion" to "you have no clue about".

I mean, the author is probably not a programming language design specialist, but I feel that's overly harsh - they hopefully learned a bit when working on this toy project.
Correct they come into CSV -> analytics. They don't care if we use Postgres or Mongo.
So, you are effectively committing fraud!
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This is awesome to see, and the result of many years of hard work from awesome people.
I don't understand it either. I never had the company I had this experience with call me back, the whole experience was pretty off-putting.

But I suspect the "pipeline of talent" might be the internal excuse and in fact .... again there's no mensurables so no way to know if it is true or not. But someone can say they added folks to their "pipeline" like they add contacts on linkedin.
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Is free speech election interference now?
Regarding your linked comment, my takeaway is that the very theoretical task of being able to recognize an infinite language isn't very relevent to the non-formal, intuitive idea of "intelligence"

Transformers can easily intellectually understand a^nb^n, even though they couldn't recognize whether an arbitrarily long string is a member of the language -- a restriction humans share!, since eventually a human, too, would lose track of the count, for a long enough string.
Yeah. Needs to be more concrete.
What "forces" do you think they are talking about? Every candidate has donors and allies who they may owe favors to. They aren't saying that he owes Russia anything. In fact I heard a different report suggesting that they expect him to be JFK'd if he tries to do everything he said he would do.

So that one is sort of propaganda, basically casting doubt on our democracy and challenging confidence in Trump. But it's not the same type of propaganda I thought we were talking about.
What precedent do you think this sets exactly?
I'd be very surprised if they even got close to TSMC in 10 years.
Everybody has to do something to justify their paycheck. If you’re in hiring and there’s no jobs, you have to do something.
5'500'000'000 people on the internet, which means an average of 27 cents per user. To say that there is "no possible way" of reaching that level of emotional damages is a stretch.
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I was always wondered who audits this. Why should you even deny the green card?
"We build this city on rock..."

"That's a good place to build a city."

"... and roll."

"We're doomed!"
That's sort-of the direction they're going with CUPS 3. The 'local server', which is what most people will need, runs as a normal user, not root, doesn't listen on the internet, and talks only the IPP everywhere protocol. For supporting legacy printers, there will be separate sandboxed 'printer applications' which read in IPP Everywhere, run the driver code, and communicate with the backend printer using an appropriate protocol.

For enterprise users there will be a separate 'sharing server'.

https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/liaison/openprinting/presentatio...
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Not respecting candidates and applicants is really painful for them. Dishonestly makes everything completely unpredictable and confusing.
> some other federal agency that the President has 100% control over

Neither Civil Servants nor Senior Executives can be directly terminated by the President without due process. Only appointees can be fired on a whim, and their replacements must be confirmed by the Senate. The only exception to this is "recess appointments" made when the Senate is not in session, but those appointments are temporary, and Congress can stay in session as long as needed (until the next seating after an election) to block these as long as both Houses agree to do so.

Many federal agencies today are actually governed by boards of commissioners, with limits on the number of them that can be from the same party.
Maybe if someone is “amazing” you should get them a green card.
I got laid off then brought back on last minute (whiplash), and though i was burned out while applying during the transition period, end of the day i needed a job.

So whether people check out as in, leave industry or take a smaller pay sure i can see that happening. But unless you have large savings or low expenses, you can’t really stop.

If it didn’t take 50 app submissions for 1 interview, and the interviews weren’t l33t code crap, then i’d be crazy enough to enjoy the process.
i started out w/ cloud bots too but eventually moved to building my own locally for better control over strategies & privacy. cloud bots are convenient, yeah, but it gets kinda annoying when you wanna try new ideas or custom indicators and hit limits on their end. running a bot local means i can tweak stuff how i want, no restrictions. plus, having my api keys and trading history on someone else’s server just never sat right w/ me.

for devs who wanna test stuff and actually control things, local setups just make way more sense. you get all the freedom to customize, and you know your data isn’t on some third-party server. feels safer imo.
I legit thought that this was about setting up an environment. However this is regarding blockchain , I think it feels something along the lines of https://fleek.xyz/
There were 2 issues. The first is that he made money off of it. The 2nd (and likely bigger issue) was that he repeatedly violated court orders (e.g. not complying with discovery, repeatedly lying under oath, threatening the jury on his show while the trial was going on, etc). Judges and juries generally really don't like it when one of the parties is lying their ass off and ignoring the judge's orders.
I think you've managed to explain why H1Bs shouldn't exist pretty convincingly.
> It's not about meritocracy at all, the talent flocks to what makes most money because that's the whole incentive of the system.

The incentives of the meritocratic system. For instance, in the pre-meritocratic WASP-y system, the intellectual talent couldn't do that, or at least couldn't do it nearly as freely.
Just a note: that issue is for connecting the already-present attestations to GitHub's attestations feature[1]. Attestations are already automatically generated and uploaded to PyPI regardless of that issue.

(That issue will still be great to resolve, but just to avoid any confusion about its scope.)

[1]: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-for-github-actio...
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You can still sign and notarize your .dmg without distributing it via the app store. Users who download from your website won't see the "unknown developer" warning as long as you do that.

Your second point about your target market is much more salient. Tough call.
Hardware synth route: Korg Minilogue XD is a great box that you'll likely keep forever. For a less traditional but fun experience, Arturia Microfreak or for more $, the Minifreak (which comes with a Minifreak VST!). To save money, see what's available second-hand locally and Google each to see if it's beginner friendly.

Software route: Get a midi controller with plenty of knobs and buttons that is supported for easy use by whatever DAW you want (digital audio workstation). By easy use, I mean that there is a config available within the DAW that will map the controller's buttons/knobs etc.to functions within the DAW. Examples: Push 3 or Launchkey keyboards for Abelton, Komplete Kontrol, etc.

If you want a lighter synth that is paired with a sequencer, drum machine, and effects all-in-one hardware box, for fun on the go or on your couch, you want a groovebox. I like the Novation Circuit Tracks, which has a serious synth under the hood, accessible by PC or a midi controller (Novation Launch Control XL is plug-n-play friendly if you download an addon from their website).
Have you missed the bit where Jones's lawyer sent a full copy of his phone to the plaintiff's legal team. Alex Jones says, no lies, a lot of things but the evidence that he lies is there https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/03/alex-jones-s...
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I can tell you're an angry person. You should try punching a bag instead of raging at people online.

If I have to go to a club in new york or berlin to hear music it's not culturally relevant. The stuff you linked gets zero play at festivals.
> Anyway, it seems silly to call this the "worst song of all time".

There may be other contenders, but if this song doesn't make the short list for you, I can't explain it. I doubt I could pay anyone to make such an outrageous claim.
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Article worth reading.

I think we have three fundamental problems:

1. We’ve created a society where people think that grades and test scores earn them the right to attend a given school. The goal of universities should be to improve society, in whatever vision it has. Grades are probably just one component of that.

2. Race is,unfortunately, a big deal. People are going to be racist or consciously have to try not to be or need policies to prevent one from being. The only place where people tend to be less racist is when racism leads directly and visibly to poor outcomes - most notably sports. Anytime you have to select people and how results are measured is unclear then racism will seep in.

3. There aren’t great output metrics for college. The prestige of a college is almost purely in its selectivity. Id love to know how well does a college do educating and academically average kid who is an introvert, but loves poetry.

That said I feel like the US college system has worked decently well. Not great, but it’s something we can build on.
Also, you can't really use the pipeline a year after the fact.

It is super embarrassing when a company heavily delayed gets back on an application.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beveridge_curve
I have always assumed that these are posted to obfuscate nepotism (aka successful networking). You make a show of searching for the just-right candidate, and in the meanwhile you already know exactly who you're going to hire.
"Oh, wow, I had no idea it was that affordable, we should talk..." is the response you are hoping for, correct? Self-promotion is not prohibited, but it goes better if you engage with the discussions here beyond just your own marketing.

Anyhoo, I don't think thousands of dollars for certification makes sense for a solo dev who is kicking an idea around.
looks interesting I'll have to check it out.
Fair enough. I didn't know it was a walkover in the end. And it is not really surprising there was no sane defence.

I believe Info Wars etc becoming big is pretty much a symptom rather than the problem. And it has escalated lately. I fear that they will be used as excuses for getting at others.
Perhaps if we approach technology more from the perspective of elders, and those in need, we are going to produce much better technology application for everyone else.
I'm a bit confused. Whilst you don't explicitly say it, are you not suggesting it would be better for the public's opinion of the justice system to not sanction Alex Jones to the full extent of the law, if at all?

Your first sentence is that the courts have to be impartial and functional. Ignoring the influence Jones has on the public and fully executing the law as it is laid out by taking InfoWars from Jones sounds like the courts are acting perfectly impartially and functionally.
There is a right to be wrong.

But when you profit off the suffering and harm you've caused by being wrong knowingly and continuing to cause harm, then its a very good precedent.
Again. Going to a festival does not mean you're going to a good one. Most of the best music happens in clubs in the underground circuit anyway not at "burns", which sounds like the most gentrified, millenial techbro yuppie garbage I've ever heard and I'm unsurprised you're not finding the bleeding edge of underground rave music there.

The key word is GOOD. Not that you just go places bro. You're clearly unsatisfied with the music you're hearing at these events. SO FIND BETTER ONES.
At a minimum, connectivity would have to be much more universal than today. Certainly, cellular is very far from pervasive and even satellite isn't 100%.
I'm glad our government has introduced the H1B program to help out employers like you who are dealing with a shortage of tech workers (who will work for 2/3 market and will do anything you say because if they get fired they'll be deported).
In this example the amazing engineer is a citizen or permanent resident already

If my superiors would give me extra unexpected budget I’d be happy to. But if I find a citizen that is just as good as my opt employee, my only path forward is to either fire the opt or let them continue on the team but not submit their GC application (because I have to swear I couldn’t find a citizen that is just as good)
Yes it absolutely goes both ways. The amount of crap coming in is astonishing (as in, data analyst with 2 years in python applying for senior frontend engineer, or being on the other side of the world with no mention of visa/immigration)
he repeatedly asked his audience to "investigate" the families and a number of them did so in person.
I would have hoped to at least see a section about how this compares to Urbit.

Am I too cynical or does this whole endeavour feel like a solution in search of a problem? Are EVE players particularly concerned with monetary policy? (They are aren't they?)
> But if I was making a list of Awful, Terrible Songs, I'm not sure I would have even included this one

I wouldn't. It's not a great song or anything, but I can easily come up with a lengthy list of songs that are far, far worse.
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> The results show that policy-makers should be aware of such a practice as it causes significant job fatigue and distorts market signals.

> distorts market signals

This is a feature, not a bug. Wall Street analysts have been using job posts as a signal for years to measure company current and future performance.

* positive signal: more job posts compared to previous quarter, so company must be healthy! Buy, Buy, Buy!

* negative signal: uh oh, less open job posts compared to previous quarter, must indicate bad quarter, hiring freeze, pending layoffs. Sell, Sell, Sell!

* neutral signal: less job posts for past 2 quarters, no increase in staff spend. Company probably cooking the books and pumping the next quarterly numbers.

I blame wall street.
Is anyone instantly suspicious when they introduce themselves these days an "AI Developer"
Soon enough we'll have AI that is just integrated into the OS.

So individual apps don't need to do anything to have AI.
I wonder when the job market is going to implode via AI applicants applying for fake jobs in an ouroboros of slop