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Hedy: A gradual programming language for education
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Officially Launches Starting at $1,999
Ask HN: Where is the programming language ladder of awareness essay?
Some years ago there was an essay which described a developer's perspective as they learned more languages.

It was represented as a ladder, whereby more experienced developers could see their level and the levels (languages) below them.

I thought it was Paul Graham, but now I cannot find it.

Does anyone know the essay I speak of and can offer a link to it?
The best is the 50 cent check in the mail… literally the postage cost more to deliver the return check.
That's sort of my point. If they don't know, they don't have to file one. You only need to file one if it's taxable. And I think this is all moot since I believe they differentiate between business and personal transactions, right?
Switch to FreeTaxFileUSA for now if you’re not willing to go for this open source project.

Not only is it cheaper, more importantly, you’re not giving money that’s going towards maintaining the tax code that prevents the government from “competing” with TurboTax.

Obviously the Government already has what it needs to pretty much do all of your taxes, and they already must do this anyway. They could ask you like 5 short questions and your taxes would be done…they already have all your info.

Stop paying the lobbyists to continue lobbying against your interests. Start getting in the habit of calling or emailing your reps around tax time.
The podcast might have been Planet Money: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/22/521132960/epis...

Priceonomics wrote an accompanying article: https://priceonomics.com/the-stanford-professor-who-fought-t...
Thankfully my state (and others are joining) disallow the use of credit scores for insurance.

Which is good for me - my credit score dropped by nearly ~80 points when I bought a home last year, and 10 months later has only recovered 40 points.
Lol OK. How about a link then?
>What are you even talking about?
We lack the shared language for me to explain it simply, but I might be able to get there if you're engaging in good faith. Unfortunately your response comes across as evidence that you're not. If you are engaging in good faith and actually want an answer, tell me whether you think men (by your preferred definition) should be allowed to compete in women's (by your preferred definition) sports.
Or, a budget.
Decision Making by Inanimate Objects?
There are certain materials (some metal oxides, I think) which adapt to external stimulus quite like sentient beings.
Does anyone know of such materials?
The former, mostly. PhD students are usually funded by their university, as well as by research grants come from US government agencies and research-oriented companies and organizations.

So we (as in "various elements of US society") are paying to educate people, and then are sending them back where their home countries benefit, while the US does not. It's so dumb.

There are some cool exceptions, like some programs where students educated in the US are required to go back to their home countries. The idea is to help raise the level of education in countries where the higher education system isn't well developed or funded, and I think that sort of thing is an admirable goal. But it's so bizarre that we, for example, complain about supposed Chinese academic espionage, and complain about brain drain, but simultaneously make it really hard for international students to stay in the US after they graduate.
So they effectively declare an open war against China, Russia and Iran. While also recognizing Taiwan sovereignty.

This is not going to raise any hell whatsoever for sure (sarcasm).

WTF is going through their heads?
That’s kinda silly. An enormous number of successful companies use Ruby.
It’s absolutely absurd.
You've got it: this is purely an issue during boot-up before enough quality entropy has been gathered. If a malicious userspace program writes predictable data to /dev/random immediately on boot, and the system counts it toward the entropy credit, then it's possible that other services on the system reading from /dev/random will get predictable improperly seeded randomness. It's fine to allow writes to /dev/random at any time as long as it is never given entropy credit.
It doesn't, no.
This is disgusting. Allow me to explain:

The "Federal Air Transport Agency" in question here isn't a military agency, it's a civilian one[1]. For the Americans here it'd be like destroying the infrastructure for the FAA.

Why is a NON-MILITARY BODY the target here? Yes, Russia is committing war crimes in Ukraine and shelling, shooting, and (maybe) kidnapping Ukrainian citizens BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN that you stoop to their level and also target Russian civilians via these types of attacks.

We saw this retaliatory revenge-driven behavior after Germany invaded Russia in WW2. Germany committed unspeakable acts against the Russian population on their march to Moscow and when the tide turned and Russia reached German territory the Russians did the same thing. Both were disgusting and the result of both was the bloodiest theatre of the war for both the military AND civilians: German and Russian both. Civilians being arbitrarily killed, women raped, and overall people massacred.

What does a random Russian citizen who needs to fly between A and B have to do with Putin's war in Ukraine? Russia is a "democracy" in name-only; it's common knowledge people get disappeared for speaking up in Russia. It's not like they have a choice; so why attack people trapped by the circumstances of the country they were born in?

I should note -- and it annoys me I have to say this because it means the substance of my opinion here is only valid by how "woke" my view on the war is, and not other merits my opinion may or may not have -- I don't support Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine. I do not supporting the Russian military's killing of Ukrainian civilians and targeting non-military infrastructure, but I also do not support Ukraine's retaliatory attacks on Russian CITIZENS.

I'm not Russian. I'm not Ukrainian. I'm from England, I'm European.

[1] -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Air_Transport_Agency (matched based on the name Rosaviatsiya which is mentioned in the article of this thread).
A drag and drop builder would certainly lower the barrier to entry for those of us not [necessarily wanting to be] familiar with every single detail of how CSS / HTML / JavaScript work.

We just want a pretty app to demonstrate our backend.
I've only given Helix a brief try, but I think there are some things to be excited about it as a keyboard-focused editor:

Its out-of-the-box experience seems much nicer than vim (or even kakoune).

Helix takes a lot of inspiration from kakoune. e.g. like kakoune, its command menu shows a description for the command. And, obviously, its modal editing puts emphasis on selection-then-action (compared to vim's verb-motion).

Helix puts a big emphasis on LSP and tree-sitter, rather than having these bolted-on as plugins.
What are the chances this study is actually reproducible? What was the sample size?

Personally I’ve shifted to a default position of extreme skepticism regarding any study that makes any claim on any kind of human behavioral pattern. Burned too many times.

We might as well just debate astrological predictions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
Anything particular you didn't like about that?

FWIW we'd _like_ to add the ability to define thunks inside of `createSlice`, but there's TS type circularity issues we've been unable to solve, so that's kept us from making it work right.

Also, I'd be curious to see if RTK Query can handle your data fetching use cases.
Which God? And why must there be just one?
And in 2009 they gave everyone a phone (Nexus One or G1, I don't remember) for Christmas instead of a $1K cash bonus... and then that one guy complained loudly (on eng.misc?) that he didn't need a phone and didn't want this phone, and the phone would impact his taxes even though he never asked for it, and complained that the phone was a terrible gift and even worse than a gift, and people told him to just donate it to his damn family and he would yell "but I'm still responsible for the taxes on this thing!" even though it was clearly explained that he wasn't. Over ten years later, I'm still shaking my head at how a few extremely toxic people could so effectively poison the culture and good spirits of thousands of employees.
Jason is doing great work here. These aren’t fun to solve problems.

Even if long term he can bootstrap a proper userspace ecosystem of using /dev/*random, will the unification ever be possible if we have to support these old systems?

I am generally in favor of maintaining 100% userspace backward compatibility but in this case I would support changing the behavior since the old shell scripts were exploiting behavior that wasn’t documented and was always incorrect.
Similar to how my four year old can read books, because he’s memorized the words I’ve read to him through repeated story times.
Exactly my complaint as well!

They could send me a monthly statement like my city government does.
Instead, they wait a year to let me know I slipped up and then charge me interest.
Guys, if you know I slipped up now you could have told me a year ago.
The issue is that now, credit scores -also- reflect how good a credit -consumer- you are, not just your risk profile. How profitable a customer are you likely to be, etc.
> Imagine if I'm working at Google and I find a way to save Google $10M/year via improved hardware efficiency.

The sole reason while your research generates millions of dollars of year of saving is because it would be applied at Google scale. So your work times google scale = $10M/year.

As stated above, you deserve to be compensated for a part of your work. But pretending that your compensation should also include the "Google scale" factor - which you did not contribute to in any meaningful way - is not right.

If you want your compensation to be based on the outcome of your work on the company as a whole, you need to work for equity and not for salary, and accept the associated risks - which might include getting nothing for a lot of efforts. Of course, your compensation will then also include the work made by others, which you might like or dislike.

If you want to be able to precisely measure your own contribution, exclude any other factors, and capture almost all of it, you probably are better of creating your own solo-founder type of company and stay solo. When 1+1=3, it's hard to precisely pinpoint which "1" generated the extra value.
Which is why this shadow credit score shit is even more absolutely appalling.
Related:

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/7...
When I visited my late uncle some 30 years ago, he loved to gather everyone around the fireplace. (Not my thing, but you know, it's family.)

I saw a basket next to the fireplace with a 1936 Popular Mechanics in it!

I asked if I could have it, and if there were any more like it.

He said, "Sure, take it. It's the last one. I used the rest of them for kindling."
Show HN: Scriptbar Snippets – Handy code snippet to save in the browser
Hi,

I recently launched Scriptbar-snippets.tryapp.us, a website listing developer handy snippets e.g turn any website to dark mode, pretty print minified css, inject any library to current page, ...

Would love to hear your feedback!!
The alternative is coconut water business leaders running a coup de tat on random pacific islands and petitioning for territory status within the US

All to circumvent tariffs on their exports to remain competitive

Well, the distinctly American alternative
People have been cooking the books forever. WorldCom or Tyco being examples.
SeedRNG – Simple utility for seeding the Linux kernel RNG with seed files
Good time to start a fake PhD mill business!
A link to what?
You’ve mentioned two of my favourite technologies :)

In case you want to try rust and react together:

https://github.com/Wulf/create-rust-app
Good time to be in the fake PhD diploma mill business!
> If you were to account for the next 500 years, then the costs that we have to pay today would definitively be worth it.

As a society—maybe, as human kind—maybe, as individuals—I highly doubt it.

The former two depend on how do we handle everything else on this planet. Looking at what happens in Ukraine, I’m sceptical. The latter: none of us is going to be here in 500 years. Maybe sone will, assuming we, the kind, don’t get wiped by other external factors.

I’m not saying it isn’t worth trying to make a change. I’m only discussing that single point.
In 2021 I was doing work for a client and noticed an email address of @cs.com. Two letter domains are pretty rare, and I wasn't familiar with this one.

To my great surprise, it was an original CompuServe email address. There are still some (original?) CompuServe users with intact email addresses.
wow! didn't know this existed, so does this mean I can self-host and still keep my dynamodb api code?
Same here! We ended up with a house that had been on the market for a long time. Turns out the biggest problem was its terrible listing.
That's insane. No, I don't think even the Kremlin is that supportive of the invasion.
the US government isn't in control of the dollar rate - the central bank is private.
Who would pay for porn? Someone who wants to see what's behind that paywall.

Crytocurrency is difficult and costly to trace and exchange identifying not available to Syria.

VPNs would be used

Same process for other currencies on Binance and other exchanges.
>> So does crypto [...]

> I'd wager that this is a lie. Please name one.

Alibaba ran a Foreign Exchange service on top of crypto. I don't know if it is still running or not. It functioned like Western Union. Customers sent local currency to Alibaba, Alibaba bought crypto with that local currency and in another country sold that crypto for foreign currency and then deposited it into the foreign currency account.
As you gain evermore knowledge and experience, you have a greater quantity of material to draw upon. When explaining things you realize that there are related more basic facts that are also relevant and might be relevant or assist in clarifying what you are talking about.

As a former academic and lecturer, I find it very useful to write for specific audiences. After several revisions I narrow down to the best way to deliver specific nuggets of information in specific contexts. For example, communicating with researchers at a conference is very different to teaching the same topics to first year students.
Seems like a ridiculous suit, but it also seems like Krebs calling it a cover up is sort of a gray area. They did send some sort of notification, but didn't necessarily conceal it either. Looking forward to the ruling and reasoning - the legal determination of what constitutes a cover up. Especially since most places use the generic type notifications.
Can this be self-hosted, or run on-prem, for a price?
Working in quite the prominent big tech in Europe. 7k+ slack members. We abuse slack. inter-team daily work, intra teams coordination. Squads / topic q&a's, code reviews. Tribe based knowledge transfer, feedback, and many lulz. Of course an army of bots /webhooks about metrics, usage tresholds, alarms, even customer specific channels with automated bot support.

All the platforms have wonderful apps, even the web fallback is feature complete, and a breeze to use.
The ecosystem of 3rd party integrations and apps is just incredibly big...
All of this works consistently, probably more than 99.99 of uptime, and almost never we had any service disruption.

It definitely pays for itself.
If you’ve done DMT you know very well God is not dead
Aren’t fabs and all that like multi-billion dollar projects? How does one realistically become a startup in that space when the capital to start is so intensive? (At least these days - idk about back in the past)
an entropy credit system, an idea that's more or less discredited now

... no pun intended, I'm sure.
Perhaps writing, e.g. a blog post, will further help.
The IRS can't even handle people e-filing.

But don't worry, the project started in 2009 to replace their COBOL mainframe systems is kinda, sorta on track for completion...in 2030.
PhD's from where? From American universities? Or from Kwame's StickShack University in rural Congo?
What did Grover Norquist do (not-American here)?
I have the opposite experience. I love my house but if Redfin offered to pay me what the say my house is worth, I might sell and buy the bigger house next door.
Tax Intel to fund semiconductor startups.
Appreciate it, really think AWS dynamodb is not an option for those running a bootstrapped business and dealing with large amount of data anymore, guess I'm going to have to bite the bullet and just do more research on hardening dedicated servers ourselves. Really the security and peace of mind from relying on AWS was what we were paying for but the cost is too much as our data storage needs are exploding.

At this point I might even move off AWS Lambda somehow, its quite ironic, we do consulting to help businesses get on AWS but we are moving off it due to rising costs!
I was personally at trump’s inauguration filming the protests and I can assure you they were not nearly as destructive as the January 6th insurrectionists trying to overturn an election. A few smashed windows and some flipped over trashcans is not a mob attacking the capitol chanting “HANG MIKE PENCE.”
This is not purposeful but likely a side effect of them still relying on ancient COBOL mainframes that seem unable to keep up with the growing population (and thus growing number of tax filers.)
He's simply pointing out that Covid was a just a BS excuse for politicians to transfer money from landlords to deadbeat tenants (thereby inducing people to become deadbeats).
I see. That is a bit tricky... the entire "count the entropy" thing sounds like a pain. I guess I don't see a way around it - they link to fortuna, but I don't see how that's going to fix it. It sounds like fortuna is a better prng, so in theory if you have N outputs it's harder to get back to the seed? But the attacker is so early in the boot process...

It would help I guess.

I'll have to read up on Fortuna, at the least, as it sounds really neat.

edit: OK Fortuna is more than I expected. I have to read up.
To be fair I think the whole Model UN, volunteer kind of thing is a way for mediocre students without athletic skills to juice their resumes. If you’ve got good SATs you’ll go to a good college. If you’re an athlete that opens tons of doors too.
Is looking at the per-student cost and multiplying by the number of students a good way to evaluate the systemic cost? Or are there other factors separate from the marginal cost to a professor of an additional grad student which should be included (e.g. are there institutional-level resources which are significantly supporting this workforce?)
Nourish: How we refuel
A link to how the ultra wealthy access their money/stocks and reduce taxes.
Consider a student who accidentally arrives at the correct answer using a completely incorrect method for a problem and a student who arrives at the wrong answer using a correct method but making a simple arithmetic mistake.

Who is demonstrating a better understanding of the subject? I would argue that it is student 2.
>> Proof is, that indeed humans do get the wrong answer in quizzes like these
sometimes!

GPT-3 gets the wrong answer because it has memorised answers and it generates
variations of what it has memorised. It generates variations by sampling at
random from a probability distribution over what it's memorised. If it has the
correct answer memorised, sometimes it will generate the correct answer,
sometimes it will generate a slight variation of it, sometimes it will generate
a large variation of it, sometimes it will generate something completely
irrelevant (i.e. with a very small probability).

Failure is not an exclusive characteristic of humans. In particular, any
mechanical device will fail, eventually. For example, a flashlight will stop
functioning when it runs out of battery. But not because it is somehow like a
human and it just got it wrong that one time.
The other poster is probably very confident because gay.com redirects to https://lalgbtcenter.org, which is an LGBT advocacy group in Los Angeles.
In the Julia repl, just type '@less sin(pi)' to view the source code of sin. I don't know of any other programming language that makes it this easy to look at its internals.
There seems to be very little reporting on this from immigration reporters on Twitter considering the impact of some of the provisions for legal immigration.

I guess they expect the immigration stuff to be thrown out in reconciliation since the senate version didn't seem to have them.
Anyone else have trouble opening archive.ph links in Firefox? Using uBlock if that matters, tested on more than once device.
Yup, every major newspaper and TV/Cable network is a corporation.

If the NYT can push candidates, why not Sears?
> Do you have a formula. At least a principle.

I have a formula and a principle. Anyone earning $100 MM or above should pay the same effective percentage as the median taxpayer... relative to their wealth.

The median US household has a net worth of $120k and pays about $10k in taxes each year. That equates to an 8% wealth tax.

If a billionaire has $1 MM in income one year, they could pay $2 MM in tax and not even notice, despite that being a 200% effective income tax rate. What matters, in terms of "fairness", is what that burden feels like, which is losing 0.2% of their wealth (assuming wealth of exactly $1000 MM). For the median household that would be like paying $240 in taxes.

Note that this doesn't even take into account the law of diminishing marginal returns, which states that the millionth dollar matters less to someone than their first dollar, so the millionth dollar should be taxed at a higher rate for the same hedonic burden.
Is that a result of shadow credit score or was it because there was a nationwide moratorium on evictions for 18 months due to covid?

If I’m an apartment manager and I know I can’t evict anyone for an indefinite time, it makes sense to verify every piece of evidence I can that applicants will pay, because if they stop paying there’s nothing I can do and I’m losing money every month.
The Mirage of Mandiant
The first ransomware attack was in 1989.
I think this is a bit of an extreme response. I don't think the parent was suggesting that every Chinese PhD student in the US (or even a majority of them) is a CCP agent, just that it does happen, and the more Chinese PhD students who end up in the US, it's likely that more of them will be beholden to the CCP in some way.

I think your framing as "agents" is a bit sensationalized. You're evoking images of these highly-trained spies willing to do anything to steal for their country. My expectation is that most folks are just regular-Joe type people who just want a good education, but are pressured by their government to pass back certain kinds of information (with under-specified by scary consequences for their family if they don't comply). I have a lot of sympathy for the people who get caught up in this situation. They're people who are trapped in a way that requires them to pay a higher (moral) price to obtain a good education. I'm not sure I'd have the strength to behave any differently if I were in their shoes.

(Also consider that the US's industrialization was fueled by plenty of academic and industrial espionage. That doesn't make what goes on today ok, but let's not pretend our historical hands are clean.)
A Lesson in Shortcuts