skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i don't think I've ever understood the point of letter grades and especially of GPA. what is it even meant to measure? clearly not mastery over material since we can see from this article we've seen a steady increase (while i don't think anyone is claiming students have gotten that much better). relative rank, then? again no because of the change over time.

i believe we should have two separate measures. one, did you pass the class? and two, what was your percentile within that course? of course percentile isn't necessarily relevant to employers. but then I would argue that should already be the case with GPA.

at least the benefit with percentile is it can't experience inflation like this, and gives you a comparable value across colleges. one would be able to make judgements on, would i want a 95th percentile state school candidate or a 5th percentile ivy? with the current system this is impossible.
> Does the featured link emulate some internal client at Cern?

It's a javascript emulation of first browser/editor running on a NeXT machine. Only very few people actually used this setup.

For more context, see https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/

> I remember accessing the web at a pretty early stage by telnet to info.cern.ch which presented a text client pretty much like an old version of lynx, but double clicking on that would get you nowhere. You had to press Enter, iirc.

I guess that was the line mode browser? CERN did a javascript rebuild of it as well in 2013 https://line-mode.cern.ch/, but the emulator is no longer running.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_Mode_Browser
> He has hyped up evs for sure, that he deserves all the credit for.

Literally the most important part, proving they were sufficiently advanced that governments could confidently begin phasing in bans of new combustion vehicle sales, dragging legacy auto to EVs as well. Who cares who the founder is? And what about JB!?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._Straubel
How is this different from washed check?

That is also 'indistinguishable from you', check is valid and has your signature.

In both cases you have to hope that funds can be clawed back.

The author does point that it took 3 months to get funds back and it would have been difficult if he could not prove checks as fraud.

I would also rate difficulty of grabbing otp and password as more difficult then intercepting an envelope. (outside cases where people willfully give them away to 'tech support'... in which case they might as well write a blank check)

Police already being aware of 30+ cases in author's context does say its widespread issue even for savvy persons. I could fall victim by simply mailing a check, whereas I can't imagine having my bank account hacked.
Harder? In what way and for whom?

I am suspicious of claims that procedural, imperative programming is “easier” than functional programming: in terms of how quickly one can learn it, how accurately one can predict what a program does by reading it, and how accurately one can make a modification. Assuming two developers both of equal experience in their preferred paradigms and languages I expect the functional programmer will score higher in these cases.

The cost of functional programming is that it does take some training to write programs in this style that many people are not familiar with. And I think it’s that lack of familiarity that people are referring to when they say that it is more “difficult.”

Personally I can’t disagree that it is harder to learn if you are already familiar with procedural programming. It took me quite a few months of dedicated work to get productive with Haskell. It was a painful, as I recall, because I had to throw out all of the accumulated experience I had with a handful of other languages.

Now that I am productive with it though I don’t find it any more “difficult” than programming in C or JavaScript or Python. In fact I find it easier: I can rely on the type system and reason about my programs and how they compose instead of stepping through their execution. Functional programming demands that I debug my thinking rather than my program most of the time. The former takes less time in my experience and becomes less frequent the more experienced you become.
Let's ask the ladies in the audience.
It is quite simple to understand: Europeans had a vested interest in saying that Africans were all illiterate to justify its oppression. They just disregarded the written script as non-official and continued on this fantasy until very recently.
"Our cod stocks are not in great shape,"

Yeah, cod were destroyed decades ago so now we can’t build wind turbines:

“In 1992, Northern Cod populations fell to 1% of historical levels, due in large part to decades of overfishing”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_the_Atlantic_nor...
Do these metrics count "no framework" as an option? With hooks, context and separation of concerns, most apps can live very well without any "state management framework" at all.
>Just to add to this: You seem to be referring to the global picture. If we look at the US in isolation it is a different story. 30 yr low was ~4M barrels of crude oil from fields. We were at ~12M Barrels in 2022.

The oil market is a fully globalized commodity and there is no "American picture", there is just the global oil market. This is why OPEC can manipulate elections by changing the rate at which they produce oil, and it is why Biden was able to "leverage" global prices to make the taxpayer billions by selling high and buying low.

The American reserves of oil are insignificant with regards to the next generation of transportation, and wringing out the last drops of oil from shale rock at prices approaching $70/breakeven (and rising fast) is not the savior of ICE.

Plus OPEC will happily drop prices and destroy American oil industry every so often because their breakeven is still dramatically lower.

>Speaking about the US: Crude oil will be around for a long time together with LNG. Whether that is good or not is an interesting question. Either way, the conversation IMHO starts to become very different for the US compared to other significant economies, and global metrics are becoming less useful.

"Being around" and "being affordable enough for your F150 and XL SUV" are very different things.

Oil absolutely will not remain affordable for Americans in 15mpg vehicles, and the next decade will see the death of cheap American oil. We cannot print enough debt to subsidize it forever.

When you consider the BILLIONS of humans who want way way more oil in China, India, and Africa (et al), you start to see how declining global production + quadrupling global demand = the end of cheap oil.
Research Unix V2 already had a lot of what we think of as 'Unix'
Two more entries for your really nice list:

1976 Gemini Man [another Invisible Man adaptation]

1976 Star Maidens
> It’s not a launch schedule. But that’s a straw man requirement for “working on” something.

It's not a straw man when you don't trust the word and good faith of a modern day "Music Man".
> by Islamic evangelists to spread the religion to African communities

It didn't work that way.
While true, I feel the pace of evolution is too fast at the moment.

I am involved in scientific programming, and it's getting kind of crazy. This is a domain where programming is purely utilitarian, and what you are programming is more important. Unfortunately, new languages are driven by people who love programming for the sake of programming, and are often employed in big corporations that can absorb the financial cost of ecosystem duplication and fragmentation.

The time scientists spend on 'infrastructure' is increasing, and I'm not sure that's always a good thing. (Some is good, of course).
Almost 4 years of daily exercise. No exceptions.

Proper nutrition.

Early sleep so I am not forcibly waken up by a buzzer.

If outside exercise is not an option, at least a daily walk.

Meditation from time to time.

Zero facebook, tiktok or similar garbage.
You're not holding anything in your wallet. It's just fancy login systen to a transaction system that is bitcoin.

It's no different from bank login in the end, once someone has it, it can be transferred at will.

Sure, the difference is that in banking system bank doesn't need your credentials to do stuff with money but even that when big crypto bois money are involved stops being immutable as DAO ethereum fork proves, fuck with important people money and nothing is sacred.
It depends what counts as "technical prowess". You've got to go elsewhere if you want microchips with the finest available features.
okay, so? could not care less.
>Arguments against human colonization of the solar system (moon/Mars/etc) sound just like trying ot argue against the westward expansion from the 13 colonies

if you're going from an moral perspective, European colonists had no right to colonize any part of the Americas. established civilizations already existed that were only driven out by mass death from foreign plagues and a desire for "we can so we will" mentality
An average EV averages far less power than an average 2kW space heater over time.

A 2kW space heater used just 12 hours a day uses the same power per day as 4 mile per kWh EV driven 35,000 miles per year. Many space heaters see more than 12h/day of use but 35k miles per year is extremely rare.

EV’s are like microwaves, they use a lot of power when on but the grid cares about average load across millions of them not what’s happening in any one home.
I'm 6'3" and would love to be shorter. I think the ideal height is "just barely tall enough to reach the top cabinet in the kitchen". 5'10" is probably what I'd choose?
Well, both of them are less likely to lose your money than bitcoin apparently.

Especially if you stored solid brick of gold instead of money
Routine, prayer, spending time with family, healthy diet and exercise, and objectively admirable accomplishments built from years of hard work.

I like positive affirmations. My wife and I did something similar years ago when we were starting out and it was beneficial. It's similar to the idea of periodically sketching out your short, medium, and long-term goals. When you have a target in mind it helps you make micro-decisions which make the goal more attainable.

For similar reasons I don't like the idea of using reminders to quit smoking. I suppose the best method is the one that works for you, but I find the most effective way to undo bad habits is cold turkey, along with maybe changing your surroundings, removing the context for the bad behavior.
For me, I didn't become a software developer until my late 20s, because I was largely intimidated by it, despite being relatively geeky and tech oriented as a teen. There was no one in my small town I knew that went on to become a software dev. And I tended to place devs on a pedestal in my own head, about how smart they were or whatever. I definitely had the imposter syndrome in the first few years of my career. Working my way through community college then onto a top tier computer science university, and then participating in a startup where I got to live in Silicon Valley for a while, I learned that a lot of people in the industry aren't exceptional geniuses. Having access to that network of people in Silicon Valley though, especially at the time (less important nowadays I would argue), was crucial to so many people's success at getting good advice, using the right technologies and business tactics, getting positions and raising capital.

There's an old piece of advice I remember hearing once that for almost any intractable problem or area of concern in your life, the answer can usually be found by meeting more people. If you actively work towards meeting people that know the thing you want to know or have experience in the thing you want to learn or be better at, you'll eventually meet them and unlock that piece of wisdom or personal connection that can get you where you need to go.
Does the Mac Studio not address all those points?
so you are saying, they are selling a lie and it nos worth spending that much money in EV cars?
Could it be explained? I’d like to properly understand the article.
I think those who don't probably don't reply? Or even click on this link just to say they don't.
Hmm but how is that fundamentally different from peer reviewing ideas?
On the other hand, due to basically no hydrosphere and very thin atmosphere, there would be much less shock waves, no trees to burn, no post-impact winter and a lot of the ejecta might end up in space due lo lower gravity. instead of falling back to bombard the planet.

So certainly a bad news for the one spot, but another outpost a couple hundred km distant could be fine.
Or simply wanting to browse without JS enabled.

Like 30% of pages just give me something along the lines of "enable js to make this site work"
As a short person, this is bullshit and deliberately stunting you kids growth should be illegal, if it isn't already.
Rationally scoring some points in favour of shortness doesn't change the reality around us.
Aha I thought this was going to be about it being the best time to short stocks
This is a ridiculous comparison. Google tells me an electric vehicle uses around 14kWh per day if you drive ~14k miles per year, and is much more efficient than an internal combustion engine.

Your hypothetical 2kw space heater uses 24kWh a day and is drastically less efficient than a heat pump.
The 2012 video "Everything is a remix" couldn't be truer today than it was 12 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJPERZDfyWc
For most people "reflection" is a synonym to "runtime reflection".

In contrast quotes and splices aren't reflection at all! The whole point about them is that they're "black box". You (usually) can't "extract information" form a quote in a safe way (so it's the exact contrary to reflection). That's still something academia is trying to solve (even there are some proposals out)¹.

Where can I learn more about the C++ proposals to compare?

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¹ https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3136000.3136005

¹ https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3158101

And the recent work that underlines the solution included in Scala 3:

¹ https://se.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/publications/stucki21...
Indeed. However I believe a lot of what is being not only published but rushed into curriculums is the political type. Examples kb ES would be the 1619 project or the trend in historical movies to aggregate a group of people into a single character but sell it as factual.
Ask HN: What accomplishments would you propose for a senior dev?
So, every 6 months I dedicate some time to plan what will I show to my eng. manager as "accomplishments" in order to ask for a salary raise/promotion. In the last 6 months I have already done quite a lot of extra stuff (but without working extra hours, of course) and this time I find it harder to come up with new shiny stuff to show.

My usual day-to-day duties of senior engineer are: work on my Jira issues, improve the state of our code bases, talk with stakeholders to gather/clarify requirements, talk with other engineers/PMs to push features that span more than one team's effort, mentor more junior colleagues, do tech interviews, keep our documentation up-to-date, and basically all be the insible glue that makes everything work... Now, this doesn't give you automatically a raise (it's a shame because it's hard work, and it's work none of my other colleagues does) since I have already used all of that to get a raise last year.

So, I've been planning my "accomplishments" for the next 6 months. I don't really mind doing silly/useless/useful/hard work; my goal is just to get a raise. This is what I came up with:

- introduce the team to TypeScript by "rewriting" one of our simplest and smallest services on it. 100% of the services we own are written in JS, so TS would be a win for everyone (devs: something new to show in their CVs, em: less bugs, system: easier to work with in the long term)

- introduce the team to Go. In our company some teams are already using Go for microservices. The gain here for the team would be to get to know another programming language and environment (so that would be good for their CVs), and for the managers the selling point would be: performance and attract more talent (since Go is kinda sexier than JS/TS somehow)

I'm a bit stuck for now in getting more ideas. I imagine that as time goes, I'll get more opportunities to work on something more visible (e.g., team X needs help with feature Y that has some relationship with out services... I would raise my hand to help them with that), but do you know some generic stuff that I could use to impress my eng. manager and get my raise?
But it doesn't have to be forced, simply provide the signal that it's ok.

Where I work currently there's 99.9% emphasis on output, and .1% on conversation. As a result, I have zero sense of team, zero sense of trust.

That's fine when working on small things by yourself, but it doesn't scale. Teams are necessary to solve larger more complex problems. I suppose it all depends on your career aspirations.
That feels weird, unnatural.
> I never understood the opposition to good winter tires...

Hope-springs-eternal denial. And quite a few people don't figure that they'll stay with the same car (and/or live in the same climate) long enough for the "interchangeably so they last longer" thing to pay off.
It wasn't overlooked and isn't overlooked. It is well-known.

For instance, the story of this article is in Senegal where there is an official norm and effort to normalise ajami scripts for specific local languages [1] (many of the Wikipedia pages on the topic seem to be only in French).

Overall, the article feels very misleading and politically orientated. There's no 'discovery' apart from the fact that that guy didn't known about it, which is actually strange from a Senegalese person, whose father could write it, and who teaches linguistics. Maybe his father wanted him to be 'modern' and to get a good career and to study in French only (the Senegalese elite tends to speak better French and to know more about French literature than most French...)

[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caract%C3%A8res_coraniques_har...
Quite awkward article supported by even more awkward data

- short (people) fewer incidences of cancer ... One theory suggests .. because with fewer cells there is less likelihood that one goes wrong.
- “Big people, who need a lot of food, died first,” Mr. Harari wrote.
I'm 5'11" and I have to say it's a pretty nice height. Just tall enough to out-reach most people, and just short enough that I don't usually have to worry about hitting my head on things.
> The same legal processes that can be used to recover funds stolen from your bank account or stocks stolen from your brokerage account can be used to recover cryptocurrency.

If that is the case, then doesn't that destroy (at least) one of the basic principles of cryptocurrency that people constantly harp on?
Not sure where you’re going with this. The author is a woman. It’s sort of missing the point of an article claiming heightism is culturally based to ask products of that culture what they think as though it’s a rebuttal.
Smart or not it's hard to make ad revenue (or get readers, whatever the author's going for) with a concise summary or a context heavy conversation.
If it is not hand-edited, why isn't it binary?
We just spent years in quarantine. Some people “went mad,” others thrived. Surely we can use that giant experiment to pick who fits best on a trip to mars.

The article quips that only incels will live on mars as a derision towards those that do better in solitude. I think what they meant was many people on the spectrum would be well placed in a place where solitude is the default situation and they can socialize in a well controlled environment via streaming video and audio with a delay. What I felt sad about was the derision, an almost musk like “pedo” comment, by a neurotypical about our neurodiverse.
Great talk on CppFront given recently at cppcon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELeZAKCN4tY
I imagine due to the transparency that is blockchain, you could create a regulatory system that refused payments from certain wallets as well. ex. This person sent $100 to BLM, make sure not to sell to him Nike.
In practice whatever the DCS worker says is illegal is. Your child can be taken away because they saw dirty dishes in the sink.
What garbage frameworks are you referring to for example?

The popular ones i know involve a fair amount of logic and real SWE, aiming to free the visual guys from implementing their own garbage code.
Didn't think this level of Xenophobia would fly on HN, but I'm not exactly surprised either.
It looks like Germans drive an average of 19 miles per day. Charging an EV to cover that would only need 7kwh at 100% efficiency. So a space heater could use more or less overnight depending on its duty cycle.
Now we're talking..
> A flagship product that demonstrates just how powerful Apple Silicon can be.

The danger there is what if it isn't? Apple's riding high right now but what if AMD or Qualcomm or whoever takes the next crown? This is one of the things that almost killed the company back in the G4 days. Jobs would be up there on stage essentially lying to our faces about the "Personal Supercomputer" when any of us could look at the literally-twice-as-fast Coppermine boxes on our desks to see the truth.

Computers and technology are ephemeral and quirky. Apple's brand isn't and has never been[1] about selling "chips" or "computers". They sell "modes of interaction".

[1] The last pure-tech play from Apple was the Apple II+.
Do you have links to those articles/videos?
Uhm, they do a lot of purely commercial space launches (comsats, LEO missions, commercial dragon flights) even including for some of their direct competitors to Starlink (OneWeb)!
When a core aspect of a security system requires ignoring or fundamentally changing human nature, you have an irreparably broken security system.
Again, the physical ice core samples are permanently kept in giant freezer warehouses. And we know how to store binary archive data for thousands of years securely.
mid-2000s I think it all started with the rise of AJAX and "Web 2.0". In the beginning it was just sort of gimmicky for visual effects and experience and we were all scratching the surface of what browsers could do.

2006-2009 server side frameworks were in vogue but most were slow and sometimes memory intensive. In the pursuit of creating highly interactive experiences that also scale many of us were optimizing website architectures around cached components of varying vintage and write frequency.

By 2009 we were solving for performance + scale + interactivity challenges using client side rendering for highly interactive components. During that period I can remember doing isomorphic rendering of mustache templates in server side Ruby and client side Javascript.

2010-ish Node was starting to gain traction and lots of attention went to Javascript. I think post-2010 many were pushing web app architectures to more client side business logic as web browsers became more and more capable. Backbone.js, SproutCore (now Ember.js), Knockout.js and others were on the scene by then and I think most other frameworks are inspired or derivative approaches meant to solve for their shortcomings.

2014-ish I think everyone was pushing responsive web. Apps got fatter and needed CDNs now more than ever. Websockets start to gain maturity. Cloud-services really start to gain traction beyond EC2 type deployments.

2015-2016 is the inflection point where client side frameworks start to get stupid complex, i.e. I can no longer read the source code of a web page easily, simple read only sites have a loading screen and/or need to download 1MB+ for reading a basic page.