skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that were the case wouldn't the same over-scoring be present in the first part of the experiment (where participants were asked about their beliefs around racial stereotypes in general)?
> I want one for quick random edit.

DBeaver fills that need for me.
They might try, but people with useful rare skills can get away with asking for more money during job hunts, and that's not always the case (or at least not so soon) for existing employees.

(I'm hypothesising wildly, this isn't necessarily accurate).
You can buy used phones on Amazon.

There are loads of premium refurbishment outfits like refurbed.at (Austrian) who will sell you a second hand device in mint condition.

There are also high-street tech repair shops that usually sell second hand devices, and one chain here (webuy) that work a little like Gamestop but also buy back electronics. They underpay and overcharge just like Gamestop, but it still works out way cheaper than new, and they provide a warranty.

I've bought from all three sources for myself and my family. I only had an issue with a device from webuy one time, and since it's local I was able to go back in and get a refund the following week.
> Elon Musk Ruined Tesla

I would say, Tesla ruined Tesla. An expensive toy for rich people, with no benefit for the normal consumer.
Terrible HMI, small luggage space, luxury price with entry level customization.
Sources and severity of bias in estimates of the BMI-mortality association
Why shouldn’t emoji be an annually refreshed collection of fun fashionable clip art? That’s exactly how users use emoji - for culturally relevant references. As a user, I get excited to see all the new emoji each release!
> AI has failed to automate driving. (Despite enormous efforts)

Sure, if you consider this an all-or-nothing boolean, the OP is right.

However, AI has automated many driving tasks and outperforms the average human: take parallel parking, for example. Not an incredibly difficult task, but it's one where our modest AI absolutely outperforms the average human.

Similarly, the precursor to AI, autocomplete, can at times outperform the average human programmer. AI-enabled autocomplete (e.g., GitHub Copilot, etc.) almost consistently can outperform the average human programmer.

Defining the goal as "AI completely replacing programmers" is not a useful goal.

Defining the goal as "AI making the below-average programmer useful if they learn to use AI-enabled tools, and making the below-average programmer obsolete if they refuse to" is very pragmatic, and AI is practically there.
It’s static as it will always resolve to the same function. An extern function depends on whatever you link against (or users link against if you provide a static library).
>What other explanation is there for this other than some type of china-USA (or global) conspiracy?

Perhaps the fact that every other major social company has been found of doing the same (Facebook and Google multiple times) and yet nothing happened to their apps, at best they got a "slap on the wrist" at times...

The focus on Tik-Tok is more about a shot in the US-China trade and geopolitical rivarly than because it's somehow unique
Some points to consider:

If you want a job in science (in Europe), then you'll want a Masters. If you want to work for companies like LEGO, then probably not.
>Had no idea your REM as a percentage of sleep is highest in the last few weeks before you are born.

It would seem the Dimethyltryptamine is the last thing to be "topped up" in the brain then if what you say is true.
This isn't really true. The article talks about apprenticeships. While traditionally apprenticeships in the UK were mostly for blue collar work, these days you can do apprenticeships in almost anything: software engineering, law, medicine, management, etc.

The full list is here: https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-s...?

Top 3 on the list: Space systems engineer, accounting finance manager, robotic systems engineer
Aren't all 'heavenly bodies' essentially perfectly spherical by default (assuming they are formed molten or from fine grained constituents)? As I understand it, only the effects of massive external gravity wells or high spin rates make things not round.
Rustup was going to add it, some work was done, and then it was abandoned.

This was years ago. https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/pull/1642
My theory is that it’s an evolutionary adaptation to preserve awareness of threats when a group/camp of humans are sleeping at night. If some members of the group are in REM sleep at any given moment, then they will have constant awareness (outside stimuli will manifest in their dreams, or simply wake them up).
My friend told me about a government department that got an outside firm to run an online survey. The responses were delivered as one PDF per response. The department had a bunch of junior staff copy pasting these into Excel.
We're building www.outerbase.com to support this use case. We're in the latest YC batch and are hoping to do a launch HN in the near future, but would love to hear your thoughts on what we've built if you are up for checking it out!
We've seen the same phenomenon in word processing/desktop publishing. We've mostly seen people coalesce around Microsoft Word and its online counterpart/competitors or go full-on desktop publishing with InDesign. People have mostly moved away from lightweight desktop publishing programs for newsletters and the like.
someone in this website has the ability to set scores rather than just downvote/vote, i see you buddy
Aptible hosts (and pays for) AWS resources on your behalf, similar to Heroku/Render/Railway. Last year, we built support for integrating Aptible into your own AWS account, but only a handful of existing customers are currently using that, and it's not available in the product by default. I'd be interested to learn why you prefer this model. If you're willing to chat about it, my email is in my profile.

Alternatively, have you checked out other PaaS-in-your-own-IaaS solutions like:

- https://porter.run/

- https://www.flightcontrol.dev/

- https://coolify.io/ (OSS, not managed)

These might not meet all your needs, and I think they're all relatively new.
> Pretty sure that only Google and Microsoft have the money and resources to crawl the entire internet. Or perhaps the only that can AND are willing to.

Money and resources and a dominant-enough position so that your crawlers are not blocked by websites.

Unfortunately.
As far as I am concerned, the specs convey more information in less time than the source code would have. Linking directly to them caused me to actually read them, and I'm actually glad I did.

I already knew of Age, so if this was a link to the repository root instead I would have jumped straight to the comments section, and missed a couple genuinely interesting design choices about it.
Yes, "hard" in this context refers to worst-case complexity. In practice, lots of NP-hard problems can be solved, or approximately solved, in a reasonable amount of time. This is why traveling salesmen can exist, for instance.
what is this "pay rise" you speak of?
How did this judge manage to decipher the meanings of these emojis? Even Egyptian hieroglyphs could only be deciphered with the help of the Rosetta Stone!

---

Decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decipherment_of_ancient_Egypti...
Thankfully most of those are closed... maybe if we're lucky we'll see official support this year.
"They’re instead covered by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, the federal student privacy law known as FERPA. The law prohibits student records from being released publicly but, unlike HIPAA, does not require schools to disclose when such breaches occur."

...

"The federal privacy rules that apply to hospitals and schools “live in separate universes. If it’s maintained by the school, it’s FERPA. If it’s maintained by your doctor, the same information is HIPAA protected.” "

Sounds like one thing that should be fixed sooner rather than later is brining FERPA up to HIPAA level. Seems like something folks could realistically rally their lawmakers around?
The Fractal Map and Impossible Symmetry
A contemplation of digital twins, spatial computing, geodata, and maps for AR. If AR runs on a 1:1 map of the world, can it really be achieved anyway?
I have concerns about the symmetric encryption with a 256 bits password in Age.

The File Key is 16 bytes, or 128 bits. So, although ChaCha20-Poly1305 can protect data with 256 bits of security, the symmetric encryption in Age is essentially 128 bits. This is sub-standard. In particular, files encrypted with Age may be decrypted with quantum computers in the future (for example cloud backups). There is little reason to use 128 bits symmetric encryption these days when 256 bits is far more secure and almost equally performant.

I understand the file format is designed around 128 bits asymmetric encryption. Still it would be great if the format/software could be updated so that the symmetric encryption with a 256 bits password is 256 bits (not silently falling back to 128 bits). At least, this issue should be clearly stated in the front page.
Not conclusive, but Luther uses the word Bild in his translation of Genesis 1. That it may have had or acquired the meaning pretty easily given the Bible's formative currency in those years.
I don't know F# but the reference only mentions the `f a b` syntax.[1]

`f(a, b)` looks like a call to a function that takes a single tuple as its argument. So I would expect `f` to have the type signature `A * B -> C` instead of `A -> B -> C`. Is my intuition wrong? If it is, then what does F# use the parenthetical syntax for?

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/language-ref...
Late to the party, and I dunno if you'll see this, but could it have been E.O. Wilson's Half-Earth? He makes the argument in that book for keeping at least 50% of the land (connected) wild for animal use.
Seeing this wonderful simulation makes me wonder if a physics simulation using cellular automata could benefit from a HashLife-esque algo to speed up calculations.

For GoL, the speedups are just insane. The linked wiki shows a simulation:
The 6,366,548,773,467,669,985,195,496,000 (6 octillionth) generation of a Turing machine in Life computed in less than 30 seconds on an Intel Core Duo 2GHz CPU using Hashlife

But then of course, Game of Life has loads of 'boring' repeating stuff and is much more discrete compared to physical fluid dynamics simulation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife
It seems your requirements mostly center around OLAP use cases? In that case, an ORM isn't the right tool to begin with, i.e. lacking support for these things doesn't diminish the value proposition of ORMs, which lies elsewhere (mapping results to managed object graphs in OLTP applications, tracking changes to the same, and synching them efficiently back to the DB). For OLAP, object mapping typically doesn't provide much value.
Lots of very well informed people disagree with you; you'd also have to consider all the other evidence beyond the genome.
It’s very impressive how well this works on mobile.
Just throwing it around, but there is Apache Calcite, a DBMS without the Database part. It's an SQL parsing, logical & physical plan building framework. It's pretty much a DBMS without any database of its own. You can program up an adapter for "whatever you want" pretty much and query "whatever you want" with SQL.
Why do you say he isn't stupid?
Exactly. This is not about what he said, but about how Rolling Stone presented it to the public. Many other news outlet had similar headlines, including Forbes, for example. If you take Forbes, they not only have news on Woody Harrelson, but also on serious politics, economics, finance, social, etc... issues. If they can't handle SNL joke properly, why would we expect a better discourse in other areas?
The first part of Guy Steele's talk on Fortress: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Thinking-Parallel-Progra...
This.

To find an example, I did a search for “Commodore PET Basic programs”.

Here’s a book from 1979 that shows what spaghetti code looks like, in my opinion:

http://www.1000bit.it/support/manuali/commodore/32_BASIC_Pro...

The first program listing is on page 24 of the PDF. Try to follow the logic of the program. Why does line 400 go to 280? What paths can lead to line 400? Who knows! And this is high-quality BASIC by 1979 standards — it’s in a printed book after all.

There’s an auxiliary listing after the program itself explaining the routines and variables used, but many/most programs in those days wouldn’t have this level of rigorous documentation. Deciphering the program would probably have to start by drawing a flowchart of execution paths.
It would be helpful to look at import/export flows. I suspect that quite a large percentage of European beef consumption isn't locally sourced, with likely quite a bit coming from S. America.
Web Frontend Devs should keep .NET on the radar
I think Microsoft is really on to smith here. Looking forward how this will play out at the end.
It's funny how media, especially bottom tier media over-reacts to things. I don't think there are any "conspiracies" but it's almost like these outlets non-news "cultural" publications (Ars Technica is another example), didn't get the memo that they're not part of a conspiracy and feel like they need to act as propaganda mouthpieces for some imagined master.
One other important tip - cross reference with google maps for things in the surrounding area that might annoy you. This might include
* busy roads
* buisnesses
* churches (learned this one the hard way my last trip to Greece by renting a place next door to a church. The bell would be so loud that I would jump every time it rang).
> Leaving aside HN loving the idea of Big Tech being weakened by becoming Relatively Small Tech, I don’t see how this is in Alphabet’s or YouTube’s interest.

What might instead generate more value is to spin out Google Workspaces (aka docs, slides, sheets, drive, etc.) It feels as if their business products are losing out to Microsoft, which IMO offer a greatly inferior collaboration experience for distributed teams.

To pick one concrete example Google Drive is poorly suited for storing business documents due to its hostility to hierarchy and poor tools for viewing and search. By contrast Sheets is amazing. We run our business on it. These product deserve a separate, innovative focus that does not treat document management as a search problem.
It wasn’t a joke - the value of networks was long proven, and computer prices and capabilities were improving rapidly so mainstream ownership was becoming common.

The big question was how much it’d cost: at that point in the United States at least you had companies like AOL or CompuServe which had been commercially viable for a decade or more but almost everything charged you back the minute and the phone company stranglehold kept speeds low even if you did spend a lot.

What made the internet and especially the early web interesting was that it had so much for free: you still needed a computer, modem, and ISP but once you had that you could do a ton of things without asking a monopolist for permission or paying Danegeld for the privilege of starting a business which made their business more profitable.
https://archive.is/vydUo
For me it's about being given dedicated time and space to actually upskill - sure in house training is (the most?) important, but what about developing new skills that no one in your company already has? Reading blog posts is all well and good as a software engineer but for many roles this is not an option as there might not be high quality content publicly available online.
The code is awful, but some plugins are even worse. And the database schema... such a nightmare.

I have the luxury to be able to refuse Wordpress projects. In fact whenever I can I replace Wordpress with Django.
Thanks a lot for your networking materials. 10 years ago it got me through a hard networking course in university and it showed me how good teaching materials could be. I'm not programming C professionally but your stuff made me a better programmer.
I would have simply said "the honeymoon's over" now Tesla has to compete as an EV car company with the rest and the playing field appears to be levelling.

I personally would like to hail a vehicle whenever I need one than own one. Get FSD working for that use case and I'll be a subscriber.
1) This article has very little to do with anti-Semitism, other than arguably pointing out that a subset of trolls are also anti-Semites. That doesn't distinguish trolls from any other population group however. Additionally, posting a random quote with no context or argument doesn't really bring much of anything to a discussion.

2) Are Semites above criticism? Quotes like this seem to shut down even the possibility of criticism of a large collection of valid commentary.
The same Apple and Google (and Facebook) that have been caught doing similar shit time and again?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-priva...

https://appleinsider.com/articles/12/02/17/google_reportedly...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204880404577225...

https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-privacy/privacy-lawsuits-ac...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2022/09/22/face...

https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/22/meta-lawsuit-ios-privacy/

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2022/09/facebook-user...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/google-says-it-doesnt-...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-privacy-l...
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34945078.
The Great Decline of Europe [video]
Jeff is a gem. His twitter (now Mastodon, I suppose) was one of the main reasons I stayed on the platform for so long.

He has daily livestreams where he goes out and hangs out with his sheep, donkeys, and llamas.
How do you explain the fact that the current central government got more parliamentary seats and vote share than the previous election? I think we have quite a healthy democracy. There are always voices that pick only the rough edges but democracy is a tool for continuous improvement, whether the current government supports it or not (data says it does, at least for now).
idk i'm at 24. still trying to understand it. but try to explain the level, so you can view everything you've got from a different angle i guess
I made the comparison with Dragonfly because they had special features planned to make users more easily identifiable for the PRC government, thus the similarity with this MSFT/Yandex situation.

Are you aware of Bing doing anything like this? (I think it's bad enough that they take part in censorship, don't get me wrong.)
Funny that they didn't mention it! Seems like an obvious thing for them to plug their own distribution.
>they genuinely do not understand anything about technology...it is just pointless, like trying to teach German to a chimp.

My monkey, just told you to "vaffanculo", but s/he genuinely does not understand anything about spiecies. Which is where i dodged a bullet...
Ask HN: How Do You Handle Looking at Large Codebases?
I'm working on a few big projects, I'm experiencing a bit of uncertainty and forgetting what I did 300 lines back. How do you handle this type of situations where you need to read your own code or others when it comes to large ones?
So learning to manage peoples expectations is a key skill when looking for feedback/reviews.
You are under the mistaken impressions that:

1. All things created by artists are art, and

2. There is art in divisive and hurtful manipulation.
There's some confusion here. WordPress themes and plug-ins don't rely on the built-in web editor. That's why it can be safely disabled.

What that guy did is no different from sshing into the prod server, live editing a Django plug-in and refreshing the browser.

Version control of the plug-in won't protect from that. But it's a handy tool to manage regressions.

Rolling back changes and editing a live plug-in are different problems.
Wow, did Freecell, solitaire, and Pinball in windows cause addiction to gambling in children?
That's how it sounds.
Me and brother were into RPis since 2B and always used Raspbian.
Never did we once even clicked on Mathematica, I know many people in the community who never clicked Mathematica.
Rpi also has a good Python integration, which is very well endorsed by the community and and obvious choice for many.
Wow, drilling down to the core, thanks for that, fuel for introspection
This is an interesting analogy. But I would like to propose a slightly more relevant comparison than “driving” versus “programming.”

In the 70’s and 80’s, electrical and electronics engineering was in high demand. Why? Because just about every product development area required digital electronics, analog electronics, or some hybrid of those. This was before FPGA, capable microcontrollers, SoC, touch screens, the World Wide Web, etc. EE’s were commanding crazy salaries for specialized skills.

PC’s weren’t commonly used for design. It was done by hand, on paper, from design books, data books, magazines and application notes.

In the late 80’s, 90’s and early 00’s, all of that started to change. Computers got more sophisticated, operating systems got more sophisticated, and design tools became available. “Great!” said EE’s, “now we can still make big salaries and we don’t have to do everything by hand!”

And then it happened: computers (microcontrollers) and FPGA became sophisticated/fast/cheap enough to replace most digital circuits; and, large scale integration allowed for SoC’s. All you needed to do now was to “tell” the computer or FPGA what you wanted it to do. Or, you just stuck a little glue circuitry around a SoC.

Now, we call this “telling” a computer what to do “programming,” but originally it was just a shortcut for hard design.

Programming became so prevalent that an entire career discipline grew up with it: computer science and the more advanced form, software engineering.

Of course, EE’s continued to program circuits, microcontrollers, larger computers, supercomputers and eventually GPU’s. But electronics design greatly diminished, and so did the demand for electronics designers.

Today, electronics designers still exist, but the demand is way down.

If you don’t like this analogy, consider the analogy of machinists (once in huge demand) and their replacement by CNC operators.

Programmers will be largely replaced, and salaries will come down: technology marches on and nobody is immune.
This is interesting:

> "Echeverria’s vision for the park is part of a wave of projects that have upended the traditional goal of ecosystem restoration: returning ecosystems to the state they were in before humans damaged them. Instead of seeking to roll back the clock, Echeverria is creating an artificial wetland that aims to transform the future of the entire Valley region, drawing lessons from both Tenochtitlan and modern Mexico City on how thriving cities can coexist with flourishing ecosystems. "

Part of the justification for this approach is the relatively new recognition of the large ecological footprint of pre-European peoples, and their extensive manipulation of the natural environment, e.g. the use of controlled burns in grassland areas, etc. "Pristine" environments were often not-so-pristine, so a new managed system is not any different from an old managed system, although you'd ideally want similar levels of ecological productivity and diversity.

Another is that climatic effects are going to be significant, e.g. in the long run the only way to save some species, such as California redwoods, may be to plant new stands in Oregon, Washington and Canada. This would be 'managed ecological migration'.
The article specifically talks about C, which does not have RAII.
Melatonin presumably being the exception, right? Since it's the same sleep hormone you're producing naturally.

(In reasonable doses anyway.)
I really really miss the 90s computing environment. I was young but it was a total wild west and the internet was beautiful and totally open. For a curious kid without a lot of friends it was amazing.