skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tegra & later Shield were attempts to get closer to full end user platform. The Nintendo Switch is their most successful such device — with a 2-year old Tegra SKU at launch. But going full force into consumer tech is a distraction for them right now. Even the enthusiast graphics market, which should be high margin, is losing their interest. They make much more selling to the big enterprise customer CEO Jensen mentions in the open paragraph.
Unrelated (it's written C90, God's own programming language as far as the author believes), but this comment reminds me of "The Osmosian Order of Plain English Programmers", a project which may be on the same level of usefulness as PDOS.

http://osmosian.com

To say something positive, it's refreshingly different.

I tried it out once, it seems to compile itself, but when I attempted to make literally any change it didn't work anymore. Whether trying to improve code generation, or just inserting a "Hello world" message somewhere.
The focus on subjective essay over objective tests baffles me. It is guaranteed that the rich kids will have more opportunities to a.) get a more polished essay written by whatever help needed, b) do all kinds of stuff that looks good on an essay but costs either time or money and is much harder for a poor kid to do.

A poor kid can compete on objective tests relatively better by spending a much smaller amount of money. Subjective criteria just seem designed to game.

It seems like what the US universities really want is some quota for the % of students representing some demographic ratio they have in mind. But since that is not constitutional, and might also make bad press, they come up with totally opaque and subjective criteria. I feel really bad for students being rejected for being less "likeable" just so the University can meet it's undisclosed quotas.

If quotas are what you want then come out and say it.
The hospital we had our last birth at have fentanyl through the epidural or some kind of opiate orally. I really wonder how they can even run these tests unless they don’t use any opiates
AMD GPUs are a joke for anything but gaming
> I assume anything Apple is cooking is using Nvidia in the server room already

I wouldn't be so quick at assuming this. Apple already ship ML-capable chips in consumer products, and they've designed and built revolutionary CPUs in modern time. I'm of course not sure about it, but I have a feeling they are gonna introduce something that kicks up the notch on the ML side sooner or later, the foundation for doing something like that is already in place.
This was a nice, deeper dive into this topic. I'd recently come across the idea the the pack structure with an "alpha" wolf wasn't scientifically accurate while reading "Inside of a Dog"[0]. The book obviously focuses more on things from the dog side, contrasting them with wolves, but did include a brief discussion on the common incorrect thinking of wolf families as being "alpha-dominated packs". It did mention the Mech and Schenkel work, including nothing that Mech was up front and outspoken about the fact that his original published findings on the topic was found to be incorrect.

[0] https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Inside-of-a-Dog/Alexa...
This is the US regulatory playbook unfortunately. Unlike in Europe and elsewhere, where regulators really try to be clear about what is and isn't ok, in the US the regulators seem to try to be as vague as possible and then just take action occasionally.

As such in new areas it does act to stifle innovation because people who are risk averse have to wait until someone else does something, the regulator enforces, it goes to court and the court decides.

When I worked at a fintech I actually was in a meeting with the OCC[1] and a prospective bank client we talked them through our plans and they said "when you get big enough you'll need to register with us and we'll have some requirements for you". We said we wanted to start that process right away and so asked for the requirements so we could start baking them into our software and they literally said "We'll call you when we think you're big enough. Until then we'll call you if we think you're in violation". They wouldn't tell us what the regulations were or how to proactively avoid breach.

This is entirely unlike other jurisdictions where you can generally find all the regulations on the regulator's website and in some cases (eg Singapore) the regulator will actively work with you on developing new regulation if they think what you're doing is innovative and valuable.

For example, here is the German crypto asset regulation. It's incredibly straightforward and easy to find. There is no grey area about what the regulator does and does not consider a security, what you can and cannot do and what existing national and EU regulation they consider to be included. [2]

[1] I should say this was not crypto related but this is a playbook that US financial regulators seem to adopt broadly

[2] https://www.dechert.com/content/dam/dechert%20files/knowledg... or https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en/knowledge/publication...
We make welded steel tubes primary for car industry, and as far I know, we also use just "new" steel. Still, since 2 years or so, in all our mail signatures is something about an green steel award we won.

But they just anounced, our factory will be closed by end of 2023.
"Sometimes" is the right word. Usually, it's just inferior. B+W was used for artistic purposes only rarely, the rest of the time it was because it was cheap and easy.
The Georgia Tech cs2130 class, languages and translation, the third required cs class for the major, was notorious as being a weeder course around 1999. The professor made it clear that there would be no partial credit for code that could be core dumped by the teaching assistants. If you weren't good at the class you should probably look forward to writing business applications for IBM, allegedly. So some people used to be hardcore on this subject.
> most of my favourite people to work with: those who are very technically competent […]

I’m similar but I would say that being curious is the fundamental trait, and competence usually falls out as a side effect. It’s always fun to be around curious people, sometimes especially if they’re not experienced.
> you can build static pages

There's some term confusion. "Static pages" is a different concept -- when there's no code executed on the server, server can only serve static content (no DB naturally), usually from a CDN that can cache responses. We're talking here about dynamic pages.

> a server component that grabs data from the database directly and render it.

Render where?

1. If it renders it to the html content for the browser, it's called "templating", and all the frameworks have been doing it for 20+ years (e.g. ASP, JSP, Jinja).

2. Render to the browser -- it still need to pass that data from server to browser, there's no way around it. And the idea of abstracting that, so the user would not know or care where the code is executed is not new at all. There were multiple attempts, for example see JSF, released on 2001. It burned in flames because you really want and need to know where the code is run.

And there never-ending attempts to at least write in the same language on server and browser, without abstracting the XMLHttpRequest (aka AJAX aka Fetch) layer. For example Node.js -- to use JS on server. Or GWT -- to use Java in browser (died, because you still absolutely want to know how it will be compiled to JS). Now Kotlin compiles to JS. Those are successful to a point. And the ultimate answer to bring all the languages to browser -- WebAssembly.

My point is -- all the attempts aiming to abstract away client-server boundary has been an utterly obvious failure. But if RSC does not aim to abstract it, then it's not different than technologies from 1999, but in Javascript.
Anyone know of any good free courses?
When someone in my family does not get pre-approved for care, I write a letter and and ask my physician to sign, and ask the other doctors at his practice to sign a letter that goes like this:

"I beleive this procedure _____________ is medically necessary for __________. Time is of the essence, and this procedure should be performed as close to immediately as possible."

In the signature block, I include the degree, specialty and medical school of the doctor. I then fax the letter in, and within 30-40 minutes, I have a phone call apologizing for rejecting and giving me pre-approval for the care. I learned about this when my (at the time) 15 year old was rejected for a cardiac procedure and the billing person pulled out a pre-printed deck of letters that was pre-signed by every department head at the hospital. The one thing the insurance people fear most is risk.
It's the way the judge references the ReDigi case that is troubling to me. It's been a while since I read it, but I thought ReDigi found that digital copies don't have the same first sale rights that physical copies do.

This judge seems to think that the first sale doctrine isn't even applicable.

The Google book scanning case had previously indicated that giving full copies of scanned books to the owners clearly fell under fair use in part because of the first sale doctrine. This ruling seems to ignore that.

I do truly hope you're right though.
Here is an article that discusses policy/fertility interactions in Canada https://thehub.ca/2023-03-14/counting-up-canadas-missing-kid...

But the examples I had in mind were parents getting prosecuted for letting their children outside unsupervised (several stories on HN in the last year or two), or examples in this thread like overzealous mandatory reporting in the original article or someones pediatric doctor becoming a problem after asking if they have guns in their home.

Anecdotally I know people for whom concerns about invasive bureaucracies caused them to choose to delay or not have children, as well as people who relocated to places which they thought had better practices before doing so. Anecdotes don't count for much but I think it's not controversial that have many policies that are ineffective. Any policy that doesn't actually protect children but imposes a risk or cost on parents is probably a net reduction on the production of new adults, but maybe only a very small one.
When you correct it, it always seems to say "You are absolutely right! I apologize for the mistake," and then it gives another wrong answer with the same fully confident tone.
I thought "web designers" were already out of business just like "web masters".

Nowadays these are "UX/UI designers" who most likely will also be not that needed soon.
Not sure the quotes are necessary. That's exactly what it was.

"In the days when the supersonic transport was in active service, and cruising at between 60 and 68,000 feet, the estimated radiation received by the crew was 50-130 mSv/yr. thus, obviously, as newer generations of aircraft cruise ever higher, by the time we reach altitudes above 60,000 feet, it is entirely possible that, especially with crews flying trans-Atlantic or transpolar routes, the acceptable maximum safe dose of radiation per year will be exceeded. In addition, these numbers do not take into account the possibility of pregnancy in female crewmembers. "

See Van Allen Belts.
The amount never matters.
Emacs plus mail?
I think so. If you can’t cuddle with an animal then they’re significantly less wonderful. Majestic, perhaps, but there’s nothing like fluffy cuddles.

Bears are sometimes pretty cool. There’s a lady on tiktok that scratches one behind the ears with a rake whenever it shows up. Which is apparently a frequent thing for her. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRv5qd55/

Somehow she trained it to sit… https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRv5yDQk/

But I don’t think bears are domesticatable through selective breeding, whereas there’s some evidence that wolves are.
The young, old and unwell are not able to give consent. Dealing with that should be a routine part of every day work in a hospital.
Yes, Ford has gone through a major revision since 2018.

But also, VW's ID.4 especially is notorious for having one of the worst ever designed, which is definitely saying something.
IPFS is basically bittorrent. Not participating makes perfect sense.
This is even more ridiculous than calling Amritpal Singh a terrorist. The pogroms / religious riots in 2002 weren't genocide, and Modi did not perpetrate them, though he should bear responsibility for allowing them to happen on his watch either out of malice or incompetence. This has been well established by court inquiries.
Is that something that happens?
When the news makes a report about a person or business (excluding politicians) do they specify that persons political party?

Can you provide a few examples that can support your accusation against, what I assume is all news organizations in the US?
How Does GitHub Work?
Github is the somewhat ubiquitous remote storage bucket for git repositories, but how does it work (under the hood)? Is is just a glorified Git web client? How do those work? I've been trying to research but most of the results I google relate to how to use Github not how it works.
Ask HN: How will AI tools affect your participation in open source?
I've had some brief conversations about this, and I'm curious if anyone here has thoughts. With all of these code-adjacent tools coming out, it's not hard to imagine a number of AI tools starting to open issues and PRs on open source projects.

If you're an OS maintainer or contributor, does this affect your willingness to keep contributing? Do you feel differently about responding to an issue opened by an AI tool? What if it's not clear which issues are coming from AI tools and which are from people?

I have contributed to open source for years, because I like to help people and I've certainly benefited from the contributions of others. But I have to admit, a good part of the appeal has been the interactions with other people throughout the process. I think my attitude towards open source work is going to be different if there's an AI abstraction layer between my work and other humans.
I would do the Crafting Interpreters book to begin with. It's free online.
I'm curious, why focus entirely on parsing? I only read parts of the Dragon Book, but it didn't go in much detail about other topics, such as types, either. Couldn't you just use a very simple syntax such as S-expressions or even start from an AST directly?
GPU dies are pretty big, right?

I’m just saying it is possible to follow Moore’s law. Physics didn’t limit us, engineering and economics did. Multi-chip packaging is a fantastic response to the engineering/economic problem of low yields.
> Instead they’re speculating about an orange in a box … which supposedly disintegrates then reassembles itself.

Haven't watched it but that sounds like they were attempting to cover the Banach-Tarski Theorem?
We have a similar course too which focuses specifically on language design without the compiler part (they do get a bit of compiler theory) which satisfies that "requirement" for graduation. It is much more popular than the compiler course which is perceived as "harder" (it probably is when I teach it). ;)
Seems to be about a million queries/day right now. Varies a bit though. Peak figures is probably around the neighborhood of 10 mn/day.
> The real joke is that we as a society still give weight to institutions like Harvard.

Indeed. I don't understand the fascination with Harvard when you can go to MIT.
I find Lex Fridman to be the most boring podcaster on the planet. And I have heard plenty of drones in the past, but he takes it to the next level.
Sorry, no. The history of pain perception w.r.t. gynecology isn't a topic that I'm confident that HN could handle with maturity. I'm happy to direct people toward the topic, but I won't bring it back here.
My unexpected side benefit: some compiler error messages became comprehensible.

Oh, an lvalue is required? Since I now actually know WTF that means, I can deal with it.

It also cleared up a situation that had always confused the hell out of me: sometimes I'd compile and get 1 or 2 errors, so I'd make corrections and try compiling again, but then I'd get 8 or 10 errors! Seeing that whatever I did made everything much worse, I'd conclude those most not be the right corrections, and I'd feel lost and maybe even get stuck.

After taking compilers, I finally understood why: compilers have phases, and my corrections allowed the parsing phase to complete, which meant the semantic analysis phase could happen and give me errors. So for example, if I finally fix enough syntax errors that the compiler can tell I've written a function with some variables in it, then it can start giving me errors that they're not the right types.
> 1. Cigna will not tell you for any reason, why the claim is denied

Of course not. Fight fire with fire. Get care providers to sign a letter to Cigna saying the procedure is medically necessary Going through the process will not work and will go slow. But putting them on notice by having licensed, local care providers say something is medically necessary and urgent will work almost 100% of the time.
I mean supposedly the doctor also approved some so their review rate is even higher.
IIRC under the Statute of Anne, it was 7 (plus 7 if you paid again).

It seems like a good balance between private monopoly and public interest for the shirts of artistic works copyright protects.
Do you really trust the people who supply and apply the seals, without oversight, while everyone is busy doing something else?

Seals, stickers, etc. are mild deterrents, not a shortcut for security.
It's been blowing up since at least 2012-13 when deep convolutional neural nets started seeing massive success.
OK, point taken. IF that's true. Where's your data on "Many people who could deduct donations don’t"?

Who would have this data, after all? Not the IRS, since by definition the taxpayer didn't file it.

Tax preparers would know if their clients decline to file itemized, but would they report it? Similarly, TurboTax or other servers might know, but I doubt they'd release such data.

So we're left with self-reporting.
I would argue perl has a superior practical elegance

so you can write perl in a kinda-sexp style if you really want to (no one does, which tells you something)...but you get a kinda-sexp built-in syntax for hashes whereas lisps make you construct them with bolted on functions
What a shambles. And if she was abusing the drug, treating it as a legal problem rather than a healthcare one is also tedious.

No attitude like this exists with alcohol, yet that drug seems to cause the odd problem.
The interesting part here is "does it take longer for an expert to come up with the answer independently or verify that GPT is producing an accurate result?"
"Any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all."
Making opium is extremely easy. Basically you grow legal poppy flowers and cut a small incision in the seed pod and collect the sap. Then you dry it and you’re ready to start your own den
Wow. I'd probably break up with a guy who "asked me to get off contraceptives". If you want to be responsible about preventing pregnancy, that's fantastic. If you feel like that's any more than an input to her decision of whether to be on it, that's a pretty fundamental overreach.
After I had the kids I wanted, I got a vasectomy. It’s a painless and quick and largely reversible procedure with no side effects and offers 100% contraception. If you care about your partner and are “done,” I highly recommend it.
Webmin is different than YunoHost. Webmin is more focused on infra/devops management, while YunoHost focuses on user-facing apps management.
> The Enlightenment lead developer for instance does not believe a programmatic way to make screenshots or listen to keypresses should ever exist.

Rasterman is entitled to his opinion, but every production-ready Wayland server ("compositor") implements an extension to do screenshots:

* Weston: https://wayland.app/protocols/weston-screenshooter
* Sway and friends: https://wayland.app/protocols/wlr-screencopy-unstable-v1
* KDE: https://wayland.app/protocols/kde-zkde-screencast-unstable-v1

They haven't been able to agree on one common extension yet, granted, but the functionality is available.
You might like Clojure.
> whether even China’s “One Child” policy had any direct effect or it just happened to coincide with a natural decline in birth rates

Surely you jest: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/images/attachement/jpg/s...

How does natural decline in birth rates explain the massive shift towards male children not experienced in other developing nations?
Definitely! Projects like Qubes OS prove that this is feasible on PC, and that it adds security.

https://www.qubes-os.org/
>The free market has existed in the US since its inception, excluding the slave south.

Not true in the slightest. The US Customs Service was created four months after the constitution was ratified, therefore regulating what goods can be imported and making imported goods more expensive than domestic goods. The US has had a highly regulated economy since inception.

>Free markets brought the world out of poverty. Perhaps you thought medieval children did not work?

You just stated your opinion again? The free market doesn't actually exist and governmental organizations brought people out of poverty.

>In the US that all happened before government spending on that. The US poverty rate is the same it was in 1968, the inception of the Great Society programs. It had been steadily declining before then

Oh lordy, there is so much that you don't understand. Medicare and Social Security alone keep millions of seniors from dying homeless on the street every year.

>Communist countries. More to the point, every organization that has tried collective farms has failed to feed itself.

I understand WHY the number was made up. I'm asking for a citation for that number because it sounds like nonsense.
The title is misleading. It should be:

Any type of hormonal contraceptive is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer.
If you are interested in modern compiler infrastructure that subsumes a lot of recent PhD level research topics, I can highly recommend MLIR.

It's under the LLVM Foundation umbrella.

If you just want to deal with lexing, parsing, and interpretation (from scratch) for a reasonably complex class-based language, I recommend doing the (free) online book Crafting Interpreters.

The second half of that book re-implements the same language in C with garbage collection and a fast byte code interpreter.
The thing is, getting into a top level school requires maximizing all of GPA, SATs, and what might be called "extracurricular appeal"; this crowds out a bunch of different pursuits, more so than grinding test-taking ability (which has rapidly decreasing marginal returns) alone would. You might hope that those different pursuits being crowded out would instead feed into increased extracurricular appeal, but in practice there's a very particular subset of things that universities care about when it comes to extracurriculars. Indeed, some of them (like leadership activities in 4H, ROTC, or Future Farmers of America) actually hurt your chances of admission, which seems insane if you're looking for a variety of impressive individuals who can bring diverse perspectives.

If I were dictator of college admissions across the US, I'd use tests and GPA to coarsely bucket individuals (into basically capable of doing the work or not at each institution), and use a lottery to distribute spots where demand outstrips supply.
If your goal is to get code to merely compile, that's a sad state of affairs. Ditto if people believe all devs do for a living is write code.