skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is related to my main issue with Swift.

It started out as a very usable, mid-sized language, with many tooling issues. Now it is a kitchen-sink language with almost every imaginable feature (and more coming!) that still has tooling issues. It's no longer as pleasant to read unless you keep up on the latest additions. You can't easily read code that uses the myriad of new features without a long weekend learning what every property wrapper in this particular program means and how to use the new feature of the month.

In my opinion while it was still a mid-size language, they should have fixed all of the tooling issues, and then very incrementally over a long period of time added new features. Instead it's more of a "move fast and break things" culture. Which is not what I want in the evolution of a programming language.
The Myth of the Alpha Wolf
That acronym seems likely to cause some confusion, like "we need laws against LAWS".
Yeah, so Dell sells defective monitors and doesn't serve them under warranty. Doesn't mean they're not defective.
I did read it. Most of it was arguing "Hey, it's not that bad, we did some tests and only a few folks were really bothered about it, and some people are bothered by anything, so screw them!"

If I decide to go live in the middle of nowhere for some solitude, I shouldn't have to defend my choices to enjoy that solitude as "you're just too sensitive!".
I agree with the sentiment of the researchers, that it's merely showing "sparks" of AGI. Of course, it depends on how you define "intelligence", but I think too many people get caught up on certain technical details, like those saying "it just generates one word at a time." Yes, these models fundamentally operate very different from our brains, but I think it's naïve and ignorant to believe they're not at least a little bit intelligent.

I don't think this current generation of AI is going to close the gap to human-level intelligence. I don't think they can just keep throwing more and more training data to solve the problems and shortcomings of these AIs. I think it's going to require new machine learning algorithms and techniques to close that gap, and it's going to take time for researchers to discover these new algorithms and techniques. We're seeing rapid progress now, simply because it's new and novel technology, and I think these models will continue to improve but at a much slower rate within several months.
C# syntax is gradually approaching F#. I'd say just use F# and skip the bloat.
I'm a Lead SRE on the Ops team. We've got a fantastic bunch of folks, they're amazing to work with!
there is no correlation between passing leetcode type interviews and actual software development skills
The miracle in France is called the Trente Glorieuses, "a thirty-year period of economic growth in France between 1945 and 1975, following the end of the Second World War":

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trente_Glorieuses>

Germany and Japan both benefitted by the fact that their extant infrastructure and owners were demolished, removed, and/or financially wiped out by the war and/or the ensuing occupation and denazification / deimperilisation (in Germany and Japan respectively), which removed ownership-based objections to new development and investment --- think NIMBYism, but on steroids.

There's an article I've mentioned and submitted to HN numerous times, Bernhard J. Stern's "Resistances to the Adoption of Technological Innovations" (1937). I'd first heard of it through Isaac Asimov who was a research assistant for Stern whilst a student at Columbia.

<https://archive.org/details/technologicaltre1937unitrich/pag...>

As markdown: <https://rentry.co/szi3g>

The piece looks at the innate opposition to technological (and economic) innovations and advance largely from extant established interests, in the areas of transportation, communication, power, metals, textiles, agriculture, and construction.

Something I've noticed in looking at development is that greenfield projects* in which there is no extant political, social, and economic power structure to present an opposition move far faster than those with a well-developed set of independent agents. This is highly pronounced in transportation, where initial route deployment occurs through undeveloped lands. As the transportation itself induces further development, commerce, residences, industry, etc., those interests themselves impose high frictions and costs on further development.

To put it another way, simply following financial amounts hugely distorts understanding of the impact of assistance. Money spent in Germany and Japan (both physically, politically, and financially devastated by World War II) went far further than equivalent sums in either occupied but victorious regions (e.g., France) or unoccupied victors (e.g., UK).

It's interesting to note that high-speed rail (HSR) development has proceeded most rapidly in regions either strongly disrupted by WWII, or in which industrialisation is now occurring for the first time to any significant degree: Japan, France, Germany, and China most notably. HSR's failure-to-launch in the US is attributable in large part to resistance from regional airlines (SouthWest most notably for the proposed "Texas Triangle" routes), and high land costs and dense extant development (both East and West coast projects).

Single-factor explanations are of course limited. Italy (defeated and occupied) did not see the same post-war rebound as its Axis allies Germany and Japan did, though it did of course grow. The Eastern Bloc similarly lagged, likely for other reasons (though it also often saw a far more rapid initial response, see notably North and South Korea's respective development following the 1953 armistice, with the North greatly outpacing the South).
Do you understand what the word genocide means?

Do you know any women? Maybe ask if they’re bored.
If it was intended as criticism, then one would expect the joke's author, who was the regulator in charge of ensuring no racial discrimination, would have offered the much more direct criticism of taking regulatory action.

The joke's author did no such thing. And was careful to make sure it never got to anyone who might be inclined to criticize Harvard's admissions practice.

Furthermore the fact that Harvard admissions HAD slang like "Just another AA CJer" is pretty strong evidence of discrimination.
I would sing a proposition to close the useless company that basically just a money laundering machine. In case you never know Russia is not just present in the UN, but is going to be a chief member. After the full-blown genocide in Ukraine. Bollocks! As, wait a second, they never recognised the genocide as well. Trust me, UN is useless and must be closed with a huge wave of shame, to allow other organisations take its place.
There’s no concealed carry in Canada. In fact handgun acquisition has been banned last year. Hunting requires a license and then additional per species license. Except for species like wolves and coyotes, I think.
One hundred drones now used across IKEA retail for stock inventory
the statement doesn’t even make sense. “aws” isn’t a single service and measuring uptime across every aws service is nonsensical. obviously they mean ec2, but even then lumping all regions and azs together is weird.
So much effort seems to go into arguing what should be public and what should not. While I see the benefits of privacy, and the benefits of openness, I don't see the benefits of everyone spending days arguing.

I propose a different solution:

All content is put in 3 categories. One is fully open info. One will be kept hidden for one year after proceedings finish (basically long enough that nobody can appeal anymore). One will be kept hidden for 80 years.

There is no secret information. If you do something dishonest, you might get away with it for a lifetime, but your children will find out.
I recently bought a home and had to spend a lot of time with a professional interior designer to explain the interior ideas that I had in my head. However, I was not fully satisfied with the video model, that the designer prepared, as there were problems in conveying my vision.

I so wish that I had your website a few months back. It is quite nice. This understands what I want clearly, and helps me play with various options almost instantly. If one has worked with some of the outdated interior modelling tools, they will understand what slowness pain, I am referring to.
It remains a Schelling Point. That's what keeps many institutions going.
Judges should be impartial, nay are required to be impartial, yet we never punish judges who are not. This smells like collusion, at the very least seriously unprofessional. Judges and prosecutors should not have qualified immunity, the temptation to insert personal bias is too great.
Detecting novel systemic biomarkers in external eye photos
The joke is not at the expense of Asians, it is satirizing how Asians can be discriminated against in admissions
I'm not sure what this actually accomplishes, I can see how this can be counterproductive somehow. Somehow I think your giving yourself a title when you did not accomplish something is just acknowledging your own impatience and unrealistic goals.

Either you actually want to become an athlete, or become an artist, or become a pianist, and you need to accept the mediocrity of beginners and the effort and commitment it takes to achieve something ; which you might fail at.

Or you just want to exercise, draw, or play the piano, but don't want your life to revolve around that, not put too much energy into it, and accept to remain at an enthusiast level, and never become an athlete, artist or pianist, and there's nothing wrong with that. And maybe at some point you'll realize you really enjoy one of these and become athlete artist or pianist. Otherwise you can embrace your mediocrity and enjoy doing things for the sake of doing things rather than trying to become something.

It feels like calling yourself early on sets the unrealistic expectation that you need to live up to that title, and become dissatisfied because athletes run everyday, artist draw everyday, pianist play everyday, and since you're one you ought to, but you don't want to so you don't like it, and what you should do for fun becomes a chore.

Now maybe that's a framing because you really want to become something, and that's what carries you through pain, but I don't know how well that's gonna work when overdoing something will inevitably drive you away from it
If you're serious about this you can take the time to create a formal process. People don't even post their email addresses on their profiles without obfuscation, this just looks like lazy phishing attempt.
I’m struck by the fact that American economic growth went off the rails in 1973, the same year the overland ban on supersonic flight came into force.

This seems like a hasty conclusion to make. There are plenty of things that correlate with the stagnation of economic growth. I'm aware the author goes on to say almost the same thing after making this statement, but it is clear the author is trying to offer the ban on supersonic flight over soil to be the cause of economic stagnation in America.

To borrow a term from Ross Douthat, there is something decadent about putting a complete halt to the development of a key technology simply because a few otherwise harmless sonic booms might annoy a vocal minority.

I fail to see how there has been a complete halt on the development of supersonic technology. A ban on supersonic flight over US soil is not a ban on the development of the technology.

We need to get back to doing great things.

Who says we aren't?

If we want growth—if we want greatness—it’s time to make America boom again.

I can't agree with the author's conclusion. Besides, they don't really make an effort in their article to tie the development of supersonic flight over land to economic growth. This is more of a "build it and they will come" conclusion. I don't buy it.
Hospitals are reporting new mothers for neglect from poppyseed false positives
That's not how that works. Non-central banks don't print money the way that servers send out bytes.

There is also no copyright on bank notes that prohibits you from selling copies of them online. It's also not the bank's fault that you feel copyright law is unjust, it's got nothing to do with each other.
It's not going away, because school choice continues to be a valuable signal of how capable someone is, and graduates of "top" schools continue to have disproportionately higher impacts on society.
Was lucky enough to watch this in person. One of the best talks of the conference.

The immutable bit together with the syscall bit is going to be a real pain for shell code
Keep in mind there might be additional costs in the form of compliance, benefits offered, risk and taxes based on the country of the employee as well. Base salary is only one part of fully loaded employee cost.
Ask HN: Should I Learn to Code?
My goal is to start a tech company. I tried learning how to code and spent months learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, React Native, and a bit of Python. I can understand code, but I can't write it very well. I was wondering if you think I should keep learning to code, or if i should instead focus on learning marketing/sales/design (non technical founder skills), and then try to onboard a technical founder once I have something to show for myself other than an idea.

I'm 21, and I feel like right now I should take risks at starting businesses instead of focusing time on learning to code, especially since I know it takes a couple years to become "good" at coding.

What do you think?
I got coinbase phishing spam emails recently, I wonder if it's related somehow to them apparently being investigated.

Also can't read the article, have to set up a free account. Their password field doesn't let Chrome suggest a strong password, it doesn't even let me create with with a $ sign.
Up till about 5 years ago it was cheaper and faster to get a turn out of Asia than the US. I have no idea now. This was true for anything more than 1-2 panels (24"x18") with 4layer 4mil trace/space and no blind/buried vias. You could easily get 4 day turn (2 day hot lot was double).

We really wanted to use local or US manufacture, but it had multiple problems:

1 US worked 9-5 so you had to deliver by 9 whereas China you could deliver at 5pm.
2 US didn't run equipment on weekends, and often better equipment only 1 time a week.
3 In US the equipment wasn't constantly running so calibrations went off and sometimes multiple runs were required to dial it in.

You could order a couple of panels form Asia on Friday at 5pm and have boards available by courier Monday before noon for <$4k. All of that assumed that there were no problems or questions on the gerbers so you needed to do a really good review and know their capabilities. There were places in Vietnam, Thailand, and Shenzhen that did the work. We stuffed (SMT) the PCBs locally, but that was moving to Asia as well since availability of some parts was easier there. I'd worry about counterfeits more now.
“We thought it might fall into a legal gray zone,” said the former Cigna official, who helped conceive the program. “We sent the idea to legal, and they sent it back saying it was OK.”

Reading this article is just maddening. I've been dealing with different insurers for the past 7 years or so, and it's my experience they must all do something similar. Anyone with any kind of serious health condition is regularly driven CRAZY dealing with insurance. It's just an insane and broken system.
In game theory, a focal point (or Schelling point) is a solution that people tend to choose by default in the absence of communication.
The author of the joke memo is himself Asian American, which is a relevant detail.
Kind of but there’s a fairly large community overlap because they were trying to use FileCoin to support development, and a lot of cryptocurrency projects wanted to use it to work around technical limitations (e.g. many NFTs referenced IPFS gateways) to the point that I’ve had a number of marketing people use it as an example when asked for an example of a “web3” project which does something useful.
I thought the theory was people are dumber than ever thanks to smartphones, social media, decreased attention spans, etc. I would take a bet that the average person is not even close to as smart as the average Harvard grad.
Not all bits have an equivalent distribution. If very few people have that bit set then it is very differentiating.
Rabbit is usually in the frozen section where you also find duck. I currently live in Virginia but have lived in the south, northeast, and Midwest. Always been able to find rabbit in stores and on restaurant menus.
Science of Price Experimentation at Amazon
> I'm still impressed with it in other areas.

You mean in areas you are less expert in? :) Maybe it's bad at everything, but each person can only tell when it comes to their own area of expertise.
Who knows? Currently there is no one working on a new standard. Maybe an AI will publish one in 2094, hundred years after the first standard.

For now with CL we can program in the past and reuse some code from 30 years ago. Changes will need to reflected in implementations, libraries and community standards. Some stuff would need changing the existing, others not so much. Example: Due to meta-programmability something like the Common Lisp Object System was implemented 95% in the language itself - the remaining 5% largely needed to be implementation specific things like changing the type system. Other stuff like 'threading' or 'foreign function interface' would need more work - but they exist already in implementations and libraries.
Precisely. Out of no malice at all, the bodies ended up incinerated, the incriminating evidence, files, phone call records some how managed to get lost, police staff working on the case transferred, whistle blower minister pursuing the issue died out of not at all mysterious circumstances [0]. All in all it set a new standard on how pogroms are to be run.

But the bottom-line lies in the fact that it had implicit support of the majority, and the party had a keen ear for that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haren_Pandya#2002_Gujarat_riot...
What? Can you expand on that?
In that case llm are summarisation tool which exist in every major search engine. I dont see any use case where the search query for black dress or ticket to paris is going to change. Those require fundamental change in either computer vision or 3d vr. Listing the result in text is not a great experience. Those were the queries where search engine earns money. No one earns money in explaining quantum mechanics in rap
Thanks for taking a look! Adding airports are an interesting idea. I'm going to try adding a few and see how it goes.
I’m often called an artist by people who know me IRL, which annoys me for a bunch of reasons. One is that I don’t see myself this way. I just sometimes do stuff that is art-adjacent. Another is that making it a noun instead of a verb reduces me entirely to that one side of me and also suggests that it is something very stable, something that I’m going to be for the rest of my life, because well this is who I am after all. “I shoot photos”/“I make films”/“I write poetry”/“I write software” has a very different shade than “I’m a photographer”/“I’m a film maker“/“I’m a poet”/“I’m a software developer”. The latter feels very reductive.
https://archive.is/R6Ad7
The whole "holistic review" crap should be banned. It was originally invented to reduce the number of Jewish people [1]. It is still being used for illegal or illicit discrimination of one kind or another.

This article [2] says "holistic review" is subterfuge... it is how colleges make admission decisions based on factors they would rather not talk about.

[1] https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/06/23/a-lawsuit...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/12/the-fa...
The book in the post is a single folio. A whole afternoon is an overstatement, I’d say.
"Specialization is for insects". humans are capable of much more than being limited to a specific area of expertise. This idea can be a great starting point for anyone who struggles to try new things. However, becoming a first-principle thinker can be an even more powerful tool.
Yes definitely.

I could only find a blurry YouTube video of the instruction manual for an old old heater in my house.

I paused the video on the bit I needed the guy had zoomed into and was able to copy and paste the text that I could barely read into a notes doc.

There’s no one splashy thing just lots of little quality of life improvements.
A dense ball of _everything_.
Yes, but SFFA is almost definitely going to eventually breach this wall sooner or later, and I can bear these awfully obvious judicial biases on the margins as we advance our way toward stamping out centuries old pseudoscientific human taxonomy from our society one slow step at a time.
> Thoughts?

Some of the greatest achievers in human history like great scientists or artists were very modest. Some were the opposite and liked to brag.

It does not matter much if you brag or not, if you have titles or not. What matters is if you achieved something important.

There's a great half mad Russian mathematician who didn't take much part in society, lived with his mother and worked in complete secrecy. When the results of his works transpired somehow, he was awarded the Fields medal, the highest distinction a mathematician can get. That distinction came with a large amount of money. He rejected both the medal and the money even if he was poor. He achieved results and that is what matters.

Depicting yourself something you are not is grave. It means that you are either insane or you want to deceive others.