skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I obtained my BS from a state university, retired at 38, went to graduate school at a state university at 48, started another business, retired again 3 years later. I've hired ivy league graduates, graduates from MIT, but my best employees came from state schools.

Every Harvard graduate I've ever known has been arrested, committed fraud, or worse, murder (Lookup Luke Sweetser). The first thing that comes out of all of their mouths is they went to Harvard, and pretty much that is the extent of their ability.

The university system is in shambles in the United States. I've been consulting with several, but they're entrenched in this new ideology. Many top level engineering programs are suffering by putting diversity over qualified students. Diversity is a goal we should seek, but not at the expense of the student that is produced. They're setting up many for failure, and loading them up with debt they will never be able to repay.

Spend your money wisely. You will get out of any university what you put into it.
So, a "Prompt Engineer" will also need the skill of "awareness of proximity to the edge of the time-saving cliff" or "perfect-is-the-enemy-of-good detection".

Are they expected to be able to justify their answers?
Certainly one of the things that surprised me most about parenting was having to distinguish between toys that were designed for the children (that are actually fun to play with) vs toys that were designed for the parents (which are aesthetically pleasing but dull as ditchwater to play with)
If u are increwasing the intensity/frequency of workouts and experiencing discomfort/pain, sounds like you should slow down that acceleration of your training.

Easy to overtrain and reduce gains.

In Jack Daniels book of running he talks about increasing workout intensity, you should only increase intensity of one variable of your training every 6 weeks, that way you give your body time to adjust to increased stress levels, you know what is/isnt working.

Rather slowly ramp up than try go too fast, get injured, and spend weeks sitting on the couch waiting to heal.
Yeah, I find it utterly believable because I've seen the exact same dynamic, down to the increasingly lazy redaction and bizarre lack of opsec, in a different context: low self esteem gamer gets hired by game studio, but most of his friends still play MMO produced by said studio. No shit there's gonna be leaks and no shit it's not staying within that original circle.
The Odd Knight of the Cinnamon Shops
Drones move in 3d space. Maybe a lot more investment would have yielded some cool ways to navigate in 3d space around cities. I know there are regulations around where and how drones can be used but in a city like SF it’s probably fine. Besides when have regulations stopped startups from defining something new and better?

Cars and trucks just take up way too much space. They also pollute. I like scooters but they don’t have a lot of range:time advantage. At least with drones you could deploy relay style movement so the drones could move items between multiple drones, of various types and capabilities, to get the item to the final destination. Or work in tandem with the scooter people.
Not yet. When the singularity bootstraps, it's going to be over fast.
Sued for what exactly? Using a question where the company internally decided to not use it anymore isn't against any law.
> To be honest the first solution is literally one line of code.

OK, but every program is literally one line of code. We only put line breaks in to make them easier to read.

The author makes this terrible comment about his "one-liner":

> Most candidates though write a for loop, which is equally acceptable.

He has also written a for loop. Specifically, he's written this for loop:

for i in range(1, len(s)):
if inDict(s[:i]) and inDict(s[i:]):
return True
return False
> AGPL, to my understanding, makes it a requirement if you allow people to use the software via network levels.

AGPL requirements do not trigger if you don't modify the source code. The relevant text is in section 13:

> […] if you modify the Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users […]

See also [1], [2], [3].

> “Program as a Service” seems a lot more limited in scope.

AGPL scope:

> The "Corresponding Source" for a work in object code form means all
the source code needed to generate, install, and (for an executable
work) run the object code and to modify the work, including scripts to
control those activities. However, it does not include the work's
System Libraries, or general-purpose tools or generally available free
programs which are used unmodified in performing those activities but
which are not part of the work.

Basically, the software itself and build scripts.

SSPL scope:

> “Service Source Code” means the Corresponding Source for the Program or the modified version, and the Corresponding Source for all programs that you use to make the Program or modified version available as a service, including, without limitation, management software, user interfaces, application program interfaces, automation software, monitoring software, backup software, storage software and hosting software, all such that a user could run an instance of the service using the Service Source Code you make available.

As noted in another thread, that's not only beyond the scope of the software itself – it is beyond the scope you _can_ relicense and arguably beyond the scope of the copyright terms themselves.

[1] https://opensource.com/article/17/1/providing-corresponding-...

[2] https://fossa.com/blog/open-source-software-licenses-101-agp...

[3] https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/650/do-i-have...
I don't know if AY is astronomy, but if so surely they'd make great data scientists.
> but I think it’s fair to say that issue of advancing the interests of LGBT people, is overwhelmingly an issue associated with a left wing political disposition.

Some truth in that, in Western countries right now, but less so historically or globally. Stalin re-criminalised homosexuality in 1934, and in Russia even today you can find far-left people whose views on LGBT issues are largely indistinguishable from those of the far-right. I’m sure some are going to argue those people “aren’t really left”-but unapologetic Stalinists really are far-left not far-right, and the anti-LGBT stuff is just their following in Stalin’s own footsteps. There are heaps of Western right-wingers who are far more LGBT-friendly than the average Russian Stalinist
Openmp.net finally released, looking for feedback
So this is my first post on hackernews, was told by a friend of mine I should post this here. About two years ago I started a project called "OpenMP.NET," which was intended to be a pseudo-implementation of OpenMP in C# with about half the spec violated but most of the core functionality working. After working on it very sparsely over the past couple of years, I finally got to a first release a couple days ago. Would be cool to get feedback so I can work on improving this.

Don't ask me what the purpose of a high-performance parallel programming library in a GC'd language is; I don't know, this was never intended to be a serious project but here we are.
I actually ran into a case for using UA strings yesterday, if you know of a better solution let me know!

I have a canvas element where the user needs to be able to both scroll and zoom with the mouse wheel. Generally, zooming involves scrolling while also holding the ctrl button down - except on MacOS, where it's cmd. I obviously want to use the operating system conventions that my users will be expecting, but the best way of determining that, that I've found, is searching for the string 'Mac' in the user agent string.

Like I say, if you know of a better way to detect whether I should be binding on ctrl or cmd, let me know! This is the first time I've used the user agent in a long time, and it feels like there should be a better system...
In the view of industry, part of what universities provide is job training. The other component is an expensive credentialing system. A degree from a prestigious university is worth more than one from a modest school, even if the course content is identical.
Posted this query
error /a.out: /lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.9' not found

and got blocked. LOL
Fraud is fraud
> After looking up compatibility for SDL, I noticed it is able to run on iOS 6 and greater, meaning it supports iOS devices all the way back to iPhone 3GS.

Whoah, I was convinced there is no way to write and run apps on these older iPhones - I wonder how difficult the whole process is.
I see, yes I think you do raise a very good point, but on the other hand, the issue could be quickly resolved by talking about it. Any good interviewer would say something like "Ah yes that's a very good point, I forgot to consider the implication of the English vocabulary. However, for the sake of this interview, let's assume the 'vocabulary' is made of strings that can be arbitrarily long. Does that change your answer?"

After all, if we assume that all words are at most, say, 50 characters long, then there's no asymptotic complexity to speak of. Any string longer than 100 characters is trivially not a concatenation of two words.
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No, at least not for video in aspect ratio of 16:9, since the actual aspect ratio of the screen is 16:10.
Then let's say the point of disagreement between me and the author is that I would prefer to abandon the analogy for something that lets me both reason and communicate more clearly, while the author appears to prefer to keep the analogy they have identified as flawed.
I have a bunch of Crypto in a hardware wallet. Properly maintaining your coins is absolutely not something average people can do. I'm not trying to pat myself on the back here, I'm just trying to point out that doing this right isn't easy. "Cryptocurrencies do work" is true for some definition of "true" that doesn't include normal, largely non-technical people.
I can’t seem to pick a password that it’s happy with, but I’ll definitely check it out once I can
> find out what wall would give me the best alternative path

This, specifically, and the question as a whole are hard to parse as a human. Before clicking through to the SO link (where there seems to be a lot more context), I wouldn't have guessed the problem you were trying to solve.

I'm curious why you changed the prompt at all? Was it to get the model to avoid your question's SO page?
We will miss these. Super reliable and feature rich, and much less expensive than the Dell/HP options.
This is great, thank you!

Usability suggestion: It should be possible to scroll horizontally in code blocks while still generating. Currently that doesn't work (at least for mobile).
Is it allowed to ask questions here in other languages?
Someone asked a question in Vietnamese and I answered it, and the question and my answer both got flagged. I ctrl-f searched English in the guidelines and I didn't see anything.
My B.S. C.S. was a fabulous deal. It's funding my retirement. I will be forever grateful to the State of California for the inexpensive solid education available to me.

I did not go to a fancy school but it was enough to get me into a fascinating and successful career. Could not be happier.
https://vannormanlaw.com/rule-law-vs-rule-law/
Do you remember the one they released when they changed name to linspire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIYtKHnU4mQ memorable
ChatGPT-like tools are essentially lowering the barrier to entry. That’s great for casual programmers and beginners who want to play in the big leagues. I’m not sure it’s going to replace experienced developers who truly understand algorithms and architecture and design systems, but it’s going to help a lot of people with <1 year of coding experience build better products.

I feel like this is the WordPress/Blogger.com moment for coding. There should be an explosion in the amount of apps and products.
The God of the gaps is now accessible via API.
There have been at least three American missile tests that landed in Mexico. (They were launched from the US into the US, intended to land in the White Sands missile range, but overshot).

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19700804&id=... ("Mexcians find errant rocket", 1970)

https://wsmrmuseum.com/2021/11/10/in-1970-an-athena-missile-... ("In 1970, An Athena Missile Went Deep Into Mexico")
lol I can tell it's running from all corners of the house and the loud ass buzzer when it ends is a great clue that it's stopped.
The Who via George W. Bush
Here's the thing, current computational power isn't enough to achieve the scale of model that would be required for "god like" AI. So isn't that kind of a natural brake, where we have to wait for computing speed to catch up with our ambitions? Why do we need additional handicaps and slowdowns on top of that?

I've seen a theory that the big tech companies are the ones pushing for regulation in order to achieve regulatory capture of this powerful new technology, which seems like a compelling theory indeed...
Define “better”. It is visual, so at least basic addition and subtraction don’t have to be done as calculation, they are purely visual. This could be a benefit for everyday tasks. Of course the representation nor the base actually matters mathematically, so in that regard it’s useless
(Like, to further clarify, when I did my Engineering Technology degree, we were trained on AutoCAD (But also 3D Cad), and it was obvious then that autocad was antiquated and was soon to be abandoned en masse.

This was in 2004.
I only started seeing effects of Yoga yoga after doing it with a professional instructor. Having someone correct me and provide some additional instructions was amazing. I encourage everyone look for a good teacher.
It's similar to a recent Project Euler problem, #828.

https://projecteuler.net/problem=828
I find it interesting to compare Janet to Guile Scheme because they
both claim to be fit as embed-able scripting languages.

Haven't done any practical comparison yet bc Janet has only caught my
eye recently (;p), but it appears to have a culture of vendoring and
an edge in implementation size and complexity which (ideally) enable
diving into the language's implementation to scratch your own itches,
learn how it (and the stack in general) work more throughly, and allow
eg. low level code optimizations with less FFI boilerplate.

I wonder how executable size and performance pan out, but with C FFI
available in each language (and the reality of how much time
optimization is worth), I feel that comforts matter more.

Color me intrigued!
Indeed, I’m explicitly rejecting the precautionary principle.
>They will find tokens for 'dig' and 'it', as well as 'add', 'car' and 'ry'.

Neurons are not tokens. Technical jargon isn't fungible.

>They will not find internalized understanding of the concept of math.

I'm not sure how you figure that. The AlphaGo Zero model is able to learn and reach massively superhuman ability on any board game thrown at, including new ones not in its training set. I don't see how someone or something goes about mopping the floor with grandmasters (and the top champions of every other game) without having some kind of internal understanding of what it is you're playing.

If there isn't an internal understanding then what is it doing? Sure we can say it is just predicting tokens, but obviously it using more than just random chance to predict them or else the output would be gibberish. What is inside those dozens of neural layers may not be a familiar form like logic gates assembled into add and carry circuits, but clearly some type of decision structure exists.
> Common Lisp is not good at being pretty out-of-the-box, it's not good at minimalism, and it's not good at prescriptive or dogmatic programming styles

These things help you learn to program, but they do not help you program.

At some point the box is open, at some point your problems are big and nobody else has done them before. It is in this moment that CL is good, and perhaps better than anything else.

> There's just... a lot of content.

That's some of the stuff that helps you program, because if you didn't have it and you needed it, you'd have to write it.

> no singular approach to learning it works for everyone.

So what? "Everyone" is your competition. Why do you care what works for them?
Leaks are different from hacks in that they are released secretly Vs stolen. Usually a leak has a purpose.

Often it's political, and political messaging particularly about war is propaganda.
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Local-first and open-source
Sad to hear this and my sibling comment about VTech. I have (vague) fond memories of the VTech toy laptop that I had when I was a kid. Lots of fun was had. And today computers are my favorite toys.

This is the one I had (or if I'm wrong, another SKU or something, because this is extremely familiar): https://web.archive.org/web/20230413054933if_/https://i.pini...

I'll specifically point out the letter keys that are half red, showing musical sounds (do re mi, etc.). Definitely not random.
I was a chan user long before I took up this work full time. I didn't say I was a 'disinformation expert', I mostly study mass shooters, would-be terrorists, and violent street groups.
i had the same thought, but it sounds like starting with a base-20 numeral system makes it easier for the iñupiat students to learn base 10, as evidenced by the reported test score improvements

i worked out the multiplication thing in more detail in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35551051

myself, i learned mediation and duplation before i learned to multiply with a memorized multiplication table, and though that's a faster algorithm, you could maybe teach it after switching to base 10? also nowadays maybe you'd be better off with a memorized table of briggsian logarithms because if you really need more than two digits of precision you should probably use a calculator

mediation and duplation of 69 · 21

21 69 *
10 138
5 276 *
2 552
1 1104 *

now we add the starred duplation column items where the mediated multiplicand was odd (corresponding to the 1s in its binary representation, 16+4+1)

1104
276
+ 69
----
1449

a bit more work than adding up four appropriately shifted table-lookup results but not really that much, doesn't depend on a multiplication table, and you can do it just as easily in roman numerals or kaktovik numerals

also people have been multiplying using tables of squares since babylonian times; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplication_algorithm#Quart...

for this you calculate 69+21 = 90 and 69-21 = 48, look up or remember that ⌊¼90²⌋ = 2025 and ⌊¼48²⌋ = 576, and 2025 - 576 = 1449, the correct answer
I think your article is a worthy read and has some fun examples. I'm not so sure I agree with your conclusion though. The limitations you pose both in your article and here are real but already have answers in some cases. For one equipping GPT with upgrades for various tasks helps tremendously, IE, Wolfram Alpha for math, wikipedia to refresh its memory on facts etc.. I think you pointed out a really interesting edge case for the goat puzzle but also showed that with different words it CAN reason correctly but trusts it's memory more (and I correctly).

I think you are setting far too high a bar with "majority of information worker tasks". My wild ass guess is that with some thoughtful design and focus as it stands today GPT-4 could do 25% of tasks (or make workers 25% more efficient). The economic impacts of that are vast and I'm not particularly optimistic about who will benefit most from them. That's what the fuss is about IMO, not that we have some kind of AGI on our hands, which is far too high a bar.
Those two are grest examples of companies being hit with huge fines or bans in the EU after their practices were discovered. Saying "capitalism" as if that's an argument is juvenile - by that logic we will soon be enslaved by big corporations, nothing we can do about it then.
why do you need io_uring from Go? It has a nicer interface than epoll but you’re not coding to its interface.
I'm not alleging that you're alleging that there's no bias either, but either you have convincing evidence there is, or we fall back to there not being any until you do (and your claims that the conspiracy theory is impossible to prove are unconvincing, many conspiracy theorists say the same thing)

As for your opinion about how much of a conflict of interest or appearance thereof, if you trust NPR as a reliable source on this matter, then we can trust them also saying they have editorial independence (read: no bias)

your assertions of an expectation are similarly unconvincing, it's literally just you claiming as such, when others recognize that, like I can receive a dollar and not be controlled by the giver, so can NPR
Why are rising fees not driving students towards cheaper universities rather than just no university? I understand that a US degree has more value than a foreign one in the US, but given the number of foreigners with foreign degrees settling in the US each year, I would think that the gap is not necessarily that big, is it? Isn't a foreign degree better than no degree at all?

The article mentions France as being way cheaper, and digging the source a bit further[0], there are many other European countries that also seem to charge negligible amounts. Granted, that's for nationals, and this is likely higher for non-nationals, but I expect it to still be low enough to be worth it for US and UK citizens who'd have to pay increasingly high fees otherwise.

0: the XLS in https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/annual-average-tuiti...
Right, but the point is that with the intellect you don't show up in that situation without a knife or a gun in the first place. A competent intelligent human foresees that being a bad situation, avoids it, and shows up armed or with bear spray.

This is exactly the same thing a chess program does when it avoids your trap. Intelligence compensates for physical weakness.
I have a 1.5-year old and we bought 25 kilograms of used Duplo (toddler safe, bigger Lego from the same brand). There are bricks from the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s and they all still click together well and have barely faded in colour. The quality of this stuff is amazing, and it still is judging from the brand new bricks we got as a gift.
What do you think about a tool like Copilot X + autoGPT that knows your codebase and can work on its own on autopilot? The current limitation with chatGPT is that it doesn’t know what your existing tech stack or codebase looks like.

Copilot X should fix that - it knows your codebase and hence, can share answers that are contextually relevant. Maybe autoGPT can then go around and start debugging and improving without your direct input?
I've been single for a couple years now. I don't have any trouble meeting women, its just that my standards are a lot higher than they used to be. Though I am moving to another part of the world in less than 6 months, so that may be contributing to my hesitancy. I just can't do casual sex unless I'm paying for it. If I fuck a girl after a date, I practically hear wedding bells when I cum.
Vtech is fucking evil.

When my kid was around 20 months old, she got really into Brio. This kit gave us hundreds of hours of entertainment- she’s seven now and still plays with it:

https://www.brio.us/products/all-products/railway/classic-ra...

It’s a well made wooden train set. It was great for helping with her fine motor skills, taught us a lot about working together and was genuinely a lot of fun…even for her old dad.
surprisingly I didn’t see anything in here about managerial responsibilities of big decisions involving company $$. budgeting, vendor & contract negotiation, build vs buy, etc. I found this to be one of the starkest differences and all a bit unnerving when I made the transition from staff IC to manager. will say that having a good boss and mentor helped a lot with the feelings of imposter syndrome.