skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just work, it's accountability. That's what they're trying to avoid.
Given how relentlessly (just to pick a particular example) Epstein's crimes, accomplices, and associated have been publicized, and the negligible impact, why do you think that would be impactful?
I think AEDs can also pace these days if it's brady (but not asystole)
Yeah but it means their service is less valuable. If adblockers block traffic to that domain then there's less incentive to pay for the service because an undetermined but ever growing percentage of traffic will block it.

Now it's a headache for a different reason.
A Tale of Two Factorings
Almost any and every story you'll see in this thread has already been collected and discussed in the RISKS mailing list and archive.

There's nearly 38 years of articles waiting for you to peruse, all lovingly curated by Peter Neumann.

https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/risks/
For secular states. The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Jerusalem used gold on silver. The coat of arms of the papacy on the other hand is not the flag so they can do whatever they feel like there.
Mm, can’t wait to live on Mars with chairman Elon.
Oh, damn. I Googled for Olympics wrong anthem and that came up.

It's a meta-screw up. Apt.
I moved from CA to WA for this reason. With lower salaries, I wonder if this was the right move.
ability to solve Hard Problems rather than create them
DNSSEC KSK rollover breaks DNS resolution for .nz domains
So existing features would just eventually rot?
The next time it does, it has the opportunity to do something extremely funny.
Cool research, but it's only 3.4σ so far and this decay is already predicted by the Standard Model.
Nobody else can match (understand) his velocity. He's the best.
Isn’t it nice when requirements don’t change! :)
For bystanders, the raw numbers from the article reflect a 7.6% survival rate became a 10% survival rate. An absolute improvement in about 24 out of 1000 cases, though for those that do 'survive' maybe a 33% increase?

Though those numbers strongly hint at over simplified variables. Is there other medical help available? (E.G. an AED, maybe combined with CPR?) Is EMS close? Are they near a medivac capable landing site and a level 1 trauma center? How does this change across patient demographics?

For my own health, this goes back to end of life management questions, can I recover or even improve to a degree if a procedure is done? As someone with hopefully decades and maybe even a chance at upload or archival if I live long enough CPR probably is worth it for the cases where survival is improved; but only if all the other options are exhausted first.
I thought that red didn’t touch black in the German flag, it touches sable, which is a fur. And furs can be placed on metal or color. … yeah, rules lawyering.
It took us a long time as an industry to recognize that popularity of “design patterns” was due to problems with languages. And the best fix is to improve the language.
Code that does I/O has a lot of interplay that's hard to replicate and impossible to cover entirely. The physical world is nothing but shared mutable state.
I don't think speaking to Radiologists as "advisors" to an AI system is going to be productive in the grand scheme of things. Yes, radiologists (and all doctors for that matter) will give their thoughts on making their job incrementally easier. But that doesn't necessarily equate to better healthcare.

Is that going to move the needle on better healthcare for patients? Will it allow our hospital systems to bring in more throughput of patients at higher quality of care and lower costs?

Thats not what doctors (and hospitals) want. They won't be an ally in "AI for healthcare" unless it means their paychecks/revenues are protected. The author is being misguided by seemingly smart people who have skin in the game and a lot to lose.

Personally, I only favor AI solutions that will drive down the cost of all healthcare, raise the quality of service, and overall expand high-quality healthcare to underserved populations. Anything less than that is only serving the needs of the industry and not patients.
Looks interesting - Thank you.
I checked some frameworks like: https://builder.vueform.com/ (and the similar ones for React) but not sure yet.
I write code that I can understand when I'll come back to it after one year or two. Sometimes I don't understand what my old code does and I realize that I failed. It wasn't simple enough.
I like FP, but I don't think the situation is solved by FP. There's a lot more room for discussion of abstraction and complexity within FP.
Well, Germany is a pretty special case given the Ukraine war totally screwed them energy-wise.
It’s that good in your experience? Enough that it is close to writing something as nice as the Linux Kernel we have now? How close is close? Reading comments like these makes me feel like I’m swallowing crazy pills. It legitimately makes me feel like I’m using it wrong. I do Android and iOS native development and some IoT and it gives me really wrong code very often. To the point that I don’t see much difference between chatgpt and gpt4. But you say it’s close to just “write me a unix-like kernel”
The key determinant, imo, is precisely and comprehensively descriptive names

Even if this leads to humourously Java-esque code, it's worth it

An abstraction that has one purpose and is named to make that purpose crystal clear is a good abstraction
The four main obstacles facing electric cars
Fully Explained Naive Bayes Classification with Python Example
How many charge cycles can they take? In many cases improving the energy density requires a finer more precise process resulting in a more fragile short lived battery.
And the product wasn’t good.

Quest 2 is pretty good but it’s not ready yet for a few more years. Their software and “games” are just soulless
Wait, sounds like you've rolled out SAP before, I'd love to pick your brain for tips other than "don't".
Functional is generally accepted as The Best Abstraction imo
What, you don’t pay your devs per kilogram of code? ;)
Even all that, difficult though it is, doesn't include the cost if understanding the actual problem, knowing the field well enough to propose a good solution, and coordinating and communicating with everyone the whole way through.

"Every problem is a people problem", and people-solutions are something that AI still doesn't solve.

I'm not saying that AI doesn't have it's uses, it certainly does, but I'm trying to highlight that purely technical solutions very often aren't good solutions to a lot if real-world problems.
Pretty ironic given the reason why the US gov is running out of liquidity.
If that is true then why did it take over a decade to achieve even the most modest of popularity? The web was already popular and JavaScript had long since been available.

> It could never have survived on its own in the wild.

People continue to say that about Lisp and Haskell.

> A Javascript developed as a project not connected to the web would likely receded into obscurity like Pike.

That sounds like a logical fallacy. Surely the result would be different had the conditions not been the same, but guessing at a result derived from conditions that never happened is fantasy.
IIRC a lot of logos technically don’t meet the threshold of originality so they’re not even copyrightable
Let’s see how it does when it’s constantly worked on to add new features, etc.
The article doesn't seem to explain what, exactly "tenure reform" is and just says that the law here codifies what tenure means. Does anyone know what specific reforms were contemplated that are now blocked?
Wouldn't the water just condense inside the nanopores due to surface energy, and render them useless?
I've done this. In my experience it ends up stuck in local minima from which there are no obvious correctness-preserving improvements. Add Monte Carlo to escape valleys and this mode of exploration is still too timid to find anything close to optimal.

When you find a truly optimal solution, you end up with the least satisfying proof of correctness: "Here's this this inscrutable formula; I verified that it produces the right output for all possible inputs."
Can anyone give me some estimates instead of defending your jobs as coders?
Recently I read somewhere that people prefer "potential" to "factual value". For example some prefer a potential Oscar film rather than a film awarded an Oscar. So perhaps the new algorithm for fostering true telling and honestity is base on the potential of people to construct the new rules not to adhere to them. Perhaps this is the NIH syndrome at work, or just that people prefer rediscovering facts than learning facts. But rediscovering requires a very good teacher and a lot of time.
Indeed. I think the most cost, effective, and resource-efficient pedagogical method for undergrad would be {best video} + {played in a lecture all} + {with a TA breaking the video into chunks and asking for questions} + {TA session with smaller groups}.

Redoing 90% of the same lecture yearly, by faculty whose time could better be spent researching, is insane.

But any change in teaching upsets a lot of academia economics, which are tenuous as-is.

I expect it'd take a federal mandate to make the above shift (a la ACA and electronic health records).
there might not be that many opportunities to optimize brainfuck programs as the instruction set of the brainfuck virtual machine is so simple. arithmetic is unary, and staying within the brainfuck virtual machine doesn't provide a way to do any better than unary arithmetic.

on another hand, there are many opportunities for optimization when compiling brainfuck to an actual real world instruction set

e.g. suppose in your program you want to load the integer 36 into the current cell

a naive way to do this is to increment 36 times, e.g. `++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++`.

if you can't guarantee that the initial value of the current cell is zero, then you could zero it first: `[-]++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++`

if we're optimizing for code size, not instruction count, we could express this as a more complex, compact program: `[-]>[-]++++++[-<++++++>]<` -- assuming it is OK to use the cell one to the right of the pointer as working storage. this will run slower than the less compact naive program as it executes more instructions.

if compiling to some reasonable instruction set, there's likely a single non-BF instruction that lets you load the constant 36 into a register.

extra credit: implementing the optimising brainfuck-to-something compiler in brainfuck itself
The language is not fucked up. Come back to Rust in 40 years and see what has become of it if it still not Cobol type legacy. Also I do not think you can compare it to C++, it is too limited for that in my opinion. I would rather consider it as "fixed" C that satisfies some safety constraints.

What is fucked up is us not being perfect machines and not producing ideal design from the first try and then having to deal with compatibility. Well duh.
Nvidia ($960B) is now worth more than Facebook, Tesla and Netflix
So, basically X11 performance is never worse and often lots better.

That's ... not a great result.
In an intro class using Ada I’ve seen

case Big_Expression_Here is
when true => Do_Something;
when others => Do_Something_Else;
end case;

and I found myself wondering whether they realize what this is.
I was honestly curious to see what TX universities would be forced to do to compete without tenure. I imagine there may be plenty of academics who would take a pay raise without tenure, but only at an institution that has no tenure at all.
Trying to win every time is getting trapped in a local maxima. Sometimes you learn more taking the low man position. Sometimes that is the only way to learn certain things. If you are truly trying to optimize you will drop the premature optimization that is trying to be number 1 all the time in everything.

Optimize for learning not status.
Reminder to be careful where you put your negatives with compound objects. They banned DEI offices and passed (a weak form of) tenure reform.
https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-ph... has some understandable math showing how this happens, more or less. Note that it's at the _end_ of a series called “Fields and Their Particles, With Math”, so you may want to skim it and then skip back closer to the beginning.
> don't

Just don't
This… is not what people would have said 10 years ago. Remember the idea of the 10x developer? Even at a design heavy firm, 80% of engineers despise writing the design docs.
He does not mention that "linear" code are much more grep-able than fancy pancy code. Even such simple things as error messages as string literals in the code makes your life so much easier.

A degenerate case of grep-able code is e.g. virtual methods for some class and derived types that share name with methods of another class and derived types.

I also distastes code with so much dynamicness that you have no clue where stuff happens. I really like long functions that do many things one thing after another.
So that they don't misuse it. A good example is vec.empty(). There's no point calling vec.empty() without checking its return value. It helps distinguish noun vs verb.
The Future of Vehicle Recycling, Cars stripped, boxed and on eBay within hours
How much money could a restaurant save by replacing the food with dirt.
Sigils are underappreciated (2022)
No idea, but I’ll guess the answer is never?
insert HongKong or UNATCO music here

I still listen to the soundtrack from time to time. It is just great music and makes me wish I could "unplay" and play again for the first time.

I hope they do at some point make another Deus Ex game. One as good as the first one, Human Revolution or Mankind Divided.
Do you remember the first time you found math "hard"? What was your teacher like? What was your experience like?

Honestly curious! (as someone who cried memorizing multiplication tables)
I think its a way of addressing black-swans. Hearing about bad things that have happened to others allowed people to make changes to avoid those things when they came for your tribe. Whether it was raiders, pests/famine, disease, drought, etc. These things were good to know and the smart ones definitely made efforts to prepare by stock-piling food, building up arms and armies, avoiding contact with new people when disease was about, etc.

I've noticed in myself that my dopamine circuits aren't activated much by working for rewards. But they fire up a lot to get me to do a tremendous amount of work to avoid potential negative consequences. It's not in an anxious way per se... it's just that's what seems to fire up my reward circuits with respect to long-term planning/thinking.

There's an interesting and somewhat related saying I learned from one of the Indian tribes near me: "If you don't believe the rumors, you'll surely perish... but if you believe ALL the rumors, you'll perish even faster."
What happens to those who already have tenure?
But the USG defines what cash (USD) is and has the power to mint infinite amounts of it into existence.

We have a rule, a.k.a. the debt ceiling.

This is independent of the absolute powers of the United States.
I’ll add that 7-10 years is rather on the short side compared to the systems I’ve been involved with in my career. 20 years isn’t that rare, and the more interesting challenges tend to happen after the 10-year mark.
Thank you for your service, and Happy Memorial Day!
Banning DEI offices is great news. I personally find the idea of striving for “equity” abhorrent (meritocracy is the gold standard and no, I do not believe that we need to make up for an “unequal start to life”) and reducing administrative headcount makes it a win win.
Seems like it’s pretty tricky to make anything stick: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/supreme-court-...
Look into working as a SWE on research projects at a university or government lab. You can find places where you are working with competent passionate people from diverse backgrounds, and it can be rewarding and fun. Pay is substantially less than FAANG but worth it… especially if it comes with a pension and great benefits
It’s legal tender for debts. Not payments.
They keep it. They didn't ban tenure.
They're the fastest growing states, with incredibly dynamic economies. Texas is currently defeating Russia through replacing oil production. Miami is the recipient of a lot of people leaving the Bay Area.

You may not agree, but what they're doing seems to work.
Sounds like he administered a precordial thump.
Texas is #2 and Florida is #8 for the most diverse states in the the U.S. [1] - maybe it's worth looking at this issue with more nuance if we actually care about equality.

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/most-divers...
I usually hear lasagna code if it's got too many codes, and ravioli code if it's too packetized.
Well as long as it only kills Americans, then the simple solution is to emigrate /s
youtube-dl is an application, there's no benefit for the author to publish it there.

I also checked PyPI repo and looking at it I don't think it is published, there are few that look like might be it, but looking at them, they feel like something that would install something nasty on your computer.

As a somebody who relies on PyPI for development, I want them to store all kinds of data that would discourage PyPI to be used for any shady purpose.

Also perhaps there's a better example than youtube-dl, as they really don't do anything illegal. Yes their github repo was taken by DMCA request but then it was reinstated back. The GitHub spin it that they are standing up for developers, but the DMCA was just frivolous. I guess, still good for them, because they could just take it down and do nothing.
This is going to be one of the best parts of the new AI-ridden world: humans gradually getting locked out of and giving up on online services because the bots are more patient and more skilled at proving their humanness than humans are.

Twitter’s new captchas are also pretty insane, though not quite this bad last I ran into them.
Liquidity and wealth are entirely different concepts.

And what comprises the wealth of a nation? Is it G(D|N)P? Military might? Control of natural resources? Global cultural influence?
Companies don't care about "effectiveness". They care about the share price. If sharing customer defects makes the share price go up, they'll do it. If they find out it risks the share price, they'll clamp down on it.

Tesla insisting on unrecorded verbal communication for specific circumstances is not uncommon at all. Often it's at the direct instruction of their legal counsel. You're just not aware of it, because it's secret (and protected by NDAs and an army of lawyers), so you don't hear about it, and thus assume it's uncommon.

Corporate unethical bullshit is an iceberg. You will never see the vast majority of it.
Rather than abolish curbside parking...reserve more of it for specific uses. Every block should have at least one space dedicated to delivery, one for services like maintenance/repair workers, another for drop-off, another for municipal/emergency. Allow standing and active loading/unloading in all but the emergency spaces.

Also, we should not subsidize parking for private individuals (ie none of the uses above) in any way, shape, or form.
That's an interesting idea.

Are llama.cpp (and similar targets) made into standalone C++ source files without dependencies doing the heavy lifting?
But as long as the people who are victimized first are unsympathetic, no one's going to complain about it. They were rednecks and vaccine deniers and white supremacists and blue collar workers, all the sorts of people who are bad.

Thus, doing this to them was justified and good. Meaning the government should have such powers.

If only there were some sort of clever computer algorithm that could create a money system that no one can track of block.
What? Nobody is defending their jobs here. It’s explaining how non-trivial this is. What is the point of your comment? If you wanted pure token to money amount and are too lazy to calculate it your self use the tool in the link. That’s not how the real world even with an LLM will work. Let’s assume the LLM writes everything, even gpt4 won’t get everything in 1 go now. Requirements of software are hard to put into pure English… why write this snarky message. Adds nothing to the conversation.
You’re not alone! I had developed a habit of cleaning downloads and files since storage was somewhat scarce when I started using PCs in the 90s. Now it’s so cheap that I will simply delete very large files, then name the folder yyyy-mm-dump and place it with others in a backup folder somewhere. If I ever have to recove disk space I will glance over and delete it then, but more often it has been more valuable to dig up some meme or image.
std::integral was added in C++20 , so this example will only work in C++20. Weird that the author used this example.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/concepts/integral
Due to limited infrastructure resourcess, water and utility companies are a near monopoly which is why they need these types of regulations. There is no physical limitations to the number of possible payment processors so the actual fix is more competition and more companies. No need for neutrality regulations when you have thousands of companies competing.
> I hope they don't mean to imply you can't assign individual ringtones to contacts on stock Android?

You can do that.
A similar problem comes up in digital design. Behaviour is often specified in terms of exhaustive truth tables, perhaps tables that were generated automatically, from a hardware description language. While such a table can be directly translated into a circuit, doing so in a naive fashion is potentially extremely non-optimal. Optimizing it is a hard problem. Everything has been tried, from exhaustive search (suitable only for small numbers of terms), to rule-based fuzzy backtracking searches, to in recent years, deep learning. But at least when I was in school a couple decades ago, the best known algorithm was still a person playing with the terms on graph paper, rearranging them until patterns emerged: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnaugh_map

As I understand it, there are recent advances in SAT solvers giving practical algorithms for much larger numbers of terms, but I'm much behind the state of the art at this point.
For those who may have been confused, The Texan[1] is not to be confused with The Daily Texan[2]. For a moment I was cheering to see the student paper on the front page of HN. Alas.

[1] https://thetexan.news
[2] https://thedailytexan.com
Banning people from stupid, harmless stuff is bad news though?

It annoys me too to see DEI people make stacks off of weaponized bullshit while us engineers keep the lights on, but that's a free business transaction. Why should the state be involved?
Worst offender for me is when I can't access the implementation by just clicking on the type or variable, because it is an interface.

For example with dependency injection in languages where devs put Interfaces in constructors and some magic injects the Class that satisfies that Interface at runtime. When you click the type or variable, the IDE opens the Interface file which is just a bunch of function signatures, no implementation. It's infuriating when all you want is to see some concrete code. You just want to see exactly what code is being executed and then carry on with your day.

I get the benefits of dependency injection but most of the times a single class implements that interface and yet i'm forced to scavenge the code to find it. I also know some tooling is powerful enough to list the Classes that satisfy that Interface. But it's not perfect and it's still a layer of indirection adding to my cognitive load.