skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you can still read K&R in one day and keep most of the language in your head

People who say this somewhat perplex me. Yes you can get the syntax of the language down in a day, but that does little to stop you from running into your first Bus Error or Segmentation Fault within the first 30 minutes of trying to write any software, not to mention all the hidden errors/exploits you've put in your code that are only a platform switch or a compiler version change away from being found explosively. And you can completely forget trying to write a multithreaded C application, which basically confines you to very slow single-threaded code, completely tanking performance versus even the slowest dynamic language that supports multithreading, erasing any advantage for using C.

This is not a personal attack but when I have to try to come up with an assumed background for people who say this it usually involves some assumptions that the person isn't keeping in touch with the "real world" of some sort. I have trouble rationalizing it otherwise. Thus I'll usually ask what their background is when they say this to try to make sense of things.

The only places C is still the optimal choice is where C is already being used or in extreme platforms where there aren't good toolchains (various ASICs/rare 8bit microprocessors). There's zero reason to use it otherwise.

> the pain points cough macros are still often pain points in Rust.

Hygenic syntax checked macros are an entirely different animal than just string insertion/substition macros. I don't think this comparison is fair.
I think if we want to talk about the actual value of messy human processes, you're on the nose. The problem is that large, entrenched industries can function using a distorted, rationalized model for a lot longer than any of us can afford to just wait around.
You don't? Where do you keep your driver's license, credit cards, etc? I don't have a full bifold/trifold, but do have a small card holder for IDs and CCs.

And then there's the passport and any other important documentation. That stuff is pretty much always in either my carry-on or a jacket pocket (which is usually also in the overhead).

Yeah, keeping my cell on my person probably avoids 80%-90% of the annoyance, but you aren't getting through customs or security without a physical ID in most places.
It's a crutch to minimize the user annoyance at having to wait up to a minute for the response. It sure beats the spinner but it's still a crutch.
I'm sure some indie studios will sign whatever, but as soon as a large studio uses an public model Steam will have to roll over on this one.
Musk wasn't the one to propose VTVL for SpaceX, he originally wanted parachutes.
Startup idea: Canadian news, but based on US based website.
If you have an offer in hand you have some power, you can take it or not. If they want you to work on a take home project for 40 hours that's one thing, but if the interview is reasonable to do you should do it.
The entire network stack and the whole OSI concept is awful... The way DNS and TLS and certs are done kind of sucks, ARP is pretty insane... not much in networking is all that nice, there's not really any piece of it that is as awesome as something like a nice Python library.

Encryption could have been IP layer, DNS could have always been secure, certificates don't need to exist if IP addresses and DNS were secure by themselves, separate IP and MAC addresses might not really be needed ...

But the fact that there is a global standard internet protocol is amazing!
Yeah, it doesn't look like they asked every single individual Canadian what they wanted. But here are the details for what was driving this.

https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/fair-re...
I see this as the distinction between computer programming and software engineering.
Do you think this ruling will help or hurt people who identify as Hispanic?
If I'm not willing to pay for a paywall then the "best" content is not behind a paywall, because I won't read it.

My definition of "best" includes my ability to actually read the content under my terms.
Nothing more dangerous than a bored committer.
As a Canadian, I feel like this is terrible news. From a web publisher point of view, I do agree that Google is going to far sometimes by embeding the content directly in the SERP. They take it so far that most of the time you don’t even need to click on the article to get the summary.
Funny enough, Japanese is incredibly fun and enjoyable when you use dialects and break the syntax to be "artsy"
Yeah, I saw that quoted part, although, I suspect that if I show up with a bunch of AI assets that I can prove are 100% mine, then the reviewer is likely to error on the side of Valve not being sued.

Meanwhile, AAA blockbuster studio will almost definitely be given a pass with a wink and a handshake after saying, "Hey if anyone figures it out, we'll take the blame." For using assets that throw up multiple red flags.
There's no imbalance here: newspapers produce content, search engines/social networks surface and link to it.

What's happening here is that publishers and their owners somehow figured these pesky internet wiz kids owe them more money.
It definitely was.

During that time I was earning almost 2000 euros, in a time where earning above 1000 euros was a dream for many Portuguese.

Wasting money on CDs, theatre, going out, travelling, first time I managed to buy a desktop PC without being on credit,....

Then came the dot-com crash.
And some non-public-domain images of their own.

> The current Firefly generative AI model is trained on a dataset of Adobe Stock, along with openly licensed work and public domain content where copyright has expired.
BlackRock 2023 Midyear Outlook [pdf]
Well, BR & fidelity want to boost their revenues. Their revenue is commission on the trade. they don't care that they are trading as long as they get their commission.
It’s not only if it enters the body but also how, for example inhaling aspartame can be very different to ingesting it.
Some places (e.g. around the Aegan) white roofs to mitigate the heat is more the norm. Seems like common sense (and basic physics). I wonder where/why "I'm going to cover my roof with black, tar-based products and complain about the heat" became a best practice for housing (at least in the US).
It's a good answer, but it raises further questions:

• Should we be destroying people's homes to build dams without their consent?

• In general, are people being compensated when these things happen to them? i.e., while it might be nice, does this actually happen?

The Luddites (the real ones, not the mythological bastardisation of them) continue to be sympathetic characters.
Build and deploy static websites with Caddy (2018)
I am hesitant to wade in here. I am not asserting anything about the actual study, but just observing this thread.

You seem to be ignoring the earlier statistical complaint by the other poster. They are implying a null hypothesis where names signal socioeconomic status and discrimination may be on that status rather than race.

To test for this, you cannot start with unequally characterized populations (black and white) and compare equally popular names from each population. You need to first stratify by socioeconomic status and then draw popular names from equivalent sub-populations. E.g. equally popular black and white names among babies born to households with lowest quintile income and high school as the parents' terminal degrees; equally popular black and white names among babies born to households of middle quintile income and 4-year college degrees; etc.
I don't need physical ID to get into the UK or EU? That's news to me.

And expecting ApplePay to be available everywhere? That's such a laughably US-centric (or maybe EU-centric) worldview.
Journalism startups. There have been some.

- Contentville. Whatever happened to that?

- Brill's Content? Started by the heir to a streetcar manufacturing company.

- Vice Media is in bankruptcy and about to be sold.

- Gawker - crushed by Peter Thiel.

Any big successes?
Yes, as long as they have an opportunity to make money, they will leverage it.
> The people that control our media and telecommunications in Canada could fit in a compact car.

Spot on. In Canada it's about the handful of the oligarchs who have control over almost everything. It has nothing to do with the average plebs
They wanted to move to Texas, but unfortunately Texas hates electricity.
> edit: I will stand by my comment. Lets see how many 70's and 80s era houses last until 2040.

2040 is only 17 years away! Houses from the 1970's and 1980's are selling for top dollar today in suburbs all over North America, if the expected life spans of those structures were only 17 years they'd be worthless.

Where I am from the late 60's and early 70's homes are the worst quality ones on the markets, really a terrible time for home building. The issues are all foundations, plumbing, and wiring.
And that's what I mean. The idea is there, and they have all your location data, but the feature is not polished, it's inconsistent, and not reliable, so it might as well not exist.
Traffic is generated by the content which is not free (most of the time) to produce. Google without content is what except an empty library?

I'm not sure why people here are defending GOOG so much.
If you wanted to get into full stack dev or something, the answer would be obvious - do a project, apply, get job because you know the fundamentals.

If you are trying to get into something specific like graphics, I imagine the formula is the same, but probably with much lower likelihood of success.
Should be able to rig up a noise emitter into the line that can work without suffering from the noise yourself.
JPEG I believe
"down" could be a good name for a python image library plugin/extension.

https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow
This has already been posted several times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36505733

and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36486486

and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36477850
sometimes i miss days of kde/gnome and qt/gtk discussions on slashdot. good times.
Well said, Jacques
I'm no expert on all the details, but I found you can use (at least with tokio) runtime.block_on() to call async (sqlx) code from non-async (my) code. Ctrl-F to see my other comment about block_on, here.
I mean, I use JS in CSS daily at work (really CSS in JS). Just not through .css files
The FCC generally allows stations that share ownership to use the same callsign for TV, FM, and AM. Not always in the same area either; KCBS-AM is in San Francisco, while KCBS-FM and KCBS-TV are in Los Angeles. Additionally, stations are allowed to keep their call sign when ownership changes, so even though KCBS-FM and AM are no longer owned by the owners of KCBS-FM, they have chosen to keep the same call signs.
I'm not sure being good at journalism translates into being good at investing in a media startup.
Because many of them are "struggling with obesity"
How is that an "on the otherhand" though.

1. School systems treat teachers like crap

2. School systems force teachers to live like farm housewives from 150 years ago

Those two points don't contradict each other. Seems like the second one just emphasizes the first.
If you are bidding on a pay per click basis, typically your bid will be adjusted to expected revenue based on the probability someone actually clicks on your ad. For CPM ads this probably doesn't apply.

This is not for open web exchanges, referring more to stuff like adwords, facebook, etc.
The state of journalism is where Joe Rogan or whatever podcast is a step forward and refreshing.

There's a reason people prefer listening to the guest to speak instead of being taught to think and live by white journo women.
They cannot do that. The law forbids discriminating against any Canadian news business. If they link to news sites that don't demand payment but won't link to ones that want to be paid, it'd be viewed as retaliation.

The only options are to accept the rigged negotiation process and pay all news business vastly inflated rates, or to link to none of them.
Each database is used because of its strengths, and the complexity is not that high as it seems to be :)
Maybe try the to [1] and sqlp [2] commands from the qsv fork. From the README:

sqlp: Run blazing-fast Polars SQL queries against several CSVs - converting queries to fast LazyFrame expressions, processing larger than memory CSV files.

to: Convert CSV files to PostgreSQL, SQLite, XLSX, Parquet and Data Package.

[1] https://github.com/jqnatividad/qsv/blob/master/src/cmd/sqlp....

[2] https://github.com/jqnatividad/qsv/blob/master/src/cmd/to.rs...
it's not doing that, it has generated a dictionary with some values

presumably to be used later to lookup words (crap approach, but it's an LLM, what do you expect)

but it didn't bother to write any code, it's just data

(plus it even managed to screw up the dictionary with double braces)
>Technology will advance such that basic "truths" will be verifiable

With the way the world is rushing headfirst into lying LLMs and holding them up as gospel. I don't quite see the world going your way.
It's not the same issue, versioning is also a problem with D, minor releases shouldn't introduce breaking changes

The linked thread specifically complains about that, and the OP request for a LTS version
Anitrust actions do not require the presence of a monopoly.

Rather, they addresses situations where companies unreasonably exert power to lessen competition.

The idea is to prevent monopolies from forming in the first place.
I will always love KDE! When I first used it, I said to myself, "How is this free!?"

I was surprised to see how a free software organization made a much better software than a trillion dollar corpo.

I just wish they had enough resources. KDE is the hope for the future of free software. I hope Valve can help them become mainstream. Just waiting for the day a big corpo will appear and make Linux compete with macOS and Apple's hardware directly.
I can’t help but laugh a bit at the absurdity of this thread. It’s like the “learn to code” meme but way more stupid. Or “why don’t poor people just take money out of their trust fund?”.
Other posts covered the details. Similar to the airport codes, just national instead of international...

WRC-TV - NBC Washington

similar to...

KIAD - Dulles International
More info: https://defector.com/defector-annual-report-year-two

Interesting that they have a rev share with their development vendor, and rely on that vendor for all engineering and product.
Originally W was supposed to be for the West side, but there was a bureaucratic screw up and they were switched.

As for why K and W, nobody is sure why those two letters, but it might be related to Morse code.
regardless of legality: the odds are games with AI generated materials are going to be much lower quality

(shovelware)
Then Google would probably get antitrust complaints from including their own news but not competitors' news sites.
I agree that opportunity is a spectrum but I disagree that it's inherited in our country because I disagree with your definition of opportunity. It's a spectrum in the sense that people can succeed regardless of societal prejudice or discriminatory laws, even though they'd have more opportunity if that prejudice didn't exist. Equal opportunity does not necessitate an equal outcome, nor does it imply it.

Immigrants don't have the opportunity to become president of the US because of US law, but any natural-born citizen of the country does have that opportunity regardless of the likelihood. The US has always had immigrants achieve boundless success here which is why it was considered the land of opportunity, not because everyone did - or because it was 'fair', but because it was possible.
> Many people still pirate sounds, but skeptic listeners will sometimes ask musicians to show off their project files

And the musicians comply? Weird.
California gave birth to these companies, and has been, and remains one of our nations’s primary economic engines, despite the shenanigans of a few attention-seeking public figures…
> the faster you go, the slower your proper time appears to an external observer

From my perspective, it takes about 8 minutes for a photon from the sun to hit my eye. From the perspective of the photon, a little time has passed, no? Doesn't the atmosphere and passing through my glasses slow it down a wee bit? Can the photon "know" that its position has changed between emission and absorption? From the photons point of view, I must be very, very close to the sun, right?
I think the "rock star" analogy did more damage to our profession than most care to admit. Rock stars get treated a certain way, they are catered to, their egos might get fluffed up, etc. None of those behaviors are compatible with working in software teams, and none of the "best" developers I know want to be treated that way, anyhow.

That said, I think this article is essentially correct. I would put it like this: building information machines out of pure information is a creative endeavor. Human performance tends to fall on a bell curve, and IMO it's true for developer output in particular. So if you want to create a hugely valuable solution to a big problem, you should probably hire the best people you can find and organize them in a way that lets them max out their creative power.

The main obstacle to this IMO is poor leadership attitudes & practices. This article's author said it best in another post:

"Boring" is a good strategy if you think the bigger existential risk for your company is that Product & Engineering will [...] fail to ship a reliable product on a reliable schedule. But if you're more afraid of the business risks of shipping average product, at an average cadence, over the course of years, you should consider deviating, at least sometimes, from the playbook whose entire definition is "optimized for safety."

https://morepablo.com/2022/04/against-boring.html
> At least its equitable (based on value of output), ofc there are legacy issues as well.

It's not. By definition, it's based on control of capital. That's why it's called capitalism. In other words, those aren't "legacy" issues; they are literally the system as designed.
If you pick base 2 for the then log2(10000) is about 13. So if you are a constant factor of >13 faster for the work that dominates, the n*log(n) will be faster.

Slightly OT:

I remember in my algorithms class we used to joke that log(log(N)) was the same as a constant factor of 5 (in the 64-bit era, perhaps we should say 6).
Soon they will be auto-generated with ChatGPT from reddit threads...
I assume you are trying to break into the game industry?

I applied as a intern and a tool developer once at two pretty famous AAA studios (due to friends, both actually didnt work out) and trust me when I say the bar is MUCH higher than a average backend job.

I do not want to discourage you, but if you have zero credits on MobyGames expect that they DO want to see proof that you can develop something like a fully working game engine from scratch (which means you understand the base concepts of game system development). Also, any proof of handson experience optimizing code for modern consoles which nowadays amount to Playstation 4, Playstation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series S/X will probably be a huge plus.

If you can't show any of those things I am afraid most, if not all, studios will not be interested.
You'd be surprised how often those pages are updated manually. By the person on call who has other things to take care of first.
Yeah I wanted to mention Euromaidan and Russia increasing its general hostile activity on the internet (overstated in the wake of the 2016 election? Yes. Literally something that verifiably happened with eg various Facebook groups for divisive political issues run by Russians acting on behalf of their government? Also yes). I do think Euromaidan was partially the root cause as it woke Russia up to the possibility that the internet could be used to destabilize its various client states as in Euromaidan or its rivals like the US.

But a lot of people will debate the actual overall influence of that vs it being a scapegoat used to delegitimize the right wing surge at the time; undeniably even if the right wing surge/political divisiveness trend was aided by Russian activity, it was still real people who engaged with it online and voted for the right wing causes.
xkcd 1053 aside, the quality of submissions to HN has been declining for a while now, which is a shame.
I let my prime membership lapse last year and I barely notice the difference. I stopped shopping there as much and started queuing things up into batches to meet the free shipping without prime threshold. Now that threshold seems to be zero, I still get free shipping on everything. It takes a little bit longer, like 1-2 days, sometimes, that's it.
LLMs don't memorize and reuse. They don't really have a memory of any kind. I think the problem is they're more different from human learning than you think.
There was some reason why that wasn't working, perhaps that the email was also old and I didn't have access.
> But poor white people are poor for a reason other than the color of the skin of themselves and their ancestors.

Maybe they were discriminated against because they were Irish 100 years ago, or Italian 70 years ago, neither of which were considered "white" at the time either. I'm sure we can play this grievance game back to the first humans, but I'm not sure what that would accomplish.

The question you have to ask yourself is: is it more important to help people who are suffering right now, regardless of their race or ethnicity, or is it more important to try and fail to solve some nebulous, poorly understood "inherited grievance" problem.
Humans Living on Mars May Not Be Human for Long
What I mean is that a lot of traditional journalistic outfits have been teetering toward bankruptcy in recent years/decades.

While there are successes, the total size of the industry has been declining.
There's threads of a few interesting ideas in here, unfortunately the presentation teed them up for the current cultural mythos to obliterate them.

A number of years ago, the uptight cultural conformity of the valley bubble branded itself with some of the imagery the author attempts to borrow. The collective consciousness hasn't forgotten how that image was power-blasted away. It was done as cover to sneak in a bunch of orthogonal changes while nobody was looking, but that part's neither here nor there. Forget I even mentioned it. The end result is that we're here now and we have the tools to evaporate this article with one shot at 50 paces.
Do you think being an African American hurt Barak Obama's chance to be the Democratic nominee for President? Or to be elected President?

To answer my own question - it's complicated; it did hurt him in some regards but it helped him too. There were a lot of people in the primary and general election who wanted to know they weren't prejudiced and voted for him at least in part for that reason.

This wasn't legal affirmative action. It was something else. I don't know if I'd call it an "unfair right" but for the right person in the right circumstance it can be an advantage. Does it out weigh all the disadvantages? Probably not.
Google and Microsoft have the resources and market penetration to create a Western WeChat, but these companies are too fragmented internally, so their various teams will never be able to work together to pull it off.

Apple will probably be the one creating something like a "super ecosystem", but reserved for Apple users of course.

I can't imagine any other company pulling it off. Amazon could but its reputation seems so bad lately that I doubt people would jump in. So I find it incredibly hard to believe that a true "Western WeChat" could emerge any time soon.