skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a document that describes these? I've seen them mentioned before as one of the superpowers of Sam, but I've never seen a clear explanation of them for someone who isn't already a Sam user. I have no real intention of ever using or trying Sam as my daily text editor for a handful of reasons, but I am interested in new paradigms and tools for working with code.
And that's exactly proof of how immensely far left Germany's politics have shifted. In absolute terms, the AFD is a left leaning party. They still support "immigration" for example.
If I had to guess, the next "website" will be AI-driven avatars that you can talk with over text (chatbots), calling to speak with them (voice-enabled chatbots), by inviting them into your home (AR), or by visiting them in their "home" (VR).

I believe the era of documents (print or digital; brochures or websites) as the dominant form of information exchange is going to go away.

I'm not sure that's dystopian, though. Sounds kinda neat to me.
For competitive students, private universities often are substantially cheaper than their state institutions.

And the benefits are growing. Duke, for example, will waive tuition for all students from NC and SC whose families earn less than $150k. Automatic Room and board and supply support kicks in at $65k. Davidson was one of the first, but a lot of schools don't include loans in their aid packages any more*.

These aren't special named scholarships either! These are automatic benefits to all admitted students. If the school wants a particular student, there are extra pots of discretionary money available as scholarships, prizes, etc.

If you're in the top 10% of your HS class and you can afford to leave home and study full-time for a few years, you really should swing for the fences. The best private schools tend to have higher 4-year graduation rates, so you win coming (out of pocket) and going (opportunity cost).

*) Middle-income houses probably need to take out loans to match their obligation.

**) Me: Public HS, Private BS, Public PhD
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> Why do you need to have a constant "perception" of government outside of election day?

Because you leave yourself more susceptible to recency bias, and the prevailing media narrative on election day rather than continually evaluating the actions politicians take in real-time with proper context, evaluating the raw facts for yourself.
People generally don’t make a lot of noise very early or very late so I don’t find it any more disruptive than the train I can hear tooting it’s horn as it crosses town.

A lot of the mowers etc are turning over to electric so the cacaphony of weekend 2 strikes is fading away
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I should say, the above response is with respect to ops for landed Mars missions, during the surface phase. I haven't been involved with ops for missions in deep space orbit or coast (& Entry Descent and Landing), lunar missions, etc. in which more of a real-time-ish paradigm is possible, so I don't know how that works.
And let's not even pretend race doesn't factor into this. The reason so many Asian students excel is that they're the children of (reasonably) high status immigrants. Even if the wealth in the country of origin doesn't directly translate, the social status still carries over. Likewise the reason so many Black students underperform or only gain access via Affirmative Action is that they largely originate in families of lower social status with little access to education, carried over ultimately from slavery but more directly a familial legacy pruned by centuries of racism.

Social mobility is not universally seen as a good thing by everyone in society. Specifically to those at the top of the social hierarchy it can be a threat because a wide gap and inequality helps maintain a position of power: if everyone has equal power, noone does.

So it's silly to expect elite universities to follow a broader economic incentive when it comes to who gets in, who graduates and who receives preferrential treatment. There are certainly economic factors at play but ultimately the entire system is heavily built around nepotism (which in this case is hardly a modern invention given that universities used to be very much run by and for the hiearchial elites of society). Sure, the more direct incentives may be financial (e.g. donations) but ultimately power and hierarchies are a better lens than the economist one of the article if you want to make sense of this.
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Foundry is doing a nice job bringing functions in LLM apps to life. That's something I am also working on with Lemon AI functions. Besides that, to me it seems that it’s focused on read operations for web-based services. What I’m building is focused on allowing for read and write operations, both for internal tooling and web services to allow agents to take actions based on instructions. I’m essentially focussing on helping Langchain users to establish end-to-end workflow automation as quickly as possible. Going forward permission workflows will be covered as well so assistants can be team / user specific, something that I believe isn’t solved well by Zapier NLA right now.
> It's the same as using Puppet or Ansible to modify a running VM, to "fix" the VM in place. This is a laborious and error-prone process which requires a great deal of investment in the Configuration Management - essentially writing programs just to tell the system where each file should be.

This doesn't track with my experience. Tools like terraform can be used in such a way that, instead of running an apply to update a resource in place, a change to the machine configuration would result in a deletion/new instance being spun up. Some operations are mutations, like updating the name of a security group for instance. But updating a host's configuration should be done by updating user data and creating a new instance, though it's true terraform offers the ability to perform the update either way.
Which is no different from being tied to a particular computer. Why do you think it's not analogous?
NIMBY has a strong tradition in Germany.
For real - no more theming Gnome?

I haven't used it for a few years, but custom themes and styles is one of the key features for a customisable desktop environment and was half the fun from using something like Gnome or KDE now that Windows makes it hard and macOS makes it impossible.

Googling shows that as recently as 2022 there are articles on using themes. Is this a very recent change?
I had the same experience with the Nintendo Switch. I'm not a gamer at all and don't really care for graphics.

As the Switch runs on pretty standard but outdated hardware, every game studio will basically port yesteryears games to it to squeeze some final bucks out of them. Meaning I can enjoy those games on the cheap ($10-30 mostly).
Check out Computer Wars by Ferguson for probably a better version of that.

The Ferguson book sent me down a lot of historical rabbit holes that didn't have wikipedia pages yet and I had to pull up things on like newspapers.com or archive.org to find out more information.

No shade on Cringley though, it's a fine book.
Interesting article. While I agree that AI is unable to and cannot replace programmers, I do think that good AI-powered products can aid developers.

A strong Ai-powered product, like Pullpo.io Insights (https://pullpo.io/products/metrics) can catch bugs before they even happen by consistently keeping track of team metrics and making data-driven decisions on how to solve bottlenecks ASAP.

While AI can't create software, it can help. Pullpo also has ephermal PR channels (https://pullpo.io/products/channels) that allows for code review on Slack and overall, clear communication. This clears up the problem of unclear requirements because members can communicate effectively. A good AI-powered tool like this one is certainly agile.
Have you looked for online courses? Here are a few of the books I'd go through around computers, but are you thinking more extensive history of "technology?" Like how we've grown from printing press as innovation?

Soul of a New Machine is a great non-fiction but reads like a fiction account of trying to overtake the Vax by building one of the first 32-bit machines https://www.amazon.com/Soul-New-Machine-Tracy-Kidder/dp/0316...

A Biography of the Pixel https://www.amazon.com/Biography-Pixel-Leonardo-Alvy-Smith/d... great overview of the innovation and math that pushed graphics forwrard

The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood https://www.amazon.com/Information-History-Theory-Flood/dp/1... walks through information theory and how we got to the internet

Dealers of lightning: https://www.amazon.com/Dealers-of-Lightning-audiobook/dp/B00... how a lot of modenr computing grew out of Xerox
I'm not denying that, but you are ignoring the fact that Google would open that booth at a LOT of public schools as well. Just off the top of my head - UC Berkeley, UCLA, Mich, Iowa State, UIUC, UW, UW Madison, UCSB, Oregon State, UMass Amherst, etc.

And honestly, I really don't think you understand how hiring whas changed at a traditional corporation.

For management track roles, these companies (eg. Danaher, Abbvie, P&G, Coca Cola) would hire undergrads from regional schools for management track LDP programs.

Traditionally (aka the 70s and 80s) they would recruit from Ivies only, but that basically ended by the 2000s when they saw they couldn't compete on the package.
Thanks, I will do that. I do think that a backup service being down for 12-24 hours is pretty critical information that shouldn't require an opt-in though.
If you've never seen this video you owe it to your self to watch it. It really I think captures the essence of systems thinking.
IPv4 didn't provide a variable-length header, so the number of address bits is fixed. Any extension to add more addresses is inherently going to break interoperability.
Q: What happens when output from LLMs start feeding back into training new LLMs?

A: A self degrading BS feedback loop leading to eventual collapse of reliability.

It will take as much time and effort to verify output from a LLM as it does to do the research/legwork yourself.

Maybe more because you'll now have to filter out and reject all the plausible sounding BS created by LLMs.
Yes it is part of the equation. Probably need to invent better concrete or a new concept first.

But even more the way this has been handled, or rather not handled. There is so much that can fail. All in all I doubt it will happen soon.

I remember a few years ago, SpaceX was selling seats for the mars mission. But maybe that’s just the Elon-way of doing things.
> Audrey's busy being a minister in Taiwan's government so generally not easy for me to consult these days.

That must be quite a timesink lol :)

> Ok, I do actually have a hilariously awful trick that manages to wrap DynaLoader to read from a Base64 encoded .so that's inlined into the fatpack but that was more a "wondering if I could" thing than something I've ever felt the urge to actually use in anger so I've (so far) resisted the siren song of CPANing it anyway because people have an unfortunate tendency to forget that I, too, release things that are terrible ideas sometimes.

Actually, I think that could be a great idea for cosmopolitan binaries!

Right now, you have to recompile perl to add the XS you want, and some don't work yet: it all depends on the build tool for the XS module being supported

So could you please tell me more about your trick? (or just link to it, I kinda get the idea but an actual example might help)

> APPerl sounds like it could be awesome

It already is: the perl.com binary is a polyglot zip file, where you can fatpack perl scripts by appending them to the zip file

If you've got 5 min, run perlplebean.com: just be careful, as by default I expose your filesystem for http requests.
Just comment out that part if you don't like it (it's meant to make people check and tweak the source)

> APPerl definitely wants to write to a non-noexec filesystem

Yes, perl.com has to be executable :)

But on Linux, you may be able to use ld-loader to run it (like how a .sh script on a nonexec fs can be run as `sh -c file.sh`)

> Either way, thank you very much for pointing out APPerl's existence to me. Even if I don't end up using it myself, having it in my mental index of available crazy things will almost certainly eventually result in my suggesting it to somebody else who'll find it the least insane way of getting the results they need :D

Sure, feel free to get in touch at my nick at outlook.com!

It's a bit strange for me to dig into perl now, while it was "current" more like 20 years ago, but I just love it!
how do you navigate picking the right level of specs for "Desired next state" to me that's hard in personal projects for instance you can choose for a variety of topics then have to decide how deep you get into each.

I guess I'm asking if you have a heuristic for what's a good enough desired next state.
Far too late to edit now but I'd note that Future::AsyncAwait is implemented using only public APIs - it adds the keywords using the pluggable keyword API that was added in 5.14 and 5.16 (though while code written against the 5.14 version continues to work AFAIK given we're on verion 38 of perl5 now I wouldn't bother even looking at it except out of historical curiosity).

So, basically, adding new keywords to perl via CPAN is a first class citizen and has been for over a decade now and we've gotten pretty good at it in that time (see also http://p3rl.org/Object::Pad - which has acted as a proving ground for a lot of the ideas that have gone into Cor - for another good example) and while I wouldn't at all object to F::AA eventually migrating into being a core feature, from a user POV it would just mean a slightly different 'use' line and maybe a few percentage points' speedup.

As such, I personally believe that while I understand that some environments have unfortunate issues with having dependencies, every other reason I've heard articulated for treating a keyword module as an inferior bolt-on as compared to a core keyword has proven unsupported in actual use.

Generally I code to (a) core perl only, mostly for one-liners embedded in shell scripts and occasionally for really small stuff, (b) pure perl dependencies only so I can easily deploy a single file with App::FatPacker or no file at all with Object::Remote, and (c) this project is best done using XS stuff and I'm willing to accept the trade-offs.

I'd note that Future::AsyncAwait itself sits in an interesting middle-ground because with a little help from my http://p3rl.org/Babble source transformer (needs more documentation though the current release manager has improved a lot of things over the 'just enough to do what I needed at the time' I originally released) I wrote http://p3rl.org/PerlX::AsyncAwait which rewrites most F::AA using code successfully to pure perl for fatpacking, at the cost of you ending up with an implementation that's mildly bizarre at first look and will be substantially slower on microbenchmarks.

(I say 'most' because I presume there's at least one bug and I'm certain that F::AA has added support for additional perl syntax constructs since that I've not gotten around to going back and adding yet, but so far in the situations where I want a fatpacked async/await using script badly enough PerlX::AsyncAwait has worked well -enough- overall that I've yet to feel the need to give it an overhaul even if I'm happy to admit it would probably benefit from one)
That's so great. Thank you for sharing it.
One of the things that is fascinating about America is that their obsession with race draws attention away from Class. The value of getting into Harvard- sure, you'll get a good education. You might even get a great education! But what you're also going to get is membership of a club that is going to offer you opportunities for the rest of your life.

Once you view it that way then changing the composition of the elite universities takes on a completely different perspective. Because if you break that old boys club, suddenly access to great job opportunities and high political office become 1000x more meritocratic.

Do we really think that Harvard and Yale have such a fantastic admissions process that they managed to spot and select every single future Supreme Court Justice at the age of 20? No don't be silly. Instead Harvard and Yale have created an environment where every single step through your career as a Harvard grad there's a helping hand for you. And the role of Harvard is to zealously nurture this in-group, because that's what creates their value, and the core of that is legacy admissions.
I can't agree: Twitter was never great but now it's a complete mess. The ads are worse than they've ever been— almost always some "As Seen on TV"-tier of plastic garbage or dumb crypto scams, features are breaking left and right (DMs aren't getting delivered, and notifications are sporadic at best) and the people paying to be at the top of my replies are inevitably the most insipid shitheads the web can produce. While I dislike "Block the Blue" on philosophical grounds, the fact is it's the only way to keep the site barely usable.

Even though Elon may not have had typical private equity goals in mind when buying Twitter, it does feel like a classic PE purchase where it has already been decided that the target is not worth investing in, and the new game is to wring as much value as possible from its walking corpse before tossing it in the trash.
Ethical Ads (https://www.ethicalads.io/) looks interesting, wish there were more ad-tech companies like this. Would love one focused on the travel niche.
(2021)

Conversation from then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26240354
Or alternatively, stop supporting user hostile sites and take this opportunity to break your addiction. Touch some grass, so to speak.
Right? We walk on a big loop road, and my dog always poops parallel to the road, regardless of which direction the road is heading in that location.
In terms of logical analysis, the statements present a mixture of subjective claims, hypothetical scenarios, and value judgments. Some of the statements are opinion-based and lack objective evidence or logical proofs. Additionally, the argumentation is not entirely coherent, as there are shifts in the discussion from personal control over consumption to the scenario of a prison hunger strike.

Overall, the logic within this statement is subjective and reliant on hypothetical scenarios and personal judgments, making it difficult to evaluate the validity of the argument objectively.
I've used Twitter for a while also. I'm more neutral on the changes. Twitter feels a bit more fresh, but the For You page for me feels more like the Trump Election style FB algo where most posts are either:

1. Edgy flame bait hot takes on an issue that will get people worked up

2. Someone saying something slightly wrong because they'll get more comments from people rushing to correct them

3. Professional quote-tweeters who will post a maybe witty take on #1 or #2

(maybe this is 99% of social media in general?)

There's still some alpha in the posts and I love the random accounts which drop info and niche insights faster than you can find anywhere else.

Outside of that, it feels more like I'm wasting time on nonsense. I'm not much of a fan of the alternatives, though and mainly use them to track a few people who moved off of Twitter.
Weirdly viewing tweets without being logged in started working for me again today. Who really knows though: I feel like every time I get linked a tweet I'll get a different weird experience when I try to view it, so who knows what will happen tomorrow.
Thanks, I'll see if I can get this to load. I was sort of hoping to see static website output. "Doesn't load" is a fairly high barrier.
Definitely not serious, but super fun: "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
This narrative is so stupid, Mars will never be more inhabitable the Earth.
There was a very good article on HN about how nuclear reactors only seem to have gotten harder to plan and execute in Western countries since the 1980s due to ever-increasing regulations. Building a nuclear reactor doesn't have to take decades.
This is path dependency though. They got into Google because they went to MIT and they'll get their next job because they were at Google and so on. Sure, you could have gone to some terrible college and then ended up at Google, but that's a much more difficult path to break into.
RSI Megademo. Lovely.
The article focuses on macro-level construction techniques and materials.

As an American, the thing I find most unnerving is the low standard of workmanship and materials in 21st century homes of middle-class neighborhoods. Incompetent installation of plumbing, electrical, and HVAC lead to all sorts of problems for the homeowner soon after purchase. Finish materials -- even safety critical ones like railings and bannisters -- are the cheapest possible and need replacing within the first decade of ownership. "Builder-grade" means "barely serviceable."

I bought a house built in the late 1970's -- late enough that there's no lead or asbestos, but early enough that material quality and construction was still decent. The cabinets are original and look new. The trim material throughout is all real wood. It was hit by a tornado before I was born and everything is still solid.

A friend has bought several "newer" houses and is always complaining about how nothing works right and is always breaking. I suggested he look into an older home, but he was priced out in his town. He also was unwilling to exchange home size for build quality like I was.

I'm told that if you hire custom builders you can get better craftsmanship and materials, but it's unclear if good build quality is actually reflected at sale time.
There is something freeing about acknowledging you don't need to have an opinion and something enlightening about knowing you shouldn't have an opinion--especially on a topic that you aren't truly informed about.
I'd consider becoming a Walmart greeter, but there is no Walmart near me.

So I guess I may have to start selling drugs or robbing banks.
That it’s this easy to get around the login ban shows how poorly executed and hastily planned this was.

I imagine it will be rolled-back in the next week as it becomes clear to advertisers how much lower value tweets are
I’ve seen one of these as well, in the hands of a state employee, exactly as you describe. There should be a word for the mass-produced normalization of superstition. Ouijification?
People don't live near rail stations because we have been subsidizing cars for fifty years while letting the rail network crumble.
Because it's not cancel culture when the reason you got fired is work-related.
You know, I don't want to agree with you but I don't think you're wrong either. I personally saw a couple of more notable Twitter personalities briefly engage with Mastodon back during the November wave, then go back to Twitter only to reappear during the latest drama. The lure of follower counts is strong.
No. I expect people to be able to skim.

If the can't skim, for example if they are a foreign language speaker of low-intermediate ability (as I am in 5 or 6 languages, and I am also a professional language teacher among other things), then I expect them to know that they can't skim, and make appropriate allowances.
"You'll realize it's not so easy when you actually get there"