skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, the word work was used as a simplification of the overall output expected.
You also need to account for the hard parts to calculate, human burnout, turnover rate, time to deliver a product to the market, amount of rework, tech debt added, etc...
Someone who can deliver a fancy project, full of tech debt, will require 5x more effort on rework than was to do it, and the team gets burned out severely after the project. Would it be worth it? In the short term senior management will see it as a good idea.
But most managers and senior managers are too naive to account for these hidden variables, or in most cases, not interested to take these metrics into account
General Leslie Groves thought very highly of Oppenheimer, and if you got the stamp of approval from Groves, you were doing something right.

Oppenheimer was dragged through the mud during the red scare and his name is still tarnished because of that. It is ironic and a little sad that he was awarded the Fermi medal once his name was finally cleared because Fermi worked for him during the Manhattan Project. It probably would have been the Oppenheimer Medal if it weren’t for Senator McCarthy.

Oppenheimer beat Heisenberg (also a pretty smart guy) to the bomb and not by a little either. And thank whatever higher power is out there he did.

Oppenheimer was a genius both in theoretical and practical physics work. It is a shame that he doesn’t have a better reputation today. And when it comes to his “campaign”, well, he had good reasons for his concerns. The second atomic bomb dropped on Japan was dropped without the president’s knowledge! He realized that we were not ready for that weapon and still aren’t to this day.
> Web refers to Gopher here, it being a command-line client for the Gopher web.

Gemini, not Gopher.
I think that depends on the school - Georgia Tech is free for high academic performers from Georgia, for example.
Classic HN response–"This is trivial to build"/"I could build this in a weekend".

Setting valuation aside, clearly there is some non-negative value prop for some set of users who don't want to build everything themselves (as evidenced by the fact that they have a non-trivial number of paying users).
Antarctic summers are getting positively balmy.
Kangaroos don’t have many natural predators anymore. Even if you don’t harvest them for meat, you’d have to cull them to prevent them overpopulating and destroying their environment.

The article mentions that the kangaroos harvested for meat are sufficient to meet the current worldwide needs for ACL surgeries.

Sometimes killing animals is the ethical thing to do. Reality is complex.
Agreed. So let's go solve those problems directly and stop pretending the solution is to put underachieving kids into top schools to make ourselves feel better.
> will it still be worth the price of admission?

Definitely. Will it still be the same value you're getting? Perhaps not.

Notably, some schools like MIT already don't consider legacy, and are still worth the price.
It's not useless. Do you think all contagious illnesses spread at the same rate?

InB4 "clouds don't exist, nobody can tell exactly where they start and end"
If you had looked at the article instead of getting annoyed by a title, then you would know that.
For the purposes of discussion, it'd probably be helpful to describe the issues you would identify during review
I agree with you. Saying something is merit based is only half of an answer. What exactly is and isn’t meritorious?

I’m not convinced that scoring well on tests beyond some point is a particularly good way of deciding if a student deserves a spot or not.
maxlen is meant to be a constant provided by a #define, so I wouldn't be worried about things going haywire if maxlen is a weird value.

But C-like code in general makes me nervous in parsers, since there's many ways things can go wrong and C is inherently fail-deadly if you make a mistake.
"..and the building (a dorm) must not have any windows"[1]

1. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/22/nightmare-of-t...
It’s happened but only on highly strategically important stuff like microprocessors
This is a very uninformed comment.

It’s like saying web browser doesn’t do anything that curl doesn’t. It’s technically true but not really.

But it’s also technically incorrect. Even on request level, not speaking about all the things on top that Postman does, Postman also does grpc and graphql (edit: and websocket), which curl doesn’t.

Once you start adding all the features, it’s very hard to replace Postman with anything.
We had our customer support solution coming to us showing a fancy AI feature, free of charge just for a PoC. Two weeks after we agreed it was running in prod, and two weeks after that we nuked it. Unless people want a big liability in their business, they should read very well the terms and conditions.

These tools are not mature enough, no automated decision making process should leverage these tools without human intervention, especially when handling other humans. I'm not saying all LLM models are bad, I'm saying I'm talking about their architectural foundation, which is prone to these problems.

Our measurement was the rate of losing customers compared with them opening tickets complaining about some issue. We had roughly 12x more losses when using the LLM as a replacement for our support team in our A/B test.
It's a private university founded with the intent to be a public good. It exists ostensibly to be a counterweight to the ills brought about by the concentration of wealth and power under its founders, in recognition of their outsize influence on society.
https://hoppscotch.io/ is an alternative
Why am I with a 3090 @ 3 it/s?

Am I doing something heavily wrong? All through WSL2
If you do a lot of SEO keyword research, you'll come across these often. Lots of topics have odd exam-question-like keywords with large search volumes. As the article points out, there's little point optimizing for them unless you want to attract traffic from students (or dishonestly bamboozle your SEO clients into thinking you've done wonders for their organic traffic).
Can we end education resource scarcity please. More open courses by schools and less credentialism by employers could make these debates irrelevant.
I agree with most of what you say (including that not every minor duplication needs a refactoring) but I don't understand how this relates to using Go or some other language - and you definitely don't make it sound as if "write obvious code" is this easy fix that everyone knows how to do and that abstractions are always bad and if you don't use them, your code gets magically easy to understand.

It takes nuance and balancing tradeoffs to write good code, and that was IMHO missing from the comment I was replying to.
As jerf said in a parent comment,

> It's just you manually doing what the compiler ought to be doing for you,
Right now my linux desktop uses comic Neue as system font along with comic code as monospace font. It's beautiful.
I think you need to crack open a Thermodynamics textbook and re-lookup the definition of "open" and "closed" systems. Open systems are certainly capable of maintaining stable heat-balances, where net energy outflow equalizes to net heat inflow.
I am not versed in computer science well enough to comment on the model in general but I'll agree that the current way of doing async is pretty sloppy. When you fully invest your project in it and use async libraries it does get better but some compilation errors still sound like dark magic (I'll forever regret not writing down a few of them I encountered last year because the team is receptive to changing rustc error message).

Though I'll also say plain old multithreading and async are serving different niches, in my experience.
Your first point is almost a meme at this point - so many products can be written off as pointless with the statement:

> As a [type of tech person], [product] is completely unnecessary as you can easily build a similar system yourself by simply combining [tool A] with [tool B] and [tool C]. It's so simple!

I'm not disagreeing with your point, but it misses the point that often the benefit of using a particular product is that you don't have to build it yourself, not to mention the other benefits you could get from using the exact same system as somebody else (e.g. sharing Postman collections).
And yet my Google engineer friend tells me to use Bard for my math coursework. I know it’s just an anecdote but what’s with the hype?

I was paying attention and it’s why I refuse to use LLMs for math, but I’m being told by people inside the castle to do so. So it is not so black and white in the messaging dept.
Technically speaking I don't think you can measure the "temperature of the universe".

Temperature depends on the kinetic energy of a certain amount of whatever molecules, but the universe is essentially empty/void, thus there's nothing really to measure the temperature of.

I know that it isn't strictly empty/void, but for a temperature related measurement it essentially is.
People literally buy packs of cigarettes with graphic pictures of bloody lungs full of tumors on them. They are not being fooled about what a cigarette does.
https://github.com/tummychow/git-absorb Does a very nice job of this for me.
The US federal government should do the same thing to public universities (US definition) that they did to insurance companies via the ACA -- cap administrative overhead.

For every dollar in tuition, >Y% must be spent on qualifying direct educational expenses. E.g. teaching faculty salary, etc.

If a college fails to meet that threshold, and spends too much on non-qualifying costs, they are required to rebate the difference to students.

If a college refuses to do this, they're no longer eligible for federal educational money (Pell grants or loans, etc).

Then let colleges optimize themselves to get under the limit.

It caused a lot of scrambling and long-overdue efficiency improvements in another legacy, slow-to-change industry (health insurance).
Nope, these are "racist" now. I'm not going to explain why at the risk of getting downvoted.
> Last year (2022) Arduino took in a Series B funding round of $32 million. [link:https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/06/07/series-b-funding-round-...]

> [quote from the link] “So today, we dial up our vision for universal innovation with a clear strategy to expand our portfolio for professionals, supported by a Series B funding round of $32 million led by the global deep tech investor Robert Bosch Venture Capital (RBVC), joined by Renesas, Anzu Partners, and Arm.”

Remember folks, "VC's rhyme with feces". They will enshittify your business faster than every toilet being used during the Super Bowl.

Arduino is the latest casualty.
Tubi is free, so I'm okay with some ads in it. I'm only opposed to things I'm paying for having ads at all.
Appreciate the deep dive. Can you comment on what you moved to from Python? C++? Wondering where the other ecosystems (if any) are.
Netflix Pricing Shakeup Removes Cheapest Ad-Free Plan in U.K. and U.S.
If I did decide to, and it was your spouse/child/parent/sibling, would you then kill me in revenge?

Maybe this is a ridiculous metaphor since public health is not what the justice system is trying to accomplish by imprisoning murderers.
I doubt that the mixture of rich and smart kids actually happens that much. I didn’t go to an ivy, so I can only speculate. But I imagine the rich kids hang out with each other and the poor smart kids hang out with each other.
Hi, from the tweet exchange in 2, it seems like your agent bought something, as opposed to selling it. Am I missing something?
If most the infosec professionals consider the latest changes have made Twitter an inviable option, that alone speaks volumes of the quality of those changes.

Also, a highly changing environment (regarding security threats) makes strong networking a survival trait. You don't want to become isolated from a part of the community, and you can always keep both Twitter and Mastodon. In fact, keeping both accounts is a must, because many security companies and government institutions are still only on Twiller.
I struggled to tell what your product is about from the front page. It's very marketing heavy but I don't know what it is or why I should use it
JetBrains Mono NL is the no-ligature version of it and it is also included in the official zip file.

Personally it is what I use, I like its aesthetic but I also dislike ligatures for coding.
The kid's phone was set up against the parent's account and the stored payment methods were applied. Or the kid was borrowing the parent's phone.

Kids apps pull/pulled all sorts of tricks to prevent people from understanding the modal purchase confirmation dialog (eg https://www.mactrast.com/2019/04/apple-adds-an-extra-confirm... )
Not OP. Nothing in the original comment was technically wrong. It does feel misguided and perhaps a little naive. But it seems more like an opportunity for a real conversation to both understand why they think that way and as a way to educate why there might be a better way.

I reserve downvotes for posts that are flagrant, factually wrong, or are otherwise against the rules. Flagging might also be used. But using downvotes to have a voice not be heard feels wrong, too. What was said doesn't hurt anyone, even if a vast majority of people around here might disagree with it. Downvoting because you disagree feels wrong.
Wow the site looks really cool and the design looks very simple and clean.

How did you came up with the idea for this
Are you talking about the EU or all the GAFA you all work for/with/dream to join/exit to?
A thorough comparison of GPT-3.5 vs. GPT-4 programming ability
I'm amazed at how schools with legacy and donation-based admissions can maintain high rankings when you never know if someone with a degree from there just got it because their parents donated $5M. Before someone says "the student still has to graduate," Harvard has a 97% graduation rate.
> The CRA goes against this principle by imposing unavoidable liability on producers of free software, requiring them to make their development, testing, and documentation activities much harder and complex.

If the EU wants this, they should use part of their budget to fund it.

This is the same argument for businesses using FOSS, if you want support, pay for it, otherwise you get what you pay for.
What I am not clear about are those ads of other content or more like the ads on tv channels? The former I could live with if it just before the start of a show but they shouldn’t bump the price anytime soon
The rescue of a Silicon Valley collie held for ransom
I do have a small team but I am constantly involved ensuring that Google is not being mean to us and the game is all about trying to stay on top 5-10 results.
I personally could not think of a more boring way to curate a student body, but even more so than that, I think that’s completely unfair to the many, many way-more interesting people who make up top schools’ student bodies: why does Jimmy Also-Ran with the perfect score on a single test and nothing else get to go to college while track-star Olympiad with a 4.0 doesn’t?
> Meritocracy makes sense after you have an education, it doesn't make sense before it.

This is really a truth. There really is no meritocracy if you gate who is allowed to have merit before you measure it. Regulating opportunity to control outcomes is the exact opposite of what should be done to have a true meritocracy.
Not to detract from your larger point, but these days, it might depend on the Kennedy.
People are terrified of writing parsers, because parsers are a major source vulnerabilities. Particularly when implemented in memory unsafe languages.
thats pretty impressive how did you landed your first B2B customer
It becomes a problem if your post-college Tommy John requires you to get a kangaroo tendon to be competitive in MLB. Not sure how you solve that problem in a fair and repeatable way though.
I mostly get everything free as benefits from other services, but for what I don't, I just pay a month, watch everything I want, and pause the subscription. I don't have to watch anything right away, so for those weekly release shows, I just wait until the entire season has been released, and then I have a month to watch it all.
I see the dupe process is working just fine here; I look forward to someone stumbling upon this next week and resubmitting it then, too
> Why are the reward ratios in professional sports relevant to other occupations in society?

My whole point is that the hollowing out of the middle class and the huge growth in objective measures of inequality in the US are precisely because many other occupations are looking more and more like "sports star" economies.

E.g. just look at how the former "main streets" of many smaller towns in the US have been decimated. There used to be "local leaders" in retail in cities all over the US, now it's extremely difficult to compete if you don't have the scale of Amazon. Just look at all the recent stories about fears of AI taking jobs. E.g. it used to be that lots of people could get copywriting jobs. Now it looks like in a pretty short time frame that only the very, very best copywriters will be employable as so much other work is delegated to AI. Look at how most smaller news outlets have completely disappeared across the country. These smaller news outlets used to be fairly important factors in their community, but now they simply can't compete with the Internet giants for ad dollars.

I can go on and on, but the "winner take all" dynamic of sports economics has been spreading to pretty much any occupation that faces competition over the Internet.
> This way there’s no financial incentive to create new content.

I personally don't see the problem in this (would like to hear opinions). The current copyright system works to keep rent-income on past productions. If incentives shift to prioritize making profit from live performances instead of gatekeeping access to already-produced digital files, it seems like a step in the right direction.
> Such criminals are depraved and don't respond to normal incentives and punishments.

I think this has less to do with them being irrational and "depraved" and more to do with them being so poorly informed that their perception of risk/reward is unaffected by anything other than experience.
F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales
At least there's been a massive decline in smokers over the years since we learned the tobacco industry was covering up the risks. Vaping set us back a bit, but plenty of kids these days grow up knowing better than to touch the stuff.
You were online in the 1960s? The term "intellectual property law" started to be commonly used after the formation of the World Intellectual Property Organization in 1967.
Is there literally any test in which:

"Students of Color" receive scores in the same distribution as white/asian/hispanic students (same fraction of 1s, 2s ... 35s, 36s on the ACTs for example)

AND

Top scores are meaningfully distinct from the population average? (because the first condition can be trivially fulfilled by having everyone score the same)
Nothing like how private companies like Google operate. /s
It's been quite a while since I dipped my hand in Android development, but from what I recall when you made an Android project, you had to set the API "Level" - which changes every new version of Android.

I assume Google is looking at that value, comparing it to the current running API and blocking installation because the API the app is using is too old, with new permissions conventions that are built into the newer API versions running on more modern phones.

I believe they also limit(ed) installation of apps made for tablets on phone screen devices (and vice versa) through the devices' DPI settings.

I believe you can easily sideload these apps into Android and have them run mostly flawlessly, but Google Play Services blocks install probably to prevent people from installing old/possibly incompatible apps on their platform.
Well yeah. Nobody wants to talk to an LLM for support, they typically want an actual human to help them. I don't think that says much about the state of an LLM, rather, that people who want help, want it from someone who can take action. Not a LLM designed to be a long winded FAQ machine.
I hate these types of arguments that create an extremely contrived example. If we’re making a choice between these two students, then you can’t really go wrong. But that’s not the choice being made.
It's just depressing, every year it feels worse.

I'm resisting the urge to buy AC because I feel like AC makes the problem worse, not better. Especially as electricity in Italy is 90% gas produced, I just think it's such a nonsense to buy AC and then make global warming worse. But I'm frying since 2 weeks at this point.

I barely remember a week or two of cold weather this year in winter.

The difference in winter temperatures and amount of snow in Poland is just gigantic. I remember every christmas having snow in Poland, I remember up to -30 degrees temperatures in southern poland, lately it's been rainy and warm 7/8 degrees C.

The only thing that can save the planet is a fair carbon tax, because the situation feels more and more desperate every day, we need to slow this thing up.

Heat is not the only problem, both the countries I have more family (Italy/Poland) are short in water and it is getting desperately worse every year. Climate-change driven disasters are getting so common here in Italy, we've had just a disaster flood in northern Italy 2 months ago after such a long draught. I've never ever in my life seen 38 days of rain over a 43 days span from May to June in southern Italy.

I am seriously considering emigration as an answer to climate changes. I seriously cannot even fathom the pain tourists visiting Italy in summer (at least those going to historical cities like Rome or Naples) endure.
The built in support for git in Visual Studio 2022 is pretty good, but I do occasionally find myself reaching for the command line still.
The problem with climate change, in particular global warming (i.e. adding energy to the system), is that it increases the variance of the system.

This means that the system becomes harder to predict, and we're not looking at a mere "redistribution" of weather. It's very possible for weather to get worse (i.e. disruptive to the current functioning of the local ecosystem) everywhere

I would not at all be surprised if some areas suffering from extreme heat right now become unlivably cold in the coming decades.

The problem with climate change is that it does not, in a human life time, lead to a new normal. If these new weather patterns were here to stay, we could adapt. what we'll get instead is constant changing which becomes increasingly resource intensive to survive.
It is a very sad story.

Our company committed to open sourcing all of our code (it's in the web3/blockchain space), and we had, and continue to have, spirited discussions about which parts we should maybe license differently, as they contain novel IP.

But my main question is: if your code is open-sourced, and the community contributed: fixes, features, actual new products - what gives you the right to close it? Are you going to go back and compensate every contributor? How can you justify revenue made on the backs of contributors.

Side note: if what Prusa is alleging about Chinese patents given for open-source code produced in the west, and then having international priority, is true, I think the UN (or whoever handles international patents) should look into that.
We can't control what goes on in China, but we can damn well make sure no Chines company makes money outside of China, with co-opted IP.