skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By revolutionaries I mean that for blockchain to work, most real practical usages would involve throwing away the financial world and rebuilding it with blockchain, hoping in the meantime that we're not just building a worst second system. Which I think is not desirable at all. Basically, I think this aspect of Blockchain is completely out of whack.

So what remains is niche usecases, which like you I think are mostly not useful. So basically I think blockchain is overall either undesirable, unpractical, or useless.
A lot of verbiage not describing the structure of BO. How about a diagram? Just one. Please.
South Korea floods: president urges climate crisis action as death toll hits 40
Infrastructure is more fragile than anyone realizes because everything just magically shows up at the store. Pfizer doesn't keep empty plants ready to go in case one gets hit by a tornado. If they make say 5000 medications, each medication is probably only made in a few places globally. A tornado tearing a plant to shreds is definitely going to fuck with that.
I assume you are being snippy, but to actually answer the question: Kinda - if you are paid on Fridays then payroll is submitted on Tuesday or Wednesday.
The adjustment in base for me would have been about the same.
Ask HN: What is the point of Front end Framework?
What are the key strengths of front-end frameworks that set them apart and drive their popularity? With so many frameworks out there, what motivates their diversity? Also, for both large and small-scale projects, is it viable to forego front-end frameworks and rely solely on HTML, JS, and CSS? As a junior web dev, I'm curious because I haven't encountered scenarios where front-end frameworks were a clear necessity, but I'm open to insights from the experienced HN community!
That something has often been true in the past doesn't mean it always will be. These are trends not natural laws.

There is a clear development for at least 20 years in the US of more policing, more police surveillance, more sense of a right or prerogative of police to make their own decisions about violence without oversight or consequence.

These changes are for the most part supported by the people who self-identify as enthusiastic gun owners, or people who value their right to own and carry guns. I don't want to try to guess what constraints you may have on the definition of tyrannical here, but this confluence of forces is a negative for the material expression of rights.

What you can do on paper isn't very important when someone can shoot you for doing it and get away with that. That someone may be a cop in some cirumstances and they may be a lawful gun owner in others. This makes them natural allies in many political contexts because of that simple fact.
I was in that room! Poor fellow. It was the demo of our new UPS; I can still remember the gradual fading fans and clicks of capacitors.

He was really nervous showing the new install off to us, and he was just talking through the positions of the switch; but he actually moved the switch to each of them as he did it.

Back in the days the conslops ran the asylum. :)

Any old school UF types looking at this, The Dog list lives on, and is again meeting from time to time. :) But at quieter venues. Our ears have unaccountably gotten old.
North Carolina tornadoes are way more infrequent than the midwest. Climate change does change calculus, not always in predictable ways, ie there was a tornado in dc last year, extremely rare. In general North Carolina has a trifecta of cheap energy, talent (research triangle / unis), and inexpensive land costs.
It's not just about encryption and privacy. That's missing the forest for the trees.

For a democracy to function, people need to be able to have free and candid discussions about any topic without the fear of being ostracised, persecuted or whatever. Only that way can ideas be exchanged and people get a hunch of what others think about stuff of relevance. Only that way can people partake in sensible democratic decision-making. Framed opinions pushed onto you by one-way media are no substitute. That's dictatorship in disguise.

"Classic" ways of public communication, like town halls, pubs, marketplaces or whatnot, cannot fill that role any longer. But online, places like Twitter, Reddit and some chat services that closed the gap now get killed off, too.
This dystopia cannot be let come to pass.
No one is perfect. No organization is perfect. US tech companies actively collaborate to improve security.
We have statistics and they are not pretty. The CDC reports that 1 out of every 7 children have experienced child abuse or neglect in the last year. That doesn't even include stuff that technically isn't abuse or neglect but rather just damaging parenting: Plenty of kids had their parents impress upon them some personal neurosis out of their own traumatized problems, and now you start another cycle of that person causing issues in their kids unless they get help for that or find ways to avoid it.

I would consider one out of seven to be "problematic" and "oof" worthy
Sadly you can’t do that on a site without having people post very inappropriate things, so it would require a human moderator, which I speculate makes it unlikely to happen.
You are definitely not born helpless. Babies keep screaming until they get what they want. They also tirelessly try to master mobility. Learned helplessness would mean they wouldn't even try crying or moving.
That already exists today, food stamps/SNAP/EBT for low income and dollars for everyone else

I'd just as soon give everyone dollars via UBI
A bad PM that's good at talking will usually lead to a non-consistent product strategy (due to promising too much to different stakeholders), and subsequently to death march projects to fulfill all the non realistic promises made.

If you're long enough in the tech industry you've seen such people and learned to identify them with good certainty after one or two meetings.
That's a good idea. We'd have to be careful that 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place aren't actually the same company though (perhaps under different names / legal identities).
It's not Pfizer's job to safeguard US interests, it's the US Government's. If the US Government wants to ensure reliable supply of medication they need to develop a policy and administrative framework to make that happen.
Because a policy that is intended to last over 10K years, regardless of changes in situation is likely to be different than a policy that is designed to last until some level of change in situation has been acheived.

You design one for its ever-lasting nature.

You design the other to achieve a specific outcome.
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>Ferrocene does.

Is there FAA/EASA certified rust SW on a commercial airplane above DAL E? If not ferrocene potentially does.

>For a programming language, it must have an ISO standard

Which is also not what I am saying. It is obviously not important that it is an ISO standard (the DO certainly has no such Requirement), but you need some documentation which specifies the language. For C/C++ that is trivial, as it is standardized, for rust it isn't.

I fully agree that you can conform to the DO by having a company like Ferrocene which provides that documentation. And that has a compiler toolchain which states how it complies with the specification. And I am glad that they are doing this, as this is a step in the right direction.
A fun note is that even with system prompt engineering it may not give the most efficient solution: ChatGPT still outputs the avergage case.

I tested around it and doing two passes (generate code and "make it more efficient") works best, with system prompt engineering to result in less code output: https://github.com/minimaxir/simpleaichat/blob/main/examples...
I'm on both sides of this.
Project based learning is great in that the student gets exposure to 'things' and has to figure out how to wire it all together. The down side is depth of exposure and the ability gain 'real' understanding is typically lacking.

A friend of my wife's husband is a boot camp grad, he can whip out a buzzword compliant web app, but is missing some foundational understanding of what's really happening under the covers. When his aws account started racking up charges like crazy, helping the poor guy debug what he'd built meant working back from his project based understanding of what he'd built meant filling in a lot of blanks for him so he could connect the dots.
If the definition of free speech doesnt feel over inclusive then its not free speech.
Cmon who is saying that?

Plenty of people believe in limits to free speech but very very few would draw the line there.
I guess to an extent it’s not about what the best version of the role is but what the role becomes when lots of people chase it for status. So the best PMs might be very substantive, but are there many people chasing it for status? Yes.
i don't look at dialogs before i download, save, or pick a file from a directory listing
I wonder if their data includes torrent download rates of shows previously available to people with whom passwords had been shared.
The conventional open source model makes everything free labor for billion dollar companies and hustlers who just take it and slap it up behind a paywall. It's used to underpin SaaS models that are significantly less open or free than closed-source local commercial software.

It'd be nice if the OSI or the open source community addressed this issue head-on, but so far they refuse and insist nothing is wrong. This refusal leads to a proliferation of almost-open-source licenses that just muddy the waters.

If they continue to refuse I think we'll see more and more of this until the definition of open source becomes hopelessly muddy and the whole community starts to wither.
Lioness escapes in Berlin; police comb streets, woodlands
Same for AutoCAD, won't even install, unfortunately. Lots of people could transition to Linux if it worked.
So... have one AI to generate the article and another to condense it back to the summary it was created from :)
I suspect the most underrated skill for learning music is listening. With a close listen, it becomes obvious that when I play piano (novice at best), even just a single note does not sound as good as an excellent player. Once you've identified a gap, you can focus on learning how to fill it.

It's easy to get focused on objective measurements like how fast you play a scale and forget to ask "but does it sound great?" This is the bigges risk with the grit mindset. With software, it's more subtle but I think it's possible to essentially ask whether a program is lifeless or if it sings. The hard part is that usually you can feel whether a work is good before you can explain it. There is a lot of software that I might liken to some shredders on guitar: it's impressive technically but there is something ineffable missing and it leaves me feeling cold.
Sudan crisis spells uncertainty for key Coca Cola ingredient
I have a lot of respect for Joey. But I cant help and think: it is rather easy to go full-protest-mode if you are as famous as he is. git-annex basically powers my whole long-term file archive. Not to mention all the infrastructual code he contributed to Debian. Or the fact that he apparently can make a small living off Patreons who use his Free Software. With that track record, its just a breeze to say "Google Fuck You".
See I think what we all want though is the person who knows basic plumbing _and_ can model fluid dynamics. Gotta look for those rare CS devs who were already devs before they went to school
Specifically you want load shedding and in the servers and retry with back off in the clients. Clients should do their best to exponentially back off on retrying failed requests and only try to contact healthy servers and maintain internal rate-limiting based on error rate, and servers should do their best to reply with failure quickly and cheaply to drive good client's backoffs/rate-limiting and just drop bad client's traffic, and the service discovery should try to detect and spread load across healthy servers (but this isn't always available at first in a cold start because the metrics or metadata probably aren't available yet), but in the end it's up to servers to reliably drop traffic they can't handle instead of building up giant queues and slowing to a crawl. Middleware is the hardest because it has to be a good client and also fail fast on overload as a server by correctly interpreting upstream behavior. Deadlines in RPCs that get passed across system boundaries can work pretty well for tall stacks of system layers where service health discovery or dependency discovery is hard, but require careful configuration to avoid failure or very slow starts under heavy load.
> Noted fiscal hawk Barry Goldwater dismissed the lofty ambitions of lunar exploration as a "wasteful endeavor," an ironic stance given he voiced his criticism at a glitzy dinner that cost each attendee a cool $100 - close to $1000 in 2023.

Some things never change, eh?
So many choices! coffeeboarding, mountaindewboarding, windshieldwiperfluidboarding... not sure if slurpeeboarding would be more or less effective.
If the government could stop cash transactions entire classes of crime would be significantly more impractical (while at the same time significantly invading the privacy of all citizens).
Don't lose your unreasonable sense of urgency
Why would they pay more than $10k? It only costs ~$10k in engineering resources to find one and they get a steady stream at this level of cost.

It is not like paying more and getting more reports improves lacking quality or decreases your defect rate. You can not buy your way to fixing a insecure design all you can do is paper over it.

If they paid more then all that would mean is that people would report more of the expected defects. You have to fix reported defects, so you would then need to deploy more engineering resources to fix them even though it will not make a meaningful dent in the number of defects.

So, all increasing the payout would do is increase direct costs, increase the number of defects you know about, and increase the number of engineers you need fixing, now known, defects slowing your feature velocity.
that's like saying people who don't use computers won't understand that text is in a computer even though it has the same meaning as, say, text in a book
The hometown of San Francisco’s drug dealers
Try SICP at some point, no matter what else you learn.

HtDP is also worth taking a look at, and is much easier than SICP.

LLMs will mostly statistically plagiarize code. (Some people will rationalize "The tool generates the boilerplate, so that I can focus on the harder problems, because I am a mental giant who is above mere coding, and this is totally not open source code laundering", and then slap the code into a Git commit with their name on it, while making "cha-ching" cash register sounds.)

Instead of LLM, if you want to learn from other people's open source code, you can just read it in the original form (and not pretend you wrote it).

You can also practice writing your own code. Find things you want to do, and instead of using an LLM or Googling for something to copy&paste, work through the problem yourself, and build that understanding and mental machinery.

And when that starts getting routine, experiment with different approaches within the same language, as well as with different languages. You will add to your toolkit of approaches, and start to build up a feel for when they are appropriate, and various implications.

Advanced, once you have some basic programming skills: Start building things that have to work reliably and securely, have to be maintainable and evolvable at a good cadence, have to be done in the context of a team where everyone is working towards product success, etc.
No I’m genuinely asking. You get paid at the end of the month, but it actually arrives in your bank 4 or 5 days later?
Wait, do you think there are people who think “Let’s Go Brandon” is anything but a hilarious conservative self-own?
> Ask any recent college graduate and they’ll tell you the most coveted jobs in each field and across all of them. They’ll also tell you how competitive it is to get one. These tend to be common targets for trophy jobs.

This really gets at the heart of my reaction to this article - this feels like a description of how people who have no real idea of what life is like in an industry think people feel might feel about well-known titles within it. I'm not seeing much connection between this article and the reality of working in tech.
It can be done. To submit a pixel you have to take a photo proof of your calculations on paper, it’s already “moderated”
As if that were the case. If only those that did not judge were spared judgement themselves.
Ugh, disgusting! They must have some sort of hiring board website where you can find these? What specific disgusting site would those be on? Ugh!
What if the banner language suggests they might break GDPR, but in reality they are not doing those things? If my SaaS forces you to select a checkbox that states you're agreeing to allow me to set fire to your house (which is illegal) - would the sign up itself be breaking the law? IANAL, but I don't think it would be; I wont be breaking any laws until I commit arson.
Don"t panic, this is just the full autmation of enshittification. Producing piles of worthless ouput without human assistance. Nothing too dramatic, really.
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I am not sure why that argument would not also apply to white people then where there are ~909,000 who took the test. That leaves a large number of white students who got perfect scores or were 1550+. For example 1% of the total is about ~9000 people. So a strong case could be made that Harvard actually discriminates even more against white students who are not on parity and actually the only group underrepresented by total population size at Ivy League and other elite schools. The Asians who made this argument never mentioned this but actually made the opposite claim that whites were favored over Asians.

Of course, I don't think SAT score alone should determine entrance and no school has said that was all that mattered for admissions and I think that could be valid because the test score is really just one metric and doesn't give a complete picture. For example is the person a good test taker but a lazy student? That would reflect poorly on the student.

Also for the record and to be clear the legacy score of 1523 is still a high score and less than 1 std dev away from a perfect 1600 so it's not like we're talking about legacies who are totally out of range of admissions.
I tried walking around a bit when I visited the US four times, cities and parks both.

While the views — Route 1, Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks, Bonneville Salt Flats, Lake Tahoe, and the cityscape of Manhattan — are spectacular, the roads are terrifying, the footpaths sometimes just stop, and none of the national park facilities had running water.

I'm not saying you can't keep fit in the USA, obviously it's possible, but between that and how much cheaper the fast food is than the vegetables in the supermarket (even the take out pizza was basically the same price as the supermarket pizza, not sure how), I have a lot of sympathy for people struggling with that.
The government could issue money that can be tied to a specific purpose (allowed to be spent with specific merchants or establishments) and have a time limit. Think of the COVID-19 assistance that was given to people. If — instead of just transferring normal money into people’s accounts that allowed people to do whatever they wanted with it whenever they wanted and wherever they wanted - the government could force recipients to spend it across certain things and not others, and gave a deadline to move the money around, would that be something that’s in the best interests of the receiver? By expiring money or by applying negative interest rates, the government can offload its burden on to the people who hold and have to use this money.
paypal , visa and the like have proven to be worse than most governments
An old saying I heard was, "Everyone is a liberal until they are mugged. Everyone is a conservative until they are harassed by the police."

>I've heard an actual person say, "I though police were only like that to <...> people".

I saw a video of a lady getting a ticket for something and kept saying, "But I'm a Republican!" As if that would make the officer change his mind.
A very well known tech company I briefly contracted for employs a Futurist. I’d put a negative sign on his substance rating. Not only is it a bullshit job, he has a segment in the all-hands meetings, taking a slice out of everyone’s fortnight with his drivel.
It was probably useful for running a massive global software distribution solution.
It's probably the end for our image of a dominant purely biological humanity. This isn't so bad

Sounds pretty bad
I swear I think of something and Anders Hejlsberg builds it.

Structured requests and responses are 100% the next evolution of LLMs. People are already getting tired of chatbots. Being able to plug in any backend without worrying about text parsing and prompts will be amazing.
The flexbox does not seem to match the power of QML. For instance, I can have a two-pane view as simple as:

Text {

anchors.top : parent.top

anchors.bottom : parent.bottom

anchors.left : parent.horizontalCenter

anchors.right : parent.right

anchors.topMargin : 10

text : "Hello World"

}

which does not reference any dimensions of the objects. It is easy to reference an anchor of a sibling and other parent elements when needed.

Also, making new components is easy; I can inherit properties of a parent element, add my properties and put them in a file for later reuse is something I use extensively. Building each component carelessly using whatever mockery to get the look I need and then isolating it with its own namespace is relieving.
It's really just another example of cops in the US choosing to not do their job. We have plenty of laws on the books that could punish inattentive or reckless driving especially when it results in a severe outcome, but that would require a cop to open an investigation and all that noise so they just write up a report for your insurance and try to get you to believe there's nothing else they can do.

The complete inefficacy and refusal to do any work of most american police departments is absurd. It's like they still believe their primary mission to be slave retrieval and violently suppressing strikes, as if it's still 1890.
I have seen too often overly complicated systems where one small change creates these situations that go unnoticed for far too long and then something breaks in a mystifying and spectacular way. The reaction, generally, is then a fear to make any change to the system at all, regardless of how benign, even if it can't possibly mess something up - because of fear of the "unknown."

IME, having robust alerting and monitoring tools, good rollback plans and procedures/automation should eliminate this fear entirely. If I was afraid to touch anything for fear of breaking it, I'd likely never get anything done.
This is really neat! Always cool to see what people can do with less.
Good journalism is also a formvof activism. Not sure if that exists in AI writers.
Yeah. Literally everyone who says it unironically. So the original usage.
I was using a 6ish year old amd cpu with 16gigs of ram and generating a prompt would take about a half hour. Which is still massively impressive for what it is.
Extreme heat indices above 105°F to hit 80M people in U.S.
Gulf of Mexico Wind Farm Leases Up for Sale by Biden Administration
> You see how quickly you are to believe these are the "actual facts"?

The actual facts is that a person who is walking is certainly not a person who "has irreversible spine damage and can't walk as a result".

The rest is absolutely irrelevant and philosophical bike-shedding.
They're definitely both.