skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you haven't run across it, you should read up on Ted Nelson's Xanadu project.

I've heard different arguments for why that failed. I think the likeliest is just that simple and dumb is often more successful than complex and nuanced.

> I think convention is the primary obstacle

At this point, I think the existence of the web as it is is the primary obstacle. Business models built on laws and case rulings depend on links as they currently exist. So changes here would need to get buy in from those folks, browser makers, standards body folks (but I repeat myself), and then would have to somehow be reconciled with laws that make assumptions about how they work.

Easy peasy.
(0x00800513),x10,0x8

Well, I'm not a Python guy, but I saw something that would have been a bug. As numbers, the line above's variables would evaluate to

0x00800513 0x0000 0x8

In a language like C, in a compilation, that 'x10' would throw up a 'variable not declared' error. As data, it would most likely evaluate as above to zero (depending on the data-handling code).
20 years ago, someone bought ads for every "$noun, buy it cheap on eBay" (or was it Amazon?) without checking and removing "slaves", "women", and "plutonium" from the list.

10 years ago, someone destroyed their custom T-shirt business by auto-generating sentences of the format "Keep Calm and…", without first checking what it was offering for sale.

I'd be surprised if most of the people reading resumes know what a regex is, but they'll probably have heard about ChatGPT thanks to it (and I really do mean the AI itself rather than its maker) getting interviewed on national TV.
Thanks! Definitely looks promising.
I am currently building a SQL-only web framework [1], and I was contacted by the prql folks to include the language by default in sqlpage. I have to say, I have mixed feelings about it: on one hand, it indeed feels more natural to query data with a clean pipeline of operators. On the other hand, it makes me think of the famous xkcd comic about standards [2]: there were too many data querying languages, so we made a new one.

[1] SQLPage: https://sql.ophir.dev

[2] https://xkcd.com/927/
There no money in tools: The Dutch company ASML would like to talk to you.

The article does actually say that in highly specialised niches tool making is fantastically lucrative. So, don't mistake the headline for ground truth.

Also there is good reason to believe tool making since flint knapping has been high status, and demands surplus production to liberate skilled labour to making tools which have immensely high use value: tools are magnifiers of human productivity and are worth a lot.

The point is that when commodities are cheap, and tools like gdb can be considered a commodity, the relative advantage of "a better one" has to be weighed up with using a screwdriver as a hammer. Thus printf() debugging.
This is equivalent to the daughter basically saying "do you know who my daddy is?"

Deplorable.
To put a big fat disclaimer on this - N is <50% of the entering Freshman class, data is self-reported, the statistics (like self-reported race) do not line up with official Princeton statistics.

My guess is that if you're a legacy that had bad grades, you are certainly not going to admit that in your first month on campus to the student newspaper.
Trying to figure out what hardware to convince my boss to spend on... if we were to get one of the A6000/48gb cards, will that see significant performance improvements over just a 4090/24gb? The primary limitation is vram, is it not?
Back in the day I played a prank on a fellow sysadmin by adding an 'echo "sleep 1" >> .login'

Took him a week to figure it out, he was not pleased. :)
I think the general concept has continued to circulate on the internet. Chat roullete was popular for a long time, https://chat.meatspac.es/ was a great niche for a while, omegle, etc, etc. But like Leo said in the video, these sorts of "experiments" are really sensitive to a critical mass, where they're super fun if you have > N people on the thing at the same time, and kinda weird if you have < N.
Just comparing them with Plausible & Pirsch Analytics!
> "The creation of 7,500 new full-time Teamster jobs at UPS and the fulfillment of 22,500 open positions, establishing more opportunities through the life of the agreement for part-timers to transition to full-time work."

"How ya' doin'? This is my brother Jimmie, my cousin Jimmie, and his son Jimmie. Nice place ya got here. Mind if we take a look around?"
What are you talking about? Of course you need the latest model to get the latest software.

The next version will work as a driverless taxi for you while you sleep! That car will practically pay for itself. It will be out in 2017.

Oh, did I go too far with the last bit?
It's more likely that you are confusing lead and Sarin.
I second the Realforce R2 recommendation :)
Tech worker in Austin here. I'd like to throw Abbott and Patrick in the Rio Grande.
To be fair, you won't be able to do that with an AI either.
Unfortunately the linebreaks were lost and, as shown that isn't a valid PRQL query. It would have to be either

from employees
group role (
sort join_date
take 1
)

or

from employees | group role (sort join_date | take 1)

In English:

Take the 1st employee
by (earliest) join_date
for each role
from the set of employees
Here are examples of MongoDB aggregations: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench/blob/main/mongodb/q...

They are painful to write compared to SQL queries.

Although the commercial version of MongoDB has support for SQL, it's not available for general MongoDB users.
We use Greenhouse at my work. I don't know how ubiquitous it is, but I see the resumes how they were originally uploaded.
He's as skilled at branding as those he ostensibly decries. There were many perfectly good* words to describe this phenomenon - degradation, ossification, sclerosis and more. Instead we've got this ugly neologism, the literary equivalent of a poop emoji. I agree with a lot of Doctorow's ideas, but I don't care for his commodification of dystopia. It feels like using goths to sell cigarettes.

* Not 'cromulent'
I can already select a word or phrase in my browser, right-click and choose "Search the web (or Google etc.) for this".

So I think we already have this feature. Now we just need better search-engines. Maybe AI supported ones? Wait we already have those too.

Making every word look like a hyperlink is a bad idea because often the user will want to search for a whole phrase, not just an individual word.
Haha, well warranted, I think. Sean O'Brien succeeded James Hoffa - son of the infamous Jimmy Hoffa. So the mob connections are not too far away there.
This is great news for workers in America in general. I know HN doesn’t like unions, but this shows that unions do work when they are motivated in working for the people they represent. More than Sean O’Brien, this victory was made possible by TDU’s rank and file members not giving in when UPS tried to shortchange them.
I was struck by the final passage in the article:

>“While it is important to preserve and defend academic freedom and as such be able to discuss and present to students and the public the results of research observations and strategies, you should be mindful of how you present your views,” Udeani [the pharmacy school Dean] said.

Notably, Texas has banned diversity and inclusion programs and trainings. I think it is a valid line of questioning to ask whether or not the Dean's advice here constitutes an inclusivity mandate that would be illegal under Texas law.
> The biggest reason we have free speech in this country is so that the government cannot punish people for speaking up against it.

I’d go a step further and say it’s the only reason since the first amendment only applies to government retaliation.
> As Nilay Patel from the Verge put it [1]
>Your regular reminder that the biggest threat to free speech is the government.

That is a dangerous distraction. A private institution doing the same would not be dangerous in a perfect world of spherical cows and purely free market with no hindrances such as wealth concentration, any kind of politics and the involvement of anything that looks like a human. It’s disgusting to see people, even now, missing the forest for the tree because all they can see is their government. Useful idiots, all of them.

Sure, it is terrible and a terrible government is terrible. But get rid of it tomorrow and you’ll just get a corporatist oligarchy that won’t be any better, far from it.

The problem is power, not (only) government. Power needs to be checked. Once you’ve drowned your government in your proverbial bathtub, you’ll still be with any guns you might have, on the wrong side of power dynamics.
This is really awesome, one of the few jobs that now seem to be keeping up with inflation.

20 years ago I remember they paid everyone $8.50 an hour starting out, but had awesome perks like free college and housing assistance. Slowly they of course eroded the perks away, so the least they could do is pay more.

Kudos Teamsters.
I think "superconductor MRI" is redundant.

The failure modes would mostly be the same as for the big ones: sucking in metal chairs if you're not careful.
Technical analysis is basically just taking advantage of people. All for the benefit of creating short-term liquidity. I feel the cons outweigh the pros. But it is difficult to draw the line.
Applicant tracking systems mostly are extremely .. basic. Have worked around too many HRIS.

Imagine someone coming up with a brilliant insight of searching for keywords 20 years ago and dibbling down on it.

There is little if any subtlety in the filters most of the time.

Very little language understanding of synonyms. LLMs could be really interesting in this regards.
well.. my understanding is that the difficulty with those projects is converting fast moving neutrons into electricity without degrading the material.. :)

but a room-temperature superconductor would certainly lower the operating costs of all of the prototype fusion reactors that currently exist.
Ok, here's a set of solutions:

- Don't build systems intentionally designed to be addictive or make people feel worse about themselves.

- When you are told that the things you've built make people feel worse about themselves, don't keep building them.

- When choosing where to work, don't work for places that don't follow the above.

- Stop equating 'not making as much money as possible' with an unbearable or inconceivable personal sacrifice.

- Stop looking at the incentive structures around you and pretending you don't have any personal agency.

- In general, stop fobbing off personal responsibility on the collective crowd, especially when choosing where to apply your skills and what impact you can make on the world as a relatively privileged and well-to-do tech worker.

(with the obvious, HN-required caveat that if your child is dying because they need an infusion of Meta stock every 3 months or their heart will explode or your parents inadvertently crossed the Cali cartel and the only way you can keep yourself and everyone you've ever met alive is by working for as many Zuckerbucks as you can afford, I'm not speaking to _you_ specifically. The rest of you need to stop pretending you're morally obligated to build shit that makes society worse, though.)
Thanks for writing that up! I disagree though, I prefer the processor.process for clarity, and for not adding another way of doing things that regular methods already do.
It was a big surprise to me. The standard story in all of the papers is that legacy admission is affirmative action for white people. In other words, they let in dolts with low SAT scores merely because they had parents who attended the school. The newspapers say this all the time. But the statistics say something different. The Princeton admissions office apparently has so many legacies that they can pick and choose the most amazing.
I was curious if that held once one accounted for means, and sure enough they have an income graph. Interesting article!
How much less spending power do employees have now as compared to 2020? That’s the real question… If it’s less than a 30% adjustment they will just come out less behind.
In his talk, Feross mentioned that it would cost approximately 1 billion dollars to scan the entire npm ecosystem. They do it on demand for their customers IIRC. Try signing up and running their scans on it.
The complaint is below for reference.

http://lawyersforcivilrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/...
The video by one of the creators (at the very bottom of the page) is super interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i3db-QgHYE

I was too young for this when it happened, but it reminds me a bit of when randomized video chat sites (Chatroulette and others?) first got popular in ~2009. I was a senior in college at the time, and we'd have big house parties during which we'd sit a webcam on top of a TV in the living room and just let it run, connecting to random strangers. Fun and interesting dynamic as people milled around the party and had brief interactions with people from around the world.
A serious question now: if we take all the mainstream news articles (or headlines) for 20 years and correspond them to OHLC data with e.g. hour and day granularity timestamps, could some sort of AI make hourly or daily predictions?

If modern AI can generate average-human-like text and images, couldn’t it day trade as well?
This also wouldn't be the first time a south korean scientist blatantly made shit up to be a super special scientist in ROK.

All judgement withheld until we get a few more labs chiming in with their results though.
When you think of CEOs, do you think of Les Grossman?
> just don't go to those websites

I know this is Youtube, but in general: I would gladly avoid those sites but they are gaming the SEO. They are getting in the way.
Hence why I said "almost" no one. I'd bet a dollar that the number of people arguing for free ownership of bazookas is low-single-digits of a percent of the population. But I'd love to see hard numbers on that :-)
Packages are signed in exactly the same way Debian packages are signed, ie the package files themselves are not signed but the index file that lists them is.
The only sane comment in this thread.
In the end, when all the other attempts fail, they'll settle for what all the other browsers do, direct some search traffic to Google or Bing to get a fraction of those ad dollars. With enough users, this is a completely reasonable strategy for now.
As long as amazon drivers get the same sort of benefits.

I wonder if this will just make amazon's transition from ups -> amazon vehicles faster?

or are amazon workers already paid well?

EDIT: to clarify:

sorry, I thought several steps ahead without connecting the dots.

I think this is a good deal. I like UPS too.

But I worry that UPS makes an enormous amount of its revenue from amazon, and it will make UPS more expensive.

An analogy might be us manufacturing jobs treating their employees right while china is cheaper without worrying about employees. And then all the jobs migrate to china. The answer would be - china treats employees right.
oh, this again.
> Every investigation of a professor, which fails to result in any official disciplinary action, should be equally condemned?

Every publicly announced investigation or action that did not include information about the evidence that caused it to be announced that then failed to result in disciplinary action and then refuses to explain what evidence they acted on should be condemned.

> ... Do you condemn all those actions, too?

I think my above clarification of your misunderstanding of my position should address all those questions sufficiently as to my position on them.

Now, all that said, I think I might have conflated UTMB and A&M's actions slightly. I thought A&M announced their investigation and suspension publicly, while it's UTMB that was public in their condemnation of the visiting and speaking professor, and I thought A&M had been more public, when I'm not sure they were in further review.

I think UTMB's actions should be condemned unilaterally. They sent out an email stating they did not afgree with the professor and that they were formally censuring her with no evidence as to why, and still have refused to indicate why.

I think A&M's conduct was not great, but at least somewhat defensible. They took an announcement of formal censure with zero evidence, and then when they followed up and could not get not get UTMB to cooperate with more info suspended her pending additional investigation. They had evidence, in that UTMB's formal censure was itself "evidence" in their eyes, but not great evidence given there were no concrete details other than that. I suspect, as the article alludes, that the environment of petitioning for funding had something to do with their knee-jerk reaction.

That said, I see no reasonable justification for UTMB's actions, where they publicly and formally censured the professor with no evidence given then or since.
I was talking to someone who’s partner works at UPS doing IT stuff. Apparently their contingency plan was to force people like him to additionally work the striking roles for no additional pay under the threat of firing.
I agree. Someone else here also mentioned that they prefer code that is easy to read over code that uses a lot of "unfamiliar functionality," let's call it that. And I do agree; Kyle mentions the same thing if I remember correctly when it comes down to JavaScript. It is better not to expect your colleagues or other developers to know the ins and outs of the language as well. If one way is 10x easier to understand, just stick with that.

But as you said: if you know it, it's probably awesome. In my opinion, it never gets boring to discover new things in Python, and it does make you a better Python developer. Knowing what and when to apply certain knowledge is where your experience comes in.
I still miss AFS ACLs.

For the last 25 years at 8 different jobs everything is over NFS. Every company uses Unix groups and some have used groups to manage project access. Sometimes it can take 3 days to get added to a group.

When I started college in 1993 we learned in the "Intro to Computing Environment" class our first semester how to create ACL groups.

I have a degree in computer engineering so I understand binary, octal, hexadecimal, but chmod 755 or 644 or whatever is not exactly intuitive.

AFS permissions are much easier to understand. When we had a group project we would all make a directory for that project and only give access to the other people in our group. We could give them read or write and everything worked great.

I know NFSv4 has ACL support but I've never seen it actually used anywhere.
Y'all talking about the US drug war didn't read the article or if you did did not understand it. The era the article talks about (mostly) predates the existence of the US and all of it is before the war on drugs.
While there's some stuff in C#/LINQ/EF that's more verbose (left joins are often a nightmare) or not-supported, I'll always say that I prefer writing queries in EF than in SQL, at least when dealing with SQL features that are supported by EF (which is a lot of them, it's a very expressive dialect).

But EF lets you start with FROM, lets you do whichever keywords you need in whichever order (instead of WHERE -> GROUP BY -> HAVING and you've got to CTE or Subquery if you want another GROUP BY). It also lets you access the members of a group because the objects are still treated as a graph instead of being pulverized into a flat table like SQL does. It also makes your FKs into first-class navigational properties of the table.

Like, if I have an addressID and I want to get its country code?

In MS SQL that's

SELECT CountryCode
FROM Country
INNER JOIN ProvState ON ProvState.CountryID = Country.ID
INNER JOIN Address ON Address.ProvStateID = ProvState.ID
WHERE Address.ID = @AddressIDParam

In EF that's

db.Addresses
.Where(a => a.ID == addressIDParam)
.Select(a => a.ProvState.Country.CountryCode)

EF has a hell of a lot of flaws, but linguistically I love it. Yes there's a lot of aliasing boilerplate in EF, but the ability to walk the foreign keys and the fact that you can put the select after the table name pays off so very well.

Also there's a dialect of LINQ that looks more like SQL but it's kind of weird and I don't love it so I prefer to use the lambda syntax above.

In that dialect, it's

from a in db.Addresses
where a == addressIDParam
select a.ProvState.Country.CountryCode

which is even more terse and SQL-y although I find it a weird linguistic mash-up.
I don't think so. The air conditioning bit was a big point*, and it doesn't look like they've moved at all since June. The deal says they'll put AC in vehicles purchased from 2024 forward, but no retrofits except for a "heat shield" for the cabin. Unless UPS plans to replace its fleet in 2024 (it does not), it will be years before the vast majority of drivers have AC. More are going to die.

*because multiple deliverymen have died of heat-related illness while on the job, and it's otherwise a major long-term health concern
Indeed. And the annoying thing is that it's the people that didn't believe in climate change 20 years ago that made that a reality. There was a HN comment about this long ago that summed up those stages nicely.

It's frustrating to me on a personal level. Back in the early '00s it was pretty clear to me that we were headed for a massive problem. I did what I could to cut all kinds of ways in which we - as a family - were contributing. But in the end it had zero effect because the real agents of change weren't budging, not even a micro meter. So here we are today. The house I live in is more than energy neutral (my plans have been accelerated a bit on account of Putin's madness). But I make myself no illusion that it will matter, it's just a token bit of resistance, a tiny drop of green in an ocean of black.

Things I wonder about (but no longer worry about): will my children make it through this crisis that we have created? Will our political institutions somehow survive? How big a population - assuming we survive in some numbers - will there be left and will there still be enough structure standing that we don't have to start all over from scratch?

If you really start to think about the possible consequences of climate change you won't be having many good nights of sleep going forward. And there isn't a thing that you personally are going to be able to do about it, except maybe as a figleaf for your personal mental health.

Very, very frustrating.