skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The scientific method can be understood by a middle schooler. A rigorous and independent way of thinking can be taught to middle schoolers, too. Understanding the primary causes of bias, both psychological and methodological is also something a middle schooler could be taught, (though I was never really taught it even in university).

Deep understanding of a particular field is something altogether different, and is not what I mean when I talk about capital-S “Science”. For that, you need either grad school or a lot of study.
Ideal as in (one of the dictionary lemmas) "satisfying one's conception of what is perfect". Basically a more elegant stand-in for perfect.

As artist-speak goes, for people familiar with the arts and aesthetic lingo before post-modern art, it's a very common expression, whether in Spanish, English, French, etc.
Thanks for posting this list. Makes it seem like practical decisions from my point of view.

The list you provide looks to me like a college that believes anyone in arts can actual pursue their own path and ambitions. The way the arts work this could go unnoticed if the instructors do it correctly.

This looks to me like a college that is trying to break out of the traditional liberal arts idea into more focused instruction. This will work out for students that are focused.

I went to a four year art school and I would have loved the art history department being disbanded. I was talking to my freshman year roommate and his quote was something like this.

"They knew I choose this school because I can't do that work, so why do they make us take art history."
Ken J was a much better choice
Medicaid spending-- driven by huge federal incentives-- is crowding out state dollars for higher education. Medicaid enrollment has increased 50% in WV in the last decade (while the state population has declined). The US is making a policy choice to funnel more of GDP into a wildly inefficient health care system to support obese and aging populations, instead of funding K-12 and higher education.
Mentoring, pair programming, calls, code review, etc
And a good abstract, precisely, starts with the punch line. If anything, modern academic writing style is guilty of using overly whimsical and exaggerated titles and claims to grab attention.
>Vague and fairly useless.

When creating a model your goal is to find one with minimal loss. Being able to figure how to improve a model by finding weights that reduce the loss is not a vague or useless idea.

>What is it doing to minimize loss?

The value helps us get to a location in the parameter space with lower loss.

>Only weights with values close to or at zero get pruned.

Weights near 0 don't change the results of the calculations they are used in my much which is why they don't effect loss very much.
So far my average is 1:50 with 8 trials. My worst is usually 11-13 trials in 3:30
There's a lot of talk about Chrome and Firefox. It seems simple to me -- Brave literally pays me in crypto to use it on desktop, and Firefox Nightly has by far the best extension support on mobile (I've had bypass-paywalls on there for years, which you just can't do on anything else). And then on desktop, Opera has GPT support built in, comes in handy when working on old machines for general system resource use being moderate.

Chrome never even enters the equation. Even at work, when I've got a choice between Chrome and Edge, Edge has taken over for me because of the ability to "turn a site into an app" which lets me have work resources on the taskbar as unique icons I can easily access to switch between.

I think the one thing I keep Chrome installed on my desktop for (because I have all of them) is the superior Chromecast support if I feel like casting some streaming media to the TV in the other room from a site that isn't supported by the Roku TV.

I get the social and business issues with Mozilla, but I don't see it going anywhere for me on mobile. Probably not coming back on the desktop until they literally pay me to use it though.
ARM also has pointer cryptography which may one day become a blocker.
> index all columns

check out MariaDB "ColumnStore". it recently got merged into the upstream binary, and i started reading about it. ngl i was salivating a bit.
have you tried messaging business angels?
Came here to praise jj as well. More than just "git-compatible", its backing store is literally git, which means that you can transparently collab with existing git repos to your heart's desire.

Other interesting ideas it implements:

- Working copy always comitted,
- All repo operations are version controlled, which enables painless undo etc.
- First-class conflicts, just like pijul, so no merge/rebase/etc ops every fail
- Auto-rebase of downstream dependent branches when doing rebase etc.

Also, the dev is really active and helpful. Apparently, Google let him make the project his full time job.
Dart is my biggest issue with Flutter. It's still missing ergonomic features like data classes and lower level things like unsigned 64-bit integers. There is no runtime reflection, which I think is a good thing for end user apps, but it's also missing static metaprogramming. And code generation is not integrated into a complier. Since, there is no runtime reflection, metaprogramming & integrated code-gen are sorely needed.

Flutter itself is slowly reaching maturity on mobile and is already quite good, if you can live with a few compromises.
> In response, EY announced a fund in February 2022 to reimburse up to $800 per year for commuting, pet care and dependent care costs

I can understand dependant care being considered an "employee problem" in the strictest causal sense, so it's amazing that this is considered. That being said, childcare can cost up to $3000/mo - so $800/yr is woefully inadequate.

Commute costs are another story entirely. If I were to entertain RTO (which I wouldn't), my commute time would be paid time. If being in the office is considered a job function, then by definition I should be paid while performing that function. Me doing that for free effectively cuts my salary by 20% (for a 2hour commute on top of 8hours). Furthermore, $800 is a drop in the bucket compared to the cost of fuel and maintenance - another free benefit that employers enjoy.

$800/yr doesn't cut it, not even close - especially if the employee is using that benefit for all the purposes listed.
Great points. I agree with everything but I'm not sure about the conclusion that work will be fun for everyone. I don't think there will be work for everyone. The author implies that but saying that with AI startups can do more with fewer people, which I agree. The author also recommends to hire less. Yes, there will be more companies but the question is how the average person will be able to compete. If companies don't need many people they will become more selective.
The tag bit can be inverted.

V8 uses 1 for pointers, 0 for integers - you're usually loading from constant offsets from pointers anyway, so that mostly folds away nicely. Then:

x + y is translated to CPU instructions x + y

x * y is translated to CPU instructions (x >> 1) * y

x / y is translated to CPU instructions (((x >> 1) / (y >> 1)) << 1)

x lsl y is translated to CPU instructions (x << (y >> 1))
I know right? Just like Golang, Kubernetes, Chrome APIs, etc /s
No, "ideal" doesn't refer to optimization, because it's not a scientific term. The context is Platonic forms - something is ideal if it approaches its archetypal model. This is particularly applicable to beauty.
Do you guys actually WFH in your underpants?
I was listening to an audiobook the other day on a commute that was also done with AI. The main issue I had was focus, the voice was very monotone to begin with, and at one point it pronounced “it” as “IT”. I didn’t finish listening… That said, the voice isn’t that bad in the HN example.
you can just return channel. range works over channels. Close channel once you're done with iterator. Technically there is side effect of that (iterator done like that would always produce extra value before exiting) but you could probably work around it without much boilerplate
Having worked in hardware, I can imagine most customers would 1) push the button, then 2) complain that their battery performance is reduced.
I think either works and I read with different purposes I mind.

Get your work out there and see.
Thanks for bothering to work it through, I was too lazy.

But, yeah, exactly. Everyone thinks they need to optimise the life out of this stuff at the beginning but the db can do a lot with normalised data and the appropriate indexes.

Side note - is_primary isn’t required in the partial index itself since they’ll all be “true” due to the where clause.
Well that's why you should always keep tabs on what's in demand and switch stacks if necessary.
Why do you think standup meetings are useless? Maybe they are not run properly? I find them to be a pillar of our workday, within our team.
...and this is why it shouldn't really matter.

I real life, though, having a proper Linux kernel at hand is useful.
“I’m okay, the car is damaged but repairable, I need you to come get me.” — doesn’t make as good a title, but a better status.
Most of the men's football and basketball programs revenue covers the cost for all the other sports and typically have some leftover for the university.
So music and dance fields are not impacted, but a host of enginering and computer science fields are? What? Do these departments really not bring in any grant money?
Peak oil is only relevant in a world where there is no alternative cheap energy source.

The average poor person doesn't care if oil costs $500/gallon if they have access to very cheap electricity and very cheap and good electric transportation.
Things can get way more religious than that. For example, we can look at the science and do the exact opposite of what the data tells us.
I don’t think they ever did a lookup on phone number and even if you needed to, you would just index it and it’d be fast. You can even use things like tri-gram indexes to give you super fast partial phone number matching.
I don't see why my employer needs to cover 100% of my expenses for the benefit to be useful. They are paying me extra money to try to convince me to come into the office. Especially when they can just change their policy to force me to come in without the added benefit.

Tuition reimbursement doesn't cover the total cost of college classes but I'm still glad they provide it!
It’s quite common. I own only open headphones due to this
From what I understand, it gives you partial checkouts in the absence of ”wide” patches, which are often the point of having a monorepo.
Minimal state is absolutely compatible with leftist philosophy! Anarchism itself is a leftist movement. What’s incompatible isn’t ideology, its praxis. Mainstream leftist movements rely on state power to further their goals. That said there’s still a ton of great leftist movements today that attempt to sidestep statism.
The history of email without a reference to Monty Python? How quickly we forget.

https://youtu.be/anwy2MPT5RE
I made a similar decision. I decided I will never ever work in an open-plan office ever again. However, I guess I would be ok with working in an office, if an employer offered offices with 4 walls, a door and a window with some natural light.
Are mobile stacks so specialised that it's difficult to switch between them?

Out of curiosity, how long would it take a flutter dev to become productive in some other stack?
Is it really possible for an individual to “build wealth” without exploiting the working class
Ah yes, I wasn't thinking about the gc. That makes more sense now. Thanks!
The article mentions Rippling as still having that 'spark', but they've been pretty awful the past few months. Between layoffs and data loss, it's looked pretty dire when I've talked to them.
Dad isn’t an insurance adjuster.

The point of the whole piece is to just get to the point. How the bull met his fate is a story, but who cares. All dad needs to know is Raj is fine.
Obviously I feel the pain of the OP but I think he blames the wrong thing.

Flutter is a ( viable ) technology that’s being growing for the last few years. A very significant percentage of new mobile apps are programmed with it these days.

It seems his problems have everything to do with the local job market and not the technology. With the added bonus that you can be a single man operation and release your own apps for both iOS, Android and the desktops.

I’m not a fanboy and even less of Google but Flutter really offers the ability to make lemonade if the job market gives you lemons.
In such a world progress is made faster and companies are solving more meta-problems. That is why people hand crafting html for their local businesses is no longer a thing and that kind of work is almost non technical now.
Channels and the goroutine scheduler need to be thread safe. They use locks and/or synchronized instructions that run much slower because they need to synchronize between the different cores of your CPU (or between CPUs, if you have more than one, which is slower still.) Running goroutines also saves and restores registers, trash part of the cache, or move to another core with a cold cache. Threads have more overhead, and processes more still, but that still is very slow.
In my family the line is "The good news is, nobody got hurt."
Enrollment overall sounds like the issue, which may be tied to WV population demographics. I don't know how many people are moving to WV to go to college, but the population of WV continues to shrink year over year.
The model can generate translations and humans can verify that they're accurate enough to be used for training, making corrections if needed. Verifying work is much faster than creating it.
Yeah I did in fact quit that place.

My main gripe was that my manager seemed to be having mental health issues (manic over-talking and occasional hints of psychosis). WFH was what helped me last through the covid years as I could avoid her being sat near me.

I was good friends with many people there, some of us still occasionally meetup. And I hear of a steady stream of other developers leavings because they can't work from home any more. Usually it's the younger guys who just had a kid or people with long commutes.
I remember the first time I was in an open office. I was flabbergasted. We'd all get on a call so we could talk to some remote vendor. Other people would have their mics on, so I'd hear my own voice repeated and delayed through the Zoom call. I could barely talk, and barely hear anyone. It was a self-evidently terrible decision that everyone was just going along with. Sometime later we were moved to a different open office space. It was deafeningly loud in there, and I eventually discovered that there was a white noise machine on the ceiling above every single employees head. Apparently this was meant to help with the open office design, but it did the opposite: much like a busy cafeteria, everyone had to shout over top the all the extra noise in the room. (the combined sound of about 100 white noise speakers + the sound of about 100 employees talking or working) Again, such a stupid decision I can barely understand how someone could set it up this way. I eventually just waited 'til no one was around and unplugged most of the speakers. It was a huge improvement, and no one complained.
Same here, add to that some office equipment at a huge discount, when they had to close the office during the pandemic, a one-time fair amount of cash for spending in home office equipment, and a smaller but nice yearly amount for the same.
Ask HN: Better Forms of Entertainment?
I almost always leave YouTube feeling like I wasted my time.
Are there any platforms or websites where the content is curated to be of high quality, such as educational/informative or similar, and where there is no mindless dumb stuff?
The future of work is AI-enhanced and remote
“This limitation is good for you! Never mind we’re charging extra to remove it!” Yeah, I’d be a sucker to believe that.
Secret Ingredients, Trade Secrets, and the “Onion in the Varnish”
Why does Ocaml need to tag types? (as opposed to statically knowing the type of everything)

Do they not monomorphize generics?
> Endless validation on the internet reinforces this

Yet they have been wrong time and time again.

First he was never going to face any consequences because something something connected. Then there were never going to be charges. Then he was never going to see the inside of a jail. etc etc etc

Even more delusional than those that cant see they dont have any clue - are the ones who claim "they only pressed charges because "WE" forced them into it by shining a light on the conspiracy"
I've come to disagree with the premise that eternal youth will enable people to be callous. I see too often the attitude of "I'm not going to be around to see the consequences of my actions" bandied about. I do however feel that you should only be able to receive such treatment on the condition you are sterilized.
And of you use the playground or any of the third party ChatGPT frontends that use the API you can just set the system prompt accordingly (custom instructions is basically just the system prompt). It'll still apologize here and there, but if you tell it that it's now a low level systems engineer AI, it should stop lecturing you about the dangers of low level systems engineering.
> Until 2020, healthcare authorities in the Western world were were certain that viruses could never remain airborne for extended periods of time.

Did measles not exist before 2020? Where do you people find this crazy shit?
NewtonScript had 31-bit integers, rather than 32-bit, for the exact same reason. It was a complete mess. Famously the Newton had its own Y2K bug (the 2010 bug) because dates could only be expressed with 31 bits.

If a language needs to rely on pointer tags for GC, avoid that language.
The book Loonshots by Safi Bahcall describes this phenomena quite well. There's a "phase transition" of incentives at around 150 people that can be fatal to many organizations.

The secret sauce is how a startup goes past this headcount. Ideally many software companies quite honestly don't need more than 150 people!
BMW electric line?
>But it’s almost impossible to build a “monolith” database that lives up to the modern legislation requirements, at least within the EU. So we’re basically living in a world where the way we’ve done databases for the past 50 years, doesn’t work for the business.

Not sure I agree. It seems far simpler to comply with most regulations if you store your data in a centralised data store with good management features.

If each and every microservice handles its own data, how would you implement rules affecting all of them, such as retention periods, deletion requests, permissions, access logs, etc? It's not just that the data is stored all over the place. You may also have to use microservice specific APIs to access it.

If you're referring to laws that require data storage in a particular jurisdiction, it would still be easier to centralise data management in each jursdiction rather than distribute it across scores of services within each of those jurisdictions.
The lack of demand vanishes once prices come down to something reasonable.
Off topic, but “etcpp” is a new one for me. Wiktionary suggests it is German, which amuses me because I write “etc. usw.” to mean the same thing.
Confidence in U.S. Military Lowest in over Two Decades
> where the government tells the government that the government has to stop excessive surveillance

That is how to conflate branches of government. IMO it also is an unfair characterization of the underlying complexity of the situation.

I love it when you disagree, because I believe lively civic debate is very important. It’s just hard for me to become concrete when we get stuck in generalities about “the elite” and “those in power” without precision about what it is exactly that is the problem.

I also recognize my bias, because I am actually a (small) part of this omnipotent dangerous government filled with “others” you hate so much so I think we need to agree to disagree on just about everything.
Mental illness or conspiracy theories also dilute his actions: he's either not guilty by insanity, or extremely intelligent by manipulation. We don't need to make any excuses for him: he's just an asshole sharing someone else's most intimate information.
Users with high karma get access to a "vouch" button.
Complaining about overloading the word "AI" is like complaining about the term "Cloud". Might as well move past it.
SBF "gifted" his parents millions of dollars in assets.
Pulumi itself isn't doing anything.

The TF bridge is interacting. If they really want to remove liability they'd just leave TF out of the repo and shift all liability to the end user where the first step runs a package install that brings in terraform.
• 4-bit per cell = QLC ······ 1'000 write cycles per cell

• 3-bit per cell = TLC ······· 3'000 write cycles per cell

• 2-bit per cell = MLC ····· 10'000 write cycles per cell

• 2-bit per cell = eMLC ··· 30'000 write cycles per cell

• 1-bit per cell = SLC ··· 100'000 write cycles per cell

The above degradation cycles are optimist. Looks like the SSD technology is not evolving, but counter-evolving in terms of data integrity; there are neither MLC, eMLC nor SLC disk nowadays (seven years ago widely available).
Why? That would imply that they are pretty good for most things - better than what we have now.
Yes. I clicked because I thought I was going to read about nutcases running PDP-11s under their desks. I was disappointed.
Many attorneys are miserable. It’s easy to get stuck with awful, dreadfully boring work.
Baldur's Gate 3 launch weekend stats
The type of a variable can be "x or y or z", so no the compiler won't always know that.
"And as tools (especially AI) get better, the number of users a small team can support increases. Founders of the future may not need to worry so much about these scaling pains, and work may become fun for everyone"

Except fewer of your users will have jobs because the AI multiplier means smaller teams. So your addressable matter will shrink. So another race to the bottom?

I'm sure we'll work it out right..
not really the issue here. the issue was more like why should we trust companies that went to trial and lost for lying then gave their employees a different vaccine than they recommended us to take. hell even the WHO lead didnt take the "safe" vaccine for months while pushing it to the average person and his excuse was 'I save my dose for africa'. in what kind of demented reality are we accepting that as a logical reason? it sounds like a scam at every angle you read it.
How can the entire globe be having a brain drain?

Where are all these people going?

It's just making me start to think the idea of brain drain is mostly leaping on any minor data point to make your point.
Yeah no thats not a solution. Figure out how to get back the time and costs lost to commuting, then you'll have a solution.

Of course one does not exist, and theres zero reason (especially for a valley company) to force people into an office.
I have been following the vector database trend back in 2020 and I ended up with the conclusion: vector search features are a nice to have features which adds more value on existing database (postgres) or text search services (elasticsearch) than using an entirely new framework full of hidden bugs. You could get way higher speedup when you are using the right embedding models and encoding way than just using the vector database with the best underlying optimization. And the bonus side is that you are using a stack which was battle tested (postgres, elasticsearch) vs new kids (pinecone, milvus ... )
> Boggles my mind, and scares me to death how clearly susceptible the population is to disinformation.

This was discovered long time ago and the three letters agencies use that as part of their playbook to control the narrative.