skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oxford and Cambridge both begin with an ML, the same way I was taught last century (although of course it's a different ML today, I believe one of them uses Ocaml).

Unavoidably I am biased, but I nevertheless feel confident that this is the correct way to teach programming to CS students in particular. One reason to use an ML, and especially to use a less common ML, is to create a level playing field. Teaching Python, Java (as they do today at his institution), or C (yes that happens) means some of the fresh students have months, maybe years, even occasionally decades of prior practical experience in the "first language" before day one. These students will find most, or even all, of the exercises trivial and so they won't actually learn what you were teaching, which may surprise them too, they're also likely to be disruptive, after all they're bored because this is easy.

Now, for just a "level playing field" you could choose almost anything unpopular these days. Pascal? Scheme? Fortran? But that's not the only reason. MLs have a nice type system, which is great because probably simultaneously on the theory side of their course your students are learning about types, and Hindley–Milner gets you from a theory to a real world, from why this is a good idea, to huh, the machine did exactly what I meant, that's neat. If your colleagues are teaching them a sane approach to types, but you're teaching a language which says YOLO, everything is just a bag of bits don't worry about it, that's not a cohesive message. Likewise for function composition. It'd be nice if the first language you're teaching has actual bona fide mandatory TCO, so that when the nice elegant explanation in the theory class shows tail calls, the result in your practical class isn't a room full of stack overflow errors (or worse).

This is reasonable for a First Language because you're expecting to teach these students several languages. The same doesn't apply to say, an optional module for Geographers that gets them enough Python to use a GIS competently. But we are (hopefully) not relying on Geographers to invent the next Python.
Third-Party Cookiepocalypse
It looks like Goldman Sachs gave him the wrong notes to read from. Or maybe, GS is readying to make a massive investment in AI companies and they need their valuation to come down so that they get a better price?
Even companies that do own commercial real estate but aren't in that business must see it as a sunk cost and that employees are volunteering to provide their own office space for free.
You shouldn't trust any company, be it Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, ... etc. etc.
55 Shocking Cloud Computing Stats
the real war against remote work is coming from middle management who can no longer hide under the 'I keep them in line' mantra. Corps have become bloated by too little competition (e.g. from mergers) or collusion, toxic departmental politics, etc. We could lose half of middle management and pay the lowest tier more AND be more producive and profitable in many corps.
Vendor sponsored, still interesting IMO
Even better, you can `git add -N` and just record the intent to include the file in a later commit, without staging its current contents. Nix seems happy with that.
Maybe if YouTube premium wasn't 10x the revenue of a normal ad user and YouTube creates a real way to browse videos it would work? It worked for Netflix, I don't see why it would not work for them.

The reality is that Google depends too much on its ads business and can't afford to spin their business model.
Also, almost anyone who wishes can, at any time, fly to a country that has affordable and efficient healthcare and be a customer.

I have friends (Americans) who have had procedures recently in South Korea, Turkiye, and Germany. Sometimes it's just easier and faster, and isn't that expensive even if you don't use insurance.
Less experience in reading and de-obfuscating it.
Yup. And electing people to office with at least an iota of conscience. One area the current admin is better than the previous one - labor issues. Not perfect (they screwed the railway workers) but better
>I'm not sure why people are behaving like it's either 100% remote or 100% in the office, and they are locked in a cage.

A lot of people have very strong personal preferences (though probably mostly not 100% in person) and they're worried that you'll have a boiling the frog slide towards some outcome they really don't want even if they'd be OK with a more nuanced version.
They raised around $1b in the secondary market on top of their IPO in 2018 raising around $1.6B and generate around $4-5B a quarter in revenue.

They have a massive amount of cash on hand to allow them to execute their global expansion

> Chinese companies must be dumping goods in an effort to survive, even if it's below profit levels

The youth unemployment figure is largely due to a lack of white collar jobs, which is unrelated to industrial capacity.

Low value manufacturing is still chugging along, and this is where PDD/Temu really shines - by providing a better marketplace UX for these kinds of manufacturers to sell globally.

Medium value manufacturing would never sell via PDD/Temu, instead acting as a white label manufacturer or B2B.
Yeah I don’t think elon musk is sipping whisky with his landlord and the small business chamber of commerce of downtown palo alto or wherever the “X” office is conspiring to bring the workers back into the office.

He’s just a myopic asshole.
Post an article biased the other direction to set a counter-balance.
> > a few $k/mo

> Isn’t that the cost of one engineer already?

Only for very cheap engineers and very large values of “a few”. $120k/year is pretty low total compensation for an engineer (and the cost of an engineer exceeds their total comp because there is also gear, and the share of management, HR, and other support they consume) and amounts to $10k/month.
Maybe funding sources are saying "if our real estate hedges implode your funding dries up, get your workers back in town and spreading our money around"
FYI - it's not a "Firefox addon", it's just an addon and it exists for Chromium based browsers as well. And I agree that it's fantastic.
This clip was edited to stitch together different parts without context.

In the first part, he was discussing the impact of AI and technology on police control, and expressed “concern” regarding it.

On the second part, he was referring to his own phone being bugged.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJcey1PPiIM&t=407s

Before sharing anything from wallstreetsilver again, make sure you aren't being played.
AI is setting off a great scramble for data
close but slight correction.. sea-level rise in 15 years has gone from "cuckoo topic" to carefully monitored via centralized systems with leadership meetings. The best information that I can gather to date suggests that a) active port cities will deploy enough resources to roll with the changes, even if they are very expensive; b) large metropolitan areas generally will do the same, despite large costs; c) there is an unexpected threat to underground sewer and dry infrastructure, due to rising water tables; d) many places that do not have a lot of economics, really will go under water slowly.

Given the track record, a wager that there will be giant bailouts requested is almost a certain win, and that some portion of those bailouts will accompany graft-corruption under the covers. Lots of built infrastructure that was expensive to build in its' day, but not crucial now, will be lost to water.
FBI Shuts Down 13 Domains Providing DDoS-for-Hire Services
Its just a wrapper that, when its args[0], will expand to:

podman exec -i --wait 10 [-t] {registry.PodmanSh} /bin/sh

Which has been something people have been doing for years now. It isn't any notable added complexity that isn't usable in other contexts (they added a timeout feature for handling errors better), and it isn't new functionality.
>I’m the prime target for such opinions because of my issues with the U.S. healthcare system, but even I always understood the common understanding to be that most bankruptcies are caused by medical debt, and not debt defaults in general

Only 4% of US bankruptcies are because of medical bills. <https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/0...> A tipoff that [insert large percentage here] of bankruptcies aren't actually because of medical costs is that only 6% of bankruptcies by those without health insurance are because of that cause. The biggest cause of bankruptcies is lack of income, which health insurance doesn't affect anywhere in the world.
Why don't they write the rest of the OS in this guaranteed bugfree way too?
At our company, out of the 8 engineers I hired, only 2 had specific experience with our backend (Elixir) or frontend (Flutter) stack. I hired for apparence of talent, experience in some other equivalent stack and the right attitude towards learning.

All of them got productive rather quickly and had PRs shipping to prod in the same week, if not within a couple days.

I’m not saying it _will_ go as smoothly for anyone else, but if you have the right environment and pick the right people, as an employer you’re better off being flexible with experience.
I think this refers to the fact that college graduates make something like $1M more over their working life than non-college graduates.
Why We’re Heading into the “Perfect Storm” of Startup Closures
non crap link:

http://farside.link/twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/169035...
It is a bad take.

Most managers were people doing stuff who got promoted into 'managing' stuff with no obvious output or direct value. It's not really surprising that a chain of these people would knee-jerk react weirdly in a situation they felt exposed as not being that useful / have their limited people a management skills tested in a situation they themselves likely didn't experience.
Case in point:

>> I think a better example of a cargo cult than bad science is climate change denial. The followers see the potential loss of "cargo" in the form of their current way of life as a problem and the leaders apply the skills that brought them success in politics to that problem. Someone good at reading legal documents is going to think that there is something wrong with scientific papers.

Specifically: "The followers see..." - it is not known what climate change "deniers" believe - rather, people tell each other stories about what they believe, and believe these stories to be true. Some humans are currently smart enough to realize that this behavior is flawed in certain scenarios (race/gender/etc stereotypes), but when it comes to ~political stereotyping the mind (and mainstream "right thinking" culture/media/etc) will defend the delusional practice to the death.

Typically these topic are argued primarily using memes (Gish Gallop, Whataboutism, Brandolini's Law, etc) and rhetoric (rendering it not possible for a strict logical perspective to "win"), with some stats and studies included to give the appearance of objectivity, permanently locking humans into this ~conceptual Overton Window.

If humans could analyze and evaluate the system we are embedded in with the same emotional/psychological detachment we analyze computer systems with it would be a big improvement, but I do not see it happening anytime soon.
Pretty sure nix flake check --all-systems
Builds it for all systems, u just have to add a check for the package
always get downvoted when i make this type of post but no one has a good counterargument to the points. all this stuff is tracked and backed by many studies going back half a century or longer.
Thanks

I am not sure I understand this though:

> i just created an account for you :-)
You can disable plugin suggestions.
> If you don't pin your third party flake urls they might also change under your nose as you run the same command again a day later.

That's what flake.lock is for, it remembers the versions picked. No need to put versions in the flake urls just for that.
Is it only a perk if it basically improves family life, social life, mental health for many, reduces expenses but it also reduces pollution, combats climate change, relieves pressure on infrastructure, etc?
It’s worth noting that Microsoft offers enterprise/business variants of most solutions that are (more) private by design. This includes GitHub Copilot, Azure OpenAI GPT services, Bing Chat, M365 Copilot, etc.

It’s really a consumer’s decision when it comes to Microsoft. Either you use the basic/free version in exchange for your privacy, or you pay for a business account.

I’m not sure Google really offers that as equitably across their offerings. They seem more focused on driving their ad/data collection business rather than private, enterprise solutions (just my two cents).
I’m not a lawyer, but I find the dismissive tone in the article misleading. The article quotes a former lawyer who says that a more simplified version of terms retains the same amount of rights for companies providing services - specifically regarding AI/ML. I’m not convinced. We are probably going to see a lot of litigation and legislation about this kind of thing in the future. It is reasonable for users to protect themselves right now.
My understanding is converting huge office buildings into apartments/condos isn't cost effective or even possible a lot of the time. So they could re-zone, but possibly need to demolish/rebuild.

Maybe this will spur innovation in building for buildings that can easily be converted between the two.
Unfortunately I did not start with vim, and when I tried to learn vim (and a few years after, kakoune), I had already created a strong muscle memory for Sublime Text and it was frustrating to start from scratch.

I agree that there are editor solutions for this, but I also write and edit websites on my iPhone sometimes. As you can imagine, it's a day and night difference between editing Plim and editing HTML on a phone.
our lab just got dinged by an employee who was trying to hold got another full time job on the down low....something that would have been caught if the work was in person.
I appreciate your enthusiasm for autonomous vehicles, but to be fair, there are many things that could be done to improve road safety without self-driving tech. Personally I love the independence and self-determination that comes with driving. I'd rather roads were much safer. I don't really want to be part of the WALL•E-esque future you describe. (But I'd happy to hear a counter-argument or further elaboration of what you'd like to see happen.)
Agree. Occam’s razor: The explanation that requires the fewest assumptions is usually correct.
I uploaded this article because I have actually found a AI generated summary in one video, and I was wondering what's the opinion orher people have about it.

To me it's seems a very helpful feature for the viewers (also the description I found was good).
Unconditional love is a trope I want to die so badly. It's so.... Selfish? I read it as "You don't matter at all. I'm so big hearted and perfect; isn't it glorious?" I love my kid and wife because of who they are and specific things they do. And I tell them that. And I also tell them they can always change and my love for them will continue and change with them
I feel like it should be governments and companies that should be required to have total transparency, and individuals should be able to maintain total privacy. Seems like it is the opposite these days.
Your comment was hard to read for me but I took it as you want a premium search that prioritizes results instead of ads. And I’m telling you that another popular product, YouTube, has premium and people don’t want to pay for it. So premium search would not change anything, except for a small minority of people like yourself.

The internet has changed drastically and become orders of magnitude bigger in the last 7 years. Your expectations may be unrealistic when there are so many parties that want to game the system.
I have a hard time pointing you somewhere, I think you should start with the first chapter and see from there, it's a good primer.
This question should have made the author delete this essay, and is why it has no business being promoted on a supposedly legitimate aggregator like hacker news.

The author is either a straight up liar working to subvert what little is left of American capitalism. Or they're a conspiracy theory whacko who doesn't know the slightest thing about "the elite," or any of the people/factions that comprise it.
If you want to add page, remove page, split, merge, reorder, re-orient all or individual pages, ... May I recommend the glorious NAPS2 [1] ?

It's meant as a scanning tool but works just fine without scanning just drag and drop a pdf on it.

It doesn't do in-page editing or annotation, it's "one layer above" that.

[1] https://www.naps2.com/
It’s basically the government “strongly nudging” companies to start their RTO. I don’t think every company suddenly discovered they were unproductive
I don’t fertilize or water my lawn. It has grass and a mix of wild flowers, clover, mint and moss where there is not much sun. When the mint and clover flower it is full of bees. At night I have lightning bugs. Getting the perfect grass is over rated.
At its core, hard work is what provides self-satisfaction, I think. If you work hard and appreciate the effort you put in, it will feel like a success.

Efficiency or effectiveness of a solution is what elicits external satisfaction. Others appreciate you for your efforts when it benefits them greatly.

I think both sides are necessary! Some people naturally favor one vs. the other, too, and respond better to one of these two types of feedback.
To spell out the obvious, the problem with this is what is considered acceptable in society is always changing, and it's not practical or desirable to expect everyone to submit themselves at all times to the judgement of society.

Beyond that, there is simply an inherent psychological sense of peace that comes from privacy. Violating that creates stress, and is itself an inherent bad, I would argue.
I'm still waiting to find out that there are tax implications for having X% of staff in an office building. In particular, if less than, say, 40% of staff is coming into a building, can you still count it as an office building?
This type of Q&A article is so much less interesting than an actual piece of writing dedicated to the topic.

Not worth the time IMO, and I was excited to read after the recent deep sea submersible events.
This is why they charge third parties to run unauditable google-provided code on top of your data instead.

Also, they sell provide it governments in the form of warrant requests.

For more info, read up in google ad auction fraud, and google location warrant.

Microsoft is actually worse though. For one thing, Windows’ default telemetry level lets them pull files off your machine. Here’s a Microsoft apologist explaining it:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-telemetry-secrets/

The US CLOUD Act (which Microsoft lobbied for) means that they have to pull that data in response to US warrant requests, regardless of what country you are in.

Also, they already merged mojang (minecraft) into the Microsoft login umbrella. It is clearly a dry run for when they merge linkedin and github in, so they can provide better worker surveillance capabilities to their corporate customers.
Why would anyone with skills agree to work it for 1/10 if they can get 7/10?
Still not trustworthy.

Works as advertised.

Gains trust

Changes app

Steals data

And I doubt that everybody always disables the internet connection while they use the app.
It is, but German companies and management don't see it that way. Decisions are made top-down without consulting with what the workers actually want because the priority is the company's profits.

Plus, the wellbeing of workers in Germany is already considered (at least on paper) to be top notch that mandating remote work for everyone is not considered necessary as "German workers already have it so good".

And with German labor loosing competitiveness, unions are relatively toothless when demanding remote work as there's no government mandate to offer that like it is with working hours, parental leave, etc. and the companies often threaten with relocation/off-shoring when they get demands they don't like so the German government is in no rush to pressure them for new social perks.

So it's up to you to search for a company that's fully WFH, not wait for your union to solve it for you. Unions can work only when they have teeth.
You've got my argument backwards.

Unemployment is good for manufacturing.

Unemployment means that factories have their pick of workers and are free to fire low performers. This tends to lead to better performance for export driven economies (and TEMU is an exporter).

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High interest rates is bad for companies with (presumably) short term money losing / dumping strategies. It means that everyone's runway is proportionally less.

$2.6 Billion in raised money means that the company needs to make $136 Million in profits PER YEAR to be comparable to a risk-free money market fund like VMFXX.

The more money you raise, the more money you have to make to be comparable to the risk-free rate. It's a loadstone above and beyond.

Jet.com had basically $0 vs MMFs because risk-free MMFs had nearly no money growth in 2016.

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If your investors are willing to dump $2 Billion before turning a profit, your runway is far longer at 0% interest rates than at 5.25% interest rates.
The challenging part is over. Everyone has had literally years of experience doing exactly that. We adapted. If you couldn’t adapt as a manager, you’re obsolete. Find a different job, because you now suck at the one you have. I’m sorry, but that’s just the way world works.

Is corporate real estate price the primary driving force? Perhaps not, but it’s certainly a driving force. There’s no shortage of articles and opinion pieces expressly lamenting the state of corporate real estate and businesses that catered to 9-5 office worker.

I’d say the main thing that’s driving RTO is ego. THE FAANGs built multibillion dollar vanity offices right before the pandemic. It’s a personal insult to these CEOs that the monuments to their greatness are empty. This plays out at a smaller scale down the ladder. Many people want to see their “human resources” as an ego trip.

I heard of one tech exec say about RTO, it’s just easier to collaborate when you can grab someone after a meeting for a quick chat. “What am I supposed to do on a video call? Get on another video call?”

Yeah dude. That’s literally what everyone did if you couldn’t just wait for everyone to hang up on the current one.
Let’s not forget about how the new Dart 3’s patterns can help with parsing and validating JSON: https://dart.dev/language/patterns#validating-incoming-json
No, no, I have it on good authority that the optimal strategy is to gang up on the employer and force them to meet the workers' demands.

This will somehow make the employer more competitive, rather than less, and will not in any way incentivize outsourcing and automation at the cost of the domestic jobs in question.

I read it on HN, so it must be true.
yeah and for some reason this is still a controversial statement. it's just the data that goes as far back as decades tracked over many colleges and majors. the gap has only grown wider in recent years. when one factors in compounded returns from investments like stocks and homeownership, it is even greater.
> If you can't even remember what list/set/map whatever is called, how are you going to use them?

Certainly not by dictating their names to my coworker. Why would I need to know their names? I suppose some languages require you to know their names in order to use built-in implementations, but lots of languages use other syntax – often void of natural language (e.g. [], {}, etc.) – to do the same.

I eventually got there, but it took awhile to remember. That's great if you have prioritized trivia to occupy your mind's space, but I have found no reason to.