skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife teaches people to ride horses and when she isn't doing rides or taking care of the horses she is landscaping so she spends almost all day outside in the weather.

On top of that our business depends on pasture and hay and the availability of that has everything to with cycles of heat and moisture. A good hay crop depends on having enough rain for the grass to grow but having the rain stop for long enough for the hay to dry out. If it rains on the hay while it is drying we lose the whole crop. Some years the weather is perfect but other years we are waiting for a gap in the rain to cut the hay and biting our nails the whole time worrying that rain will spoil our crop.

In upstate NY the expectation is that climate change won't make a big difference in how much water we get a year but it will make a big difference in the timing of when we get the water, it will be more bunched up so we will have more droughts that damage our crops and then more floods that damage property.

If you aren't living in air conditioning all the time, climate change can very much give you something to be worried or angry about.
They couldn't find a school district which purchased all Windows laptops to compare with?
>Seeing how random gpt performs this task nowadays I became much more skeptical towards this

In the paper, they say RLHF GPT performs worse on the task so it's not too surprising
C is like a high level assembly language. It maps very closely to how the computer actually runs programs. That, and it’s simplicity, make it a great way to learn.

It’s not usually a great idea for production code anymore, but for learning it’s fantastic.
Do not confuse Google's revenue with market rate of an impression on YouTube. More revenue for Google does not equal higher pay for content creators. Google pays them the minimum to keep them on the platform. And that minimum is tiny since their platform is essentially a monopoly.
There is a freight train grade crossing nearby, and there is an official sign which reads "NO TRAIN HORN" and then below it, there is very meticulous lettering reading "EXCEPT SOMETIMES" and I swear I have never quite figured out whether it is official, or some joker's joke that's been permitted to stay there for years on end.
A 100 years ago we didn’t have software.

Oil was all the rage and had only started being massively available two decades ago.

Ford had recently started.

And IBM, then CTR, was just 12 years old.

I wonder how things will look in another 100 years. Perhaps the web won’t have changed much. Perhaps the mere concept of a CMS or human-written software will be laughable.

Unrelated, but funny enough to be worth mentioning, it appears IBM’s founder was the father of Fairchild Semi’s.
You are getting this impression only because of the HN/tech bubble. Twitter quality has gone up and so has usage.
It excludes the possibility of jobs "moving" to India if both are growing that statement is just wrong.
That is not the definition of the word nepotism at all, nepotism is just giving family members unfair favouritism.

No definition I've come across requires the candidate perform poorly, where have you come to this conclusion?
To see with my own eyes, think with my own brain and learn from my own experiences?

Outrageous!

Give me the secondhand wisdom of authoritative strangers every time.
Thanks for adding this! I didn't want to talk about Sheikh Hasina's popularity because I'm not Bangla.

> I'm scared to see this article in the New York Times, and what it might mean for what the neocons have in store for the country

In all honestly, they can't really do much.

Bangladesh is pretty insulated because most critical services are provided by Chinese and Indian companies working closely with Bangladeshi companies.

Exports aren't drastically impacted either as anything Bangladeshi could be re-exported via the UAE, Singapore, or India, should worst come to worst.

And most critically, the US is a bit player in the region. They have no bases, local allies, or power projection in that region.
The users could simply run a debugger to get a backtrace from the core file... then with some experience, they would learn to associate different hex addresses with different kinds of errors. No harm, no foul.
I wonder if Anti-hype lists become the next awesome lists
Here is the link to the FCC docket. Looks like comments can be still be added.

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/search-filings/results?q=(pr...)

Edit: looks like hn escapes the parentheses in the docket query. Here’s a short link — http://bit.ly/45nSowI
Jesus, no! Not all of my teachers were great, and most of the knowledge I got, I earned on my own. But they were part of a world that had nothing to do with the world of my parents--my teachers were learned, where my immediate family was not. My teachers were, if nothing else, an example to follow, a light, a guide.

>> No longer will private tutors be restricted to the rich only.

It's not as simple. I've met plenty of poor people who leave well-tutored rich folk to bite the dust, and the other way around too. That's neither here nor there. A kid with all the tutors but with parents or an environment that doesn't favor learning, gets nowhere. That I have seen too, more times than I can count. And, let's face it, we have had the Internet for a few decades now, bursting to the seams with free knowledge. What difference will it make an AI system of dubious trustworthiness?
and yet it probably would not have been "force majeure" if it had gone the other way
Perhaps he is opposed to political solutions and
top-down control of society implied by belief in
climate change(justifying it "for the good of the planet")
proposed by jet-setting elite who will never change
their lifestyle: a hypocritical class of "climate priests"
pushing for extreme austerity and totalitarian control
of the average man while their
luxury lifestyles are exempt. The whole climate
politics begins to feel like a cult with carbon indulgences,
original sin of pollution, doomsday prophets and sermons,etc
This of course is very beneficial for fossil fuel
industry to turn climate research
into "church of climatechangeology" in
the eyes of public that will create huge opposition
to any practical reform just because it feels like forced
"doctrine from the experts" - regardless of actual value
or truth. Climatechangeology and "Faith in Science" arguments
will not receive "rational understanding" from
the value of their accuracy as long as underlying
political framework is built like a cult - they don't have
the neutrality of fact-based science and neither moral
power/conviction of religious doctrine.
Having the entire media apparatus on your side will
not make Climatechangeology more prestigious or
believable, in fact it would make it seem more cultish
and totalitarian even if its factual basis becomes
undeniable. People don't like totalitarianism and
implications of belief in climatechangeology is allowing
totalitarian control as end-goal.
Yes, exactly. It is a "controlled" break. The OS is capable of being backwards incompatible but store policies create an equivalent of it being not backwards compatible.
Those could all run in a browser. A PWA isn't cloud software, it's just software that runs on your browser.

But they would indeed ask for all kinds of permissions. And K9 and the network scanner would get a really scary-looking permission dialog.
The essay was fun to read and had excellent balance - the author talked about distractions semi-ironically with fine control of its focused structure and pacing while keeping a light and carefree tone that was nonetheless academic. I'd like to learn to write closer to this style. Is regular writing and reading more of these literary journals the way to go about it?
Thats an extreme example to me. I don't think I have ever had a phone dinner, unless we needed to show somebody a picture or take one (and both things are rare).

You can put your phone on a shelf and if somebody calls you, you can pick it up, or call them back later.
> it's just that most users really have separated in their minds (not surprising due to history) that apps come from app stores, and the browser is used for websites.

Right, because for a very long time (and maybe still) PWAs have been much closer to terrible websites than good apps. They generally don't have the same UX properties as real apps.

Remember when the iPhone first came out and web apps were the only option and they sucked balls? That never really changed. People still find mobile sites with maps that are impossible to use. They don't expect that from app store apps.

And if it's just a web site, why do you need to "install" it? A link is surely sufficient?
On Android you have to pop open a menu and find the install option. That's not inherently discoverable as you need to know it's even possible, and most people don't.

It would be trivial to present the user with a more proactive notification that a site can be installed as an app, or even include such a notice in their search results on Google, but they choose not to do so.
My parents’ cap is 10GB with $1/GB overage charge. They are on line of sight microwave connection.
I really enjoyed the Python course at Hackerrank. I knew a lot of Python already but it deepened my knowledge and I felt like there was little friction and I was having fun all the time. I did some other courses at Hackerrank and they were good too but not as good.

I self-taught a lot about compilers and related technology in the 2010s, a lot of that came from having projects where knowing about parsers was helpful (e.g. like that project where we were analyzing the results we got from arangodb and we were getting back columns in scrambled orders and I wrote something that parsed the query and could usually determine the intended order of the columns from the query and would feed them in that order into pandas, or that project where I was trying to parse mediawiki markup and later learned that it was easier to just parse the HTML)
That easily fixed by [something that's nearly impossible to do in today's car-centric political climate].
I haven't come across this one before, a similar project is https://omniglot.com/language/phrases/hovercraft.htm ('my hovercraft is full of eels' from Monty Python's Flying Circus)
Nobody replaces whole teams with ChatGPT because ChatGPT doesn't exactly work alone. They at best replace larger teams with smaller teams with better tools. More realistically the same size teams can now accomplish more. If I can date myself the person gluing chatGPT code, their own code, and the company codebase will be Dilbert not the pointy haired boss.
Wow, now you've got my mind spinning, as yes, the nomad crowd is yet another whole genre of characters and stories. You've got everyone from essentially homeless people with wheels to trust fund kids / FIRE with total freedom. I'm sure you have many stories if you were on the road that many years.
It's All Just Debian
Ask HN: Seeking recommendations for ADHD coaches, ideally familiar with tech
Hi all –

For those who've worked with an ADHD coach and found it beneficial, I'd be grateful if you could provide recommendations on who you worked with.

Thanks.
At least its not lua.
My personal wtf was with lua ignoring variable scope.. its just a hashtable it all goes into it - https://onecompiler.com/lua/3zjsw5up3
That phrase only occurs in the headline. Here's something that occurs in the body:

> “Flannery Associates used strong-arm mobster tactics to purchase the land, including suing farmers — generational farm families — promising that they can continue to operate, and then throwing them off the land,” Garamendi said.

The poster essentially asked for the article to be rephrased because it's nothing but generic finger wagging, as they claim. So before doing the work of paraphrasing the article for them, I'd prefer them to elaborate, and name the phrases they meant with "generic finger wagging". Because, truth be told, that sounded like awfully generic criticism uttered without reading the article.
When the jannies are unpaid you have to wonder why they’re doing it. They will always say it’s from love for the community, but that can often be suspect.

(We known dang moderates us out of the goodness of his paycheck, which means he’s free to love us all :)
I suspect younger people have it easier than ever. Once you get a computer or cell phone, you only need to know how to read kanji and slam that autocomplete button.
This "15-minute city" meme is the latest example of how conservative propaganda and misinformation make it around the world before the truth has even put on its shoes.
He could have payed 2 billion and walked instead of losing 25 billion plus :))

Pride can be deadly....
I love cordova for my personal apps, but once every year or two when I’m forced to update Android and iOS they become such a nightmare. I spend days or weeks getting unblocked because I don’t have unlimited time to maintain these apps alongside everything else in my life.
How interesting to use a comma splice in a phrase that's purpose-built for translations. I wonder if that was a deliberate choice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma_splice
don't worry! Algorithmic/high frequency traders provide "liquidity"! We couldn't live without it!
I think the login wall is the only big mistake; it will chase away institutions like governments, schools, etc. that used twitter as a newsfeed. The last thing he should be doing is chasing away wholesomeness.
At least their name is well
chosen
One of my best employees, ever, was "B-team." He was my second choice, after #1 turned us down.

I now think that he was much more qualified, on many levels, than #1.

He was not particularly qualified, on paper, but his extracurricular stuff showed great initiative (or "agency" as the article likes to mention). Choice #1 had all the right qualifications, but they probably thought they could do better, elsewhere. They were probably right.

My company didn't pay particularly well, so I spent a lot of time, looking for "raw material," and my management style was one that was geared towards keeping people for a long time.

It seemed to work.

I think a big "blocker," in misaligning talent, is "gatekeepers with a template." These could be HR, middle management, and, quite often, other team members, who are often asked "Could you work with them?".

We have a "template," and reject anything that falls outside that.

Here's an example, from me:

I'm retired, and was looking to find ways to help others, coming into the field. There's a fairly well-known, and successful NPO that helps disadvantaged folks to become techhies. I really liked that, and thought it would be a perfect fit.

I'm probably one of the better Swift programmers, around these parts, and have also had many years of experience doing seminars and short-form training exercises. People seem to like the way I teach. I don't really have any ego wrapped in it, and I'm not the world's best public speaker, but I also go to fairly extreme lengths, to ensure that my training is complete, well-supported, leveled to the student, understandable, and scoped.

They wanted me to proctor JavaScript LeetCode tests.

I was disappointed, and said "Thanks, but no thanks." It's not an ego thing. I would be a lousy JS proctor. That's not my area of expertise. There are, literally, tens of thousands of local folks that are better than me at that.

It’s not a job. I’m not going to fight for it. If they don’t want me, they won’t get me. Simple.

We'd just make each other unhappy.

I can understand if JS was all they taught, but I already knew they would have definitely been able to use what I had.

As it turned out, not doing that, cleared the decks for something much better. As a bonus, I’m actually able to mentor a couple of younger folks through the ins and outs of releasing software.

It’s all good.
I definitely recommend it, there's a great discord community if you do.

They also wrote an article a couple of years back and remix and server components

https://remix.run/blog/react-server-components
I suspect yes. You may not see it in your industry, but I see it a lot in the creative space. Anecdotally, I know there’s an expectation when working for a video production company that you are constantly available to react to clients. And that since much of the work is contracted to people who work odd hours, being a producer is an always on kind of job.

As for how common it is? dunno, but there was a very funny (sad?) music video that hints that this is fairly widespread phenomena, for young office workers. Quarter Life Poetry, “Circle Back”. One of the final scenes is the narrator being unable to get away from the grind even at home.

https://youtu.be/XXt1-qEjKlE?si=ps3iSQZBVYMweN83

edit: warning slightly crass
It's not necessarily hypocrisy. People often have several different things they support, and it is quite common that something that advances one of those things impedes another of those things.

They could limit themselves to actions that do not impede any of their goals, but those actions also often only minimally advance any of their goals. Often the fastest and most efficient way to achieve all of the goals is to do things that cause big advances on some of them even if they also cause backsliding in others.

Example: let us say you have two goals. These are your available actions:

1. An action that makes a 1% advance toward both goals (% measured relative to the total work needed to accomplish that goal from start to finish).

2. An action that makes a 20% advance on goal #1 but sets you back 5% on goal #2.

3. An action that makes a 20% advance on goal #2 but sets you back 5% on goal #1.

You can do one action per month.

If you just use the action that doesn't set back any of your goals, it takes a little over 8 years to achieve both goals

If you alternate actions #2 and #3, then every 2 months you end up gaining 15% net on both goals. It takes about 14 months now to achieve both goals.
maybe that's the point? maybe becoming slaves to banks and mortgage firms isn't a good thing in the grand scheme of things?
On the heels of the thoroughness of your reply, I’d like to offer what I think research indicates is a universal technique; reduce or eliminate blue light in the evening and early morning.

If your TV, tablet, or phone, has the ability to dim the screen in the evening, turn it on. Also check the settings and app stores for something that reduces the amount of blue in the screen’s output. Our species is conditioned into a consistent circadian rhythm by the rotation of our planet and the observance of light from the sun. This appears to be true regardless of location and culture and modern technology and modern indoor work environments have interrupted this natural cycle.

Also, as we’re heading into fall, you may want to look for a “blue light” emitting lamp for winter if you find yourself in a more depressive state, of stuck in doldrums. The tilt of the planet reduces the amount of light in the northern hemisphere. The addition of blue light during normal waking hours has been shown to decrease sadness and seasonal depression. With it still being off season you may find them for less right now.
Static linking / bundling libraries helps absolutely nothing. My SimCity 3k from Loki is dead because of OSS vs lack of hardware mixing, because it tries to go fullscreen with nowadays unsupported resolutions and refresh rates, etc. . The static linked copy may actually "load" but it's actually the dynamic exec which saves the day since you can at least replace/hook some functions in order to provide better compatibility with a recent desktop.
This is a double edged sword. While not being anything like crypto as it will have a real world impact almost immediately the important thing to understand and recognize is that AI is imperfect as it is formed from imperfect data as humans are imperfect. However this does mean that AI can for a lack of better judgement replace a lot of imperfect work.

The problem with this replacement is that it rips out a financial ecosystem a heavily interpersonal society depends on in the form of classes. Businesses can not make money without losing money and definitely can not continue to make more money without money to be made. It has almost like a hydrological diagram where instead it is money. The problem is that without a circular flow of income within a currency we experience what we call stagnation which will cause hyper inflation , money printed to meet demand and the depreciated value of a currency and increase in the cost of goods.There was a particularly good reason for having income tax brackets up to 70%.

AI needs laws and regulation. It will like keep progressing and ripping out key stones in the foundation of our economy. Less people working eventually means less profits for all businesses and industry.
Out of curiosity… does their ULA specify to whom/what “lifetime” refers?
Yeah, this is really, really, really dumb. There is no guarantee the USA will be around in 100 years (and honestly right now I wouldn't bet on the "staying around" side), let alone WordPress.

I think it should be illegal for companies to make any sort of guarantee like this longer than some specified timespan, backed up by some level of "corporate actuarial analysis" around how likely the company is to exist at the end of the term. Bankruptcies happen all the time and they essentially wipe out the claims of customers.
I'm not the one you're asking, but yes, I do. So? Do you think the value of my 401k depends on HFT? I don't.
I think he means LockPickingLawyer (a very popular youtuber that picks and bypasses locks of all sorts), with the meaning that the locks aren't secure.
That article promulgates a misunderstanding about immutability. For my way of thinking, python is already an interpreted language and I can enforce tropes in code more cleanly and effectively than people taking something five levels up at face value and trying to figure out what sticks when they throw it against the wall: no wonder they end up frustrated, and it's a frustrating situation.

Given:

def foo(*args):
print(args)
return

class Thing(object):
def __init__(self,a,b):
self.a = a
self.b = b
return

def foo_style(self):
return (self.a, self.b)

args is not required to refer to a tuple:

>>> foo(*[31,42])
(31, 42)

I can have objects construct parameters conforming to the specifications for a signature:

>>> foo(*Thing(3,91).foo_style())
(3, 91)

Consider that a counterexample.
I had to delete my account because the bots and feature degradation got so bad it wasn’t worth it. Plus the pay-to-win blue checks at the top of every tweet certainly earned their… negative reputation. They hurt content quality, to put it very nicely.
I used a PiHole for a while but after a corrupted SD card I said screw it and started using NextDNS. I have very few subscriptions, in fact nothing else except Spotify, but this one was worth the time saved and hasn't required any maintenance on my end.
> And if it's just a web site, why do you need to "install" it? A link is surely sufficient?

Really? You don't understand the value in having the PWA appear as a native app icon alongside everything else on the device?
While I agree that America needs to leave these countries alone, it’s getting a bit tiresome thinking America alone is going to f^%k up Bangladesh.

Bangladeshis are perfectly capable of doing that on their own.
Seconding Coherence. One of the greatest movies I've ever watched.
Primer(2004) and Triangle(2009) are often recommended with it, and rightfully so.
You have to say/do something extremely egregious for your parents to be affected in the same way.
I bet it forks some other executables, though...
I’ll toss out that I’d say the main reason people don’t like to share walls is poor construction makes it so you can hear everything through the walls. This can be easily mitigated but isn’t because money.
I’m surprised more people here haven’t heard of them.
That paper did a number on me... I was dizzy for a day. Couldn't process the implications fast enough. It was really a dangerous paper to read, you need deep de-hyping when you finish.