skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading between the lines a bit on the existing postings about it, I'm guessing that they were unable to persuade any businesses to actually relax their interviewing standards for candidates who passed the Starfighter tests.

Which then puts any candidates in the position of, why should I spend time and effort on this little game if it doesn't lead to any advantage at all in actually getting good positions?

And so, the only people who messed with it were developers who had the free time to play with stuff like this and didn't particularly care that it wouldn't lead to any advantage in getting jobs.

Which means, it's a cool toy that was high-effort to build and probably to maintain, but had no viable path to earn money from anybody.
The problem with that idea is that waste energy is by definition high entropy, so it's hard to get it all to go in one direction. It's conceivable that you could spend additional energy to pump it one way, such as having an active heat pumped shield between you and the direction you think your observers will be looking from.
It tells exactly that it is a link.
Author here.

While you are technically correct, the key is your own statement:

> where it mostly suffers existentially.

Yes, theorem provers exist, and they work. But proving that the end result, the actual machine code, corresponds to the proven code, is the big problem.

When I talk about correctness in the post, I'm really referring to two things:

1. Correctness as you have defined it,

2. The compiler artifact being as faithful as possible to the input source code.

Avoiding UB is an excellent way to improve the latter.
Their usual source of food like seals taste better because they have much more fat to keep them insulated and mariners are generally leaner people. Once they get a taste of the average sedentary American and their corn fed blubber, I’m sure they’ll acquire a taste for manflesh.
Users very rarely vocalize their need for speed and even less their need for simplicity. App size being low might as well be associated with "low-content" so not valuable, a lot of effort to seem less valuable in the end.
Kapa: ChatGPT for your developer-facing product
Sound like a dream. I'd love to see a picture of that basement.
this was a pretty good article. im going to get a playdate console to play around with it and have fun playing games for it.
It depends on where you are in Japan, it's mostly Green but there are some Blue ones occasionally.
I agree with the sentiment of the article, but I'd advocate a balanced approach. Sometimes inefficiency is perfectly fine.

> Would you buy a car if it eats 100 liters per 100 kilometers? How about 1000 liters? With computers, we do that all the time.

A more apt analogy would be, "would I buy a car that gets 100,000 km/liter over a nicer car that gets 1,000 km/liter?".

Seeing as a I drive about 12k km/yr, the difference in cost in absolute terms is negligible for me (it would be about a $25 Euro difference), even if it's a huge improvement percentagewise. Sure, there's no cars that get this kind of performance, but for computers, the cost of running my laptop for an entire year is less than what an hour of my work-time is worth. If energy were 10 times the price, it would still be negligible.

Just look at the quoted example:

> I have a Python program I run every day, it takes 1.5 seconds. I spent six hours re-writing it in rust, now it takes 0.06 seconds. That efficiency improvement means I'll make my time back in 41 years, 24 days :-)

So this person took six hours to write code that saves 1.44 seconds/day. So it will take 15,000 days to make back that time (I know, I know... they probably did it for some intellectual satisfaction rather than to actually save time).

But as I said, I still agree with the sentiment of the article. There are so many cases where making code more performant wouldn't even mean a significant amount more work... it would just mean watching out for very heavy libraries, doing some negligible performance tweeks, etc.
I had to buy a case fan to set atop my Intel 4port mini PC, otherwise it would hard lock due to heat. Now, I needed it for the network ports, but there are tradeoffs.
Tim Cook can't make iPhones without this Chinese company and its CEO
Well as per the other points, VAT isn't actually a corporate tax that actually works - Firstly because it is a tax on consumer prices rather than corporate profits or revenue.

If you were a highly profitable oil drilling company, or were in the business of mineral extraction, or were an investment bank for instance, you would not be taxed at all under a 'VAT only' system.

IMO we might as well just say 'don't tax companies' - VAT isn't a substitute for a corporation tax, because it's not a tax on corporations (it's a tax on consumer purchases').
> Which really blows some people's minds. "Well it's a little bit orange." No it's not, not your regular American bottled or fresh OJ. Straight-up yellow.

Well, it wouldn't be that weird if you were right because we name fruit juices after the fruit, not the juice color, but I’ve never seen orange juice that wasn't distinctly on the orange side of yellow, even if its more yellow than orange, including fresh and bottled American orange juices.
One day it will be like the movie, "They Live", only putting the glasses on prevents the ads that have invaded every waking moment of your life from showing.
A souk is an open-air market, like a bazaar:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazaar
The timing of this with the larger global conflicts that started in the period seem to me to be totally tied together. My impression is not that of an increase in democracy and anti-jacobianism, but one of increased militarism.

I don't know where I heard it, but, 'men's fashion marches with the army'. That's something I've always seen as a truism, and maybe one born from the time period in question. The explanation I heard was that this was due to the inherent value that society places upon men to do the dangerous work of war fighting. So, in peacetime, men whose dress imitates and looks akin to the dress in the military are then seen as more masculine. Crucially, you can't just dress like a solider when out and about unless there is a war on or if you are required to dress as such by being on duty. Stolen valor and all that jazz. You can only imitate.

Male fashion is just such a deliciously complex topic, especially since this renunciation, as it's all about the very tiny details and very subtle changes. So very military these things are!
This article says the user will be notified if any data is automatically converted when opening a CSV. This should have been done a decade ago but I'm still glad to see it.
That would be the case if the NASA article was "The earth became greener from 1985-2000", but that's not the case. I think the quotes you cited earlier, which add up to "The baddies say this; here's a superficial response you can brush them off with", are indicative of the problem with politicised science. No one will admit that things might not be as they are constantly communicated to be, generally by communicators who are not scientists.

In this case: it's interesting that CO2 has a negative feedback loop where less CO2 means fewer plants, increasing CO2, and more CO2 means more plants, decreasing CO2; have climate models taken this into account (enough)?
I'm a student trying to upskill in geospatial/compsci. What kinds of projects could you make with all of this? Any good starting points you'd recommend?
Neither Yarn 1 nor pnpm have seamless interop with npm, but pnpm is more clear about this and you get the benefit of it's linked install strategy (which npm is adding, btw).

People really should get off of Yarn 1. It's not maintained, has a poor package locking system, and bugs will simply never be fixed.
This is just nonsense. There are plenty of old (6-7 year old boards) very well supported in Linux. I've been using several such boards for that long.

If anything, support gets better with time, usually.
So... pretty much everyone these days?
How much programmer time has been wasted by gdbs byzantine UX? In a rational world, would we collectively invest time into building extremely good debuggers?

It's a tragedy of the commons, where everybody would benefit from better tooling, everybody wastes time dealing with poor tools, but nobody is willing to put time/effort/money into making better tooling.
The important number is the number of Ka-52. Those have been causing trouble for Ukraine offensive since they can launch missiles from longer range. Estimates there are 200 of them. 21 is large percentage of those, and even more of those active in theatre.
is this open source by any chance?

i guess your contacts have to install the app too?

im completely ignorant about iphone development, whats the tool stack for SwiftUI? do you need to develop in macos or is linux supported?
Nice site, I made some quince jelly a few days ago so checked their recipe and process out of interest, looks like I did it right!
Great, it has a link to the bug:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=148880...

Fix was commited 7 days after the report was filed.
This is one of the major gripes I have with modern software too. It is becoming overly inefficient. I personally attribute this to two reasons:

1) Product managers have more influence and decision making in prioritizing what should be delivered. I have routinely encountered wherever I worked that any work related to improving efficiency or spending time in non-business related work is constantly de-prioritized. Controlling programmers time means certain system bugs get lower priority and junk accumulates over time and software gets bloated. There are code-path ways which are not being used anymore but no-one bothered to clean up as they have not been instructed to do so yet.

2) I find the explosion of javascript in popularity is a major reason of this inefficiency. Imagine the compute and electricity wasted globally because certain developers don't want to build multi-threaded applications and prefer dynamic typing.
From the very link that you cite: "Webb's book, though well-written and often insightful, is more an exercise in ethnic self-mythologizing than an evenhanded attempt to judge the impact of the Scots-Irish and their culture on America."
Why didn't I think of this? Very cool.
Immediately made me think of VASIMR but with a much more obviously powerful energized ion source (a fusion reactor). And, seems kinda true:

> Comparison: While both models employ plasma and
magnetic fields, VASIMR’s thrust generation does not
hinge on fusion reactions, setting it apart from the
MFPD.
https://github.com/BatouResearch/Cog-SDXL-ControlNet-LoRA
They are not as high as you might think, a J4105 still idles at 4W without optimization. And at least for my use cases, idling is what the CPU does most of the time.
Just out of curiosity, how did you end up wasting so much food? Did it go bad or just not taste good.
The future of 100% driverless vehicles would be great since there'd no longer be any reason to pull anyone over. The driver of the vehicle would be Apple or Google or Uber or Tesla. The occupant could be happily hammered on whatever drugs they like without causing any risk. Cops would have to find a new job.
I don't think that the idea is that people with dark triad traits are necessarily super geniuses or manipulative masterminds. They could be people with just above average charm who are willing to use it to hurt people. Or they could be people who are able to superficially appear charming long enough to get what they want; even if they don't have the charisma to keep up the act long term. Even someone with below average abilities could cause significant harm. E.g. a co-worker incompetently throwing teammates under the bus could hurt the team even if they don't actually help their own career.
What sort of retaliation?
Wake me when it’s real.
If you believe that a computer can and inevitably will create this content, it’s also a foregone conclusion that its origin will be obfuscated and diffuse. I can’t see how an actor working in country X will collect on use of their likeness generated by a computer in country Y. Similarly, if 10,000+ individuals with computers are producing infringing content, I fail to see how anyone could seek recompense with any effectiveness. Additionally, if the content is generated from a computer it would seem relatively simple to alter it just enough to call into doubt the likeness used and make it prohibitively difficult for an individual to claim it is in fact their identity and not a fictional derivative protected by some fair use laws. I’m not a copyright expert and I expect we’ll see attempts at legal battles as you suggest, but I expect they’ll pretty much go nowhere unless the ‘offending’ counterparty is seeking conflict, and the result will be a fundamental undermining of the authority that the current copyright system holds.

Edit: I think the closest approximation of a solution to the compensation/control questions re digital content in an age of on-demand generative AI will involve content creators of all stripes self-hosting and self-publishing to make it easy for fans to directly patronize. Trying to stop clones is a fool’s errand.
yes bun as a package manager is great. I wouldn't advise anyone to run a production app with its runtime though. "drop-in replacement" for node was a lie with how many bugs and how much unimplemented stuff there is
> The idea that any person has ever turned to the patent system in order to solve a software engineering problem is pure fantasy.

Holy non-sequitur, Batman.

How about the idea that people have ever used a publicly disclosed technique that has aged out of patent protection? (Including indirectly, such as by using a library incorporating the technique)?
Why do Rivian batteries degrade so much more quickly than other manufacturers'? 1500 cycles is fine with a Tesla, IIRC something like 10% degradation on average (and for most people 1500 cycles takes way more than 3 years! You'd have to drive >100k miles per year to hit that! I imagine most Rivians are driving 10x less than that)
I do not share that optimism. I see it as far more likely the technology will be demanded and satisfied, that the ai chat bot acommodate immature and depraved maladaptive behaviour patterns, e.g. allowing a sadist by habit and pleasure to indulge in his questionable choices. It's like expecting the car industry to 'teach' people from the midwest to prefer more environmental-friendly pickup trucks. My view is, that the exact opposite will be enabled.
> The word "ao" in Old Japanese already had the blue/green confusion before the character 青 was borrowed to write it

What would the evidence for this be? It's clear that the word "ao" does not derive from the Chinese pronunciation of 青. But its meaning could easily have shifted under the influence of the spelling. Do we have a source that writes the word without spelling it 青?
Oh, I’ve taken that test before. I’m a man, but I got a perfect score. I’ve always had a very easy time distinguishing shades and hues of color.
Although known for his children’s books, his writing for adults is hilarious. The children’s books have a dark edge to them, but the adult writing is fully suffused with it. They definitely adult, very dark, and let his twisted humor run riot.

Well worth the read, they had me in tears.

The New Yorker has a nice over view: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/roald-dahls-twis...
With GPT-4 overseeing training, robots can learn much faster
Dang, Alan Kay's old talks are so amazing.

Check out this Smalltalk program written in 1975 by a 12-year-old girl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2LZLYcu_JY&t=2274s
How does one come in contact with this fungus under normal circumstances?
Nope. We always meant to, but got sucked into new stuff shortly after.
As far as I can tell, unless an energy source as convenient, cheap, and portable as fossil fuels is discovered, the additional carbon footprint of moving more mass further distances (rural living) is unavoidable.
If you've been wondering why there's so much hype around vector databases at the moment this article should help explain that too - embeddings and vector databases both occupy the same space.
> You have so much land, Canada, why is everyone huddled along the border?

It's because of the Canadian Shield: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Shield

Basically, it's hard to farm because the topsoil is thin. (But I'm sure that if there's a will to live there, there's a way.)
I can only imagine that the person from Sun Microsystems who was responsible for Java 1.2 being called "Java 2" and Java 1.5 being called "Java 2 Version 5.0" has since found work at Microsoft.
Agreed, this year I dried a ton of apples, pears and plums, bumper crop. I call it "homesteading".
Excel is wildly popular. Good chance it's the dominant programming tool by user count.

Excel is broken, terrible crap.

Both of those are true at the same time. There is surely a market opportunity there.
> wouldn't want to continue accumulating it as they know it's purely at the expense of other people

> Therefore, having a billion dollars is a clear sign that millions of people have been exploited by that billionaire.

When two people enter a trade freely, they both come out richer. How is that at the expense of other people?

You sound like a communist.
Does Homebridge not have a plug in for Nest? The one for Unifi cameras is just ok and takes forever to load an image. The doorbell notification is better than the camera experience.
Some folks in this subthread would benefit with re-acquanting themselves with some old OS research. I am specifically thinking of Opal [0] which differentiates the various roles virtual memory management plays. In Opal, all tasks (processes) share a single 64 bit address space (so you can just share pointers) but hardware provides page-level protection.

[0] https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~levy/opal/opal.html
Nope. There's a lot of stuff I've meant to write!
It's only truth because no great alternative is provided. My best devices are ones from the past. I gave them up only because software rendered them obsolete, not because I wanted the newer model.

If half of society is speaking a new language AND an old language, it doesn't really matter if the old language is superior. You need to be able to speak the new dialect just to navigate society, even if the new language only exists as a mechanism to differentiate the new generation from the old.
> Modern text editors have higher latency than 42-year-old Emacs.

That's why I use Emacs. What am I missing?
I seriously doubt there’s a single camera supporting Apple/Google/Amazon integration that doesn’t support H.264 plus AAC
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For instance Lenovo Thinkcentre. Checked now on ebay and there were several under 50 Euro.

I gather all the manufacturers have similar offerings that are available dirt cheap on the used market.
> so there's no incentive to make your life easier as a candidate

Especially because lowering the barrier usually means getting more low effort application.

People either put a lot of effort on few applications and invest significant amount of time in each one hoping to increase the chance they get picked up; or they put a lot of effort on reaching out as much as possible, knowing they have a very small chance on each application but playing on volume.

Most recruiters are only interested in the first category of candidates. Having a long initial process is a feature. The goal is that the second category considers that given their chance of getting picked up, it's not worth filling the form.
On the other hand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDFzOjw0pFU
I use Bun in CI too, and they have a clean GitHub Action for it: https://github.com/oven-sh/setup-bun.

Actually now that you mention CI, I remember now that I did also run into non-deterministic problems running type checks on projects with Bun using Github's free runner.

Errors looked like this, but it worked fine every 2/3 runs with the exact same code:
`tsconfig.json(5,25): error TS6046: Argument for '--moduleResolution' option must be: 'node', 'classic'.`

It was fixed by just running on my own runners instead, and I never hit those errors building locally. Very weird.
I'm so tired of these rants. They're always very unoriginal and cover the same points of waaaah software is slow, software is bloated. And they never offer solutions or analysis beyond "(almost) everything sucks".

Y'know why software sucks? People. People are hard to manage, hard to incentivize, hard to compensate. Focusing on the slow loading web page is neglecting the economic incentives to bloat the bundle with trackers, to ignore perf work in favor of features, to not compensate open source developers.

The point about engineers in other domains doing it better, well I'm not exactly convinced about that (look at the bloated cost of building in America). But taken as true, they're doing better because there are economic, legal, and social incentives to do better. Not because they're just better at engineering.
Doesn't humidity already take this into account? It's measured in relative humidity which is the percent saturation of the air. So RH goes down as temperature goes up, unless there's more evaporation happening.
4.28 is good, Web Component Library
Can we stop this childish games, please? Wherever humanity appears large mammals and birds dissappeared, either directly or indirectly. In this case by predation ofthe food source. And this whole "what extinction, by what humans" is the "what Armenians" of developmental history of our species. The whole rhetoric device is just so boring, the dialog tree looped. It's just a sound of denial now, not really worth engaging, a noise disclosing the bunkered in mental state of the producer. It never added much to the conversation to begin with but now it's just..

https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.abb2313
It’s simply too free-form and the industries software is used in are… all of them. I believe it is better to certify the outputs (product features, uptime SLAs, security) than the inputs and how the sausage is made.

Software engineering is building a factory. The inputs are data. The outputs are data. All of the stuff inside the application are the different conveyor belts, elevators, gears, rollers, pounders, etchers, etc. to move and manipulate the data to make the output valuable. The factory can be constructed infinite ways without any care about physical dimensions, and the raw material can be duplicated to infinite amounts. The situation is beyond regulation and it should not be regulated. Only the product output should be regulated.
> It's regressive

Corporate tax is already flat in the US (21%). For the majority of corporations that pass-through their tax, I don't have data on it, but I'm willing to bet the individual marginal rate is higher than 21%, so as long as the VAT is lower than those rates, it's no worse than it is right now.

> B2B businesses would be fully untaxed

Depends on how you structure the VAT. I don't understand all the different possible implementations, but my understanding is that this is done by design so that value-added-production is what is actually being taxed, and not how many times a product changes hands (supplier -> manufacturer -> distributer-> wholesaler -> retailer).

All taxes are born by the consumer anyway.

> It doesn't really tax the businesses

This is true for all taxes. The end consumer is always the one that ends up paying all of the tax, because any tax in the supply chain will always get passed along through higher prices.