skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder where the name came from. Being HN, here is my nitpicking imperative:

Names are important. Our inheritance is wit, self-awareness, and irony; names that puncture ego and power and that appeal to joy: C, C++, GNU, Rust, Google, Yahoo!, Vim, Git, awk, etc. Others are beautiful, evocative images, like Apple and Amazon. Names communicate our culture and ideals to each other and to the next generation.

Careless, thoughtless names like Microsoft, IBM, etc. (ok it's ironic and self-deprecating, but without self-awareness or wit!), etc. should be hated and banned. Egotistical BS, especially Tolkien plagiarists who assert they are supernatural, should be tarred and feathered and paraded around town (with wit and irony).

(Plenty of names fall in some middle ground.)

If Steel is just a derivative of 'Rust' [edit: it is not, see the response below], it misses the self-awareness. Someone naming their development product - designed to build great structures - 'Rust' is engaging in a little self-deprication, joy, and self-awareness. Naming the derivative project 'Steel' possibly misses all that; there's a reason the original wasn't named Iron or Steel or Carbon Fiber. But maybe there's more to the name.
How Isaac Asimov Predicted the OpenAI Drama
Tax burden is somewhat tangential to real root of the problem on working people.

The deeper problem is that pushing so many resources towards old, retired people means that a huge chunk of the economy and jobs are forced to orient towards elder care. To be darkly blunt, elder care is a deeply depressing kind of work, especially when it's for strangers rather than family.

A society with an increasing percentage of the population as old people who don't do anything interesting is an increasingly depressing society for young people to live in.

It really seems like a downward death spiral.
Not my opinion only a summary for parent who couldn't load page
Will you be my friend?
Yes! I just posted

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38510054
GPU programming looks like the modern incarnation of APL.
Its not free market but its technically more choice.

Basically its taking a subsidy (Medicare funding") and offering it to 3rd parties willing to offer equal value, but shuffled around so the benefits are "chosen" by patients who know what's best for them.

Here is the secret: in almost all cases, regular medicare is better for most patients. You may pay more upfront (coins, copay) but there are fewer surprises.
Wireguard feels like the HDR of VPNs, adoption is slower than you'd think it would be.
Guess: so battery leaks can be seen.
I don’t use spaces at all when talking or punctuation. I have rsi so I do the minimal keystroke. I fix no spelling errors. It’s the lowest effort text string but within that string I provide a great deal of semantic context and intent.

It never struggles or seems to misunderstand. I’ve been doing this a few months now.
Just to be clear. All those adtech companies are built on the shoulders of people who studied fine arts. See the history of advertising.
And lawyers only choose that profession to ambulance chase, and doctors only choose that profession to do boob jobs. People get into software development for more than just money, y'know?
I would not hold it against the technology companies selling this if they took the money and never put on a virtual KISS show after their deaths
>All the hominins made tools

I've seen a few fail no matter how hard they try.

Sometimes even at the initial conceptualization, so not all hominids are as smart as they think.
What system integrity checks? That's a thing now? I mean I did it for Windows Update and Edge and Defender in my VM, no problems so far.
Horizon is a free EDA package
15 years later we are getting steam deck(wayland only) and chrome os switching to wayland, rhel deprecating xorg etc and xorg is dead in development front since them
we took 15 years for adoption, not fault of wayland
Sure, but evidence after the fact is usually little consolation.

As an individual, my first concern isn't whether the bank/company/whoever got fooled by scammers is eventually made whole and/or the fraudsters are prosecuted: I just don't want my identity to be that easily forgeable in the first place!

And that would solve the larger societal problem too: Make identity theft much more difficult and there won't be as much need for zero-liability provisions, a dispute mechanism for fraudulent credit record entries, law enforcement chasing perpetrators (which is often futile if they're abroad and using unwitting accomplices/money mules) etc.
A humanities degree doesn't mean you have to rely on art as your primary source of income. I have a B.A. and work in software; my partner has a B.A. and works in finance.
it says "it supports" but not "it requires" in README
I would be very curious to understand a bit more about why you think that formal higher education in the humanities is not "good for America". Speaking as an academic researcher in a STEM field, I strongly believe the opposite to be true- we need _more_, not less, humanities education in this country. Even just restricting myself to a STEM-focused perspective, it is clear to me that the things that I teach students about computer science are of course important when it comes to understanding _how_ to build something, but they are not particularly useful when it comes to deciding _whether_ something needs to be built, _what_ to build, and then how to decide if it's working well- for this you need understanding and knowledge beyond what can be found in an engineering or biology textbook. This is particularly important in my area of specialization (medical informatics)- many of the most important things we think about in terms of system development and evaluation, and many of our most important methodological tools, are heavily informed by the humanities.

Zooming out beyond academia, Bret Devereaux, a historian whose writing appears with some regularity on HN, wrote a superb essay a few years ago on the practical case for the humanities and puts it better than I ever could, so I will link to his post: https://acoup.blog/2020/07/03/collections-the-practical-case...
On Political War (1989) [pdf]
The universities have become bloated and mismanaged with great resistance to change. Tenured professors and administrators are very opposed to anything that reduces their jobs or makes them redundant. A lot of universities are carrying dead weight, professors who have no classes to teach because students are not required to take them, or worse, classes whom if not for a student requirement would not exist. Administrators whose jobs are duplicative if not unnecessary. Streamlining higher education is a very noble goal and one that is grossly overdue.
How many days a week do you watch TV or read a book? My guess is probably 7 days a week.

What do you think the people who made those things studied in college? Unless you're watching Futurama exclusively, it wasn't STEM.

Non-STEM majors have value too. A society of nothing but engineers and scientists isn't one I'd want to live in.
> Not getting ANY response from employers is unusual.

Really? Companies ghosting applicants, has, unfortunately, with high supply and low demand of well-paid tech jobs, become a standard practice, especially for candidates in the United States and Europe.
One small note I'd add is that the Lobsters software has had at least one very unfortunate bug that led to pushcx claiming that I had "disowned all my comments"[1] when I left Lobsters. I had, in fact, not done so.[2] The bug was later fixed[3], but even today, over 2 years later, my comments remain disowned. They were never recovered. Textually, they're still on the site, but no longer associated with my account, which makes them very difficult to find. I'm still a little salty about that because I contributed a sizeable body of comments to Lobsters that would be at least nice to link occasionally.

Anyway, my point is, when pushcx says, "all banned users get an email notifying them of a ban with the Reply-To header set to my email," that's only true if at least the Lobsters software is behaving as it is intended to behave. It may not be.

[1]: https://lobste.rs/s/zp4ofg/lobster_burntsushi_has_left_site#...

[2]: https://lobste.rs/s/zp4ofg/lobster_burntsushi_has_left_site#...

[3]: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/issues/1004
Then play with your romantic partner first, 2 minutes later you can work on the project together :^)
https://okdalto.github.io/VisualizeMNIST_web/
The spherical reprojection is done on the headset itself. That helps a lot.
If they incentivize every insurance company the same way, and in the same amount, it is still a free market. The playing field is still level.
> I used the examples they provided on the repo README.

I was using the more complex examples from their README as well (except added a name to the second one to make it more useful).

> I would still argue I can get the same results with less typing.

so what? we type words and sentences much quicker than having to type control characters like - and |. also, you still have to know the invocations to sort and head off the top of your head without looking them up whereas a simple sql select statement is something most programmers would know how to do in their sleep.

git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:short)' refs/heads/ | while read branch; do
commit_count=$(git rev-list --count $branch)
[ "$commit_count" -le 10 ] && echo "Branch: $branch, Commit Count: $commit_count"
done

I think we can agree this is much more complicated to write than:

SELECT name, commit_count FROM branches WHERE commit_count BETWEEN 0 .. 10

> If I run the 2nd command example against the chromium repo, it takes several minutes where a shell script using git for-each-ref takes about 8 seconds. I would also argue that this might be better expressed as commit_count <= 10 but I realize you're also using an example. This is the script I ran:

if speed matters then your script is fine to bang out if you need it but for one off queries that you know to be correct (look at how simple the second query is) it is probably fine and most people aren't working on chromium so speed is probably never going to be an issue in the first place.
> but having decisions made by completely unaccountable and inscrutable bodies is somehow okay.

They are accountable—directly and exclusively to capital—which is both why they are okay to the people funding the political propaganda in question and why the alternative (where that is not true, since there is, at least indirect, democratic accountability) is not.

Capitalism and democracy are different, and fundamentally conflicting, systems of organizing power. This is often overlooked because capitalism is described as “economic” and democracy as “political”, but those are different ways of describing systems of organizing power over others which is fungible between domains.
The article is at pains to connect the humanities courses being cut to the careers they feed into.
I don't think it's particularly careless: SBCL is short for 'Steel Bank Common Lisp', which is a reference to how the CMU university, named after Carnegie Mellon, could be respectively substituted with 'Steel' (Carnegie) and 'Bank' (Mellon).
The point is to become a productive member of society, not one that needs government support the rest of their lives.
Thank you for finally explaining this to me (have had to deal with github ci off and on for months now).
"Window into the mind: Advanced handheld spectroscopic eye-safe technology for point-of-care neurodiagnostic" (2023)
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg5431
There is already an implementation along the same line using the torrent architecture.

https://petals.dev/
Very true.

The most important book written in the 21st Century is Dr. Robert Zubrin's "Merchants of Despair." Just read the first chapter is all you need to absorb.

OTOH, I would love for someone to disprove Dr. Zubrin's claims.
I'm dubious of any analysis that treats "tenured professors" and "administrators" as a unified bloc.
Wasn't COVID in the US a large scale basic income experiment, with the stimulus checks?
Someone is going to take you seriously.

Don't memorize it, learn it, become good at it.

No matter how much you memorize, there's going to be something you don't. But I think you know that.
Is there any reason to think that this would work for political party donation spam? Do the telecom carriers that provide services for all those horrific text messages about how the other party is going to install a dictator unless you donate to them right now actually care enough to punish those?
Where I live, anyone who has access to my ID can take a loan in my name... Hard to believe, but there are some people who are paying loans they have not taken..
Cats' dazzling eye colors may come from 1 unusual ancestor
OpenAI Drama had nothing to do with alignment issues or saving humanity.

It should be now clear for everybody that the original statement related to firing of Altman was accurate. The Board thought that Altman was dishonest and could not be trusted.
Can't wait for someone who will burn out an SSD drive by memory mapping it and running an LLM on it.
-Do bear in mind both Russia and DPRK has vast funds available for R&D; I'd be much more concerned about some three-letter agency knocking on your door, asking pointed questions about your innocent guided-missile pastime...
I actual installed the unusable mess that is edge, on my Linux desktop, because I like the sound of it's text to speech voice.
Turns out that feature is only available on windows.
Uninstalled and will never try that piece of rubbish again!
I don’t think cobol is that difficult; the problem is that it runs on the mainframe, and that’s a whole different beast. Everything in the mainframe world is both expensive and vendor-supplied, so it’s difficult to learn outside the company, and sufficiently proprietary that you’re probably not going to transfer it well elsewhere.

The language itself also encourages troublesome patterns, like all variables essentially being globally defined and untyped, procedure line numbers matter because of things like PERFORM A THROUGH B (which will execute all logic found between paragraph A and paragraph B)
I'm all in favor of studying fine arts, but this isn't quite accurate: advertisers (i.e., brands who run ads) rely on people with arts and humanities training—it's not a coincidence that the smallest unit of advertising is called a "creative"!

But adtech (i.e., the infrastructure underpinning digital advertising) is all data and code, nothing artistic at all. Check out any RTB spec: https://github.com/InteractiveAdvertisingBureau/openrtb2.x/b...
A lot of university duplicate primary education. I think it is this way because it generates jobs and revenue, which can be very hard to give up for an institution.
Code as data is interesting, but mostly orthogonal to S expressions. For example, Prolog code has the same property without S expressions, and more esoterically TeX (which is succinctly explained to a lisper as programming with defmacro but not defun).
Hey, I'm a long-time music producer and I'm dying to get into this exact kind of work - writing plugins and eventually synthesizers from scratch.

I'm curious what your path was to get to the point where you can write an audio plug-in from scratch - I noticed you're using the JUCE framework, and that's about as far as I got and I never really escaped tutorial hell.
In a sense, non-remunerative pursuits being luxuries, and money being the principle (though not exclusive) means of acquiring luxuries, the answer to your question is "yes". I agree with the article and its concern about cutting opportunities for working class West Virginians, but this isn't the strongest argument to make for it.
Best healthcare in the world.
Could you elaborate more? It isn't super obvious to me the connection between fine art and ad tech.
It has plenty of others which more than make up for it though.
I've been using home-row mods on my moonlander layout (a modified miryoku layout[0]). The big problem has been the timings. Sometimes I get two letters, instead of a shifted key, and sometimes I get my GUI key pressed instead of the letter 'a'.

I've recently fine-tuned my timings so that shift/f/j keys have a shorter time to invoke shift, and the GUI/a/; key requires a longer time to invoke the GUI modifier.

It does seem to have improved things.

[0]https://configure.zsa.io/moonlander/layouts/b7yOD/latest/0
I just think it comes down to practice, like being able to speak multiple languages or program in different programming languages.

And something that can help is to differentiate your layout physically. In my case an entirely different keyboard, but even something like pressing space with the other hand can help keep them separate.
Rather than looking at the visuals of this network, it is more better to focus on the actual problem with these LLMs which the author already has shown:

With in the transformer section:

> As is common in deep learning, it's hard to say exactly what each of these layers is doing, but we have some general ideas: the earlier layers tend to focus on learning lower-level features and patterns, while the later layers learn to recognize and understand higher-level abstractions and relationships.

That is the problem and yet these black boxes are just as explainable as a magic scroll.
> Lobsters banned me for spamming and self-promotion along with every single person I invited to the site over the years.

From the admins:

> Inviting many spammers and helping them circumvent the restriction on unseen domains from new users for spam.

Seems justified.
What an awful worldview to think that someone could be too young to ask questions about their place in this universe. Or that they’re somehow incapable of appreciating them.

I, for one, hope you never have any say in someone’s education.
I don’t see what makes htons special here. The C standard library is full of functions that return an int that isn’t an integer.

For example, printf returns “a nonnegative integer or an error code”, creat returns a file descriptor, mknod returns a Boolean (coded as 0=true, -1=false) and sets errno, but all have return type int.

Strong typing historically wasn’t a goal at all in C. K&R C and its predecessors liked everything to be an int, where possible. For example, if your code called a function foo, the compiler assumed it would be able to find it at link time and return an integer (the ‘implicit int rule’)
Several of Musk's own tweets have been commented on by Community Notes when they contain falsehoods.
They are already doing that.
The status quo doesn’t benefit people with money. That they don’t get a significant benefit from Medicare doesn’t mean that shitty insurance somehow benefits them more.
How is Gitlab CI materially different from the jenkins model?

I find that the only difference is that it's YAML - so even harder to debug, and maintains the same model where you must re run an entire pipeline every commit to test functionality.
So here is the history:

1. Guy Steele (along with Gerald Sussman) created scheme, and Steel is close to Steele, just drop the e.

2. Steel is a scheme, and I observed that scheme names have a tendency to be named things crime related: Scheme, Racket (racketeering), Larceny, etc - Not a scientific analysis at all, but I found it funny at the time that Steel sounds like "steal".

3. You made the observation, Steel sounds like something that would be associated with Rust.

Beyond that, I just liked the name. No SEO involved, and arguably probably should have picked something more searchable, but I didn't start making it with the intention of there being a lot of users, it started as a project for school.
This is interesting, but I'm having trouble connecting it to the comment I just wrote, and I'm wondering if I'm missing a connection that would be more obvious if I paid more attention to Lobsters.
>If taxes are paying for the school we should subsidize things that are good for America not individuals.

Media and advertising comprise a $500 billion annual market in the United States. The Humanities teaches people to write and writing is the start of every media product.

When I got my CS degree my university required four semesters of creative and business writing. Students complained and now they do not. Many universities have followed suit.

Recent graduates now tend to write as though they are suffering from a head injury. Even worse they have started to rely on AI tools so now they tend to communicate like robots with head injuries.

I hated with the fury of a thousand suns all of the writing I had to do in school. Now I hate how bad new hires are at communicating even more-- to the point that I believe that a mediocre engineer who can write effectively and present data effectively is better for the company than a "rockstar" whose emails read like, well, someone with a head injury wrote them.
A good samaritan on the other Blue site gave me one but I haven't had good comments to make since.
Those companies tend to whitelist dropbox, one drive etc, the very places things are exfiltrated too.
This trend needs increased scrutiny. How do you get the foxes out of the henhouse when the foxes control the henhouse?
Why not? Both can and in some cases do represent unnecessary bloat, which is an increased cost often passed on to the students, and can be extremely difficult to reduce.
It's not (just) the variety of topics, it is that HN has way more users (and therefore way more submissions).

A submission on lobste.rs will stay on top of recent/newest for days, on HN it might be minutes.
> rather than via invitation only.

This is a good thing.
Cybertruck vs Go – Kart [video]
Certainly not entirely.

My point was that the bare numbers could mislead a bit.
The issue right now is how all WebAssembly modules in general are executed. WASM modules currently must contain everything need to run them when they are built. There is no way to dynamically define a new function or variable after they have been built, which would be required for an Onyx REPL to work.

You could definitely use Onyx to create a modern lisp interpreter that can run in the browser without any dependencies, but it might be worth porting an existing C project if that is your goal. I'm not gonna stop you from making something like that in Onyx tho; it would be very cool!

There is a however possibility for a REPL for Onyx to exist outside of the browser. This is because Onyx has another runtime it can use alongside WASM called OVMwasm. This runtime is entirely custom (you can see the source code in the 'interpreter' folder on the Onyx GitHub), so it could be modified to do non-standard things with WASM, like add new functions dynamically. That would take some work to achieve, but in theory should be possible.
The article links to another article talking about that, in case you missed it: https://towardsdatascience.com/curiosity-driven-learning-mad...
> I actually think all universities should do more to encourage students to major in STEM.

Weird take. Universities aren't trade schools.
Yes, also in cybersecurity you can earn a lot of money discovering vulnerabilities in popular apps and devices no matter who is on the other side: a state or a criminal entity.
Album about iOS/macOS engineering
I think the candidate should pass on the company. It's always good to provide a cost for their mistake. There is no job worth getting jerked around before they even start paying you.