skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would this even work? Web sites politely ask everyone if they're under 18 and then turn on these behaviors?

Without some sort of strong notion of online identity, I just don't see how any of this is meaningfully implementable. And I really don't think anyone wants the equivalent of a driver license for using the Internet.
Except that would be factually incorrect.

The title of the article doesn't convey what i would call useful information, but at least it checks out.
Looks great - I've been using markdown files and a markdown editor for my dev notes.

But I tend to create a file per week, with notes about what I have to do / have done, etc. by day within the weekly file.

Having one big file for a project that lasts months (or years) would be unworkable.

I'd like to see the ability to create and open whatever files I want, rather than just saving a single pre-determined file.

Good job, though - thanks!
I really think the `case throws` is brilliant.

Next, lets add a `never` type to make this legal.

var foo = switch (bar) {
case String s -> s,
case Number n -> return,
};
I just think it's a good idea for a game's website to have a video of the gameplay.
I loved Catch-22 and Gengi. Gengi has a kind of hypnotizing quality to the writing that kept me going.
People are still complaining about TypeScript
Looking at the kind of APIs they are supporting, this appears to be aiming at filesystem-like behavior. If I was building such a thing, I would leave SQL out of scope as well.
Fluent UI Blazor Components Library for .NET
In my opinion, learning anything in your field is useful because it helps you form a better mental representation of what you're doing. Will building electronics directly help with mundane web dev? Maybe not. But if you think it's cool, do it! Have fun! Broaden your horizons!
The average age range of startup founders is 35-45. The average age of people having their first kid is 30.

That said, there's a lot more than startup founders here. Always was.
That's fair. I don't 'love' FSD, I just think ultimately what is going on here is Tesla has chosen a very different, more challenging path. They are more likely to fail than their competitors at this for this reason, but if they succeed, they will have a far cheaper, more general purpose solution for autonomous navigation. They decided to make that bet. If they were going to bolt LiDAR on their cars 10 years ago, I don't think we'd be seeing them behind to the degree they are now.
Can't speak for OP, but we have a lot of people who request MacBooks at work and just do their personal activity on it. Saves them the $2k for the device and they don't have to concern themselves with it being lost, damaged or stolen.

This does lead to what can only be described as an acrimonious custody battle whenever we do layoffs. High rates of "lost" equipment returns led to us ransomwaring the things to hold their unsynced personal data hostage until they return the equipment.
True, but that doesn't mean it's always a better result. I've adjusted my expectations that software on my smart tv will be glitchy and have interface errors with a lot of apps, but that doesn't mean that's the only or best way to program a system. We adjust to poor quality all the time, but I prefer not to lower my expectations on a safety-critical system.
This is basically the plot line of Childhood's End on Sci-fi channel.
It's difficult to take this list seriously given that it doesn't have War & Peace in it. Probably the only book that I'll never finish.
EVs could potentially handle that scenario even better than how it works with ICE cars. With ICE there’s always the error associated with how much gas was in the car to start as well as how much should you fill up when returning it. (Yes I know it’s customary to always just return a friend’s car filled to 100% regardless of the original tank state).

Nonetheless with an EV you could just hit a button saying “friend has taken possession” or “loaner mode” similar to valet mode. Upon returning the car and disabling that mode the car could present you with an accurate dollar amount of exactly what to pay your friend.
We did the whole project as part of a class; it was one of the best classes I took in my CompSci program. It was excellent.
Why hydrogen? Aren't fuel-cells are notoriously low density storage medium for power?
I'll try this out! I use a Slack DM with myself to persist scratch notes. The main benefit of this is that I'd easily be able to view notes on my phone and other computers.
Here's the video about it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxo6l_whDeE
What do you mean? I can’t compare it. I’m actually comparing it right now.

But you’re saying that the cost of making these devices has gone up? Because if they just had building Lenovo from three years ago, then the cost would’ve went down? And I could buy a cheaper laptop with better performance?
What do you want me to say, the f22 never worked, the f35 launched late and still has kinks, we have no hypersonic weapons or defense against them. Our competitors have been fielding hypersonic weapons, flying fifth generation fighters. Iran has a very simple military strategy due to their geography, and are dug in like its a national objective, wargames the US has held shows us losing. That fight will open the floodgates to other socioeconomic challenges that the US is not prepared to navigate, like the rise of brics for international trade, regional war where we are being shot at from every direction, the collapse of the currency.
Yeah even if there's an order of magnitude error in those calculations Falcon 9 still comes out on top. Plus, the proof is in the pudding, SpaceX is launching more frequently and putting more mass into orbit than anyone else. They could never afford it if Falcon 9 was more expensive than the Shuttle. It's crazy the mental gymnastics people will do once they've decided to hate someone.
The meaning of "engineer" is way too broad. An electronic, optical, mechanical or similar engineer generally does not offer services related to engineering which meshes with state and federal laws.

For example, civil, mechanical, electrical and other engineers whose work must meet laws and codes.

I would favor an unambiguous designation for such engineers who need to be certified as acting in accordance with pertinent laws and codes. (technicians to be guided by such engineers)

That way, we don't get states famously suing electronic engineers for misuse of the title. Such persons, IMO, just can't hang a shingle saying that they will do soil surveys or survey your property and so on. (which would be a real corner case, probably covered under other laws)

Devil's in the details.
I like the conclusion. Is there a standard scheme for hash-function-then-key-derivation? You can easily tell users to run `sha256sum` but...

Though I suppose you should use public-key cryptography (e.g. GPG) if you want users to verify downloads to guard from attacks rather than just errors.

GPG/TLS/... should probably use different fingerprint algorithms though.
Sure: http://sam.zeloof.xyz/first-ic/
I totally agree on "One Hundred Years of Solitude". It is almost a page-turner. Don't let this list scare you away from it.
Thank you. This makes sense to me now.
Ulysses abounds in humor, and of all sorts, from the lowest bawdy humor to the most arcane in-group nerd humor. It’s a pity that you were unable to enjoy at least those passages in the novel.
I read a couple of articles and he seems to blur line between truth and fiction. I couldn't tell when he's making things up. Did he really write about Taylor Swift for four months? Is anything he wrote about Swift true? Did he actually go to a protest where they started chanting "from the river to the sea?" (Soon after, it’s obviously fiction.)

When I have to read something else to find out what actually happened, I think the writer is being too clever and too obscure for me.

Then again, there are people here who clearly don't get Scott Alexander and it's clear to me when he's joking, probably because I'm a long-time reader. So I guess it's all context-dependent.
What? Republicans should love the NYT! Not only did they sell the Iraq war for them, but they arguably helped elect Trump by legitimizing him in the eyes of the national press (setting aside that they did so at the DNC's behest.) The value of the resulting publicity was measured in hundreds of millions of dollars, likely over $1B, that Trump and the GOP didn't have to spend.

More to the point, if you had clicked on the article, you'd have primary sources in the form of dozens of screencapped tweets from Trump and his inner circle. You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think.

Edit: LOL, the story just keeps getting better: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/antifa-j...
Garage's Hidden API Platform Battle
Robert Solow, Economist Who Studied Innovation for Growth, Dies at 99
I’d also like to understand where the ‘explosion of noise’ on changing tracks on the phone comes from.
SymbOS Z80 multitasking operating system
Then why go with Hyperloop and not a innovative rail company to show how high speed rail can be done for cheaper? If he managed space rockets I'd put a good bet that he's a high probability to find good people to work on a private high speed rail company.
> Everything running inside of a kubernetes cluster should just be querying the kubernetes endpoints api for these IPs directly

Wouldn't this put a huge load on the apiserver? Not to mention it's incompatible with software not designed for Kubernetes.
This always feels like an apple to orange comparison that people who are clearly not trained in neuroscience probably shouldn't be making. That we call them artificial neural networks is more a coincidence than a suggestion that these things work like the brain at all. He mentions a lot of this in his section about assumptions but seems to gloss over how all those points in aggregate make these kinds of comparisons worthless.
There's a lot of people who take drugs who don't have the capacity or capability to evaluate risk before they consume them. And doctors prescribe a drug, not a manufacturing facility. They don't have any clue who will manufacture it, or where.

How do you propose that someone who purchases an ibuprofen at a convenience store verify that it is safe, if independent audits are no longer legally required? Where would someone find independent test results? How would they know where it was made?
Consumers don't care, but observers who are trying to understand the nature of what's being developed do. Tesla's approach is not strictly about cars, just like their entire company isn't strictly about cars. They're reaching for something bigger than self-driving with FSD, and if they weren't doing it the way they're doing it, those additional wins wouldn't be in scope.
I don't see why. The post is well written and makes a very compelling point. Plenty of evidence is given that the hyperloop idea was entirely unserious and was more about billionaires placing their enormous weight on the scales in order to kill a change in public transit that would threaten their profits and lifestyles.

I mean sure, it challenges the narrative that billionaires aren't selfish parasites that shouldn't exist, so right, not very pro Y combinator of me.
Jay Caspain Kang had a great analysis of some of the things that are contributing to that stress: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/why-the-champi...

> In Sotomayor’s telling, Asian Americans who are concerned about being racially stereotyped should attend “diverse” universities, where they can help dispel people’s misconceptions by simply existing and getting along with their peers. She then goes on to argue that race-conscious admissions allow Asian American applicants “who would be less likely to be admitted without a comprehensive understanding of their background” to “explain the value of their unique background heritage, and perspective” and allow colleges to “consider the vast differences within [that] community.” It’s hard not to read this as a premise for Asian American teen-agers to essentially dance for acceptance, or to try to distinguish themselves from other Asian Americans by explaining to the good people at the Harvard admissions office why, say, a Vietnamese applicant is more valuable to the Ivy League cultural texture than just another Chinese one.

The subjective processes employed at elite schools today are both unpredictable and unseemly. Of course people are upset about them.
How would you set this up? You'd still need a box with a public IP to proxy the traffic, no? (Unless you get all your friends to install Tailscale so that they can access your private network).
> I think it's a sad state of affairs when someone simply puts an idea out into the world and says "We think it will work, but needs more input" and people get extremely angry and spew vitriol and hatred towards them simply for sharing an idea.

The way you characterize it, Musk came out with an itty bitty idea, said “hey I think this might work but I need some help figuring things out” and the whole world hated him for it.

This is a very generous characterization of Musk, but it has little to do with reality.

What actually happened was that Musk has a history of floating ideas around by presenting them as the best thing since sliced bread.

Shitting all over conventional wisdom, going as far as to say that it’s all BS in an effort to add credence to his own snake oil because conventional wisdom happens to debunk his claims.

All while promising the moon on timelines that would put the Lord Almighty to shame with his 7 days and then, when there’s a big enough wake of unfulfilled promises and exposed BS that could sink an entire continent, that’s when people started to get suspicious en masse.

Maybe if he was more focused on improving his plan instead of “faking it till he made it” by claiming he had approval to start building[0], people would take him more seriously.

And that’s not even touching on the question of if we actually should entertain every random piece of science fiction, which you seem to imply. Because I don’t know if you’ve read the alpha paper, but we’re dealing with “the laws of physics don’t exist” levels of fiction here.

0: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/20/elon-musk...
I wonder if the transformer will remain the de facto arch for LLMs in a couple years. We already have Mamba, RWKV, etc. which are huge improvements over transformer in terms of memory requirement and speed. I wonder why there's still so much work (and hacks and workarounds) on transformer to make it go faster and consume less VRAM whereas the same effort could be spent on other architectures that solve some of those problems fundamentally.
I was amused to see Catch 22 on the list, a book I probably started a dozen times or more over a decade and would put down after a chapter or two.

Then one time I picked it up and something was different. I read it cover to cover over a few days and loved it.
Your argument is not about the limitations of stirrups, but about the limitations of knights. You can have stirrups without knights, and stirrups definitely add value, even without knights.

Mongols had stirrups without concerning themselves with all those logistical issues. Many places, including western Europe, had lighter cavalry that still used stirrups.

> an archer is much easier to replace than a knight

Yes, but don't underestimate how hard it is to train a longbow archer; they didn't drop out of the sky either. The reason England had access to so many longbow archers in the Hundred Years War is that a century earlier, Edward I ordered all English villages to train with the longbow every Sunday. That is what created a supply of well-trained longbowmen: a culture of archery. Just like the Mongols had a culture of horsemanship.
of course they are still doing it lol
This is why you make backups
Playstation Employees Fear Identity Theft After Data Breach
This is a pretty clever combination of feature misuse, although I think I'd rate the overall security impact fairly low, because the best-case scenario is that you cause the recipient to open a link in their browser. That can be useful in some cases, but unless the attacker is a police force, intelligence agency, or similar, there would usually need to be some kind of follow-up attack, e.g. exploiting unpatched software on the device.

In the interest of technical accuracy, I don't think I'd label this one "clickjacking" specifically. "Clickjacking" usually refers to a very specific technique that involves invisible HTML frames overlaid on top of other content.[1][2]

[1] https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Clickjacking
[2] https://portswigger.net/web-security/clickjacking
This is essentially a content-mill listicle. The complaints about why some books were chosen, miss the point that this article isn’t actually meant to be serious and informative. It just needs to put something, anything up to draw advertising revenue.

I feel like content-mill stuff has been making it to HN’s front page more in the last year or so than before. Perhaps the system for moving things from New to the front page needs to be tweaked?
I recently played around with this at MSXGOTO40. Crazy to see an MSX do all of this. Videos at https://www.youtube.com/@Prodatron
Sure. I still remember when I could order additional static IPs on residential cable internet.

That doesn’t mean most getting online today in Asia or Africa basically have a choice other than CGNAT IPv4 and IPv6 from their ISP. Your own dynamically assigned IPv4 is a relative luxury.
the swarm doesn't though. I can rely on most drivers to avoid black swan events
Falcon 9 isn't designed for a few hours turnaround time. That's what Starship is for.
Do they guarantee it is static?

My current IP hasn't changed in years but I need to pony up if I want them to guarantee it forever.
My understanding is that they meant actual individual projects within large companies never take this long. So "projects" as in "features" that ICs work on. I agree with that point, I hardly ever get to go back an evaluate the decisions I made a year ago. Ownership changes happen all the time, plus refactors, stack upgrades, other code changes... No one I know gets to work on a single self-contained feature/area for 6-7 years straight.
On Substack Nazis, laissez-faire tech regulation, and mouse-poop-in-cereal-boxes
> We selectively get rid of embryos with unwanted characteristics.

Whenever this kind of thing is mentioned, people usually bring up the (tired) trope of Nazis/eugenics.

Personally, I think this activity is necessary - Our genes are naturally filtered via evolutionary forces every time we fall prey to some disease or mal-condition. As medicine get better, we need to replace this process with a synthetic one or we'll become less fit - I feel human immune systems are already pretty weak comparatively. Waiting for human deaths via "herd immunity" isn't better than explicit genetic filtering (or augmentation).
>MIT offers counseling services for students.

As if counseling is anywhere close to being reliable at protecting a client from situations that would be mentally unhealthy in the absence of the counseling.
When I was 16 (2001), I bought "Teach Yourself C" by Herbert Schildt, a video card and a Sony Trinitron with my summer job savings. I got to the end of chapter 5 where Herb starts talking crazy about multi-dimensional arrays, saw the next chapter was literal witchcraft and gibberish (pointers), got overwhelmed and decided I was on to plan B: become a rock star. Programming was just too hard. I used what I learned to program my TI-82 and cheat on math exams.

Fast forward a couple years, and I'm in my first semester in college. I had some advisor (no recollection whatsoever who it was) recommend that I avoid declaring a major for a semester and just take a few courses in a variety of my interests. What a life saver.

I bought my first Java book and started digging into it. It was a lot more approachable than the C book (sorry Herb!). I attended the first class and realized I'd already read past the end of what the class covered. That started a 15+ year journey (so far) on a path I thought I'd turned away from.

I still play and enjoy the guitar. But I know I'll never be better as a musician than I am as a technologist.
That's a good point, but the algorithm for detection/flagging doesn't have to be what the grandparent post proposed.

Maybe something like: strip all tags (leaving only the unstyled text) and check:

- there shouldn't be any RLM within the URL

- RLM marks are accepted before/after the URL only if the URL uses only characters for a language that is RTL and the surrounding text uses characters for a language that is LTR (or viceversa, LTR and surrounding text is for RTL text)... Otherwise the text is flagged

- flag URLs that contain both characters for RTL and LTR languages (with possible exceptions for ccTLD/TLDs? )

Of course, this leaves some open problems (how big should the sample of the "surrounding text"?)

And also, Meta could roll out this logic/algorithm in public Facebook/Instagram posts, where it has more control of it... Rolling it out in WhatsApp first could be more problematic, since due to e2e, Meta wouldn't be able to easily spot false positives (messages with URLs that are flagged as potentially malicious, but which are actually fine)
how are trains not a proven technology???

planes are faster, have flexible routing, and cheaper upfront cost sure

the rest is simply not true. how do planes have "flexible capacity"? how do trains not have flexible capacity? wtf?
I'm making apps for a local company now. Still valuable info though. I use the text parsing knowledge I gained from this course quite a bit.
I see this question as analogous to 'how useful is building a car from scratch?'

The person building a cat from scratch will undoubtedly understand more than others, and may be able to fix that home brew car. They may, with some difficulty be able to apply that understanding to other cars.

But, you definitely don't need to build a car from scratch to be a race car driver.
I think you are mischaracterizing the problem. Nuisance braking seems to be far more prevalent in AVs than in humans, partly because image classification has more uncertainty.

Now, couple that with: 1) a general approach of "when in doubt, brake" and the hacky workaround to suppress braking if it's occurring too much, and you've got a bad nuisance braking problem that's primed for a safety incident.

But again, this is disjointed from reality. I'd agree that if we all left the recommended 4.5 seconds of stopping distance, we'd all be safer. But that's not how our roads were built and that's not how humans drive. You're tilting at windmills here to make a point that doesn't need to be made because it doesn't apply to reality.
> We created a new form of intelligence, in our own image. It can be think in ways that are similar to us.

combine this with "are we living in a simulation", and maybe this already happened...
I feel like 100 Years gets a little repetitive in the middle-end. I skipped (shock! horror!) a good 80 pages or so. Everyone’s got the same names as ghosts of their ancestors walking around and I kept having to flip to the family tree in beginning to keep up.

This being said, it provides a wonderful perspective on how the stories that define us come from a magical yet misty history.

And hey, maybe the prose is like Faulkner or McCarthy in the native language and you can gallop your way through those sections, I dunno.

I still put it in my top 10!