skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went into a technical interview once and started solving a word search problem with a btree. I started with p-lists, and assembled the tree with tuples of tuples, assuming this was a starter data structure implementation that, after they added some constraint that would eliminate it as an option, i would easily modify.

Well, my interviewers didnt know what p-lists were because they only knew javascript.

They thought I was retarded and I didnt get the job.
The headline is misleading.

This ruling does not prevent a museum charging fees for giving you a high res photo or digital copy of their ancient out of copyright artwork.

However, if they do, they cannot prevent you copying it and giving it to all your friends for free.

I doubt this will affect their business much - nobody wants to pony up the cash to buy a bunch of official photos to resell for cheaper at a competing store, even if they legally could.
I dropped out of my swe job and replaced it with gig work, currently looking for a job as a prompt engineer. I think I'm going to go back to uni and get a degree in prompt engineering. The future is AI driven, whether people want to accept that or not

Also my email is fuck_you@gmail.com if any journalists want to interview me, assuming journalists still exist in current year
Salesforce is the most well-known example but it’s so popular that actually it’s not hard at all to hire experienced developers who know it’s custom server-side language and all its workflow automation and reporting tools. They just hate their lives.
Interestingly, this concept is also the subject of a new Chinese science fiction film called 'The Wandering Earth 2', in which the protagonist's personal mission is to create a computer that can simulate his late daughter from an electronic copy of her consciousness.
At one point, I thought Feather did not carry any long-term format guarantees. Presumably that has now changed, but I still feel like Parquet is the best future proof option on the table.
The realities of a warehouse operation make this inevitable (I’ve run an 8-figure/yr online distributor). Amazon cannot take the customer’s word on return condition. Folks just click “damaged” to get a refund and Amazon has to have warehouse workers, not professional book inspectors, receive the returns and note their condition.

This is good enough since someone buying the used copy can also return it if they disagree.
> but sadly they are in the silicon heaven already

Silicon heaven - where all the calculators go!
Pilot wave theory was laughed at for a long time.
I liked you first comment about things being complicated and that "good" or "bad" is difficult to tell because people will give more importance to the partial elements they see.

Unfortunately, you've done just that in this last comment.

One detail that I see too often with people advancing similar arguments than you here is that they just take two countries and compare them if it was two lab experiments done within the same conditions and repeated sufficiently to bring conclusive results.

There are plenty of elements about that: the way France and Germany are industrialised is pretty different so what worked/did not work for one does not mean it would have worked or not for the other, maybe if Germany would have followed the same path as France the German specificity would have made Germany emitting 8x more instead of 6x (or not, of course), maybe the German way had 60% chance of success and bad luck failed while the France way had 40% chance of success and lucky then they did not failed (not saying it's the case, just that it's tricky to pretend getting lessons from what happened), maybe one country had pushed itself in a corner and will struggle on the last few yards while the other had a worst initial score because they were paving the road (again, not saying it's the case), maybe the success of France relied on having Germany going that way (who knows how the French nuclear park would have evolved if they had Germany that would have provided electricity with exactly the same characteristics and fulfilling the same needs on the same market but having the same drawbacks on the same market), ...

It does not mean we cannot get lessons, but the lessons you bring (or the method itself) are just invalid: no, looking at the electricity map today is just not a way to conclude which strategy is the best. And everyone who reasons like that is just muddying the water rather than being helpful.
Ask HN: Online BS – Grey Beard needs advice
I am interested in pursuing a BS in either CS or Mathematics. I have had(and still do have) a multi-decade career programming. I would like to retire and teach in a public school setting (8th thru 12th grade ideally). I am without a 4yr degree and in order to be elligable to teach in a state institutional capacity, i need said degree(i refuse to consider myself "self taught" at this point bc realistically i have only been as successful as i have bc others have invested their time and attention towards my growth. id like to return the favor as the saying goes).

THE QUESTION: given i am interested in teaching at the late-middleschool/highschool level, does pedigree of degree matter(lets assume my cv speaks for itself and the degree is a technicality/constraint)? If it does matter - please suggest a program or share your experiences. and yes im fairly set on teaching for 10yrs during said retirement from "industry". thanks in advance!
And not to forget pre-need is far cheaper and kinder to the family than time-of-death arrangements.
Has appeared on HN at least 8 times in the past, as far back as 2015. Gotten both hundreds of comments and killed as a dupe.
Yeah, but you see, that doesn't work. You can't start hipster and switch to conservative. Because you have a number of specialist tools that are hard to reapply. As I said, you can see the cracks in the article. The use of diatomic is caveated.
I feel like someone has had a realization that they need to stop using tailored technologies. This article is them trying to put the breaks on the engineering culture of over-engineering. Or maybe diatomics success means everyone who works there is trying to write a new DB or something.
If hitler invented cars, i would still find them useful.
I know an SMB that has all its operations on Google Sheets. They told me they don't have time to learn any tool (all their efforts go to keep the business running), and they don't have the money to hire a full-time dev. I offered them the opportunity to develop their platform pro bono. They're thrilled since they will be the first business with that type of platform.
Multipurpose anything tends to not work out well. Different use cases have different requirements. Specialization is everywhere, both in nature and in human creations.
> critical products

IANAL but Annex III Class 1.2 states: "Standalone and embedded browsers" which would implicate every electron app. Class 1.5 states: "Products with digital elements with the function of virtual private network (VPN)" is so vague it could apply to video game chat messages.

The problem with regulations like this is they're so vague and will be selectively enforced. They won't affect Big Corp but will affect small business and solo developers.
A lot of major platforms are declining or otherwise having problems now and which could lead to the reshaping of the Internet.

Google is cutting its operating costs and having an inactive account policy which some described as "harsh" because it entails the summary deletion of those accounts, while having some scandals with antitrust and incognito browser which saw them sued. Twitter is in steady decline due to the antics of Elon Musk which scared away a lot of financial backers. Reddit's API pricing are described as "expensive" and "harsh" as well which made a lot of users to jump ship to Lemmy et al.

But they are all far from being climaxes because Wikipedia, once the "purest" place of the Internet, had been getting increasingly negative coverage where the distortions in topic areas related to the Holocaust and Israel were reported, and according to credible rumors on an online forum populated with former Wikipedia editors, there are 20+ sexual harassment scandals against females committed by sysops and users which could be published on mainstream publications as a long form feature story next year.
> Why is Microsoft the only provider who needs to do such proactive blocking? Why don't you need to do that for email addresses associated with Office 365?

They're not.
I feel like we are kind of trapped between simplistically polar notions. There's coding as we know it - complex & interwovenines of code - and there's this low code ideology.

Any area of code itself is usually fairly boring & irrelevant. It's systems that accrue mass & complexity. Low code systems sound good by demonizing the weird symbols & incantations that make up the lower level fo coding, but it's this systematic complexity, it's the aggregation of many things happening that makes things opaque & difficult.

Finding patterns to suss out broader-scale understanding is what really tempts me. I don't have super strong vision here, but I'm interested in projects like Node-RED, or even to a degree works like jBPM. Both kind of speak to going beyond coding, but I think the valuable thing here is really that they are assembly toolkits for modules of code & data. They are just examples and not even good ones but this quest, to me, to get to the next levels of computing, is to make clearer portraits of what happens, that either are above to code level, or where the code's running creates higher level observability surfaces.

Code is so easy to demonize. The layering is often so implicit, handlers and DAOs and routes in different layers maybe but with no clear overview layer. Figuring out how to make legible these systems, without diving deep into the code, is what, I think, will make systems less intimidating & will serve as a bridge to make businessfolk and novides better able to intuitively grasp & meddle with these these artificed put before them, with courage. And making people less afraid of the machine, more interested in peeking in and meddling, that's where so much hope lies.
> as part of the "last mile", it's now your responsibility.

You also are at the whim of the SaaS vendor to give you the help you need. If they can't do something you think it should, good luck making a hacked workaround to function as it must.
> A bicycle that looks like a junker can ride like a dream. An older frame with scratched and chipped paint and nice but undistinguished-looking components is a good choice. Let it get dirty.

My beloved 1970ies Peugeot bike fits this description. I was so confident that this bike would never be stolen that I left it unlocked at the local train station (rural suburbia) in the summer of 2022 (I was late and the train was already arriving). When I returned 9 hours later, it was gone. I was devastated. Police said there was nothing they could do (I didn't even have a frame number).

4 months ago, on a new bike, I felt like taking a different bicycle route home from work because it was such a nice late summer evening. While I was driving down a large 4 lane road in the city, I suddenly saw my stolen bike lying in a small patch of grass next to the road. It must've lain there for months. The paint was bleached out. The tires were brittle. The chain was rusty. The saddle was partly broken. My own chain lock, now also rusty, was still wrapped and locked around the handle bar. And a spider had built a web across it. For some reason, the thief had locked the bike using a new and very heavy ABUS folding lock.

I immediately called the police without touching the bike. When they arrived, they were obviously amused that anyone would call the police to get back such a piece of junk. But when I demonstrated that the key on my key ring opened the old rusty lock covered in spider webs, when I showed them pictures of myself and the bike (showing very characteristic rust spots) from a 2022 bike tour, and after they checked that I had indeed reported such a bike as stolen a year before, the officers spend 20 minutes opening the thief's folding lock with various tools. They were successful.

My wife says that I smiled for hours like a fool after I returned home that night with the bike I never expected to see again.

I replaced the saddle and oiled the chain. The bike is still riding like a charm.
true, but you could just argue that any increase was just a result of over-estimating the last time you measured
Each issue is unique. We can evaluate training of AI models on its own without needing to accept child labor.
minor issues. Not even annoyances. And old hat on top (even long solved issues are kept here just to make the list appear longer). If you really want to find faults you can, everywhere.

These are all items that an experienced PHP dev will sort out, optionally work around, and really not care much about. It's fair to suggest optimizations and improvements, but plainly exhibiting incompetence leads nowhere.

Some examples, like, say

" explode() function won't split with empty string"

... seems very sought after/constructed, too. This behaviour is simply not using the function as intended, because it needs a delimiter to, well, delimit. There are other means to split any random string into random chunks. Indeed there are other means to do most things in PHP.
We know he drowned. There are witnesses to what happened. If someone goes for a swim in the sea in rough weather, gets swept away by a current, and then is never seen again...I mean, you do the math. If you have some plausible alternative theory then let's hear it. But on the face of it, there is nothing remotely mysterious about Holt's death.

>I was responding to 'The facts of his disappearance are known'.

Not to be too pedantic, but I said "the facts of his disappearance are known...insofar as anyone has been able to discover them". That is, there is no secret cabal that has additional information about what happened. The Australian government is not concealing anything. All anyone knows is what we all know: that he went for a swim in rough weather and drowned.
Norway benefits greatly by being able to export its excess energy to its neighbours.

Given that much of the hydro power is state-owned in Norway, this generates profits that ultimately benefit the Norwegian people and economy.

Norway got rich exporting its excess oil and gas in the past century. Now they are starting to do the same with clean energy.

Where do you think they’d be today if they’d decided to keep all the oil & gas for themselves and not export any of it?!
Seems most of the brexiteers had never heard of the concept of 'Economies of Scale'.

I didn't and couldn't believe that the British would be so dumb as to cut themselves off from their main markets, and their main sources of imports.

As events have followed my predictions, I can't help a certain sense of schadenfreude.
A correct solution is to remote into instances on dedicated (bare metal) servers (use ECC memory and SSH with a good cipher for your transport, even across your local or VPN/WireGuard.. network!), perhaps using KVM/QEMU for macOS VMs (yep, requires a MacPro to be legal) and KVM/Firecracker for Linux VMs. You could do Windows VMs in KVM/QEMU, but will have less friction remoting into an alternate (HyperV) box for that (using Windows-specific security products). RDP-over SSH for Windows, MPEG-VNC-over-SSH for macOS (and Wayland).

Why? Did you checkout the Privacy Policy for Parallels? The last time I checked, it allowed them to remotely take anything from your systems that they want. If I wanted that, I would just use a VPS running on someone else's machine in a cage somewhere.

VMware, by the way, is now Broadcom, as in they reportedly replaced the staff and ripped up the perpetual licensing model (subscription only now)... Even before that, the Fusion product development had been shifted overseas, presumably to avoid paying higher wage software engineers in Silicon Valley (what a brilliant way for a software company to innovate) --now a company in Singapore is wearing their skin and the C-suite are out of jobs too.
Again, not the person you replied to. But some feedback mechanisms take time (so action has to be taken after a 2xx reply) and some indicators are just very very very accurate that leaving them in even just Spam is a way bigger risk. Users have a terrible tendency to dig out malware from Spam folders.
I’ve seen this exact thing, a “low code” engineer creates an app, we asked for some changes and all of a sudden “no can’t be done” - it is almost comical tbh
That site looks tidy. It's clean, modern, and pleasant to watch. Your team did a great job.
It's a bad sign for any company when they have headshots of the team on their webpage before any picture/video of the actual product (3d renders don't count).

In fact, I can't think of a single such company which ended up successful.
The CIA doesn't need to release a PSA to let everyone know of their actions, they have infiltrated SWIFT, have you ever read a join letter between Visa and the FBI?

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/how-the-nsa-spies...

Now what makes you believe the FBI chose to take the lead in making sure the USD remains the currency of choice even in a digital form

This is what the CIA do, that the FBI can't:

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2023-00168...
As much as I agree with your stance this may not be the narration you are looking for...

First line of the youtube description:

Check Out The HP Elitebook 1040 G10 here: https://bit.ly/<redacted>
Yes, the GP was clearly serious in their advice to exploit the coastline paradox in order to mislead would-be buyers! (/s)
WiFi negotiates connections to determine the best frequency range to use. It could support line-of-sight visible light if it works for that particular setup, or fallback to 2.4/5Ghz when it doesn't.
Yes, you're correct about the more general meaning. But in the Scheme world "doing tail calls" means something like being "properly tail recursive" (see https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Tail-Cal... for more details). It's not appropriate to call it an optimization because it's a foundational property of the language.
I wish that the people that wrote it at the beginning of Android had left it as a socket multiplexer over USB and delegated to ssh for everything else. adb started out extremely barebones, but it grew to reimplement basically all of ssh.
ChatGPT is nice but it’s not a 5x speedup.
I'm saying what data you should be looking at when you're comparing investment opportunities, not doing the work of assessing specific investments for you.

Being self-employed isn't a financial investment, it's a form of labor and most certainly not passive, hence why the comparison fails.
> You can always make web form based applications without style sheets.

Uh, no you can't. Web forms aren't rich enough to build most desktop applications. You can't make vscode, gmail, slack or spotify using web forms. They're just a bad set of primitives for applications. (In the web's defense, it was never designed as an application platform).

Yet - we had some version of all of those applications in the 90s, on every OS at the time. And (mostly) using the platform's built in UI libraries so the look and feel was consistent and delightful.
Not overweight and no bags at all. And it's one thing if they were already sitting and then get up if you sit next to them, but were fine sitting next to other Japanese. They are not exactly subtle about it.

I'm not trying to push anything, just recounting my own experiences.
bad example. openai did do this. aws did not do the transcoding part.
Dennett on Deacon and Thompson: A Double Standard? (2014)
That's close to a gig of disk reads; I trust you didn't try ugrep first and then cindex second, without taking into account caching.
Solar doesn't. Wind doesn't. Hydro does (usually). You know he was talking about solar and wind. Why are you being a turd? Hydro is tapped, we can't build significantly more hydro in this world.
Remote-controlled ornithopters are already flying today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vm-Yq6xiSk

The 3D renders don't look much more ambitious than this.
It’s interesting to me how important simply having that written down was to both the perception of the company from the outside and the products that it delivered. Since it was removed from writing both are similarly impacted negatively. Could it be a coincidence? Perhaps, but I suspect not.
NY times is asking that all LLMs trained on Times data be destroyed ... because the Times knows that most of the stuff they publish is absolute bullshit and they know that AI trained on that rubbish will be screaming at all of the inconsistencies.
I think you should try it before you read these conflicting benchmarks from the authors: https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep-benchmarks
for those that did not RTFA, "Dutch Harbor" is in Alaska
I'm sure this has been asked a thousand times, but does something like Visual Basic exist for the web?
Agreed - ripgrep is great, and I'm not planning to switch either. The performance improvement is tiny, anyways.
No one was talking about France. angiosperm snarkily implied that Nuclear only works if its subsidized. He's clearly wrong. The fact that France does subsidize it isn't relevant. Nuclear in the US is not subsidized and yet is massively more cost effective than fossil fuel power plants.
This is where AI agents will shine as you give it the test cases it needs to meet and it will write the code to that specification AND verify those through writing unit tests, executing the code then verifying the results.

English as a programming language makes this all work.
It is definitely less crude and less undignified than the turkey brining bag over the head method. Although making the process antiseptic, effortless, or palatable shouldn't be a goal. An inconvenient truth is there a threshold of pain and undignified decline for each person that a humane and orderly exit by their own volition makes it a desirable, essential capability.
Thanks for the thoughtful comment, pretty fascinating stuff.

> In today's x86_64 hardware, there's no "supercomputer memory subsystem". It's just a glorified NUMA system, and the biggest problem is putting the memory close to your core, i.e. keeping data local in your NUMA node to reduce latencies.

I mean, memory topology varies greatly by uarch (doubly so between vendors). I can't take a routine tuned to Nehalem, run it on Haswell or Skylake and expect it to stay competitive. More generally, different hardware has different bandwidth and latency ratios, which affects software design (e.g. software written for commodity Dell w/ PCIe cards probably won't translate to Cray accelerator grid connected by HPE slingshot). And then there's hardware-specific features like RNICs bypassing DRAM and writing RDMA messages directly into the receiver's cache. So I think that ccNUMA and data locality is not sufficient to reason about memory perf.
Webflow does seem to at least dogfood their own product.

https://webflow.com/blog/webflow-at-webflow

But the big issue seems to be that they're not marketing anything to the developers. They're marketing everything at the managers -- particularly the kind of manager that doesn't really understand software.
> turns out when you grant a for profit company a monoply they take advantage. every time without fail.

Yes. Granting anyone a monopoly (a corporation or a government) is always a terrible idea. Let's stop doing that.
Apparently this is a tree-walking interpreter, so JavaScript's handling of tail calls is not directly relevant.
What I really dont get is why in some cases, when it looks obvious to me that the XP UI is just some Microsoft GUI for the drivers, why Microsoft didn't consolidate those APIs into the modern UI. They own the entire run-time, I don't understand why they cannot add a translation layer.