skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Learning to code is far less about training kids to be software professionals, and far more about basic technical literacy. It also has strong correlations to improved performance in school in general because it teaches problem solving, logic, and debugging. In the early years when it first entered schools, even the people teaching it were surprised at some of the positive results - kids approaching poor grades on tests as a debugging opportunity, not a failure, etc.

My favorite analogy is to compare coding to writing - do you go around asking "Why are we teaching kids to write if they aren't going to become a novelist?" No, writing is a valuable skill in the world even if it is not your job. Computational thought is likewise valuable, even if you never actually code.

AI may change some of its importance and impact, but it won't ever diminish the overall benefits. If anything, it is going to be even more important to have your own skills in structured thinking so that you don't just let AI handle everything for you.
This brings back days of fun with Winamp and AVS. It had shaders before shaders were a thing. It was effectively my first geometry / vectors course. I hope this is as fun to play with.
Well, eliminating copyright would also remove the copyleft portions of the GPL, which are also aimed at user freedom. I would say just removing copyright would not achieve the professed goals of the FSF: without the requirement to provide source code to users, user freedom is still constrained through that imbalance in power, even if they are free to modify and distribute the binaries they have however they wish.
I hated maths in school, had to persevere all the way through my Electronic Engineering degree, and still didn't "like" it, until much later, many years later, when it was no longer academic, but pure interest.

I do wonder what a difference it would have made had I had teachers and lecturers half as interesting, humerous, and engaging as this.
This was indeed true in the beginning, and I don’t know if this has changed. Inserting messages with Assistant role is crucial for many reasons, such as if you want to implement caching, or otherwise edit/compress a previous assistant response for cost or other reason.

At the time I implemented a work-around in Langroid[1]: since you can only insert a “user” role message, prepend the content with ASSISTANT: whenever you want it to be treated as an assistant role. This actually works as expected and I was able to do caching. I explained it in this forum:

https://community.openai.com/t/add-custom-roles-to-messages-...

[1] the Langroid code that adds a message with a given role, using this above “assistant spoofing trick”:

https://github.com/langroid/langroid/blob/main/langroid/agen...
Significant Azure Outage
Let me repeat the edited-in question at the end of my first comment:

How many cold calls with prospective customers do you have daily? How often do you talk to people who might be interested on LinkedIn or other professional forums/social networks? How often do you attend in-person professional/networking events, conferences, tech talks? If you're not doing that at least few times a week, your odds are very low.

I used to build like you, do SEO and marketing, etc. But people buy from people - it's about trust. I got my first client after I finally took the phone and started calling - had to do it for 3 weeks (hundreds of calls, ugh) but it worked out. I got my second client when I went to my ~15th professional event. I had a big streak of luck on my ~20th event - 3 clients after one evening. I'd never get to have this kind of luck if I didn't try 20 times.
Didn't most countries have phone books where peoples names, phone numbers and some times address would be listed? And weren't those phone books usually quite complete? Were they opt in then so that phone book sales people asked you to list your number? (Swedish phonebooks were opt-out). Were you offered any kind of compensation then for allowing your number/address to be listed there?
There were analog inputs though -- the joystick ports, which were equipped for pong-style potentiometer paddles.
I still don't even know what the Assistant API is supposed to afford me.
SpaceX stopped streaking on YouTube and now only stream on Twitter. Twitter is not a good video streaming platform. I prefer watching Everyday Astronaut's stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixZpBOxMopc
Is that just because they've never tried to figure out how, because the default font size works fine for them? In which case, the answer is still not to change it.
When you call the Swedish tax authority to request information, you are not permitted to retrieve more than a handful of records within a time period.
And you are not allowed to search: you can only query records for people that can be directly identified, by e.g. name/address or social security number.

These companies have a copy of the database.
Wouldn't that cause positive feedback in the analytics? Firefox usage is already below the magic 5%. If we start hiding, we may soon join IE5 in unsupported land.
Some say moderation is the only feature
>some of them are bad and thus shouldn't be used by the general population

>No, he meant that we don't use vaccines that are bad.

By "he", you mean me?
> Just be a person that ships, makes things work, in a friendly mood and you are set for life.

This is the biggest lie in tech. Doing this will keep you overworked because you’re reliable. You will never get promoted and when you try to get another job you will be so good everybody will be afraid of you.
it is like chicken soup for my psyche after the torment of empty platitudes and anodyne corporate weasel talk.
That's just a chromium skin that runs on Android.
> Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales made extensive edits to the article about himself, removing mentions of co-founder Larry Sanger.

As if the constant begging for donations they don't need and the shithole that is Fandom wans't enough to lower my opinion of ol Jimmy.
Writing for Software Engineers: Beyond the Basics
I wouldn’t use GVRD/Metro Vancouver as an estimate; things get quite a bit cheaper in the other cities.
Discussed in 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29861678 (99 comments)
I visit job search sites and select the “entry level” filter. Then, I read requirements such as “2+ years (non-internship) experience in C++”, “5 years of professional experience in the game industry”, and “excellent C++ skills”. Furthermore, there are requirements like “Fluent in speaking reverse Mandarin Chinese” and “being able to perform perfect back and front flips on command”. The latter two are, of course, exaggerations, but I couldn't help joking about them to alleviate the dire circumstances not only I find myself in, but also others in my circles.

I know individuals who attended top computer science universities, earned master's degrees, yet they still struggle to find a job. The missing element in such conversations is that recent graduates often lack the required expertise that HR departments demand. Companies or their HR departments have become extremely selective and require multiple interview rounds before considering employment. Alternatively, companies hire student workers because they are cheaper, or they outsource hiring to countries like India, Eastern Europe, or Turkey, pausing hiring for entry-level applicants in high-income countries.

However, some governments claim a “shortage of skilled labor especially in the IT sector,” while individuals with computer science degrees find themselves unemployed in these “uncertain times”. Experienced individuals may manage to stay afloat, but those without experience, such as recent graduates like myself, are deemed less valuable. This is partly due to the prevalence of Large Language Models (LLMs), which I refer to as “Google search on steroids”.

Have you heard of “bullshit jobs”? If so, I suspect that many positions are actually insignificant. As a student worker, I co-developed an audio editing application (C++17, Qt 5). To be honest, there was nothing in it that hadn't already been solved. Would you argue that a “level meter”, “equalizer”, or “JSON parser” are things that need to be reinvented despite the availability of MIT-licensed libraries?

Rather, these jobs appear to be a form of “collective busywork”. Nevertheless, the fortunate few engaged in such “busywork” earn significant sums despite not contributing much. What kind of economy is this, where one can thrive without generating actual value (e.g., innovation, non-copy paste work)?

A “consumer-oriented economy”, huh? We need consumers, yet we cannot drive up consumption, because we collectively play a game of hot potato until someone solves all the world's woes for us.
A company I know, uses it to build out internet on inside industrial construction sites. Even if the basic infrastructure like power is there, sufficient internet often isn't (yet).

Much easier to setup a few starlink terminals and/or LTE antennas on the roof/container and temporarily bolt a few wifi router to the ceiling than run cables all around.
I dont think people into astrology would call themselves atheists. They would probabably identify as “spiritual”.

“Atheist religion” is more like NPL, scientology, UFO cults, The Singularity, simulation universe etc.
I appreciated e.g. in Wirth's Lola-2 HDL that it was conceived up-front for synchronous design and you didn't waste hours to explain to people how to select the proper subset of the language for the most prevalent use-case. Concerning verification, I assume more and more people use other languages for verification than SV, e.g. Python or C++.
Ironically, Sweden has the world's first Freedom of the Press Act. It's even been designated a "Memory of the World" by UNESCO: https://unesco.se/tryckfrihetsforordningen-utsedd-till-varld...

What you're asking for will not be easy to enact. In a monarchy, the concept of "natural rights" remains somewhat culturally foreign.
BlenderBIM doesn't "import a building" BIM is a method of detailing a house. You export it to something like IFC and then share it. For example if you do design in Blender, but the plumber uses Revit you use IFC to share between the two programs. The plumber adds the piping to the plan, and exports it for you and then you now have a all of the plumbing required.

You can then export it using BIM to a schedule which will say we need 45 90deg corners, 20 10" pipes, etc...
Does it have a full-features browser that end user can use to navigate arbitrary websites?
> I know I'm not very intelligent because if I were, I would've figured my life out a long time ago and become rich like all these crypto and NFT kids...

Making "Lots of Money", especially fast, is a social manipulation game. You see these crypto/NFT kids online but in real life there are lots and lots of social predators making money off drugs and parties. The margins in both markets are insane but the markets are dominated by closed off and often violent cliques.

This has nothing to do with intelligence.
Not that you said it, and maybe I'm wrong but I don't think they have any philosophical preference, this is probably a calculation between the cost of implementing features to make existing systems GDPR compatible vs hiring a magnitude more content moderators plus whatever perceived impact they think they'd have on user retention if there was way more moderation which will also have loads of false positives.
as a swede, thank you noyb for messing with this
There have been many Wikipedia forks, but all have failed, because 99% of the work is in doing uncontroversial stuff that most people are fine with, and 1% is in controversial "captured" areas. If you fork the whole thing in the hope that you can fix the 1%, you will have to find a way to do the 99% bit.
As I've mentioned in other comments, that's not directly related to the rise of Wikipedia because most people no longer read encyclopedias in the way they used to decades ago. I have a counterexample as well; major encyclopedias and dictionaries in Korea are kept alive by portal websites nowadays, but these portals never tried to adopt kowiki instead. (I was one of earlier administrators in kowiki during that transition period, if you wonder.) A better hypothesis for Finnish would therefore be a lack of such sponsors to keep them alive, and that would be completely orthogonal to the existence or absence of fiwiki.
Starship's Third Flight Test [video]
I do 0. Zero calls with customers. Because I don't know how to reach my customers. That's why I built a tool and invested in SEO and marketing, so they could come to me. And some did. Some even returned (which I consider a big success given the fact that my tool is designed for one time use).

I don't understand this part. I don't understand how to reach to people, and what do I offer them? Do I build the product beforehand? Do I offer them riches and wonders?
I don’t think so. These companies have locked users in so they can’t easily use an alternative.

Want to abandon iPhones, now you are stuck in the spyware/privacy nightmare of Google and other Android OEMs.

Only option is to switch to a de-Googled rom, but then you can’t use banking apps or send messages with RCS. Android is slowly being more locked down.
Anatomy of a MapServer: how to leverage and visualize your geographical data
Google has a cute pi day Easter egg on the search calculator.
Automated testing in Python with pytest, tox, and GitHub actioins [video]
There are a few problems with the approach:

- Technical debt /migration costs when mvp matures / more bugs
- High support costs, since MVP often doesn't solve everything lot of manual work needs to be done.
- Often making promises of future features to close sales
- This leads to high emotional costs, continue asking of clients when promises are fullfilled.

Now of course you can create a very stable solid product, properly tested with perfect data structure. But that's highely unlikely to happen with an MVP, due to the nature of the approach.

Also very hard to get exact feature set right.

These things are solvable, but I don't think they are always properly adressed by the advocates of the approach.
For this type of unikernel project C makes sense. I’m a fan of both C and Rust. I like that Rust prevents typical code safety problems, but I like that C hardly changes over time whereas younger languages like Rust are constantly changing. It’s plenty possible to write correct, clean, memory-safe, and understandable code in C, especially if verified by extensive fuzz testing and code scanning.
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> A HackRF clone is cheaper than a Flipper

Yes, but a "HackRF clone, plus a Proxmark3, plus IR, plus whatever" probably isn't.
Duplicates could be useful if they are properly linked with earlier question/answer. (Something like “import answer” could be useful)
They might get quite a good deal on types of sand which are no good for construction but are highly abundant like sea sand or desert sand.
The Bay Area indigenous land movement is finally starting to see some wins. Shellmound in Berkeley is a big win for the Ohlone tribe. [0]

[0]https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/03/12/berkeley-shellmound-...
> > Where is the evidence that the bombers used a data broker to find their target

> The writing is on the wall. This is a free service. Why wouldn't they?

Did they use information at the library to learn how to build the bombs? That's a free service. Why wouldn't they?

Let's shut the libraries down too. Only people with enough money to buy books, and to pay for street informants, should be able to bomb other people. It'll cost you, what, $100 to have someone trail someone else home? There's no way a bomber could afford that.

Now with my tongue out of my cheek - if the bombers knew who to target because some of the gang members grew up on the same neighborhood so knew where the relatives lived, then making this information private wouldn't change a thing.

A site dedicated to strong privacy laws should use strong arguments to support its claims, not a mischaracterized third-hand (a Guardian writer describing Swedish news reports about police and neighbor statements) news report that may actually have nothing to do with the topic.
Regarding electricity tax returns, not making the names public was a very good idea because of course some newspapers had headlines like "Look at how high tax returns some rich bastards got, it's a scandal, they could never use that much electricity just in their private homes!" the day after the anonymized sums of the tax returns were made public. Which just showed the ignorance of those journalists, because private taxes are much higher than corporate taxes so why would anyone want to pay privately for electricity used by a company? Nobody applied for tax returns, the sums were based on how much they had paid in electricity taxes. And companies got the tax returns too, just a few months later.

One of those who got high private tax returns came out publicly and explained that his company was of the type "enskild firma" which means that it uses his person number, it's not a limited company. And apparently Skatteverket had treated all companies of that type as if they were private citizens. But of course most people just remember headlines, so if the headline had been "Look at person XX, that rich bastard got this much in tax returns!" you had probably remembered that but not the later explanation that it was his company that got tax returns.
The FCC perspective is that issues like orbital debris mitigation fall within its remit of understanding whether the public interest is appropriately served by authorizing a particular use of the spectrum; which seems reasonable to me.
The FCC's job is to keep the space station safe.
Fair enough, but when I watched it appeared convincing to me, so I think it's worth checking out.
They should have done it already because that demo site looks sad.
I see your Pi Day and raise you White Day[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Day
When: 8:25 AM CT

Launch window: 7:00 AM CT - 8:50 AM CT

--- Updates:

(future)T+40: Starship relight and entry

T+12: Elevator music engaged, please stay tuned for T+40

T+11: Payload door testing

T+8: Upper stage SECO, nominal orbit insertion

T+7: (mine) KSP moment for booster reentry, instabilities. Signal cut off because of exhaust conducts electricity and absorbs RF. Status unknown

T-11: Still no blockers. Watching winds, may have hold at T-40s.

T-30: Broadcast started

T-60: (SpaceX Twitter) The Starship team is go for prop load but keeping an eye on winds, now targeting 8:25 a.m. CT for liftoff

T-65: (SpaceX Twitter) Shifting T-0 a few more minutes to give boats time to clear the keep out area, now targeting 8:10 a.m. CT

T-65: (SpaceX Twitter) New liftoff time is 8:02 a.m. CT, team is clearing a few boats from the keep out area in the Gulf of Mexico

T-45: No blockers

T-90: (SpaceX Twitter) Weather is 70% favorable for today’s third integrated flight test of Starship. The live webcast will begin ~30 minutes before liftoff

---- Streams:

High Quality VLC: Open VLC, Media, Open Network Stream, paste following, Play:

(higher quality) https://prod-ec-us-west-2.video.pscp.tv/Transcoding/v1/hls/g...

(lower latency) https://prod-ec-us-west-2.video.pscp.tv/Transcoding/v1/hls/g...

NASASpaceflight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrxCYzixV3s

Spaceflight Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfnkZFtHPmM

Everyday Astronaut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixZpBOxMopc

LabPadre Space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMyXho_YCK8

(FR)
Techniques Spatiales: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRXfWLVMEQ8

---- Mission profile:

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-...

---- Links:

https://twitter.com/SpaceX

https://twitter.com/elonmusk

https://old.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/1bb8scf/rspacex_int...
It’s not about age, it’s about experience. Once you get to 15-20 years nobody will want to hire you anymore.

Look into it, it’s real. The people saying otherwise are either lifers at their company or lying.
Fibre can go about 100 km without a repeater which in the grand scheme of things isn’t very far. Keep in mind that Starlink works best with a fibre base station inside of the coverage cone. A few of those stations in northern Quebec built next to existing cell towers gets you a lot of connectivity for cheap.
The Hard Thing About Abstraction
>Are certain groups not allowed to change?

Did I say that?

>Why use the word distort or endanger?

Because obviously some change can be distorting and/or endagering some things?

The fact that an individual or group is allowed to change doesn't mean each particular change is always for the better.

>We are talking about people outside the community applying judgements to their decisions and actions.

Yes, so? Do you think groups should only get judgements to their decisions and actions from within themselves?
I missed that part. Seems like its the key point. And I'm super interested in what strengths and weaknesses each mode has and if the percentage breakdown is set in stone.
You get a notification when your data is accessed, and by whom?
You just included a lot of land nobody lives on in that number.

The US only has 4.09 million miles of road, that’s roughly how much fiber you need to get it to everyone’s driveway. At ~1-10$ a foot we’re talking ~20-200billion dollars etc and most of it’s already in the ground or dangling from utility poles.

We don’t have fiber everywhere because we didn’t mandate it the way we mandated electricity or phone lines to every home. It was billions of subsidies without sufficient strings so of course companies only built the most profitable networks.
Using outlines/flowchards & data science class assignment, can setup automated tests[0][1] of common issues in order to provide more detailed feedback than python.

[0] : Automated testing with python using pytest, tox, and github actions : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhUpxWjOhME

[1] : Short overview of python debugging tools/techniques : https://www.linkedin.com/advice/3/what-most-effective-ways-d...

https://medium.com/@yellalena/a-guide-to-debugging-python-co...

Why logging/debugging : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9JfBb0M5LU

python ide's : https://www.datacamp.com/tutorial/data-science-python-ide

https://towardsdatascience.com/practical-debugging-for-data-...

https://khuyentran1401.github.io/Efficient_Python_tricks_and...

https://towardsdatascience.com/practical-debugging-for-data-...

https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Debugging-Machine-Learnin...

https://github.com/topics/debugging?l=python
a) 3/14 = 0.21428571428
b) If I take reasonable date formats, it's date 2024-03-14 = 2007 today

But kudos for only taking the first three digits, 3.14, as approximation for pi, which is in nearly all cases enough. Some friends in automotive engineering even tried using pi = 3 and 2*pi = 7 for a while, and the results were good enough.
The ops-examples github has many examples in many popular languages