skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would you rank the merits of candidates?
Presumably Apple pays the fees GitHub have specified up-front, or they'd not use their services.

Isn't that how things work? A company provides something for a fee and potential customers decide if they're going to use said thing in exchange for said fee..?
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Oversimplification but often I think it's:

Elderly wisdom <=> Middle-aged evaluation <=> Youthful application

The problem occurs when this doesn't line up with management structures and you get

Elderly dictation => Middle-aged helplessness => Youthful disillusionment
Agree strongly. Removing the bar just makes it more political. The objective, merit based standards are the solution.
Speaking of text editors and tools like that, you can often avoid having tests (or postpone adding them for a long time), if the logic is on the main execution path, meaning you'll execute it every time you run the program, and whatever failures that can happen, are reasonably easy to pinpoint (i.e. the program shows error backtraces or somehow traces problems otherwise).

This is from my experience hacking on Emacs, naturally.

At the same time, projects that you might ship for an employer or a client, are more critical to check for correctness before deploying, and are often more complex to run and check manually on the regular than writing at least one "happy path" integration test at least for the main scenario (or several).
It stops all changes.
Yeah, Cantors theorem is a theorem written in the language of ZFC set theory. In other axiom systems it may not be true. But you can also say that about literally every theorem beyond, like, modus ponens. Is that the point you are trying to make?
imo fitness & character is absolutely necessary, rote memorization tests aren't. (ofc you want your lawyer to go off the top of their head instead of looking things up when you explain your problems /s)
Ask HN: How are you using LLM's that has changed your life?
I travel a lot and experience a wide range of internet connection speeds and latencies. Hotel Wi-Fi can be horrible.

The web is clearly not designed for or tested on slow connections. UIs feel unresponsive and broken because no one thought that an action might take seconds to load.

Even back home in Germany, we have really unreliable mobile internet. I designed the interactive bits of All About Berlin for people on the U-Bahn, not just office workers on M3 Macbooks with fiber internet.
Actually, I'd suggest that licensing of lawyers violates the constitutional guarantee of a right to an attorney. It is viewed by the modern system as a positive right, an obligation on the part of existing attorneys to work for you for free. But that is obviously not what was intended; it is meant as the right of anyone to be represented by a designee, as opposed to being required to represent themselves, and this has been criminalized today.

> i do believe there is a certain responsibility a lawyer swears to ethically uphold and maintain toward lay society which justifiably warrants some reasonable evaluation of the degree to which the candidate is able to comprehend and/or adhere to that oath.

This is just an argument that licensure has benefits. That's true, but they don't exceed the costs.
"Compliance-wise, it passed 97% of COBOL 85 conformance tests, a success rate not yet achieved by proprietary vendors, Sobisch boasted."

Thinking about that if you step back is amazing, to think a standard written in 1985 (I was doing COBOL back then into the 90s) has yet, even today not had any of the big names/players meet full compliance nearly 40 years later.

I'd love to read more about that aspect
Having a decent internet experience shouldn't require going through your own self-hosted server.
The water in most of the big US aquifers is at least 10,000 years old. There are some exceptions like the Edwards Aquifer in Texas but for most, rainwater is irrelevant. The water was put there by glaciers during the last ice age and once it's gone, it's gone forever.

This is why most groundwater pumping is properly called water mining.
Okay so it isn't entirely clear to me, can the pg_hint_plan extension (linked in the OP) do the simple thing where we specify, for each table, which index to use?

I can't find it here

https://github.com/ossc-db/pg_hint_plan/blob/master/docs/hin...

Because, the mssql WITH(INDEX()) is simple and intuitive. This hint table stuff seems complicated, and it's unclear to me if they can do the simple thing

(Note: WITH(INDEX()) is different than specifying whether you will do SeqScan or IndexScan. it's, like, in SQL we can give a name to an index or to a constraint, and one may want to be able to do IndexScan, yes, but with a specific named index)
What? I have some questions.

1. What do you consider success? Is this less than, equal to, or greater than the amount you pay on rent/mortgage?

2. Are you building user-facing applications for a non-technical user base, or infrastructure code for a technical user base?

3. How much of your success, do you think, is based on the novelty you offer through occasional nsfw pics?
Amazing timing, I was just getting into open source these days and I have the same feelings you described in the beginning when I make a contribution.
The essay kindly tells us how you feel right now, proud but tired and contemplating. IMHO That’s always going to be the case for hard working people like you, but still it is interesting that you kept pushing even though you didn’t feel comfortable and confident doing all those things you were unprepared for. And even though you were able to overcome all those challenges, you still doesn’t sound satisfied with you current situation. Maybe that’s because you have even bigger dreams?
I think you’ve done an amazing work and deserve a long rest. I’m sure it’ll be bit harder for people depending on you, but they’ll get used to it eventually and you’ll feel more relaxed and maybe more fulfilled by giving yourself some space and time.
"The issue was not present in the early access releases for macOS 14.4, so it was discovered only after Apple released the update."

I wonder if Oracle really didn't know beforehand.

Apple has long been telling people (writing JITs) that to write to executable memory, they need the correct entitlements (com.apple.security.cs.allow-jit, allow-unsigned--executable-memory, and or/ .disable-executable-page-protection). I wonder if Oracle has been ignoring them, satisfied with the signal-handler workaround, and Apple finally enforced their policy.

Apple also expects that developers deploying apps on MacOS that use Java have these entitlements configured on a per-app basis. Oracle likely objects that this is not really for the application developer to certify, since it's pretty much out of their control.

In any case, I'm doubting Oracle's release is the whole truth.
IMO anyone who passes the MPRE and a background check is fit to serve - free market and who customers choose to rank the merits of their lawyers is their own prerogative. I'm against the gatekeeping to the profession.

Once you're a lawyer checks like malpractice insurance are great for everyone.
No problem, you didn't put me on the defensive, I was making the down vote comment in general, not to you.
This “experiment” itself is a translation of an important philosophical topic to the language of “measurements”, which is the only one many people can speak.

There are better works that describe the different cultural roots of “obvious” concepts, reflected or not reflected in language. “Time” can consist of point of «now» with axes to “past” and “future”. Or it can start at “now” and flow to the “past”. Or “now” can be a process instead of point, with both ends disappearing in the fog, so that tomorrow's “now” is also “now”, and the day after tomorrow, and so on. Time can be circular, with events kicking the needle out of the groove, or it can be linear. The “events” can be self-contained points in time, “facts”, or they can be processes, flows, in which you're either in or not. Even the distinction between “work time” (“doing something”) and “leisure time” (“doing nothing”, though not synonymous with lack of activity) depends on habit and technical ability to track time. All this defines how people leave their lives and reason about them.
Hard to see how retail doesn’t eventually become Amazon Go
It's an interesting approach. As usual, it sounds like a poor approach if you want to retain your best employees.

It's effectively saying "We're excluding qualified people from our jobs based on their ability/desire for commuting."

If that person's ability and/or desire to commute is a strong signal for an effective employee then, sure, go with this policy. I doubt that ability/desire for commuting is strongly correlated with being an effective employee.
Did no one call bullshit on the test before running it? Personally I'd just flat out refuse to run the test, likely designing the proper test comparing while third party scripts where enabled.

Management and product owners should understand how these things work, and shouldn't ask for bogus data when they do. But teams implementing the changes should just flat out refuse when they know the request isn't reasonable.
This system seems pretty weird to me.

I was wondering, can that clash with a "normal" domain registered as "xn--....."? Apparently there is another specific rule in RFC 5891 saying "The Unicode string MUST NOT contain "--" (two consecutive hyphens) in the third and fourth character positions" [0]

Also, if I was forced to represent Unicode as ASCII, punycode encoding is not the obvious one - it's pretty confusing. But, I don't know much about how and why it was chosen, so I assume there's good reason.

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5891#section-4.2.3....
I appreciate it. I'm thankful the lifestyle guidelines are improving in adoption rates and quality. What I mean is that more and more diet and exercise (and meditation) are as key as any highly successful targeted drug. The idea is to do all simultaneously. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopsychosocial_model?wprov=sf...

There are studies (multi-generational long-term) telling us that positive/meaningful social experience is one of if not the greatest factor in affecting healthspan.
The context above was exclusion of people based on income level.
Webcam Mods – Face tracking virtual camera for Linux
One non tech sales job I worked when the Regional Manager was someone that drove sports cars then the managers below all went out and bought sports cars. When the Regional Manager got promoted and was replaced by someone who drove an electric car they all went out and bought electric cars.
Getting promotions is rarely about the work, they can always find ten idiots like me to do the work.
Only a foolish person would hire or retain the services of a "lawyer" that has neither a law degree nor a bar card.
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This is very dank.
I actually argue the opposite zooming out. Zooming out our trajectory is up and to the right, like a hockey stick. Almost on every level. We’ve done that with all these disasters that have always happened. Almost like we can innovate or something
Alternate signaling pathway found in the Human brain based on Calcium not Sodium
Certainly an option for me. But not a scalable solution for the large number of non-tech people with older devices.
The "they" here can't really coerce the dev team unless the dev team is willing to comply. Refusing to implement an unethical feature is always an option, and given that we're often considered engineers it is well within our right to deem something unsafe or against best practices.
Maybe we'll see the return of the proxy + lightweight browser model like Opera Mini.
True, although not all browsers have Reader Mode. Chrome didn't have it until last year, and the version they built is a sidebar, unlike most Reader Modes. This is probably because they want to make sure ads are shown alongside the Reader Mode.
Absolutely not but then I never thought I’d need a 20,000 entry hosts file either.
Fair. I just edited my comment because I combined two concepts and muddled them together. It's more common to suffer a poorer yield than total crop loss. But crops like tomatoes can die from lack of water during high heat days if the heat lasts for several days. Also, irrigating only at night (not just evening, but over night) can contribute to fungal and disease issues with some crops.
> Vermont, California, and Virginia do not require law school.

California requires >2,000 hours apprenticeship under a practicing lawyer which is even harder (and more exclusive) than law school. It is theoretically cheaper but in reality not very practical as an alternative.

Very few people in California pass the bar without law school via the apprenticeship track. Most years, zero people pass that way.
Some years ago I tested real world web sites, turned out only about 30% of the javascript they load was actually invoked by the user's browser (even for sites optimied with Closure Compiler, that has some dead code elimination):

https://github.com/avodonosov/pocl

The unused javascript code can be removed (and loaded on demand). Although I am not sure how valuable that would be for the world. It only saves network traffic, parsing time and some browser memory for compiled code. But js traffic in the Internet is neglidgible comparing to, say, video and images. Will the user experience be signifiqanty better if browser is the saved from the unnesessary js parsing? I don't know of a good way to measure that.
Luckily crimes are just given token prosecution in Seattle. (kinda /s)
I’d love something like it for all my older devices where I can set it and forget it.
The case involving Elon Musk and Microsoft touches on the broader debate about the commercialization of AI and the responsibilities of companies that initially benefited from open-source contributions. It raises questions about the ethical implications of shifting away from open-source commitments and the impact on the community that supported the development. It’s clear that the community values transparency and the spirit of collaboration that open-source embodies. The tension between these values and the proprietary interests of large corporations is a topic of ongoing discussion in the tech world. The conversation around this issue is important, and it’s crucial for the community to continue advocating for openness and fairness in the development and use of AI technologies.
this sounds alright in textbooks, but in reality housebuilders realise they make more money when house prices rise as they build..
Apple has never been a follower of semantic versioning.
No secret working at any of his companies is a bad financial deal for any employee. The best thing you get out of it is the lift on your resume, which you can later on leverage into a stable, better paid role in a company not run by a madman.
fat (Jacob Thornton) has a great metaphor that makes this simple to understand. Cute puppy dog syndrome.

Someone adopts a cute puppy. A bunch of people like playing with it and feeding it. It gets really big like Clifford. More and more people want to play with it. Not enough of them want to put in the work to feed it anymore. The person who adopted it gets burnt out trying to do so.

We’re incentivized to take as much and give as little as we can get away with (companies especially) “because profit.” If you’re like “but socialism is worse!!1!” just know that you can either parrot that line or fix the problem but not both.
Is the bar objective?
I did the math once and the amount of water we’ve pumped out of the aquifers worldwide and not replaced is worth more than a mm of sea level rise.
> its not Angular or PrimeNG specifically that make the tables slow/hogs, but the amount of DOM elements inside

Yep, this happens even with nothing but a 10-line vanilla JS file that adds N more items every time the user scrolls to the bottom of the page. Performance degradation increases with every load due to the growing number of DOM elements which eventually exceeds whatever margin is afforded by the machine the browser is running on, causing chug.

Web is not my specialty so I don’t have specific recommendations, but plenty of results turn up when searching for e.g. “angular recycler” or “react recycler”.
And lightweight APPs, one tap to load all...
Stephen Harrod Bruhner once said that society is like of like a plant. It produces its off spring to spread out when it is at its peak health. It makes the biggest fruit just before it dies.

That we started sending intergalactic space probes in the 1970s when, in the west, the energy use per capita was to start to peaking is a funny conincience. Some of those are probably accidentally carrying microbes that will be suspended in state for potentially hundreds of millions of years.

It isnt something to take too seriously but it is a fun concept to contemplate.

Maybe we have the exact same intelligence for logevity as a tomato.
Can't we just skip to the part where the signalling value of the certification is severely diluted and they backpedal?

Elite colleges literally just went through this with standardized tests.
1. There is no substitute for simplification and good design. You cannot test yourself out of a mess.

2. What you actually want is confidence in the code, and your ability to make changes. Sometimes tests are a good tool to achieve that, sometimes they are not.

3. The previous two points can and will be used to justify sloppy code by bad programmers, but it doesn't make them less true.
A fair point but it’s also true of every discipline.
One small but useful way for me, I have to give a speech a few times a year. Previously, it would take forever for me to write it since I find it hard to distill my ideas and organize my points. Now I write my speech, let chatgpt summarize and outline it and then I can rewrite it in no time. It's a small use but it saves me lots of time and improves what I have to say.
Technocrats on this site are very fond of your argument, so fond that I stored the reply I saw years back when someone else said the same thing.

There is no monitoring dashboard for the planet. News articles like this are your warnings. There is no innovation to be had that fixes global aquifer levels.

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Original Mathusianism should be distinguished from neo-Malthusianism, in that the latter does at least have some evidential basis in that it is based on measurement of resource levels and their rate of use, not just some political philosopher's wooly notion of overpopulation.

The problem, as I see it, is that even if you are optimistic about the theoretical capacity of the planet to sustain human life, its practical capacity is limited by how efficiently we use the resources to hand, and the current system does not properly incentivise efficient use. More often, it's the complete opposite, because the price of resources like water and soil does not reflect their true scarcity.

It's like having a large store of firewood. Enough, in theory, to heat your home through several years of harsh winters. Then you burn the whole stockpile in a great bonfire on the first cold Autumn night. That night, by every metric, you'll be warmer and cosier than you ever have been before, but you'll still have doomed yourself.

* * *

Reminds me of the well-known type of question in introductory calculus:

Q: "A population of bacteria in a petri-dish doubles every hour, after 24 hours the petri-dish reaches 100% saturation. At what time did the petri-dish reach 50% saturation?"

A: 23 hours.
Surprised I had to go down this far to find this. Clockmaker's 4 / watchmaker's 4 is an aesthetic or balance thing more than a historical vestige. Source: own an Omega De Ville Hour Vision
Can’t wait! Though it’s not that hard to deploy Clojure script as it compiles to jar files and works pretty easily. I hope this brings more people into the fold.
I've been transitioning some compute-heavy workloads from Lambda/AWS Batch to modal recently and have nothing but good things to say about it. One of those technologies where you are shipping the same afternoon as checking it out. "Wow, that just works?" Highly highly recommended, feels like the future IMO.
> In both codebases I’ve merged PRs without any tests and frequently see others do the same.

I would never accept such PR. This kind of policies then end up biting you in the long run (experience talking)
The ability to produce “digests” of articles, man. Totally worth all those jigawatts spent on all that neural network training. And in a totally different style, too!
We should also remove food standards regulations. Free market and who customers choose to rank the safety of their food is their own prerogative. /s
My head exploded the first time I saw an Australian kids book teaching the months and seasons.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Months-of-the-Ye...
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Bend over and I’ll show you.
What dictionary is that? Im American and even here we learned hecto means 100 in 1st grade.

Centi means 1/100th. (1) e.g. centifoot = 1/100th of a foot.

(1) https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/centi
> Very few people in California pass the bar without law school via the apprenticeship track. Most years, zero people pass that way.

I would bet that the readiness/ability of the people who attempt the apprenticeship track is much lower than those who attend CA law schools. This may be the reason that so few people succeed via this route — not because it's harder.
The most interesting part of this is the comments about software shifting from a normal career to a prestige target for wealthy families, and that this demographic shift has massive consequences on technology design and services.
Sure, then just add $100 each for a decent amount of RAM and storage.

Oh, wait... forgot that these are designed to be landfill fodder.
>I'd love to read more about that aspect

See the

DATA DIVISION.

FILE SECTION.
As a lawyer, this was my first thought. Caveat emptor!
>> The cost of keeping the network would be staying in one place.

One man's bug is another man's feature:). You describe staying as a bug, I've lived in the same house for 24 years, and, for me, it's definitely a feature. I'd positively hate moving to another suburb, never mind city.

And yes, I've developed relationships with local service providers. My plumber, my electrician, my mechanic, all know me by name. I've found the people I can trust and they eliminate those hassles from my life.

But, and this is my point, I'm not you. My context, my goals my desires, are all different to yours, and that's fine. We're all in different places, being different people, and that's OK. It doesn't have to be "us versus them". We might enjoy different thinks, and have different perspectives, but that's OK.
To be fair the steepest part of the hockey stick is tiny compared to the history of out species. Heck even written texts are a comparitively new invention on that scale. The problem with overshoot is that the situation looks best after the point of sustainablility is long gone. Like flying off a ramp. The peak of heigh comes after you have left it.

You could be right, and there are plenty if examples of that. It is just a case of we wont know the full story until a long time in the future.
I'm not going to comment on unit tests (of which we have many), as that seems to be where the biggest divide is, but I will say that our integration tests are worth their weight in gold.
Yes, it subjectively more objective.

(Like, I’m making a cute response here, but there’s not exactly an objective standard for objectivity, when you come down to it. Turtles all the way down and all that.)