skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every good book on compilers. I learned this from [1]. The (hard to read) original papers include [2, 3]. Interesting tidbit: Gary Kildall, one of the pioneers of abstracting dataflow analyses, later played a role in the (in)famous deal between Microsoft and IBM that became the starting point for the dominance of the former. The foundational theory behind this is abstract interpretation for which you have many introductions, including [5, 6], with the (hard to read) original being [7].

[1] https://cs.au.dk/~amoeller/spa/

[2] G. A. Kildall, Global expression optimization during compilation.

[3] G. A. Kildall, A Unified Approach to Global Program Optimization.

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall

[5] F. Nielson, H. Riis Nielson, C. Hankin, Principles of Program Analysis.

[6] X. Rival, K. Yi, Introduction to Static Analysis: An Abstract Interpretation Perspective.

[7] P. Cousot, R. Cousot, Abstract interpretation: A unified lattice model for static analysis of programs by construction or approximation of fixpoints.
Or more of the population would become parents to gain the benefit and companies would have a scarce no-parent talent pool.
This is everywhere now. People who own houses want to see the value increase. This is even more true of all the investment companies, pension funds, etc. - they must show a substantial ROI. Build more houses, to make housing more affordable?

They will fight it at every turn.

Not openly, of course. You cannot openly oppose affordable housing. But through lobbying, they will prevent rezoning, put hurdles in the way of easing building regulations. Ensure that NIMBYs protest cheap housing near their upper-class neighborhoods. Whatever it takes.
This work ran more benchmarks with NPFLua:

https://2018.eurobsdcon.org/static/slides/Fast,%20Flexible%2...
Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (2014) [pdf]
My experience:

So many rats I accidentally kicked one while casually walking once. You see them literally everywhere.

In Manhattan regularly you walk around huge mountains of stinking garbage bags.

Constant noise

$16/gallon for organic milk at the grocery store

Streets with pot holes absolutely everywhere

Many subway stations that feel like you’re descending into a medieval dungeon. As you wait for the train you get to look at the track bed covered in mold, slime, and scurrying mice.

Actually clinically insane people laughing and talking to themselves everywhere, you get to be right next to them all the time (guess we didn’t need those clinics we shut down?)

I am so thankful every day that I got out of there.
Summary of 10 minutes video

a long-time Manhattan resident shares his reasons for departing from the city after 20 years. He emphasizes that his concerns extend beyond the high cost of living, focusing instead on the exorbitant taxes, which amounted to over 50% of his income. The speaker voices alarm over the city's spending priorities, particularly regarding public safety. He recounts personal experiences of dangerous encounters, such as a half-naked man attacking the air and a friend being sucker-punched. The speaker also criticizes the city's inefficient subway system, citing the $11 billion East Side Access Project as an example of mismanaged funds. He compares this cost to the Shanghai Metro, which could construct significantly more for the same amount. The speaker also laments the negative impact of the city's government, including endless construction projects that have ruined neighborhoods and an ineffective free daycare program for three-year-olds. These issues, along with the loss of affordability and quality of life, have led to a mass exodus from New York City, with half a million residents leaving since 2020. Despite his attachment to the city, the speaker has moved to New Jersey and reports an improved quality of life and better-run institutions.
Or his Twitch videos. That he starts writing immediately and that we're able to watch the process is great. Moreover the tone is friendly and funny.
April 24 is JavaScript Naked Day – Browse the web without JavaScript
> maybe they’re under represented in these fields in the UK and the government wants to fix that?

Or maybe they're not, and this is a representative sample? Academics move around a lot: seemingly half the faculty at my local university are immigrants, and a good chunk of the graduates become emigrants.

You might be right, but I get unreasonably annoyed when people insist that the existence of women or members of minority groups must be a diversity initiative. The mere existence of people is not a political statement.
Roadmap and feature request boards for software teams
there are still dumb white proto-hackers who are convinced that they're better at everything than sanjay ghemawat, raj reddy, vinod khosla, and umesh vazirani, but almost all of us have at some point had indian coworkers who were much better than us by now. and it takes a special kind of racism to consider yourself smarter than all four of that list above just because you have less melanin; people that bigoted are rare indeed
High-rise new-builds are tainted until we have leasehold reform; £8k p/a service charges and several hundred pounds ground rent, with failure to pay leading to the confiscation of your £1MM apartment by the freeholder, is insane, and is literal rent-seeking by the developers on properties that are ostensibly owned by their occupiers.

They don’t want to build more, because they would also have to lower their service charges significantly or see them fail to sell once they’ve saturated the section of the market that can afford them.
Every time I've had to help a person remove viruses and malware from their computer, they've also had antivirus installed.
"Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning." - Unknown.
These takes are always comical to me, because I really wish they would put some downward pressure on rents

While rents in SF crash, rents in NYC seem to reach a new ATH every month. The newest addition is how popular bidding wars have become. If all it used to take a few years ago was being the first person with good credit to apply, now you’re expected to give your “best and last” rent offer, maybe offer the broker some extra cash as well

So, yeah, there are YouTube videos about crossing the street with your kid because a shirtless man was yelling, and then there is reality of other families outbidding each other. There’s obviously more than enough people to fill all the available apartments, so I don’t see the reason it matters if one person leaves, there are 5 people bidding on paying more for their same apartment

New York City’s Vacancy Rate Reaches Historic Low of 1.4 Percent

https://www.nyc.gov/site/hpd/news/007-24/new-york-city-s-vac...
It is curious that, apparently, almost all agricultural technology is focused on to break the ecosystem between the crops.

That tech discards the nitrogen that would be produced by microorganisms and animals like worms, included seasonally shed leaves plants with deep roots, while promote "solutions" towards the soil desertification and the dependence on multinational corporations that destroy such sings of life around the crop (what also introduce Cancer in our lives), to sell their annual interdependence solutions, as Bayer-Monsanto does.

IMHO, the bioengineering tech for crops should be more focused in the ecosystem equilibrium, predators for the plages only over the specified plants, which should include micro-robotics also ( Before harvesting, command to make predators leave the plants ).

It seems more than 60% of the oxygen in the atmosphere is produced by algae, if new algae are introduced into the ecosystem and modified to massively consume nitrogen from the atmosphere for crops, one can take for sure that a planetary scale problem will arise.
I see what you did there :LOL:
Mitre says state hackers breached its network via Ivanti zero-days
It's a good thing actually given that the worker conditions are pretty terrible there.

But it is only a good thing if the increased productivity translates into better wages, increased vacations and reduced work days and not helping Jeff getting a bigger yacht.

And for that, it must be an active government policy.
Some semi-random observations, lack of housing supply semi-aside:

One of the exceptional things about the UK is the 'right to buy' scheme introduced in 1980 which offered people in Council homes the opportunity to buy it, with up to a 60% discount on its guide price depending on how long they've rented. A lot of working class people in Council schemes took them up on that offer and so the amount of available housing stock to cheaply rent diminished sharply. IIRC in Scotland it was ended in the 2010s to curtail that trend. There is surely a generation of older people living in 2/3/4 bedroom houses that don't really need that space, but aren't willing to pay today's prices for a smaller place that hasn't been made their own home- this could affect the affordability of up and coming families. There was a 'bedroom tax' imposed on people still living in Council housing that had empty bedrooms which didn't apply to private housing.

In Scotland the average house price is closer to £200K while in England it's closer to £300K, yet GDP/capita is broadly similar in both countries. UK house prices generally get more exorbitant the closer you get to London, though they're high in Edinburgh also. Would've hoped/thought that with WFH being more normalised with COVID that people could migrate to more affordable areas without sacrificing job opportunities and without much change in culture/climate etc.

Where I live in the Scottish Borders, a couple on minimum wage can buy the average house price at well below 5x their salary. For WFH folks in unaffordable areas, get some research done on somewhere agreeable and take the leap.
So the waterfall model is the best after all?
>The great open source minipro app has to fight the manufacturer and reverse engineer, and then the maker discontinues the 866, and it's replacement is no longer compatible.

Ouch. I use the open source minipro with the (non-clone, actual) TL866 I have had for a long time.

It should be possible to design something actually better and open source. I think this story's effort is a decent start. Not quite there, but it can be built on.

Meanwhile, best to get clones and use minipro.
Deep Neural Networks via Complex Network Theory: A Perspective
True. There's a revival of this kind of music/asthetic that happens every 10 or so years, people keep rediscovering it. Which is fine. But you can't mention this if you want to make it sound fresh.

Either way, the lede here is the web 1.0 website and not the music per se, despite the article's title.
I still do. In fact, hello from a browser with JavaScript disabled
Well of course it is. With progress in knowledge, there comes a stage before that. That stage we can call learning. I don't care how you bend it, learning involves thinking in its base of it all.

So thinking does not merely make you a better programmer. It makes you a better programmer at every given time . Your progression never stops and like I just said, it's simply called learning.
That site's information doesn't track with my direct experience of the area. I'm also suspicious that the entire purpose of the site is to advertise home security systems since it's a prominent entry in the site map. Also, they mention their maps are AI-generated from other data sources; this is strange and unusual for statistical views and doesn't increase my confidence either.
So enough time to have two generations of people to grow up with them.
Very interesting tool.
After looking at the site TDK is empty, it is recommended to do some content tweaking in conjunction with user needs (Google's search keywords), which should promote your site and serve real users as well.
Go for it!
I don't know for aging economics this is somewhat good. But for developing countries it's horrible. Where humans has to search work each day to find food for night
There are Wikipedia articles on this:

- "Crime in San Francisco": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_San_Francisco

- "Crime in New York City": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_New_York_City

The quoted numbers in the articles are from different years and somewhat outdated, though (2019 and 2022, respectively). For violent crimes the total rates are more or less the same, with some differences in the details (SF has considerably more robberies and NY considerably more aggravated assaults) . But for property crimes, the totel rate for SF is more than twice as high as for NY.
Awesome! Keep in mind there's already scrapeghost and entities-extraction-web-scraper in Python.

I've tried using it with Groq's Llama 3 70B and it worked well :)
I think you're both agreeing here. Bitwize's answer was sarcastic, and definitely not aimed at you.

People really like to romanticize those things.
I read Julian Jaynes' Origin of Consciousness as a young man and was convinced for the longest time that consciousness is just a type of information processing (or a type of wetware program) that creates a mental model of the external world, and that it is based on language, and therefore only accessible to humans, and does not require any further explanation.

I'm no longer quite so sure. The possibilities are that consciousness:

1) Is binary or exists in a continuous spectrum

2) Is fundamental property (panpsychism) or emergent

If it is a continuous, fundamental property, then what we experience as qualia (i.e. subjective, conscious experience) are merely a higher order version of any reaction of anything to any other thing (from a glass shattering due to blunt force, to a venus flytrap closing in response to an insect). It also implies that there may be other intelligent species out there with a much higher order of consciousness (not merely intelligence) capable of higher levels of conscious experience. In which case, we have a serious problem with the way we are treating some animals.
Anything similar for android?
I have literally discovered and fixed the "bad hash function" case at work using gperftools. I'll watch the talk again anyway.
Was this summary generated by a LLM?
>Data Linked to You

>The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

>Health & Fitness
Location
Contact Info
Identifiers
Usage Data
Diagnostics

Location, linked to my identity? No thanks.
There's more to NYC than downtown Manhattan. For example, roughly 1000sqft 2BR in Forest Hills go for around $3k/mo. A 30 minute subway ride from Times Square.

Contrast that with the $4k/mo studio price (which is believable) OP says you pay for in downtown Manhattan.
Are partnerships with big banks worth it?
Damn it, 5 minutes too late.
Don't forget all the robots reading it.

It seems the end goal of the advertising industry -- robots doing, robots writing, robots reading.

Like cockroaches and twinkies, one of the few things to survive nuclear war.
What is widely known? What's her name? Where does she study?
I'm not sure that follows. If most programming is thinking, then it makes sense to minimise the amount of thinking that is wasted when circumstances later change.
I'd love to see the AI prompts that made the pictures.
AI leads a service-as-software paradigm shift
a lot of good indian or indian-american programmers signed on at microsoft in the early 80s and didn't get whispering campaigns started about them in management and then didn't quit. retaining adept hackers (without strong morals, at least) was and is one of microsoft's strong points. imagine where visicorp could be if they'd been able to retain people like this
The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects. -Adam Smith
> "But where I'm at now, in my mind," Flegel said, "you just need some regulars. Some people who've got your back, are into what you're doing."

This reminds me of "1,000 true fans" [0]. A concept I've always liked and been drawn to. The internet has made that more possible than ever with things like Patreon. There are a couple podcasts in way behind on that I still pay for simply because I like the hosts and want to support them, I'd love to see more of that.

[0] https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/
I wouldn't have thought moving to NJ would improve your quality of life. NJ is a very angry state.
Sometimes joke candidates get elected. 2008 for example.

> Safe to say I think the implementation details of this policy probably aren't needed.

UKIP never got into government, but their policy did get enacted.
Investigations of fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) show that they engage in both deep sleep and ‘active sleep’, in which their brain activity is the same as when they’re awake[6]. “This is perhaps similar to what we call rapid eye movement sleep in humans, which is when we have our most vivid dreams, which we interpret as conscious experiences,” says Bruno van Swinderen, a biologist at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, who studies[7] fruit flies’ behaviour and who also signed the declaration.

Some suggest that dreams are key components of being conscious, he notes. If flies and other invertebrates have active sleep, "then maybe this is as good a clue as any that they are perhaps conscious".

[6] Anthoney, N. et al eLife 12, RP88198 (2023)

[7] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00709-7
it got rebranded activex for browsers
I don't bother to lock my phone as there's nothing on it of importance—no emails, no social media posts, no bank payments or such.

If lost, I'd lose a perfectly good phone but not much else and that would be inconvenient and I'd need a new SIM. As for data, I could potentially lose records of calls and SMS for a day or so as anything useful is backed up. I lost a valuable HTC once and never changed anything, no worries about accounts being stolen as there were none and I just canceled the SIM.

If I were a crim I'd would go to much more trouble to ensure that there was nothing on my phone to incriminate me. So I remain perplexed why crims take such obvious risks when it's well known the first thing the Law will want is their phone, and second, the Law will eventually gain access to their phone locked or otherwise.
I had the same thought as I read that line. I think he's actually describing Linus Torvalds there, who, legend has it, thought about Git for a month or so and when he was done thinking, he got to work coding and in six days delivered the finished product. And then, on the seventh day he rested.

But for the rest of us (especially myself), it seems to be more like an interplay between thinking of what to write, writing it, testing it, thinking some more, changing some minor or major parts of what we wrote, and so on, until it feels good enough.

In the end, it's a bit of an art, coming up with the final working version.
I recall an experiment with bees I read about where the bees were in a box. One path went to food, another to little balls which had no value to bees. Yet the bees would go “play” with the balls. The article and scientists state that this may show that bees make time for entertaining themselves.

I think it’s arrogance to assume only mammals can have consciousness just because we don’t have the ability to understand what that actually is. Yet, humans throughout history have used that belief to wreck havoc on the planet, other humans, and animals without regard for the consequences.
Trader Joe prices in Manhattan are pretty reasonable.
I once led a project to develop a tool that tracks how people use their time in a large corporation. We designed it to be privacy-respecting, so it would log that you are using the Web browser, but not the specific URL, which is of course relevant (e.g. Intranet versus fb.com). Every now and then, a pop up would ask the user to self-rate how productive they feel, with a free-text field to comment. Again, not assigned to user IDs in order to respect privacy, or people would start lying to pretend to be super-human.

We wrote a Windows front end and a Scala back end for data gathering and roled it out to a group of volunteers (including devs, lawyers and finace people even). Sadly the project ran out of time and budget just as things were getting interesting (after a first round of data analysis), so we never published a paper about it.

We also looked at existing tools such as Rescue Time ( https://www.rescuetime.com/
) but decided an external cloud was not acceptable to store our internal productivity data.
I tried it and after submitting the blog address, it keeps showing "Please wait, the server is processing the page ......"
> If you are not surfing porn

Then what do I need a computer for? /s

But seriously, when I had my work laptop and therefore didn't have adblock enabled, I was very surprised at what kind of sites had very... let's say questional ads. There are a lot of tech sites like Baeldung that have very shady looking ads.
I take a notebook and a pen and go outside to a park and first write the information in mixed form. Then I number them by writing numbers next to them. I scribble and write a new one until I reach the order I want. When I reach the result I want, I clear it and go home and digitize the notebook on the computer.
Can't you preprocess them with a custom parser and then hand over a conformant HTML to the browser?
I found him through a stroke of luck. My first need was for someone to get the invoices out in time and to nag me to keep my work log up-to-date. I was talking to some people about how to find an assistant, and they pointed me to my current assistant.

How do I trust him? Time and experience. I started with small tasks and expanded them as we developed trust. That and I control all the money.

If you're going to get an assistant, look carefully at your needs. Start with what causes you the most grief, what you hate doing, and what you avoid doing. For me, it's financial paperwork. He now keeps track of all the expenses and invoices and makes sure my accountant gets the data. This year, he can start giving quarterly updates to my accountant so I'm not getting a $$$ surprise on taxes.
Show HN: What Are You Working On?
Hey HN,

I'm sure you've seen the monthly "Ask HN: What Are You Working On?" headlines on [Hacker News](https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

Honestly, it's my favorite topic because it's packed with insights about what other hackers are up to.

I wondered what it would be like if instead of just a headline, there was a whole website where hackers could post daily updates, and where we could follow the hackers we're interested in for their latest updates. And so, this web site was born.

I hope it gets used frequently so we can all benefit from it together. I look forward to hearing your thoughts.

Let me know what you think!
Anybody living in Manhattan views Queens as "Queens" and not NYC.
You just need the built-in Defender if you don't tread uncharted waters. On the other hand, even if you just stick to OS App Stores and popular github repos, you can still get infected without an antivirus. There are malware in Windows Store.

https://www.reddit.com/r/antivirus/comments/1c690so/learned_...
I don't understand. Why not build most of the functionality in HTML + CSS and use JavaScript only for interactivity and "real time"?

Hacker News is a very good example of that done right. I have JavaScript disabled and I can use the site just fine. The only thing I can't do is collapse comment threads.
My daughter wanted an app like this that would help her with sheet music, so that was enough motivation!

I was tinkering with Unity at the time, so I thought I’d use it to make future releases on other platforms a little easier.

I’ve tested it on a few iPhones, iPads, and a MacBook Air (running the iPad app). It’s worked nicely on those. I don’t recommend using the AirPod microphone as I noticed some poor recognition on the lower notes!
This should probably just link directly to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PwDFddpo4c (if you're impatient, skip to 1:50).
12 Factor App: A Developer's Guide