skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> employers don't want this; they want to churn and burn through a pile of young people--or outsource--and then throw them away when their upkeep gets too expensive

I am an employer and have funded employers. That is a VERY WARPED view of hiring and I hope to god you never ever come near to getting a promotion to EM.

> I think certification institutions--from universities to bootcamps--have found that it's more profitable to focus on quantity over quality

That's BS. There's a reason employers still subconsciously discriminate based on the quality of program you graduated from.

The CS curriculum at Cal beats the CS curriculum at CSU East Bay in almost every single way, and it isn't because of the content alone but also the broad education provided.

We don't need code monkeys (and if you are a code monkey, you job is absolutely going to be automated or outsourced in the next 3-5 years), we need people who deep down understand or can think critically about a specific domain (technical or business).

I don't care if you can code in Cobol or NodeJS - can you deliver an MVP in a quarter, and then have the ability to pivot that MVP to meet changing customer or product demands? Can you architect services to both be cost efficient AND resource efficient?

We pay people in the tech industry good money to THINK. Critical Thinking is the actual blocker, and this is the primary reason why Leetcode and Whiteboard interviews are so popular.

At the end of the day, a Leetcode medium and Whiteboard interview is a puzzle, and if you can solve puzzles, you can think critically about architecture, product decisions, etc.
HN has insightful discussion? Very few people read the article and post anyway. And then its against forum rules to call that out.

HN has terrible insightful discussion.
I thought the punchline would be "we are intergalactic empire and are sending mind mails to another galaxy, there's a capture net on the other side"
This is an old map, RGV has turned substantially more Republican since
I think it’s not about tech, but prestige. You have senior frontend engineers working with React, SPAs, microfrontends, and more fancy stuff earning as much as senior backend engineers nowadays. Now, imagine for a second we say “senior frontend engineers, let’s start using plain html served from the backend, perhaps using some template backend language or htmx”. Suddenly, those senior frontend engineers won’t be earning that much money anymore (can you imagine hundred of thousands of developers earning $250K “just” by writing html/htmx? I can’t).

Whatever comes next in the mainstream frontend space must look more complex than React and friends. Money is at stake.
Rules of engagement or not, the American invasion caused plenty of unnecessary civilian deaths. In this case, I think the comparison between Bush and Netanyahu is quite apt, though Bush was smart enough not to use as much incindiary language while the people serving his country hurt so many people. The October attacks and the following excessive military response was not unlike what happened after 9/11.

Though there's hardly any concensus (partially because the ICC doesn't use the American court system, and therefore isn't supported by many American legal professionals), American scholars have written about how Bush would be accountable under international law. Nothing has ever come of it as far as I know, but I believe that's only the case because no country dares risk the political war with one of the world's leading military and political powers.

> Its not that there is a war, its how its conducted.

The shitshow that happened after 9/11 ended up with war crimes committed in a war fought over invented weapons if mass destruction. I would argue that the war being there can be reason enough to hold people accountable.
After years of software experience i have done more copy and pasting, implementing protocols, fixing old school ui threading issues, troubleshooting rare and hard to find bugs... never leetcoding. and not a single interviewer has ever targeted these skills properly.

The coding tests are specifically designed to hire only recent graduates of computer science. My education was electronics engineering so specifically did not have much "algorithm specific" training (too bad hiring managers have no idea how to change their expectations based on that)

I usually just get underhired in technician and production roles and end up running the entire IT/technical/engineering of small companies in a couple years.No interviewer has ever showed interest in this either.
Until the day it submits something to standup you don't want to and don't tell me you will always carefully filter it and then in best case you get fired. Worst case, you get criminally prosecuted.

Jesus, you people never learn.
The blog post design/airbnb site are pretty reliant on @container breakpoints. Even with flex/grid layouts you usually want to change things up significantly when it gets down to single column.
> “I’m fine, I just walked to work,” I said. “Why would you do that?” she said, and then, putting her hand on my forearm, leaned in to conspiratorially whisper, “Are you poor?”

This is a telling illustration of the path that lays ahead of us, to bring back walking in people's lives..

On a more personal note, the best of luck with your path ahead. May there be many steps taken and many walks walked in time that will be given to you.
AFAIK pilots don't need to hold the yoke for autopilot to work on planes, but this is required in Tesla.
> I grew up eating bear sausage and it was delicious.

Isn’t sausage the goto thing when you want to take meat that would otherwise be nasty and turn it into something palatable?

I don’t think you statement contradicts the parent post about bear meat being not good
>You may already be asking: “why not just power the stack using TimescaleDB?” The Timescale License would restrict our use of features such as compression, incremental materialized views, and bottomless storage. With these missing, we felt that what remained would not provide an adequate basis for our customers’ time-series needs. Therefore, we decided to build our own PostgreSQL-licensed extension.

Have been using the free version timescaledb before to shard a 500 Million observation time series database. Worked drop-in without much hassle. Would have expected some benchmarks and comparisons in the post. I will for sure watch this...
“no way can this happen twice”
I don't think it makes sense to look at it this way. I would look at it as any other warrant issued by any body. If the target of the warrant lives in a country that recognizes ICC warrants, then it's more or less similar to a warrant issued by that country's government. If not, then it's similar to a country issuing a warrant for the arrest of someone who lives outside their jurisdiction, with no extradition treaties in place.

I do agree that the end result is a sort of "travel ban", but that's no different than if the US issued a warrant for (say) a Chinese citizen living in China. The Chinese government is probably not going to hand that person over, and that person is effectively barred from travel to the US (and likely other countries like Canada that might help the US enforce that warrant if the opportunity presented itself), unless they want to get arrested.
They literally demoed a Stable Diffusion equivalent with ControlNet-style guided drawing.
I'm not sure I agree. That sort of type conversion involves inclusions, while the examples Buzzard talked about involved isomorphisms
all the recent discussions and controversy around auto pilot and it made me wonder if there is anything to be learned from the OG self driving car, the Amish horse and buggy. I grew up in a community where the Amish were quite prevalent, and there is an old and popular saying when an accident involving a car and a buggy happened that "it was the horses fault". not sure of how often horses walk into passing trains but I'd assume it's not very frequently
If we're quoting Wikipedia:

> South Africa has been a democracy since the end of apartheid in 1994.

People in the present day use the word "democracy" in a way that would exclude either ancient Athens or the Jim Crow-era US. You are the one who's insisting on an unusual definition from thousands of years ago; my definition is the mainstream one. Furthermore, your "classical" definition is irrelevant, since we're talking about Israel the modern state in 2024 which should be judged by present-day standards.
Certainly, but if he is outflanked on the right it won't be because of the ICC arrest warrant. If anything, that might help prevent him from being outflanked on the right.
Money used to be how things got done.

Now it's why.
I'd prefer standard controls with a set of universal downloadable themes (as a way to avoid writing it from scratch myself) to literally any modern "website design". It adds no value except for selling, but it's their goal, not mine.

Users can select their preferred font sizes

Browser vendors actively disrupted these features for decades, cause most of them became biggest sales/tracking platforms.
Honest answer - read the reporting the DuPont lawsuit is based on.

Factory workers who poured out PFAS sludge bled to death in factory floors, 9 of 10 women (or some similarly awful stat) who worked on the factory area gave birth to deformed babies.

awful stuff.
In that sense, the UK and America (among others) were accomplices to the Holocaust, by accepting Jews who were fleeing Germany?
Doing a meta-analysis on something easily quantifiable is sketchy enough, doing a meta-analysis on something as vague and hard to measure as "cognitive intelligence" is.. well, it's sociology's territory. Not to say it isn't of value, many discoveries were made on a lot less methodologically strict grounds and this kind of "conversation" does create the stimulus for further, more specific research, but you ought to read this more like a an investigative journalistic piece with a lot of opinion rather than hard science.
Anyone remember Google Desktop? Did the job perfectly 20 years ago.
Funny enough sewerAI is legit and predates the chatgpt moment
Redefining the Future of AI
I wouldn't be surprised if their working culture got rid of their most talented people. It is literally a burnout factory. That can easily be the source of all downstream problems.
There's a probabilistic nature to how the image sensor data is interpreted.

The neural network processes data to classify objects and predict what each object is. It doesn't always have a perfect static representation of each object. It's constantly updating its understanding based on the image sensor data. That jiggly jitter you see is basically the system refining its prediction in real-time.

Or at least that's how I understand it...
It's much newer for one, so it's behind on features. But, we're working on adding new ones based on customer demand.

We want to build it with a PostgreSQL license using existing community extensions as much as possible and build custom stuff (still permissively licensed) only when necessary.
GitHub copilot and nothing else comes close tbh.
definitely a step in the right direction but needs more flashyness
> - People at NASA want to go to the moon to build a permanent base there. Maybe this is just to beat China, maybe it will actually be very useful to have a moon base. But that is the stated goal.

> - People at SpaceX want to go to the moon as a way to fund Starship development, so that they can go to Mars.

These seem to be inter-related, too. NASA seems to want Artemis to be a stepping stone to Mars as well (whether or not they are competing or cooperating with SpaceX to get there). Some of the arguments for Gateway in NRHO and/or even a possible permanent base on the Moon from NASA seem to indicate that some of the engineers believe NRHO is a great "launch pad" to Mars.

Some at NASA also clearly don't believe SLS as it exists is capable of getting to Mars and are pushing SpaceX and Blue Origin in the HLS stages of Artemis seemingly to try to get competition going today for whatever rockets can actually make it to Mars. SpaceX's HLS plans being based on Mars plans looks like a feature more than bug, if Mars may be a shared end goal anyway. (Blue Origin also presumably is equally Mars-focused like SpaceX.)
The main thing I consider now is writing the commit message so that if I'm scanning it I'll know what I changed.

I only use squash and merge now, no more reverting reverts, no more merge commits. So the PR or MR title is the commit message, which means writing good PR / MR titles.
https://archive.ph/cmspb
A "Creativity" slider.
This guy just keeps trying to make money! How dare he increase profits!
If Netanyahu produces a document from the Israeli Supreme Court allowing his actions, doesn’t that make it impossible to prosecute him?

ICC works in conjunction with national courts. If a country has a functional, independent judiciary, that judiciary gets the right to address the wrong. Or not.

Israel’s judiciary is both functional and independent. Very independent. Of Netanyahu in particular.

And the Israeli judiciary seems to be going along with this.

Source: https://www.icc-cpi.int/about/how-the-court-works

> The ICC is intended to complement, not to replace, national criminal systems; it prosecutes cases only when States do not are unwilling or unable to do so genuinely.
But imagine how many billable hours were created with this thing
I like the recent work you've been doing Ed, but I think stylistically you can improve by seeing the truth in some of these criticisms. Your analysis can use a stronger systemic account of both the external cultural and market forces at work and even more so of the internal dynamics within large firms. It can also be more cutting by being concise --- avoid repeating yourself and non-substantive elaboration, especially in an emotional tone, which can be fatiguing. This will help you keep me as an audience member.
It seems I have hit a nerve! It is good to have the window turned away from the engineer glorification angle sometimes though.
NearWave – Realtime therapy efficacy for treating breast cancer patients
> as soon as you add guardrails like hygiene (like Scheme does), the inherent conceptual simplicity of Common Lisp style macros is greatly reduced

Clojure offers a nice middle-ground to this. In Clojure, symbols are namespaced, and syntax quote "fully qualifies" symbols. A "fully qualified" symbol is a symbol with its namespace explicitly written out. For instance, foo is unqualified whereas clj.user/foo is fully qualified. The language disallows binding fully qualified symbols. So the most common bugs arising in unhygienic macros are eliminated while maintaining the same level of "simplicity" as macros in Common Lisp.

There are also other features to help ensure hygiene, such as syntax that automatically produces gensyms for you. e.g. instead of

(let [foo-sym (gensym)]
`(let [~foo-sym some-value]
(do something with ~foo-sym))))

one can simply write

`(let [foo# some-value]
(do something with foo#))
These strike me as ideological, not scientific, positions.
What does the American right-wing have to do with this at all?

If anything I'd think its the opposite, there's a frequent stereotype about right-wing extremists having anime profile pictures.

And honestly, most of the right-wing people I know IRL are also into anime (though so are the left-wing people I know, so I don't think its really indicative of anything)
I genuinely don’t understand this opinion. Israel was viscously attacked unprovoked (regardless what you think of the history of the two orgs) by the organization that governs the province. They’re states goal is to demilitarize the area while their enemy insists on playing out the war in highly populated urban areas.

This isn’t a guerilla war either, it’s the actual official government party. One who has actively promised sequels of the attack.

What would you do in such a situation?
It's obvious that we are talking about the modern meaning of democracy because the entire thread is about current events.

> I’ll agree Israel isn’t a democracy per whatever definition you’re using.

Okay then, do you have an actual point, other than quibbling about what words mean?
Still waiting for an actual use case for these things. And no, "easily generate AI images" is not one of them, no matter how much Microsoft likes to push it.
I thought folks like saleem already had been building up a UIKit-like layer for exactly this.
I mean I don’t know anyone who’s been killed by a THERAC-25, either, but I wouldn’t be in a hurry to go under one.
It's hardly unprecedented; the Allies did it in WWII.

https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/key-documents/warning-leaf...
The use of postgresql licensing might mean we can see this available for AWS RDS and other managed PostgreSQL providers.
Generally for HN the request for politeness is positive I think, but in the technology area and especially journalism I think there is an unhealthy aversion to calling people out for anti-social behaviour, leading to a chilling effect on discussing it.
The word Copilot has been used for so much shit now by Microsoft that it’s literally vomit inducing at this point. Say one more time Copilot and I’m gonna lose it.
The thing about Copilot is that outside of the developer niche, nobody knows the term. The vast majority of Microsoft's customer base will recognise neither the Xbox feature nor the Github product.

In the same way, their .NET naming has never bothered anyone they actually care about selling stuff to. It's a tad annoying for developers, but nothing more than that.

I find the way they renamed their Office products every five years much more baffling. Consumers probably don't care beyond "office" but I'd expect them to protect their business clients from their ever changing names for office products at least.
At some point, this sort of thing deserves to be mocked. Look, if civilian deaths are not allowed in war at all (like all are intolerable to the point where pacifism is the only option), then we must condemn the Allies in World War II, who caused untold civilian deaths. Are you ready to go there?

The solution to belligerence cannot be wishful thinking and unicorn farts
Would you recommend any books to read on this history?
yep. This article is about specific people who did specific things.
I use it to take over while I take my eyes off the road for 1-3 seconds to adjust the GPS navigation / radio, or plug my phone in for charging when it's otherwise safe-ish.
This is the JS framework lifecycle. Every framework is a reaction to its predecessor.

jQuery said: Vanilla JS is too unstructured and results in messy code. So, it gave us a library of convenience methods that standardized and simplified common functions.

React and Angular said: jQuery is not powerful enough to support our complex web apps. So, it gave us the virtual dom and client side state to simplify SPA development.

Htmx is saying: React and Angular are too bloated, you don't need client state or dom manipulation most of the time. So, it's designed to be a lightweight extension of the "declarative web" with functional tags for common cases.

But i'm not so sure htmx has solid footing yet. for developers considering using htmx, they'll ask themselves: if my app is so simple that it can be made using htmx, then isn't so simple that it can be made without it?
IMHO, it's pretty hard to tell what's legal and not, when all of the elected officials are way past their elected terms, and the bodies are not in session.

Article 43 seems to give pretty wide berth for the President to operate when the Legislative Council is not in session, and if the Legislative Council is never expected to be in session, there's no mechanism to reign that in.

> Article (43) The President of the National Authority shall have the right in exceptional cases, which can not be delayed, and while the Legislative Council is not in session, to issue decisions and decrees that have the power of law. However, the decisions issued shall be presented to the Legislative Council in the first session convened after their issuance, otherwise they will cease to have the power of law. If these decisions were presented as mentioned above, but were not approved, then they shall cease to have the power of law.

To be honest, not a lot of countries have laws that contemplate continuance of government in case elections are not held.
I mean if I wanted, I could implement any of Airbnb, Twitter, Facebook, HN, Medium in e.g. GTK2 and people could use them with their favorite theme without any issue. Does that count as "without CSS or Javascript", in a non-pedantic sense?
I saw this article years ago and a switch flipped in my brain regarding plastic. https://izismile.com/2009/10/20/to_know_why_albatrosses_die_...

It's egregious the way plastic is thrown at every problem. Diligently cultivated by decades of industry marketing, it seems the meanest transient need by a human seems to justify some plastic container, which could have a much longer and more meaningful useful lifetime, that gets thrown away immediately and will be floating around in the environment for centuries after. A bottle of water, mouthful of yogurt, A thimbleful of cosmetic cream or sunscreen, a single meal etc.

Even the longer use stuff is appalling when you think of the relative time-scales of use and breakdown. Toothpaste tubes, toothbrush, floss dispenser, one or two months, then centuries in the environment. All those tech gadgets and kitchen appliances, CDs, monitors, furniture. Our species has too high a regard for itself in some ways. On the one hand we consider ourselves the only species with the capability for empathy, love etc, are undoubtedly one of the most conscious, but somehow completely blind to the suffering we cause.
Everything in Reddit is disaster.
They push the usage of mobile app so hard.

Soon the time comes when old.reddit.com is no more and that is farewell.
Postgres notes:

ElectricSQL, SQLedge, pglite: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38690588

pgreplay, pgkit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37959945

pg_timeseries: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40417347

pgvector, postgresml: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37812219

cmu ottertune, pg_auto_tune, postgresqltuner,

timescaledb-tune: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb-tune

awesome-postgres: https://github.com/dhamaniasad/awesome-postgres
You wrote this:

> in the years 1919-1920 tried and failed to conquer each of them

Then when I pointed out that the Soviets accepted Finnish independence, you switched to talking about the Winter War, which is 20 years later.

> I know, and I'm pretty sure you know that I know.

I can accept that you know when the Winter War occurred, but then I can't understand why you would raise it to justify a point you specifically made about 1919-20. During the revolution, the Soviets let Finland go. They accepted its independence. You claimed they tried to reconquer it in 1919-20, which is not correct.
Or at least stop using the ‘feature’, bloody hell.
H.W. Bush brought Israel in line: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/george-hw-bush-israel-palesti...

Reagan did it with a single phone call: https://www.nytimes.com/1982/08/13/world/reagan-demands-end-...
> The AAA game world is very conservative, so I can’t guarantee that PC game developers will port their codebases to ARM.

Unreal, Unity, CryEngine and Godot all support ARM, so - testing and third-party binary libraries aside - there shouldn't be any reason to not have an ARM port.
The conflict cannot be not considered international simply because Palestine's recognition is blocked by the US on Israel's behalf.

Nor can it be not international due to the vagueness of Israel's borders. Israel has internationally legally recognized borders (the Green Line) and is acting outside them.

This conflict is international.
A good handful of variants were tested as well, as explained in the article. It doesn't seem it could be items on the list. (Fake chips were discussed and identified as well.)