skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 3. Write programs that you think are cool. But since you know more, you can write more cool programs

The integration phase goes much deeper. The first stage is about learning how to write programs. The second is about writing programs well. The third is to intuitively reason about how to solve problems well using well-written programs; you can still code, but it's no longer where the lifting is.
Wizard: Why, anybody can have a brain. Therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me, I hereby confer upon you the Honorary Degree of T.H.D.

Scarecrow: “Th.D.”?

Wizard: Yeah, that’s “Doctor of Thinkology.”

The authority vested in Allred was that he'd been a manager at a payday lending company.
I was trying to coerce gpt-4o to talk about the gcd and lcm in terms of sets of the prime factors where the product is the union of the sets, gcd is the intersection, and the lcm is the union less the intersection and it kept telling me I was incorrect and being "non standard".

It has a long, long way to go.
Sometimes, journalists can write about something silly. They don’t have to sacrifice every ounce joy in their hearts.
Thanks for mentioning e-fabless. When I saw $100k, the first thing I thought was "cool, now remove a zero". I love the capabilities the future is bringing.
Right and this is my point the view espoused in the article is not universal
You might find this course helpful then. There is a huge amount of information you need to consume to make an IC so having it all organized for you is pretty valuable. It will save you many, many, hours. :)

https://zerotoasiccourse.com
> I'm not sure what they expected trying to reverse literally decades of policies.

It might be that Mr. Dell and Dell's big investors are squeezing the last few dollars out of the company before they divest themselves from it.
Neo Geo Architecture
People tend to do it themselves until their community grows and they can draw from a pool of people who love their project. The creator is in the best position to explain, document, and advocate for the project in the early stages.
American spoons vs European spoons :D
Until Obama vacates and sells his multi million dollar ocean front mansion at a significant “climate discount”, I am not buying a word of this.
> All you get is tiny vinegar capsules.

Or to put it another way: you get tiny vinegar capsules!
Maths, when done correctly, _is_ 100% infallible by its own design. It's just that reality isn't obliged to play by your rules =P
Depends on how you define real estate interest. If you include the government, the corps might be facing tax ramifications. Many places got property tax deals since they brought people downtown. Those deals might evaporate if the seats aren’t being filled. The corps might face loan modifications if the value of the property drops a certain percentage.
haha, yeah, I have no desire to enter this space so I really haven't a clue. But I smell potential there; but it won't be me that takes it.
> Code completion is a great use, some writing tools are nice, I love chatGPT for information lookup (while knowing that it hallucinates), ChatGPT/whatever is great for generating icons and some images, and it’s much better at writing in corpo than I am.

I find it incredibly hard to believe that these things provide value anywhere close to 3% of GDP, that estimate is orders of magnitude too high.

3% is the entire economic output of the UK or India. The global agriculture industry is only like 4.5%.
I think so yes.

The article here espouses a constructivist view of mathematics

While I like that view personally, I think it's wrong to act as if it's the only one like this article does.

Many people have different views.
In general, running a tech company is harder (more complex) than running other kinds of companies but offers significant rewards if you can do it well.

The new normal (from the invention of the internet on) would be that tech companies are more competitive, pay better, and have higher risk.
People really forget what it was truly like in the 90s. If you could breathe and knew how to turn a computer on, you could get a job in tech. The hiring was that desperate and that easy. The fundraising was that easy too. Everyone just assumed that you even knew what a computer was that you could figure the rest out.

That all changed with the Russian ruble crisis, which hit finance first late in '98 and then took another year for its effects to start hitting the tech industry hard. By 2001 the game was up and it really took until the 2010s to turn around.

Actually in the late 00s and early 2010s it was actually really gross and sort of like crypto. I remember a lot of smooth talking dudes around NY who were raising all kinds of VC money and doing _nothing_ with it but finding shady ways to spend it on themselves/drugs. The money was free and the accountability was absent. That era really didn't last more than about 3-5 years.
Show HN: I Built a Tool to Extract and Format PDF Tables in 50 Days with Laravel
Ah, so I've actually wandered around there (my employer used to have an office there). Now, I was last there in 2020, and maybe things have changed, but when I was there it was a case of "apartment block, derelict-looking warehouse, unexpected parking lot, office block..." - that is it's fairly early in the cycle. You need a good bit of density for a lot of this ground-level retail to make sense; outside _exceptional_ cases no-one is going to _travel_ to visit your pharmacy or greengrocer or antique shop or cafe or whatever. As the gaps fill in you'd expect this to work better.

(It was also to my mind a slightly weird example of this sort of "convert obsolete light industry into housing and offices" phenomenon, in that it seemed to be super-patchy. I've no idea if anyone has looked into it, but my suspicion is that people are more likely to walk around the local area and use the retail facilities if it feels like a local area, rather than islands in a sea of old warehouses.)
> It's just fascinating to see it happen in real time since LLM's came seemingly out of nowhere and progressed so fast.

"Came out of nowhere" seems to ignore the many billions of dollars invested into it, and the millions of person-hours from people in low-income countries used to train it, and the enormous amount of energy required to keep the whole thing running.

Let's not pretend that LLM advancement is the work of a few plucky upstarts that have pwned the complacent legacy media. With all that said, I seriously doubt Wired magazine holds much sway in journalistic circles anymore.
> behind the scenes I strongly suspect commercial real estate interests are doing their best to stop WFH

There is a lot of money to be made in WFH, in particular around tooling and residential real estate. The simpler answer is we're still figuring out in which roles and cultures which work modes work best.
> The point of rigour is not to destroy all intuition; instead, it should be used to destroy bad intuition while clarifying and elevating good intuition.

This is a key insight; it's something I've struggled to communicate in a software engineering setting, or in entrepreneurial settings.

It's easy to get stuck in the "data driven" mindset, as if data was the be-all and end-all, and not just a stepping stone towards an ever more refined mental model. I think of "data" akin to the second phase in TFA (the "rigor" phase). It is necessary to think in a grounded, empirical way, but it is also a shame to be straight-jacketed by unsafe extrapolations from the data.
If you are enterprise, just go with Databricks lakeflow
He's probably trying to exit one of his investments.
It's easier than you think - I bought an old non-working phone (a candlestick phone in this case), removed the innards and replaced them with a speaker and microphone... it works really well!

I had originally planned to make it accessible via bluetooth but when I realised the phone shell was thick brass, I decided to leave it as a 3.5mm jack
How many people has software development sucked up? One of my previous coworkers has a doctorate in mathematics. He now works as a php web developer.
One of my favorite facts is that the average male ejaculate contains 220PB of data.
Thought that was against the OpenAI TOS. Open source projects do this because each user is running it themself
In fact, I am blaming the company from the very start, since they are the ones who promised something they could never deliver.
Former Head of Qualcomm's XR Division Joins Google to Guide XR Strategy
Indeed. I had a professor in undergrad named Kanapathipillai Thirugnanasambanthan. He might've been from Sri Lanka rather than India proper, though.

He went by "Sam Thiru".

When I first began I asked a friend if he knew anything about this "Professor Thiru". He said "Well, that's not really his name. His real name wouldn't fit in the schedule." :-)

Later, a different professor used him as an example of why it was a bad idea to hard-code the length of name fields.

Great guy, and one of the best instructors I've ever had.
Same with it all being about middle managers' egos. Like, senior management is more than willing to throw out middle management, especially in tech.
ICQ is shutting down after almost 28 years
What's Changed in 50 Years of Computing: Part 3
https://archive.ph/fLbuQ
Thanks no. I rather wait 10ms for a rebuild and 1s on gdb init, than 25m for a monolith rebuild, and 2m on gdb init.

Seperate processes, yes.
Nice and clean!

How did you get it off the ground and gather first users?
For folks wondering who is pushing CRE interests in RTO - it is the board members and investment funds that invested in tech companies - they also invested in CRE back in the 2012-2019 period. When workers don't come back, it is hurting these same investment firms that own all these funds.

But it only hurts a small percentage of their portfolio. They'd much rather you all millions of workers sacrifice their lives commuting than they lose 5% of their wealth.
i learnt most of it many years ago when it was called statistics and optimization.
We can check their balance sheet. Dell doesn't even report "Land and Improvements" anymore. The last time they did in 2021, it accounted for ~3.8% of their total assets--a tiny drop in the bucket.

Take Apple, who just built their spaceship campus: Land and Improvements is ~6.6% of their assets. Google, who own most of Mountain view are ~18% real estate.

So, I suppose maybe that tail is wagging the dog... For some companies?
I have a friend in his 40s and I asked him about his opinion on WFH. He doesn't like it. He prefers to go to an office and be around people. He also doesn't have much in the way of interests or hobbies. I suspect a lot of RTO decision makers fit a similar profile.
Yes, the planning commissions approve these developments with the requirement for "ground floor retail" but the demand doesn't seem to be there, at least not at the rents being asked.

If they would truly rent these places out at what the market will pay, that would be fine and I'd love to see what ideas people had to use that space. But seeing as how most of it remains vacant, that must not be happening.
Plant lots and lots of sunflowers. Sunflowers will remove all sorts of metals from the soil.[0] Then you just have to dispose of them like regular garbage.

[0]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5402931/
I work closely with some people who make these kinds of decisions and ime it's not commercial real estate (though I'm sure there might be isolated cases of this happening - Washington DC's city government is a notable example of this)

Based on my network, their reasoning is a mix of:

- communication breakdowns due to the difficulty of building an async communication model (remember that most people are not as text/writing and async driven as Internet commenters on a tech forum), and operational work like quarterly planning, QBRs, product line prioritizations, etc can be done much faster in person instead of over 10-15 Zoom calls over 3-5 weeks.

- situations where remote workers are domiciled in a different location from where they were hired AND they didn't tell HR (this leaves companies legally liable for various tax, business incorporation, and safety regulations)

- the occasional case where a major security incident occurs due to lack of in-person verification (eg. The recent North Korea remote worker scandal, the ongoing Snowflake breach)

- Justify US headcount. One of the portfolio companies I was an observer for went public a couple years ago. When they switched to remote during the pandemic, they realized they could cut down their entire US engineering presence and overhire in Eastern Europe, Israel, and India and drastically reduce margins. Most larger institutional investors are clamoring for this now, and they have a point to a certain extent. IBM, Google, Crowdstrike, and Amazon have unofficially started this, and I'm not surprised if other companies are doing the same

There are ways to change an organization to resolve these issues, but they are hard, expensive, and not scalable for large organizations.
Fixing up housing and selling it to richer people is a new concept. It used to be you would build new things and clear out the old. Of course when we make legal systems that favor the status quo, suddenly it becomes a luxury prospect to live in the few good units of whats left since we aren’t allowing for any more. Historical significance arguments basically emerged in our society along with the very ordinances that prevented these same historical structures from ever being built again. There would be no reason to deem something historical and protect it if it was constantly being renewed as it is, after all.
Why would the corporation care about what local governments and lobbyists want? They would be taking all the risk of managing disgruntled employees forced to come back.
You are acting like an asshole :).
That's essentially what this system does — it identifies the models and their properties that you've marked as serializable at build-time using source generation, and then allows you to provide a type resolver and converter to System.Text.Json that lets you make upgrade-able models with logic like you just described.

The assist from the source generation helps reduce some of the boilerplate you need, but there's no escaping it ultimately.
Connection tracking != fast path flow tracking in a lot of cases.
FreeBSD is compiled using Apple's open sourced Clang compiler.

> Apple developed Clang, a new compiler front end which supports C, Objective-C and C++. In July 2007, the project received the approval for becoming open-source.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clang
I guess that depends where you're putting them. Erecting solar panels on already developed land probably isn't destroying landscape.
It's not observable in just one electron, as you pointed out it takes multiple particles to be emitted before the wave like properties are observable.
The best way imo to get early sales for your startup is to use your network. Look at people you directly know who have the problem. I feel like this should be enough to get your first customer or two. After that I'd look at warm introductions.

I've found that in today's world, people are fatigued with inbound email and LinkedIn and so even if you have something valuable, getting someone to listen can be hard. So I think warm intros help at least get to the demo stage.

You might not think you're super connected but via six degrees of separation, you should be able to get a dozen or so demos booked via people who know people in your ICP.

If that doesn't work for your first ten customers (or first customer if enterprise) then you have to seriously question if you're working on the right problem.

You mentioned offering deals or rewards for trying out your product. I recommend against rewarding people for just trying your product. Because if the pain is not so great that they are willing to try out the product on their own, you're probably working on the wrong problem.
> 180nm is potato quality - many many generations behind. So far behind it might actually be more expensive to get chips than at 110/65nm, although I’m only speculating here.

I mean that is year 2000 level-tech. PlayStation 2/Pentium 3/AMD Duron/GameCube levels. That is not potato. You can definitely do things with it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/180_nm_process
I'm glad to hear that it was a positive experience for you! Do you think you know what % of your peers ended up working in tech off the top of your head?
Exploit people for their time and labor

That's the only real way to become a billionaire
Why does it let you sort through the card deck one-by-one? Ime mkst solitaire offers the top of a set of three.

Maybe it's just a different style of solitaire? This one seems too easy, though. Well done app, regardless - cheers! :)
If I were buying, I'd ask for a sensation of horizontal force when going up/down and see what they'd come up with.
I had an Indian colleague that only had one name. To fit in with the company she went by a double first name. i.e (I can't remember her Indian name) Jane Jane.
Citi.com is slowest among US banks websites
The Tesla front seat emergency door handle is placed in a place you're far more likely to grab in an emergency than the tiny little normal egress button.
Life expectancy for men in the US is about 74 to 76 years.[1] In Massachusetts, it's about 76 to 78. So this does not seem unusual at all.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...
So the industry's rating system maps this bridge - totally fucked, key structural members rusted away entirely, others with large, clearly visible holes right through important points, weakened to the point it ended up falling down - to "structurally deficient" and then maps "structurally deficient" to "not necessarily unsafe" ?

Kinda makes me think George Carlin was on to something with his hate of soft, euphemistic language.
Hey everyone! I'm very excited about the newest project I have built.

As a NextJs developer I decided to step out of my comfort zone and dive into Laravel for this project. In just 50 days from purchasing the domain to deployment, I built this tool to solve a problem many accountants and professionals face—manually extracting tables from PDFs.

The goal was to create something incredibly simple to use. With my tool, you can get your tables in as few as 3 clicks. Not only is the extraction process fast and easy, but the tables are also perfectly formatted, which is a feature many competitors lack.

I genuinely want to make stuff that is useful, saves time and effort, and I’m very open to feedback. If there’s something you’d like to see improved or added, let me know and I’ll work on making it happen.

Thank you for checking out PDF to Excel Tables. I look forward to hearing your thoughts!
Not all things are physical things. How much does it cost to have thousands of people click at images of cars for your AI model?

After all, money is nothing else but a token of work. The more money you have, the more work you can make other people do.
Not open source. Misleading title.
This seems reasonable, but there's also the concern of abuse of power. Like when the mob or politicians had control of local labor unions and inspectors on payroll. They would force closures of bridges, roads, building, etc to hire mob run construction companies to do the repairs. Maybe there are enough federal safeguards in place for this now at DOT (Department of Transportation) level.
Is this just easier to SEE in a bootcamp type scenario?

How many people got the traditional education route, rack up even MORE debt, still don't end up doing the thing / end up where they want to be?

Is this maybe an easy to see problem that is part of a larger education problem none the less?

Full disclosure: I'm the product of a boot camp. Changed careers and learned to code after age 40. It worked out great for me, but yeah I was in camp with a lot of people who shouldn't have been / it was a waste of time / money for them.

I have to wonder as jobs and careers change, having faster ways to retool seems all but required. At the same time I think those efforts will be hit and miss, and I'm not sure there's a solution to that.

(That doesn't excuse any of the scummy nature of some of the storytelling around bootcamps, but honestly I've worked with university interns and they seem to tell each other their own stories about how much they'll be making and it's interesting how that hype sort of builds.)
Linux Patches Posted for Intel Lunar Lake DLVR Support
Depends on your definition of "fizzle out". If you mean "not dominate the future, but be relegated to merely a niche tech", then:

Ruby on Rails. Modula-2. Every JavaScript framework since ever. Supersonic passenger flight. Space tourism. Emitter-coupled logic. Gallium arsenide (still has my vote for a name for a speed-metal band). Musk's Boring Company. I'm sure I could go on with some more thought.
I assume because the US doesn't care about the potential data collection of drones flying around as long as they have the data, they just don't like it when China has it.
Svelte? HTMX? a lot depends on the type of application you intend to develop.
I think there’s probably room for something like: programming with less CS. But I mean, we already have trade schools and community colleges for that sort of thing.

I also think there’s a ton of value in everybody learning a little bit of programming to help them automate things like office jobs. But that’s have to be carefully handled with nice intuitive libraries and thoughtfully restricted network stuff.

Getting teachers for this sort of stuff is hard, but maybe the tech bubble will pop soon.