skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Odds That Aliens Exist Just Got Worse
Sometimes I feel really bummed out I am getting 1/2 (or less?) of Google compensation. But then I open my eyes - see the workers in my daughter's kindergarten slaving away taking care of 30 toddlers for less than half what I make, nurses and doctors working in conditions I wouldn't be able to tolerate for more than a few months without mentally collapsing, the people in the supermarkets, gas stations, police, fire departments, social workers, teachers etc etc.
Really I don't see what we have to complain about - whether its a 3 man startup with "low" compensation or anything else.
You're getting paid for solving code riddles the whole day. You're getting paid a lot. Quit comparing yourself to your friends that work in Google and try to learn how to cultivate a peaceful and happy mind.
GoDaddy under fire for banning DNS automation tool in favor of its own
Plastic stools have their share of superior qualities. They tolerate liquids better, are generally lighter and cheaper, and may even be more durable. The manufacturing controls are likely better - no weak branches that get turned into a support.

My point is just to emphasize that to the extent t your analogy works, it does not indicate one or the other is universally superior.
Setting a goal of getting into a "top 10 college" (whatever that means) is pointless. The admission rates are so low that even for students who check all the boxes it's still a lottery ticket. And there's not much difference in average lifetime earnings between graduates of those schools versus the next tier down.
Self-Awareness Might Not Have Evolved to Benefit the Self After All
Defmacro is trivial to implement in syntax-case, but you are in for a world of pain if you want to use bindings across modules.

In have an implementation of tagbody for guile scheme somewhere, using delimited continuations. I have seen it for racket as well. There is an implementation of loop for racket, but it relies heavily on set! which will tank performance, since chez and racket (and many schemes) is pretty bad at not boxing mutable values.

I wrote this which is definitely not as powerful as loop, but definitely more powerful than rackets for loops: https://git.sr.ht/~bjoli/goof-loop
Everyone Is Judging AI by These Tests. Experts Say They're Close to Meaningless
Yes, but this way of ensconcing it reduces the radiation exposure since the device now likely won't be kept constantly in contact with the body.
> Well, the underperforming schools also have worse teachers, and can be dangerous.

I think that falls under my use of the phrase "social benefit".
I've used HTMX in a lot of applications but i always end up using web components or a javascript as the app grows.

The fact that's relatively lightweight makes me feel okay using it though. If you'd like a similar lightweight library you can try alpinejs.

Adds reactive stores with just a javascript link.
I don’t know if it’s the correct tool but my llm used it to replace a weather widget iFrame hazard on a static site. It’s a cronjob that lynxdumps the weather forecast, writes the values into an html block and then sshs into the clients server that has the site (but no lynx) and replaces the html block in all html files. Runs every hour and might work for years, we shall see.
https://archive.is/wioou
For the biggest tech companies you spend time practicing leetcode. I don't know if that's any better.
When tuition was $1000 (which it used to be in 1970) no one was talking about how getting an English degree could be a catastrophic financial decision. At worst it was a waste of time.

Instead of funding universities and managing them like we should be, we handed them over to MBAs who seem to charge more and more every year for the same degree.

Obviously federally-guaranteed loans are an idiotic solution to a self-inflicted problem.
For FAANG and FAANG cargo cultists, the goal absolutely is to provide a correct answer, and to do it while pretending you're reasoning it out from scratch rather than recognizing the pattern from the hundreds of leetcode practice questions you've drilled on.
Love it. Always wanted to have something like this for the Google Watch. Easy to stay update and receive alerts, but dont need to setup a second phone/device.
Most of our customers are non-English speaking (Argentina, Brazil, Middle East). I haven't picked a language yet.
Show HN: Gallagher Python Toolkit, SDK, CLI, TUI and SQL Client
What about a take home test that takes 1 hour with no leetcode/trivia? At a certain point I feel like you have to pick your poison
Care to quantify this?
I wanted to try SQLite in the browser for a side project, but the startup time was unacceptable to me. It takes a solid second or two to crunch through the WASM binary, init SQLite, and open a database. Gets worse on first boot when you need to create all the tables.

There was a web.dev post or something saying "Web SQL is finally here! Just use SQLite with WASM!" Like, sure, that does seem to work, but it requires a huge WASM blob and a huge heap of JS glue. Indexeddb--as horrible as it is--starts up and is usable almost instantly. The sad part is that Indexeddb's querying is so bad you're forced to build your own database on top of it anyway...

I get where the web standards folks were coming from when they didn't like WebSQL just being SQLite in every browser, but frankly that would be so much better than what we have now even 5 years after back-peddling.
We reached 'peak university' (in terms of enrollment) in 2011. [1] I also would not say political affiliation matters, as confidence is plummeting for all groups. As for science, they seem to have stopped asking this question after 2021 (perhaps to avoid the temporary biases caused by COVID?) but Gallup has indeed had science as one of their 'confidence in institution' series of questions. [2] As of 2021 it had a total of 64%, leaving it as the ~3 highest rated institution. That's contrasted against 36% for higher education, leaving it somewhere between the church and medical system.

[1] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/183995/us-college-enroll...

[2] - https://news.gallup.com/poll/1597/confidence-institutions.as...
https://archive.is/2AeIi

> The researchers analyzed the health records to estimate the percentage of Covid patients who had long Covid one year after being infected. The lowest rate of long Covid in the study, 3.5 percent, was among vaccinated people who were infected during the latest period in the study, between mid-December 2021 and January 2022.

> That compares with a rate of 7.8 percent for unvaccinated patients in the study who were infected during the same period.

> “We found that much of the decline is attributable to vaccination,” said the study’s lead author, Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, the chief of research and development at the V.A. St. Louis Health Care System and a clinical epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis.

...

> Among vaccinated people who had been infected, the rates of long Covid were markedly lower. Differences in variants and other aspects of the Delta and Omicron periods played a role, the authors said, but they attributed about 72 percent of the decrease to vaccines.
Yeah we never had to read Karl Marx either.
We knew high quality data can help as evidenced by the \Phi models. However, this alone can never eliminate hallucination because data can never be both consistent and complete. Moreover, hallucination is an inherent flaw of intelligence in general if we think of intelligence as (lossy) compression.
Does the local power infra need work to support 350 toasters
> It's foolish to say that green threads are strictly better and ignore async/await as something outdated

I’m not sure I said outdated, but I can see what you mean by how I called Javas approach “more modern”. What I should have called Javas approach was “correctly designed”.

C#’s async/await isn’t all terrible as you point out, but it’s designed wrong from the bottom up because computation should always be blocking by default. The fact that you can accidentally start running your code asynchronous is just… Aside from trapping developers with simple mistakes, it’s also part of what has lead to the ecosystem irrecoverably being split into two.

I was actually a little surprised to see Microsoft make their whole .Net to .Net core without addressing some of the glaring issues with it, when that massive disruption process uprooted everything anyway.
Can you give some other examples?
Chicken has a Common Lisp style `loop` egg: https://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/5/loop I think it's based on a more generic Scheme version but I don't have a link to the original.

SLIB has an implementation of pretty much the entirety of CL's `format` that I ported to Racket: https://docs.racket-lang.org/slib-format/index.html

I also implemented a bunch of other CL stuff for Racket in https://docs.racket-lang.org/soup-lib/index.html (but not `tagbody`. Yet.)
The biggest chunk of that "extra work" would be installing Linux in the first place, given that almost everything comes with Windows out of the box. An additional "sudo apt install nvidia-drivers" isn't going to stop anyone who already got that far.
Right—that's the power and beauty of a good metaprogramming system is you can extend the language to meet your domain—not the other way around. Type tailoring is all about (ab)using metaprogramming to target the elaboration of surface syntax into something the type checker understands. So, the reason why it's sounding familiar is because type tailoring uses metaprogramming and targets eDSLs. Some of the stuff you're likely referring to (please send me a link with examples) probably is doing type tailoring.

The problem is that, until now, there hasn't been much awareness of the underlying thing going on here with types and metaprogramming. You might implement an eDSL with macros and get some nice type checking for free (I'm working on another project right now that does exactly this) but, with this type tailoring framework we're proposing, you might see ways that you can get more out of what you're doing by leveraging static information better and by programming the elaborator more cleverly. Does that help?
Why not 3 or even 10 leading zeroes? Why so pessimistic?
Just skimmed through the book and noticed several examples where it doesn't use argument quoting. For example the first chapter about variables doing echo $name. In fact, there is no mention of argument quoting at all. This should be the number one lesson before touching any bash script. Otherwise your scripts will be vulnerable to command injection. I recommend running the whole book through shellcheck.

It also recommends wrapping variables with curly braces like ${name}, without explaining why, later on never does so itself throughout the rest of the book. There are a lot of such missing explanations in the whole book. It does make it short and fun to jump straight into the examples but i think it could benefit from some facts and reference material, at least to link to.

Anyway, seems like most people here are more interested in arguing over bash vs python than discussing the actual content. A little surprising to see this get so many points.
So, you're adding overhead of compression, decompression, parsing and serializing JSON at every step. All likely backed by a language where computing length of a string is O(n).

And people are surprised software keeps being slow despite increase in compute resources. This is insane.
It's harder to find someone in an elite university who completely lacks the technical ability to do their job. Of course they still exist.

But the advantage of hiring from one of those schools ends there. For every "top 10 university" student there are 10 more capable ones from another school, you just have to work a tiny bit harder to find them.

So ultimately it's lazy hiring.
I was also disappointed, but this decision seems reasonable to me. SQLite is still evolving, if you pick a specific version then you're stuck on that version or risk breaking people that depend on specifics of that version. Also a vulnerability anywhere in SQLite would expose billions of people to exploits. This is not the same as applications using sqlite internally, the web is a much hotter environment: most apps may expect potentially hostile input in SQL params, but with WebSQL everything is potentially hostile: the queries, the database files, even the schema may conspire under confusing concurrency conditions to corrupt the state of the sqlite engine to break out and exploit the user. Whatever you think you have to agree that this is a LOT of new surface area.

I much prefer this approach where the site brings their own sandboxed SQLite WASM package.
Defmacro isn't hygienic, while syntax- is.
Is there way to use arbitrary names in hygienic syntax- macros?
> can I assume the graph contains a Hamiltonian circuit?

Many interviewers will likely ask you: what is a Hamiltonian circuit and can you think of a solution that doesn’t contain a Hamiltonian circuit?
Maybe I need to start prompting ChatGPT to always summarize articles as a conversation between two minions...
What does "confidence" mean exactly? Regardless, I'm sure that the students actually in college are there for "all the right reasons."
> people will notice

What does this mean? People who don’t know what they’re talking about will get their feathers all ruffled and start rambling about missing the case of nondifferentiable constants? I guess I should have expected as much. But that is, indeed, my point: evolutionists get stuck against the wall just the same as the rest of the religions the GP mentioned.
Development with Defense: Early Integration of Proactive Security
The author to me is pointing out that coding interviews are random and arbitrary, specially when done by junior engineers or engineers trying to protect their jobs. I’ve seen too many times coding interview given to the junior most engineer on the panel, specially at FAANG adjacent companies since they don’t know how to calibrate coding interviews correctly.
Thank you, but by that argument, I could that for any diagramming / whiteboarding tool. The point is having a tool that reduces work for me and does these things automatically.
I also see this as the main reason. GPU drivers for Linux, as far as I know, were just a niche use case, maybe CUDA planted a small seed, and the AI hype is the flower. Now the industry, not the users, demand drivers, so this became a demanded feature instead of a niche user wish.

A bit sad, but hey, welcome anyways.
Specific questions make for chaotic and detailed answers that don't speak to the bigger issues, because it fragments the pool opinions and allows the question crafter to push a narrative. This is precisely the kind of "scientific" nonsense that people are starting to realize and push back against. People with marginalized opinions have since learned the game and are starting to fall for it less and less.

Source: someone with a marginalized viewpoint and the target of "scientific" and institutionalized race-based discrimination.
Do you mean a venti?
> It means experts and scientists get ridiculed

Given the shameless plague of fraudulent papers, and the gaming of citations, my faith in experts and scientists has been damaged.

Then there was the "trust the science" fiasco around covid.

Trust is like glass - easy to break, and very hard to restore.
Intel's CPUs Are Failing, Ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs [video]
AGI has been achieved internally.
I don't think that's quite fair: the Apple ][ computers were highly functional machines.
AI will challenge the reasons we go to college even more.
It is funny I tried to hire people, just pasted the minimum requirements and salary - and got no response.

The other day I had a tech interview and just by screen calling to update python version on OSX one of the commands was "reboot" and oh well.. the interview was over.
> popularity is a good heuristic for relevance , but it is not the primary factor.

Is the statement not valid for products too ?
They're just pointing out that strictly speaking this is not a valid proof that these integrals have no closed form.

Compare: halting problem being uncomputable tells you nothing about whether you can solve it for a subset of valid programs.
Just NFS, I assume. It doesn't take more.
>Humans and orcas both seem to benefit from them in many ways.

For a second, I thought you wrote "humans and orcs..." I don't think orcs really value grandparents that much, but who knows: Tolkein might have completely maligned them as mindless monsters when they were in fact just a fast-growing pre-industrial civilization.
https://www.sirlin.net/ptw-book/introducingthe-scrub
IQ tests are not illegal.
This article, like most breathless endorsements of parenting, fails to detach personal experience from the actual experience.

Sometimes a mother doesn't immediately feel love for the child and instead feels an intense guilt for being so unmotherly in a world that talks so highly about the immediate connection between mother and child.

Sometimes a father won't feel the weight of responsibility and will rely on the mother completely to take care of the child.

Please excuse the genders, it also happens the other way around. Your mileage may vary with parenting. Don't have kids simply because you expect to feel this way... or do it, I am not your keeper.
Starbucks release: https://stories.starbucks.com/stories/2024/starbucks-and-mer...
He's not wrong and it still marks why he probably comes across poorly and fails those interviews

People in hiring positions basically want productivity. That largely means they want people who will slot into whatever problem is at hand and tackle it effectively. The minute you approach the situation with "this is a stupid pointless problem you have asked me to solve" you failed the test. Even if it's only implicit and through subtle use of language, this will come across.
Eh, a cookie set with JavaScript can't be HttpOnly. It also requires JavaScript. None of this is ideal.
It's not a fundamentally stupid idea. There are incinerating toilets. 900F will kill anything biological. Getting rid of ammonia is a pain, though.
Adam Wiggins' Heroku Values
Nobody cares where I went to college. But I cared.

I think it's possible to find a path through most universities that will produce a first class education. Take the most challenging classes available.
There is a lot to be said for luck.

Bill Gate said it himself, there where other folks that had much better technology but the luck just worked in Microsoft's favor. That and a lot of anti-competitive behavior.

A bit the same with Apple, there were many others that had the opportunity but it just never worked out due to the flows of the market.
Russia and China pounce on rally shooting to undermine U.S.
i loved the spotiamp but they canceled it. There is this clone of it but not like the original. https://github.com/kran27/Spotiamp
See also the book Constructing Language Processors for Little Languages by Randy Kaplan.
Cool! There are also folks on Bandcamp who have floppy releases as a thing. Here's one: https://powerlunch.bandcamp.com/merch
And whats the false positive rate? Its good and dandy that you find most answers that are hallucinations but do you flag a significant % of answers that are not really hallucinations too? For instance, if a summarization doesnt use any sentences or even words from the original text, that doesnt necessarily mean its a hallucination. It could simply be a full paraphrased summary
It was a common practical interview question in 1996 to ask a candidate to implement a hash table in C.
checking it out.

I didn't like his talks earlier (had only seen parts of a few), don't know why.

but interestingly (to me), this one seems to be good, at least at the start, where I am now.

as the real talk starts after the ads, looking at him, for some reason, I thought he looked like a sinister mafia don wearing a tie. :)
As ex-owner of VT510, I'd say it's not really the ultimate form other than VT5xx being the last series from Digital.

For ultimate expression of Digital's VT series I'd rather go for VT340+, which supported both SIXEL and ReGIS graphics in colour. VT525 has colour graphics, but I can't find any mention of either SIXEL or ReGIS support on it.
> * You’re coming off as a jerk.

This is a big one, although I would phrase is more generally -- you don't work well with other people.

I have run interviews at [FAANG] and this becomes apparent quickly even in very technical discussions. So you may have thought you solved the problem and I have unfairly failed you.

Sadly the way things work in our society nobody will tell you this on their own accord unless yes you ask close friends.
> New lawyers, doctors, and CPAs

everyone you mentioned here has some kind of an ongoing public tally going on - Yelp/Google reviews, customer referrals that lead to new business or lack thereof. If I'm looking at a crappy lawyer or accountant, they probably have a 2* average of public reviews and/or out of business because noone wants to refer to them. Is there an equivalent of that for a mid-career programmer?
Even more interesting, the PIO-based memory controller is faster than the one in DECstation 3100!
Shai Agassi's battery swap idea went down the drain, because of mismanagement (?), and now we have these idiotic charging stations.
Oops! Chicken is BSD licensed, but this is GPL.

If you ship a program that includes this, it is tainted.

Possibly, the code generated by the loop macro doesn't fall under the license, but you still have to ensure that the macro itself is scrubbed from your application.
Yeah it’s pretty awesome overall. I think the issues are from a few things on my end:

- I’ve upgraded through a few iterations starting with Plasma 6, so my dotfiles might be a bit wonky. I’m not using Home Manager so my dotfiles are stateful.

- Could be very particular to my dock setup as I have two docks + one of the clock widgets.

- Could be the particular wallpaper I’m using (it’s one of the dynamic ones that comes with KDE).

- It wouldn’t surprise me if it’s related to audio somehow as I have Bluetooth set-up for when I need it.

I’m sure it’ll settle soon enough :)
Wealth != income
Ask HN: Which Code Assistant is better?
Hey everyone, I've been using Cody from Sourcegraph to help with my programming.

I was wondering if Github Copilot was a better choice.

If you have tried both and compared both, so as a user, which one would you suggest and in what case?

TIA
In my much shorter 5 years, I’ve seen devs exclusively using Apple hardware.

And in my team, our dev environment has become increasingly local!
It is all of the following factors: restricted supply, price indifferent consumers, free credit, on-academic competition between colleges, high regulation, and administrative bloat.

If you set these factors aside, there is no reason people couldn't get a legitimate bachelors for a few thousand dollars a year.

you could literally run an engineering program using class recordings from MIT and Stanford out of a community center like AA meetings.
It’s kind of surprising that these haven’t just been reverse engineered yet by language models.
Put Up or Shut Up
What does it take to convince people to take risks like this seriously? The challenge is that hypothetical risks 'sometime in the next 50+ years' don't convince people to do things, at least in the US. The pacific northwest is at a much higher risk from an array of faults (not just the cascadia subduction zone) and volcanic hazards but even there, where the risks are very well understood, getting a large region to take it seriously looks to be a near impossible task. Most people I have talked to don't even know that there is a risk in the PNW much less the magnitude of it or how to prepare. What are steps that actually work to actually educate and convince people?