skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
plenty of learning resources exist. kids just don't have the motivation or focus. i'm not saying the kids are at fault though. there are a thousand games/apps that are like nicotine.
Higher interest rates make the BS go away.
Brave new world man. I am lucky I am where I am, but I am wondering how far away from the axe I currently stand. They need me now.. because we are in the midst of high stakes project, but later..
> the separation of HTML and CSS is theoretical, not practical.

Yes

> HTML is not just content. It complects content plus layout

No. One broad and now to a great degree complete goal of CSS has been: "regardless of HTML markup order, we can present these elements to the user in whatever order we want."
How Countries Are Preparing for a Potential Bird Flu Pandemic
Meteor rocks! Great to see things evolving and moving in the right direction.
Databricks 101: An Introductory Guide on Optimizing This Data Powerhouse
I was thinking of mentioning that I believe a lifestyle business in edutech is totally doable but my post was getting pretty long. Assuming much more modest requirements for revenue and growth, I'm actually fairly bullish on this scenario. The one proviso is that, in my experience, you need to structure the new business to survive a (potentially) very long period before reaching break-even. K-12 sales cycles can be glacially slow to close full district deals. If you can structure your product and pricing model to also generate some faster (though smaller) revenue from individuals, parents, private schools and single-classroom teacher-directed funds this can help provide some partial life support during the long winter before your first harvest.

Assuming you're able to (or maybe even enjoy) optimizing a business to operate for a few years on hand-to-mouth revenue and can get to product-market fit with few iterations then the AI buzz will make for an especially good entry window for new product offerings in edu. Most of your customers are already aware of AI and open to the possibility it may change things for the better. This should make getting classroom pilots easier.

The final thing I'll share is something I'm sure you already know (but I'll mention for others). It's pretty rare for long-term, lifestyle-scale, edutech businesses to get "good" exits by normal tech startup standards. Think around 1x to 3x trailing twelve month revenues with the higher end of that range only for those having proven consistent multi-year profitability.
Right, not great, but really not the worst candidate. ;-) Such validator tools can provide a quick overview, but they have an efficiency problem. It is more efficient for devs to think about a11y in terms of workflows instead of a large ruleset that has to be fulfilled perfectly. Automated validators are not aware of the intended workflows in the app or website and thus cannot identify the critical parts. It's not about being perfect, but it's about how easy we can get the workflows done. Fixing the critical problems first and making progress step by step should be a good strategy. Validator tools tend to complain e.g. about every missing alt tag on images. Many devs think they have to invent a label for every image to make the validator happy. Most images on the web could simply get an empty alt attribute which hides them from screen readers, because their content is not critical. If the image is the only content of a link or button, it might convey critical information for the workflow and needs meaningful alt text.
Actually in Germany, any online buy is subject to return within 14 days without any questions asked. So Amazon.de cannot refuse the return of items.
The total number of jobs increases. Logically, it has to. Population increases. There are more people now than there were in the past and there is not massive unemployment, so there must be more jobs than there were before.
This. Between Khan Academy and youtube, there isn't really anything stopping a motivated person from learning. Hell you can get graduate level instruction from some of the best university instructors around by using some of the open courseware materials. Granted some people need the rigor of having an instructor assign and grade assignments regularly, but there are no real barriers to the information itself.
I noticed the same hyperbole. I've never made extremely high or low wages; been within one standard deviation from the role mean for decades.
GlobalWafers scores $400M to help build US's first 300mm wafer plants
TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel
There are plenty of online outlets that cater to your taste.
I've always thought that Santa Cruz is a great place to spend three months and a terrible place to spend three years. The place has a certain energy and but you can get sucked into the vortex and spend every day bicycling to the local surf break and back without doing realizing that you have none little else for the past 6 months. Makes you appreciate how lively San Francisco is and how nicely it balances the more sensuous aspects of Santa Cruz's culture while having some sense of grandeur and purpose beyond sitting in a hot tub.
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Some more discussion on:

Self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor referred to UK prosecutors for alleged perjury

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40975209

Craig Wright's claim of inventing Bitcoin may get him arrested for perjury

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40979392
> Why do people think this writing style is attractive?

Do you actually want to understand the answer to this question?
Are you excited about MySQL 9.0?
Oh, that's bad. I thought they were really good at directing the money usefully. Mox (xmox.nl) is great, is funded by them, and on the day when I learned about Mox I saw two other good projects funded by them, too.
Could you or someone else expand on the destructiveness of OOP to the industry?
Maybe I’m an old, but this thing called a “blog” was very popular a long time ago, where people would have their own slice of internet to write whatever they wanted.
> Who makes decisions about factories and farms and how do they get funding?

The least dissimilar version to the modern mixed economies that dominate the West currently would be a system in which the firms employing workers were (in the ideal state; real systems -- even "capitalist" ones -- are rarely platonic ideals of the underlying concept, and so in practice exceptions, e.g., for sole proprietorships of certain scale and with defined worker rights, are possible as a matter of convenience rather than right) universally labor coops; "financial capital", which is not capital in the sense being discussed, would still exist, but labor would rent financial capital rather than capital renting labor; money would be essentially unchanged from how it works in the modern West.
There might be some good points buried in this post, but all I get is bitterness without much self-reflection. They seem like they'd be difficult to work with and would blame you for it.
Letsencrypt Supports Wildcard Certificates
One great aspect of this is getting HTTPS for free, without your specific subdomain being leaked to the world through the Certificate Transparency (CT) Log.

https://letsencrypt.org/docs/ct-logs/

Apparently wildcards have been supported since 2018, but I only discovered this last weekend.

Cheers.
Reactions make sense in a chat app, like MS Teams, Slack, or really anything that looks like an IRC room.

Dunno why Microsoft decided to add the option to Outlook.
I spent 30 years being wrong about my grandmom's given name, because my granddad called her by other name than the official one[0], and in all those decades there was hardly an opportunity for me to notice or for someone to correct me. Grandma was always "grandma".

--

[0] - Anna vs. Hanna. Close enough to be ambiguous in speech.
>Academia wasted 5 years of my life.

Nah, you wasted 5 years of your life.
There's a difference between "not dry" and "intentionally writing like a 6 year old".
Oh I didn't realize I was speaking to the author of the article! I enjoyed it very much, it was thought-provoking, educational, and made me wonder about new ways of integrating HTML and CSS beyond classes.

One aspect of Tailwind that I'm not satisfied with is editor integration, in particular linting, hints, autocomplete. There are editor extensions for this, but it feels too cramped working inside the `class` value, a single space-separated string.

Custom elements and attributes could enable a better editing experience, for example autocomplete suggestions can be specific to attribute name; or if the attribute is known to have a color as value, the editor can provide a color picker to fill in the value.
> As far as I can tell, the “behavioral interview” is essentially the same as a Scientology intake session except, you know, for capitalism instead. You have to answer the same 8 questions at every interview around “so what would you do if you had a conflict at work?” where the interviewer treats you like a 5 year old learning about people for the first time instead of acknowledging you as a professional with 0.5, 1, 2, 3 decades of experience.

Man, I don't know how many interviews the author has been on the other side of the table for. There are a _lot_ of people with 2 decades of experience who have no idea how to communicate constructively with other humans over the internet. It is not a solved problem.
Except the commons in this case is a shared atmosphere. Unless we get other countries to agree to equally punitive actions, all we end up doing is giving them the license to accelerate their economies at our expense.
Yah I had no idea where that came from. Assume 250 working day in a year that’s…$1.25 - $2.5 million per year. At a tractor manufacturer.

It was probably a typo, with extra zero. they probably meant $500-$1000 per day. That would be $125k-$250k which seems much more reasonable
Seconding Cal JC hype. I sandwiched a JC in between two stints at traditional 4-year schools. All of the instructors at the JC seemed miles more interested in teaching than their university counterparts. They were almost universally more approachable and invested in your education.
Datadog is the new Cisco
Psilocybin desynchronizes the human brain
Chacha20 on Coroutines
The original reason I had an LLM summarize it was to see if the parent had themselves used an LLM to make their summary.

And then it turned out to include some extra info from the linked article that for me was sufficient to decide that I should read the whole linked article.

So that’s why I posted it in this sub thread.

(For the record I also think there is a difference between quoting LLM output in a comment, vs people who post LLM written slop and passing it off as something they themselves wrote.)
It's a way to large responsibility to put on the individual end user.

If there are many lawsuits like these, and the oil companies loose some of them, the result is that some of the exernalities are partially compensated by some of the ones earning the most on the original fault. It makes the world a slightly more fair place. The best would have been if the cost was baked in from the beginning, but alas.

Oil and gass is unfortunately still important for our economy, that's true. But it's also an existential threat to our modern way of life. Given what we now know about the absolute massive external costs, we need drastic change. We should extract as little as we can, and every single penny of surplus should go towards green energy and mitigating actions.
I’d be very impressed if a 6 year old wrote like this.
Sometimes they're right about clarity but I read TFA and it seems fine? The writing seems very clear to me, maybe you have to be a boomer to find it difficult?
I love the comment even though I disagree. It reminded me of a Charles Stross novel Singularity Sky. A civilization called The Festival gives advanced technology in exchange for "entertainment" (stories). Many worlds that come into contact with them are ruined overnight due to the sudden technological singularity.

His book Neptune's Brood revolves around cryptocurrency.
Great summary. Thanks for the links. These are awesome.
Am on my 5th dose. Still not dead yet
Startdown? Enshitterprise?
Ok now we're talking. This is gonna be great!
That is a huge amount of text to explain a graph of tech job openings overlaid on a graph of interest rates. Needs an editor.
US eyeing new rules to keep Chinese software out of cars
> Does the Canadian operation just not do the shady stuff? Am I just a remarkable exception?

I got used stuff from Amazon Canada. Once got counterfeit SSD.
Additionally Amazon Canada doesn't have that good selection or prices compared to Amazon USA so perhaps less expose to scams due to low volume?
Therefore I buy mostly shampoo or toothpaste from Amazon (not SSDs or electronics), since chances of getting fake toothpaste are very low.
I dunno dude, I think it's just called blogging. Sometimes people like showing more personality and opinion than you get in other blogs that do super serious technical writing or thinly veiled product advertisement.
This brought up a recent experience of my own with the tech interview process:

I have to conduct a lot of coding interviews at my job (I personally think DS&A interviews are kind of stupid, but I get assigned to do them all the time anyway). I recently did one with a senior engineer who seemed like he was sort of blowing off the whole thing, and also forgot almost everything about the language we were running it in. In my feedback, I noted that it was one of the worst DS&A interviews I've ever done, in that everything was a fail on our rubric, but also he seemed more or less competent to me based on our conversation.

In the interview debrief, one of our managers also stated (in response to my feedback) he doesn't really care about DS&A interviews. And then the hiring manager completely ignored the bad interview feedback because it turned out the candidate was a referral and everyone already knew he could code. So the whole thing (at least the whole coding interview thing) was a waste of time, since literally nobody involved seemed to care what happened in the interview, including me, but I guess if there's an interview process everyone feels compelled to follow it
You shouldn't take any single posting here as indicative of all the postings here. HN posts plenty of stuff that isn't to my taste at all. I just ignore those things and pay attention to the stuff that is to my taste.
Thanks for the summary, skimmed it and it's too long of a time commitment for what appears like little payoff.

Sure companies want the Full Stack -> Do-Everything hire - who wouldn't, I'd like a goose that lays golden eggs but there is no market to provide that. I see this change as merely a side effect of the state of the market where hirers of labor feel they can make such demands.

What I find interesting and did not find explored in the article is that the overhead for establishing a company is far lower than what it used to be so there is more potential for Do-Everything people to just do that little bit more to include all the other functions of the company. Many of the functions needed to run a company are not needed at such a small scale that necessitates a Do-Everything hire.

I know not everyone is cut out for that, but not everyone is not cut out for the Do-Everything level of responsibilities either, and those that can do the latter are more likely to be able to do the former. That's what I did, I built up my skill stack working as a Full-Stack / Do-Everything engineer then learned business and marketing on top and went solo. These days I have a good laugh when I read about some start-up that raised some money based on delivering X is also advertising for jobs that are basically build X from scratch by yourself.
There is if your goal is to attract a wider audience. Call me old fashioned, but if you can't even be bothered to capitalize the first letter of each sentence in your publication, I'm probably not going to read it.
>According to all the interviews I’ve failed over the years (I don’t think I’ve ever passed an actual “coding interview” anywhere?), the entire goal of tech hiring is just finding people in the 100 to 115 midwit block then outright rejecting everybody else as too much of an unknown risk.

As a (now) senior/staff-level engineer back out on the job market for the first time in a while, I'm begrudgingly coming to accept that coding interviews might not actually be all that bad. Mostly because I find myself passing them due to having picked up skills in the past few years rather than spending a ton of time studying, which suggests they might actually be picking up some signal. I once thought they were purely hazing with zero relevance to day to day work, but as I get more senior I drift further away from that opinion.
Sadly, SharedWorkers still are not supported on Chrome+Android. Hope that changes soon because it would be a game-changer for many applications to have this API broadly available.
Let's Encrypt has supported wildcard certificates for over 6 years. They're awesome! I've been using them ever since.

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-v2-and-wildcard-cer...
You get banned from Amazon if you return too many articles, no matter the reason.
I've read that even Target does this now, especially when an elderly person comes in trying to buy thousands of dollars worth of gift cards. Unfortunately too late for my grandmother. In her case, she'll know it's a scam and still participate just because she's bored.
> And yet none of those items are out of reach of the average person

Average person - not average American or individual from developed countries. I know of software that's well out of reach of even the average American.

> The answer is whatever the price of the latest flagship smartphone is.

Therein lies the problem with the assertion that prices will inevitably driven downwards: the price of a flagship phone is not driven by cost of making it - instead the OEMs select a price-point first and then work backwards from there. When was the last time the price of a flagship smartphone series decreased? Compare this to the number of times has it increased.
Will Trump reverse these changes?

Will he lower interest rates?
nope, chromium too. look in your cookies file
Serve different content based on user agent?

Edit: I suppose Cloudflare's solution is the short term fix based on replies: https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-blo...
Using reactions in chat apps is popular but I've never seen it have any practical purpose. I think the reason Microsoft added it to Outlook is obvious though, because it's popular in chat apps so somebody at Microsoft decided their old boring thing should have the popular new thing, because that would be good for their career.
I would love to give Gitlab money, we live out of it at work, but charging a per user cost for self hosted instances is insane. I have budget to spend, but I can't justify $30 per seat per software per month, especially if I'm the one hosting it.
Related:

China installing the wind / solar equivalent of 5 nuclear power stations a week

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40982276

China Building Twice as Much Wind and Solar as Rest of World Combined

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40937714
I was also surprised. I think he's off almost exactly a factor of 10.
How to Write a Lisp Interpreter in 200 Lines of Code
Google "bash escape string", click on first result? It mentions both of these options btw.

It's not like it's any easier with python, if I'm new to the language I have to look up shlex anyway.
I found all the napkin math in this befuddling.

I’m not sure where these “per day” benchmarks are coming from -— is this supposed to be executive pay or mid-level/senior engineer pay? Because $5k - $10k / day works out to $1m - $3m / yr (depending on if you use 200 working days / yr or just 365). Which, yes, happens (esp with good year of stock appreciation) but is not as common as the prose makes it seem.

Also these numbers come from companies like this? “These companies aren’t Google or Apple, but rather some tractor company or heavy manufacturing company just churning out results for year.” Seems unlikely! The post says they fly under the radar, but are there any examples? In general, non-tech companies pay software engineers significantly worse bc you’re a cost center

And this footnote: “if you do the math using practical inflation and cost of living going up 7% to 13% per year” — if you’re going to claim extraordinary inflation over the last decade like that, please share how you arrived at the number!
I do totally agree on the SAFe bits. I've seen it implemented extremely well when 1) everyone got regular training (biannually or quarterly) and 2) senior leaders adopted their appropriate SAFe roles.

Quite often i see organizations do a SAFe kickoff and then nobody ever learns more about it and senior leaders view it as a team level thing only. It doesn't work then because nobody's actually doing it.
Maybe oil companies, to ensure demand.
The author didn't choose to post it here.
> VC funded grilled cheese startup

Hey. I ate at that place. I notice it's not there anymore, though.
This is really well explained. The video helped me to finally understand the connection between zeta function and prime distribution.
If you think those read speeds are great, try DuckDB (which has many SIMD improvements) if you want to blow your socks off.
Alright, now I'm curious.

How do I "undo", say, `rm ./temp/*.txt`
The paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07701-9

My amateur understanding: they’re pretty blindly inhibiting a hormone that causes inflammation, and is released (partially) in response to cellular senescence (/deterioration). And it looks like it was successful!

Can an expert explain why such a thing is promising? Maybe it’s not, but they don’t mention it until the Results? Just to my layman brain, it seems likely that inflammation in response to senescence might, like, have a function in the first place…

I guess that’s what empiricism is! Pull some levers that seem like they shouldn’t be pulled, and write down when one of them works better than expected!
It works for now and note that there already were some attempts to have solutions like origin stop working[1]. Unsuccessful, for now, but the intent is there and I am starting to get tired of the whack a mole.

[1]https://www.pcmag.com/news/rip-ublock-origin-google-proceeds...
I had read elsewhere that water is a useful shield. A quick search found this document, that mentions the danger of secondary particles.

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/284275main_r...
Are there any approaches today that you've found are at least mostly reliable? Bonus points if it is somewhat clear/easy/predictable to know when it isn't or won't be.

We use human evaluation but that is naturally far from scalable, which has especially been a problem when working on more complicated workflows/chains where changes can have a cascading effect. I've been encouraging a lot of dev experimentation on my team but would like to get a more consistent eval approach so we can evaluate and discuss changes with more grounded results. If all of these metrics are low confidence, they become counterproductive since people easily fall into the trap of optimizing the metric.
Yeah, it looks like ours are too (Itron Gen5). So I’ve pivoted to using “AI on the edge” with an ESP32 Cam to read my water meter. I already have an Emporia Vue monitoring my electricity usage, so I’m good there.
Not everybody is trying to attract a wider audience. Some people just want to say what's on their mind without worrying about that stuff. That's one of the beautiful things about personal websites. They're personal.

It's perfectly fine if the style puts you off. You're not wrong for having your own tastes. You're just not the audience for that particular site. Nobody can please everybody.