skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because houses are the benchmark for all costs? No need to reinvent the wheel, inflation stats exist for a reason.

Inflation-adjusted, 3k in 1950 is ~40k today, so 150k leaves you much better off in general.

Also, 150 is definitely high (though not crazy or anything). It's more than twice the average US wage.
It sounds slightly less bad than dried horse dung on the streets.

Seriously the savings to the RVs for polluting the commons are probably pennies on the dollar for all the issues this could cause others on the roads and near them.
You only end up 100k in the hole if you eschew your perfectly good public in state option. That's part of the reason. Public colleges recruiting at high schools out of state are straight up doing it in bad faith.
Average Chinese national now eats more protein than an American: UN food agency
This is well said. And I would say there is huge value simply in demonstrating that you know the right answers and what effective teamship looks like. Nobody is perfect, but if you know what perfect looks like, you can keep getting better.
Ah yes, teenagers who have never lived in the real world should be able to predict that their future would turn out to be entirely different than the pattern that their parents & parent's parents followed, and that they were explicitly told to follow, and that said teens are still told to follow by almost all socially important institutions and leaders.

Truly, the children are to blame.
Is confidence in good schools rising?
>This contrasts sharply with a 2015 poll, when 57% of those surveyed claimed to to be fairly or “very” confident in the old hallowed halls.

This tells you just how much more public opinion is steered by discourse and media than by any real numbers. Compared to 2015 objective changes in anything relevant to the college experience is pretty marginal to non existent, costs aren't higher than they were a decade ago[1], save for some select schools which again, dominate the media.

There's a similar phenomenon where confidence in the economy basically just correlates with who is currently sitting in the White House.[2]

I think any "American's confidence in X" at this point is basically an almost useless metric because it's simply split among political or news dietary lines.

[1]https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=76

[2]https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/2023/08/14/30e9ffad-...
I remember an old train's toilet just being an outright hole to the area between both tracks.

No processing whatsoever, you could look down and see your train zooming through the granite.
More students are applying, probably. 50 years ago, you had to go to some trouble to apply to a college; you couldn't just do it online. Also, 50 years ago, they didn't have hordes of international students applying from around the world, but today that's common in American universities.
Self taught, come from EE background.

Was originally building firmware and hardware for previous company while testing DS on their systems. They liked my work and I switched to DS and ended up a team lead.

Honestly have never had a take home exercise but would love it if I could. I basically make my own work, if I don't get work I will build other projects for them and try to sell it to the company.

I normally make good value projects and can sell it. It's how I went from hardware to DS lead of a team in a few years.
Hopefully nobody. The internet and servers existed before targeted advertising was a thing. The only thing targeted advertising enabled is trillion dollar valuations for some shareholders.
This is great, but what about the Common Crawl data they've used (or still get?), data that Bing might share with them, and other ways they acquire data past present and future? All of a sudden not so nicely labelled as GPTBot, is it?
if anyone looking to solve this with open-source, try Unstract - https://github.com/Zipstack/unstract
The job titles in the different industries are pretty interesting, also, that inflate/confuse things.

At financials (and sometimes sales departments), you have, from most junior to senior:
1. Associate
2. Analyst
3. Vice Presidents
4. Directors (MD - Managing Director)

Whereas in software/tech, it's usually Directors that are subordinate to Vice Presidents.
Dude, they've got a point, your style is annoying and not even right in a "technically correct" sorta way. You don't write things that happened 5 AD as 00005 AD.
Depends on when you went and whether your loans were federally backed. 9% for recent students is possible but pretty high; federal undergraduate loans in the past 10 years have been ~3-5%. (Private loans can have much higher rates but represent a relatively small fraction of loans and loan balances. [1])

More information: https://educationdata.org/average-student-loan-interest-rate

[1] - https://www.enterval.com/#reports
First problem is that such systems are typically easy to game with a script to trigger /listen from multiple IPs etc.

I once demonstrated this when a telecoms giant ran a very similar music popularity contest (around 24 yrs ago) and they were not amused. Everyone else was most bemused at my mid-paced metal instrumental No.1.
the only thing really moving Bitcoin is Russian expat oligarchs having troubles with their banks
And we use "hallucination" because in the ancient times when generative AI meant image generation models would "hallucinate" extra fingers etc.

The behavior of text models is similar enough that the wording stuck, and it's not all that bad.
Then for those jobs it is not reasonable to have 5 hour interviews, and I doubt they do since they care about costs. But the companies that started this trend pays extremely well, developers gladly jump through those hoops for those massive salaries.
what are some of those?
Isn't the answer "sure, seems trivial, let me do that in ten minutes for you"?
I don't know how I lodt an entire order of magnitude there, thank you for correcting me there.

Anyone coming by - please ignore my massive brain fart here.
yes! also when you only have two or three things in them, they are faster than hashing, especially on machines without a data cache. clojure uses hamts for this, thus getting this fp-persistence† as well as efficient lookup in large dictionaries, and chris wellons posted a concise, fast c hamt implementation last year at https://nullprogram.com/blog/2023/09/30/

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† 'persistent' unfortunately also means 'stored in nonvolatile memory', so i feel the need to disambiguate
> It seems like no one wants to do anything that's off the so-called rails. No risk. Do whatever everyone else is doing.

Fundamentally that's what high interest rates will do, there's no need to take risk and there are no cheap loans to spend on moonshots that might not go anywhere.
I have been quite enjoying Clozemaster[0] for anki-based language learning. Actually, I think I got the recommendation from HN. I'm still on the free version right now, but the pre-curated lists, ChatGPT integration where it breaks down the grammatical translation of the cloze, and convenient links to wiktionary and native pronounciation examples all to be extremely helpful.

very spartan in design though.

[0]h ttps://www.clozemaster.com/
Follow up: sign the deal and we’ll also send you batteries.
> screenshots take 3-4 seconds to arrive in their folder

You might be running into an intentional behavior change with screenshots in newer versions of macOS. When you take a screenshot now, by default it pops up a little thumbnail of the screenshot in the lower right of your screen that lets you edit the screenshot before it's written to disk. Even if you ignore that, the screenshot doesn't get written until the thumbnail goes away. You can disable this in Screenshot.app > Options > Show Floating Thumbnail, and then your screenshots should get written and show up immediately. Hopefully that's your issue and not just Finder failing to update.

> switching User accounts takes ages

MacOS has to wait for all your user services to stop and then start all the next user's services when switching, so it might be worth looking into what services are attached to your users and trimming them down via launchctl or something.

I'm typing this on a 12 year old macbook that's still perfectly snappy, so hopefully you can breath some life into yours. 3 years certainly shouldn't be a death sentence.
Pythagorean hodograph curves may be impractical, but they're a pretty theoretically cute idea. Farouki's book is nice.

(From what I can tell PH curves are rarely if ever used in practice. They were ostensibly developed for CNC machining and robot motion planning, etc., but are there real products or even serious physical research projects implementing them? What they do have going for them is a huge pile of research papers, of highly variable quality – Google Scholar turns up >2,500 entries.)
The core of math, as GP mentioned, is learning proofs.

I would go as far as to say that most high school “math” and “math” taught in many college courses is borderline irrelevant.

It’s like learning how to paint by memorizing names of colors. Learning to fix a car by reading parts list.

Painters can tell you about colors and mechanics parts but you don’t become like them by making those things your goal.

The only way to learn math is to learn proofs rigorously.

Calculus isn’t math, it’s just calculus. Algebra, linear algebra, they’re not math. Any “math” without rigorous definitions and theorems with proofs for each one isn’t math. (memorizing names of colors isn’t being a painter)

This book seems a good start. This is not advanced math. It’s an introduction to math- if you don’t know this you don’t know math.
https://richardhammack.github.io/BookOfProof/Main.pdf#page=8

Stuff like what’s in this book is taught starting in week 1 for Waterloo computer science degree.

It’s life changing knowledge because you can use math to understand almost anything.
I think it’s fair for both parties, they both need evaluate each other.
Housing Roundup #9: Restricting Supply
> And I’m wondering where the fuck you think he is endorsing Ali Express.

He made follow up video recently, 3:15.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x8LVOhv7lHs

Main point against amazon, it "polices" reviews by it censoring and deleting negative comments. Fuses he bought are on top of search results, not some obscure brands at bottom. It is still there after 6 months!

Aliexpress does not do such stuff, and technical parts are more likely to be upto specs.

> You can also buy “Makita” and “Milwaukee” on Aliexpress

Milwaukee also have official store on aliexpress.
Understanding the New Tech Right
Nice work. Yeah, writing a parser without knowing parsing idioms is really hard. I can't remember the idioms anyway so mine would look like yours. There's a reason there are whole classes on this in colleges.
Not only that, but it would incentivize people to not own assets. People would live paycheck to paycheck, they’d rent longer, and they’d waste money on lavish trips or food (at least until the next economic downturn when they get evicted and lose everything).
>It sounds slightly less bad than dried horse dung on the streets.

How so? It only releases liquid waste, not solid waste, and it's released into the exhaust stream that's 900F, at a rather low flow rate. Just guessing, I'd say the emissions from this device really don't sound harmful at all, whereas the emissions from the vehicle's engine itself (which probably lacks a catalytic converter since it was 1973) are quite awful. I'm also guessing that the emissions from this thing can't possibly be as bad as the emissions from all the diesel pickups today with their engines modified to "roll coal", which is rather common and completely unregulated.
Largely because it gets split amongst inheritors and they often are less able to manage wealth than the original accumulator of the wealth. Immortalis would not need to split their estate up every so often as death causes to happen now instead they would continue to accumulate more.
I always wonder what happened to all those companies that went all in on Ukraine. I never worked for one but I heard many stories of US devs being replaced in droves by Ukraine devs.
are you sure it's not hexal or binal?
which of these two kinds of discourse are you engaging in right now

if you're capable of the other one, i suggest you demonstrate that

dude
Tone policing is the sign of someone who has nothing else to offer except their indignation.
> So 25mg is ~1.5g of dried mushrooms.

1.25g - 2.5g *
This looks like the free preprint of that paper:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378206931_Sunlight-...
I really loved the ideas of HTMX but when I finally used it in a project, it was still overly complicated for my needs and yet in some areas underfeatured. Vanilla Websockets + insertAdjacentHTML works pretty well for me.
Kinda like product hunt, where nothing is real and posts live or die by how many people you pay to vouch for your submissions.

"Product Hunt for ..." is a bad tagline for selling anything, it's been gamed to hell, and back.
I'm probably not the target audience for this blog post, but if parenting humbles you this much you probably started a little too early.

> It’s not that I want to help a new human being for the rest of their life by sacrificing myself; no, I want something for myself, someone in this case. I want kids.

This part is the smoking gun.

> However, that selfish aspect of the planning phase goes away very soon.

There's nothing selfish about planning. If your plans don't hold up, that's a sign.
If only the author of the poll had studied statistics and psychology.
Nice that you mentioned it. Just a few weeks ago I didn't even know abstract syntax trees, AST's, existed, and I had that exact experience in order to build some stuff that works with them.
It looks like we are in a hiring dark ages. Barely anyone can remember how to actually hire someone.
Just this weekend I was talking to an electrical engineer who recently retired. He told his company that he wanted to retire FIFTEEN years ago. They never were able to find a replacement.
Not that they didn't try. They hired senior engineers but they couldn't do the job. They hired grads right out of school but none of them knew calculus and didn't want to learn.
From my point of view, something happened during the Great Recession and its hasn't recovered. At a couple of jobs I've seen those HR work anniversary emails and it's always interesting to see the cliff that coincides with 2008.
I want to believe in Hanlon's razor, but I find it strains credulity that all companies are that stupid all at the same time.
I also have a hard time believing that its sabotage, because that would be conspiracy theory zone which at this scale is unbelievable as well.
Yet companies are saying they can't find anyone to hire. I am part of a job group with 25-30 people, most of which I would consider to be highly qualified.
So I am thinking that something is going on that is causing companies to select against the very people they are trying to attract.
But also it's not a new problem. Just after WWII the economy was flooded with veterans and companies didn't know what to do with them because military jargon is not corporate speak. Bernard Haldane came up with the Seven Stories Exercise to help veterans to figure out what they are good at, the transferable skills they have, and how to present that to companies in a way they can understand.
We do know that 60% of postings are for ghost jobs that exist only to fool investors and/or employees.
We also know that HR writes job descriptions and does screening without any knowledge of what the job actually entails.
Obviously this is a failure in management, but it doesn't seem to affect them because reasons even though they are losing money from not getting the work done. It'll come to a head eventually but who knows when, probably not until after the US election.
Well it made high-paid engineers in the highest tax states more expensive, which is basically just google execs or major project leads who live in California. If anything it made the average engineer cheaper to hire (unless you’re referring to something other than the reduced SALT deductions), but the real solution is CA needs to rely less on federal tax breaks and fix their tax code.
There should be a 4 year Computer Science degree and a 2 year programming trade school, both equally difficult but in different directions, and companies should be aware enough to know which graduate they need.

Of course the best hires would be those willing to do both, if they're capable of a 6 year commitment.

Apprenticeships and on-the-job training is also an option, but nobody seems to be willing to do that anymore.
I'd heard the story first hand from a guy in san jose. Never looked it up until now. This is the closest thing I could find to it. In which case it sounds like it's been debunked.

[0] https://www.pcgamer.com/no-half-a-million-geforce-rtx-30-ser...

[1] https://www.geeknetic.es/Noticia/20794/Encuentran-en-Corea-5...
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I have no idea if this is accurate or not, but there is this general stigma from both sides that "no decent programmer worth hiring fulltime in hotter markets/companies would/should agree to a contract/temp/trial job".

I think de-facto fulltime jobs i've seen end up kind of like that - if you don't work out in X months, nobody will shed a tear about kicking you out - but this is still perceived as a more expensive operation that should be avoided by having a "proper" interview process. On which nobody can ever agree, but that's the sentiment.
Very true, there are other sources of the same ideas. It's even in the Bible: "You shall have no other gods before me", implying that El is the number 1 god.

Paul Johnson has gone out of fashion but his wide works have stood the test of time.
Not in the US though. And the op comment applies just as much there as anywhere.
IMO the industry vastly overestimates what a typical SPA can do.
Probably has more to do with birth rates, but nevertheless its a good thing since these institutions of higher learning will be more accessible to people who are actually passionate about whay they’re learning rather than a bunch of people trying to check a box
> Prior to disassembly, NASA will consider expressions of interest from U.S. industry and international partners by Thursday, Aug. 1, for use of the existing VIPER rover system at no cost to the government.

(from NASA's release)

I assume this doesn't mean "come take it for free" but something more like "you'd have to pay us the amount we think we could get back from salvaging stuff off the rover." Otherwise I'd just say, well Astrobotic should take it off their hands.
Maybe you are referring to https://www.emailnator.com/, it utilized that trick
>I splurged on an absolute top end scope yes, because I wanted equipment I can count on

I definitely feel that. My father in law is a bit of a precision nut, he has a Zeiss he let me use a few times, I don't know the exact model though. Very nice stuff, always found it hard to justify for myself, haha. Ammo prices nowadays are starting to make range days pricey enough where I look at the cost of nicer equipment and think, man, I can get this or get X more trips worth of ammo instead :)
It absolutely does require capacity at the local power distribution, either they have it spare or it has to be added.

Spare capacity will depend on the planning in place at the time of sizing the power distribution, e.g. if it was going to be a growing industrial area or not, otherwise they have to either fund the upgrade or wait for distribution kit to get old and be replaced.
> the rocket design capital of the world

Pretty hard to compete with Moscow, don't you think?
Unless they're very small, they'll still win other contracts. Failure is always an option for companies in the defense sector (NASA being defense adjacent, their contractors are almost all also defense contractors).
10 hours up and no comments? For shame, it's a good tool!

I'm not a natural user of this product and have never used any snippet tools, so I'm commenting as an outsider. But I really like several things you've done:

1. Homepage is super clean and easy to navigate, love it

2. Black/white visual style is crisp

3. I like that your components are actual rectangles, no rounded borders or shadows or fades

4. Great ergonomics to copy snipppets: just click on the code

Specific feedback:

1. The progress bar on the copied-to-clipboard popup makes sense from a "when is this thing gonna go away" point of view, but the copy (I suspect) happens instantly and my instinct is "I need to wait for the progress bar to complete" -- so you're sending a mixed message there. That's probably the biggest thing I'd change actually.

2. Your search is a bit bogus. I can relate, having also shipped a demo on HN with a very bogus search. Some tests I did: "void" and "float", which gave me unrelated snippets. Maybe an off-by-one error somewhere?

3. Font weight 100 is really light; it renders as a 1px line width on my 4k laptop screen, which is 0.08mm wide. I can read it, but I wouldn't be able to read it in daylight for example.

4. Your "copy" and "share" buttons have pretty animations that I find endearing and I think you should hate. I struggle with this: I want my things to be distinctive and pretty, and ultimately I just need to hate the fluff and get to the point with my designs. Your "copy this thing" button doesn't need character, it needs purpose -- and those two are very different. (I'm not using strong words because it matters, it's just something I struggled with and framed it this way when I wanted to change my mind. So I'm sharing that with you in case it helps.)

5. Searchable tags if I click on them? Also, "show more" just to get tags seems un-ergonomic -- but I know how it is when you're coding these things.

6. On Firefox, the keyboard shortcuts popup overflows off to the right, so some of them aren't readable.

7. If I were going to use this, I would run it on local k8s; do you have a Docker image?

8. CodeBERT embeddings + vector DB for search?

9. What's your privacy policy?

10. That "about" page ... duuuude ... it feels like you wrote the product, had a few beers, and went "you know what? THIS ONE'S FOR ME". And I fucking love it. It's transparently awful and has a great visual personality. I would totally ship it.

Overall, nice project! It's clear you know what you wanted and had opinions. And I appreciated going through it as a user because I got some valuable perspective on my own project. Hope it goes well for you!
In some countries, there's something called "redressement judiciaire" in French, or (receivership, judicial reorganization, judicial redress, judicial review, legal redress, etc...) before a company files for bankruptcy. In some countries, it's even called "bankruptcy protection".

You can look at companies undergoing that.
We're using them in practice for C⁴ corner smoothing in a motion controller [1]. All credit for the actual maths to [2].

[1]: https://github.com/Prunt3D/prunt_notebooks/blob/master/Pytha...

[2]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00170-022-09463-y