skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same issue as saying "the [party] didn't immediately respond". It's technically accurate and objective, but to me personally, it has an undertone of pointing out "just another shady way" this entity that's reported on is acting - when really it isn't.

You might disagree, because you might know what situation might prompt such an event, because you're a journalist, which is fine. But also, you're not writing for journalists; you're writing for the general public, such as myself.

Speaking for myself, if the article was written specifically for me, I'd consider such statements to be a blunder on the journalist's part, at best, and a very deliberate literary technique to ellicit a stronger emotional reaction, at worst. You're ofc not writing for me, but maybe you find the feedback interesting nevertheless.
You can just use Nouveau and NVK for that if you just need workstation graphics (and the open-gpu-modules source code/separate GSP release has been a big uplift to Nouveau too, at least.)
Of course their objective value changed. I’m not sure why you seem to be taking issue with that. If you heard an impassioned appeal to your emotions and then immediately afterwards discovered the appeal came from a pathological liar, would it affect your opinions?

Words don’t change depending whether they’re true or false but I would hope it’s clear their value does.
Yup. nVidia wants those fat compute center checks to keep coming in. It's an unsaturated market, unlike gaming consoles, home gaming PCs, and design/production workstations. They got a taste of that blockchain dollar, and now AI looks to double down on the demand.

The best solution is to have the industry eat their dogfood.
There are plenty of variations on this tool around, it would be nice to see a comparison.
CUDA lives in userspace; this kernel driver release does not contain any of that. It's still very useful to release an open source DKMS driver, but this doesn't change anything at all about the CUDA situation.
Eh, computers have always been getting cheaper due to technology advances. The Mini is a rare for Apple low end computer without a monitor, which goes against Apple’s traditional core business proposition: simplicity in product experience.
Possibly those companies don't really need more people right now, but won't say no to a unicorn.
Was using this. You're right, total was 350. Compared to EA at 10K.

Was remembering the section on Admins, Valve pays a lot for top Admins, and do a lot with little.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/07/valve-runs-its-massiv...
I suppose I'd interpret an thumbs-up emoji as "okay" if that were what I saw, but when the server is translating that into an email response that says someone liked my last email, that muddles things up quite a bit.
That is the thing, it is only really interesting if it is software incorporated into an existing wearable or a smartphone.
could you please expand on it? i would love to read more
Free Software and the Wrong Crowd
N.B.: Despite the peculiar number of interviews, I was left with a lot of respect for the team members and their work.

If anyone sees an interesting posting for that team, I'd definitely suggest applying.

And their 2 take-home coding projects reminded me why I love performance optimization.
Health secretaries failed to prepare UK for pandemic, Covid inquiry finds
Interoperability seems very "classic" to me -- the "modern" trend is to try to turn everything into a walled garden that diverges from common interface conventions and stops supporting standard protocols.
Yes, those employees will be paying even higher property taxes because their homes will cost more than the U.S. median, which will further lower the benefits of moving to Texas for them.

They use the national 75th percentile household income of $75k, while more local figures have LA at $76k, Austin at 89k, Dallas at $65k, and the Bay Area at $126k so it’s going to under-weight the income tax savings for SF more than anyone else.

Tesla’s median employee earns $45k since they have a lot of manufacturing jobs. SpaceX and X appear to have medians in the low $100k range which gives a household a California income tax rate around 8% or, for a working couple, something like a $16-20k versus the higher local taxes in Texas. Again, likely a modest savings but it’s not transformative the way it is for their boss whose income has 3+ extra zeros on the end.
On my master's thesis, I ended up using a line that I wrote when preparing the template at the beginning of my 'journey': "I thank everyone who contributed to making this work possible." By the end of the master's program, I didn't feel the need to update it, as it remained true to me. I felt that if someone was going to read that section, they would immediately identify themselves there, and I didn't have to name them.
Let's compare apples to apples. What's the median price of a house at the 1950s standard of living (sqft, amenities)?
"October 2008

The economic situation is apparently so grim that some experts fear we may be in for a stretch as bad as the mid seventies.

When Microsoft and Apple were founded." [1]

"A programmer can sit down in front of a computer and create wealth. A good piece of software is, in itself, a valuable thing." [2]

These words give me hope.

[1] https://paulgraham.com/badeconomy.html
[2] https://paulgraham.com/wealth.html
Quadratic Approximation of Cubic Curves (2020) [pdf]
What is the purpose of this knowledge?
How the Stream Deck rose from the ashes of the legendary Optimus Maximus keyboar
Companies have full-stack expectations, so we need full-stack tooling.

Junior front-end engineers are already feeling threatened by low-code-llm-agents. LLMs have strong aesthetic sensibilities and the functional nature of modern front-end frameworks means that LLMs can get good at them, really fast.

HTMX allows junior engineers to develop as front end and backend engineers at the same time. So if one profession is threatened, they still have a backup.

We've entered the Honda civic / Toyota Camry era of visual design for standard websites and apps. The UI isn't a selling point as it once used to be. If anything, customers prefer familiarity. (Frontier tech like ML and VR are obvious exclusions)

Most front end problems are civics and camrys. Yes, LLMs won't be able to build the ferrari equivalent of front ends, but they're going to be fully capable of doing CRUD competently.

Too many engineers were trained to build the next Google or Facebook through the 2010s. In reality, calling them a tiny minority would still be an exxageration. Most engineers at google and Facebook don't build Google or Facebook, let alone those working at normal companies at normal scale with normal customers.
I can’t remember the source, but there’s a quote that goes “it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”.

I’ve yet to read any kind of optimistic sci-fi that operates in a capitalist society. The two most obvious (Star Trek and the Culture) both envision a post-scarcity society enabled by technology so advanced it might as well be magic.
The Greater London Project
Square -> Balance link goes to a list of settled transactions. Placement, color, and other tricks work to get you to click an instant deposit button, which takes additional fees from your sales deposit. There was no confirmation, and the step is irreversible.
> Would you then say that other people not being happy in a concentration camp is their problem because they couldn't do the same thing?

Yes, absolutely. And of course I'm not saying that concentration camps are any good or anything like that.

This logic may seem strange because in external situations what one person can do another can not do simply because of different capabilities.

But when it comes to internal experiences, if you had even 1 moment of happiness in your life that means you are able to create that experience. You just didn't unravel the mechanics of it, but some people did and by my own experience I can confirm that its possible to have inner experience be whatever you want independent of the outside conditions.
What is the name of the book?
Definitive reference: https://www.urbanautomaton.com/blog/2015/08/10/the-pledge-to...
Being a paypig is my limit. Fortunately it's not expectation in my country.
This amazon audio thing was the worst. Somehow they were able to sneak me into some free trial that turned into a paid subscription. I found out I was paying for it, and wanted to cancel. I was abroad and no access to a desktop:

1. Not possible from a mobile browser.

2. Installed the app: not possible.

3. Put mobile browser into desktop rendering, and somewhere was able to get it to unsubscribe.

The worst of it all! EU should fine such practices.
Driving Change with Effective Leadership and Metrics with Airspace VP of Eng [video]
Title feels misleading - skip to the end:

> As for me, I still believe in open source, and even in the commercial potential of open source. It requires creativity and a clever business acumen to identify and exploit market opportunities within this collaborative framework. To win in open source you must embrace this collaboration and embrace the fact that you will share the commercial market for the software with other entities. If you’re up to that challenge, then let’s keep beating the open source drum together. If not, these new movements(source-available software) may be a home for you – but know that a lot of hard work still lies ahead of you in that path.

This article feels more like a critique of the new "source-available" trend in tech whereby existing OSS projects sell out and try to retroactively re-license themselves to be more closed-source friendly. I've been sort of aware of this phenomenon since there was a small upset when Muse Group bought Audacity, though it appears it is still GPL[1].

[1] https://github.com/audacity/audacity/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
Pointer vs reference: What's the difference? Practically, not much. All "higher level" languages (that I know ... er... except Perl) use references instead of pointers.

> I can imagine people used to higher level languages might find the very need to deal with pointers confusing

I'm confused by this remark. What do you mean? Is this meant to be condescending? What do you use pointers for in your C++ project that references cannot do in a higher level language?
Ask HN: How to make distance learning fun?
Hi all,
after almost a decade in software engineering I decided to have some more fun and enrolled in a distance learning programme (undergrad, Physics).

Brick unis have a lot of useful group dynamics to support the fun of learning (group discussions, jokes, etc). Of course remote learning will not give that by default, they mostly provide "books and tasks".

My question is: how do you make the process of distance learning fun? What works for you?

How to think? What questions to ask before reading a chapter to ensure I really understand the concepts? How to ask other people for help?

PS. If distance learning doesn't work for you - well. :-) It doesn't work for many. But I'd like to find the "meta-learning" techniques and approaches that help.

Thank you very much.
I didn't expect so many eager responses to my AI generated copy-pasta!

Oddly on topic, I've recently experimented with shoving classics into an LLM to "modernize" the language and see what comes out on the other side. ( https://github.com/hnfong/gutchopper/ )

And I don't know whether the results should be considered good or not:

It's a fact: when a single guy with a fat bank account moves into a new neighborhood, he's basically a prize to be won by one of the local girls.

(Pride and Prejudice, Butchered Version)
I contracted at AT&T for a couple years. Everyone hired there into an office job is technically hired as a manager, regardless of their actual role, because then you can't unionize.

Sometimes companies do weird things to avoid rules or laws, having 9k VPs sounds like they would be doing something similar.
Spot on.

I have been interviewed for X (as they do), got hired and ended up doing completely different Y in almost all of the jobs I've had. Yet, most of the job interviews I've had felt like they are looking for a very specific things and if I don't have exactly that, I am not good.
"They They demanded I learn things in advance rather than as-needed, which is not how I operate..."

I think this is true with many people, myself included with some subjects (or certain topics within subjects).

That said, with some topics I found the subject matter sufficiently stimulating in and of itself to hold my complete interest and attention. For example, I immediately grasped the fundamentals of calculus and understood why it is so important.

I cannot say the same about linear algebra and matrices which I was taught before knowing why they are so important in physics and elsewhere. Frankly, back then I found it to be boring, tedious stuff. Now I'm aware of its proper context and use my attitude towards the subject has reversed completely.

Same when it came to thermodynamics and statistical mechanics in physics, they were a bore and a pain (I was much more interested in electrodynamics and such). Similarly, my attitude to thermodynamics has changed completely, I'd now argue that thermodynamics is one of the most important (and fundamental) parts of physics. Had I been taught why thermodynamics is so important and given interesting instances I'm sure my attitude would have been very different.

Also, I was never much good at learning foreign languages, I recall whilst still at school doing my homework. I'd lie on my bed and bash my head against my French textbook whingeing to myself and asking why the hell am I learning this damned stuff. That attitude changed completely when I went to live in a foreign country where I didn't speak the language.

In some ways I've envied those students in my class who could suck up information like a sponge and regurgitate it verbatim during examinations. That said, I had no trouble equalling and often bettering them in topics that held my intersest. More to the fact my fundamental understanding of the subject was often much stronger.

You're right, teaching subject matter to students that's seemingly irrelevant for them at the time it's taught, is, in my opinion not only counterproductive and often a waste of time but also it's likely to turn potentially good students away from the subject altogether.

From my experience, when teaching a subject including context and relevance is just about as important as the subject matter itself. The trouble is that the people who set the syllabuses and write textbooks are so often the very same people who were good at regurgitating stuff verbatim in exams. They become teachers because of said skill and they never fully understand that many students simply don't learn in the same way that they do.
Why not both in the same person? It's cheaper to pay one really good person 50% more than paying two people. It is quite common in domain-heavy tech areas (financial markets, etc.).
I like to refer to higher education as legacy education. As someone who skipped college and jumped right into the workforce after the dot com boom, I was renting an apartment/paying my own bills/managing my own affairs by the time I was 21. I had to figure everything out on my own. I was making 60k/year in a big city maintaining websites and helping the small media company I worked at with IT problems. My comp is in the high 200s/low 300s these days. No formal education.

When I talk to college aged family or friend's kids, its completely opposite. They are willing to take on 100k+ loans for a major they know nothing about, their parents manage everything for them (my 21 y/o nephew still gets his prescriptions and doctors appointments managed by his mommy), and they think becoming student 34,000 at some mediocre state school is the path to success. They are young - its not their fault, but we need alternative voices in this discussion. Young people should be taking gap years - go work an odd job away from home, learn to live on your own, rent a place with some friends. If you wanna get drunk often, or expedite your serfdom to a FAANG or Goldman Sachs, go ahead, but it builds little character.

I will be encouraging my children to do something memorable - go work for the national park service, work on a fishing boat, work in food/restaurant service in some tourist town, start your own small biz, apprentice under a craftsmen, etc. If you decide you want to go to a corporate rearing center, they aren't going anywhere.
"correlation is causation and you can’t argue otherwise" -> shows a graph where the the left 50% of the graph do not correlate %)
> Genes are not selected based on species-level survival.

Taking the selfish-gene interpretation further, it could be argued that they're not selected based on individual-level survival either, unless "individual" means the genes themselves instead of the carrier. As long as the genes get to reproduce, the individual can be cast off like old shoes.

I can also imagine there could be a mechanism for "survival of the species" as emergent behavior from the collective interactions of individual selfishness. Looking at human society these days, it doesn't seem that way though.
I appreciate this. This will definitely help with product decisions.

Btw, our video security hub (aka Spartan) has NVR capabilities built in - but it's more selective about what it's recording (based on the rules you've set). It can coexist with an NVR on the same network, or it can replace it entirely. And it can work with WiFi cameras, today (we just recommend wired for security).
Yes, feedback for good and bad. Usually we want to control or ignore it, by conscious training or its negative associations.
Prolog itself is still developed and used in various settings (mostly swi-prolog?), but other languages and logic engines solve domain specific but similar problems better (rule engines, formal proof verifiers, etc). For exploratory work it can be useful.

I have tried to use it in combination will LLMs unsuccessfully, partly because the domain was not specific enough. Otherwise you need a lot of real world knowledge and a large fact database.

Logic engines for first order logic in RDF/OWL also have interesting logical inference abilities, like graphdbs.

Any programming language can do "logic" and the work at MIT/CSAIL in probabilistic programming may turn out to be a better way to combine fuzzy logic and formal proofs.

Not sure this answers your question, but maybe this points towards some interesting directions.
If you have a server with 100 cores to serve 100 connections simultaneously - and really need this setup -, you should probably be using Postgres or smth else.
In this blog, we will discuss creating a scheduling application using React, Node.js, and PostgreSQL that demonstrates performing CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations.

Let’s get started!

Prerequisites
Make sure the following are global installations in your environment:

Node.js 14 or newer
npm 5 or newer
PostgreSQL
Also, ensure that you have Visual Studio Code installed on your machine.

Node.js RESTful API service
This section explains how to create a RESTful API service using Node.js. First, create a back-end folder and initialize a package.json file using the npm init command.
> ethical software charter [...] I feel like this should exist already but I am not aware of such a thing.

Not in the current timeline, I am afraid. Neither ethical, nor secure, nor accountable in any way.
Clickhouse has text + vector indexes, so that may be native, though we have never used them and I find vector indexes tricky to scale w other DBs. Text... Or neither... may be enough in practice tho as we mostly only care about searching on metadata dimensions like task.

We are thinking about sampled hot data for ops staff in otel DB+UIs, and long-term full data in S3/Clickhouse for custom tooling. It'd be cool if we could send Clickhouse historical otel sessions to grafana etc on demand, but likely a bridge too far...
That doesn't seem to be affected by the size of government.
Looks fun :D, i think that if i ask my manager to build something out of Prolog i would probably get stab... i mean fired since most of us work in OOP.
I would love to be that insane one asking for that :D.
There's an interesting bit in "surely you're joking, mr Feynmann" where he is amazed how primary school kids are learning physics. Only, as it turns out, nearly noone in the entire country has any actual understanding of physics, because from elementary school upwards all they do is memorize the material.

https://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education
Why tech titans are turning toward Trump
I can blame the evil overloads for building a monopoly which then becomes a juicy target for scammers. Just like block chains are effectively "the mother of all zero-day bug-bounties", so are monopolies the mother of all algorithm-exploitation bug-bounties.
The real issue is that people just aren't thinking through the effects a license brings. They'll release things under open source licenses like the GPL because it's the 'expected' thing to do, or because they want others to be able to contribute to it, or what not, without thinking through what it allows others to do in turn (use it without paying, rerelease it themselves, fork the project, etc).

So a lot of companies start up thinking they can open source their code, and treat their project like it was under a proprietary license with source available, then realise the hard way that's not the case. And a lot of authors release stuff for free when they don't see the value of it, then realise years later that they could be getting paid for their efforts.

And the article is right that it's probably not going to be possible to outcompete open source with any new license or incentive structure. Once people are used to something being free to use without any limits, any less free alternative is going to severely struggle to gain traction.
Isn't this piracy of sorts?
Brick unis are mostly "books and tasks". You can't just joke around.

My CCNA class was basically "remote". We had 1 class a week and 1 lab a week. The rest was spent reading the tome and packet tracer.

Imo its not fun its just discipline. Fun you can have in your own time.

BUT now that you ask I like remote learn. But I turn on music and just read and do the stuff. It works for me. You say "ah if it dosent work for you" but it does but you are asking the wrong question. Remote uni is not going to be fun it is not meant to be fun.

Make or join the study Discord server if they have one or Teamspeak channel. Then do the things. You know?

Like a Teams or Zoom meeting. Its the same thing.
Thread yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40987224
As far as I know, those studies all look at minor "decisions", such as pressing the left or the right button after a sound is heard. They find that they can predict which button will be pressed earlier than the conscious decision to pick one was experienced.

However, there is no actual "decision" to be made there. It's a random choice, and it's not that random choices are not conscious decisions.

It's much harder to devise an experiment that looks at actual, meaningful, decisions. And I'm not talking about something extreme like "do I love this person" or whatever, just a real decision, like the ones you might make in an RPG ("do I help or kill this NPC").
This is a common pattern in zig and compliments comptime well. It's not supposed to be the constructor for the ArrayList, it's more like a C++ template in that you're constructing a type that then needs to be initialized. There isn't templating syntax in zig though, since you just write compile time code in zig directly (which is really nice).

Also, the type is different and ZLS will insert the hint if enabled.
I wish we could opt-in to get early access in the slow rollout. That way you get the enthousiastic users to promote the incoming feature and you get some tech savvy people to test it before it reaches out more people.