skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 3. Where's the data to back this decision up?

LGBTQ kids report homelessness at much higher rates than their peers[1], are heavily over-represented in foster care[2], and report substantially higher rates of abuse[3].

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/gay-and-transgender...

https://youth.gov/youth-topics/lgbtq-youth/child-welfare

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8344346/

Side note but its kind of a funny question to ask when the literal text of the law includes citations to studies that back up the policy.
haha okay that explains it, yes i just didn't read and assumed it was same person
Logcat is persistent? I thought it used a fairly small rolling buffer.
I don’t understand how this is a surprise to so many people. The thing can’t reason. If you point out an error, even if it’s real, the GPT doesn’t suddenly “see” the error. It constructs a reply of the likeliest series of words in a conversation where someone told it “you did X wrong”. Its training material probably contains more forum posts admitting a screw-up than a “nuh-huh” response. And on top of that it is trained to be subservient.

Because it doesn’t _understand_ the mistake in the way a human would, it can’t react reliably appropriately
Sure there are cases as you describe, but painting the entire American culture wrt education with your very wide brush is unfair and incorrect. It's also soundly refuted by the global demand for American education, and historic performance.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40987224
People don't realize that in just the last 5 years admins have seized control of uni's, doubling costs across the board and have put it all onto the students.

It is no longer possible to get a degree without parents paying for it while you're paying on private loans while being rejected for few scholarships while being rejected from training and working in your field of study.

Student drug abuse and suicide rates are skyrocketing while opportunities to apply their study are gone.

It's time to remove these systems, they are predatory and don't work any more.
But we're not comparing our excitedness about reading results in rats to our excitedness about reading results in human tissue. We're just trying to decide how excited we should be about the rat headlines.
if you only had 2 applicants you wouldn't be thinking that way.

Well, yes of course. As you said yourself, there's an abundance of people applying for jobs. When you have two bakers apply for your job, you'll keep things simple and hire one. When you have two hundred bakers apply for your job, you can introduce levels of complexity in the hope it will help you identify the best bakers of the 200.
The author's tone is condescending, angry and entitled. If everyday interactions with him followed the same tone, I would argue that he is the exact type of person behavioral interviews are meant to screen out (technically competent but a nightmare to work with).
Also the Chinese saying that goes "Wealth does not last beyond three generations". There are exceptions to this rule but it is fairly robust.

Part of it is wealth becoming diluted with offspring and secondly being raised in wealth diminishes people value of money until it is too late.
It made French grammar a breeze. (Mostly.)
What a weird tangent, how are those two things related?
They care when it affects their bottom line, and customers leaving for the competition does that.

I don't know if that's what's happening here, honestly, but you're right that they don't care about being shamed, but building a reputation of being hard to work with and target, especially in a growing market like Linux (still tiny, but growing nonetheless, and becoming significantly more important in the areas where non-gaming GPU use is concerned) can start to erode sales and B2B relationships, and the latter particularly if you make the programmers and PMs hate using your products.
By default, Emacs will only add a second ", ', close parentheses and so on if you enable electric-pair-mode, that is disabled by default. Emacs in a general way by default is very simple, you need to enable everything that you want.
> A hundred million Americans have this insane idea that voting doesn't matter, or doesn't change things, or they don't like their options enough, as if that means somehow one of the two options won't end up in charge in a couple months.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_United_States...

Some people may think that first part is hyperbolic but it's really not far off from the real numbers. In 2020 we had a better than normal turnout with 2/3rds of the voting eligible public voting. Even with that, though, 80 million or so eligible voters didn't vote.
Only? Can it carry any extra onboard chips and sensors?
Both the Republicans and Democrats do intend to fix this (and the rumor is that they intend the fix to be retroactive to 2021). It's generally considered to have been unintentional on Congress's part. However the fix has been held up in the Senate by the Republicans (esp. Sen Crapo), because it's part of a larger tax bill, and the Republicans think they'll be able to get a better bill overall in the next term. Meanwhile startups affected by it are left to swing in the wind.
It's interesting that brain hypersynchronicity is a known source of epileptic seizures (among other things). This potentially could be a treatment for this specific problem.

See e.g.

* https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089662731930964X
* https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1528-1167.2010.02805.x
I haven't used uv but it looks like its trying to be a drop-in replacement for pip which would therefore lack everything that makes poetry great.

Rye on the other hand seems to be extremely poetry-like while being written in rust for speed: https://rye.astral.sh/

But personally, I can't justify switching my employer to experimental python dependency management over something as inconsequential as taking a minute to install dependencies so I'm sticking to poetry until Rye has some years of development behind it.
Interesting, but optional parenthesis is a no go for me.

Every time I try to read a Ruby line with no (), I have to stop and think.

Not being able to scan code is an anti feature.
So anywhere where a software engineer (outside of software engineering) could still reasonably get a job in?
Borg 2.0 beta (deduplicating backup program with compression and encryption)
Every time I see one of these drone tech demonstrations, I can't help but wonder how they will be adapted for warfare.

This one... I'm seeing flying solar powered landmines (skymines?) that can flutter around an active combat zone aimlessly for hours until it detects a personnel target and bops them near the temple with a small round. I wonder if there are any actual benefits over just putting a solar panel on a regular quadcopter and having them charge a battery, maybe staying stationary in field or ditch near the road, relocating once in a while and waiting for a target.

Slaughterbots, assemble! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA
If they are done well then you should absolutely do them. Anything not done well isn't worth doing.
'I'm afraid there is no money.' The letter I will regret for ever (2015)
Grass fed beef maybe, but the majority of cows are being fed grain, broken potato chips, and soy...all of which are suitable for human consumption.

Even taking into account what cows can consume, the organic matter would be better used growing mushroom or other fungi that can produce the same enzymes that break down the cell walls that the microbes in the guts of the cows are using.
No excuses not to read the whole article before commenting this time!
"4-5 hours is pretty excessive for an interview process actually."

I have been asked for basically two weeks of work. I don't think it is unreasonable. You just have to ask "10k okay?"
If timing the market works at a small scale, why stop?

If it worked, wouldn't everyone do it?
Indeed, the best setting is in nature on a beautiful day
I had an opportunity to work for Outlier as an AI trainer/reviewer, the point was to beat the AI models. The role doesn't relate to SWE duties, but it was a good money. Like someone swimming in the ocean when he finds a small tiny isle and takes a break for next miles.
"Is better" always needs to be followed by "...at X". I'd contend that COBOL is better than Java ...at running on an old AS/400. Doesn't mean I'd touch otherwise touch it with a 10 foot pole, though.

> Even when I do systems programming, like low level stuff, I just want to manage my own memory. I do not want to beg the compiler to let me write code, I just want to allocate stuff and put stuff into there. C is fine for this. I’ll try zig later.

Oh lordy please no. That's how we got into so many messes in the first place. I think writing Rust made me a better C programmer by drawing my attention to how many bad things I was doing that a C compiler would cheerfully compile without saying a word. Oh, you want to malloc a chunk of heap, free it 8 calls deep in some random function, and then pinky swear never to touch it again? Go for it!

I don't have anything objectively bad to say about Java, except that it's probably a terrible fit in any scenario where you'd be using Rust in the first place. (Notice there's not a big push to re-implement a bunch of command line tools in Java?) For me, it's almost entirely a preference thing. Java looks ugly and inelegant to me in a way almost no other popular language does. It doesn't mean you can't write beautiful, elegant code in Java. It does mean, in my opinion, that it will never look beautiful and elegant. By analogy, notice that even people who've taught themselves Klingon don't spend a lot of time writing poetry in it. You could, but it's never going to sound as pretty as a shopping list written in Italian.
Sadly, I don’t think basing a business (with the tech investor desire for growth! growth! growth!) off one product, is best for an app that’s best when predictable.
Don't mean to be rude, but does the job posting list a competitive salary?

Now that they're required to list salaries in coastal states I filter for that while searching and don't even consider jobs paying under $[threshold]k.
Laser nanofabrication inside silicon with spatial beam modulation and seeding
Some kind of media awareness belongs in here too. Everyone 21st-century is drowning in information. Gotta sort it out. Some kind of DIY life ring.
Note that #3 is one of the "let's see how far we can bend that definition" things too. You will occasionally see this listed in a local newspaper classified postings ( https://imgur.com/W76Jdbn is one such example).
We've done exactly that with our cameras, I feel cameras are a commodity. Our Cameras are built by Uniview but run our firmware.

Outside of cameras (which also feel need to be very basic), we do have our own hardware design and manufacturing capabilities: video security hubs, PoE and WiFi relays.
New government (that Elon Musk himself congratulated) has terminated tons of projects and rolled back some laws:

- Removed EV subsidy

- Scrapped Lake Onslow seasonal pumped hydro storage

- Removed generational smoking ban (made it to 18yo like most countries)

- Gave 50% discount to heated tobacco products (aka IQOS)

- Gave a tip whose projects will be fast tracked

- Reduced housing insulation minimums

- Terminated new inter-island ferry project to replace aging ferries (tbh this one was getting out of proportion)

- Reintroduced tax interest write-off for landlords who rent their houses

- Removed free school launches for poorest country schools

Their goal was to end government spending, but giving $2b+ to countries richest people seems opposite.

And to give them credit here's couple of good things that will definitely help property market:

- Ability to import abroad-certified building supplies (atm there's a building supply monomopoly)

- Ability to build up 60sqm backyard homes without consent

- Densification plans
Whenever you're building some ad-hoc non-differentiable circumstantial hacks around your learned model (regardless of whether it's an LLM or not), two alarms should go off in your head;

a) Could this be made differentiable? End-to-end systems are nearly always stronger than systems made up of multiple models or models-plus-heuristics;

b) is it appropriate to be using a statistical model here at all?

External intervention layers are generally severe technical debt.
That's a time investment for a serious consideration, and I don't think it's unreasonable at all. Nobody is making you spend that time, but if you choose not to, understand that plenty of qualified people will happily do so and get the job.
Western society loves to make every kid "special" either in their challenges or abilities. We seem to forget that every kid IS special, in the sense they are diverse, inconsistent, immature and range dramatically across different types of skills & abilities. If you're a middle-class or higher new parent in the West, let me give you my parenting book for free: chill the fuck out.
A taxi with pre-calculated price, driver and vehicle rating, that actually arrives on time and the driver can't take you around the city with a boosted taxameter to overcharge you. Amazing indeed.
For altitudes above 12,900 ft AGL, the official service volume for a DME is 100-130nm.

Below that it's considered "line of sight"... and some quick math shows that you'd be able to get line of sight >50 nm for all altitudes above 1700 ft AGL (which is very low).

Source: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim_html...
> gram

Don't you mean a millikilogram (mkg)?
I’m big into Doom/stoner rock/space rock/etc, so I subscribe to Weedian which has a fire hose of download codes for new releases/artists.

Even for this fairly niche group of genres, the free codes I get have filled my bandcamp artist list to the point of it no longer being useable for its intended purpose.

It was already getting unwieldy with just my classicly paid purchases (which I still do a lot of), I have to resort to manually create artist playlists to navigate now.

Even just the Weedian compilation albums are so full of tracks, I just don’t have the time to listen through them to evaluate and brutally curate which songs/artists I love before the next one comes out. The lasted album, “Trip to California” is like 99 songs and over 8 hours. I think people vastly underestimate how much music is out there and is being newly released.

Part of this, is the Doom genre tends to be 5-15 minute songs, which is absolutely what I want, but also makes listening a significant time investment. Fortunately the majority of songs are easy to say “yeah nope” to and cull.

Definitely suffering from success here. On the plus side, I’ve come across a lot of gems that can deserve to sit next to Yob on my playlist, that I wouldn’t have come across otherwise.

I really need figure out solution that lets me stream from a self-hosted archive, rate songs on a 5 star scale, genre tag, and share playlists with family members. The 5 star rating seems to most troublesome to fulfill.

A tool to automatically produce a public facing playlist that links to bandcamp, YouTube and perhaps other places as a last resort would also be amazing. The best way to discover music, is finding and following people like me who make exploring and curation into a hobby. “What music do I like? Here’s my 5 star list”
"Laser nanofabrication inside silicon with spatial beam modulation and anisotropic seeding" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49303-z :

> Abstract: Nanofabrication in silicon, arguably the most important material for modern technology, has been limited exclusively to its surface. Existing lithography methods cannot penetrate the wafer surface without altering it, whereas emerging laser-based subsurface or in-chip fabrication remains at greater than 1 μm resolution. In addition, available methods do not allow positioning or modulation with sub-micron precision deep inside the wafer. The fundamental difficulty of breaking these dimensional barriers is two-fold, i.e., complex nonlinear effects inside the wafer and the inherent diffraction limit for laser light. Here, we overcome these challenges by exploiting spatially-modulated laser beams and anisotropic feedback from preformed subsurface structures, to establish controlled nanofabrication capability inside silicon. We demonstrate buried nanostructures of feature sizes down to 100 ± 20 nm, with subwavelength and multi-dimensional control; thereby improving the state-of-the-art by an order-of-magnitude. In order to showcase the emerging capabilities, we fabricate nanophotonics elements deep inside Si, exemplified by nanogratings with record diffraction efficiency and spectral control. The reported advance is an important step towards 3D nanophotonics systems, micro/nanofluidics, and 3D electronic-photonic integrated systems.

- "Researchers achieve unprecedented nanostructuring inside silicon" https://phys.org/news/2024-07-unprecedented-nanostructuring-...
While the flip still seems unlikely, this probably doesn't matter either way for 174 -- currently any bill that passes is likely to have the 174 fix in it, because it has bipartisan support. The problem has been that it's attached to other tax changes that haven't been able to get through the Senate, and Sen. Crapo is intentionally stalling until after the election, because the GOP thinks it'll have more seats and will be able to get a bill they like better.
Yes this is already available. Most major camera lines now offer 2-way audio (siren, voice) to do exactly that.
Rabbit will be long out of business before any blowback about the GPL actually reaches them. As for kernel modules, I was under the impression that Linux has a specific exemption to the GPL for those regardless of how they're linked, as long as they don't require any modifications to the kernel itself.
I always refer to my 4yo's daycare as "going to school". I want him to perceive continuity. Fingers crossed.
You can check out some benchmarks: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-M4-SoC-analysis-AMD-Inte...

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/laptop.html

It seems like the Apple Silicon chips are generally faster single-core, but a bit slower multi-core. In real life, it will probably depend on how well optimized your compiler (or whatever software) is for Apple Silicon. And native Linux on Apple hardware isn't mature yet, so if you need to virtualize it, it'll be even slower.

The advantage of the Macs are generally efficiency (performance per watt, meaning longer battery life and less heat and noise) and build quality, and well, you get a Mac (if you like macOS). If you don't care and just need something to crank out FLOPs, IMO I'd probably just build a desktop and run the workload there and remote into it from a cheap laptop of any sort.

If you do get a Thinkpad though, read up on their thermal management and try to get one that doesn't throttle so easily. The X1s I had usually had lower voltage CPUs (less performance) and would throttle even those under load, so they weren't good for long sustained CPU usage. Fine for business use or the occasional `npm install`, but if you're running multi-hour workloads, it will very likely overheat and throttle down. Not sure if their workstation models (the T models and others) are better in this regard; they are generally larger and not as squished together (read: hopefully better cooling/more fans).
I didn't feel he was angry at all. Just a person with a hughe passion about his craft and how he dislikes the change of the work environment of IT. Completely reasonable for me.
i'd say perl is closer, but for (e in a) is from awk and not perl

semicolonless syntax is in js, tcl, lua, and sh, but not awk or perl; in awk omitted semicolons are interpreted as string concatenation
Hey thanks for the comment! Sure I can try to help. What happened when you pressed verify?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loitering_munition
Out of curiosity, how long is your experience with TypeScript? I feel like I have to ask.

>TypeScript does not modify this code when it compiles to JavaScript

TypeScript does not modify any code which is valid JavaScript. Your idea of adding some sort of "debug build" to TypeScript would never be performed by `tsc`, but perhaps by bundlers, etc.

You might want to look up libraries like zod, or even better, Effect: https://effect.website/
This is not the same experience I have. Mine is much more basic, inside the voicemail app.
First they came for the meth cooks and i did not speak up, for i was not a meth cook.
I agree. To be blunt, ass-kissing is a soft skill. Whether you choose to deploy that skill really depends on what you're looking for (eg big name companies, high TC, remote work, etc.)

And end of the day, interviews are also a chance for candidates to evaluate the company
> Standard practice is to inform the vendor early and work with them as you write the article

This isn’t even remotely standard practice.

A fair number of people and companies will give the vendor a chance by doing coordinated disclosures this way - but it’s in no way standard practice.

Also when a company has a history of being openly hostile to disclosure attempts and downplaying stuff, the only way to force improvement tends to be “short warning, or even full disclosure”.

I’ve done everything from coordinated to “no warning” disclosures in my career, and at this point I tend to lean more towards “no warning” in situations where a vendor has a history of dismissing concerns or openly being hostile to external researchers.
Imagine if dollar bills appreciated in value thousands of times over by hiding them under your pillow.
Overly optimistic back of the napkin calculations make it look really really good.

How many people eat food? Everyone.

How often they eat food? Like every day, or even multiple times a day...

So if we get everyone on planet to eat our thing what twice a week? Easy surely...

So if we get like 1 or 5 profit for each sale? That is what 2 times 52 times 8 billion. 800 billion a year, or 4 trillion if we charge a bit more...

Now that is lot of profit a year...
Indeed, still in use. Also presumably the Aho of the Aho-Corasick string matching algorithm.
Just chiming in to say that the same is happening for me. It says "Failed to verify, please check and try again"

I'll keep trying in case this is something to do with cached bios
MacKenzie Wark does a good job on one of her two books about the situationists to connect some dots but also draw some lines between Baudrillard and Debord. But even more interesting is the shadow of Lefebvre and his "Critique of Everyday Life" which predates much of this stuff by decades. Lefebvre himself is a somewhat forgotten figure in Marxism in general, got a somewhat bad rap for going against the party line at the time to focus on the "bourgeoisie science" of sociology. But he became a kind of elder for the situationists for a time. His "Critique" is much more aligned with a Kantian philosophical tradition, which makes it a little hard to digest if you're not already bought in to such things (let alone bought into Marxist critique...) but it is huge, vastly interesting book nonetheless.
Three reasons for techmageddon right now. (1) USA had a boomer savings bubble 2010-2022 with boomers in the peak savings years of their lives, resulting in the lowest interest rates in a century, never to return, (2) Covid19 created a work from home and therefore tech bubble, pulling lots of demand forward, (c) IMHO after a decade of lies from FAANGs about how easy it is to get a $200k salary, and how easy it is to sustain these 60hr/wk jobs (impossible; turnover rates are very very high on purpose), all schools are overproducing CS grads. The three of these mistakes have created a perfect storm, worse than the Y2000 bubble ...
Couldn't agree more. We are actually already saving genre against any track submission so when we have a big enough bank of music we will switch on the genre filters :)