skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Back in the olden days of software, "testing" is where the money was spent to actually make something work.

Much less so for space hardware. A large part of the engineering effort goes into testing, but you have a complete thing that gets tested. You don't just half ass the design and completely redo it in testing. These things are all planned for very early on. Hardware design isn't at all agile.

You might be right that there is a fundamental flaw that they realize would be extremely expensive to fix.
What difference does "cofounder status" make in this case? Do founders have different rights or opportunities?
Bad idea, I'm not a republican or anything but if there's something republicans love to do is to brag about "size", China is about to start literally blossoming in key areas.

Be it:
Semiconductors, green energy (just hit its 2030 targets 6 years earlier), space (just built a space station and plans for a moon base aren't that far away).

I can totally see an eventual trump presidency pouring money into NASA's budget just for bragging rights, seems very weird to cancel the mission before the elections (Plus it benefits trump lobbyists)
I wonder how much work on the local power infrastructure is necessary to install a 400kw charger. Does that "just work" or do they have to idk replace some transformers somewhere?
Risk of long Covid declined over course of pandemic
loved the Quad II skin. Had a Quad amp, felt connected to my digital domain. Now, after a flood wrecked the amp down in the basement all I have is the KT66 Valves, but the skin will live forever.

Free the llama!
Expect even more dark patterns with the charging stations in the future. 20 minutes waiting on the charger is 20 minutes to be monetized in some way.
I'm not sure what you're thinking of, but there at least 3 prominent and still-relevant awk implementations:

nawk (One True Awk / AT&T awk / BWK awk): the original awk, still maintained; is used by macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk

mawk (Mike's awk): the default awk on Debian https://invisible-island.net/mawk/

gawk (GNU awk): the default awk in lots of other places https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/
And mindfulness meditation is training yourself to detach your conscious sense of self from those physiological sensations, noticing but not reacting to them at all!
So, MAFIAI?
>How do you know you're not the midwit?

You don't, that the point.
KDE plasma 6 + Nvidia beta 555 works well. Have to make .desktop files to launch some applications explicitly Wayland.
My guess is Meta and/or Amazon told Nvidia that they would contribute considerable resources to development as long as the results were open source. Both companies bottom lines would benefit from improved kernel modules, and like another commenter said elsewhere, Nvidia doesn't have much to lose.
Just walk away. That’s my first instinct.

You two don’t seem like you’re on the same page, and getting there will probably create some bad juju.

Whatever he wants you to do, I’m guessing his plan is to dilute you or cut you out as soon as he can. That, or he has no idea what he’s doing.

To throw him a reasonable bone, the initial cost he spent can be an IOU from the company to the founder. You can massage this number to account for his direct cost, and maybe throw in a small amount extra for his time. After that, 50/50.

Anything else is asking for trouble.
Whatever language you want. I don't care as long as the syntax makes sense, or you can explain it enough to get me through.
Yup, that sounds about right.

I'd also note that one of the reasons I prefer doing such things in person is (in addition to not taking up too much of the candidate's free time) that if they misinterpreted something or are going off in the wrong direction or something, I can correct them right away instead of letting them waste a bunch of time. This also lets you see how they tend to interpret instructions and take criticism and corrections.

It's also IMO a failure mode for a candidate to get a simple task that should be done in 5-20 lines of simple code and try to build some over-complex super-modular and extensible thing for it, and resisting correction on it not needing to be that over-engineered.
For like 75% more than the 7/11 charges for that black coffee.
Audi/Porsche EVs can do 350kw at peak, so almost!
How many of those are actually qualified though?
Rightly so.

University degrees should be good investments that pay huge dividends for time and tuition, they largely are not. University degrees should confer a broad perspective, independence, and the skills and knowledge to make one truly free to pursue their ambitions in life, they largely do not.

They have become certificate mills where people generally don't care about learning anything but just are looking to pass the test and get the credential.

I have known way too many people with degrees who just can't think for themselves and who either learned a very specific set of skills or really none at all.
I'm far from a coffee snob (I buy most of my coffee from Costco) but the problem is that starbucks over-roasts their beans, so, anything without sugar and milk added tastes bitter.
Section 174 has been covered many times on this site.

It could explain part of Europe's dumping. If the hiring market in the US is weak, some of those displaced devs could work for European software businesses, at least on a contractor basis, because remote is a thing. I've done that. I'm not doing it now (I'm globally unemployed, ha) but I did do it in the past. Was quite nice actually, the European company I worked with actually paid almost immediately when invoiced, rather than than drag it out 30-60 days as is customary in the US.
Your heart rate increases in response to immune system activation. Like if you catch a cold or get a vaccine. Your doctor sounds like a quack.
Would hangouts equate to reviews? An SRS is for review minimization, not maximization.

Bob: Well Owen, I really enjoyed hanging out with you.

Me: presses "Easy" on the SRS

Also me: See you in 9 months, Bob
It highlights excessive consumerism and waste that has become rampant in this country.
A central Postgres (RDS) and a local SQLite are pretty for different use cases. You can't compare it.
>if a simple question about past conflicts makes you this defensive then its exactly the type of thing it was meant to screen for.

If you asked this question to me I'd think you are an idiot.
Drinking 1000 calorie milkshakes filled with HFCS and artificial flavors and colors disguised as coffee on a regular basis is not good for your health.
The point is that the general non-reducibility of elliptic integrals to closed form does not preclude the possibility of reducing to closed form some particular elliptic integral or combination thereof.
nobody expects the spanish inquisition...
What's so bad about getting a feel for someone and hiring them on a probationary basis? See how they go on discrete - but real - tasks for a week or two, and then make the call on going forward or not. It's how most hiring has always worked (and continues to work) in almost all other fields.

Also, re technical questions, I don't think anyone is saying that you can't ask any technical questions whatsoever, I think the concern is about giving people abstract, theoretical CS problems that will never actually come up on the job, on the very iffy assumption that their performance while being asked to dance for a committee in high-pressure job interview situation is going to be reflective of their actual skills. (And more broadly, that a good programmer must be quick on their feet with schoolboy-style CS puzzles that are basically irrelevant to most roles.)
I would just rather not support one of the worst companies in this country.
> why should you block a thread

if creating gazillion threads on modern hardware is super cheap why not? I have transparency and debuggability what threads are running, can check stacktrace of each and what are they blocked on.

virtual threads adds lots of magic under the hood, and if there will be some bug or lib in your infra with no vthreads support it is absolutely not clear how to debug it.
And yet acceptance rates at top schools have been consistently going down.
Well since the 1970s the official policy by the US govt is the STEM pipeline is for making more STEM workers. Broad perspective is basically 50 years by the wayside. It’s completely intended and unsurprising you know few with liberal independence.
It seems all the concerns boil down to economics. I don't think people did nearly as much cost-benefit analysis in the past. The fact that college was affordable meant you were freer to experiment and enjoy yourself. Now that the price is so high, it entails pressure to get your money's worth. Thus creating a vicious cycle.
Working Assumptions: One on Ones
No, but a person who hasn't written C++ will write way more bugs, because so many of the stuff they learned in other languages creates extremely severe bugs in C++ rather than compiler errors. I can understand anyone who wants to avoid having to deal with those learning mistakes that every new C++ programmer has to go through.

In C++ code that looks right and clean to a non-C++ developer and that passes tests can still crash the entire program in production with no stack trace available. Or you can accidentally make copies of a big collection every function call (since C++ is pass by copy value by default even for large collections) in a hot path which would also bring down production, or massively inflate your bills if you dynamically scale up.

The same doesn't apply to most other languages, there experience transfers much better and its unlikely for experienced programmers to add novice bugs in those even if he has never programmed in it before.
The software job market for the past ~1.5 years has basically been an industrial belt-sander for candidates' self-esteem.
This explains it! Ive been doing the same, if job postings aren’t in the range Im looking for, Ill skip over the posting altogether. This is fantastic, saves time for both.

I wonder if it goes both ways. Low numbers repel the competent engineers but will certainly attract others for whom the salary represents an upgrade.
The Evolving Landscape of Non-Human Identity
Pure speculation: what is the possibility the current administration told silicon valley to dial down hiring and salaries to help with inflation? the result being our job market has been destroyed. it would be worth investigating this.
Looks like you can find this page by going to

https://www.irs.gov/prior-year-forms-and-instructions

Then sort by "revision date". 1864 seemed to be an outlier among that list, everything else is 1913 or later.
“In order to begin charging, you must pay attention (recorded by eye camera) to this 30 second ad as a _regular_ charging user. Upgrade to EV++ for ad free charging experience!”
Dify vs. LangChain: Make the Choice Betweet Low Code and Python Library
Isn't asking an LLM to find links that support an assertion equivalent to cherry picking sources? Also, just from a quick scan of some of these, it is apparent that the citations are not completely accurate.

IMO, this is kind of asymmetric lazy commenting that wastes other peoples' time. If you want to share something, just link to a article, and leave the LLM bullshit out of it.
Why Adaptive MFA Is a Game Changer for User Experience
Sorry for this mistake, because I put the wrong AI link, you can try again with this link https://socool.ai
So we are going full cycle? Pocket watches?
Doctors have licensing tests, also called boards. They take a few rounds over the course of med school and residency.
Well I looked at spec sheets, and its clearly not from the XPS line. I guess I'm thinking of the cheaper PC laptops, not this top of the line thing.
The other side of the equation is mindless algorithmic HR hiring practices though, where a college degree is treated much the same as a vendor training certificate.

The way people are often handled is mindless, as if all you're capable of is what is on your degree, regardless of experience or skillset. There's also the creep of totally unnecessary degree requirements even in managerial and executive levels, to pad institutional materials and argue for even higher salaries. In the professional realm it acts as a form of rent seeking, artificially decreasing supply.

I don't necessarily disagree with you but part of the reasons why people seek out unnecessary degrees just to learn a specific set of skills is because it's demanded of them by HR and hiring teams, or regulations.
When employers just want to see the credential, then students will just do what it takes to get the credential. And so many employers (needlessly IMO) use the credential to gatekeep access to professional jobs. Employers have turned universities into shams where you pay $100K, wait four years, and pop out with a paper that says "I can be employed."
They're going to give tax accountants across the country terrible headaches.
The author should also mention the increase in competition in the labor market and the lack of labor protection laws to prevent outsourcing. Statistically speaking, a 4-year degree still yields a higher ROI than just a high school diploma in lifetime earnings. A lot of the negative sentiments I conjecture come from the higher standards across the board and the ubiquity of a bachelor's degree in the labor market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_comparison_theory
It was great to be able to walk up to any DECstation on campus, log in, and immediately get your desktop setup exactly the way you like it, without having to carry anything around with you all day. Displaying apps from remote Sun or the sweet new Alpha machines, too. Good times.
An inflated and grandiose view of yourself and your actions is classic bipolar II during bouts of mania, I skimmed the article a bit and immediately got those vibes. Particularly in how long and rambling the content is, it strikes me as something written all at once, without any real review.

(I grew up around a bipolar II individual. I am not an expert.)
Oh? Do you not blame the front office of a sports time for failing to win a championship or assembling a shitty team?
While elaborate it is also unconvincingly unspecific. You could write whole books like that without really saying anything.
It might be a bit tasteless to be quoting ones own master's thesis, but I've always been a bit proud of my (embarrassingly long-winded and self-indulgent) acknowledgements.

It begins with

> "First and foremost, I’d like to thank the nameless stranger that is responsible for enforcing the deadline for the submission of this thesis; but for their unwavering absolutism
this thesis would exist in a perpetual state of being nearly done.
The rest follows in no particular order"

And ends with

> "Finally, this thesis is dedicated to the memory of the two laptops that gave up their
magic smoke in the name of science and this thesis.
To my Dell Studio 1555 and Asus Zenbook UXA1:

> Do not go gentle into that goodnight

> Rage, rage against the dying of the backlight"

https://jszym.com/attachments/about/thesis.pdf
I would be willing to bet that applications per student are way up on a long term timescale.

It’s the same thing as the job application problem. When it is as easy as having a form autofilled and hitting submit (even if there is a moderate fee), you throw shit at the wall to see what sticks.
> According to a new Gallup poll, Americans are losing the thread with higher education. Confidence in college has taken a nosedive, with one out of three poll responders claiming they have “little or no confidence” in higher education. 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 paragraph shows why. 1/3 having little or no confidence now compared to 57% fairly or "very" confident. Without knowing the magnitude of the middle choice, is this even comparable?

It doesn't help that this is two paragraphs down:

> 3) an unpromising job market with diminishing returns for un-STEM professions and 3) the many tortured varietals of “free speech” discourse.

Ok, it's probably a typo, but still, not confidence inspiring.

Also, why is "very" in quotes, but "fairly" not?

It's too bad they don't hire proofreaders anymore. That used to be a job you could get out of college.
As someone not in the tech industry... The whole thing about coding tests sounds insane. Yes, I have friends in hiring positions in the tech industry, yes, I understand that many applicants cannot even complete these extremely basic questions. But shit. You're hiring so-called "engineers." The bar should be higher than fizzbuzz.

If people hiring structural engineers had to ask them "should you build bridges with steel or cardboard" and expect 80% of applicants to fail or cheat on the question, our society would be fucked.
Am I missing something here? The figures quoted in the opening paragraph suggest to me that confidence is rising.

> Confidence in college has taken a nosedive, with one out of three poll responders claiming they have “little or no confidence” in higher education. 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.
Well, maybe the free tool.

But he’s promising…

- Finding you one-time payment deals

- Dealing with difficult subscription cancellation
Edit: Massive brain fart here. I can't do msth today. Leaving this comment here for posterity, but please move along. I can't do math here.

Its sad that $450M seems like a drop in the bucket when it comes to government spending today.

When I was born in 1988 the US had $2.6T in total debt. That number is already insane, but in this case $450M would be around 17% of the total debt accrued over 212 years.

Today we spend a few trillion more than we have every year. When do we collectively wake up and realize it's either or scam or a joke?

Note: I'm ignoring inflation adjusted values here because I'm literally talking about inflation (I.E. money printing). The comparison would be meaningless if I first adjusted for how much debt and money has been created since 1988.
https://archive.ph/9gzRC
Only 18% of degrees are in STEM https://nces.ed.gov/programs/raceindicators/indicator_reg.as...
The article suggests a useful line of research. Train an LLM to detect logical fallacies and then see if that can be bootstrapped into something useful because it's pretty clear that all the issues with LLMs is the lack of logical capabilities. If an LLM was capable of logical reasoning then it would be obvious when it was generating made-up nonsense instead of referencing existing sources of consistent information.
that's fair. Getting started with bubble tea took me a while too. If you are not a dev, I'm thinking you are more of a machine learning engineer.
this says 'abc, shell, awk', but what is guido responding to?
I had a lot of blinking in safari on iPhone. I think it’s something to do with downloading images.
Q for Rye's author: Since Rye is heavily inspired by Rebol, I wonder if you had a chance to take a look at Red [1] and what are your thoughts about it. Red looks really cool and capable, but it feels so niche/obscure and has such a small community that feels unpractical to use.

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1: https://www.red-lang.org/
absolutely 0 chance of this. Consider how much of the Government’s moves are leaked. Something like this would almost certainly fall in the hands of someone in the Press.
Finding good solutions often require simultaneously considering both the business side and the programming side.

The business-only guy won't see the limitations and possibilities of code, while the programming-only guy won't see where the business side is flexible or where it is rigid, thus the optimal solutions can take a long time to find.

The business side might also be prone to specifying X-Y problems, which can be very difficult to spot if you're not into the business side.

At least in my experience, having significant domain experience in our dev department has been a super power of sorts, allowing us to punch well above our weight.

edit: I didn't have any domain knowledge when I started, but I was willing to learn.
New Internet Thing, Chapter 11 (The Outing)
I'm not so sure it's a cycle. Ultimately, employers' requiring a college degree for more and more jobs is what drives the increasing demand, and the increasing demand results in increasing prices. And employers require a college degree because they need some kind of coarse selection screen, and don't seem to have any other way to distinguish capable applicants from incapable ones.
Its not actually UBI. Its a basic jobs program, which is different. Its only UBI if anyone can sign up for those jobs, and if you get paid if you stop working. But there is still (a lot) of gatekeeping on who gets jobs in those industries, and in any industry.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/646880/confidence-higher-educat... - linked in the first sentence.

The poll data itself helps to clarify. It went from 10% answering very little/none to now 32%, and 57% great deal/quite a lot down to 36%. That's a pretty big shift.
That doctor of yours should have their license revoked.
I've done this before:

Me: you've listed Java as "Expert", perhaps you could discuss about <favorite footgun in project>

Interviewee: sweats for a bit, finally admits only used Java factory factory and copied lots of code

Me: ok great, let's move on, you've listed Rust as "Intermediate", lets...

Interviewee interrupts, admits they know how to spell Rust and watched a couple of videos of crabs
the sad part is that all this is going to accomplish is promote that sap has ai product their clients can purchase. it's not like anyone using sap know or care about security other than signing with a company that has all the ISO and whatnot, which is the reason they went with sap to begin with
Good luck in your search! Its a difficult market.
My impression is there aren’t really subsidies for fossil fuels other than as a rhetorical tool. What is calculated as subsidies are things like wars in the Middle East or not pricing in externalities. So everyone can go “ra ra remove the subsidies” and then the politician is left with no subsidy to remove. Instead they have to do much more difficult work of passing new legislation that to the average voter sounds like punishing fossil fuels.
Yeah, nothing more American than… drinking coffee and driving an electric car?
Example gratia, last statement is approximately equivalent to "I guess computer science is infeasible."

But it is not; the fact that Debian UNIX running programming languages of the sort that are used today exist proves that we have already managed a significant amount of complexity; compare to infite-size ENIAC for programming. You would certainly want to use the Debian than be stuck with latter given that you could magically NOT to implement the existing systems for it—had to write your whole program from scratch either on the tape or the Debian system.

There are many other layers of issues and problems with the comment, but understand that no matter how intellectually honest and kind you are, you cannot reply to every person who is wrong saying it & telling WHY. Often the "you are wrong" may be more valuable—mutually. I do not want to argue about this though.
I was going to object to the phrase "losing the thread", as if we are getting confused by an overly complex plot explication.

The article is merely self-referential.
I think so too. It’s like saying colds, covid, flu, nausea cause coughing, it’s a general symptom. Seizures are caused by many conditions.