skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect that despite people's familiarity with technology, it's not just maths that will hold them back in this.

I taught 1st year undergrad students in Engineering (mechanical, civil, aerospace) programming between 2014-2019, usually Python and C. We saw a rapid average decline in ability over that period in basic functionality with computers. Really first noticed it in about 2016. As in, being able to download files, move them around in Explorer on Windows or Finder on Mac, understanding nested directory structures, and find them again. There wasn't much difference in entry grades or anything between the year groups.

I strongly suspect this was largely due to smartphones coming out over people's formative years and meaning that they weren't using computers as much, so coming into University and going into the workplace they'd find it much harder. The iPhone launched in 2007 and so these kids entering University in 2016 onwards would have been born in 1998 and so started to be exposed to them from primary education, whereas slightly older kids wouldn't have seen them til they were already in secondary education.
that doesn't sound like a socket level problem, it's more like an application level problem? how long does it take to obey-orders()? do you want to keep spitting out logs while doing it? maybe give orders a number, and the logs can include the order number and the progress?
Thailand managed something similar, an attempt to reform the law to be slightly more cannabis friendly, and ended up in some kind of legal limbo where it’s become unregulated in practice:

https://time.com/6208192/thailand-war-on-drugs-weed-legal/

Which is a big deal for a country that used to have exceptionally draconian laws about it.
Create Unified Kernel Image from Scratch
pros: looks really cool, love the way keys map to notes.

cons: the mapping of the keys to the notes was patented which seems to have really impacted pricing and availability, can't find any example on Amazon which sells practically anything. great keyboard idea for homebrewers tho!
I looked at the Alice camera, and immediately had to suppress the urge to sign up for the kickstarter while I took a step back to consider that this will end up in the tech junk drawer after a few novelty outings.

It fails the same 'one extra thing to carry around and keep protected while not in use, which is most of the time' test as small mirrorless point and shoots and micro four thirds interchangeable lens cameras ( speaking as a long time OM-D user and enthusiast)

And if it's possible to affix it to my phone it will also get left home sooner rather than later, because now all of my phone accessories, mag safe chargers, car mounts, cases, etc no longer fit, which makes it cumbersome to carry around and use as a phone.
> It’s only a matter of time before absolutely everyone, except for web developers, start looking at alternatives.

Wait a minute? This has already happened. Most real people and small businesses publish their stuff on social media or do their business on huge platforms. The old school web is the exception nowadays.
> I don’t necessarily disagree, but I’ve yet to see a comprehensive elucidation of the kind of propaganda that you’re talking about in any kind of coherent or coordinated sense

What? Every major global institution and nation is backing 'family planning', encouraging women to work, etc.

https://static.mothership.sg/1/2018/05/family-planning-cover...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-child_policy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy

> Similarly, the only people I see pushing natalism at this point are far right wing people

And what 'far right' people are in charge of any major nation or global institution? None.

You'd have to be blind or driven by agenda to not see it. For the past few decades, from hollywood to the UN to education, we've been getting a certain messaging. As an american, I don't remember a single time where we were encouraged to have lots of children. All the messaging, in school, on tv, in movies, etc were all discouraging you from having children early and having lots of them.

Now whether it is a good thing or a bad thing it's up for debate. But it's silly to deny it. In modern times, birth rates are determined by the state. Prior to the current decline, many countries, such as china, iran, etc actually encouraged high birth rates and hence experienced population booms. We had a baby boom generation prior to the elites deciding to lower it.

So if the elites really wanted a population boom, they can switch the messaging and get the propaganda going. The masses follow where the propaganda leads them.
Does Facebook still use your pictures in ads?

Article form ~10yr ago: https://mashable.com/archive/facebook-ads-photo#ggcKnNfAUaqy
Huh... the documentation there for i is actually even more interesting to me: it seems like I'm actually actively "not supposed to be" (at least anymore, if ever) using em for almost every reason I've ever used it?!
Enom sounds similar. Been using it, with short default TTLs, for years.
The many will quite simply stop having children, because why bother? Then the mgic box owners will attempt doing something to have a population to sell to, but that will ultimately fail.

It can be argued that it already started - globally the number of children born peaked around 2013-2017. The pandemic only accelerated the process.
Shall all amusing text fall at the hands of the machine mind? Is there to be no fun in this universe?
Anecdotally, some of the THC-A flower I’ve tried wasn’t anything like what you’re describing in terms of taste/aftermath, but does seem to stress the particle filter on my Storz & Bickel Mighty.

I suspect this has a lot to do with the particular strain and grower. I was experimenting with products from Wildflower Hemp based out of Bend, OR.

I’m in a legal state and prefer the predictability and quality of the “real” stuff, but was surprised by how decent the pure hemp experience was since I’ve heard people describe a range of experiences/results.
This seems like kind of a weird approach. I've never thought to myself, Hmm, I need to go out and pick a project to contribute to. If I have a patch to send out it's because I'm already using the project for something and I need to upstream a change.

Think about why you are contributing to a project: Are you adding a feature that it lacks but that you need? Are you fixing a bug that hampering your other work? I wouldn't just pick a random project and file a PR just because I want to contribute something to open source. I'd start with a project I already use, where I have a problem I have to solve, solve it, then contribute the patch.

It seems backwards to start with "I want to write a patch to something" and then go out and find a project to patch.
Well... yes, for capitalism, that is the endgame. Neo-feudalism to be precise.

And unlike the last times where feudalism was overthrown, these days police is often enough on par with the military, and the governments can track us whenever and wherever we want by the tiny little bugs we carry around in our pockets. Call for a revolution or for violent acts online, and a day later the FBI knocks on your door and takes everything digital you have.
It's easier to see an instant balance, but I think there's a big difference between that and managing money that was much more manual before. I think by virtue of the manual process, people had to be much more familiar with the maths.

I can remember my parents sitting down with a cheque book which had a transaction log at the back, and all of their receipts and logging those so that they knew their exact balance at a given time and knew how much they'd got left to spend from the account.
Re-Imagining Technical Interviews: Valuing Experience over Exam Skills
Perhaps some readers are traveled enough to have actually used this site owner's fortuitous product: Yahoo! Stores. You would pick commands from a button nav at the top, and then enter values. I came to realize, this was probably pretty heavily LISP based, but at the time the people I knew were creating these "visit data" like recursive structures in Java. Good times.
> depleted marijuana, thrown out

Cook it! It remains pretty potent if you save up enough of it.
> Does being passed by Trump make it immune to the culture war?

Marijuana is popular on both sides of the political spectrum.
I suppose the Artemis III landing location is probably set in stone at the south pole, and even if it weren't, there probably wouldn't be enough time to explore a cave. Maybe we can get some hopping pit-bots there sooner rather than later:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.07799
I'm not arguing that this approximator is necessary (not sufficient) for this class of networks. I've proposed some conjectures on what we might expect to see, but there are certainly other salient ingredients and common principles that we haven't discovered, and I think it's important to hunt for them.
Ongoing Saga: How Much Money Will Be Spent on AI Chips?
Socio in 100 Seconds [video]
> Its crazy to me that there isn't a modern version of this kind of camera.

There is, I own one, and it has every feature in your list! YONGNUO YN455, Android-10-powered 20MP Micro Four Thirds camera: https://www.hkyongnuo.com/productinfo/660161.html

LTE band compatibility would be an issue for many, but I have it working successfully on T-Mobile US. I don't prefer using it for stills over my Panasonic/Olympus bodies, but I love it for video.

Here's what it looks like: https://i.imgur.com/3mdBWXt.jpeg (my photo, with Laowa 6mm Cinema lens)

And here's what it sees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzlBA2wSU7w
I can't help but think of the Moon is a Harsh Mistress every time I hear this news.
"MyPasswordIsSecureDespiteNotBeingComplexBecauseItIsLong_BobsForum" is great until Bob's Forum gets hacked and it turns out that they were storing your password in plain text and your password of "MyPasswordIsSecureDespiteNotBeingComplexBecauseItIsLong_Google" becomes easily guessed.
So much for Safari and privacy. It really breaks my mind that Apple makes people pay for extra protection with Private Relay while secretly sharing ad data.
But... I am, surely, not advocating for people using <b> now: I'm merely lamenting that we allocated a one-character tag for <b> and then resorted to a five-character tag for <strong>, as it affects the readability (I couldn't care less about how many characters it is to type) of the un-rendered/hand-written document.

(Hell: it isn't even clear that I'm "advocating" for anything at all; at best it would be "don't bother with HTML/Markdown, as both ended up making poor choices for readability of your source document: instead, use a custom markup/markdown and then have code--on your server--to render it into the appropriate semantic HTML". Yet, while that is how my blog used to work, I actually failed to reallocate the tag names.)

I do, in fact, carefully use <strong> in my HTML documents (though I'm now starting to wonder if that's wrong, per the sister comment which linked us to the standard; it, surprisingly-to-me, does seem like I'm "supposed to be using" <i> in most, if not all, of the places I've been using <em>...), and I've been known to go to pretty extreme lengths to correctly support various accessibility technologies in my code, both on the web and native.

It simply makes me a bit angry, every time I see it, that someone decided to make such a common element <strong> instead of, say, 
, which I believe is a reasonable position and has nothing to do with accessibility, as we could have named the new tag <powerful> and it would have worked the same and yet clearly that would have been even worse than <strong> ;P. We should get to separately judge--and even potentially lament one of--these two decisions.

(I'm thereby going to assert pretty directly that your decision to insult me by calling a narcissist is based on you not bothering to read what I wrote or pay attention to the actual thing I was complaining about--as I'd in fact have no reason to complain if I didn't care about the same thing you do: no one removed <b> from either the standard or the implementation--and just ran with a knee-jerk interpretation of some of the keywords I used.)
> fear mongering

Nobody is suggesting this is realistic. If you’re going to do what I described, you go all the way and hold the Congress at gunpoint. (That’s been a risk we’ve trusted in the Presidency since at least the New Deal, and nobody in power seems unhappy about it.) What we’re asking is whether it would be legal.

Arguing ad absurdum has a long tradition in law. Usually it’s constrained to academia by the “cases and controversies” clause, but SCOTUS is no longer narrowly deciding cases. (“Decision for the ages” and the Warren court.) It’s used to uncover internal inconsistency.

(Also, “FUD” isn’t an argument.)
One way to mitigate such a problem is to use the hash of this text as the password, instead of using the text directly.
A consistent 4 cm at 100 meters your first time shooting, then a consistent 5 cm at 200 meters just a short time later is nothing short of a miracle. That's 1.3~ and 0.85~ MOA respectively.

Hell, many commercial and surplus rifles you buy will straight up NEVER shoot 1 MOA on their own as is even assuming you've clamped them perfectly to a table with no human input for error due to their construction.
When you look at a visual model of a program it should be easy to trivially understand what each visual element does. If that is the case it becomes a great tool for debugging why your program is wrong because in a visual model you could spot an element and say: Why is this element here?. Perhaps simple as "Why is this element so much bigger than others?"

If a tool provides just a view of some aspect of the code it is easy. If you require that the model be editable and will synchronize the changes from code to visuals and vice versa I think it is an order of magnitude bigger problem, less likely to scale.

Should you replace all the features of your favorite programming language with a tool for building visual models which don't really support the advanced language-features at all?

Consider that there are a myriad of different programming languages each claiming to be better than the others. But if you program by creating visuals first then of course you cannot do everything with it that you can in your favorite best programming language.
English also doesn't have dedicated words for various familiar relationships, unlike some other languages. Older / younger brother, father's eldest brother, neighbors cousins friends neighbors dog, that sort of thing.

And yet, we still struggle through life.
Its just indicative of customer desires. These shops wouldn't exist for very long if they couldn't bring in enough money from the local community to pay for their overhead and rent.
Can you tell us what happened to the Doctors strike ?
My cynical and informed-only-by-observation take is that it is a win win for lawmakers of both parties. It allows people who want to buy weed to get it, without those local politicians seeming overly radical or permissive by decriminalizing fully.
Tesla FSD is optimized only for certain routes
> Overall, are you happy with your choice of using Nim?

Yes. It's a pleasant language to work with.

> What would you do different? (and what unexpected positives did you find)?

A couple of things I think need improvements are: (1) better IDE support (especially for JetBrains IDEs), and (2) better support for true sum types and pattern matching[0].

As for unexpected positives, I found that the standard library covers a lot of functionality that I rarely (or ever) need a 3rd party package. Maybe that's because I'm not doing anything exotic.

[0] https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/548, https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/525
One of the two major problems in computer science (the other two being concurrency and off-by-one errors).
Discussion (36 points, 3 days ago, 48 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40947445
AMD deep-dives Zen 5 architecture – Ryzen 9000 and AI 300 benchmarks, RDNA 3.5
Could you explain the danger a little bit?
What say you of all the remote workers who now need such devices in order to do their work from home? Should they decide to return to office?
Being well rounded is important.
> Amazon says that it prohibits negative reviews that violate community guidelines, including by focusing on seller, order, or shipping feedback rather than on the item's quality.

You'd think they'd try to use AI to flag this stuff instead of whatever the hell their current chatbot is supposed to be for — I still regularly see "product damaged in shipping" 1-star reviews

Additionally, anyone that's regularly tried to order "open box" from "Amazon Warehouse" to save a few bucks can probably speak to the inaccuracies of the return process... it's pretty common to get broken (or completely mislabeled) goods from this program.
I memorized 61 or a bit more digits probably 15 years ago. 61 digits stuck and I have them yet today.

My younger brother was competing with me. He knows ~160 digits.

No special memory tricks - just repeatedly reading/reciting until they stuck.
I don't see any reason to think it's AI. The handwriting is consistent and everything is simple enough it would be easier to do it by hand.
That's part of it, especially when it is a national chain coming in that can afford to subsidize a loss to compete. The other side of the coin is that there are areas with non-chain liquor stores on every corner and they've been like that for decades. Maybe the customer base for these sort of stores is simply larger than you might have figured.
The only theories not ruled out by Bell are non local. You have to accept such a mountain of nonsense for any non local theory to be valid that I don't think anyone takes them seriously.
This seems to confirm the title.
Or you might be helping your uncle Jack by murdering a horse.
Show HN: Integrate 60 LLMs with one TypeScript SDK
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The vast majority of what is known about black holes comes from observations of AGN/quasars (super massive black holes that are "active"), which may be as luminous as ~0.5 quadrillion suns (1). This luminosity is powered by the quasar's central engine, which converts the gravitational potential energy of infalling matter to radiative energy, through means that are still debated. In an article in Nature commemorating the 50th anniversary of the discovery of quasars, a leading AGN researcher wrote "our best hope for understanding quasars is that extraterrestrials might drop in and explain them to us" (2). AGN/quasars are an underappreciated enigma.

(1) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02195-x
(2) https://www.nature.com/articles/495165a.pdf
AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series Launched – ServeTheHome
We don’t know what’s happening beyond:

^the privacy settings used to inform Gemini should be openly available, but they aren't, which means the AI is either "hallucinating (lying)" or some internal systems on Google's servers are outright malfunctioning*

Many AI systems do use user interactions as part of training data. So at most you might guess those documents aren’t directly being used for training AND they will never include conversations in training data but you don’t know.
Related

The AMD Zen 5 Microarcitecure (56 points, 5 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40967763

AMD Unveils Ryzen 9000 CPUs for Desktop, Zen 5 (334 points, 1 month ago, 292 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40559368
They still have a lot of market power. To get placed in them you need to go through a marketer with contacts and that costs quite a bit of money. They publish all this junk stuff but it's just to get more eyeballs. Centralization of this stuff means that these gatekeepers become more valuable. A real pity.
Reminds me of these two short stories:
- "I Always Do What Teddy Says" by Harry Harrison
- "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury
This is what I've heard in the past: the companies want their articles to be recommended by search engines, but want the consumer to pay for it.
Funny, the first ~15 are easy simply by spamming h1-h6, i, u, em, etc… but then it gets hard.

Probably the only time I’ll ever use menu, dfn or del/ins.
The work was done by a team at "Storage Review", and the article talks a lot about how the were exercising the capabilities of their processor, memory, and storage architecture.
The truely scary part of this isn't even the default "feature", It's the utter failure of Mozilla to read the room. Knowing their users would feel betrayed and doing it anyway is what freaks me out. To me it spells trouble for them monitarily that they are willing to anger their core userbase for cash on hand.
> Positive results could prompt more insurers to pay up.

I have never been diagnosed with sleep apnea, but have been known to snore from time to time. I sleep on my side and it goes away.

If sleep positions cost money I bet they'd prescribe them and charge big money due to their effectiveness!
I've never met a weed gatekeeper, this is kind of exciting. I wish I had some simple heuristics for determining whether I was authentically high or just fake high.
Video Shows Crowd Warning Law Enforcement About Gunman Before He Fired at Trump
What’s the alternative for funding all the services we use for free? Paywall everything?
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> it has to be sufficiently short that some governmental entity was willing to record it.

How short is that, exactly?
“Ultimately, the winning bidder in last year’s controversial auction was Casper-based Kirkwood Oil and Gas — the same company that had nominated the parcel — at $19 per acre for the 640-acre tract. When the company later learned that it had been competing against a conservation group, the owners cried foul and claimed they were duped into paying an artificially inflated price.”

The seller is upset they got a good deal? (Counterpoint: these are public leases being sold for the public good.)

Looks like the winning move is for conservation groups to start E&P arms. Snarling the process up in years of litigation might be as good as buying and sitting on it.
The check marks only briefly indicated "trust". By the end of Twitter's public domain "bluecheck" was used as an insult against self-important posters that had gotten approval from the Twitter regime, because that is all the marks were good for. You had accounts of high-impact people go unverified despite hundreds of thousands of followers because they were not in alignment with Twitter's progressive values. This is evidenced by the fact that Twitter would, repeatedly, use the revocation of verified status as a form of moderation against people, as if bad behavior suddenly made an account not who it claimed to be.
Almost all the graphs start to kick up around 1950. Interestingly, the REA was expanded to include telephony in 1949. I don't think that there's a coincidence between AT&T construction spending and subsidized government loans for expanding infrastructure.