skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly? There is too much graduate. We need competent people, of course, but an army have more troops than officers, not the contrary. Most STEM paths are not STEM, are designed to create useful idiots [1] and chosen by people with zero attitude toward STEM simply because "that's the trend of the moment". As a result we have many with a piece of paper and not really competence good enough for almost anything to the point they fails to even understand their incompetence.

Having them in a path meaning adapting to them, as a result many talents simply loose interests/get frustrated by an environment not designed from them.

The triumph of the mediocrity kill evolution, and we see the results in general.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/i-was-usef...
My washing machine went out because some flooding and I gave chatGPT all of the diagnostic codes and it concluded that it was probably a short in my lid lock.

The lid lock came a few days later, I put it in, and I'm able to wash laundry again.
That's still a 1620% increase for some, and potentially you can use more of the compound since it's safer.
I use it like a dictionary (select text and lookup) and based on what I looked up and answer, I judge myself how correct the answers are, and they are on point usually.

It has also made making small pure vanilla html/js based tools fun. It gives me a good enough prototype which I can mold to my needs. I have wrote a few very useful scripts/tools past few months which otherwise I would never even have started because of all the required first steps and basic learnings.

(never thought I would see your comment as a user)
I get what you’re saying, but that’s not really relevant.

That was political theatre being made in a conquered territory, not an actual attempt at democracy. It’s like pondering the specifics of a vehicle’s engine performance/efficiency after it’s been hit by a fucking train.

There was/is no solution to fix voting problems in Russian held territory other than to violently force Russian thugs to leave.
We do have certificate authorities, something similar could be used. Nothing stops you from signing your own keys, but it's worth what it's worth. The thing is, if I'm famous and my website has my public key, anyone can use it to check
Color picker as a trusty rebound hobby project
That works for water, but what about wine?
For those who will work on a modern machine and cross-compile, Turbo Rascsal will give you a Turbo Pascal-like IDE.

https://lemonspawn.com/turbo-rascal-syntax-error-expected-bu...
With Google Assistant you can still do this, but you need to speak it, with the prefix "Add calendar event..."(well, Google Assistant on the phone also accepts keyboard input). I find it much faster than the button clicking.
> to trigger the impression pixel

I've always wondered how ad companies verify the ad is actually being displayed. Can you explain this in more detail?

I imagine it has to be somewhat "bulletproof" since money is involved.
I don't disagree, but in 2024 where on earth could you staff large enough team to do such a task with developers that are self-disciplined enough to do it safely?
> if you travel into the past is that everything is going to taste better

To a point. Go too far and you get the nonsense wild types we had to domesticate to be tasty.
In what kind of industry are you to evoke seemingly without irony the phrase "get control over employees"? Manufacturing maybe? Agriculture? Definitely nothing where creative work is expected, right?
Show HN: Resurrecting DOS – Bringing Classic Gaming to the Web
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How An entire town on the Kalamazoo River was lost to time
Good point. I can read your content but I promise I won’t.
> those in the audience that have only ever eaten supermarket tomatoes, I'm sorry to say you've probably never really eaten a tomato

Plenty of supermarkets near farms or in urban cores have fresh heirloom tomatoes that put generic backyard ones to shame. Eating well doesn’t require continuous effort. Invest time in learning to source well. After that, it’s higher quality for the same amount of effort. (Of course if you’re willing to expend the effort, fresh tomatoes grown from good seed can’t be beaten.)
> Because if it's massively subsidized by the state, and air travel is still around, I doubt high speed rail is good enough to supplant airlines on its merits alone.

Is annihilation of the air transport sector really your bar as to whether or not HSR is good enough?

> Why is jet fuel being duty free a "subsidy"? High speed rail is powered by electricity, which as far as I know doesn't have duty applied either.

When the government taxes all other transport fuels except jet fuel, it sure looks like a subsidy. Of course, fuel duty policy is not the only way in which a state can choose to support a private industry.
I bet in a few years the CEO of Apple will be replaced by someone who's only interested in short-term gains,
and the stock price may increase even higher at a sharp rate for like a decade or two.
Then it becomes like Boeing or Intel; everyone hates it or it's not relevant anymore.

If I win this bet, I'll gain small satisfaction, and my all-index-fund portfolio will be, I don't know, just fine?

edit: typo
I would agree with the parent on this:

The transition away from communities where kids had autonomy, regualr access to adult-free spaces and also easy access to a wide variety of adults - the loss of all that massively increased parenting time and resources, from a few hours per week to 24/7 adulting.

Modern young parents now how to replace many diverse and experienced adults and impossibly simulate the autonomous and independent spaces where kids learned interpersonal and problem solving skills.

The closer we got to this, the less people wanted to have kids.
http://archive.is/HYyrC

In reality, this is what will happen: 6 days a week and immigration, because the ultimate goal is to benefit the corporations. More workforce supply means lower wages, essentially modern slavery.
And if you don't know a lot, you should at least know that an LLM/chatbot is useful as far as giving you a bit of an immersive experience into a topic, and that you should use other resources to verify what the LLM/chatbot is telling you.
I don't think this is different than me looking at a leetcode problem and thinking "this has to be a binary tree of subproducts" (totally wrong solution in that case). Which is why I think it's the only kind of thinking LLMs are good at.

Remember how we used to ask GPT3.5 "how much is 42*35?" and it would reply "The answer is 1305. Lets do the math:" and then come up with a calculation with enough mistakes to be able to arrive at that wrong final solution it guessed at first? That first guess is exactly System 1.
Missippians (#) think so :-)

(#) ok, that’s a fairly low value comment that I frankly should have not clicked send on, but I just spent ages getting that one blasted word past my own spell checker, user friendly piece of shit, and realising not for the first time that typing anything on a textbox on a mobile is its own piece of hell. Sysiphus I am with you. And yeah Musisippians is probably the wrong collective noun but at this point I don’t care. Kamala and Trump will both just avoid campaigning there because their speech writers simply won’t let them.
An attempt to understand Peter Thiel
Sure but you’re overloading the term RTO. You’re describing a single-office environment. There are real benefits to that, probably. And also to being small. But “RTO” is not only that. RTO can be part of it but what you describe also requires eschewing offshoring and embracing a homogeneous culture. That’s a much different conversation.
> everyone who references the same thing is then keeping a copy of it.

... and it would serve as a form of redundancy, imitating the fungible nature of physical media: In order to cite the latest, copied, manuscript (for example) you needed to own a physical copy. They existence of these has enabled survival of works that would otherwise have been lost, or even reconstruction through ecdotics.-
I keep thinking someday I’ll write something but my life has been such a mess lately and my inspiration is about as low as it’s ever been.
www.workspaicehq.com
Teslas are 400v up until the CyberTruck. You probably mean low kW. If I pull up to a charging station and it’s open and 350 kW, you better believe it I’ll be charging my 100 kW max car in that spot, and I shouldn’t haven’t to pay more for the same kWh.
>Is annihilation of the air transport sector really your bar as to whether or not HSR is good enough?

"good enough" with respect to "Air travel should be for medical emergencies only"? Yes.

>When the government taxes all other transport fuels except jet fuel, it sure looks like a subsidy. Of course, fuel duty policy is not the only way in which a state can choose to support a private industry.

high speed trains in china run on electricity. I'm not sure how fuel duties are relevant here.
Cortex A73's Not-So-Infinite Reordering Capacity
Would be cool to load the profile in near real time. It's not terribly difficult. Give folk a spinny-page while it loads? Timeout after 8s?
It's my fault for not being more explicit. I just didn't think it all the way through.
That thread already spawned a GCC-wiki page https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/boringcc,
with a quote in bold:

>The only thing stopping gcc from becoming the desired boringcc is to find the people willing to do the work.

And frankly, nine years is enough time to build a C compiler from scratch.
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I thought author meant how they use the two-letter sequence “AI” and I just came here to say, Allen Iverson.
Something weird is going on with this web page on Chrome in Ubuntu. The table of contents is obscuring the page text.
I sure hope you are taking those 2.5 hours out of your working hours. They are the ones that are forcing you to do this. If they think it's worth it, fine - but it has to go out of the time they pay you for - not your free time.
I agree insofar as discovery of novel articles mostly happens through sites like HN for me, or, when looking for specific topics, via tools like hn.algolia.com. But I also use Google many times a day to find stuff, including human-written content, that LLMs are useless for, or at the very least more cumbersome, and/or that I’d have to verify by Google searches anyway.

One thing that the web provides that LLMs don’t is that it lets me form an opinion, by sampling a multitude of online resources, whereas LLMs only give me one take, or a bullet list of takes, without a good affordance on assessing them.

By the GP argument, HN comment threads are dead, because why would you read them (or post a comment!) if you can instead just ask an LLM.
Pretty good illustration, thanks.

You mention "passive investing" and imho that's a good answer if you want minimum involvement of either yourself or a manager (say because you don't trust them - and you shouldn't).

But then in the same breath you mention "Sure you'd likely want to take some risks" and THAT is not an answer to the same parameters. Why? How much? What kind? With what personal involvement? Etc. Elsewhere you hear "multi-family housing", or "chain of laundromats". All these are one-sentence answers which come either from some random book (which might be very exciting, and not an investing education), or from the experience of someone (who may be lucky, or may be an expert in laundromat operation, perhaps both. May even have written a book or a blog.)

But wait, why is "passive investing" such a good answer, for that very specific circumstance? Because everyone says so? (except the people who say "real estate") Because I say so? So actually "passive investing" is the same kind of answer as "laundromats". It's a lazy pick, out of what floats around HN. I feel it's a fine answer IF minimal management is the priority. And IF you are going to say "Sure you'd likely want to take some risks", then it probably isn't.

And IF "passive investing" only, then how much do you withdraw? Why? "Surely you can't be too wrong if you withdraw 1% a year"? Really? But what if withdrawing 4%, or 8% meant a significant improvement to your life?

And let's question "minimum involvement"? Why is that a priority? Because you don't trust yourself or a manager? But shouldn't there be more considerations? Like how much spending would significantly improve your life? Like are you the kind that always worries about paying a mortgage?

To summarize: these are "shoot from the hip" answers which consider really very little of what deserves to be considered. Why should it considered? Well, How many work days - that is how much of your finite lifetime - does it take for you to save free and clear 1 million? Now that we have this number, how much does the 1 million deserve? I'm not trying to send people in a tailspin of decision paralysis. I'm pointing out that investing is a bit more complicated than "laundromats". I'm also not recommending that you become a professional fund manager while you are at it. There are extremes and the optimum (thinking and learning time) is nowhere near "passive investing"'s zero.

(And the context here is family wealth disappearing. If you are 9 years old, say, nobody is asking you.)
It depends upon the manufacturer. Motorola used PC (program counter), Intel used IP (instruction pointer). I think it's only the x86 that has multiple names, depending upon the size: IP for 16 bits, EIP for 32 bits, RIP for 64 bits.
In Defense of Degrowth
I use this USB sniffer on a daily basis!

At work, we're somewhat limited in what we can install on the office PCs. Therefore I listen to music on an iPod, rather than streaming.

To control the music on the iPod, I have a USB sniffer that picks up the media keys on my keyboard, and sends serial packets to the iPod.

I should rewrite taradov's code using RTOS threads to allow capture and sending at the same time, but what have now works well enough for my use case. If I press a key during the parse phase then it doesn't pick up, but I can always just press it again and usually it gets through.

For newer devices I've got an Arduino that take iPod remote commands and converts them to a TRRS headphone jack remote. So I could use the media keys on the keyboard to control a phone, for example.

Soon I plan to use Arduino Audio Tools to build an iPod remote -> Bluetooth A2DP remote using an ESP32 (note that -C and -S don't support A2DP, just ESP32).

Every time I change the volume or track on my iPod during a work day, I'm using this USB Sniffer, and it's been very reliable.
Fun idea, open source for maximum learning value, seemingly flawless execution, vanity-free and clear writeup—what a lovely contribution to the world. I feel privileged just seeing things like this.
> meeting an average of 2 [incompetent] people a week

You clearly have far fewer meetings than I do! :-)
Be the change you want to see in the world. In the time you spent complaining about it here you could have made such a resource. Don't ask the Internet in general to do it for you.
Oh wow, thanks for looking it up. I stand corrected! Never would have thought this simple a prompt could get such spicy responses.
It was never about the workers to start with. Then you will see it’s actually consistent.
That depends what problem you're trying to solve. I've seen web applications deal with someone throwing rockyou at hundreds of users on the logon form. This sort of large scale brute forcing was completely arrested by captcha, the workarounds just aren't worth it at the scale.
It's just a way to bypass the cantillion effect and hoard the benefit of debasement for the lord. That's why he exempted the aristocracy, he had to cut them in to maintain his power.

So, suppose the ruler begins a debasement. You have a lot of coins. You take them into the mint and exchange them for debased coins but more coins than you had minus a cut to the king, go buy some asset that can't be debased like salt, wait and then sell it on the market after price inflation occurs. You benefit from the cantillion effect because you got the fresh minted money before prices rose to compensate.

Now with the extortion scheme, you lose that. The revenue goes straight to the king in the form of the tax, the king might make do with the same revenue as before, thus significantly reducing the inflation that occurs, or maybe raises his revenue to the match the cost to the economy before but now the aristocracy get nothing. To compensate, he had to exempt them or they would overthrow him, and now they get benefit in that regular people get directly fleeced, price deflation occurs but regular people don't gain purchasing power because it was their money taken from them out of circulation, but the rich people don't have that problem so their purchasing power increases.
That's a bold stance when first world countries depend on immigrants who need to take intercontinental flights to see their families every year. Let them eat rail.
Comet caught zigzagging its way through space
Nobody says that implementation-defined behavior must be sane or safe. The crux of the issue is that a compiler can assume that UB never happens, while IB is allowed to. Does anyone have an example where the assumption that UB never happens actually makes the program faster and better, compared to UB==IB?
Google Books Ngram for net neutrality

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Net+neutrality...

Saying net neutrality shifted in meaning since the 1990s is nonsensical
Those outputting the article from the LLM can concentrate on SEO including backlinks from other LLM generated articles. The question becomes does an average LLM article + the best possible SEO beat the original article?

I'm gonna say, yes, it does at which point there's no incentive for the original author. That's of course assuming the user actually searched at all or went to the LLM directly instead in which case the original author of the article has no chance at all.
I built a tool to help validate SaaS ideas. Would love your feedback
Hey everyone,

For a long time, I've been interested in building micro-SaaS products. While researching, I came across numerous YouTube channels trying to sell expensive SaaS-building courses, which honestly felt a bit scammy to me. This got me thinking: how could I help beginners in the SaaS world without exploiting their aspirations?

That's when I had an idea for a tool that could help validate SaaS concepts. I've built an MVP, and I'd love to get your thoughts on it.

Here's what it does:
- You input your SaaS idea
- The tool analyzes it and provides detailed feedback
- The report includes competition analysis, suggestions, and marketing/sales ideas

I'm aiming to keep most features free because I believe many people are trying to break into SaaS, and this could be genuinely helpful, especially for newcomers.

I haven't included any links to avoid coming across as spammy, but I'm really eager to hear your opinions. Do you think there's potential for a tool like this? Would you use it? What features would you want to see?

Also, if anyone's interested in trying out the MVP and providing feedback, just let me know in the comments or via DM.

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> I was waiting behind people with batteries that were 92%, 94% and even 97% full, as I could see on the charger screens. Still, they stayed there. I made my own situation worse by giving up on one location and going to another with more chargers, but there were even more EVs waiting there.

It sounds like marginal charging past 80% is too cheap per percentage point. If you want to encourage throughput, you have to make it expensive to be a "hog" in TFA's parlance.
contrast: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41155675

There goes another brilliant business idea. "DumpsterDash"

Combining sanitation services, recycling, and "surprise me" value meals for the people bored with deciding what to order. We just drive the buffet truck by your house and you take what you want.

Coulda been a $20 billion IPO. Alas.
The point is much of what the C standard currently calls undefined behavior should instead be either unspecified or implementation-defined. This includes the controversial ones like strict aliasing and signed overflow.

Additionally, part of the problem is compiler devs insisting on code transforms that are unsound in the presence of undecidable UB, without giving the programmer sufficiently fine control over such transforms (at best we have a few command line flags for some of them, worst case you'd need to disable all optimizations including the non-problematic ones.)
A Majorana error is where the problem and solution are the same. Like caffeine.
I can see that.-
It’s just a stealth layoff.
The Path to StyleGan2 – Implementing the Progressive Growing GAN
Another thing here is more and more creeping into the "legitimate purposes" category.

I installed CalcNote on a new android phone today and had to untick "legitimate uses" for 3 vendors in several places, including Google and Bytedance.

Felt like I needed a shower once I was finished setting it up with the minimal apps that I use