skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who'd have thought the AI revolution would be used to just clog feeds up with spam.

I suppose there were warning signs, like every previous Internet technology eventually being used for advertising.
What if I rephrase to say the first amendment does not give the government the right to tell website owners what they may or may not publish?
Yes, a lot of growth and exploration of various kinds happens at college. Diversity in the university is probably good.

But, in the context of a society which historically denied women a place in higher education, and an institution which did not admit women, and then had disproportionately few women, to react to higher numbers of women with "this is good for men looking to date" is a really bad take. It frames more women in corners of higher ed where they were previously underrepresented in terms of how it's good for men, and specifically in framing women students as romantic opportunities for men.

You pretending that yeeetz's comment is part of some broader appreciation of a diverse college environment is kinda bs, b/c yeeetz did not say anything about learning from/working with people of a different background -- just that it makes dating easier for guys.
CMG pitch deck on listening to your conversations to target ads
Some of it was Kremlin propaganda.

Care to cite some examples? You know, the factual kind?
For one thing, just admitting more people almost certainly decreases the access to quality education overall (as well as introducing pragmatic difficulties like housing). Schools do tweak who they admit outside of largely artificial measures like SATs. But, within reason, that's not a bad thing. You probably don't want to admit a class of students from top prep schools who had college test prep classes and helped starving children in Africa.
France to trial ban on mobile phones at school for children under 15
It's common for neural networks to struggle with negative prompting. Typically it works better to phrase expectations positively, e.g. “be brief” might work better than ”do not write long replies”.
"The overall acceptance rate for women was 4.5%, and the overall acceptance rate for men was 1.9%."

I think you misread this?

Edit: the transfer acceptance rate is even more imbalanced in favor of women
Well, that, or… lobby work for stronger workers rights, for example at least three months of notice before a layoff, with a proper justification presented, like it works in Western Europe. If you’re too weak individually to push that through, maybe band together with other employees?
Boycat: Ethical Shopping Companion
Up like 5% from non ai projects?
>Why are HN readers so quick to think that Greenpeace is all powerful?

The nuclear lobby cant exactly blame the exhorbitant cost of nuclear power for their problems. They need a more exciting scapegoat that isnt "it's 5x the cost of the competition".
Yeah maybe I wrote something up, you can checkout a demo here though:
https://www.reddit.com/r/reactnative/s/O1aqpitFJw

As for the how, if you know React, then just follow the get started on Expo docs website, there are some differences with web but its not hard to figure them out, just create a project and start, and yeah Expo is very nifty for the job, especially for starters.
that's not much of an excuse for pretending to have written an os; the only real requirement in https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/sublicense-agreement is that you acknowledge that linus torvalds owns the linux trademark
>Zuck is on a major PR campaign drive, I would not trust a word he says.

You can tell because the lizard has begun looksmaxing

However, we know from numerous leaks now that the White House has indeed pressured every major social media company to target specific citizens and censor them.
You could do something like this in Clojure:

(first (filter identity
[(and (condition-three) (action-three))
(and (condition-one) (action-one))
(and (condition-four) (action-four))
(and (condition-two) (action-two))]))

And you could write a macro to do it with nice syntax. A bit more work and you could parallelize it.

You probably wouldn't want to most of the time, but if the conditions are slow to test but otherwise inexpensive, it might be a useful optimization.
meta and google should be classified as public utilities
MitX math and science classes are (were?) outstanding. The few I tried from other participating universities were a grade below in quality. Then EdX/MitX just... stopped publishing new content. I learned (re-learned?) math and science from these and Khan; fundamentally changed my life. Too good of a resource to last? At least Khan's still kicking.
> 10-speed cvt

CVTs shouldn't even have a concept of "speeds". I absolutely hate how manufacturers will build cars with CVTs and then make them only go into discrete gear ratios. It completely destroys the entire reason for having a CVT.

I understand that they do it because people don't like how CVTs sound/feel, but maybe they should all have 3 modes:

1. Eco - optimizes gear ratio for maximum effeciency

2. Performance - optimizes for maximum power

3. Sport - pretends to be a normal transmission for a better "feel".
>But I don't think you can just decide to do DP.

I disagree, lots of craftsmen do deliberate practice to improve their skills, even when it's not necessarily enjoyable. Hobbyists probably don't so much, but people who do a specific craft for a living do. Granted sometimes this ends up being 2nd or 3rd level fun, where it's not fun while you're doing it but looking back gives you a sense of accomplishment and enjoyment later.

I remember taking a ceramics class in high school and they showed us a video called 'the potters way' or something similar and the trick to getting good at making simple pinch pots is to make thousands of them until you essentially have the muscle memory to do it. There are probably moments of zen while spacing out and making them, but I can guarantee that no one would find that enjoyable enough to just crank them out for hours at a time if they weren't trying to improve their skills.
In my personal experience, it happened before as well but got better in few days
This post brings back memories from when Windows dominated the market, and many online sites—e.g., Slashdot—talked about the "year of the Linux Desktop." (Sadly, in 2024, the closest thing to the year of the Linux desktop is Android.)

I tried multiple Linux DEs at the time. I also remember "Helix Gnome" (later renamed to Ximian).
I also remember that Helix Gnome used icons created by a person with the "Tigert" user alias. His icon designs were terrific and greatly influenced all the later Gnome icons.

The main Gnome problem at the time was stability: Nautilus and Helix Gnome generated core dumps constantly.
At that time, I switched to KDE for my daily work (I loved KDE's architectural consistency) and later to Xfce.

In retrospect, as a user of Linux DEs at that time—nowadays, I use macOS—the KDE vs. GNOME "fight" didn't help. KDE had a more stable code base but lacked a polished UX. GNOME had the investment of a few companies (like RedHat, Ximian, Sun, and later Canonical) that improved the visuals and UX over time, but its internals were a mess.
Hey GPT – How many R in strawberry? [video]
Well, hopefully your developers are substantially more capable, able to clearly track the difference between your requests versus those of other stakeholders... And they don't get confused by overhearing their own voice repeating words from other people. :p
I spent a few seconds googling Caltech admissions (we’ll table the topic of how many commenters can’t google the actual number before accusing me of assuming wrong).

Google’s AI assistant (which is often wrong) cited a 58 male:42 female applicant ratio for a recent Caltech class.
"Error establishing a database connection."

https://web.archive.org/web/20240826091915/salesforcedevops....

Here's a link to the Rand report: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2680-1.html
A Software Engineering Culture Test
Many studies have shown watching things happen over time is much more useful for the human mind than being presented it completed.

That being said, one way to achieve this is to play things backward or occlude detail while you get to the final creation.
In my experience, state property tax assessments do a decent job at trying to calculate relative values but a terrible job at defining actual property values. Meaning, they may pretty reliably value my house at 10 or 15% less than the house next door based on age or size, but the actual value they put on either house isn't even close to what it would sell for (I've always seen tax assessments come in much lower than market rate).

I don't know how that plays out with mansions though. Whether a mansion is worth $30M or $10M is often hard to predict with the pool of potential buyers being so low.
> And Zuck nicked them all.

I am assuming you believed him because he provided some evidence to support his claims?
For anyone that knows anything about research and development, a 20% hit rate is actually quite high.
Is 'No tax on tips' a distraction from the fight to end sub-minimum wages?
Yeah pretty much, the best example I have found for showcasing a solution to this issue is this[1] example, where you can see we start from the most basic of "compilers" (quite literally the equivalent to a `sed` command) and work our way up to Linux 4.9 if I remember correct. Biggest issue is circular dependencies (a lot of lower level build tools depend on themselves nowadays, so we end up needing to build like 4-5 older versions to work our way to a modern toolchain) and different architectures. Since x86 has always been a given, having a completely bootstrappable toolchain on something like arm or even risc-v is a more complex problem, where older versions of programs needed may not necessarily compile or be able to compile further programs on these architectures.

[1]: https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap
Partially true. Rising grocery prices and falling food commodity food prices. Where is all that money going? Look no further than corporate land ownership.
How Anthropic built Artifacts
Not for you - I'm saying it's an issue for them: many (most? all?) university-educated women want to date their peers - men with degrees. This is a huge problem for them when the ratio of graduates are two women for each man.
Walmart Takes on Amazon by Adding Pre-Owned Watches, Collectibles to Marketplace
Of the four dead comments I see, two are content-free trolling and one is a completely unrelated discussion about Jim Jordan. The fourth is a bit more borderline, but I think a reasonable person could conclude that the commenter is more interested in getting people riled up than having a discussion.
How do you know you have over 100m in assets? One never really knows the worth of something until it's sold. (i.e. try selling a used car. there's what you think it's worth and what you get...)

And once the asset is sold, that's a taxable event.
Absolutely true. Anything to deny the Genocide, while the Zionists themselves watch and mock the destruction.
They do exactly this if they intend to grow into a well-rounded, functioning human.

This attitude is how we end up with individuals at 40, alone, hoarding cats, and having no functional social skills.

Dating is necessary to develop skills to survive in the real world and for humanity to propagate.
>Luxury cars won't lose out to ordinary ones even if the price is higher.

meet Lexus LFA vs Corvette.
Informative post! I'm curious about how the transition from TCP to QUIC in HTTP/3 impacts existing network infrastructures.
If you've got the time, these YouTube videos are a nice counterpoint to a lot of popular communication and discussion on dark matter:

Dark matter is not a theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbmJkMhmrVI

That dark matter video aged like milk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS34oV-jv_A

the tl;dr is that "dark matter" is a bit of a misnomer. (But also a fun name so it's probably here to stay through sheer memetic momentum.) Dark matter is not actually a hypothesized kind of matter. Dark matter is just an unresolved discrepancy between theory and observation. I'll say that again: "dark matter" is not an attempt at explaining the discrepancy; dark matter is the discrepancy.

There are some hypotheses that postulate some kind of as-yet-unobserved matter
that could resolve the discrepancy, but these hypotheses are not the actual problem that we call "dark matter". And not all hypotheses postulate unobserved or exotic matter. Some of them suggest alternative physics, others suggest measurement error.
The title doesn't give the story justice: a murder who was released to fight in the war, murdered again, was jailed again, then released again to fight in the war again.
Prime doesn't necessarily need to denote anything specific, but often means 'different, but related'. It is common to use prime notation to reflect a derivative function in calculus, but like most things it depends on context.
I always use showdead. There's not a lot of dead comments, but I often (maybe 1 every 4) have to vouch for them.
An interesting note:

> By some estimates, more than 80 percent of AI projects fail — twice the rate of failure for information technology projects that do not involve AI.

So 60% general success rate vs 20% for an emerging technology that doesn't really have established best practices yet? That seems pretty good to me.
I don't see anything to play with.
That's the gospel, for sure.

However, look at the dead comments here and, for each, tell us why it would turn HN into a "cesspit."
There's so much LLM shovelware getting spammed here daily that I have a hard time believing 20% of all projects are succeeding. Are we even far enough into the LLM era though for bad projects to have run out of their borrowed time?
Are you sure Finale has no batch export? There are free & paid tools available on both Mac & Windows to help automate menu actions and batch convert things.

The product is dead, and like any product or business that dies, yes users may have a problem with their archive. It does suck, and I feel for anyone in this situation. I guess the lesson is that this is always the risk with all software, it might lose support. It happens, often.

I don’t see any reasonable alternatives. It doesn’t seem reasonable to demand that someone ending support for a product must turn around and write a new product to continue supporting the dead product. If they’re out of money, they’re out of money, and they can’t afford to retain developers to work on it.
No the problem is overproduction. Storing grain would give you even more grain, further increasing the crisis (which is price, not availability).
No cheating!

For example, I stop creating SQL, after the first layer above the DB access layer. Everything above that, is a function-based abstraction, so there's no SQL, in most of the stack.

Some layers are meant to introduce "replacement points," so you could swap out the SQL for a NoSQL solution, if you want.

Most layers have a fair bit of validation and permission-checking, etc.

But making sure that I stick to the rules for each layer can be a pain. I stick to them, anyway.
That might be the old definition of fascism; but like many words, it has been completely redefined in today's political climate.

The new definition, it seems, is anyone to disagrees with your political viewpoint and makes an effort to push back. Under this definition, it is politically convenient to call your opponent one and be technically right; regardless of where on the political spectrum you find yourself.
You made my point. A lot of assumptions, no data. The female pool could very well skew higher in their stats. My assumption is that the pools aren’t any different as you are randomly selecting from a general population of people above a threshold level of qualification. Given that you can easily take in more females that have the same qualifications as the males. Given how stuff like the act is scored there will be a lot of people with the same score at every score level.
Databricks, so it's hard to avoid.
In the case of a large university in smaller/to medium towns, there frequently won't be much of a change in ratio unless you're really willing to travel. It's the same community feeding all the places within walking distance or a short drive.

Relatedly, a selective school means that the peers are likely to be similar. Those connections can last a life time, and socialization can greatly broaden your knowledge base and lead to a potentially more interesting skill set and/or a more complex trade.
Cross-platform desktop UI toolkits generally try to replicate a native look&feel as much as possible.
Salaries, AWS bills, laptops purchased for devs
At the time, there was the pervasive notion that a business didn't need to make a profit to be valuable as a public company, as long as it had a large number of loyal users. The practical issues of how to make a profit were almost ignored for most companies of that era. So it is not surprising to see that a company creating a new file explorer would be consider valuable, especially if that browser made lots of people switch to Linux (something that many people believed to be possible).
From the report 80% is "twice the rate of failure for information technology projects that do not involve AI" (https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2680-1.html) so seems that a 20% hit-rate isn't actually that great. Possibly it's a quirk of how they're normalizing the success/failure count?
Java AssertJ Features I Wish I Knew Earlier
> Don’t say no to leadership when the timeline is not realistic.

And do what instead? Work overtime and through the weekends to deliver? Or lie to them at the beginning and fail to deliver in time? Setting real expectations should help the management and providing your best assessment at the planning stage should not be discouraged.

> It is essential to say no to trivial tasks.

So who ends up doing the trivial task? From the perspective of a manager, there are tasks that needs to be done to achieve an objective. And if an employee continually refuses to do tasks because it's "trivial", maybe their role in the team should be re-examined.
It's very easy to claim censorship these days when in fact it's usually more benign than that, companies with large communities generally like to avoid anything inflammatory. Even still, like it or not, you don't have a right to say whatever you like most places on line. It's a privilege. Right or wrong that's just how it is.
Having a bespoke widget tool kit with themeing etc uses more memory and cycles instead of just being a simple app with the native desktop widgets.
Cross-compilation is orthogonal to bootstrapping, which is the major motivating factor for having something like what is described earlier in this thread: a small compiler written in C which can compile a subset of Rust, used to compile a larger, feature complete Rust compiler in that Rust subset -- versus what we have right now, which is a Rust compiler written in Rust which requires an existing Rust compiler binary, which means we have an unmitigated supply chain attack vector.

If you change your question to "why does anyone care about bootstrapping?", the answer would revolve around that aforementioned supply chain attack vector.

For details, you could check out:

- Reading the 1984 paper "Reflections on Trusting Trust", for which Ken Thompson was given the ACM Turing award: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...

- Or watching this short Computerphile video on the above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ7lOus1FzQ

- You can read about the GNU Guix endeavor to achieve a 100% bootstrapped Linux development environment (using zero pre-compiled binaries), starting from a 357-byte HEX file: https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-...

Perhaps you're comfortable with the lack of assurances that non-boostrapable builds entails (everyone has a different appetite for risk); some others aren't though, and so they have an interest in efforts to mitigate the security risks inherent in trusting a supply chain of opaque binaries.
> The first thing is that Rust is just not particularly amazing at tree structures.

As someone who doesn't write any Rust I'd like to understand this more. Is it the ownership model that makes trees weird? Is there something you guys do instead? I was working on an R-tree yesterday for something and I'm slightly surprised to read this but obviously Armin knows what he's talking about :)
> - I do not know if there is a clean, ethical way to "run the social media"

It's a very difficult problem, no doubt.

Do you think Hacker News is 'social media'? If so, is it being run in a 'clean, ethical way'?
> That means the most talented and impressive young man who applied and didn’t get in is objectively more talented and impressive than the least talented and impressive (though still extremely talented and impressive) woman who applied and got in.

That is a hasty generalization fallacy. That presumes the applicant pools were comprised of the same quality of applicants.

It could also be that there are simply more young men than young women willing to go to a tiny, expensive and boring undergraduate program.
More money for Nuke development aimed at Japan?
> Which requires income which is taxed

And there lies the loophole. These loans are often structured as some kind of business expense that can be paid from pre-tax income.

So, ultra rich people get to double dip here. No taxes on selling stocks for money, as there's a loan, plus no taxes on the income for paying it off.
[Dead] means they've been downvoted to oblivion. Moderators had nothing to do with it -- those were other users on HN. I always browse with "showdead" on and the vast majority of [Dead] posts are awful. They don't need to violate HN Guidelines, they were killed by the community.

[Flagged] means it was killed by a moderator. Those are more rare. I don't agree with everything that is flagged but I think HN has a great moderation policy overall. Often when posts are flagged, the moderator responds explaining why.
That would fall under the "discernible reason" part. I think most of us can intuit why someone would follow the group.

That said, I was originally thinking more about soul-crushing customer-is-always-right service job situations, as opposed to a dogmatic conspiracy of in-group pressure.
We could resort to the president declaring Marshall Law in response to a pandemic. Do you think that would be a better solution to this problem?

Maybe Zuckerberg should be an adult and recognize the power his platform has to misinform, and kill, people. So far, he appears to be content in keeping his head firmly planted up his posterior so long as he's making money. I define that as evil; others may disagree.
I think you do #3 but look for profitable niches and clients that can afford to pay better. Or look for niches that have a more important impact.
Always, as a good hedger Zuck, anticipating regime change in the White House by November, is minimizing the potential fallout of his treacherous behavior. Hold him accountable.