skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“ guarantee you that law/med school students have an education in "complex debt instruments that cannot be discharged."”

All the people here claiming they know a good degree from a bad one as if they have divine providence of what will happen in 5 years

And I gave them a $100,000 and ask them you to buy and hold a single non-FAANG or meme stock for the duration of their degree you would probably loose money. Or to predict if you should hold shares vs bonds for 5 years, without adjusting their position, like you do with a degree.

You could start a degree as a VFC artist and in 5 years your job might disappear with AI.
I'm not sure that is something you can rely in general due to panic = abort, though to be fair that's more a concern for library developers since IIRC they don't control that particular setting.
A few cool things I like about norway

- they fed money from their oil into their sovereign fund, which invests in clean energy, so they invest in what they want more of

- they tax what they want less of
"From now on, I will assume you have created an unprivileged user to run yay."

Was this written by a human?

Jumping from a cut down step by step para-phrasing from the official manual to yay is a big step. If it was written by a human, then leave a ### TODO in the text to show its a work in progress or incomplete.

"CUTEBOLLOCKS (this will not translate well!), CUTEBOLLOCKS (this will not translate well!)"

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I'd better explain the above: There's a UK TV programme called "8 out of 10 cats does Countdown". Prior to advert. breaks an anagram with a clue is presented to viewers (and they are specified twice), the anagram itself is generally rude.
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"Cute bollocks" is one way that I think of the original post - they have taken the Arch install manual and ripped most of the useful bits out and created a narrowly focused synopsis. They have been "cute" - link on HN, with engagement. Bollocks - that's my considered review of the quality of their article.

We've all got better things to do than engaging with wankery. Please stop.
> Do you know what idempotency is?

Yes.

> This is exactly what he described.

So? Idempotency and an exactly-once delivery abstraction are not the same thing.
I don't notice it much. Maybe because my lifestyle is too sedentary, or because I have almost nothing but cheap cotton/polyester stuff.

But it seems like shirts last 10+ years and shorts always last at least a few years, not great but nothing like some people claim.

Does silk/wool/etc wear faster than target/Walmart bargain bin stuff?

Are there some specific categories that are bad these days, in the way that people always say hand tools have gotten worse but people who mostly use power tools don't really notice anything, because brushless is so amazing?
I am disinclined to agree with you. Homecoming, football, having fun in sports, are exactly what kids should be focused on. They should be enjoying life, not hunched over materials studying late into the night.

Of course, focus on footballs, elaborate dance, and other sports can be excessive. I merely object to the excessive focus on academics, the rat race, and pressure cooker environment to get education at top ranked colleges.

On the contrary education should be meeting the needs of the 21st century, teaching skills to create functioning adults that can navigate life's challenge, such as avoiding scammers, how to judge quality information, how to diagnose and solve emotional challenges. There will still be classes taught on academics such as learning to read, simple arithmetic.

Only when they're adults that their focus will entirely be on academics. Academics are easy if you're well adjusted and know how to learn.
It makes it all sound like a problem of engineering, not of physics.

It's really hard to vapourize all that rock and suck it out to the surface with a vacuum. But it's really hard in the sense that the vaporised rock might recondense and stick to the sides of the hole, not in the sense that vaporising the rock costs more energy than you get out of the hole in its 30-year lifetime.
A while ago I read somewhere that it was because for a long time (American) trucks were technically nit cars. And manufacturers could save money on a bunch of safety things.

Which resulted in more money for marketing.
I think a bunch of people, without explicit coordination, were rude to the sorts of people who weren't seen as belonging. My experience jives with the article GGP linked, and I've played both parts (and for anyone who had to put up with me shit talking PHP, I apologize). It's a tale as old as time; people form cliques and gatekeep, c'est la vie. Rarely is it by explicit coordination (secret societies notwithstanding), but I would still call it a strategy.

Please note, I'm talking about the "contempt culture" specifically and not prickly nerds broadly. Some people are prickly and that's fine. It makes sense to me too that people with a complex and difficult job which is perceived as a cost center might be prickly for entirely different reasons.
Why Scrum is stressing you out
First gigahertz ultrasonic circuit that uses the principle of topology
The premise is to have the LLM put up something that might be true, then have lean tell you whether it is true. If you trust lean, you don't need to understand the proof yourself to trust it.
The best part of the article is the fact that they have to label each screenshot as “ars technical screenshot” because otherwise a reader will not be able to follow the article because of all the other ads they themselves show on almost every other paragraph.
> waste slowly leaks into the groundwater

You say that as if it's a given that it will always leak slowly. What % of the spent fuel actually ended up being leaked across the couple decades of storage we have had now? What effects did it have? How does the human cost stack up against mining activities we would need for the massive amounts of wind turbines and solar panels when we cut out nuclear's base load function completely?

(Recently saw this documentary about mine tailings aka chat; didn't know those existed tbh as someone not from a country with much mining activity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soGOu5NZ5S0 - or in text form https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picher,_Oklahoma)

Obviously we'll need both energy sources to reach net zero, but it's not that one is inherently clean and the other inherently dirty
My sheer productivity boost from these models is miraculous. It's like upgrading from a text editor to a powerful IDE. I've saved a mountain of hours just by removing tedious time sinks -- one-off language syntax, remembering patterns for some framework, migrating code, etc. And this boost applies to nearly all of my knowledge work.

Then I see contrarians claiming that LLMs are literally never useful for anyone, and I get "don't believe your lying eyes" vibes. At this point, such sentiments feel either willfully ignorant, or said in bad faith. It's wild.
I think taking decisions based on different risk models is not a hallucination.

To the extreme: if during covid someone would live completely off grid (no contact with anyone) would have greatly reduced infection risk, but I would have found the risk model unreasonable.

The problem with LLM-s is that they don't "model" what they are not capable off (the training set is what they know). So it is harder for them to say "I don't know". In a way they are like humans - I seen a lot of times humans preferring to say something rather than admitting they just don't know. It ss an interesting (philosophical) discussion how you can get (as a human or LLM) to the level of introspection required to determine if you know or don't know something.
> How is Wayland support these days? I love i3 but I know Sway promises to be close enough.

I think it depends on what you mean by “Wayland”, but I’m an Arch/Sway user with AMD hardware on my desktop and Apple silicon on my laptop, and Sway performance/stability is great on both, with the caveat that my laptop is now running the Asahi Fedora remix instead of Arch, since the Asahi team killed the Arch port off a while back.
I would be 100% in favor of this.
Anyone intelligent enough to make a living programming likely has more than enough IQ to become a mediocre somewhat competent graduate student in math.

They just don't have the background, and probably lack the interest to dedicate studying for a few years to get to that level.
I don’t have anything fashionable like ADHD or Autism or Dyslexia but I do have something you’ve never heard of

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

Which doesn’t have an autism-industrial complex or addictive pill mill complex behind it which is why you’ve never heard of it.

I got numerous psych evals that always missed it, the first was before STPD (highly flawed, missing at least 1/3 of the phenomenon including the one that looks like ‘ADHD’) was added to the DSM. Maxxed all sub scales in the Weschler IQ test except for problem solving where I was just one SD over the mean (my brain shorting out caused that). I’m terrible at chess but got really good at math in college despite never being able to score better than 90% on a math quiz in high school. (got a PhD in theoretical physics). My verbal intelligence is too high to measure because I’ve maxxed every test I’ve tried. As a kid I would go to the YMCA every Saturday for gym and swim and then check out 10 books from the public library and more or less I do that today.

I’m an arch reductionist and don’t believe in any of it but I am great with crystal balls, dowsing rods and ouija boards. Knowing what I know now I should have been an onmyoji. Somehow I can’t form a ‘whole’ the way other people though but I can hold two contradictory systems inside myself simultaneously. I can be a bridge between two groups for a while but eventually it goes bad.

Got bullied as a kid, graduated from elementary school the same way Ender Wiggin did. No complaints about parents but they were working class and had no idea how to help me in professional life, couldn’t afford to get me more than one year in a private school. (Where the bullying stopped) Got a lot of great opportunities, blew many of them.

Been with the same woman for 30 years, had a child, had steady work except for the times I didn’t. My rank in terms of ‘living in a beautiful place’ is probably better than my karma rank on HN. My wealth is probably better than the median for my cohort but I haven’t ’made it big’.

I still do strange off putting things that drive some people away (always failed at trying to have an affair); I understand a lot know about the how and why but it is very hard to stop. When my condition is inflamed I have paranoid ideation towards physical objects (I was waving my arms around but it sure seemed I was attacked by the potted plant I knocked down) or family (why the hell is my wife standing where my pills are and why did she move right to the sink after I got them?)

There is very little clinical data on my condition, I’m a bit afraid I’ll get really mean and psychotic if I develop dementia.

I am sure some of you who think you have ADHD and/or autism have it too.
Well. Yes but gas tax also goes for road maintenance which EVs don’t pay. Some states have increased the registration fees for EVs to counter this.
o1-preview is still quite a specialized model, and you can come up with very easy questions that it fails embarassingly despite it's success in seemingly much more difficult tests like olympiad programming/maths questions.

You certainly shouldn't think of it like having access to a graduate student whenever you want, although hopefully that's coming.
One of the criticisms of Gnostisicm, even going back to the ancient Greeks is it never makes positive assertions about what the new world will be like. It's only negative saying things like "all this is illusion," "all this is bad." It never puts up its own program for criticism. So if you say anything about Gnosticism, the Gnostic can just respond, our faith isn't that, it's better than that. However, they never tell you what it actually is so it can be objectively criticized.
I tend to pay for quality content, yes.
Missing checkbox. "Assume
Everything Is A String"

We used to hit all kinds of Excel weirdness with inventory etc.

It was our fault that our part numbers could look like this:

00010190-95.020
Fortunately these rules are natural and easy to remember, especially the details of how different languages choose different orders, relative to the confusing and abhorrent prefix notation (- (^ 3 2)) or (^ (- 3) 2).
Although excel spreadsheets have had more longevity than lots of other formats…
That's not true at all.

You can literally learn how to write proofs using Lean: https://djvelleman.github.io/HTPIwL/
> Ironically, the ones we need the most are paid the least.

That isn’t ironic at all. If they were paid more, we wouldn’t have a shortage.
Follow the link just before using yay, where he explains makepkg, yay and an unprivileged user.
Somehow, TV and newspapers survived and thrived on non- targeted, not-filthy ads for decades.

I'd have little problem with static ads in webpages that looked like the ones in magazines I grew up with.
It's hard to quantify how much time learning how to search saves because the difference can range between infinite (finding the result vs not finding it at all) to basically no difference (1st result vs 2nd result). I think many people agree it is worth learning how to "properly search" though. You spend much less time searching and you get the results you're looking for much more often. This applies outside of just Google search: learning how to find and lookup information is a useful skill in and of itself.

ChatGPT has helped me write some scripts for things that otherwise probably would have taken me at least 30+ minutes and it wrote them in <10 seconds and they worked flawlessly. I've also had times where I worked with it to develop something that ended up taking me 45 minutes to only ever get error-ridden code that I had to fix the obvious errors and rewrite parts of it to get it working. Sometimes during this process it actually has taught me a new approach to doing something. If I had started from scratch coding it by myself it probably would have taken me only 10~ minutes. But if I was better at prompting what if that 45 minutes was <10 minutes? It would go from from a time loss to a time save and be worth using. So improving my ability to prompt is worthwhile as long as doing so trends towards me spending less time prompting.

Which is thankfully pretty easy to track and test. On average, as I get better at prompting, do I need to spend more or less time prompting to get the results I am looking for? The answer to that is largely that I spend less time and get better results. The models constantly changing and improving over time can make this messy - is it the model getting better or is it my prompting? But I don't think models change significantly enough to rule out that I spend less time prompting than I have in the past.
"I went to twitter because of an earthquake and discovered that, if we just used it, it would be the same as before".
I would appreciate it if the title included some indication that this article is a Mac specific article. Though it may be hard to belive, I was unfamiliar with the publication.
I did some cursory research on how important 'forgetting' is to neural networks. I didn't have conclusive results because I just played with a few ideas, never really making it serious, but the idea has stuck with me as important for a long time now. In a finite space the pigeon hole principle says you eventually must take something out to put something new in so finding algorithms that efficiently forget are likely key to learning. I think this applies to neural networks and, I think, to society as well. You can't preserve every building for history. You can't remember every grievance or act of heroism. Eventually you have to forget to move forward. At least that is the thought.
> while the average debt for graduate school borrowers is $71000.

That figure would be heavily skewed by medical school students.
You could put “real cameras” in this category. It’s pretty satisfying to use a dedicated camera which prevents you from slipping into Instagram or email.
If your product’s value proposition is that fragile, that it can be eroded down to near nothing just via some schemer(s) with more money in the bank account saying ‘free’… then maybe it’s just not that big of an improvement over the status quo?
If you find yourself doing a lot of OpenSCAD, you might want to check out what you're missing from more traditional CAD systems:

A few examples of simple fillets in SOLIDWORKS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f78gblpqxHc

Higher level continuity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5QN40d02cw

A good example of nontrivial surfacing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cujS1icUTtg (the entire channel is a goldmine of surfacing tutorials)

Not every part needs G3 smooth curves, but being able use those tools when appropriate is a superpower.
That's just a normal arch install, no hard mode about it.
Interesting. I was sitting here chillig and wondering if i had included a/some god mode, i certainly had a tab in a browser at some point and some code highlighted, thanks!
That seems like a distinction without a difference to me. Why should I care if the thing I get exactly one of is called "processing" or "delivery"?
Can ChatGPT o1-preview Solve PhD-level Physics Textbook Problems? [video]
I use this library in almost all of my projects: https://github.com/BelfrySCAD/BOSL2
> sorry, what?? i have never heard something so preposterous.

It's not preposterous at all. It's the truth.

Computers are world-changing technology. Citizens having access to unrestricted computers is something corporations and governments cannot and will not tolerate. Google hates it so much they added hardware remote attestation to Android devices.

Computer freedom means we can subvert their silly "integrity checks" and do whatever we want. It means we can run uBlock Origin to kill their advertising and run things like yt-dlp to download their content and keep it forever. They won't tolerate that.

> so far general purpose devices are still free enough to be usable.

Not according to the FSF. You simply cannot find a computer today that does not require you to load some signed proprietary blob onto some chip somewhere. For that you need a CPU that must be like 20 years old by now.

We do not drive our computers anymore. The entire operating system turned into the "user OS" that gets sandboxed away from the real action. It's just user code talking to the proprietary code via some kind of hardware API.

https://youtu.be/36myc8wQhLo

Just look at the sad state of our operating systems. Safely tucked away into some corner, completely oblivious to all the other computers around it. All that hardware running signed proprietary code you cannot control or modify. How did things get like this?

I've pretty much given up on that. By this point I just want IOMMUs so I can isolate all those other computers and try to limit the access they have to what's supposed to be my system. I think it's pretty screwed up that my power as the owner of the machine has been reduced to this.

> we can build our own networks too

You cannot. Not successfully. If you try, you'll find that anti-money laundering laws, know your customer laws, anti-terrorism laws, all sorts of laws will compel you to become what you sought to avoid in the first place. The government got around limitations on surveillance by privatizing it. They will make you surveil in its stead, and if you fail to do so they will blame you for anything wrong that happens in your network. Either you surveil and rat out your users, or you go to jail instead of them.

> it's already happening. and it will grow as the cost for that goes down.

I hope you're right. I really do.
Why not? (Please see the update on my OP before answering that.)
Specifically within the last week, I have used Claude and Claude via cursor to:

- write some moderately complex powershell to perform a one-off process

- add typescript annotations to a random file in my org's codebase

- land a minor feature quickly in another codebase

- suggest libraries and write sample(ish) code to see what their rough use would look like to help choose between them for a future feature design

- provide text to fill out an extensive sales RFT spreadsheet based on notes and some RAG

- generat some very domain-specific realistic sounding test data (just naming)

- scaffold out some PowerPoint slides for a training session

There are likely others (LLMs have helped with research and in my personal life too)

All of these are things that I could do (and probably do better) but I have a young baby at the moment and the situation means that my focus windows are small and I'm time poor. With this workflow I'm achieving more than I was when I had fully uninterrupted time.
And here I thought BOSL2 was the pinnacle of OpenSCAD libraries.

Great library, thanks for sharing!

https://github.com/BelfrySCAD/BOSL2
The 405 seems to happen randomly. No idea what causes it, sometimes it returns 200, but after a few several POSTs in a row it may return 405.
Yeah, I was trying to agree with you :)
GDP that's concentrated in the top few % of the population.

The fact that despite 50% higher GPD and 30% less population there's still rampant homelessness is damning enough.
I found this post a little shallow. The conclusion is that stricter code review can reduce toil. Ok. What else?
They do sometimes. People don’t realize how much of medicine, generally, is funded through the government. Additionally, society gives medicine a lot of leeway to act selfishly because the core practice of healing is so altruistic.

Broadly, it’s the same issue that all jobs have: it’s cheaper to hire pre-trained professionals than to hire and train.
Its quite interesting. The directional ultrasonic array broadcasts a carrier frequency, not unlike am radio. You can read about the function of this sort of device at hackaday.

https://hackaday.com/2019/02/14/creating-coherent-sound-beam...
We had a state management and deployment system through which all changes were effected that would automatically rollback changes if the smoke test failed, or if one of the ops staff found an issue.
> Exactly - 12 years of education to get children ready to be citizens and not single class on how to manage a bank account, or even the most basic education about investments or actual wealth building.

California became the 26th state a few months ago to require all students to take a personal finance course before graduating. About half the remaining states require students to take a combined personal finance/economics course (source: https://www.ngpf.org/blog/advocacy/how-many-states-require-s...).
I had a discussion on one of the Nim boards because Nim does the same, i.e. Writing -2^2=4 but 0-2^2=-4 because Nim treats the first as the unary - which takes precedence over exponentiation. I realise that you can argue how it is technically correct (and interestingly several of the people I was talking with couldn't even get my point), but I still argue it's incredibly unintuitive for anyone coming from an regular engineering/science background who wants to do regular work. I would almost argue will exclude it to be used by many due to this.
I like that even though the website design has changed, the OS/CPU download table still looks exactly as I remember it from 2010 ;)
Not the same technology at all, until recently at least.

EDIT: Looks like I hurt someone's feelings by killing their unicorn. It was going to happen sooner or later, and pretending isn't very constructive. In fact, pretending this technology is reliable is a very risky thing to do.
Almost all states with significant EV adoption have a special charge for EVs each year. What sucks is that it isn’t based on how much you drive, so if you aren’t using your EV to commute, you get charged just as much as someone using it all day for ride sharing.