skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd define invariants that must be met. This has been done before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search-based_software_engineer...

e.g. testing implementations of Paxos: https://github.com/emichael/dslabs

At Facebook: https://engineering.fb.com/2018/05/02/developer-tools/sapien...

As an example, your search graph might define your nodes as possible application states and the edges as actions to transition to a new state.

Some edges might be "create a post" and "change post privacy settings". You might then define an invariant saying "after a user creates a post the new post is in their follower's timeline if privacy settings allow".

Your search might eventually come across some set of actions that lead to this invariant being violated which is a discovered bug, e.g. if a user A creates a post -> user A changes settings to private -> user B can still see the post.

Since the search space is infinite, the effectiveness is heavily influenced by how much time you can spend searching the tree & how fast you can evaluate states. This is a kind of exploratory test & wouldn't replace unit/integration tests, but it does let you catch certain kinds of bugs that would be impossible to find otherwise.
Sorry, back at my computer now.

When it comes to ethnicity / race (or really any characteristic) there's a few ways writers can do it:

1. Colourblind - race has no real impact. It's simply not a big deal when writing the character or story. Nemo was originally going to be Polish, but he ended up Indian. The only important thing about him being Indian is that he opposes the British Empire, but really anyone can stand up against injustice. An awful lot of characters are actually like this, because they are mostly written to serve the plot, so as long as Nemo is smart, brave, cultured, loves the sea, tenacious, and stands up against injustice he can be anyone.

2. Tokenism - it effects the character, but not the story e.g. your plucky group of teenage crime fighters has a black kid who is street smart, and an Asian kid who is book smart. Or you could be cool and reverse the stereotypes. I'd say it's fine, as long as it's not too ham-fisted for whatever the current year is.

3. Make the entire plot about this characteristic, because you want to tell an "authentic" story.

So does race effect nothing (substantial), the character, or the story itself? For Nemo, I'd say his race is absolutely not a big deal at all.
Haha, reminds me of 20 years ago when someone said they are building a PHP app from scratch and this time they won't have HTML, business logic and SQL all in one .php file. We learn as we go ;)
As a physical product (which my list was about) , you absolutely can.

They went from dominating in the 360 era (when Sony fumbled the PS3, and Nintendo switched directions to the Wii) to two generations of poorly received releases and being in third place. That’s even if you filter by the specific markets they dominated in with the 360.

And what are they focused on now? Windows gaming and cloud services. Their two core competencies.

And why? The people behind the original Xbox and 360 vision left. When you have no vision leaders in the company you fall back to what you know. In their case: windows and cloud services.
I wonder if they will ever say anything, though. I'm honestly kind of tired of seeing posts about WP drama on several different platforms, and this has been going on for weeks. I had to unsubscribe from #wordpress on Mastodon because almost every post was about this...
I wondered the same. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the case, and it can also shift with the Overton window over time. It might be that if you took two generations ago and had a Time Machine to compared to today, the differences would be so evident that the contrast would be even more meaningful.
I have consistently been critical of Musk for this over the many years it's been happening. Even right now, I don't believe FSD will be unsupervised next year like he just claimed. And yet, I can see the real progress and I am convinced that while it won't be next year, it could absolutely happen within two or three years.

One of these years, he is going to be right. And at that point, the fact that he was wrong for a long time won't diminish their achievement. As he likes to say, he specializes in transforming technology from "impossible" to "late".

> I'm not convinced that autonomous driving that only makes use of cameras will ever be reliably safer than human drivers.

Believing this means that you believe AIs will never match or surpass the human brain. Which I think is a much less common view today than it was a few years ago. Personally I think it is obviously wrong. And also I don't believe surpassing the human brain in every respect will be necessary to beat humans in driving safety. Unsupervised FSD will come before AGI.
They are probably hesitant to hire those too. Only large companies aren't hesitant to hire people.
You can already do that with git branches. Worktrees is a cleaner way to share history but it’s irrelevant to merge conflicts and multiple PRs.
This article is based on a online poll of 966 people with murky qualifications for having a meaningful opinion about what seem, at best, to be silly questions.

I could see this as a first step towards some more interesting work and data collection, but can't imagine there is any actual signal here worth writing about.
In other news, 83% of companies are happy to hire recent college grads.

That number seems relatively high to me.
Yeah that's cookies. They are great.
You’d still be reasoning using symbols, language is inherently an extension of symbols and memes. Think of a person representing a complex concept in their mind with a symbol and using it for further reasoning
I thought this was going to be an essay on the impact of English, Math and Programming on humanity.

I would place English (or all spoken/written languages in general) first, Math (as discovered) second, and programming languages last.
GenZ's are barely surviving, even those who work hard, even in lcol areas like mine. Rent is crazy high, ownership of everything is virtually inaccessible, salaries are low, being at age under 25 years is equal to having a criminal record for cases like car rent, etc etc. They just don't feel like they owe anything to the system. That creates vicious cycle: companies despise genz's, genz's do bare minimum, rinse and repeat.

We need to lift them up somehow, they are not temporary visitors, they are our own children that the country will be handed over in 10-20 years.
At the time (late 19th, early 20th century) antibiotics weren't a thing and vaccines, to the extent that they were there (not quite in the modern sense), had been around for a long time.
> If you do not compare the results with a similar poll for when other generations where entering the market, the article reads like an arbitrary roast on Gen Z.

Every generation of Grandpas claim the winters were colder and the fish were larger then when they were kids. I won't be fooled into believing climate change and fish population collapse!

Maybe every generation of graduates is getting less employable.
In Finland, so-called "ski vacations" up north mostly take place in late February. Not quite so dark then but still plenty cold.
I like localsend too. But for some reasons I need to disconnect from tailscale in order for it to work properly.
It’s one thing to train a person. It’s another to teach them not to interrupt people or be rude. I had a recent experience with a college student who had just terrible communication skills. It was a total turn off, and the quality of the work was good. And yet I’d never choose to work with this person again.
> not responsible for the technical successes

He's not doing the nitty gritty engineering day-to-day, but he understands enough to ask the right questions, give his teams permission to try ideas that seem crazy at first, and sometimes come up with those ideas himself (e.x. supposedly catching Starship with "chopsticks" was his idea).
I've worked at three tech companies with that policy and various degrees of success with it. One had the best documentation and onboarding experience I've seen so far. The other two were close to what you describe.
I'm in research and I'd just like to add that in many respects, you are not treated like an adult by some people until you have completed a few postdocs. Multiple graduate degrees are simply not enough for some people.
TGX: A tiny 2D/3D graphics library optimized for 32 bits microcontrollers
If you really want to get what you want, want what you get.
This article and the audience reading it would be better served if this paragraph were earlier in the article, maybe even first or second:

“ It can be easy for managers to buy into typical stereotypes of Gen Z and dismiss them entirely; however, companies have an equal responsibility to prepare recent graduates for their particular workplace and give them the best chance to succeed. By understanding the challenges of Gen Z workers, companies can take a more proactive approach by implementing formal employee onboarding programs that clearly outline company culture and expectations. Paring recent grads with mentors in the company can also pay huge dividends as that can provide Gen Z workers with the guidance, feedback, and support for them to succeed.”

My first impression of the article was that the author was trying to say “Gen Z is bad/worse than other generations.” As many other commenters pointed out, the article itself does not present enough evidence to support that claim. What I realized after reading the comments and then re-reading the article is that the primary argument is actually that companies need to target these specific areas to ensure that new graduates are successful at their companies.

This article also suffers from a headline that doesn’t match the content in terms of key information.
Autodiff Puzzles: puzzles for learning about derivatives in tensor libraries
My React fomula is React + MobX, keep the hook use to minimum, single state object per component (the classic React way), do not bother with server components at this point, you should be fine.
In security, industry standard seems to be about the same as military grade: the cheapest possible option that still checks all the boxes for SOC.
I believe that, at this point in time at least, IA's funding model consists of sweating profusely while awaiting a colossal legal judgement.
This article is the equivalent of "avocado toast" for millennials.
Maybe someone else can advise as I don't have recent experience. Back then Google assisted us through a representative for a month. But it was mostly generic as they dont understand our business deep enough.

Best way is learning through practical experience by starting with small budget, and increasing slowly with refinements.
Window management is a perfect application for pie menus, since many of the directional items can be arranged in obvious layouts, and you use them frequently, so you learn them well and can use them in "expert" mouse-ahead style quickly and efficiently, saving a lot of time overall.

For example, the NeWS tabbed window frame pie menus placed the common "front" and "back" commands up and down, had a "grab" submenu with eight directions to drag the four corners and four edges, and a "move" submenu with vertically and horizontally and unconstrained mode, etc. They worked really well with mouse-ahead gestures (with PacMan feedback @ 8:35)!

The HyperTIES hypermedia browser had multiple windows in left and right panes, and right-clicking on a link would bring up a pie menu to open it in the left or right pane.

Sorry in advance about the terrible video quality! Someday I hope to track down the equipment to read the original dv tapes, and upload better versions.

Don Hopkins and pie menus in ~ Spring 1989 on a Sun Workstation, running the NEWS operating system:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fne3j7cWzg

User Interface Strategies (UIS) 90 - Ben Shneiderman - Applications sections and demos: NeWS HyperTIES Space Telescope Demo, showing left/right pane link pie menus:

https://youtu.be/1uyO-xUTt6Y?t=761

The tab pie menus in the PSIBER Space Deck visual PostScript programming environment had directional submenus that would let you customize the layout, pull out to configure the scale, move the tabs to different edges, etc:

https://youtu.be/1uyO-xUTt6Y?t=1484

https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-shape-of-psiber-space-octo...

X10 Pie Menu Window Manager:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJhvB6kwmog

NeWS Tab Window Demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMcmQk-q0k4

PSIBER Space Deck Demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuC_DDgQmsM

HCIL Demo - HyperTIES Browsing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZi4gUjaGAM

Kando is open source and cross platform, and it now lets you make your own window management and many other kinds of pie menus, with custom themes defined in CSS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVbnLsMnTYQ
This does seem to matter much. We can assume that those are companies on the lower end of the pay distribution. It's not like you need a degree to wok at a McDonald's restaurant, to do landscaping, or to drive a bus.

More Than Half of Hiring Managers Say Recent Grads Are Unprepared for the Workforce

yeah, because non-grads fare so much better in this regard?
https://alanedwardes.com/blog/posts/serverless-git-lfs-for-g...

I’ve used this guy’s CloudFormation template since forever for LFS on S3.

GitHub has to lower its egregious LFS pricing.
To anyone not getting the joke -- both of the claims are objectively true with verifiable proofs.
I would be willing to bet that there are just confounding factors. People who do physical work differ from people who do not in so many ways that it would be impossible to do any sort of controlled study.
Finally the UX on mac is almost half as good as a 15 year old linux window manager.
The cost of NAT is much higher than you think. If computers could just trivially connect to each other then software might have evolved collaboration and communication features that rely on direct data sharing. The privacy and autonomy benefits of that are enormous, not to mention the reduced need for giant data centers.

It’s possible that the cloud would not have been nearly as big as it has been.

The privacy benefits of NAT are minor to nonexistent. In most of the developed world most land connections get one effectively static V4 IP which is enough for tracking. Most tracking relies primarily on fingerprints, cookies, apps, federated login, embeds, and other methods anyway. IP is secondary, especially with the little spies in our pockets that are most people’s phones.
The Internet Archive has a management problem. They seem to be more comfortable disrupting libraries than managing an online, publicly accessible database of disputed, disorganized material.

Despite all of the positive self-talk, I don't know if they realize how important they are, or how easy it would be for them to find good help and advice if their management were transparent and everything was debated in public. That may have protected it to some extent; as a counterexample, Wikipedia has been extremely fragile due to its transparency and accessibility to everyone. With IA being driven by its creator's ideology, maybe that ideology should be formalized and set in stone as bylaws, and the torch passed to people openly debating how IA should be run, its operations, and what it should be taking on.

I don't mean they should be run by the random set of Confucian-style libertarian aphorisms that is running the credibility of Wikipedia into the ground, but Debian is a good model to follow. Or maybe do better than both?
Fortunately you do not need to rely on polls for those two things, and can compare against actual measurements to reach your own conclusions :)
Not if you are reading your emails…
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At this point, any piece of software that makes money is a "Saas" business - I'm tired of calling things B2B SaaSes or Agentic AI SaaSes or vertical LLM SaaSes, so i came up with a couple of different business model names. Let me know what you think!
That’s just some random blog. I’m sure Musks’s lawyers understand what they’re doing.

I'm sure his lawyers know what they're doing, but did that stop their client from calling a cave diver a pedophile for objecting to his submarine design?

Musk is basically a valueless chaos monkey with a perfect 18 score in Luck. Even he doesn't know what he'll do, say, or believe next. He has the luxury of not caring because it doesn't matter anyway; he'll just continue to get away with things that would shut the rest of us down for good. Not surprising that he's found a kindred spirit in Trump.
That's only if you want to do it externally. The claim was:

> There's no easy way to soft-update an FPGA except for expensive tools to do so.

If the implementation wants to support updating the FPGA then the programming can be wired in the device itself and accessible fully in software. Or even the attached SoC can reprogram it with IAP. (https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/aemDocuments/documents/F...)

Basically it's not a technology limitation. It's the choice of the people implementing it - they can make it anywhere from trivial to almost impossible to reprogram.
Agreed. “If you just keep volunteering for committees and teaching classes maybe we’ll let you in at age 40.”

This is such a strange state of affairs where traditionally getting into academia meant delaying your career from age 23 to 27 when you would become an assistant professor.
Don't forget this: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074...
A program making images in the style of Mondrian.
Interesting, if I ask it to draw a crocodile tail without a body it does just fine…why is it that it can’t draw just the body? Even a prompt asking it to draw a crocodile with just the body ends with a full image of a crocodile.
Almost feels like a right of passage when you inevitably google something like "kill self" (in reference to killing the current process) and get a popup telling you about suicide resources.
How can you possibly have a reliable self-driving car without LIDAR?
The most important signal of a degree is a written proof that a person somehow managed to show up to something for a longer timespan without being physically forced to constantly. Basically a minimum baseline of reliability and self-organization.

The reality is _a lot_ of applicants without any proof like that don't last long and thus wasting lots of company resources (including rehiring). Of course there are many very great folks without a degree and also a lot of idiots with a degree, but I learned to trust that heuristic until a strong signal otherwise pops up.
Millions to receive health-monitoring smartwatches as part of plan to save NHS
Draw white square with bottom right corner black: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GaBaeutWAAAJj6F?format=png&name=...

Draw white square with bottom right corner green:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GaKerXDWEAA76J4?format=png&name=...

Draw white square with top left corner orange:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GaOz1mcXMAAIepd?format=png&name=...
>"It's dispiriting to see that even after being made aware of the breach weeks ago..."

These people are not dispirited whatsoever, if anything they are half-cocked that these script kiddies found an easy target.
On Earth the minimal conditions (or a trigger signal) to allow them manifestate* into brain of the planet networking different kinds of organisms just didn't happen yet (viruses messaging with trials - so far so good, and.. humans) - but we, humans, are exterminating smaller proto-brains (forests, like Amazon) in their infancy instead (?) (it's similar transition like into being a colony of specialized cooperating cells - unlike with mitochondria - which did actually happen ). (* - similar to evolve but preprogramed - follows that SF applying Occam's razor to infinity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34836772 ..)
The idea of the "world debt level" being alarming doesn't make a lot of sense to me. There isn't anyone else we _could_ owe money to, right? I'm not educated enough in global finance to have a useful opinion in this, but imagine the following scenario:

* Country A owes $100M to Country B
* Country B owes $100M to Country C
* Country C owes $100M to Country A

Here, the "world debt level" is $300M. But if country C pays $100M to country A, who then pays it to country B, who then pays it to country C, you'll have settled all three debts and no net money changed hands.

If you multiplied all the debts here by a factor of 1,000,000, you'd get a "$100T fiscal timebomb" for each country. But how much of a big deal is that in this hypothetical scenario when they don't, on a net basis, actually owe any money at all?
...Does the author not understand that the Google Play Store is not the only distribution mechanism for apps? Why not just continue to distribute APKs for users to install manually?
Toilet queues disproportionately impact women
>Nearly half (46%) of hiring managers believe that college graduates should definitely take office etiquette training

...

>63% of hiring managers surveyed believe that recent college graduates get offended too easily.

What would this etiquette training entail, exactly? How to endure being mistreated?

>Recent college graduates interviewing for their first job should take the initiative to thoroughly research the company they are interviewing for. Doing the research and sharing your perspective in the interview shows that you have a genuine interest in the company and are committed to being a part of what they do.

I'm here to make money. I thoroughly research and have a genuine interest in companies that pay well. Market forces working as intended.
https://archive.ph/UPOg6
Thought is observable https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.02.429430v1
Model and framework frenzy; adherer beware
And you've never encountered someone rude or with poor communication skills from a different generation?
I used to pirate years ago, and have tried pirating again recently and I find it too difficult to get into any of the private communities (some of which require you to pay?). There’s some stuff outside of those communities but the quality and consistency of content is quite poor and it seems to be constantly getting taken down, and finding torrents with search engines isn’t as effective anymore.

Sometimes it does feel like the pirates did lose. At the very least it seems almost impossible to casually pirate something like you used to in the late 2000s. Now it feels like you don’t have a homelab setup with plex/jellyfin/arr/arr/arr and a network of private trackers and god knows what else the. You’re not really going to be able to find much.

It feels like piracy morphed from being like stealing a pack of gum at a gas station to being more of a time and equipment intensive hobby.
I think Xbox squandered their lead from the 360 to the Xbox One/Series One.

The gamepass and cross play is nice, but they don’t have compelling exclusives to drive hardware sales. Combine that with absolutely terrible product strategy like their naming strategy and rewriting feature parity between the S and X, it’s no wonder they’re third place now.

Gamepass has only further eroded their console market because it reduces the need to buy it when you can play on your computer or stream.

They’ve also barely capitalized on many of their extravagant purchases yet. Especially with Activision Blizzard, it remains to be seen how they’ll do exclusives without falling afoul of antitrust.
Nice little piece about the house project that sort of the idea behind the site/service.

Not affiliated in any way, the video just showed up on my YT feed and was quite interesting

https://youtu.be/lpnWfidzYnc?si=bDiu0ESOLpmSZiBU
> Right now I’m in middle of s*t because of I spoked up.

And you believe that, despite experiencing what happens if you speak up?

We shouldn’t simultaneously require people to take heroic responsibility, while also leaving them high and dry if they do.