skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any team replaced for cost savings is going to feel insulted and demeaned.

Them whinging is not them being entitled or intending to insult you, they're just defending their self worth, just like you're doing by defending the jobs having come to your area.

Imagine the team had been replaced by fresh college greenhorns using the same seats. The rhetoric would still be the same outrage and resentment.
These days it would be

var lowNums = Arrays.stream(numbers).filter(n -> n < 5).toList();

2024's Java is also quite a bit better than 2013's Java.

Which still isn't as nice as LINQ, but this way we've painted the alternative in its best light, not in the light that makes C# look the best.
> Our drive and desire for "nicer" things (or at least things that dress up well), when we can barely fund the necessities, seems to be a hard dichotomy to deal with. How do we accomplish both?

Check out the book and concept “Pretty Good House”. You can have nice design without breaking the bank by making the right trade offs in the design process. I think this can be adapted to institutions. Probably ICF walls for high insulation values and lower operating costs, slanted roofs for lower maintenance, heat pumps, larger windows on certain facades for light and interior enjoyment without bringing in intense summer heat (also, overhangs on southern windows), modest entries, etc etc.

Another idea: I don’t understand why every school is designed by a different architect starting at a blank page (even within the same school board let alone the same state/province). Why don’t they have standard sets of optimized designs for different size institutions and figure out all the mechanical and electrical and structural once at the beginning and use the same design for 10-20 years with only small refinements as technology progresses? Lots of money is being wasted on consultants.
Not always. A lot of hackers aren't even networking related.

An easy hack would be to use echo, netcat and less to browse either Reddit or HN over Gopher:

echo /live/items | nc hngopher.com 70 | less

echo /live/items/41877513 | netcat hngopher.com 70 | less
Flowintel – open-source platform designed to assist security analysts
Nope, that is totally unrated. To support upgrade in place without an old version of PostgreSQL:

1. The new version of PostgreSQL would need to able to read all old catalog table formats and migrate them.

2. The new version of PostgreSQL would need to support all old versions of the parse tree to migrate views.

3. Likely a bunch of more things that I do not know of. I for example doubt it is trivial to just read an old catalog without having a fully up and running cluster which supports almost everything in that old cluster. The catalog has TOAST tables and indexes for example.

Right now 1 and 2 are implemented in pg_dump plus by having pg_dump call functions in a running old version of PostgreSQL.
Yeah the end goal indeed is to have ai driven fully clean news that is unbiased. But some steps to get there slowly. I think upvoting could be a cool next idea indeed to figure out what is more important. Sort of like hacker news.
There are a lot more US workers than there are US business owners.
The problem is kids sometimes end up unlucky with the wrong parents. Docs push vaccines because they’re cheap and effective, and the risk profile is low. You can’t fix parents who think they know better, you can only avoid your own kids interacting with the kids of those parents.

(have kids, fully vaccinated)
When typing through a TV remote or console controller, shorter passwords might be preferred, especially if parts are still easily memorizable.

Also, I think some website still have a relatively low upper limit for password length.
Right making the titles shorter is definitely a good next step
That makes a lot of sense, thanks.

Still, let's not forget that the detail, the last nuances, is what makes great art so powerful. Lots of people can paint sunflowers or a cathedral (or make a typical computer game).

Working that into a computer game is of course a big practical issue, as you say; also, unless the players will zoom way in for some reason, possibly the maximum effect is a resolution that's still less than what the museums provide. But maybe for the ultimate prize at the end, a close look in the treasure chest, when all the other on-screen action is done? It's hard to provide a visual reward that lives up to the moment, or exceeds it, after 100 hours of play.
I don't think "Matt is frustrated with WP Engine" is speculation. That much is abundantly clear.

What's not clear is if they did anything wrong to deserve it.
Higher end graphics cards probably also mean more detailed scans being available.
Maybe I'm buying into the marketing too much, but it's my understanding that Unreal engine 5 can do this automatically.
It's a shame, actually, that .NET performance improvements of up to x1000 could still be found after two decades and hundreds of millions spent on development.
I think its because the titles are a bit too verbose like another user pointed out. I will work on that next
I think the best way to verify if a task could benefit from this is to try it by hand. What would a logical representation of legal requirements look like? If we can't model it by hand then we shouldn't expect an LLM to be able to do it either.

Probably 15 years ago I recall talking with someone at Columbia University who was working on an NLP project to help defendants understand the full implications of a plea deal. For instance if you plead guilty to a misdemeanor, what are all the implications elsewhere for someone who has that on their record. Or if you are on parole and plead guilty, the plea could have an effect on your parole.

The result might look a little more like search than logic. Like "rule 39.21 applies when (logical condition)". But then I can imagine growing the logical conditions... maybe you start with the most obvious formal definitions like crime severity, but then start to pull in other definitions as formal logical states as you see where that leads.
Yes, but that’ a narrative of our internal mind.

The article is talking about the narratives we construct of the external world.

The two may not be entirely unrelated; our facility for constructing an narrative of the external world might have led to us constructing a narrative of our internal world.
You re kidding right.
Yes, the utility behind that behavior is that the brain floods itself with dopamine when task completion feels imminently close in anticipation of the approaching reward. The flooding of dopamine, which is the motivation, does not suggest increased dopamine reception, which is the reward.

That utility alone accounts for gambling addiction. Consider that slot machines are a game of random chance against fixed odds. Every time you play the chance of winning is random against the same odds just like the last time. The more a person plays consecutively without winning, a losing streak, the more the brain anticipates winning the next time which builds dopamine anticipation in the brain even though a person is just as likely to continue losing into the future on each iteration.

What's more interesting is that this addiction behavior can be flicked on or off instantly, like a light switch, with medication. What's more strange though is that medically induced gambling addiction, yes that is a very real thing, effects females far more than males. I don't know if the cause of difference in behavior by sex is identified.
Also a fan of Postgresql, but compiling and installing this tool is also a complete nightmare.

Every bit of the experience before getting it working, feels like it was designed by an MBA who owns a Postgres hosting service.

Other than that, it's amazing.
Here is a really bad POC for golang tests, if anyone is interested: https://github.com/nzachow/lmlinter

Right now it just prints the prompt in the terminal.
Solid market analysis. I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Yeah I hear you this is going to be the next improvement
Serious question: did Matt get divorced recently, or suffer some other family trauma? He seems very angry.
Very well written article. Informative, sensible and articulate without going that New Yorker style that I find boring.
It’s more fundamental than that: the Rust language does not encode hardware specifics into the language, and so way deep down there, you have to write down bytes to an address that Rust considers arbitrary. Unless you only want to run programs that accept no input and take no output, which is not exactly a useful subset of programs.
been remote since 2015 and outside of intimate meetings with small groups of people, and/or introductions, pretty much everywhere has been 100% no camera.

part of it was working for F500 multinationals, where the PM is in Mexico City, technical staff are in Chile, and engineering is in Canada and California. Just audio works fine, but 10 people with cameras and things get laggy...
Nit, 160 bits of entropy would be if you could get 8 bits per character, but that’s highly unrealistic. 6.0~6.3 bits is more feasible based on what most websites will tend to accept, which lands you at around 120-126 bits of entropy for a fully random password.
The Louvre sculture is the sort of thing I mean. Wow.
Is that why its being pushed so hard? Or is it perverse incentives in the pharmaceutical industry? A case can certainly be made for both.
Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and animosity
> Additionally you can't sell a perpetual license when you don't need it anymore

You make some good points but I'm not sure that this generalization really holds. It will depend on the terms of the license but I have heard of buying, selling & trading software licenses (at least on an individual basis, it might be harder for companies to do that).
I think upvoting of stories should give us a bit more relevant stories at the top like another user pointed out.
Apple TV lets you use your phone to input passwords, so in Apple's ecosystem they wouldn't care about that. And being Apple, they wouldn't care about people needing to use anyone else's devices.

Website length limits are a problem though, in the worst case there are websites that silently truncate your password so you don't even realize that the first 12 (or whatever) characters are the only part that matters. If your first 12 characters are two words with a dash in the middle, that could be a real vulnerability.

Another benefit of passkeys is that it limits the ability of websites to do that kind of stupid shit.
This just happened to a company I used to work for. Now they have a bunch of people in India working remotely for cheap.
Honestly, I think this makes Malibal look bad here, yeah it sounds like they had some bad experiences with coreboot consultants but what did they expect to get out of airing all of this dirty laundry?

https://www.malibal.com/features/dont-support-the-coreboot-p...

Some of their complaints don't even sound reasonable, for example:

> Even their highly discounted Dasharo-branded porting comes out to around $250 to $330 an hour, and that’s if they started from scratch. We had 80%+ of the job already complete. We just needed to debug our code.

$250/$300 per hours doesn't sound unreasonable. Also I can't even count the number of times I've heard someone say "We had 80%+ of the job already complete." only to find its nearly unusable, completely incomprehensible, or actually only 25-50%

Also banning shipment to entire countries or states because of their experience is just wild...

> Due to this experience [...], we banned the entire country of Germany for life.

> Due to this experience [...], we banned the entire country of Poland for life.

> Due to this experience [...] we banned the entire state of Texas for life.
Mine managed to fit into this tiny basket, all by himself: https://i.imgur.com/htIw6ZV.jpeg
Bureaucracies always argue for the continuation of the bureaucracy and its funding, no matter how insane or small. It's what they naturally do and you have to explicitly fight against it.
How many more passwords of this format can you construct? `have` is fixed, the `!` at the end is a classic, and the 12 number is pre-determined by true cats and the 3. So the only degrees of freedom you have are:

- the entity number (3)

- the kind of entity (Cats)

- the kind of part (Legs)

and that's not a huge number of combinations.
Or from sloppy kisses from adult relatives.
Your experiences are coherent with mine.

Developer experience is far ahead any other technology out there.

Std lib and its API design is world class, I wish cpp had as good stdlib. Tooling is strong, especially debugger
68K die was vastly too expensive for those 8-bit markets way into the late 80s.
There is still major issues with logical replication, mainly limited feature support.
Why mention memorizing passwords? Most people have dozens of passwords, and most people would have trouble memorizing even a simple word for dozens of passwords. I have a lot of trouble with those annoying security questions which one would assume would be constant and easy to answer.
You can largely already pretty easily incorporate DUs using OneOf[0] and Dunet[1].

A practical example of using this: https://chrlschn.dev/blog/2024/07/csharp-discriminated-union...

[0] https://github.com/mcintyre321/OneOf

[1] https://github.com/domn1995/dunet
"Oh, that Python!"
Tread carefully. Your comment has the aroma of exactly the sort of first order thinking that over the past 50yr resulted in welfare programs exacerbating that exact list of problems (among others) that you're saying we can solve with more welfare.

I don't know what the solution is but using government to replace or supplement the kind of support that people traditionally got from their family, friends and network has only reduced the strength of those support streams over the decades.

To call out one well studied example, you can't just do first order stuff like extend bennies to single moms because then people won't get married in the first place and it's easier to split up if you're not married then you've got a legit single mom on your hands with all the poorer outcomes that entails. You can play whack a mole refining the rules forever but that has its own problems.
LINQ = Language Integrated Query

Its even in the name. What do you mean by "method chaining is linq" ?
I think even with a soapbox it wouldn’t be terribly effective.

We all know where our laptops and smartphones come from and the questionable-at-best labor practices associated with them, and nearly all of us continue to use them.

(To be clear, I’m no better. If a smartphone was released that was controversy-free but cost twice as much, I doubt I would buy it.)

I think food prices would be the same. People would complain about (and vote around) the prices rising, even if the higher prices were the result of more ethical labor laws.

I’m not saying that we shouldn’t fix bad labor practices, I’m just saying that people will invariably be hypocritical about it.
I think the OP may be referring to significantly divergent "Prologs" like Visual Prolog (a.k.a. Turbo Prolog) and Ciao.
Quit if you don't like our office-working policy, Amazon executive suggests
> weird, jealous hoarding mentality happening on the museums side

That's exactly it. I work on a website that makes ancient artefacts accessible. A lot of them are in museums. You wouldn't believe how many museums:

- don't want to show you their archive

- don't want to let you take pictures

- want you to share only low res pictures

- want you to get permission before you can "publish" their artefacts, etc.

It's extremely common for museums to have courtyards or basements with special "unpublished" pieces that they don't let anyone see. You have to be a special friend of the director or something to get to see them.

It's ridiculous. Fortunately, the people working on the website are relentless, and manage to eventually get collection after collection photographed and added mostly by being patient. For some collections it took 20 years before they got access -- but since everyone uses their website, and everyone apart from the local museum director wants the stuff to be in there, eventually they get access to most things.

(Museums in Italy are the worst, allegedly. They really think they own antiquity.)
> I could not tell you now how to implement a custom IQueryable

So what? I see LINQ used all the time, and it is almost entirely (extension) methods IEnumerable<T>

Could I implement IEnumerable<T>? I think I did once, as an exercise. It's not that complex. Not that interesting to be able to do it either.

LINQ is useful without EF. LINQ is not EF and EF is not LINQ.
https://archive.is/yK8Jb
> Oppenheimer’s apparent inability to accept the idea of an immortal soul would always weigh heavy on his mind.

As it should have, and should always. Part of the problem with the Gita is that it presents human beings license to ignore the fact that their actions can and do utterly and forever destroy extremely mortal souls. Faith acts as a pressure release for that… but that doesn’t imply that faith is correct or right in doing so.
Culturally ingrained toxic positivity?
Bit of a tangent, but I'm curious what people make of the obligatory picture.

https://www.conman.org/people/spc/about/2024/0802.html
The vast majority of passwords does not need to be easy to memorize because they should be stored in a password manager. In fact, I'd argue that the harder it is to memorize, the stronger the password.

Yet they still need to be typed on cell phone keyboards, TVs, or communicated over phone (shared passwords are the best compromise if asymmetric cryptography is not an option), in which case you usually need to spell it out anyway.
Any db upgrade is a crapshoot. You need to test -everything-, and even then you may not catch things that run occasionally.
"We never received a quote for the actual porting, but they said the evaluation cost is typically 10% of the total cost, which would mean the porting would have cost around $33,000 for Dasharo-branded coreboot, and $66,000 for unbranded coreboot. Even their highly discounted Dasharo-branded porting comes out to around $250 to $330 an hour, and that’s if they started from scratch. We had 80%+ of the job already complete. We just needed to debug our code."

How can you be champion of open source if you employ such practices? Double the cost?
The extra randomness really only buys you a couple extra bits of entropy, but makes it more annoying to remember which format your password is in. It’s much more effective (entropy-wise and memory-wise) to tack on an extra word.
My wife’s hair thinned a bit too with chemo and she never got her eyebrows back. She been drawing them on for almost 10 years now.

I first felt the tiny lump in her breast and then she couldn’t find it. I had to nag her for a few months to go get it looked at. She just waited for her routine appointment which was 4-6 months after I nagged her. In hindsight, I wish I was more insistent as I think it could have been removed without needing chemo earlier on. She was early 30s, and at that age at least, she’s of the opinion the double mastectomy and reconstructive surgeries were a breeze compared to chemo.

I knew it was not good when I felt it the first time (in college I worked in a pathology lab, have handled a lot of cancers and I knew she had brca genetics) Who knows really if chemo could have been avoided but my point and learning was, you are with this person more than anyone, if you notice something and are concerned for them you need voice it and create action.
If only we could apply SOFA to every aspect of our lives, down to the core, I believe things would be radically different. For example, I firmly believe that Jesus was the ultimate SOFA king, and he would have applied SOFA to everything in his life, including both small and big things that we often feel are impossible to address.
Stockfish is the classic answer, though I’m not sure how well it’s graded. Someone must have a “Stockfish strength”-to-ELO mapping.
We had two cats, and my wife wanted more. I was happy with two, so we compromised and now we have four of them.

The feeding logistics of four, one with a special diet, are difficult. I can't imagine having seven of them long-term, especially the litter boxes. I've fostered kittens before, so I had nine cats in the house and it felt like all I did for those weeks was feed cats and scoop poop.
Sounds like the asylum process is an alternative stream, and the entire border has become a "port of entry."

When asylum is the low-friction way to enter the country and acquire a legal status, economics suggests fewer people will use the traditional immigration process.
That's not really how research papers go. You prove a causal link between two things before a future paper tests methodologies to address the link.

Though popular reporting on these types of papers will often have speculation from the journalist
>> Why not run the full set?

Most likely cherry-picking. The approach is only going to work well in domains where Prolog is commonly used to write solutions to problems, like logical puzzles or constraint problems etc.
You lost the bet. I've been following his solar gravitational lens project since the 'Direct Multipixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens Mission' [0] paper came out.

What you were betting? You farm, hopefully?

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11871
I assume you are being sarcastic, but nonetheless worth pointing out that almost all miracles attributed to Jesus have some point and/or symbolic importance (e.g. to relive suffering, as an illustration of who he was, etc.).

A miraculous shroud just seems showy.
AI Used to Map "White-Only" Properties
In school I worked as an intern for a U.S. defense contractor (which I feel rather bad about now, but that's neither here nor there). Every now and then some important general or captain type would show up for a meeting and walk around and look at what all the various labs were doing. When they came to the room where all the interns sat we would all pull up hacker typer and just furiously type away while they were looking in the door.

The important person would always be very impressed and say what a good job we were doing, and our boss who was showing them around (and knew exactly what we were doing) would have to nod and sweat bullets and then would get furious with us afterwards (but it was worth it and we did it every time we knew someone was coming to do an inspection).
> basically they expect you to use EF. Writing an IQueryable...

I don't agree. I don't feel any expectation to use EF. It would not be relevant anyway to our code.

LINQ is not EF and EF is not LINQ. EF uses LINQ but not vice versa. LINQ is useful without EF.

The LINQ extension methods that we use constantly are on IEnumerable<T> so EF and IQueryable is of no importance to us, but LINQ is used everywhere.
Prada Helped Make a Spacesuit
This has been settled case law in the US since the 90s, see Galoob v Nintendo. (Although that was subtly different since the Game Genie worked by intercepting ROM accesses, instead of rewriting values in RAM like this one does.)
So when he DM’d me to say that he had “a hell of a story”—promising “one-time pads! 8-bit computers! Flight attendants smuggling floppies full of random numbers into South Africa!”—I responded.

Ha ha ha. Yes, that was literally my very short pitch to Steven about Tim Jenkin's story!

The actual DM: "I think this has the makings of a hell of a story: https://blog.jgc.org/2024/09/cracking-old-zip-file-to-help-o... If you want I can connect you with Tim Jenkin. One time pads! 8-bit computers! Flights attendants smuggling floppies full of random numbers into South Africa!"