skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've never had the misfortune of discovering a Cat Detector Van camped outside your flat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5MnyRZLd8A
What if they got students, at the start of the semester, to write a few non graded essays under strict supervision, then use this as a guide on their natural writing style?

Then, if some assignment has a different writing style, not only could that potentially detect more simple uses of AI, but it might detect the old trick of getting their friend to give them a copy of last year's assignment and passing off that work as theirs, since their friends writing style would be different.

Of course, if the student is smart enough to train the AI on their own writing style, this might not work so well.

But it might help get a guide for people who naturally write in a way that will get flagged by these tools, such as Neurodivergent people and hopefully prevent them from being falsely accused, since it would already be known from the start that this is their natural writing style.
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Sure.

Float<int64_t, int64_t>

Gives you a signed Mantissa with 64 bit and a signed Exponent with 64bit. Since there are numeric limits for int64_t available, Float knows the max and the min value.

You could get even bigger ranges for Float by implementing your own big integer type.
Clever. Chesterton's fence, for the non-Tamarians among us.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton

(Tamarians is a Star Trek reference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok)
I agree. I'm generally bearish on any language constructs that are difficult to implement. If it's difficult to implement, that probably means there are subtle edge cases that will manifest in confusing behavior at both runtime and compile time.
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I would agree with you (financing small purchases like a phone is a bad idea and causes people to spend money they shouldn't), but that doesn't make the clickbait acceptable. Ars Technica should accurately report the claims of the telco industry.
I dont get how the C macro with the endless C loop can be called from within scheme, just asis. Without any registration. Is this a chez speciality, or am I missing something?
Correcting an inaccuracy in the last sentence I introduced in an edit: Kepler's laws means you cant have different velocities in the same orbit - bit its possible for an explosion to cause a projectile to intercept a satellite that was ahead of it in a new orbit.
Yeah but I imagine CTOs of fortune 50 companies are paid more than enough to relocate and probably have a golden parachute package that more than compensates for any relo costs and job search time.
I don't necessarily see anything particularly malicious to be honest.

Before you introduce public APIs you need a use case and someone to spearhead them and copilot is doing that.

As for Microsoft not allowing installs of stuff like live share on other forks I guess it is because they are seen as different products and not part of the vsc codebase itself.

I would understand if extension authors would complain about not being able to access the same apis (might be the case) but at the end of the day they can still fork and do whatever they prefer.

Lots of companies out there thrive on forking vsc, from gitpod, stackblitz, cursor and many others. But they can't possibly expect to have all proprietary plugins too.

What other code editor has ever been so impactful and open in the last decades?
Back in the 90's we used finger - IIRC it would tell you the last machine someone logged into, which could be in the lab

Someone wrote a script to finger everyone in the entire CS department and tell when the lab was busy, by counting people logged in.

This work fine, except for on intro courses where some labs had lots of non-CS majors in them.
Rope ROM of the Wang 720C desktop computer
Going to Apple's site, where it allows the user to pick a carrier or choose unlocked, they are all the same.

I thought all the major carrier did away with phone subsidies years ago so they could advertise lower monthly service fees, when those prices were becoming too high.

My phone is still subsidized, but it's through work, so I'm not the one paying the monthly bill. I didn't even think that was still an option for the average user buying on their own. Before switching my phone over to work, I had been buying unlocked phones at full price for a few years.
I still don't understand why a black holes needs an inside at all. If they are equivalent to their surface then why not dispense with having an interior and just be a surface?
Philip Zimbardo, psychologist behind the 'Stanford Prison Experiment' dies at 91
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> The ACM canceled its involvement for excellent reasons which are worth reading

Interesting, thanks for the hint; the paper is from 2000 though, and as it seems it would need an update; just checked e.g. the "roles" point and it seems there were significant changes. I also think ACM has rather different goals than IEEE.

> It's probably also worth reading Dijkstra's assessment of the "software engineering" field

Well, was there anything or anyone that Dijkstra didn't rant about ;-)
I think that it’s a little more complicated than that as the comment from Brad Daniels at this link would show - https://www.takeourword.com/TOW145/page4.html

NB: I am not African-American, nor did I grew up on an African-American community, and I performed very well on all sorts of verbal tests. Yet, even I made the all intensive purposes mistake until well into adulthood. Probably a Midwestern thing.
It's not several orders of magnitude smaller. According to ChatGPT, SpaceX has spent $20-30B as of 2023, compared to $160-170B in 2023 dollars. That's less than one order of magnitude, and consider that SpaceX is starting with all the knowledge gained from Apollo, plus 50 years of technological progress.

To your second question, the better alternative is not to send a bunch of junk into space. Aside from low-orbit satellites, space is a waste of time and a distraction, and increasingly appears just to be a way to trick people into ignoring disastrous fiscal and monetary policies while enriching one person.
This was my first thought.

If this ever starts to get thought in CS university courses the amount of devs would dramaticaly reduce due to trauma.
My favorite thing when moving at the big co that owns my co is that they give you these stickers for desk items to show up... whatever you put the sticker on comes along to be by the desk. WHATEVER YOU PUT IT ON. The movers just do what the stickers said.

One coworker got every white board in the area. Another got a sandwich and some empty coke cans. Another got a sofa and an empty trash bag.

The Machine Works.
https://www.google.com/search?q=ad+hominem+attack

Edit: Just out of curiosity, I looked up his video about Starlink, and his point was it's a bad business, not that it's physically impossible to do it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaUCDZ9d09Y

I'd actually love it if you could find a single thing he says in that video that's provably false. I'm quite confident history will judge Elon Musk properly, as the "Too Big To Fail" version of Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes.
Nice, meanwhile the bigger CTO (Suresh Kumar) can stay in Sunnyvale
TL;DR - Reddit Paperless shill freaks out when someone shares a dissenting opinion in another site, pins it on the main dev just because.

Shill goes full-on tilt, digging up old hit pieces, inspiring other salty folks, including unhinged Wikipedia editors who gaslight themselves to deem the dev as non notable and delete the page.
Your examples are inherently functional, and in practice people would do ABCDService that just returns the result. But ignoring that - how is the code changing when you need to call some external API from the c(x) function and handle the credentials, session, errors etc? Real world has external state and we do need to work with it.

> you shouldn't be programming with state ever if you're doing FP. You need to segregate state away from your program as much as possible. State by nature is hard to modularize. State should be very simple generic mutation operations like getValue and setValue, it should rarely ever contain operational logic.

This approach to state management is exactly what is causing the need to rewrite almost everything when requirements change in a functional program.

I like how clean FP code is when it's done. But I hate writing FP code when I'm not 100% sure what needs to be done and what might change in the future. If I could write imperative code with side effects and once I'm done have it transpiled into efficient, elegant, minimized state functional code - that would be great. Maybe it will happen at some point with AI getting better.
"There's not enough money to get me to move my life to Arkansas."
Sure, after. That wasn't the plan, tho.
I remember that I tried that some time ago. Especially the multiplication was tough, but I can not recall where I gave up. When I find some time, I will pick it up again :)
sure, how about chess? bad news, even champions show no exceptional skills outside of chess world. the same goes for tetris players.

in other word specialized training does not result in general abilities by default. I'm not saying is not beneficial or bad. but athletes and dancers aren't the smartest people for a reason.
US to curb AI investment in China soon
I am, in fact, suggesting you do this.
I see what you did there (Y)
Since we’re talking Dijkstra, perhaps “structured programming” is a starting place.
dude i am in africa right now. i want to give my phone to the security guard and it is locked by t-mobile. it is annoying to unlock. unlocked phones are already common, let's make them ubiquitous.
That's pretty much just stock prices, not 10-Qs and 10-Ks. And it's already available elsewhere. For those use cases, you need databases and data sources, not LLMs and RAGs.
__init__.py files are optional. Here's why you should still use them
Most people don’t live in your affluent bubble where, apparently, a $500 to $2,000 expense is a “small purchase”.
they don't care. It's not like the person making this decision will then be held accountable for having the pay a replacement more.
They are promoting from within, presumably someone who is already going to be in Bentonville.
When you're selling bullshit advertised as advice, I guess anything will do for stock. It doesn't matter what example you use, it's just a delivery vehicle for your bullshit. It's just like being a religious preacher, really.

The author even tried a second pass at it: https://x.com/hnshah/status/1848136159534485801
> So this is pretty good?

Not sure what you are talking about. If you are asking if 0.5cm is good controller error for an orbital class launcher on landing? Yes, it is extremely good. Without doubt.

If you are asking about my tangential story where there is confusion between total error vs controller error then no, it is not good. Confusion is never good. Especially if the system is not within the total error budget. Because to improve it you need to know if you are dealing with measurement error or controller error.

> Even if they use some crude method to obtain position (e.g. gps), they can still easily refine that using e.g. triangulation using cameras around the landing platform.

Sure. I doubt that their total error is within 0.5cm, but both of their landings were extremely succesfull.
The counterpoint is that by locking people into carrier relationships allows T-Mobile and AT&T to offer loans on consumer electronics at much more consumer-friendly rates than others in the same business, e.g. Rent-A-Center. As I note downthread, `The total cost to buy a PS5 Slim is $500, the total cost to get a PS5 Slim through my nearest Rent-A-Center is $1,349.50.` You could introduce this pricing for iPhones for poor people too! This might even incentivize more people to use low-end Android hardware! But let's not act like this is 100% a good thing for everybody.
According to LinkedIn they live in San Jose.
It's not just the UK, many countries have a government-run TV network, and they want that network to be subsidized only by the people actually watching TV, not random taxpayers who don't benefit from it.

If you were to design such a system in the 2020's, you could just put a DRM scheme on your broadcast and demand payment only from the people who actually want to watch that network specifically, but that technology wasn't yet available when such systems were designed.

Another claimed benefit of this way of doing things is the government's ability to produce programs that aren't commercially viable, e.g. targetting specific populations, minorities who speak a niche language, distributing important public information in a non-sensational way etc.

Most of these points are moot with the advent of the internet, though, hence why many countries want to or have abolished these licensing systems.
The concept of a plan compared with a working language
A long time C++ programmer that went rusty
You probably did dodge a bullet. The correct answer to every engineering question is "it depends". :)
Do you mean that your phone remains locked?
To be clear, I'm talking about fundamental (relative and intrinsic) valuation, not quant trading.

I recently answered a similar question so if you don't mind I'll just link you to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41862295
Plenty of companies thrive on the forks, stackblitz, cursor, gitpod and many others.

But you can't expect from Microsoft to also open and share every single tool for vsc itself, you're still free to implement it though.
6x the amount of students, but also 6x the amount of universities, so each individual university has about the same count. At least that's what I assume; unless the USA have fewer universities for some reason?
For free-thinkers: https://archive.ph/2024.10.21-205336/https://www.washingtonp...

Kind of a bad smell to make people use a mobile app. I was able to get the Ticketmaster app to install on my iPad actually it works great because you can use the stadium Wi-Fi. I had to argue with security a bit, however, for them to let me into one arena with the iPad.
There are comments questioning whether this is a malicious practice or not, I remind you that we are talking about Microsoft, they have always taken the ‘Embrace, extend, and extinguish’ approach.
haha! i basically only open zed when i want to a.i. code.

when i want to manual code i use visual studio code.
Of course they do. Every company doing predatory shit has some slick liars on payroll to come up with a story about how their lock-in policies and kafkaesque contract terms and surveillance and "opinionated design decisions" (or, "attempts to technologically control their users' behavior" for those who prefer plain English) are for your own good, actually, and any attempt to corral their behavior is an attack against their users

The messaging of companies in regulatory cases has become rote and predictable as the sectors they occupy have grown more concentrated. There is no reason to heed it at all in the present environment
The 'units' command line tool has been part of Unix since Bell Labs, and GNU Units came along in 1997.

Personally I used basic high school geometry knowledge of "what's the area of a sphere", and you could also have just asked WolframAlpha, which also predates LLMs.
Discovering Psychology on PBS was a great series.
Yes. The article you linked discusses overuse injuries in professional/semi-professional cyclists. In other words, people who compete and train rigorously as cyclists for sport, and who are expected to regularly push their bodies to their absolute maximums. That's why it uses terms like "riding career" and includes references to studies performed on professional athletes. I don't know if you are or have ever been a professional athlete, but that kind of activity is nothing like that described by the OP, which is about a woman who rides a bicycle as part of daily life, like for going to school or to run errands.
> The rest of you can connect your TV to the internet and have creeps do stuff with your data,

Your data is still getting collected, just not through the TV.

> I really don't care what you do.

What if you were told that ad companies are still going to be able to target you just by collecting data from others like you?
You think the people with the stuff that even “sort of works” are likely to be giving up that edge?
She has probably gotten accustomed to living somewhere where you can comfortably be outside more than 4 months out of the year. Or, you know, maybe she doesn't want to move her family across the country.
You don’t need to pay $500 to $2000 for a phone. I don’t think I have ever paid that much.
I don’t know, my phone carrier charges me zero interest to “buy” my phone on a 36 month loan because of it. It’s not a huge financial windfall by any means, but it’s absolutely money in my pocket.
No one in this thread is advocating forbidding car ownership.
Perhaps if they said "tries and fails to access a library". Merely attempting to access (possibly successfully) a library is not an error.
> Students are not used to doing the necessary work to learn. They are used to doing the necessary work to pass.

Can you blame students for optimizing for grades rather than "learning"? My first two years of undergrad, the smallest professor-led lecture course I took had at least 200 students (the largest was an econ 101 course that literally had 700 kids in it). We had smaller discussion sections as well, but those were led by TAs who were often only a couple years older than me. It was abundantly clear that my professors couldn't care less about me, let alone whether I "learned" anything from them. The classes were merely a box they were obligated to check. Is it so hard to understand why students would act accordingly?
The moral of the story is never buy your phone from the carrier. Buy it direct from the manufacturer and you won't have to deal with this drama.
and audio description[1]!

I'm no fan of national broadcasters as a concept, but I have to say, the UK is excellent when it comes to audio description, much more so than any (English speaking) country I'm aware of. It's not just the BBC either, Sky and other private broadcasters also have relatively high standards.

For years, the only English AD you could get for extremely popular HBO shows, like Game of Thrones for example, were pirated British rips from Sky, as HBO famously refused to provide the service.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_description
i see a lot of people marveling at the speed mainly, which is achieved through brotli compression on everything and optimized images, and the usability second which is done mainly with YUI

the backend is a bunch of opaque aspx routes, the last thing most web developers would reach for

i think a takeaway should be that good web applications can be built on damned near anything if you focus on the things that matter
SWEBOK 4 adds a dedicated section for security, but it's painfully 2012 (testing, for instance, centers on the old industry-driven "SAST" vs. "DAST" distinction). It also promotes stuff like Common Criteria and CVSS. The "domain-specific" security section could have been pulled out of the OWASP wiki from 2012 as well: "cloud", "IOT", "machine learning".
Update: for now I've decided on Umami, it works pretty well for what I need

https://umami.is/
> The counterpoint is that by locking people into carrier relationships allows T-Mobile and AT&T to offer loans on consumer electronics at much more consumer-friendly rates than others in the same business

How does it do that? Its a lock to force people to stick with a provider, and pay through the nose in other ways. Phone plan rates in the US are terrible, restricting peoples ability to change provider through artificial means doesn't provide better rates.
I said you have a sad patronizing attitude.

You managed to twist it into calling you sad and pathetic and to add more of your sad and patronizing attitude in this comment.

Probably "experts" in the field like you have missed few days too much in elementary school when reading and text comprehension skills were taught.

Take care of yourself in your desperate quest for feeling superior over the internet.
I would say your experience is your own but I am unable to judge the "usefulness" of it without specifics, and that is a subjective thing. What you might have decided is useless I might decide otherwise. What can be said for sure is the person paying you either thought it was useful or didn't care
Who cares? Since the 1960s, space launching has never been limited by supply. It's limited by demand. That's why 80% of SpaceX's cargo is for satellites to support their marginally useful Starlink business. Like Hyperloop, "space startups" are just dressed up snake oil.

Imagine if there were hundreds of "startups" aiming to sink stuff for some reason to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Sure, doing that is difficult and fun to think about from a science fiction perspective, but the bar to show how such a thing could be useful is and should be quite high.

I asked GPT to give me the 5 most compelling space startups created since 2020. Here's what it gave me:

* Space refueling

* Getting things back from space more cheaply

* Removing space debris

* Getting things to space more cheaply

* Microgravity life sciences

Of these, only the last one is an actual product. The others are just picks and shovels for nonexistent products. And, I don't see why microgravity life sciences requires the ability to deploy unlimited quantities of crap to low-Earth orbit.
Tbf, I’ve had friends in finance describe the Millennium fund (now Medallion fund I think?) as operating in a very, very specific niche of the market. Probably helps that it’s limited to a very select group. Its extraordinary impressive for sure, but I don’t think it is widely applicable or comparable.
Good. If you're going to require RTO, don't exempt higher ups from it. Looking at you, Starbucks
Later in the article they do say it has "sound detection" and one of the sounds is a rattlesnake, but that's a pretty oddly specific niche use case.

Other than that, 100% agree. The entire article reads like a 1000 word advertisement for the product.

People who use something like this to anthropomorphize their pets remind me of the same pet owners who stuff their poor cats and dogs into ill-fitting christmas sweaters.
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I think it's not so much that we weren't ready for a space age tech-wise, but that the the reason we have so much of our technology today is because of investments made in the 1960s. NASA had basically unlimited money to throw at every technical challenge in the way of landing a human on the moon.

The apollo program drove the need for more computational power, more memory, better guidance and navigation and control systems, better materials, experiments to better understand many phenomena, etc. And after the apollo program ended, the contractors that developed those technologies on NASA contracts could just commercialize them. And the data from experiments, on materials, aerodynamics, combustion, and so on, that is publicly available has made engineering so much cheaper and easier.
Yeah, even just making people engage with source code from your system and answer questions about it or find bugs is better than asking them about their own portfolio.
In general this isn’t true (i guess it is in this specific context). For example I believe it’s totally expected to specialize std hash
At a quick skim, this doesn't seem to mention all the controversy over the validity of that experiment:

https://gen.medium.com/the-lifespan-of-a-lie-d869212b1f62