skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think whether some questions seem straightforward is a distraction. Most of us on this site have been specifically trained on strategies for test-taking, giving us an unfair advantage that we false attribute to intelligence.

> I was preparing for my last major standardized test, the Graduate Record Exam, or GRE. I had already forked over $1,000 for a preparatory course, feeding the U.S. test-prep and private tutoring industry... I wondered why I was the only Black student in the room...

> The teacher boasted the course would boost our GRE scores by two hundred points, which I didn’t pay much attention to at first— it seemed an unlikely advertising pitch. But with each class, the technique behind the teacher’s confidence became clearer. She wasn’t making us smarter so we’d ace the test—she was teaching us how to take the test....

> It revealed the bait and switch at the heart of standardized tests— the exact thing that made them unfair: She was teaching test-taking form for standardized exams that purportedly measured intellectual strength. My classmates and I would get higher scores— two hundred points, as promised— than poorer students, who might be equivalent in intellectual strength but did not have the resources or, in some cases, even the awareness to acquire better form through high-priced prep courses. Because of the way the human mind works— the so-called “attribution effect,” which drives us to take personal credit for any success— those of us who prepped for the test would score higher and then walk into better opportunities thinking it was all about us: that we were better and smarter than the rest and we even had inarguable, quantifiable proof.... And because we’re talking about featureless, objective numbers, no one would ever think that racism could have played a role.

> Excerpt From How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
Stuff like this does so well on HN.

Not because people want it, but because the "should this exist" argument does really consistently well in the algorithm.
Find a good pre-pack that can help, is my recommendation.

I went from pretty vanilla neovim to using AstroVim, & it's been pretty lovely. It uses the very widely used lazy.nvim for plugin loading, which is quite standard. It has a pretty nice visual leader-key menu that helps explore &show off what is setup; great for discovery. https://astronvim.com/

As well as being a good base, AstroVim also has an excellent "community pack" setup, which is a collection of many many many mostly drop in init files that setup a couple plugins in a nice way. If trying to get LSP working or better, or looking for better treesitter nav options, the community packs are great drop ones or references to get started, show what's out there. It's a huge part of what makes AdtroVim community so good. https://github.com/AstroNvim/astrocommunity
I really hope more mini-ITX motherboards come with the newer profiles.
C# isn’t C though. The point of Fil-C is you can compile real C programs (like CPython or SQLite and many others) with it.

Fil-C’s compiler is GC aware.
The amount is not the parallel they're drawing. That's what makes your insistance on only seeing that so, to borrow a word, hilarious.
People like Ramanujan are on a different planet compared to your everyday PhD working stiffs. There's smart (PhD), there's genius (Einstein, Feynman, von Neumann), and then there are freaks of nature like Ramanujan.
Same. There's a difference in texture, primarily in the trebles, but there's also a general muddiness and lack of separation. Everything feels like it's been smoothed over, but not in a good way, or too "crunchy". Transients don't have the right amount of bite and the stereo image doesn't feel as three-dimensional. It's harder to hear the "room". Currently using Sony IER-M9 with a Linum DualBax Zebra, which is a great cable, btw.
> You always have the sense that you're playing a game of legal-mumbo-jumbo performance art more than actually describing an invention.

My first patent was filed a few weeks ago, with consultations with a patent attorney. This is pretty much the highlight of my takeaway as well.

It helps to have a good understanding of the English dictionary and thesaurus to be able to negotiate wording. But yes, it's still mumbo-jumbo. Inventions might be "obvious" to someone else in the trade, but it's hard to say if it's going to be obvious if it isn't described using that trade's mumbo-jumbo instead of Legal mumbo-jumbo.
An author of over-hyped books that contain just one idea, endlessly repeated and reworked into all possible variants until the reader's total boredom is achieved.
I'm missing WezTerm from that comparison image/slide posted in the article. Been using WezTerm for almost two years now I think, and I could not be happier. Best terminal emulator hands down.
Warren Buffett is famous for reading the annual reports, basically all of them and starting from the back where you tend to get the embarrassing stuff in small print.

He also reads mainstream press - wsj, ft etc.
Eh, Singapore is a bridge country for China to western markets. And is 80% ethnic Chinese.

At the point random power plants in the Australian Outback are being bombed to get to Singapore, Singapore has gotten so fucked already they can’t stand.
MQTT, by design, isn't going to have the confirmation mechanisms and safeguards that you could get from other methods or even sockets. But once you release yourself from that paranoia, it's pretty liberating.

The nature of my project was that a missed message wouldn't be fatal, and message retention was good enough protection for a process that crashed and restarted.
I know of 7 different ways to do 1+1 getting 5 different answers. I use most of them in my day to day work as a programmer. Most of the time 1+1=10 because as a programmer I work in binary.
> Why would a carrier give someone a phone if they have bad credit?

Because phone locking means they're much more likely to pay it off, and so an unprofitable customer segment becomes a profitable one. Everybody wins -- the carrier doesn't lose money, and more people get phones.

> The people who don't, are going to not pay their bill no matter what sort of rules in place

That's simply not true. If it were, then carriers would never have bothered with the administrative overhead of locking phones in the first place. People do respond differently to economic incentives like whether their phone will turn into a brick or not -- that's Econ 101.
Yeah its really not a paradox. There's nothing contradictory in the observation. Increased efficiency making it possible to introduce more complex tasks is not inexplicable at all.
A well written article, but it could probably have been like 10% of the length.
Yeah, I've never really considered using a grammar like that for string processing like they suggest. And it's the first thing they show. Maybe I'm missing out and I just haven't had the tooling.
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Facebook owner Meta restarts facial recognition tech in 'celeb-bait' crackdown
Another ? Both Kitty and WezTerm already feel feel much faster than iTerm atm and feature complete.
> gi - focus the first text input on the page

No, that's not what I'm talking about. I want to be able to use shortcuts to navigate inside atextarea when I'm writing a lot of text.
"...they weren't interesting to him". That’s how I felt about mathematics. History, literature and language were the areas I was interested in, for example. It seems to me that an individual’s strengths aren’t necessarily indicative of an all-encompassing genius. Rather, they are often more focused, tied to specific subjects or fields in which that person naturally excels. That's not to say an individual can't have a wide range of strengths.
As another comment says we have a naming system for the Milky Way, but I believe the point of looking above and below the Milky Way is to explicitly find galaxies (/intergalactic forms), not stars. There’s commentary on stuff like supermassive black holes at the center of other galaxies, but AFAIK as an amateur, it’s not feasible to study individual stars in other galaxies, so we have no need to name the vast majority of them.

It’s basically impossible to grasp what looking at a hundred thousand galaxies means, and that’s just a small section. It’s literally beyond human comprehension.

In October 2016, deep-field images from the Hubble Space Telescope suggested that there are about 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe, or about 10 times more galaxies than previously suggested, according to the journal Nature. In an email with Live Science, lead author Christopher Conselice, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom, said there were about 100 million stars in the average galaxy.

Which comes out around 10^24, and even that’s “likely an underestimation”. The earth’s surface area is 10^8 km^2, so naming all the stars would be like naming every spot in an imaginary grid of 0.01mm^2 (!!!) squares covering the whole earth.

Sorry for the rant, I don’t get to do any dimensional analysis in my work and miss it from HS chemistry, lol. This kinda stuff makes me want to be a flat earther…
I didn't say it was the only reason. Re-read my comment.

> They probably did some cost analysis and realised it's not worth spending engineering effort on other modes when human drivers are able to drive around pretty much using only vision.

Humans and cars aren't equal so this is just incredibly misguided as a principle.
You probably want to pick one thing rather than a whole list
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39402244
I think the paradox comes from the assumption that one of the goals of a software product is to simplify a human task. Where the paradox comes into play is that it actually increases the complexity of that human task.

I could be wrong!
Can someone explain why iTerm is listed as "not fast" here? iTerm has been my primary terminal for over a decade and I keep coming back after trying alternatives like Warp, Hyper or Alacritty. And speed or snappy-ness were never an issue with iTerm.
The examples he gives aren't very clear. Let's just state one that's fairly obvious to me:

Back in the day, someone introduced tabs in browsers that made it possible to browse several websites in a single browser window. People loved it so much that they started running browsers with dozens of opened tabs. But then this caused more pain, because now people had too much tabs to navigate. And this sparked the creation of tab managers, which introduce more complexity in how people browse the web than they used to.
> TypeScript solved those problem

I don't think TS removed any peculiarities of JS. It just forced you to actually learn them which JS and CS didn't do.
Maybe if developing large-scale software starting with the formal methods we have today is just a fantasy—and that's plausible—we shouldn't be trying to formalize "software engineering". Imagine trying to formalize medicine before Pasteur, motor engineering before Carnot, mechanical engineering before Reuleaux, or structural engineering before Galileo. Today, we do have relevant bodies of formal knowledge that are enough to help someone get started with a project in those areas and succeed at it. As you say, that knowledge doesn't exist yet for software.

So what would you teach an architect in 01530 or a mechanical engineer in 01850? In addition to the relatively sparse formal knowledge that did exist, you'd make them study designs that are known to have worked, you'd apprentice them to currently successful master architects or mechanical engineers, and you'd arrange for their apprenticeship to give them experience doing the things people already do know how to do.
Just a quick note on your landing page on mobile, if you add the following CSS to the slides img element it'll look a lot better across viewports:

max-width: 100%;
object-fit: contain;
All the data can be yours
As if C:\TEMP or %tmpdir% were any better.

Or using letters as drivers.

Worse is better? A lot of tech in Win32 is built as if it were for DOS 1.0
or CP/M. See AUX, PRN, COM and so.
I think this one was in the "Unix admin horror stories"
Without any frame of reference this seems to simply be a function of the popularity and usage of a complex project like this.

Chromium has 120 new issues opened so far today. Does that therefore make it a bad browser engine doomed to failure?
> It is not enough to stand out in the current system.

What I'm saying is in some hypothetical system which places a great emphasis on specialization, people who are a few years ahead of curriculum are a dime a dozen and will not stand out. There were 50 kids in my high school, so how many is that nationwide?

Particularly in math, it is straightforward for an exceptional talent to stand out. Competitive math is a clear pathway/credential. If someone is not able to achieve meaningful results then it's probably just the case that they aren't as talented as they believe

> Imagine if jobs worked like this - "Yes, we know you are a great developer but you don't really understand economics. Sorry".

There are plenty of software devs who are not getting hired to the potential of their raw development skills because they cannot communicate or collaborate productively. There are also plenty of software devs who are not getting hired to the potential of their raw development skills because they don't have as much domain knowledge as other devs.
I would love if we could seed LLMs with specific books, or give our own weightings to sources. I'm sure most books are in there already, I would happily pay extra (and want it to go to original authors) for known provenance of advice. Even pass royalties back to the original authors. For PyData code, I'm always looking at Effective Python/Polars.
This brings to mind one of my favorite quotes:

The Schrödinger wave-function is expressed in a unit which is the square root of an inverse cubic meter. This fact alone makes clear that the wave-function is an abstraction, forever hidden from our view. Nobody will ever measure directly the square root of an inverse cubic meter.

Freeman Dyson, Why is Maxwell’s Theory so hard to understand?

https://www.clerkmaxwellfoundation.org/DysonFreemanArticle.p...
Related:

The SiFive HiFive Premier P550 [video]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41906143
Really good piece, with which I agree.

Parkinson's law seems off to me w.r.t. Tog's paradox. Were it true, Tog would be silent because nothing would ever get more complex.

> that work expands so to fill the time available for its completion

If it's restated as "that the worker expands time spent so as to fill the time available to them", it comes in line. And is more in line with my observational experience. People like to do things in their job. If the "job" gets easier, people invent "job+", and Tog's on the money.
it's paradox in a sense that reducing complexity actually ends up increasing complexity; Tognazzini originally proposed it as a complaint against Tesler's Law ("Conservation of complexity"). Tesler observed that complexity stays the same when people try to reduce it. Tognazzini suggested that the complexity doesn't stay the same, but actually increases.
It's an open secret that Trump has received major funding from Russia for years, so much that you can label him a Russian asset.
I have no objective data, only decades of personal experience and observation. It seems true in the majority of cases to me. Enough of a majority that it's a reasonable rule of thumb. The effect is particularly pronounced with websites.

I've even seen it happen in real time with small YouTubers. They get money and start putting it into "production values", then more often than not the quality of their actual substance declines.

Of course, it's not 100%. There are some flashy things that also happen to be decent, and there are nonflashy things that suck. Flashiness is just a general indicator of what the priorities of the maker are.
It allows the sender to confirm they did indeed send the document. (As opposed to someone else)

I imagine they just slap it onto everything as a kind of Vogon poetry.
The SWEBOK will not reduce the number or severity of software faults; it probably increases both.
When I was in the CS department at NMSU, the Computer Science building was open to the public 24-hours a day. I suppose that's not commonly the case nowadays.
Legal problems for their product naming? They don't get sued for their product name, they get sued for being negligent in selling a defective product to which their advertising is just evidence. I'm not going to bet against someone who is making up scenarios that don't even exist. It's a moot issue anyway, Tesla has already been sued many times for their defective products.

Here's one example:https://www.reuters.com/legal/tesla-must-face-vehicle-owners...

> Are you a betting man?

A fool and his money are easily separated.
digg.one
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41828923
Mellum
EU companies grow and innovate less than American counterparts
There's plenty of space out in space!
I'm using NATS as well, natively when possible but bridged to MQTT for devices that need it.
And then later he will sell you a book that tells you the idea was actually incorrect.
> In Waterfall, the design and requirements are "one and done." They are not supposed to be revisited and iterated.

The article doesn't seem to be about waterfall though? But even if it were, I don't see what's novel here. In waterfall, the design and requirements are "one and done" for version 1.0. But then you plan a version 2.0 in response to the new features desired, and then 3.0, and so forth. In any case, the article doesn't even mention waterfall or agile, so I don't think it's about that.
Earth has had lifeforms for about 90% of its existence. Earth has existed for 33% of the age of the universe. The time it took organisms from Earth from the earliest lifeforms to discovering space travel amounts to 30% of all time was available in this universe.

Sure, it's easy to imagine someone doing it a million years faster than us. But at the same time it's very likely we are just early to the party.
What truck things can an F150 Lightning do that a Cybertruck can't? I can't think of anything other than goose-neck towing, but that's generally an f250+ thing.
I don’t know, I tend to prefer honing my skill at crafting simpler solutions. And if some colleague come with something simpler than my proposal, I will rather be pleased and honored to be able to work with bright minds that can cast more lights for me on path to more elegant patterns.
Think I was looking at this one

https://github.com/P1sec/QCSuper

I recall researching this and deciding zte mf823 is best bet cause 4g but haven’t actually tried it

As for hard to search - it’s pretty murky turf legally in most countries
Forget Work-Life Balance. It's the Future of Less Work
Surely people are buying EVs because of the massive savings on gas....
It’s not a criminal offense not to be a subscriber… it’s a criminal offense to pirate their content without being a subscriber.
> Shared mutable global state isn't always bad.

I agree, but I think that shared mutable global state is a bad default. I think it'd be better to be opt-in (eg, you get a `/tmp/${USER}` and your user can `chmod o+rw` during setup if it needs to be globally mutable.
I'm not trying to sound snarky, but the armed forces does have a category of employees who can't be involuntarily deployed: civilians. There are already many civilian employees of the DoD that work in the tech roles discussed in the article.
Welp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVzRLgw2NTc
If you truly believe that capitalism is the best way to "live in free and democratic countries", then you should welcome what Elsevier and others are doing, because that is a direct consequence of their "freedom" to pursue profits.
> high priest gatekeepers

I like that! I'll be adding that to my back pocket for an appropriate conversation in the future.

I've absolutely experienced this, and, to a degree, I'm dealing with it now in supporting a huge enterprise platform that's a few decades old.

The really interesting (frustrating?) piece is that the "high priest gatekeepers" are on both sides of the equation - the people who have used the system for years and know the appropriate incantations and the people who have developed it for years and understand the convoluted systems on the backend.

This dynamic (along with other things, because organizations are complex) has led to a very bureaucratic organization that could be far more efficient.
Long gone are the times when american economy represent almost half the world output.

The US is still a giant economy, but if it went into sanctions alone, they wouldn't have today nearly half the bite they had in the past. Now sanctions are still effective because the US still have the soft power to convince the rest of the G7 and most of the G-20 to play along with the US.

But this won't last forever, one of those days, the folks at ASML on netherlands, or maybe the folks at Cannon in Japan are going to start asking why they are closing themselves to the second biggest market in the world, just so the US can keep on being the hegemon.

You only need one defactor, and the whole sanctions castle will come crumbling down as if made of sand.
The problem is that typically the burden of work is much more than 40 hours, even if you only work 40 hours. Because those hours are calculated in the most ungenerous way possible.

Your lunch doesn't count. So that's now 9 hours at work. Your morning commute doesn't count. So that's now 10. And your evening commute doesn't count. Now up to 11. And those after-work meetings don't count, but you kind of need to attend them because of the implications. And so on.

While you may "work" 40 hours a week, you certainly contribute to work much more than 40 hours. For me, it's over 60, and from what I've seen that's fairly typical.
Nortel: The Company that Broke Canada [video]
Being on a plane used to be a safe haven where nobody could get me, email me, text me, whatever. Now there is an expectation that you can ask me to edit powerpoint from that nasty little table on the back of the economy seat any time between ten minutes from takeoff to ten minutes before touchdown - does my head in
Pride is also one of the deadly sins.
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let's do the time warp again
This is exactly what happened when digital tools like Photoshop became mainstream, where you can copy-paste, recolor, adjust, stretch and transform. It didn't obsolete the manual creation of art, but instead enhanced it. It's common for artists to sketch on paper (or tablet) and later digitize and color on their computer, achieving results faster and better than what was possible in the past.
AFAIK you can't select a location using Cloudflare WARP.

One good thing about WARP is that most sites block VPN services by using Cloudflare, but Cloudflare is unlikely to block itself.

Privacy-wise, it depends on your threat model but should be good enough for "I'm at a coffee shop and don't want to leak my SNI".
https://youtu.be/R8OgH9EfxuM?t=1667&si=sO3_rOGZRWUSH0Sr
How could you possibly be an affective agent without knowledge? And how could anything ever use knowledge without perceiving it? Whenever anyone talks about philosophical zombies, I say “show me one, then” — until then I’m sticking with (what I see as) the scientific consensus, which is that we’re material like literally everything else is in the Actual, perceivable world.

What would it be like to not be like anything?
That's the beauty of Starlink. Its dirt cheap. And it will only get cheaper as starship can launch many more satellites per launch. We are probably not very far off of starship launching them (even if it takes them a couple years to fully work out full reusability).
I don't mind the format, but the article itself was basically nothing you couldn't get from 5 minutes of looking at wikipedia.
No mention in TFA of total available bandwidth for the plane?
Well, when I fly my work makes me get the cheapest possible ticket and doesn’t pay for extras like wifi.