skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clearly the legal system has broken down (been deliberately broken), and the regulatory system has simultaneously broken down (been deliberately broken), so somebody's going to have to get a little creative relative to the norms that they were raised with, if they want to continue to actually have a society rather than a Lotka-Volterra equation.

The impetus towards revenge killings and blood debts successfully deterred malicious actions through most of human prehistory and even much of history. With the trend towards corporate consolidation, each CEO's exposure is actually pretty huge when "their actions result in the death of others". All that's necessary is a well-armed grieving family member and a social narrative that actually, yes, this is how we do things. All we're missing is the narrative.

And the geeks actually have the narrative. Cyberpunk is just the most aspirational dream of occasional justice that can exist within the confines of the America Reagan built, in the post-liberal corporatist society.

>> The personal, as everyone is so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here – it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide from under it with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it personal. Do as much damage as you can. Get your message across. That way, you stand a better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous marks the difference - the only difference in their eyes - between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it’s just business, it’s politics, it’s the way of the world, it’s a tough life and that it’s nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal. - Takeshi Kovacs, Altered Carbon
If you ask three different dentists, you'll often get three different recommendations. I had a really bad experience once so the next time I was told I needed something I did exactly this and it was pretty discouraging - they all wanted to do work but there was no consistently in what. I'm pretty sure most are hacks at this point and if you aren't actually in pain, I'd be wary of any work.
I'm unclear on who is using AI in this scenario. Are you going to use your own AI on your X-rays, or expect that the dentist will use a new tool to tell them to not do the procedure to get them more money?
The web site for God’s Number is http://www.cube20.org/
Reminds me of work, a coworker was telling me that a new guy, who eventually quit, was really close to solving an issue with had with HTML in some fields where it doesn't belong, and then mentioned that the new guy was using regex to do it. I was like, I doubt he was actually close to solving the problem. That said, he likely would have solved our need because it really is just a subset of HTML used for stylizing text and not the full language, but it's a harder problem than people initially think.
Was this seriously a question? I mean, this is something a college student or advanced high schooler could calculate.

The law of large numbers is still correct. Nowhere is there a requirement that the large numbers be smaller than the various physical constants of the universe.p
It’s not a funding issue, or at least not just a funding issue. In many states, the lower performing districts have more per-pupil funding than higher performing schools.

Parents and community are a massive influence, and parents will move as needed to attend better school districts, even if private schools are outlawed.
My assertion/prior is that the differences that will dominate in programming/math will be cultural more so than sex. Men have real advantages in strength and physical tasks. I don't know of any similar differences in thought work.

I don't rule out the possibility. But I do place a low likelihood on it.

Also, I was not claiming any nefarious reasoning here. You introduced that verbiage.
Being transparent can create trust. Trust is important for motivation. Motivation is important for "knowledge workers"

To turn it around: Why should one work hard if there is a high chance of some global sweep soon, where they might randomly pick me without any reasoning.
This is a strange reply given that sibling comment points out it's only 2 out of 10 benchmarks where this is allowed because all languages end up calling out to the same libraries.

Even if you prohibit PCRE2, the .NET submissions using out-of-box Regex engine end up being about 4 times faster than Java.

Surprisingly, even though .NET's BigInteger is known for its inefficiency, it ends up being more memory efficient and marginally faster at pidigits than a Java submission that does not use GMP. The implementations are not line-by-line equivalent so may not be perfectly representative of performance of each BigInt implementation.

My point being - if you look at the submissions closer, the data gives much clearer picture and only supports the argument that C# is a very usable language for solving the tasks one would usually reach for C, C++ or Rust instead.
Opalized Fossils Found in New South Wales
Nvidia is working on Arm processors for Windows, according to report
My workplace announced a 10% cut and the implementation time is many many months.

Doesn't seem like a big deal. Most people I know don't think they are in the bottom 10%
When I was 11-12 or so an orthodontist attempted to remove one of my last remaining baby tooth without my parents knowledge and without anesthetic so he could sell my parents on braces. After causing a bloody mess he gave up and the tooth remained in use for some time after. Absolute psychopath.
I look at it differently.

If I was working a typical corp job, I would "quiet quit" and start using my excess savings to run small experiments. Maybe run like 3 in parallel a month and let them cook.

Example - start a niche blog based on my hobby, hire 3 writers and pay them up to $3k a month to write content for the blog. Let it cook for months. If it gets traffic, monetize with ads. If very profitable, quit job.

Starting an internet based business if fairly cheap nowadays, especially with cursor and ai.
I'm half unsurprised as Pixelmator was one of the apps that was extremely-tightly-integrated with Apple's APIs and ecosystem and was an excellent app as a result, and half worried that Apple will make unpopular changes to it as it's a less user-friendly app by necessity. (see also recently: Apple's Dark Sky acquisition and the worse integration of it into the Weather app)
Doing tech stuff while woofing? Mixed. I enjoyed the work and I had actually some nice facilities to work in, but some of the places I stayed were not great for interpersonal or health reasons. Some, on the other hand, were wonderful. It really depends on a variety of things. But yeah in south east Asia there are a lot of small businesses experimenting with diy tech that will offer room/board in exchange for leveraging some tech expertise. Also have seen (but not experienced) some in Europe.
Dentistry is not a specialization of medicine, because if it were the dentist would be required to go through a full medical doctor education including hospital residency and then become a dentist on top of this, so it wouldn’t benefit the consumer in that the current policy is fine and actually it might make more sense to break other specializations off from medicine so that you can get more affordable treatments from people with specialized skills without needing an entire set of generalized skills.

Regarding funding, I agree that preventative care should be covered under health insurance like physical exams, because if you go for a cleaning twice a year you probably aren’t going to have many problems and if you don’t go for a cleaning twice a year you probably are going to have a lot of problems. But many dental treatments are cosmetic in nature and not medically necessary and probably would not be covered under the current health insurance regime in the United States, but are covered under the dental insurance regime. It’s important to note that dental coverage in the US is widely available as a separate part of “Obamacare” subsidized by the government and children’s coverage on the marketplace is even stronger without waiting periods and limits on max out of pockets in a way that is generous compared to most private offerings.
congrats, well deserved.
The evidence for figures such as Plato, Aristotle, Socrates and Heraclitus is far more compelling than it is for Pythagoras. There is a singular lack of evidence and sources for his existence.

No one is denying that a cult named the Pythagoreans existed, that many of their writings are preserved, and that they influenced Copernicus etc ...

Heraclitus was notorious for his cutting critiques of predecessors. There are a total of three very brief mentions of Pythagoras in fragments of his work (fragments 40, 81 and 129). This is not really enough to go on - it's not clear whether he's criticising someone he's met in person, some learnings that he's heard through a third party, or a cult figure that was invented and idolised by the Pythagoreans.
The companies could have done that for the last 20 years at least, but didn't. Why?

Layoffs aside (70k at Facebook is obscene), instead of India we now get RTO mandates.
I sincerely believe that the market for desktop PCs is completely coopted by the gaming machines. They do not care one whit about machine size or energy efficiency, with only one concern in mind: bare performance. This means they buy ginormous machines, incredibly inefficient CPUs and GPUs, with cavernous internals to chuck heat out with no care for decibels.

But they spend voriously. And so the desktop PC market is theirs and theirs alone.
Best I can do is raise him on a steady diet of memes and Vtubers.
Problem is it’s impossible to tell with dentists for the layman. If they say this has to happen what are you going to do? Google it? Go to dental school?

Pulling healthy teeth is insane though.
So that would mean you can't put in oil either before heating the pan and checking the temperature. Are you then advocating for people not to cook with oil?
To be clear I agree that as a matter of policy dentistry and optometry should be treated the same as everything else. There is no historical or policy-based excuse for untreated tooth decay in developed economies.

Dentistry is the earliest specialization of medicine and the first to be studied with modern scientific rigor - dental problems are universal in agricultural societies, and it's much easier to see what's going on without modern tech. So its separation from other branches of medicine is a natural historical accident. (Likewise with early optometrists being "applied opticians" vs early ophthalmologists guessing about the biology of the eye.)

The fact that minor dental treatments are physically invasive compared to other branches of medicine means that dental training will always be different from other physicians, and this naturally extends to professional organizations. But it shouldn't extend to insurance companies.
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I get that argument, but it comes across as hugely disingenuous to me especially when couched with so much glitz and glamour and showmanship. They're aim is to present these things as huge quantum leaps in performance and it's only if you look into the details that it's clear that they're not and they're fudging the figures to make them look better than they are.

"New Car 2025 has a simply incredible top speed 30x greater than previous forms of transport!* (* - previous form of transport slow walk at 4mph)"

It's marketing bullshit really let's be honest. I don't accept that their highly-polished entire marketing spiel and song and dance is aimed 100% only at people who have 3 or 4 generation old Mac already. They're not spending all this time and money and effort just to try and get people to upgrade. If you believe that, then you are in the distortion field.
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Google were too risk averse with AI.

Should never have led on LLM and not let OpenAI get so big
Hurdy gurdys with keyboards have been around long before then.
There's definitely a chunk of bad-faith people, who'll lie, cheat, and steal, but I think it's the minority.

There's a lot of questionable things that decent people do, in good faith, because they consider it normal and OK. If you tell people "actually, the convention here on that is something different", then I think most will respect that.

One way this doesn't work is if there's a lack of trust. For example, if an employer claims it values X, but actually behaves like Y, employees are less likely to do X, and also less likely to trust or respect the company on anything else.

Another way the HN example doesn't work as well is if the person has strong motivation otherwise. For example, if their boss told them to post a fake job on HN, and they really don't want to come back and say they can't because they just saw a new rule. But a lot of other times, the person doing the posting has more autonomy, or a more decent work environment.

A lot of guessing here, but I think stating a convention would help significantly.
Smolweb HTML Specification
Apple reaches deal to acquire Pixelmator
> will soon show ads on android lock screen if this continues.

not on mine, they won't.
> Free variables and closures

Are these even types? I always mentally filed closures under "implementation detail of nested functions".
Prepare to have your mind blown: Heat pumps are very energy efficient at moving heat around. Significantly more so than the oil-fired boiler frequently found in the basement of a big-city apartment building.
Reminds me of Archimedes calculating the number of grains of sand to fill the universe
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I think this presents an approach: move closer to the search engine model. In both academic writing an news journalism, factual claims try to cite their sources. And you can see this is an approach that some of the chat systems have directionally gone. We don't want to always pedantically cite a reference for every question. But maybe we should? At least at an architectural level and let the UX decide if it should be displayed.

> in the USA, can illegal immigrants vote
According Author X in Book Y which studied this topic in depth: foo answer
Wikipedia claims that TP 6 added inline assembly, I looked at the TP 4 manual and found you can write

procedure FillWord(var Dest,Count,Data: word);
begin
inline(
$C4/$BE/Dest/ { LES DI,Dest[BP] }
$8B/$8E/Count/ { MOV CX,Count[BP] }
$8B/$86/Data/ { MOV AX,Data[BP] }
$FC/ { CLD }
$F3/$AB); { REP STOSW }
end;

Note that {} is a comment so this is raw machine code expressed in bytes where you can substitute in addresses or other values. Not as cool as what came later.
An individual car doesn't stop you from walking but a culture that centers cars leads to cities where walking is outright dangerous.

Most car owners would never say outright "I want a car-centric culture". But car manufacturers lobbied for it, and step by step, we got both the deployment of useful car infrastructure, and the destruction or ignoring of all amenities useful for people walking or cycling.

Now let's go back to the period where cars start to become enormously popular, and cities start to build neighborhoods without sidewalks. There was probably someone at the time complaining about the risk of cars overtaking walking and leading to stores being more far away etc. And in front of them was probably someone like you calling them a luddite and being oblivious of second order effects.
But OP is right that this would actually be serving their target demographic less well than serving everyone the same results regardless of context. The fact that the results don't know where the user is is reassuring for the kind of user who wants to use a privacy-oriented search engine, regardless of whether localized results could technically be provided in a privacy-preserving way.
It's not only about the one being fired. It's also about the ones not affected knowing it was the last round for a while so they can focus on their work, not on fear of losing it.
I would never expect such a Greek matter would become headline in here. Turns out that Alexander the Great was globally accepted.

But let me clarify from what I have read that it's just a conjecture and not a very strong one.
The rise of the U.S., the rise of China
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this is great! helped me prep for an upcoming presentation
The dental 'Rewrite it in Rust' gambit?
Factorio: Space Age is the first piece of software that my M1 shows performance issues with. I'm not building xCode projects or anything, but it is a great Mac. Maybe even the greatest.
Also true with Nethack. I will forever regret reading spoilers before I seriously tried to ascend.
Canadians should think of higher education as an export industry
I can't speak for all the downvotes, but I just don't understand what the comment had to do with the article it's supposedly commenting on. The article describes Google's weekly meeting where executives answer adversarial questions from employees, in which employees expressed that they're concerned about future layoffs. What part of that story would be different if more of them had joined the union? If the implication is that unionized employees never have to worry about layoffs, that's not accurate.
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All I see here is an all-too-common organizational issue that something like this is having to be explained to someone in a management role. They should know these things. And they should know them well.

If your company is needing to have conversations like this more than rarely—let alone experiencing the actual issue being discussed—then that's a fundamental problem with leadership.
It's too expensive: I'm not opposed to paying for things, but when I looked at the cost structure, I thought I'd quickly exceed the limits. (Back then it was something absurd like 20 searches a day) For personal use, I personally am a super-miser when it comes to subscriptions and this just is too expensive. It would make more sense as part of bundle of other services that I will use.

(For example, I subscribed to Google Music a few years back, then got addicted to add-free YouTube, so I haven't canceled.)

It was too unreliable: I would use it for 4-5 searches, and it would be ultra-responsive and have a great UI. Then, all of a sudden, on a search it would be ultra-slow and fall back to a horrible UI that made absolutely no sense.

Edit:

Google's AI integration is good enough: Shortly after I switched back to Google, they started adding small AI answers at the top of the search. That's good enough for what I'm looking for.
None of the example tasks come with example solutions. Would you mind sharing what the solutions found look like?
Things could have gone so much differently if they had committed early on to being cross-platform.

Instead, its growth was stunted and many people avoid it even though it is an excellent language.