skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The West is blamed for slavery when it is the West that set the norm that slavery is unacceptable.

Not sure who is blaming the West for slavery, but whatever.

The West did set the norm that slavery is unacceptable, but only after embracing slavery on a vast scale for centuries, overlapping to a great degree with the Enlightment and with the birth of representative democracy. I think that is the underlying dissonance - the founding fathers expounded at length on equality, liberty from arbitrary rule and so on, while the South prospered on the back of slavery. A similar criticism could be made of French revolutionaries, and British liberals of the 17th/early 18th centuries.
Why does it matter if the celebrity was good at something or not if you are just discussing what they wear?
You're not using the terms "structuralism" and "post-structuralism" correctly. The term "structuralism" has its roots in Saussure, in linguistics and the notion of l'arbitraire du signe. Semiotics and the post-structuralists then took this further. While today people might talk of "structural racism", the similarity to the term "structuralism" is merely coincidental, through sure, one might try to apply the idea there, too.
I guess it refers to collaborators with the Russians?
Say what you will about the Grumman LLV, but every one of them you see on the road today is at least 30 years old, and some could be pushing 40. (The similar-looking Ford-Utilimaster FFV is ~25 this year.) As uncomfortable as it must be to sit in one for hours on end (I never had the privilege myself) you've got to respect their longevity.

Here's hoping these new trucks make it to the 2050s and beyond.
> The C++ committee seems pretty committed (committeed, if you will)

I'll will not, thanks.
That's just the mass you need to extract the resources that make up the food that one person consumes in a year. Assuming you don't just space the human waste and instead reuse it you'll be accumulating material that can make up the biomass that will comprise a large and intricate food web that will eventually make up the biomes of large O'Neill cylinder stations.
so what I'm hearing is, if the approval is transparent and the agent doesn't see it, thats cool, but tell the agent "hey use the human as needed" and now we're getting into sci fi territory ?! either way i don't totally disagree
Those are the subject of political agitprop but they’re not really unpopular: each of those will have large, usually majority, popular support if you ask people about them outside of political contexts. For example, “cheap” incandescent light bulbs cost far more over a given time period – even my Republican family members all switched because they’re not going to pay more just to spite environmentalists, especially since incandescent bulbs need to be replaced far more frequently.
I'd agree

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/science-abortion-pill-reversal...

> "A really surprising number of women experienced threatening hemorrhage and having to come to the hospital for emergency care after they were enrolled in this," McClelland said. "What we can say for sure is they terminated the study early because they didn't feel comfortable continuing the study."

Very little quality evidence that it works, along with evidence that it's actually harmful. Not the kind of thing we want medical professionals pushing on patients.
> Every knot is “homeomorphic” to the circle

Here's an explanation:

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3791238/introductio...
One problem is that people assume the end goal is to create a human-cognition-capable AI. I think it' pretty obvious by this point that that's not going to happen. But there is no need for that at all to still cause a huge disruption; let's say most current workers in roles that benefit from AI (copilot, writing, throwaway clipart, repetitive tasks, summarizing, looking up stuff, etc.) lead not even to job loss but fewer future jobs created - what does that mean for the incoming juniors? What does that mean for the people looking for that kind of work? It's not obvious at all how big of a problem that will create.
You don't seem to have the right perspective to talk about things at scale like this. Taking that personally is unfathomable.
I'm not sure that's a good thing. But for your arugement, code from 5+ years ago and keeping the same deps you're mostly able to do that with java*.

(With exception to some java9 and minor deprications).

However, wait long enough that will come to Go, or it'll become less useful.
http://archive.today/Mcwu5
> This is what software engineering looks like nowadays

when was it different? Java has had a jillion flags to fiddle in prod for 30 years, every company comes up with their own C++ subset that they and their compiler can tolerate, every Python shop has idiosyncratic linter settings.

are you saying you wished we'd all ended up writing Eiffel?
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This is exciting. I am an architect in a startup that has long valued bringing humans in the loop for the moments when only humans can do the work. The key thing missing between the potential seen in the last couple years of LLM-based fervor and realizing actual value for us has been the notion of control and oversight. So instead, we have built workflows and manual processes in a custom way throughout the business. Happy to discuss privately sometime! (email in profile)

Congrats on the launch! I'll be thinking about this for a while to be sure.

P.S., there is a minor typo on the URL in your BIO.
Is it the kids who are chosen that make a program "work best", or the teachers and curriculum? Why not let anybody who wants to try it, try it?
Before approaching the discussion with my kids, I remember that I was around a C- average student in high school and now have a diverse skillset and make more that practically everyone who worked for my school district.

Granted, I am older and had a great public education that is quite different than what I'm observing today.
really isn't a right and wrong way to do it. Erring too far toward either extreme makes your food probably a bit boring versus poorly executed.

That being said, most of Ragusea's takes haven't aged all that well, some by his own admission.
Imperfect Parfit
The US is a _very_ different country now from how it was in the 1950s. Things that were possible then may not be possible now.
Well, there are chess problems that are specifically composed so that a solver can work out the right moves to achieve checkmate. For a lot of these composed chess positions, it’s virtually impossible for to get them in a real game but that’s not the point. Engines can analyze these but they can get tripped up depending on how the problem was designed.[1] The legality of the board state seems like a different concept. An engine can’t be used to analyze a position of where the Black king is in check and it is White’s turn to move. It doesn’t matter if you got to that board state by composing it or by making a sequence of previously legal moves.

[1]: https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/23837/solvable-stu...
ZetaOffice: LibreOffice in the Browser
Can you quote where you are seeing that I didn't get that reading at all from GP.
Almost makes you wonder what positive response could have been had, if they only had done a "Show HN" of their product in the first place.
The seat height in the banner image looks too tall for the mailboxes. I wonder how the seat height in the NGDV compares to the Grumman LLV.
How is it a branding failure that ChstGPT - the product - augments the weaknesses of LLM by adding more capabilities?
I agree with you that the sum types are much better and it's intentional that they wanted null support. (Which was a frustrating pick considering the modern dev languages out there).

The coding style encourages the behavior you're talking about. We're back in the C days where you have a result and an error. It's not a good pattern.
Yes, but I’m not aware of a way to make it from asteroids.
Before he was a food writer he worked in a number of fairly high-end restaurants in Boston (which he talks about occasionally on his Youtube channel), and then he opened his own restaurant in 2017ish. Not sure how that's "not a chef"
At that point we are close to Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron".

We need something a bit more equitable, which acknowledges the uniqueness of each student.
I've read so much knocking their appearance, which is so confusing to me. It's ultimately function over form in this case; who cares if you don't like how it looks? I can only dream that the visibility and safety of having features like such a low hood and large bumpers would be incorporated into other vehicles (i.e., every SUV ever).
Can't see it
angling the horizontal cut down is a good way to handle this. The horizontal cut is mostly only necessary for the lower sides of the onion anyways.
This really makes you take a step back and just consider the world we're in now: someone critiques a company's approach as unscalable because...

"hiring humans is a nightmare"

Good LLord
Libsquash: Portable, user-land SquashFS that can be easily linked and embedded
It's exactly what I described in point 3 as 'the problem'.

Maps 'work' because as a programmer you're aware of how expensive it is to copy a whole hash table, and it makes sense that a pointer to the thing is the whole thing. So it's an exception, but one _clean_ exception that just behaves consistently.

Slices are horrid in that they SOMETIMES work the way someone who passes by value expects, and that's the same for both NOT updating AND Updating. This is because the management stage is passed by copy, not reference, but the backing data IS a reference, which initially is copied. That leads to in-place overwrites when no change in size has happened. It leads to appends that do get written but not reflected in other copies of the slice, and then if there's a need to re-allocate it leads to even the updates not updating the other copies of the slice.

Slices are the most beginner un-friendly part of Golang.
I live in Sweden. Can you share a link? I bet that what you have in mind is the bonus that could be paid to about 230 employees, explicitly excluding the top management, in order to retain them. Or perhaps the news that the former CEO has sold some shares during a founding round, which is a relatively standard practice and not a “bonus”, and a way to keep the CEO salary reasonably low.

Edit (following your edit): You wrote earlier: “including paying millions of dollars in bonus to their incompetent executives”. The link you shared directly contradicts this since it mentions the equivalent of 6M USD distributed to about 230 employees. Another article mentions very explicitly that top management is excluded. According to these articles, it is simply impossible to conclude that top executives will receive “millions of dollars”. You’re just contributing to rumors that are not based on facts.
So someone else besides Trump uses everyone to that extent? While technically not incorrect, every one vs everyone, changes the meaning drastically.
Go and Java: Rethinking Type Safety for the Pragmatic Age
The economic effects of trade policy uncertainty
I expect better from someone whose user name is nuancebydefault
I felt conflicted as I listened to the AI generated audio.
I'm not 'siding with the authorities', I'm advocating fighting if you're innocent. Plea'ing out when you're innocent just encourages this sort of abuse. If everyone that remotely had the resources to fight charges actually fought them, this whole system would collapse on itself. Civil rights are only upheld when they're exercised.
> Slightly tangential, but this is the reason I'm baffled why people think that AI-driven podcasts would ever be worth listening to

the only real people that believe in that that I’ve seen are ones who are heavily invested in it succeeding
making the single horizontal cut first makes every vertical cut after more difficult to perform without harming the structure of the onion.

technique and a sharp knife enable the horizontal cut second to be vastly superior to doing it first.
I understand that's one of possibilities. But what actually happened in this case?
As unrealistic as it may be, “Russia gives back the stolen land and pays reparations” sounds like a workable deal if Russia itself suffers for long enough. Or maybe Russia will leave Ukraine if we give them all the land and assets owned by the “Ukraine should make a deal with Russia” people, as they're of the opinion that placating an invading army is the best way to peace.
That's one of possibilities. But what actually happened in this case?
Personally I don’t think it has anything to do with normalcy.

I don’t consume AI media because it’s not very good.

I watched a lot a bad movies and read a lot of bad books as a kid that I can’t stomach now because I’ve read better books and watched better movies. My guess is that kids today would do the same, assuming AI doesn’t improve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6JFTmQCFHg
> 386 (not sure how 286 works) did extend segments to a larger address space, by converting them to segment selectors

The 286 did that, though they only extended the address space to 24 bits. The 386 extended it again to 32 bits.
> AI's are going to understand people better than people understand people.

Maybe, but very little of the “data” that humans use to build their understanding of humans is recorded and available. If it were it’s not obvious it would be economical to train on. If it were economical it’s not obvious that current techniques would actually work that well and by definition no future techniques are known to work yet. I’m not inclined to say it will never happen but there are a few reasons to predict it’ll prove to be significantly harder to build AI that gets out of the uncanny valley that it’s currently in.
It's amusing to see people here continuing to recommend Google tools for core aspects of some shiny, fragile, new startup despite so many, many posts and comments on HN having been placed time and time again describing how arbitrary that monster can be about cutting you completely down from whatever it offers you for some bullshit algorithmic reason or another, and with near zero customer service recourse.

By now Google often acts worse than the complaints departments of many government agencies, which at least usually by law have to have a human accesible to you somewhere along the line. Yet it keeps getting recommended by either the clueless or the indifferent.
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thanks for bringing this up. I just spent 2 hours last night digging into MCP - I'd love to learn more about how you think this solves the HitL problem. From my perspective MCP is more of a protocol for tool calling over the stdio wire, and the only situation it provides HitL is when human is sitting in the desktop app observing the agent synchronously?

Again, genuinely looking to learn - where does MCP fit in for async/headless/ambient agents, beyond a solid protocol for remote tool calls?
It's not available in my country (nor for certain ages it says), what are we looking at?

Edit: See ZiiS comment... Looks like an awkward angle for playing indeed :p
It is okay for weakminded people to not to enjoy nature. Let them suffer who cares.
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This sounds thoroughly unappealing to gifted students though? I mean, repetition is _a_ tool in the toolset.
I have two of these. One caveat I'd mention is that the power buttons are flimsy. On one of them I have to push kinda hard to get it to do anything, so I dread it if they ever lose power.
enum program_state {
X_W,
Y_X_W,
Z,
W,
Z_W,
Z_X_W,
}

You only have these 6 options. And in this case you can easily use a SAT solver to generate the cases for you so that you don't have to write them by hand.
I don't see where your assumption is being challenged. "Breakfast cereals" is a very loose category. I would not conclude that Froot Loops lower risks of cardiovascular disease just because Ezekiel's Gravel Bits have been shown to do the same.
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Because for neither China nor the USSR was that the main contributor to their national problems. Further, the education system of both are definitely implementations of "let's spend the most money on the smartest people".

In a discussion about the collapse of societies, it doesn't apply. In a discussion about education reform, it does not apply. It is also not an example of the original commentors statement that conquerors have used social spending to collapse their targets.

I would further point out in both the case of the USSR and China's purge of the intelligentsia; it was FAR more about consolidating power in a dictator and far less about trying to set good national policy. In Mao's case in particular, he was frankly just a bit insane.
This is a cool approach to integrating SQL with static site generation!

If you're into SQL-powered tooling, you might find something like https://sql-page.com interesting as a comparison point. It flips the model by letting you create dynamic web apps entirely in SQL, skipping the static file generatio step.

Anyways it's really nice to see new tooling removing a lot of the plumbing work needed to go from database to website.
D-Link says it won't patch 60k older modems
Good that they work on it. And the efforts to refactor foundation into smaller modules go in the same direction.

I continue to root for them but they need so many improvments to be a realistic alternative to python/typescript/go/java for regular backend development.

At least in my field where we need to sure that other developers can continue the development without much hassle.

Just as an example, with those languages it's almost trivial to setup a basic projekt with dependencies. In swift however, it takes careful reading ot the swift package manager documentation to understand their concept of "products", "targets", etc.
And I'm pretty sure i'd have to start from zero when i use swift for the advent of code in a few days.

There are many problems with devepdencies in Python, or package.json/gradle files. But at least they are (almost) foolproof to get started.
If it was a fancy restaurant, he probably asked the waiter for pan-smashed croutons.

At normal restaurants, you can use the two-plate method to approximate the effect of pan-smashing croutons.
>if you tell a story about someone carrying more money than most Americans ever have in their bank accounts in their entire lives, in cash, on their person, you're describing something extraordinarily unusual.

I used to play poker semi-professionally. Traveling with upwards of $50k wasn't an uncommon thing at all among the people I knew.

I knew a card counter who was detained at an airport carrying well in excess of $100k and, comically, the money and the inside of his bag were covered in white powder at the time. Because he was a nerdy jewish kid, they believed his story that it was powdered caffeine (it actually was) and sent him on his way.
Do you make a distinction between a "bad student" and a "disadvantaged student"? Is it ever fair to describe a student as "less talented" than another, in your view?
glad it resonates. I came at this as a skeptic but also a pragmatist. I wanted deeply to build agents that did big things, but I had very little trust in them, and you see everywhere the internet is littered with terrible gpt-generated comments and bots these days...how do build AI that does a really good job without needing direct constant supervision (which at the end of the day just feels like a waste of time)
> but I have no clue what this looks like

An earlier version of the CA academic framework (2022?) wanted all students to take algebra in 9th grade, rather than letting some folks start in 8th grade.

Why this matters:

- algebra in 8th grade allows for calculus to be reached by 12th grade by taking just one math class per year.

- conversely, 9th grade algebra means that a student would need to double up in math one year, which means that they have to give up a slot in another HS class in order to make room for the extra math class.

- calculus in high school is one key to get into competitive schools and programs, so this is seen as a desirable goal for academically inclined folks.

The reason this policy was proposed was that the folks in the faster track were not of a similar racial proportion as the entire student population, so it was deemed discriminatory.

The policy solution was to make it much more difficult for folks who aimed to end up in 12th grade calculus to do so.

Note that there was no broad support of this parents of the kids in the accelerated math program or by parents of those who weren’t.

This was a policy that was created by a group of so-called progressives who were happy to lower the overall group achievement level by limiting access in order to manufacture “equality” in the enrollment numbers (the outcome).

There was basically a revolt, and this become a policy suggestion rather than a requirement, but California made that change under duress rather than agreeing with the dissenters.

Note that this type of thinking is very common and very popular in the education academic/“intellectual” circles. They assume that people will eventually come around to their way of thinking. Imho, they are completely out of touch with (and largely have disdain for) “normal” people.

Is this a clear example without any conservative baggage?

Edit - here is an article that discusses this topic:

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/california-adopts-c...
The cultural revolution began by lynching all the teachers and kicking the bureaucrats out of the cities. Stalin did much of the same. It was a horrible strategy which is why they came up with the new ones.
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Novelty itself is easy, the hard part is the kind of novelty that is familiar enough to be engaging while also unusual enough to attract all the people bored by the mainstream.

Worse, as people attempt to automate novelty, they will be (and have been) repeatedly thwarted by the fact that the implicit patterns of the automation system themselves become patterns to be learned and recognised… which is why all modern popular music sounds so similar that this video got made 14 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I

(This is already a thing with GenAI images made by people who just prompt-and-go, though artists using it as a tool can easily do much better).

But go too soon, be too novel, and you're in something like uncanny valley: When Saint-Saëns' Danse macabre was first performed, it was poorly received by violating then-current expectations, now it's considered a masterpiece.
I'm just saying that when the institutional schooling system seems to "spend money on the disadvantaged" it's merely pretending to help the disadvantaged and marginalized, while actively rejecting the approaches that, at least as judged by readily available evidence, would likely help these students the most, and probably close at least some of the gap in outcomes.
California scientists accidentally find nuclear fever dream in Arctic snow
Unless the closest you ever get to productivity is having meetings :).
I'm proud to have helped implement the brand new dedicated ERP system that is used to build these trucks. Nice to see the final product is hitting the streets.
The US is frequently called late to ending African chattel slavery because it already happened in France and England decades before, and even English conservatives were calling for an end (of various degrees of gradualness) to slavery long before American emancipation.
It's not even a pair of authors I'd have considered comparing in a "who's higher-quality" way. It's like comparing Spielberg and Aronofsky or something, as one being "way above" the other "in quality". I dunno, man... maybe? But I dunno. Pretty sure you can make it look like either one's way better than the other by picking your framing of "best", and in several different ways.
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