skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heugh. You're right about the cover. It looks like it was made to stand out in a brick-and-mortar Black History Month display. It feels out of place among other Black Studies titles from U. of Chicago in "seriousness" relative to the significance of its subject. [1]

> "...it's more like a tracing of the familiar narrative beats from which the actual plot (the physical discovery of a lost work) has been surgically removed."

I think that stories like this represent what's going to be the new normal for discovery practices in the humanities.

Although I understand your disappointment, all that's changed is that physical discovery has gone digital and had that not been the case in this instant the likelihood of Jacob's narrative being resurfaced is altered.

This is an example of it working out well, as far as I can tell. It couldn't get any better than how it turned out.

Who else but a middle-aged post-graduate, in the middle of the first Trump administration, trying to get his dissertation published, looking for work, applying exercising his academic know-how to scratch his own itch, taking advantage of open source intelligence, corresponding with colleagues, transforming "from an interpretive literary scholar into an old-fashioned archive hound", could have pulled this of?

(Because we know there's no way he'd even think about financing a trip to Australia to kick the research off the old fashion way)

What better way for this to return to the fore in 2024?

You say the plot of the beat has been surgically removed, nay, I say beat goes on!

We used to bang on papyrus, and pass credentials for access to microfilm. White-gloved hands daintily turn delicate pages...tired eyes glean call numbers scrawled onto hastily sheared scrap paper.

The same beat carries on my friend...

[1]: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/subject/su10.html
It does apply to articles, but classifying this one as "ideological or political battle" is quite excessive. I thought it was intellectually interesting, quite apart from current political affairs, and I'm sure a lot of other readers will as well. They should be allowed to discuss the article in an intellectually curious way [1], without getting drowned out by other people's political reflexes [2].

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Too late? I feel dirty because I went against my morals and did give you a fake email address the first time around, but now you do this, so what the heck?
I also have been trailing out waveterm [1], which is open source and can be used without telemetry or logins. Mike from wave was really nice to chat with and ultimately that's what I decided to use.

[1] waveterm.dev
> Taking resources away from those who move society forward

Do gifted students move society forward ?

Where is society moving to ?
Was he really that wrong? Isn't a bond just another debt instrument? It's not obvious to me, that there is any fundamental difference between the operations that both comments describe.
The older I get, the more appreciation I have for simple tools. Terminal is certainly one of those tools that I want to stay simple.

Good luck to the team, not for me.
thanks for the validation of the problem! totally open to feedback about the solution, and totally get that you only need something simple for now. I want to point out that we do have a pay-as-you-go tier which is $20 for 200 operations, and have a handful of indie devs finding this useful for back-office style automations.

ALSO - something I think about a lot - if a all/most of the HumanLayer SaaS backend was open source, would that change your thinking?
As a father with a son with IQ over 160, I can tell you unequivocally that California thinks gifted kids are the enemy.

Gifted children, especially profoundly gifted kids like mine are special needs. He can’t function in a regular class because he would become bored and would act out and constantly get in trouble. Since my kid was a toddler we have had to completely rely on ourselves to figure everything out and we were utterly ignored. We have had to go to private school because California does not skip grades even though it’s obvious the child doesn’t belong in the grade level for his age. My kid is 6 grades ahead in math, scored over 175 in his VCI and they refused to even entertain the idea of skipping even a single grade.

California is doing whatever it takes to drive away any family that cares even a modicum for their children’s education and had the means or is willing to sacrifice to ensure their children are adequately educated. Meanwhile they are dropping the requirements at the same time, so the gap between private school and public school educated kids keeps growing more and more.

It’s pretty telling that in SFUSD, 50% of the black and brown kids graduate high school without being able to read properly. The real racism isn’t gifted kids, it’s dropping the educational standard for those that can’t afford private school so that they graduate and can’t compete when they get into the workforce because they have been undereducated their entire lives.
For others interested in such things, colima also supports it: https://github.com/abiosoft/colima/tree/v0.8.0#incus
This game theory problem, where consumers are buying unhealthier options because they're cheaper, and companies are producing unhealthier options because they're more profitable, is exactly what regulation is for. I don't understand why we've all collectively forgotten why regulation exists and become so cynical that it can actually work! Actually I do understand: it's industry interests spending hundreds of billions of dollars on intentional misinformation and government capture for a half century.

A reasonable counter-argument is "but the science is extremely muddy here, so effective regulation is especially difficult", which is unfortunately true, but I'd point out that the science is extremely muddy largely because of industry efforts to intentionally poison our understanding of nutrition.
Hats Off to NASA's Webb: Sombrero Galaxy Dazzles in New Image
People often consider the 2000 X-Men film to kick off the explosion of superhero films in the new millennium, and that was pre-September 11, so I’m not sure that correlation is causation here. Moreover, a lot of European artists in the early–mid 1960s remarked how superheroes were oddly prominent in American pop culture, and at that point the USA was still on top of the world and hadn’t been shamed by Vietnam.
These are not the only three alternatives.

And looking at actual outcomes in the US it’s easy to see that the truth is different. It’s not even white kids that come up on top, it’s mostly Asian kids (and before that Ashkinazi kids). It’s not because they have some institutional privilege. It’s because culture matters and valuing smarts and education is important not just for test taking but also for benefiting the society long term.
Or if you prefer podcast, listen to this episode of Darknet Diaries

https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/146/

Truly fascinating story
It's whether or not the government subsidizes your private school via vouchers. The consequence is that public school budgets are further diminished, reducing and eventually eliminating the project to educate the whole citizenry, further stratifying society.
The main problem with documentation in my experience is that management just doesn't care.

I've been a tech writer in organizations that are layoff forward or micromanaging and people naturally begin to horde information to try to preserve their jobs (it didn't work.)

But because of that attitude I could also see that it was harder to get new hires up to speed because no one dared share knowledge, which wasted enormous amounts of money.
Yet at other organizations that were more open to sharing I was able to reduce training times by 75% because I created a curriculum that worked way better.

I created a wiki for the support team and they were able to reduce call times by 40% because they had a place with the answers to the questions they were tired of answering.
I reduced support calls by 60% by expanding the knowledge base to answer common questions, and built trust with customers because they worked.

By asking around what the best configuration was, and there was a lot of contradictory information, QA found ways to make the product perform 42x faster.

But none of that mattered in the end, because management can easily lay off technical writers to boost the stock price, and it takes years to feel the pain, by which time they've moved on already anyway.

There is also the hysteresis issue, they'll bring in a tech writer after a long time and it takes ages to become productive because of all the firefighting that needs to be done first, which is invisible.

WWII was where technical writing was recognized as valuable, but never got a movie, which would have helped provide respect.

Docs-as-code is great an all but that is for talking to other devs and you certainly don't want end users accessing the code. I love Apple for its accessibility but there are just so many features available that finding if the feature even exists can be the challenge, which needs better technical writing just to raise awareness.

Devs as writers are not just expensive, but they are trained to talk to computers asking them to write to another dev is hard enough, learning to write to all the kinds of end users that need the information is a whole other skill set. And it certainly doesn't help that 54% of Americans are functionally literate (reading <6th grade level).
If there's anything I have learned over my life, is that the idea that there was a previous exciting period that I missed out on -- even if it is true! -- is a surprisingly large impediment on finding the current exciting thing, and living to experience it. I spent a long time thinking I kept missing the boat, only to eventually shift my perspective so that I could spot the signs earlier, and find a similar boat that was just leaving.
I feel the pain, I've started a startup on Scala (and some years later successfully sold it), but compilation speed and 20 lines type constraint errors where my biggest problems (but I never forget that it enabled us to scale the company and sell it :-) - but if a programming language spawns consulting companies that only help with speeding up compile times, that is a bad sign.

Though when working on a 2M+ LOC Java project 15 years ago, we also spent a lot of money on very fast RAID hard drives in developer machines to speed up compilation. JRebel was a huge relief back then.
I don't have much experience with how education works in California, or in the US in general. But there is one universal issue with special programs for gifted kids: parents. It's hard to distinguish gifted kids from average kids with ambitious parents. If you let ambitious parents push their kids to programs they are not qualified for, they can easily ruin the programs for the actual gifted kids.

Gifted programs work best when people don't consider them prestigious or think that they will improve the life outcomes for the participants. When they are more about individual interests than status and objective gains.
Great tool, daily driver for me and most of my team
This is a digression, but regarding OOP, my somewhat provocative view, is that it is not a natural thing, but in most languages, it is atleast 4 different concepts 1. Encapsulation/Namespace, 2. Polymorphism, 3. Extensibility(Inheritance is a special case) 4.Mutability.

These four concepts are forced/complected into a 'class' construct, but they need not be.

In particular, FP only varies on 4, but languages like ML,Clojure do 1,2,3 even better than OOP languages. Modules for encapsulation, Dispatch on first or even all arguments for polymorphism and first class modules, ML style, for extensibility.

Aside: There was a recent post (https://osa1.net/posts/2024-10-09-oop-good.html) (by someone who worked on GHC no less), favorably comparing how OOP does extensibility to Haskell typeclasses, which are not first class, but modules in ML languages can do what he wants and in a much more flexible way than inheritance!

There is also the dynamic aspect of orginal OOP - message passing instead of method invocation, but this is about dynamic vs static rather than OOP vs FP.

What OOP languages have managed to do which static FP hasn't done yet is the amazing live inspectable environments which lead to iterable development like we see in Smalltalk. The challenge is to do this in a more FP way while being modular.
There's been a few very blatant video-captured interactions specifically about the DEA at airports, so has refocused the lens on them. And in both cases, the videos are fairly thorough, high definition, so there's none of the usual "you didn't see the rest of the interaction and context that makes it reasonable" - instead blatant abuses of power by the DEA agents.
DSLR quality has been a buzzword for phone cameras for a while now. And in some cases it is. But when comparing photos across a range of conditions from my phone to a full frame DSLR with a good lens one is clearly better. As one example, simulated bokeh isn't as nice looking at the real thing. The resulting photo difference is more pronounced in long telephoto portraits.

The software, convenience, and always with you aspect ensure phones will probably always be dominant. But as Leica is showing there is still a hunger for photos that look better.

With photography, optimizing hardware (sensor, glass) is going to yield more results than optimizing software. Sensor size has an impact on the resulting photo.
Roll back an entire S3 bucket/prefixes leveraging S3 object versions (S3 PITR?)
After some testing, I feel the AI in Cursor is much better than in JetBrains products either with their AI or with Copilot.
There's something it it though that's not interchangeable, that becomes a bigger factor as you age (see: that Bezos quote).

The brain is becoming more physically tired during the day. At a certain point, say 5pm, it's done: the accumulated wear and tear is too much. Try again after sleeping.

This might not be a concern at 20 but is at 60 (Bezos' age).
> From the start we assume that the gifted deserve more from public school, thus we call them "neglected" when they seem to be simply treated the same.

If you have a group of animals where most of them are dogs but a few are cats, then use statistics to justify treating them all like dogs, that is not fair to the cats, is it?
It’s clear why this is good for YC, but it’s probably also not terrible for founders. I’ve heard of funds that avoid funding competitors passing in investments because they didn’t want to be locked out of other startups in the space. This removes the perverse incentive that the better your idea, the more scrutinized you might be as a founder.This also allows YC to be fund a lot more companies than otherwise.
Stack and google search is useless now, i've started using AI and found instant results. Google tried with reddit links, but many of those are just ideas or work arounds.

My last question was why I couldn't unload an llm, seems the app only supported load via the api, not unload. It instantly knew the answer and gave me the syntax. (call the manager binary to unload)

Plus the AI gave it to me without reading negative comments like do it in a different language, or i'm using the wrong product, etc.
This is my view as well. You can see the effects of this policy from the 80s and 90s with the sheer number of "former gifted kid" adults who feel like they were destined for greatness but ended up with pretty standard knowledge worker jobs. There's a difference between being a bright, contentious hard-working student and being genuinely intellectually gifted - today we lump these kids together, which not only balloons the cost of the program but gives both students and parents a false sense of what it actually means.
think you got it the wrong way bud
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and...

There is also a whole body of precedents and case law in canada specific to charter rights, broadly similar to US rights, but with different terminology.
But will be nerfed due to Manifest v3.

https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/11peeuw/manifest_v3...
Walmart becomes latest – and biggest – company to roll back its DEI policies
Speaking as someone who attended a public high school with competitive admissions, the students are much more important than the teachers or the education itself. Being around a group of talented and driven people motivates you to do well.

I also previously attended special education when my academic abilities were questionable, at best. I benefitted from intensive education on phonics and basic literacy skills, rather than being shoved through the pipeline without comprehending the curriculum.

The contrast was evident when I spent my lunch times in Grade 11 tutoring a "hopeless" student in Grade 9. Over the course of a few weeks, it became abundantly clear to me that this student did not understand any of the math he had allegedly learned before. He more or less pattern-matched his way to eventually getting the right answer and blundered his way through converting a fraction to a ratio without realizing they are fundamentally the same concept. That was good enough to keep pushing him through grades, I suppose.

I was just getting into formal logic as a hobby, so I focused on teaching basic reasoning. As an example, I spent a lot of time explaining that the "equals" sign is a statement that two things are the same. I proceeded to focus on logical implications---that some statements can follow from other statements.

It became much easier to teach everything else once we had those fundamentals. His ability to solve problems was much better when he understood the logical sequence of steps he should take to reach an answer. His math teacher later thanked me in Grade 12, because he started getting good marks and switched to university-track mathematics. That probably wouldn't have happened if he didn't get attention specific to him.

There should be a reframing of the problem space.

Sorting students into gifted or special education based on an accurate assessment of their abilities isn't a case of giving more resources to smarter people and less to dumber. A class of gifted students should require less resources because the students can self-motivate and aren't limited by their peers. This frees up resources for those who need them.
I’ve never been a fan of Agile, but I find this rant superficial and crude.

My first thought was: I would never want to work with someone who writes a rant like this. Because to me it shows a lack of empathy and self-awareness, I miss any sense or the slightest hint of humility.

Maybe the same can be said of this remark, that’s for you to decide.
Super useful
You can actually make curved dies already- there’s a company doing that for image sensors, if you thin silicon down it becomes flexible
just go work on a monolith that's slow as molasses and no team wants to truly own and the modelling, abstractions, and perf algorithms will naturally take priority.

also, i'd argue those are more computer science topics, software engineering is much more about practical application and integration with wider systems.
This seems generic enough that it could almost be applied to any use case. Have you considered catpcha as a use case?
Yes, but an omnipotent God could presumably just make Hitlers not exist. The argument rests on the assumption that there are hidden dependencies in the laws of the universe, such that it was logically necessary that Hitler (or insert whatever other evil here) had to exist to make the best possible world. That's hard to swallow.
> Errors as values

> To me, this simply makes more sense: isn’t it objectively better to get a finite and predictable error value from a function than an unspecified exception that may or may not happen that you still have to guard against?

Whether an error is returned as a value or thrown is orthogonal to whether it is finite and predictable. Java has checked exceptions. In Swift you also can specify the exceptions that a function may throw. How is it any less predictable than return values?

Semantically, a thrown exception is simply a return value with debug information that gets automatically returned by the caller unless specified otherwise. It is simply a very handy way to reduce boilerplate. Isn't it objectively better to not write the same thing over and over again?
Wow! good to know.

I used it for Empire, and for my text editor. When moving to Linux, it was easy to convert to using TTY sequences.
Actually a key question.

I assume there are politics involved that are not covered in the article.

I would also be astounded to find that anything so simple as unilateral DOJ action, no executive order, no consent decree, would be effective in changing this behavior.
The old manifesto is fine, isn't it?

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Individuals and interactions -- over processes and tools

Working software -- over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration -- over contract negotiation

Responding to change -- over following a plan

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I still like it. The problem is not the lack of a good manifesto, is that people don't get it.

Anyway, I like that someone else apart from me is thinking about these things! I don't know, maybe we do need a new manifesto to shake things up.
But you, you’re special. You need the “Enterprise Edition” at 10x the price and half the reliability.

Don’t forget our service plan, which you’ll need because only the manufacturer knows how to fix it.
Yeah that’s fair, you might need to make the formula more complicated. The goal though would be to alter what we have now, which is extreme differences in quality between schools in rich areas and schools in poor ones, to a model where everyone can access a similarly decent quality of public schooling. Maybe the formula would need to look something like

(the money required to maintain the school building) + (a wage thats similar to the wages for other teachers in the state, with cost of living factored in) * (the best teacher to student ratio achievable across the state) * (student count at the school)
Why would anyone even say this to someone? Totally rude.
Find a better org. This is a symptom of poor management.
Colour-changing textiles for temperature regulation
https://archive.ph/o6LCF
so different projects can have different version, even if they live in the same monorepo?
Yeah. "Pay us a recurring fee so we don't make your experience worse" is a business model that flat-out doesn't work with power users, I think. Most of us are old enough to have seen our favorite paid software turn into bloated cloud-based subscription software - we don't want different flavors of the same moldy ice cream.

Warp is just something that will, quite honestly, never appeal to me. I don't think the UI is bad, I don't think their featureset is bad, but I also have no desire to use a proprietary terminal app. Tilix is open source and has worked fine for the past 10 years - I'm not giving it up for a chic frosted-glass background and some syntactic eye-candy for bash.
I would like to know what folks are doing that requires a high performance terminal.

I don't think I'm much more productive at Terminal.app in 2024 than I was in 386 Linux console-connected to other computer via 14400 dial-up in 1999.